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Volume 206 Issue 9

15 May 2017

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 376 Free

Perspectives

Failing to plan is planning to fail: advance care directives and the Aboriginal people of the Top End

Eswaran Waran, Sharon Wallace and Jonathan Dodson-Jauncey

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 377

Changes in medical education to help physicians meet future health care needs

Judith N Hudson, Kathryn M Weston and Elizabeth A Farmer

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 378-379 Free

Australia’s Health Care Homes: laying the right foundations

Claire L Jackson and Steven J Hambleton

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 380-381 Free

No Jab, No Pay and vaccine refusal in Australia: the jury is out

Frank H Beard, Julie Leask and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 381-383 Free

Medical education

Snapshot

A blinding eye injury caused by chasing Pokémon

Maria Franchina, Swati Sinkar, Boon Ham and Geoffrey C Lam

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 384

Snapshot

Raccoon eyes in systemic light chain amyloidosis

Cecily J Forsyth and Campbell R Tiley

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 384

Lessons from practice

Complicated silicosis resulting from occupational exposure to engineered stone products

Elie Matar, Anthony Frankel, Lucinda Katharine McCowan Blake, Elizabeth J Silverstone, Anthony R Johnson and Deborah H Yates

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 385-386

Clinical skills

The scratch test for determining the inferior hepatic margin

Thomas Millington Goodsall, Patrick Flynn and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 386-387

Reflection

Coronary occlusion, denial and dissociation

Ruth A Stewart

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 388

Editorials

Reducing the incidence of burn injuries to Indigenous Australian children

Roy M Kimble and Bronwyn R Griffin

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 389-390

The frequency of eye examinations in people with diabetes

Paul Mitchell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 390-391

Research

Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children hospitalised for burn injuries: a population data linkage study

Holger Möller, Lara Harvey, Kathleen Falster, Rebecca Ivers, Kathleen F Clapham and Louisa Jorm

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 392-397 Free

Long term risk of severe retinopathy in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: a data linkage study

Mary White, Matthew A Sabin, Costan G Magnussen, Michele A O'Connell, Peter G Colman and Fergus Cameron

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 398-401 Free

Adherence to diabetic eye examination guidelines in Australia: the National Eye Health Survey

Joshua Foreman, Stuart Keel, Jing Xie, Peter Van Wijngaarden, Hugh R Taylor and Mohamed Dirani

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 402-406 Free

Narrative review

Countering cognitive biases in minimising low value care

Ian A Scott, Jason Soon, Adam G Elshaug and Robyn Lindner

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 407-411

Letters

Should there be an MBS item number for advance care planning?

Amanda Pereira-Salgado and Jennifer J Watts

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 412

Management of adverse events related to new cancer immunotherapy (immune checkpoint inhibitors)

Rose Liu, Pablo Fernandez-Peñas and Deshan F Sebaratnam

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 412

The cardiovascular research crisis and what to do about it

Garry LR Jennings and Jaye Chin-Dusting

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 412-413

Coronary stent technology: a narrative review

Rohen Skiba and Chris Merry

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 413

Coronary stent technology: a narrative review

Nigel Jepson and Daniel Chen

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 413-414

A positive step for pharmaceutical payment transparency

Jessica Dean, Malcolm P Forbes and Richard Di Natale

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 414

Careers

A political life

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): C1 Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): C2 Free