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Volume 184 Issue 9

1 May 2006

From the editor’s desk

Obesity — out of control

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 425 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 426 Free

Editorials

Improving acute care services for older people

Susan E Kurrle

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 427-428

Lung transplantation in Australia: barriers to translating new evidence into clinical practice

Greg Snell, Tom Kotsimbos and Trevor J Williams

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 428-429

Preventing and processing research misconduct: a new Australian code for responsible research

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 430-431

Research

Interface between residential aged care facilities and a teaching hospital emergency department in Western Australia

Judith C Finn, Leon Flicker, Eileen Mackenzie, Ian G Jacobs, Daniel M Fatovich, Shelley Drummond, Michelle Harris, D'Arcy C D J Holman and Peter Sprivulis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 432-435 Free

Learning opportunities for Australian prevocational hospital doctors: exposure, perceived quality and desired methods of learning

Andrew W Dent, Brendan Crotty, Helen L Cuddihy, Glenn C Duns, Joan Benjamin, Carol A Jordon, Jacqueline F Satchell, Stephen Farish, Tracey J Weiland and Brian C Jolly

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 436-440 Free

More doctors, but not enough: Australian medical workforce supply 2001–2012

Catherine M Joyce, John J McNeil and Johannes U Stoelwinder

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 441-446 Free

Public health

Sideswipe injuries to the elbow in Western Australia

Vera Kinzel, Allan P Skirving, Michael N Wren and Rene Zellweger

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 447-450 Free

Medicine and the community

"Exasperations" of asthma: a qualitative study of patient language about worsening asthma

Stephen D Vincent, Brett G Toelle, Rosalie A Aroni, Christine R Jenkins and Helen K Reddel

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 451-454 Free

Clinical update

Modifiable risk factors for age-related macular degeneration

Robyn H Guymer and Elaine Wei-Tinn Chong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 455-458 Free

For debate

Diagnosing bipolar disorder: how can we do it better?

Michael Berk, Lesley Berk, Kirsteen Moss, Seetal Dodd and Gin S Malhi

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 459-462 Free

Research enterprise — Viewpoint

The Research Quality Framework and its implications for health and medical research: time to take stock?

Louise G Shewan and Andrew J S Coats

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 463-466 Free

Lessons from practice

Abdominal pain and eosinophilia in suburban goat keepers — trichostrongylosis

Anna Ralph, Matthew V N O'Sullivan, Nicholas C Sangster and John C Walker

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 467-469 Free

Obituary

Charles Edward Marshall MB BS, DCP, DPath, FCAP, FRCPA, FRCPath

Carol MacDonald

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 471 Free

Letters

The switch to new conjugated vaccines may compromise immunisation coverage for refugees

Christine B Phillips and Mahomed Patel

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 473

Leprosy: an uncommon infection with varied presentations

Sebastiaan J van Hal and Bernard J Hudson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 473-474

Vigilance is required for Australia to remain polio free

Bruce Thorley, Kerri Anne Brussen, Elizabeth J Elliott and Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 474-475

Murine typhus mimicking acute cholecystitis in a traveller

Vidyut P Suttor and Robert B Feller

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 475

Is it time to review the screening guidelines for younger diabetic children?

Catherine Dunlop

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 476

Chronic kidney disease and automatic reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate

Alan McNeil

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 476-477

Chronic kidney disease and automatic reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate

Timothy H Mathew, Graham Jones and David Johnson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 476-477

Screening couples for cystic fibrosis carrier status: why are we waiting?

Louise M Christie, Elvira M Zilliacus, Angela J Ingrey and Gillian Turner

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 477

Medical handover

Francis J Bowden, Christian Lueck, Mark Hurwitz and Karina Kennedy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 477-478

Impact of multiple impairments on quality of life, hospitalisations and use of aged-care services

Ee-Munn Chia, Jie Jin Wang, Elena Rochtchina and Paul Mitchell

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 478-479

Australia's media reporting of health and medical matters: a question of quality

Julie Robotham

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 479-480

Australia's media reporting of health and medical matters: a question of quality

Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 479-480

Book reviews

Dialysis disseminated

Shane L Carney

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Salt of the earth

Anthony J McMichael

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Real-life critical care medicine

Larry P McNicol

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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