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Volume 195 Issue 9

7 November 2011

Editor's choice

Short-sightedness puts Australia at risk

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 487 Free

Editorials

NSAIDs and stroke risk

David J Blacker

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 488

Multiresistant Escherichia coli in aged care: the gathering storm

Timothy J J Inglis and Christopher D Beer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 489-490

A most trusted profession ...?

Anthony J Smith and David A Newby

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 490-491

In brief

In brief

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 492-493

From the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care: Preventing medication errors by using Tall Man lettering

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 493

Perspectives

Wind farms and health: who is fomenting community anxieties?

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 495

Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal views and beliefs? — Yes

Brian V Conway

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 496-497

Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs? — No

Julian Savulescu

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 497

Implementing electronic medication management at an Australian teaching hospital

Richard O Day, David J Roffe, Katrina L Richardson, Melissa T Baysari, Nicholas J Brennan, Sandy Beveridge, Teresa Melocco, John Ainge and Johanna I Westbrook

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 498-502 Free

Borderline health: complexities of the Torres Strait treaty

Claire E Brolan, Susan J Upham, Peter S Hill, Graham Simpson and Stephen D Vincent

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 503-505

A clinician’s perspective on providing TB services in the Torres Strait

Stephen D Vincent

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 506-507

The slow-motion disaster that is breaking the bank

A Rob Moodie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 508-509

A Pandora’s box: sustainable pharmaceutical supply

Simon Quilty, Lisa M Harris, Jacqueline Kewley, Alison Jones, Robert Pearce, Rosemary James and Forbes McGain

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 510-511

Letters

Doing the right thing for tuberculosis control in the Torres Strait Islands

Anastasios Konstantinos, Graham Simpson, Tania C Sorrell and Ben J Marais

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 512

Thunderstorm asthma — a timely reminder

Megan L Howden, Christine F McDonald and Michael F Sutherland

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 512-513

Should opioids be used for chronic non-cancer pain?

Dilip Kapur, Phillip B Cornish, Carol A Snellgrove and David A Cherry

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 513-514

Is Australia ready to use glycated haemoglobin for the diagnosis of diabetes?

Len D Moaven

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 514

Change of HbA1c reporting to the new SI units

Maria E Craig, Kim C Donaghue, Fergus J Cameron and Martin Silink

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 514-515 Free

Change of HbA1c reporting to the new SI units

Graham R D Jones, George Barker, Ian Goodall, Hans-Gerhard Schneider, Mark D S Shephard and Stephen M Twigg

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 514-515 Free

Increasing ambulance demand requires enhanced indicators of quality and safety

Paul A De Vincentis

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 515

Serious morbidity associated with misuse of over-the-counter codeine–ibuprofen analgesics

Rozemary Karamatic, John Croese and Enrico Roche

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 516

Death and morbidity from supratherapeutic dosing of colchicine

Michelle Sweidan, James F Reeve and Kitty Yu

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 517

Death and morbidity from supratherapeutic dosing of colchicine

Nicholas A Buckley and Simone O P Rossi

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 517

Clinical focus

Practical Neurology Part 4: Dizziness on head movement

Miriam S Welgampola, Andrew Bradshaw and G Michael Halmagyi

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 518-522 Free

Cross-border patients with tuberculosis

Paul N Reynolds, John D Turnidge, Thomas Gottlieb and Michael J Moore

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 523-524

Research

Stroke risk and NSAIDs: an Australian population-based study

Gillian E Caughey, Elizabeth E Roughead, Nicole Pratt, Graeme Killer and Andrew L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 525-529 Free

Prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms in residential aged care facilities

Rhonda L Stuart, Despina Kotsanas, Brooke Webb, Susan Vandergraaf, Elizabeth E Gillespie, Geoffrey G Hogg and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 530-533 Free

Is premigration health screening for tuberculosis worthwhile?

Kathleen King, Paul J Douglas and Ken Beath

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 534-537 Free

Inpatient subacute care in Australia: perceptions of admission and discharge barriers

Peter W New, Peter A Cameron, John H Olver and Johannes U Stoelwinder

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 538-541 Free

Reflections

Flu fallout: what went wrong in 2010, and should we have seen it coming?

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 542-546

Medicine as the reluctant handmaiden of war

Astika Kappagoda

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 546-547

The person inside

Katrina J R Watson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 548

Palliative care for lung disease

David J Barnes

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 549

DIY psychiatry

Philip L P Morris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 549

Patricia Anne Brennan AM, MB BS, PhD, FACLM, MForensMed

Rosemary A Isaacs

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 551 Free

Addendum

Change of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) reporting to the new SI units

Graham R D Jones, George Barker, Ian Goodall, Hans-Gerhard Schneider, Mark D S Shephard and Stephen M Twigg

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (9): 524 Free