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Volume 196 Issue 4

5 March 2012

Editor's choice

Don’t leave regulation to its own devices

Annette Katelaris

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 221 Free

Editorials

Device regulation: what next?

Stephen E Graves and Guy J Maddern

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 222-223

Coming out: is the Mardi Gras still needed?

Ruth P McNair and Tonda L Hughes

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 224 Free

Tertiary education institutions should not offer pseudoscientific medical courses

Alastair H MacLennan and Robert G B Morrison

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 225-226

In brief

From The Cochrane library

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 228

In Brief

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 229

Perspectives

Time to debate one-click transparency

Ray N Moynihan

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 231

Transforming Australia’s Breast Implant Registry

Amy E Jeeves and Rodney D Cooter

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 232-234

Private specialist practice: the forgotten sector in health care reform

Tim P Usherwood

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 235-236

Diamantina Health Partners: integrating leadership in research, research translation, education and clinical care

Jennifer H Martin, David E Theile, Ken K Y Ho and Ian H Frazer

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 237-239

Letters

What is wrong with Medicare?

Tony D Webber

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 240

National guidelines for regulation of laser sales, training and use are urgently needed

Charles Cope

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 240

Stevens–Johnson syndrome after varicella vaccination

Elizabeth M Christou and Orli Wargon

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 240-241

Not much need for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Duncan J Campbell

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 241

The future of fast-food regulation: new research suggests a novel strategy

Dugal B S Smith

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 241-242

Major haemorrhage in rural Australia: time for a novel solution to a unique problem?

Stuart A Gillon and Cem R Kibar

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 242-243

Evaluating workplace-based assessment of interns in a Queensland hospital: does the current instrument fit the purpose?

Jianzhen Jenny Zhang, David Wilkinson, Malcolm H Parker, Andrew Leggett and Jill Thistlethwaite

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 243

Dog bites in Australian children

Katina D'Onise and Ronald L Somers

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 244

A case series of grevillea seed burns

Joseph Luo, Tania McWilliams and Fiona Wood

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 244

Conflict of interest guidelines for clinical guidelines

A Jane Johnson and Wendy A Rogers

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 244-245

Conflict of interest guidelines for clinical guidelines

Michael J Williams, Dev A S Kevat and Bebe Loff

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 244-245

Conflict of interest guidelines for clinical guidelines

Warwick P Anderson and John McCallum

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 244-245

Clinical focus

Appropriate indications for computed tomography coronary angiography

Gary Y H Liew, Michael P Feneley and Stephen G Worthley

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 246-249 Free

Calciphylaxis and hypoalbuminaemia

Raffaela Armiento, Ilana Gory, Peter J Jenkins and Catriona A McLean

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 249

Research

Guide-wire fragment embolisation in paediatric peripherally inserted central catheters

Joel M Dulhunty, Andreas Suhrbier, Graeme A Macaulay, Jennifer C Brett, Alexa V A van Straaten, Ian M Brereton and Jillann F Farmer

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 250-255 Free

Medical device regulation in Australia: safe and effective?

Richard G McGee, Angela C Webster, Thomas E Rogerson and Jonathan C Craig

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 256-260 Free

Patterns and outcomes of preterm hospital admissions during pregnancy in NSW, 2001–2008

Tim Badgery-Parker, Jane B Ford, Mary G Jenkins, Jonathan M Morris and Christine L Roberts

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 261-265 Free

Basal–bolus insulin versus sliding-scale insulin for inpatient glycaemic control: a clinical practice comparison

Greg W Roberts, Norma Aguilar-Loza, Adrian Esterman, Morton G Burt and Stephen N Stranks

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 266-269 Free

The first year counts: cancer survival among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Queenslanders, 1997–2006

Susanna M Cramb, Gail Garvey, Patricia C Valery, John D Williamson and Peter D Baade

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 270-274 Free

Reflections

Stories of the music of hope

Linda R Mileshkin, Phillip Antippa and Penelope Schofield

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 276-277

Too much care — not enough love?

Ian Charlton

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 278

John Ewart Cawte AO, MB BS, MD, DPM, PhD, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, FAPA

Rose Ellis and Max Kamien

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 279 Free

Stimulant for anaesthetists

Ian M McKenzie

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 279

Corrections

Meningitis and pneumonitis caused by pet rodents

Lito E Papanicolas, Judith M Holds and Narin Bak

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 245

Emergency department overcrowding, mortality and the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Gary C Geelhoed and Nicholas H de Klerk

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (4): 1