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Volume 194 Issue 11

6 June 2011

Editor’s choice

Time to rethink end-of-life care

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 563 Free

Editorials

“Learning health care” for patients and populations

Amy P Abernethy

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 564

Extensively resistant tuberculosis in the lands Down Under

Paul D R Johnson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 565-566

Saving money on the PBS: ranibizumab or bevacizumab for neovascular macular degeneration?

Ken J Harvey, Richard O Day, William G Campbell and Wendy Lipworth

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 567-568

Research

Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

Lorna K Rosenwax, Beverley A McNamara, Kevin Murray, Rebecca J McCabe, Samar M Aoun and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 570-573 Free

The challenges of population ageing: accelerating demand for emergency ambulance services by older patients, 1995–2015

Judy A Lowthian, Damien J Jolley, Andrea J Curtis, Alexander Currell, Peter A Cameron, Johannes U Stoelwinder and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 574-578 Free

Assessment and management of latent tuberculosis infection in a refugee population in the Northern Territory

James M Trauer and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 579-582 Free

Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia

Anthony R Burrell, Mary-Louise McLaws, Margherita Murgo, Eda Calabria, Annette C Pantle and Robert Herkes

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 583-587 Free

Health care

Multidisciplinary team response to a mass burn casualty event: outcomes and implications

Heather J Cleland, David Proud, Anneliese Spinks and Jason Wasiak

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 589-593 Free

Opposing views

Were the budgetary reforms to the Better Access to Mental Health Care initiative appropriate? — Yes

Jane E Pirkis and Meredith G Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 594

Were the budgetary reforms to the Better Access to Mental Health Care initiative appropriate? — No

Sebastian Rosenberg and Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 595

For debate

Clinical deterioration in the condition of patients with acute medical illness in Australian hospitals: improving detection and response

Paul F Jenkins, Campbell H Thompson and Lorna L Barton

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 596-598 Free

Prepaid coordinated care for patients with diabetes: practices and patients bear the risks

Douglas A Pritchard

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 599-601 Free

Notable cases

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: New Zealand’s first case and the challenges of management in a low-prevalence country

Tze Liang Goh, Cindy R Towns, Katharine L Jones, Joshua T Freeman and Colin S Wong

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 602-604 Free

Obituary

James Morison Gardiner MD, FRCP, FRACP, FACC

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 604 Free

Medicine and the community

A national survey of general practitioners’ experiences of patient-initiated aggression in Australia

Laura E Forrest, Pushpani M Herath, Ian S McRae and Rhian M Parker

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 605-608 Free

Lessons from practice

Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome: a rare and serious complication

Isaac Schweitzer

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 609-610 Free

Letters

Increasing prevalence of obesity in Australia and its possible effect on the occurrence of pulmonary thromboembolism

Roger W Byard and Hannah Rosenfeld

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 612

Death and morbidity from supratherapeutic dosing of colchicine

Myles W H Smith, Darren M Roberts, Siobhann M Ritson and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 612-613

High-dose intravenous flucloxacillin may affect warfarin therapy

Philip Y-I Choi, Katherine L Phillips and Ian Rae

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 613

Life-threatening hypokalaemia associated with ibuprofen-induced renal tubular acidosis

Colin B Page, Paul A Wilson, Aidan Foy, Michael A Downes, Ian M Whyte and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 613-614

Lower-alcohol, lower-calorie wines: harm reduction or harm production?

Stephen P McKenzie, Evie R Leslie and Peter G Miller

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 614-615

Lessons from the 4-hour standard in England for Australia

Shyan L Goh

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 615

Increased mortality associated with after-hours and weekend admission to the intensive care unit: a retrospective analysis

Dev A S Kevat, Andrew R Davies, Peter A Cameron and Shantha M W Rajaratnam

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 616

Columns

In Other Journals

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 611

Supplement

General Practice Vocational Training

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): Open Access