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Volume 191 Issue 7

5 October 2009

From the editor’s desk

Academies of health sciences

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 361 Free

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 362 Free

Editorials

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias: time to act

Peter J Collignon and Marilyn Cruickshank

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 363-364

Systemic sclerosis: new hope for an unyielding disease

Helen J Englert and Nicholas Manolios

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 365-366

Reforming Australian health care

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 367

Research

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a major cause of mortality in Australia and New Zealand

John D Turnidge, Despina Kotsanas, Wendy Munckhof, Sally Roberts, Catherine M Bennett, Graeme R Nimmo, Geoffrey W Coombs, Ronan J Murray, Benjamin Howden, Paul D R Johnson, Kate Dowling and on behalf of the Australia New Zealand Cooperative on Outcomes in Staphylococcal Sepsis

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 368-373 Free

Bringing patients’ own medications into an emergency department by ambulance: effect on prescribing accuracy when these patients are admitted to hospital

Esther W Chan, Simone E Taylor, Jennifer L Marriott and Bill Barger

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 374-377 Free

Initial impact of Australia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Sumitra S Ananda, Stephen J McLaughlin, Frank Chen, Ian P Hayes, Andrew A Hunter, Iain J Skinner, Malcolm C A Steel, Ian T Jones, Ian A Hastie, Nicholas A Rieger, Susan Shedda, Daniel J Compston and Peter Gibbs

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 378-381 Free

Health care reform

National health reform: it’s time for a decision

Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 382-383

A healthier future for all Australians: an overview of the final report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission

Christine C Bennett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 383-387 Free

Final report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission: will we get the health care governance reform we need?

Johannes U Stoelwinder

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 387-388 Free

Health care

Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia as a quality indicator for hospital infection control

Claire Dendle, Rhea D Martin, Donna R Cameron, Elizabeth A Grabsch, Barrie C Mayall, M Lindsay Grayson and Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 389-392 Free

Viewpoint

General Practice Super Clinics — how will they meet their educational objectives?

Alistair W Vickery, Jennifer Dodd and Jon D Emery

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 393-395 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

An unusual case of recurrent fever, jaundice and right upper quadrant pain

Piers A Blombery, Prudence A Russell and John R Daffy

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 396-397

Public health

A prolonged mumps outbreak among highly vaccinated Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

Revle D Bangor-Jones, Gary K Dowse, Carolien M Giele, Paul G van Buynder, Meredith M Hodge and Mary M Whitty

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 398-401 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

My story: balancing family, work and community

John P Brady

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 402-404 Free

Letters

Is viral nucleic acid testing of eye donors cost-effective?

Paul R Badenoch and Douglas J Coster

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 408

Inadequate data collection prevents health planning for released prisoners

Kristy A Martire and Sarah Larney

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 408-409

Cruelty towards the family pet: a survey of women experiencing domestic violence on the Central Coast, New South Wales

Cheryl Travers, Andrew Dixon, Karen Thorne and Kaye Spicer

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 409-410

The private hospital: a potential surgical training ground

Lih-Ming Wong, Lisa P Wun, Julie Shaw and Dominic Vellar

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 410

Effect of swimming pools on antibiotic use and clinic attendance for infections in two Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Anu A Mathew, Collin J McDonnell, Jill Benson and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 410-411 Free

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Odette R Gibson and Leonie Segal

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 411-412 Free

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Shu Q Li, Natalie J Gray, Steve L Guthridge and Sabine L M Pircher

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 411-412 Free

Are we ready for the next big thing?

Heather J Cleland

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 412-413

Are we ready for the next big thing?

Derek H Meyers

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 412-413

Are we ready for the next big thing?

Stephen J Duckett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 412-413

Prolonged varicella viraemia and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome following varicella vaccination of a health care worker

Sam S Mehr and Andrew S Kemp

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 413-414

Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis — toward a new horizon

Marleen R Susman, David J Amor and Jane L Halliday

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 414

Making cars and making health care: a critical review

Susan Ieraci

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 414-415

Making cars and making health care: a critical review

Sarah Winch and Amanda J Henderson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 414-415

Smoking and The Simpsons

Nicholas Jefferson-Lenskyj

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 415-416

Smoking and The Simpsons

Becky Freeman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 415-416

Chromobacterium violaceum endocarditis and hepatic abscesses treated successfully with meropenem and ciprofloxacin

Richard N Pearson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 416

MJA Book Launch

MJA Books launches new quality and safety guidebook

Rivqa Berger

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 364

Book review

The truth about AIDS

David L Bradford

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 412

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 406