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Volume 187 Issue 1

2 July 2007

From the editor’s desk

Centralising the blame game

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 1 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 2 Free

Editorials

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change

Peter J Collignon, M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 4-5

Towards the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging

Richard M Mendelson and Conor P J Murray

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 5-6

Model for a single ethical and scientific review of multicentre research in New South Wales

Helen E Fraser, Ainsley E Martlew and Deborah J Frew

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 7-8

Research

Trends in medication use for asthma in school-entry children in the Australian Capital Territory, 2000–2005

Christine B Phillips, Helen Toyne, Karen Ciszek, Robyn G Attewell and Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 10-13 Free

The relationship between compensable status and long-term patient outcomes following orthopaedic trauma

Belinda J Gabbe, Peter A Cameron, Owen D Williamson, Elton R Edwards, Stephen E Graves and Martin D Richardson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 14-17 Free

Sustainable antenatal care services in an urban Indigenous community: the Townsville experience

Kathryn S Panaretto, Melvina R Mitchell, Lynette Anderson, Sarah L Larkins, Vivienne Manessis, Petra G Buettner and David Watson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 18-22 Free

A Quality Use of Medicines program for general practitioners and older people: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Sabrina W Pit, Julie E Byles, David A Henry, Lucy Holt, Vibeke Hansen and Deborah A Bowman

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 23-30 Free

For debate

Pay for performance in health care: strategic issues for Australian experiments

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 31-35 Free

Point-of-care tests for lower respiratory tract infections

Patrick G P Charles and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 36-39 Free

Point-of-care testing for community-acquired pneumonia: do we have all the answers?

Dominic E Dwyer and Vitali Sintchenko

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 40-42 Free

Improving practice

Use of thoracic computed tomography by general practitioners

Graham Simpson and Garry S Hartrick

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 43-46 Free

Viewpoint

Alcohol and hepatitis C

John M Duggan and Anne E Duggan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 47-48 Free

Snapshot

A web of dysphagia

Sandeep Chauhan, Atul Sachdev, Sanjay D’Cruz, Ram Singh and Sandeep Singla

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 51 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Gary K Hulse and Robert J Tait

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 54 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Moira G-B Sim

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 54 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Colin L Brewer

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 55 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Robert G Batey

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 55 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Nikolaj Kunøe and Helge Waal

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 56 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Eric Khong and Winston Choy

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 56 Free

Opioid overdose deaths can occur in patients with naltrexone implants

Amy E Gibson, Louisa J Degenhardt and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 56-57 Free

Letters

Cost of hepatitis A vaccine: $70. Mounting your own antibody response to hepatitis A before your overseas holiday: priceless

Jake Shortt, Denis Spelman and Erica M Wood

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 58

Intradermal rabies vaccine

Anthony Gherardin and Sonny Lau

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 58-59

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension: an easily treated headache

Mohamed Asif Chinnaratha, Ronald A Criddle and Paul J Graziotti

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 59

Australian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes have low vitamin D levels

Ristan M Greer, Meredith A Rogers, Francis G Bowling, Helen M Buntain, Mark Harris, Gary M Leong and Andrew M Cotterill

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 59-60

Revisiting the metabolic syndrome

Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 61

Revisiting the metabolic syndrome

Gerard T Chew, Seng Khee Gan and Gerald F Watts

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 61

Genotype and adverse drug reactions to warfarin

Keith A Byron and Anthony E Dear

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 61-62

Lack of consistency in safe-sleeping messages to parents

Roger W Byard, Glenda Cains, Helen Noblet and Maxine Weber

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 62

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: an eponymous ulcer

Derek H Meyers

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 63

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: an eponymous ulcer

Paul D R Johnson and John A Hayman

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 63

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in Brazil

Vitorino M dos Santos, Flávio L Noronha, Érica C Vicentina and Camila C Lima

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 63-64

Departments

The Time Eaters

Richard Bronson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 46

MJA/Wyeth Award 2006

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 50

eMJA: A much-needed handbook on motor neurone disease

John King

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 50

Ototoxic ear drops with grommet and tympanic membrane perforations: a position statement

Robert J Black, Vince C Cousins, Peter Chapman, Zoran Becvarovski, Harvey L C Coates, Stephen J O’Leary, Christopher F Perry and Brian J Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 62

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 2