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Volume 197 Issue 6

17 September 2012

Editor's choice

Layers of complexity

Ruth Armstrong and Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 311 Free

Editorials

The need and direction for drug law reform in Australia

Alex D Wodak

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 312-313 Free

A life-cycle approach to monitoring benefits and harms of medicines

Emily Banks and Sallie-Anne Pearson

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 313-314

In brief

From the NHMRC

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 316

News

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 317

Perspectives

e-Health records: beware of assumed benefit

Ray N Moynihan

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 319

Highly sensitive troponin assays — a two-edged sword?

Ian A Scott, Louise Cullen, Jillian R Tate and William Parsonage

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 320-323

What the public learns about screening and diagnostic tests through the media

Amanda J Wilson, Jane Robertson, Benjamin D Ewald and David Henry

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 324-326

A journalist’s view of reporting medical tests

Julie C Robotham

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 327

Letters

Designing incentives for good-quality hospital care

Kirstine M Sketcher-Baker, John G Wakefield and Jane V Partridge

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 328

Not window dressing, but key to making medical research matter

Peter J McLaren

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 328

Training doctors — too long in the cellar?

Thomas K F Taylor

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 328-329

Training doctors — too long in the cellar?

Kerry J Goulston and Kim Oates

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 329

The need for data beyond primary diagnosis

Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 329

Pharmacoepidemiology of testosterone prescribing in Australia, 1992–2010

Stephen P Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 329-330

Pharmacoepidemiology of testosterone prescribing in Australia, 1992–2010

Peter M Herriot

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 330

The use of key performance indicators to benchmark individual clinic performance in managing a complex chronic infectious disease

Mark D Kelly, Jennifer K Broom and Sharon Young

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 330-331

A battlefield occupational risk not to be ignored

Anthony D Holley, Daniel J Weber and Michael C Reade

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 331

Simulation in clinical teaching and learning

Susan A Welch, Julie L Gawthorne and Melinda J Berry

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 331-332

Screening with nucleic acid amplification tests for gonorrhoea in men who have sex with men

Miranda Sherley, Karina J Kennedy and Sarah J Martin

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 332

Myopathy and possible intestinal dysfunction in a patient treated with colchicine and simvastatin

Danielle H J Oh, Shuang Quan Chan and Andrew M Wilson

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 332-333

Medical schools as agents of change: socially accountable medical education

Daniel Yore, Erica L Parker and Catherine G A Pendrey

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 333

Shared care for chronic eye diseases: perspectives of ophthalmologists, optometrists and patients

Jagdeep Singh Gandhi

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 333-334

Use of adrenaline in digital nerve blocks

Christopher J D Barlow

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 334

Research

A national study of workplace aggression in Australian clinical medical practice

Danny J Hills, Catherine M Joyce and John S Humphreys

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 336-340 Free

Trends in alcohol-attributable hospitalisation in the Northern Territory, 1998–99 to 2008–09

Shu Qin Li, Sabine L M Pircher and Steven L Guthridge

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 341-344 Free

The comparability of emergency department waiting time performance data

Jessica Greene and Jane Hall

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 345-348 Free

Case reports

Carbon monoxide-induced death and toxicity from charcoal briquettes

Chris Winder

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 349-350 Free

Chromoblastomycosis in a Solomon Islander

James Knox and Caroline Marshall

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 350 Free

Reflections

The MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize: broadening our horizons

A Rob Moodie

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 351 Free

The sound of silence: global health challenges from the front

James D Smith

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 351 Free

John Greenwell MB BS, FRCOG, FRACOG, FRACMA

Stephen J Steigrad

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 353 Free

Cryptography in modern-day medical science*

Henricus A M Mutsaers

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): 353 Free

Careers

Centre of care

Marge Overs

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): C1 Free

Dr Naomi Maclntyre

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): C2 Free

Vital cog in the wheel - Dr Sue Fraser describes the privilege of being a breast physician

Interview by Marge

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): C5 Free

Taking a stand

Sophie McNamara

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): C6 Free

Creating your safety net

Amanda Bryan

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): C7 Free