Volume 200, Issue 2 | The Medical Journal of Australia

In this issue

Get back to work

Astika Kappagoda

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Highlights from our archives

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 61 Free

Editorials

Off-label prescribing

J Paul Seale

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 65

Reducing off-label prescribing in psychiatry

Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 65-66

In brief

From The Cochrane Library

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News

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 69

Perspectives

Guidelines fall short on bariatric surgery

John B Dixon

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 70

Alcohol and cancer: the urgent need for a new message

Jaklin A Eliott and Emma R Miller

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 71-72

Food contaminants capable of causing cancer, pulmonary hypertension and cirrhosis

John A Edgar

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 73-74

Double standards in clinical practice ethics

Ian A Harris and Justine M Naylor

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 76

Letters

Nutrition in schools — outdated guidelines need updating

Kieron B Rooney

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 78

The impact of obesity treatment and dietary guidelines on eating disorders

Anita M Star and Phillipa J Hay

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 78-79

Notifying a doctor of a first hypoglycaemic episode is associated with a lower rate of recurrence among inpatients with diabetes

Dilantha T De Alwis, Suresh Varadarajan and Kwang Lim

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 79

A computer-based task management system for junior medical officers during after-hours shifts

Nicholas J Whitehead, O’Neil N Maharaj and Michael Agrez

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 79-80

An update of consensus guidelines for warfarin reversal

Krishna G Badami

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 80-82

An update of consensus guidelines for warfarin reversal

Huyen A Tran, Sanjeev D Chunilal and Huy Tran

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 82

Pharmacometrics: an underused resource in Australian clinical research

Vidya Perera, Michael J Dolton, Andrew J McLachlan, Vaughan J Carr and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 82-83

The after-life of drugs: a responsible care initiative for reducing their environmental impact

Phillip J Bergen and Simon E Appel

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 83

A pilot study of an influenza vaccination or mask mandate in an Australian tertiary health service

Rhonda L Stuart, Elizabeth E Gillespie and Peter G Kerr

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 83-84

Unexplained variation in hospital caesarean section rates

Rick J Fielke

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 84

Unexplained variation in hospital caesarean section rates

Yuen Yi (Cathy) Lee, Christine L Roberts and Jillian A Patterson

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 84-85

First aid for burns: too little, too late and often wrong

Ela J Hyland, John G Harvey and Andrew J A Holland

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 85

Risk factors for recurrent Mycobacterium ulcerans disease after exclusive surgical treatment in an Australian cohort

Christina M Steffen

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 85-86

Risk factors for recurrent Mycobacterium ulcerans disease after exclusive surgical treatment in an Australian cohort

Daniel P O’Brien, Anthony McDonald and Peter Callan

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 86

Comprehensive primary health care and social determinants as top priorities

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 86

Comprehensive primary health care and social determinants as top priorities

Fran E Baum

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 86-87

Climate change and diabetes: averting two linked catastrophes

Rosalie Schultz and Peter Tait

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 87

For debate

The scope, funding and publication of musculoskeletal clinical trials performed in Australia

Allison M Bourne, Samuel L Whittle, Bethan L Richards, Chris G Maher and Rachelle Buchbinder

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 88-91 Free

Research

A systematic interim assessment of the Australian Government’s Food and Health Dialogue

Tamara Elliott, Helen Trevena, Gary Sacks, Elizabeth Dunford, Jane Martin, Jacqui Webster, Boyd Swinburn, A Rob Moodie and Bruce C Neal

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 92-95 Free

Removing the interview for medical school selection is associated with gender bias among enrolled students

David Wilkinson, Mavourneen G Casey and Diann S Eley

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 96-99 Free

The cost of teaching an intern in New South Wales

R Kim Oates, Kerry J Goulston, Craig M Bingham and Owen F Dent

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 100-103 Free

Impact of the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia on work location of medical graduates

Denese E Playford, Sharon F Evans, David N Atkinson, Kirsten A Auret and Geoffrey J Riley

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 104-107 Free

headspace — Australia’s innovation in youth mental health: who are the clients and why are they presenting?

Debra J Rickwood, Nic R Telford, Alexandra G Parker, Chris J Tanti and Patrick D McGorry

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 108-111 Free

Impact of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in people aged 65 years or older

Robert I Menzies, Sanjay H Jayasinghe, Vicki L Krause, Clayton K Chiu and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 112-115 Free

Case reports

The growing burden of multidrug-resistant infections among returned Australian travellers

Kyra Y L Chua, M Lindsay Grayson, Adele N Burgess, Jean Y H Lee and Benjamin P Howden

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 116-118 Free

Ethics and law

Liability in the context of misdiagnosis of melanoma in Australia

Melody R Abikhair, Patrick D Mahar, Adrian R Cachia and John W Kelly

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 119-121 Free

Reflections

Sometimes you have to give a man a fish

Alicia J Jenkins

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 122-123

Here

Lucy Dougan

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 123

Correction

Detecting undiagnosed diabetes using glycated haemoglobin: an automated screening test in hospitalised patients

Nyoli A Valentine, Tariq M Alhawassi, Greg W Roberts, Parind P Vora, Stephen N Stranks and Matthew P Doogue

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 123 Free

Careers

Red tape emergency

Annabel McGilvray

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): C1 Free

Playing for keeps

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): C4 Free

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