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Volume 193 Issue 10

15 November 2010

From the editor’s desk

Teaching hospitals — a threatened species?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 563 Free

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 564 Free

Editorials

The Australian Medical Council: beyond the first 25 years

Richard A Smallwood, Ian Frank and Theanne Walters

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 566-567

Lowering Australia’s defence against infectious diseases

Robert M Douglas, Fiona J Stanley, A Rob Moodie, Anthony I Adams and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 567-568

Conference report

Are you listening? The inaugural Australian Otitis Media (OMOZ) workshop — towards a better understanding of otitis media

Lea-Ann S Kirkham, Selma P Wiertsema, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Ruth B Thornton, Robyn L Marsh, Deborah Lehmann, Amanda J Leach, Peter S Morris and Peter C Richmond

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 569-571

Research

Symptoms, investigations and management of patients with cancer of the oesophagus and gastro-oesophageal junction in Australia

Bernard M Smithers, Paul P Fahey, Tracie Corish, David C Gotley, Gregory L Falk, Garett S Smith, George K Kiroff, Andrew D Clouston, David I Watson and David C Whiteman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 572-577 Free

Perceived practice change in Australian doctors as a result of medicolegal concerns

Louise M Nash, Merrilyn M Walton, Michele G Daly, Patrick J Kelly, Garry Walter, Elizabeth H van Ekert, Simon M Willcock and Christopher C Tennant

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 579-583 Free

Twenty-five years of treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in Western Australia: how do we compare?

Hannah Forward, Guicheng C Zheng and Catherine H Cole

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 585-589 Free

Cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Australians in Queensland, 1997–2006

Suzanne P Moore, Peter K O’Rourke, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Gail Garvey, Adèle C Green, Michael D Coory and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 590-593 Free

Public health

Per capita alcohol consumption in Australia: will the real trend please step forward?

Tanya N Chikritzhs, Steve J Allsop, A Rob Moodie and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 594-597 Free

Health care reform

The 500-bed hospital that isn’t there: the Victorian Department of Health review of the Hospital in the Home program

Michael Montalto

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 598-601 Free

Review

Can clinical governance deliver quality improvement in Australian general practice and primary care? A systematic review of the evidence

Christine B Phillips, Christopher M Pearce, Sally Hall, Joanne Travaglia, Simon de Lusignan, Tom Love and Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 602-607 Free

Medical education

To teach or not to teach? A cost–benefit analysis of teaching in private general practice

Caroline O Laurence, Linda E Black, Jonathan Karnon and Nancy E Briggs

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 608-613 Free

Notable cases

Infant botulism in Australia: availability of human botulinum antitoxin for treatment

Meryta L A May, Michael A Corkeron and Mark Stretton

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 614-615 Free

Lessons from practice

Artefactual elevation of creatinine due to creatine water supplements

Kathryn A Jackson, Kacey M O’Rourke, Adrian Kark and Glen A Kennedy

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 616-617 Free

Letters

Trends in head injuries and helmet use in cyclists at an inner-city major trauma centre, 1991–2010

Michael M Dinh, Susan Roncal, Timothy C Green, Elizabeth Leonard, Amanda Stack, Chris Byrne and Jeffrey Petchell

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 619-620

Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007

Clare E Bradley, James E Harrison and Geoffrey I Henley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620

Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007

Shanley S S Chong, Wei Du and Julie Hatfield

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620

The ABC breast cancer cluster: the bad news about a good outcome

Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620-621

The ABC breast cancer cluster: the bad news about a good outcome

Catherine Francis, Trish F Mannes, Leena Gupta and Stephen J Conaty

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620-621

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

Margo H Saunders and Anita Peerson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 621-623

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

Guy R Hingston

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 621-623

Australia needs a national centre for disease control

Julia M L Brotherton, John Kaldor and Marion Saville

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 623-624

Australia needs a national centre for disease control

Paul M Kelly, Kamalini Lokuge, Hassan Vally and Alexander S Cameron

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 623-624

Corrections

Pathways to the diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer in Australia

Susan J Jordan, Jane E Francis, Anne E Nelson, Helen M Zorbas, Karen A Luxford and Penelope M Webb

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 577

Febrile convulsions after 2010 seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine: implications for vaccine safety surveillance in Australia

Michael S Gold, Paul Effler, Heath Kelly, Peter C Richmond and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 617

Obituary

Gordon Kerridge AM, MB BS, FRCS, FRACS, FACS, FACRM, MD (Honoris Causa)

Ross K Kerridge and Roland Hicks

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 615 Free

Columns

In Other Journals

Alison Williams

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 618