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Volume 198 Issue 2

4 February 2013

Editor’s choice

Closing the innovation loop

Ann Gregory and Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 67 Free

Editorial

Improving the uptake of screening for diabetic retinopathy

Jonathon Q Ng and Nigel Morlet

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 69-70

Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in Australia: a blueprint for reform

Julie Redfern* and Clara K Chow*, on behalf of the Executive Committee and all participants in the National Secondary Prevention of Coronary Disease Summit, 2011

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 70-71

Familial hypercholesterolaemia in Australia: new insights and developments

Ian R Hamilton-Craig and Gerald F Watts

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 72-73

In brief

From the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 74

News

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 75

Perspectives

Rethinking psychotropics in nursing homes

Sarah N Hilmer and Danijela Gnjidic

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 77

Gestational diabetes needs to be managed

H David McIntyre and Jeremy J N Oats

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 78-79

Real-time monitoring of Schedule 8 medicines in Australia: evaluation is essential

Fiona L Shand, Gabrielle Campbell, Wayne Hall, Nicholas Lintzeris, Milton Cohen and Louisa Degenhardt

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 80-81

Matters arising

Over 150 potentially low-value health care practices: an Australian study

Stuart G MacKay

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 83

Over 150 potentially low-value health care practices: an Australian study

Jane S Hocking, Basil Donovan and Rebecca Guy

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 83-84

Over 150 potentially low-value health care practices: an Australian study

Kim H Chan, Justin Ghosh and Mark A McGuire

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 84

Over 150 potentially low-value health care practices: an Australian study

Ian E Haines

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 84-85

Over 150 potentially low-value health care practices: an Australian study

Adam G Elshaug

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 85

Letters

Carbon monoxide-induced death and toxicity from charcoal briquettes

Jared A Brown and Nick A Buckley

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 86

Echocardiographic monitoring for clozapine-associated cardiac toxicity — time for review?

Stuart D Murch, David L Prior and David J Castle

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 86-87

Single-centre experience of donation after cardiac death

Judith R Kennedy and Michael C Kennedy

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 87

Single-centre experience of donation after cardiac death

Raj Kumar, Kiran Shekar and John F Fraser

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 87-88

Single-centre experience of donation after cardiac death

Tim G Coulson and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 88

Adopting surgical innovation within activity-based funding for public hospitals

Michael D Coory, Bridie S Thompson and Susan J Jordan

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 88

Clinical focus

An evidence-informed strategy to prevent osteoporosis in Australia

Peter R Ebeling, Robin M Daly, Deborah A Kerr and Michael G Kimlin

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 90-91

Research

The reliability of single-field fundus photography in screening for diabetic retinopathy: the Central Australian Ocular Health Study

Janice J-Y Ku, John Landers, Tim Henderson and Jamie E Craig

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 93-96 Free

Feasibility of screening for diabetic retinopathy at an Australian pathology collection service: a pilot study

Melanie F Larizza, Lauren A Hodgson, Eva K Fenwick, Ryo Kawasaki, Ralph Audehm, Jie Jin Wang, Tien Y Wong and Ecosse L Lamoureux

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 97-99 Free

Changing trends in venous thromboembolism-related imaging in Western Australian teaching hospitals, 2002–2010

Tatiana Segard and William B G Macdonald

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 100-103 Free

A prospective multicentre study of barriers to discharge from inpatient rehabilitation

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

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 104-108 Free

Case reports

Stress-induced takotsubo cardiomyopathy in survivors of the 2011 Queensland floods

Stuart J Butterly, Mathivathana Indrajith, Paul Garrahy, Arnold C T Ng, Paul A Gould and William Y S Wang

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 109-110 Free

Reflections

Finding the key: acute locked-in syndrome treated with interventional neuroradiology

Gordon Stuart

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 112-113

Brief update on epilepsy treatment

Geoffrey K Herkes

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 113

Marjan Kljakovic MBChB, FRNZCGP, PhD

Anthony C Dowell, Karen M Flegg and Les J Toop

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 114 Free

Robert Bohdan Mikolaj (Bob) Ravich MB ChB, FRACP

Kate M Ravich and Frances M Boyle, AM

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): 114 Free

Careers

Climbing the leadership ladder

Karen Burge

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): C1 Free

Sharing the knowledge

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): C2 Free

Professor Zsolt Balogh Shares his passion for and dedication to caring for injured patients

Interview by Karen

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): C5 Free

Dr David Dewar

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): C5 Free

Pedal power - Bruno Cordier

Karen Burge

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): C6 Free

Keeping it simple

Linda Drake

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (2): C7 Free