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Volume 192 Issue 9

3 May 2010

From the editor’s desk

Dehumanising hospital wards

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 481 Free

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 482 Free

Editorials

The Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010: the risks to patients when the Department of Finance and Deregulation makes health policy

Beverley J Rowbotham

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 484-485

Lightening our carbon footprint: economics, norms and doctors

Colin D Butler

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 485-486

Role of triple antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation and coronary artery stents

Jeremy S Paikin, Shamir R Mehta and John W Eikelboom

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 487-488

Research

Australian clinical practice guidelines — a national study

Heather A Buchan, Kay C Currie, Emma J Lourey and Geraint R Duggan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 490-494 Free

Establishment of a successful assessment and treatment service for Australian prison inmates with chronic hepatitis C

Leng Boonwaat, Paul S Haber, Michael H Levy and Andrew R Lloyd

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 496-500 Free

Do users of mental health services lack access to general practitioner services?

Qun Mai, C D’Arcy J Holman, Frank M Sanfilippo, Jonathan D Emery and Louise M Stewart

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 501-506 Free

Health care reform

The Rudd government’s health reform 2010

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 507

Prime Minister Rudd’s plan for reforming Australian public hospitals

David G Penington

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 507-508

Reforming Australian health care: the first instalment

John S Deeble

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 509

Taking the first step toward a healthier future

Christine C Bennett

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 510

The 2010 Rudd plan: will it actually deliver better health services?

Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 511-512

The Rudd reforms: a poisoned chalice in the long run

Jeff R J Richardson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 513-514

The Rudd hospital plan — many pitfalls to avoid on the way to a better health system

Kathy Eagar

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 515-516

Medicine and the law

Restricted career paths for overseas students graduating from Australian medical schools: legal and policy considerations

Katie J Elkin and David M Studdert

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 517-519 Free

Clinical update

Percutaneous management of aortic stenosis in high-risk patients

Jamie J Layland, Brendan Bell, Dan Mullany and Darren L Walters

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 520-525 Free

For debate

Super size me: is a big Australia good for our health?

Deborah Pelser

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 526-527 Free

Viewpoint

Reforming Australia’s health system, again

Anne-marie Boxall

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 528-530 Free

The carbon footprints of obesity, chronic disease and population growth: four things doctors can do

Robyn A McDermott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 531-532 Free

Lessons from practice

Swimming pool filter-induced transrectal evisceration in children: Australian experience

Neil R Price, S V Soundappan, Anthony L Sparnon and Danny T Cass

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 534-536 Free

Letters

An audit of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccine wastage in general practice

Caroline E Turnour, Stephen J Conaty and Michelle A Cretikos

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 541

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

David W Smith, David J Speers and Rodney A Bowman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 541-542

Heterotopic pancreas causing intussusception in a child

Narotam R Jootun, Hock P Cheah, Siddath C Fernando, William S Munro and Martin Veysey

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

William B Grant

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

Joshua S Davis, Allen C Cheng, Bart J Currie and Nicholas M Anstey

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Computerised prescribing: assessing the impact on prescription repeats and on generic substitution of some commonly used antibiotics

Joan V Henderson, Christopher M Harrison and Helena C Britt

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 543-544

Computerised prescribing: assessing the impact on prescription repeats and on generic substitution of some commonly used antibiotics

David A Newby and Jane Robertson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 543-544

Snapshot

Dyspnoea caused by retained food in the oesophagus

Nicola Mumoli

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 500 Free

Correction

Early evidence for direct and indirect effects of the infant rotavirus vaccine program in Queensland

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Lisa Hall, Frances A Birrell, Karen V Peterson, Christine E Selvey, Theo P Sloots, Michael D Nissen and Keith Grimwood

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 525 Free

Book review

Assessing elderly drivers’ roadworthiness

Ilian Kamenoff

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 536

Columns

In Other Journals

Alison Williams

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 540