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Volume 198 Issue 5

18 March 2013

Editor’s choice

Antimicrobial resistance: global problems need global solutions

Susan Maddocks

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 241 Free

Editorials

Gram-negative resistance: can we combat the coming of a new “Red Plague”?

David F M Looke, Thomas Gottlieb, Cheryl A Jones and David L Paterson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 243-244 Free

Updated Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease infection control guidelines: sifting facts from fiction

Ann P Koehler, Eugene Athan and Steven J Collins

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 245-246

Stroke care in Australia: why is it still the poor cousin of health care?

Tammy C Hoffmann and Richard I Lindley

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 246-247

In brief

From the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 248

News

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 249

Perspectives

Call for global action to halt the superbug

Abdul Ghafur

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 251

Public reporting of health care-associated infection data in Australia: time to refine

Leon J Worth, Ann L Bull and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 252-253

Forming networks for research: proposal for an Australian clinical trials alliance

Ian N Olver and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 254-255

Matters arising

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

Nguyen D Nguyen and Tran V Nguyen

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 256

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

Shailja Chaturvedi

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 256

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

Carlos Zubaran

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 256-257

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

Snehal P Akre and Amit C Achhra

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 257

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 257-258

Risks of complaints and adverse disciplinary findings against international medical graduates in Victoria and Western Australia

David M Studdert, Matthew J Spittal and Katie Elkin

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 258

Letters

Should all adults with varicella be prescribed antiviral treatment?

D Ashley R Watson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 259

Australian Diabetes Foot Network: management of diabetes-related foot ulceration — a clinical update

Glen C Hawkins, Michael H Bennett and David R Smart

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 259-260

The pricing of statins and implications for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme expenditure

Philip M Clarke

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 260

Antivascular endothelial growth factor treatments for neovascular age-related macular degeneration save sight, but does everyone get treated?

Robert P Finger and Robyn H Guymer

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 260-261

Research

Prescribing trends before and after implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program

Kelly A Cairns, Adam W J Jenney, Iain J Abbott, Matthew J Skinner, Joseph S Doyle, Michael Dooley and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 262-266 Free

“Down the drain”: carbapenem-resistant bacteria in intensive care unit patients and handwashing sinks

Despina Kotsanas, W R P L I Wijesooriya, Tony M Korman, Elizabeth E Gillespie, Louise Wright, Kylie Snook, Natalie Williams, Jan M Bell, Hua Y Li and Rhonda L Stuart

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 267-269 Free

Determining research priorities for clinician-initiated trials in infectious diseases

David L Paterson, on behalf of the Steering Group of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network*

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 270-272 Free

Long-term health and wellbeing of people affected by the 2002 Bali bombing

Garry J Stevens, Julie C Dunsmore, Kingsley E Agho, Melanie R Taylor, Alison L Jones, Jason J van Ritten and Beverley Raphael

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 273-277 Free

Hookworm in the Northern Territory: down but not out

Jane Davies*, Suman S Majumdar*, Robert T M Forbes, Pam Smith, Bart J Currie and Robert W Baird

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 278-281 Free

Case reports

Multifocal abscesses due to multiresistant Escherichia coli after transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy

Matthew J Roberts, Anisha Parambi, Lucinda Barrett, Paul Hadway, Robert A (Frank) Gardiner, Krispin M Hajkowicz and John Yaxley

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 282-284 Free

The doctor and the mask: iatrogenic septic arthritis caused by Streptoccocus mitis

Nicholas R Coatsworth, Peter G Huntington, Bruno Giuffrè and George Kotsiou

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 285-286 Free

Reflections

The brain painting: “the snake eating away the life of your memory”

Anna L Dwyer

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 287

Brian Haldane Parker Heber MB BS, DObstRCOG

Roger Wickins

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 289 Free

Careers

Boost your day job

Karen Burge

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): C1 Free

Gender pay divide

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): C2 Free

Dr Sarah Michael

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): C5 Free

Mind matters - Dr Gordon Shymko reflects on his career in psychiatry

Karen Burge

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): C5 Free

Treading the boards

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): C6 Free

Building a team

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): C6 Free

Correction

Listening to what Indigenous people in remote communities say about alcohol restrictions and cannabis use: ‘Good thing that the alcohol’s gone, but the gunja has kept going

Alan R Clough

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (5): 261 Free