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Volume 208 Issue 11

18 June 2018

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 466-467

Perspectives

Transcranial magnetic stimulation: an item number is justified

Saxby Pridmore

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 468

How antibiotic allergy labels may be harming our most vulnerable patients

Jason A Trubiano, M Lindsay Grayson, Karin A Thursky, Elizabeth J Phillips and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 469-470

Burnout in the medical profession: not a rite of passage

Michael Baigent and Ruth Baigent

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 471-472

Medical education

Medical education research: aligning design and research goals

Jennifer A Cleland, Steven J Durning and Erik Driessen

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 473-475

Key research skills

Survival studies: competing risks, immortality and censoring

Adrian G Barnett, Christopher Oldmeadow and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 475-477

Lessons from practice

Fulminant meningococcal sepsis due to non-groupable Neisseria meningitidis in a patient receiving eculizumab

Victoria Hall, Rekha Pai Mangalore, Simon He, Kerrie Stevens, Jason A Trubiano, Natasha E Holmes, Benjamin P Howden and Jason C Kwong

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 478-479

Reflection

Why patients should be part of medical training from day one

Benjamin D Bravery

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 480

Book/media/app review

A holistic approach to the different pathologies of the vulva

Rupert G Sherwood

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 481

Poem

Stone

Allis Hamilton

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 481

Editorials

Outpatient heart failure programs: time for a new standard

Amera Halabi and Derek P Chew

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 482-483

Colorectal cancer screening reduces incidence, mortality and morbidity

Bilel Jideh and Michael J Bourke

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 483-484

Research

Effects of post-discharge management on rates of early re-admission and death after hospitalisation for heart failure

Quan Huynh, Kazuaki Negishi, Carmine De Pasquale, James Hare, Dominic Leung, Tony Stanton and Thomas H Marwick

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 485-491 Free

A nurse-led model at public academic hospitals maintains high adherence to colorectal cancer surveillance guidelines

Erin L Symonds, Kalindra Simpson, Michelle Coats, Angela Chaplin, Karen Saxty, Jayne Sandford, Graeme P Young AM, Charles Cock, Robert Fraser and Peter A Bampton

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 492-496 Free

Research letter

Out-of-pocket medical expenses for Queenslanders with a major cancer

Louisa G Gordon, Thomas M Elliott, Catherine M Olsen, Nirmala Pandeya and David C Whiteman

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 497 Free

Information in referrals to public outpatient specialist clinics for back pain: audit results and consensus recommendations

Lauren Ross, Adam de Gruchy, Uyen M Phan, Matthew Warrender-Sparkes, Ian P Wicks and John HY Moi

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 498 Free

Narrative review

Sarcoidosis: a state of the art review from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand

Hasib Ahmadzai, Shuying Huang, Chris Steinfort, James Markos, Roger KA Allen, Denis Wakefield, Margaret Wilsher and Paul S Thomas

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 499-504

Letters

The value of food fortification as a public health intervention

Carol Bower, Fiona J Stanley and Mike Daube

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 504-505

Foreign tick smuggling rickettsia evades Australian border control

Sadid F Khan, Mythili Tadepalli, John Stenos, Stephen R Graves and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 505

Population attributable fractions of perinatal outcomes for nulliparous women associated with overweight and obesity, 1990–2014

Jodie Bailie, Jacqueline A Boyle and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 505-506

Careers

iTransfuse helping junior doctors give blood

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): C1 Free

AMAs best and brightest

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): C2-C3 Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): C4 Free