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Volume 187 Issue 8

15 October 2007

From the editor’s desk

Ode to hospitals

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 425 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 426 Free

Editorials

Look what I can do while I’m driving: implications for road safety in Australia

Suzanne P McEvoy

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 428-429

The Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program may be left high and dry

Lesley Russell and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 429-430

Research

Handheld mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers

David McD Taylor, Catherine E MacBean, Atandrila Das and Reizal Mohd Rosli

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 432-434 Free

HIV diagnoses in Australia: diverging epidemics within a low-prevalence country

Rebecca J Guy, Ann M McDonald, Mark J Bartlett, Jo C Murray, Carolien M Giele, Therese M Davey, Ranil D Appuhamy, Peter Knibbs, David Coleman, Margaret E Hellard, Andrew E Grulich and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 437-440 Free

Medicine and the Media — Research

Choice and voice: obesity debates in television news

Catriona M F Bonfiglioli, Ben J Smith, Lesley A King, Simon F Chapman and Simon J Holding

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 442-445 Free

Public health

Our hearts and minds — what would it take for Australia to become the healthiest country in the world?

Ian T Ring and John F O’Brien

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 447-451 Free

Delivery of preventive health services to Indigenous adults: response to a systems-oriented primary care quality improvement intervention

Damin Si, Ross S Bailie, Michelle Dowden, Lynette O’Donoghue, Christine Connors, Gary W Robinson, Joan Cunningham, John R Condon and Tarun S Weeramanthri

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 453-457 Free

Position statement

Chronic kidney disease and automatic reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate: revised recommendations

Timothy H Mathew, David W Johnson, Graham R D Jones and on behalf of the Australasian Creatinine Consensus Working Group, on behalf of the Australasian Creatinine Consensus Working Group

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 459-463 Free

Lessons from practice

Breast implant mimicking pericardial effusion in a cancer patient undergoing gated heart pool radionuclide study

Kiran Swaraj, Hosen Kiat, Michael Lin, Peter Lin, Ivan Ho-Shon, Sithoeun Sam and John Chu

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 465-466 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Raw salmon or red herring: ascending paralysis with suspected seafood poisoning

Naren Gunja, Robert P Dowsett and Karl Ng

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 468-469

Letters

Interventions to halt child abuse in Aboriginal communities

Fiona J Stanley, Dorothy A Scott and Melissa O’Donnell

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 472

Radiographers’ role in radiological reporting

Wayne J Nuss

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 472-473

Radiographers’ role in radiological reporting

Alan Rodger

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 472-473

Towards the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging

Lizbeth M Kenny, Stacy K Goergen and Catherine J Mandel

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 473-474

Towards the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging

Oliver R Frank

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 473-474

Towards the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging

Richard M Mendelson and Conor P J Murray

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 473-474

Maternal mortality and psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period

Phillip M Boyce and Jodi Barton

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 474-476

Maternal mortality and psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period

Marie-Paule Austin

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 474-476

In the wake of hospital inquiries: impact on staff and safety

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 476-477

In the wake of hospital inquiries: impact on staff and safety

James A Dunbar, Prasuna Reddy, Bill Beresford, Wayne P Ramsey and Reginald S A Lord

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 476-477

Human embryonic stem cells leap the barrier

T John Martin

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 477-478

Human embryonic stem cells leap the barrier

Jeffrey J Flaherty

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 477-478

Paediatric diabetes — which children can gain insulin independence?

Mark F Harris, Ivan N McGown and David M Cowley

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 478

Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end-of-life issues with adults in the advanced stages of a life-limiting illness, and their caregivers

Mark T Clayer

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 478

Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end-of-life issues with adults in the advanced stages of a life-limiting illness, and their caregivers

Josephine M Clayton, Karen M Hancock, Phyllis N Butow, Martin H N Tattersall and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 478

Relapsing polychondritis or ANCA-negative Wegener’s granulomatosis?

Weekitt Kittisupamongkol and Wanla Kulwichit

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 478-479

Discordance between level of risk and intensity of evidence-based treatment in patients with acute coronary syndromes

V Michael Jelinek

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 479

Discordance between level of risk and intensity of evidence-based treatment in patients with acute coronary syndromes

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 479

Hospital utilisation among people born in refugee-source countries

Joy L Mendel and Claire E Brolan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 479-480

Book reviews

eMJA: Echocardiography at hand

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eMJA: Complementary medicine in practice

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eMJA: Asian dermatoses illustrated

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8):

eMJA: Radiology for surgeons

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eMJA: Encyclopaedic genetics

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Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

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