Volume 189, Issue 2 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Moyez Jiwa, Christobel M Saunders, Sandra C Thompson, Lorna K Rosenwax, Scott Sargant, Eric L Khong, Georgia K B Halkett, Gloria Sutherland, Hooi C Ee, Tanya L Packer, Gareth Merriman and Hayley R Arnet

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 78-82 Free

In Clinical Practice

Information overload: what’s behind it, what’s beyond it?

Paul P Glasziou

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 84-85

The effect of advertising in clinical software on general practitioners’ prescribing behaviour

James F Reeve, Judith M Mackson, Michelle Sweidan and Margaret Williamson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 85

Investigation of cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes in a rural Australian Division of General Practice

Qing Wan, Jane Taggart, Mark F Harris, Upali W Jayasinghe, Warwick Ruscoe, Jill Snow and Gawaine Powell Davies

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 86-89 Free

Health care for people with intellectual disability

Kathryn A Vanny, Michael H Levy, Susan C Hayes, Nicholas G Lennox and Miriam T Taylor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 90

I went to work with a “cold” ...

Dawn E DeWitt

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 91-92

Inspiration for life and love

Charles Bridges-Webb

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 92

From the patient’s perspective

Measuring patient-reported outcomes: moving from clinical trials into clinical practice

Jose M Valderas, Jordi Alonso and Gordon H Guyatt

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 93-94

Access to general practitioners in South Australia: a population survey

Richard L Reed, Leigh S Roeger, Nova Reinfeld-Kirkman and Sara L Howard

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 95-99 Free

Research enterprise

The Brisbane International Initiative: fostering leadership and international collaboration in primary care research

Parker J Magin, John S Furler and Mieke L van Driel

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 100-102 Free

Research productivity in Australian general practice: what has changed since the 1990s?

Deborah A Askew, Philip J Schluter and Jane M Gunn

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 103-104 Free

Feasibility of conducting a primary prevention trial of low-dose aspirin for major adverse cardiovascular events in older people in Australia: results from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) pilot study

Mark R Nelson, Christopher M Reid, David Ames, Lawrence J Beilin, Geoffrey A Donnan, Peter Gibbs, Colin I Johnston, Henry Krum, Elsdon Storey, Andrew Tonkin, Rory Wolfe, Robyn Woods and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 105-109 Free

Redefining Roles

The promise and pitfalls of generalism in achieving the Alma-Ata vision of health for all

Jane M Gunn, Victoria J Palmer, Lucio Naccarella, Renata Kokanovic, Catherine J Pope, Judith Lathlean and Kurt C Stange

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 110-112

Getting back into the emergency department: diversifying general practice while relieving emergency medicine workforce shortages

Simon M Willcock

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 113-114 Free

Addiction and addiction medicine: exploring opportunities for the general practitioner

Brian R McAvoy

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 115-117 Free

Volume 189 Issue 2

Editorials

General practice in 2008: a time of metamorphosis

Cancer care: what role for the general practitioner?

Pay for performance systems in general practice: experience in the United Kingdom

Promises to Policy

What impact will the change of federal government have on Australian general practice?

Chronic disease

Estimating prevalence of common chronic morbidities in Australia

Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in Australia

Sharing or shuffling — realities of chronic disease care in general practice

Timely cancer diagnosis and management as a chronic condition: opportunities for primary care