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Volume 198 Issue 4

4 March 2013

Editor’s choice

In search of a good ending

Ann Gregory and Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 175 Free

Editorials

Neuroplasticity and pain: what does it all mean?

Philip J Siddall

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 177-178 Free

Why e-health is so hard

Enrico Coiera

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 178-179

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy caused by BK virus?

Bruce J Brew, Catriona A McLean and Eugene O Major

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 179-180

In brief

From the CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 182

News

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 183

Perspectives

Closing the global gender gap

Izzeldin M M Abuelaish

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 185

Meeting end-of-life care needs for people with chronic disease: palliative care is not enough

Teresa A Burgess, Annette J Braunack Mayer, Gregory B Crawford and Justin J Beilby

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 186-187

Advance care planning: lessons from a study of Tasmanian enduring guardianship forms

Michael A Ashby, Robert N Thornton and Robyn L Thomas

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 188-189

Doctors in support of law reform for voluntary euthanasia

John O Willoughby, Robert G Marr and Colin P Wendell-Smith, on behalf of Doctors for Voluntary Euthanasia Choice

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 190 Free

Clinical effectiveness research: a critical need for health sector research governance capacity

Ian D Davis and Derek P B Chew

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 191-192

Letters

Tiger snake (Notechis spp) envenoming: Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-13)

Alan Paul

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 194

Tiger snake (Notechis spp) envenoming: Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-13)

Geoffrey K Isbister, Nicholas A Buckley and Simon GA Brown

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 194-195

A meta-analysis of “hospital in the home”

Hugh G Dickson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 195

A meta-analysis of “hospital in the home”

Gideon A Caplan

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 195-196

Flexor digitorum profundus avulsion injuries in Oztag players

Mohammed Baba, Jason N Harvey, Anthony J Beard and Richard D Lawson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 196

Clinical focus

An update of consensus guidelines for warfarin reversal

Huyen A Tran, Sanjeev D Chunilal, Paul L Harper, Huy Tran, Erica M Wood and Alex S Gallus, on behalf of the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 198-199 Free

Research

Effect of an electronic medical record information system on emergency department performance

Murugabalaji K Mohan, Rod O Bishop and James L Mallows

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 201-204 Free

Good HIT and bad HIT

Jon D Patrick and Susan Ieraci

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 205 Free

Recent increase in detection of alprazolam in Victorian heroin-related deaths

Angela C Rintoul, Malcolm D H Dobbin, Suzanne Nielsen, Louisa Degenhardt and Olaf H Drummer

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 206-209 Free

Beyond injecting drug use: investigation of a Victorian cluster of hepatitis C among HIV-infected men who have sex with men

Andrew A Mahony, Ellen J Donnan, Rosemary A Lester, Joseph S Doyle, James Knox, Samantha L Tracy, Scott Bowden and Joseph J Sasadeusz

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 210-214 Free

Notable cases

BK virus-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

Kathryn L Daveson, Chong W Ong, Scott Bowden, Mark E Koina and Lavinia A Hallam

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 216-218

Ethics and law

Ethics in medicine: is it a futile exercise?

Dominic J C Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 220

What is futile and who decides? The clinician’s dilemma

Bogda Koczwara

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 221-222

Futile treatment: the ethicist’s perspective

Dominic J C Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 223-224

Legal perspectives on consent in disputes about futile care

Cameron L Stewart

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 225-226

Reflections

Gaining a patient’s perspective while becoming a doctor

Lloyd Reeve-Johnson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 228

Medicine on the walls of the art gallery

George M Weisz and William R Albury

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 229-230

Correction

Australian national birthweight percentiles by sex and gestational age, 1998–2007

Timothy A Dobbins, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Christine L Roberts and Judy M Simpson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 189 Free

Careers

Palliative care pioneer

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): C1 Free

Support for new psychiatrists

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): C5 Free

Pride in diversity - Associate Professor Eva Segelov reflects on the challenges, joys and rewards of her well rounded career

Interview by Karen

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): C6 Free

Dr Nicholas Hayden

Karen Burge

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): C6 Free

More than skin deep

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): C8 Free