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Volume 195 Issue 8

17 October 2011

Editor's choice

Guidelines: lost in translation

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 433 Free

Editorials

Gender-based violence and the threat to women’s mental health

Susan J Rees and Derrick M Silove

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 434-435

Advance care planning and end-of-life care

William Silvester and Karen Detering

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 435-436

Challenges to children’s health care in an ageing Australia

Gary L Freed, Jillian R Sewell and Neil A Spike

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 436-437

In brief

In brief

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 438-439

From the NHMRC: Supporting better translation of research into policy and practice

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 439

Perspectives

The downsides of antidepressants

Ray Moynihan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 441

Conflict of interest guidelines for clinical guidelines

Michael J Williams*, Dev A S Kevat* and Bebe Loff

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 442-445 Free

Rethinking the discordance between guidelines and practice in rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Shafqat Inam, Wendy L Lipworth, Ian H Kerridge and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 446-447

Letters

Use of the modified early warning score in emergency medical units

Imogen A Mitchell, Mary-Ann Kulh and Heather McKay

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448

Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia

Chantal S Ferguson, Victoria C D’Abrera, Helen J Van Gessel and Dorothy Jones

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448-449

Delivering supplemental anatomy education: the University of Queensland model

Matthew J Roberts, Bavahuna Manoharan, Marianne Vonau, Russell W Stitz and Owen A Ung

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 449

Safeguard or mollycoddle? Medical student placements in Aboriginal communities

Andrew D Webster, Robert D Marshall, Lee J Fairhead, Trent Little and Falk Reinholz

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 449-450 Free

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Luis Vitetta, Shoshannah L Beck, Samantha Coulson and Avni Sali

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Vicki Kotsirilos

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Is money spent on quality improvement better spent on clinical care?

Roland J Meyer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 452

Should more Australian doctors be salaried than paid by fee-for-service?

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 452-453

Advertising of fast food to children on Australian television: the impact of industry self-regulation

Peta E Craig and Geoffrey Annison

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 453

Advertising of fast food to children on Australian television: the impact of industry self-regulation

Lana Hebden, Lesley King, Anne Grunseit, Bridget Kelly and Kathy Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 453

Clinical focus

Back pain and leg weakness

Timothy J Kleinig, Brian P Brophy and Chris G Maher

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 454-457 Free

Fever and antipyresis in infection

Paul J Young, Manoj K Saxena and Richard W Beasley

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 458-459 Free

Research

BreastScreen-based mammography screening in women with a personal history of breast cancer, Western Australian study

Nehmat Houssami, Janette J Tresham, Lin Fritschi and Liz E Wylie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 460-464 Free

A population-based survey of knowledge of first aid for burns in New South Wales

Lara A Harvey, Margo L Barr, Roslyn G Poulos, Caroline F Finch, Shauna Sherker and John G Harvey

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 465-468 Free

Impact of the 2010 tobacco tax increase in Australia on short-term smoking cessation: a continuous tracking survey

Sally M Dunlop, Trish F Cotter and Donna A Perez

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 469-472 Free

Case reports

A woman with partial seizures and an unusual cerebral mass

Archie A Darbar and Luke A Coyle

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 473-475 Free

Ethics and law

Competence and capacity at the end of life: uneasy paternalism

Brian H Le and Michael D Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 476-477

Reflections

The story of the country surgeon

Katrina J R Watson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 478

Robert Peter Schmidt OAM, MB BS, FRACGP, FAMA, MAdm

John A Comerford

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 479 Free

Brain tumours — a quick scan

Michael B Barton

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 479