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Volume 195 Issue 4

15 August 2011

Editor’s choice

Solving the problems of practice-based education

Annette Katelaris and Christine Jorm

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 163 Free

In Clinical Practice

Unintended pregnancy in Australia: what more can we do?

Angela J Taft, Melissa K Hobbs, Safeera Y Hussainy, Lisa H Amir, Kay Stewart, Anthony M A Smith, Julia M Shelley and Colin B Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 166-167

Predictors of accuracy of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice

Nicholas A Zwar, Guy B Marks, Oshana Hermiz, Sandy Middleton, Elizabeth J Comino, Iqbal Hasan, Sanjyot Vagholkar and Stephen F Wilson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 168-171 Free

Australian dispensing doctors’ prescribing: quantitative and qualitative analysis

David Lim, Jon D Emery, Janice Lewis and V Bruce Sunderland

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 172-175 Free

Taking a stab

Ron Elisha

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 177-178

Referral pathways in colorectal cancer: findings from a qualitative study in general practice

Mark F Harris, Shane W Pascoe, Lisa J Crossland, Justin J Beilby, Craig Veitch and Allan D Spigelman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 178

Preventive health

General practice and preventive health care: a view through the eyes of community members

Danielle Mazza, Lyndel K Shand, Narelle Warren, Helen Keleher, Colette J Browning and Emma J Bruce

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 180-183 Free

Health care delivery

The Refugee Health Network of Australia: towards national collaboration on health care for refugees

Christine B Phillips, Mitchell M Smith, Margaret Kay and Sue Casey

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 185-186

Access to primary health care services by community-based asylum seekers

Erin A Spike, Mitchell M Smith and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 188-191 Free

Sex of the GP — 20 years on

Christopher M Harrison, Helena C Britt and Janice Charles

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 192-196 Free

Chronic disease management items in general practice: a population-based study of variation in claims by claimant characteristics

Kirsty A Douglas, Laurann E Yen, Rosemary J Korda, Marjan Kljakovic and Nicholas J Glasgow

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 198-202 Free

Ram’s horn nails

Nicola Mumoli

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 202

Increased bulk-billing for general practice consultations in regional and remote areas, 2002–2008

Xenia Dolja-Gore, Julie E Byles, Deborah J Loxton, Richard L Hockey and Annette J Dobson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 203-204

The general practitioner’s role in providing mental health services to Australians, 1997 and 2007: findings from the national surveys of mental health and wellbeing

Ruth A Parslow, Virginia Lewis and Geraldine Marsh

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 205-209 Free

How generalisable are results of studies conducted in practice-based research networks? A cross-sectional study of general practitioner demographics in two New South Wales networks

Parker J Magin, Melanie J Marshall, Susan M Goode, Georgina L Cotter, C Dimity Pond and Nicholas A Zwar

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 210-213 Free

Keeping the connection

James A Best

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 214

Health reform

Lessons for Australian primary care reform from New Zealand, that great change laboratory

Robin Gauld

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 216-217

When big isn’t beautiful: lessons from England and Scotland on primary health care organisations

James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 219-221 Free

Can we trust the PCEHR not to leak?

Siaw-Teng Liaw and Terry Hannan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 222

Education and research

In-practice and distance consultant on-call general practitioner supervisors for Australian general practice?

Susan M Wearne

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 224-228 Free

NHMRC funding for primary health care research, 2000–2008

Ellen L McIntyre, Danielle Mazza and Naomi P Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 230

Teaching and patient payment

Nancy J Sturman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 231

Book reviews

Pocket guide to Parkinson disease

Rebekah M Ahmed and Simon Lewis

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 228

How to assess impairment

Dwight K Dowda

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 229

From South Africa with love

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 229

Corrections

MJA: Prevalence and predictors of anxiety and depression in women with invasive ovarian cancer and their carergivers

Melanie A Price, Phyllis N Butow, Daniel S J Costa, Madeleine T King, Lynley J Aldridge, Joanna E Fardell, Anna DeFazio and Penelope M Webb

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 232

MJA: Counting the cost: estimating the number of deaths among recently released prisoners in Australia

Stuart A Kinner, David B Preen, Azar Kariminia, Tony Butler, Jessica Y Andrews, Mark Stoové and Matthew Law

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 232 Free