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Volume 193 Issue 1

5 July 2010

From the editor’s desk

Advice to doctors

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 1 Free

In This Issue

Wendy Morgan and Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 2 Free

Editorials

Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education

William B Runciman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 3-4

Has PSA testing truly been a “public health disaster”?

Anthony J Costello and Declan G Murphy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 4-5

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 5-7

Towards more uniform conflict disclosures: the updated ICMJE conflict of interest reporting form

Jeffrey M Drazen, Peter W de Leeuw, Christine Laine, Cynthia Mulrow, Catherine D DeAngelis, Frank A Frizelle, Fiona Godlee, Charlotte Haug, Paul C Hébert, Astrid James, Sheldon Kotzin, Ana Marusic, Humberto Reyes, Jacob Rosenberg, Peush Sahni, Martin B Van Der Weyden and Getu Zhaori

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 7-8

Research

Australian attitudes to early and late abortion

Lachlan J de Crespigny, Dominic J Wilkinson, Thomas Douglas, Mark Textor and Julian Savulescu

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 9-12 Free

Views and practices of induced abortion among Australian Fellows and specialist trainees of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Caroline M de Costa, Darren B Russell and Michael Carrette

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 13-16 Free

The impact of obesity on weight change and outcomes at 12 months in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty

Michelle M Dowsey, Danny Liew, James D Stoney and Peter F M Choong

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 17-21 Free

The US Medicare policy of not reimbursing hospital-acquired conditions: what impact would such a policy have in Victorian hospitals?

Peter D McNair, Terri J Jackson and Daniel J Borovnicar

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 22-25 Free

Medicine and the law

Early medical abortion: legal and medical developments in Australia

Kerry A Petersen

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 26-29 Free

Health care

Issues facing the Australian Health Technology Assessment Review of medical technology funding

Susanne P O’Malley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 30-33 Free

Medical education

Meeting the challenges of training more medical students: lessons from Flinders University’s distributed medical education program

Ian D Couper and Paul S Worley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 34-36 Free

For debate

Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice?

Kathy L Flitcroft, Glenn P Salkeld, James A Gillespie, Lyndal J Trevena and Les M Irwig

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 37-42 Free

Viewpoint

Influenza surveillance in Australia: we need to do more than count

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Kristina A Grant, Simon H Williams, Cheryl Bletchly, Michael G Catton, David W Smith and Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 43-45 Free

Clinical update

Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine (carcinoid) tumours: current diagnosis and management

Irvin M Modlin, Steven F Moss, Kjell Oberg, Robert Padbury, Rodney J Hicks, Bjorn I Gustafsson, Nicholas A Wright and Mark Kidd

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 46-52 Free

Lessons from practice

Salmonella Rubislaw gastroenteritis linked to a pet lizard

Cameron R M Moffatt, Antony R Lafferty, Sara Khan, Radomir Krsteski, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling and Mark Veitch

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 54-55 Free

Letters

A risk for returned travellers: the “post-antibiotic era”

Geethanie A T P Fernando, Peter J Collignon and Jan M Bell

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 59

National registration of health professionals: could it presage national regulation of Schedule 8 medicines?

Colin M Brown

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 59

A rare granulomatous reaction to Q fever vaccination following influenza vaccination

Deborah Burnett and Leslie Burnett

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 60

It’s time to depolarise the unhelpful PSA-testing debate and put into practice lessons from the two major international screening trials

Kenneth A Sikaris

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 61

Myths of ideal hospital occupancy

David Mountain, Daniel Fatovich and Sally McCarthy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 61-62

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?

Frank Shann

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 62-63

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery — are we getting it right?

Keryn J Christiansen

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 62-63

Primary care services and emergency medicine

Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 63

Rationing versus increased taxes

Jeremy W Butler

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 63-64

Measurement of jugular venous pressure

David M Colquhoun and Glenn Jenkins

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 64

Matters arising

Acute coronary syndromes: consensus recommendations for translating knowledge into action

Stephen P Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 550-553

Obituary

Gregory Robert Mundy MB BS, MD, FRACP

Peter M Brooks, Michael G Loughhead and Allan J McLean

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 42 Free

Snapshot

Christmas lights in the gastrointestinal tract

Yohan Chacko and Carolyn J Clark

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 56 Free

Film review

A cruel custom

Caroline M De Costa

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 56

Columns

In Other Journals

Alison Williams

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 58