Volume 215, Issue 1 | The Medical Journal of Australia

News

News briefs

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 4-6

Perspectives

Australia must act to prevent airborne transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Zoë Hyde, David Berger and Andrew Miller

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 7-9.e1 Free

Communicating with patients and the public about COVID‐19 vaccine safety: recommendations from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation

Julie Leask, Samantha J Carlson, Katie Attwell, Katrina K Clark, Jessica Kaufman, Catherine Hughes, Jane Frawley, Patrick Cashman, Holly Seal, Kerrie Wiley, Katarzyna Bolsewicz, Maryke Steffens and Margie H Danchin

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 9-12.e1 Open Access

Dust diseases in modern Australia: a discussion of the new TSANZ position statement on respiratory surveillance

Deborah H Yates, Jennifer L Perret, Margaret Davidson, Susan E Miles and AW Musk

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 13-15.e1

Increasing health assessments for people living with an intellectual disability: lessons from experience of Indigenous‐specific health assessments

Jodie Bailie, Alison Laycock, Veronica Matthews and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 16-18.e1 Free

Medical education

Lessons from practice

The first known case of vaccine‐induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia in Australia

Jay Hocking, Sanjeev D Chunilal, Vivien M Chen, Tim Brighton, James Nguyen, Jocelyn Tan, Stephen B Ting and Huyen Tran

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 19-20.e1 Free

Snapshot

Anti‐MDA‐5‐positive amyopathic dermatomyositis with cutaneous ulcerations

Yanjun Chen, Gim Gee Teng and Winnie ZY Teo

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 21-21.e1

Ethics and law

Medico‐legal considerations of mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination for high risk workers

Dev AS Kevat, Danielle CA Panaccio, Sam C Pang, Jessica M Dean, Caitlin C Farmer and Patrick D Mahar

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 22-24.e1 Open Access

Editorials

Improving access to community care for people with intellectual disability is needed to avert unnecessary hospitalisations

David I Ben‐Tovim and Kim Vien

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 25-26

An update on the burden of group A streptococcal diseases in Australia and vaccine development

Jeffrey W Cannon and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 27-28

The road less travelled: supporting physicians to practice rurally

Jennifer A May and Anthony Scott

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 29-30 Free

Research

Potentially preventable hospitalisations of people with intellectual disability in New South Wales

Janelle C Weise, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul and Julian N Trollor

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 31-36 Free

Increasing incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Western Australia, particularly among Indigenous people

Cameron M Wright, Rachael Moorin, Glenn Pearson, John R Dyer, Jonathan R Carapetis and Laurens Manning

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 36-41 Free

Research letter

Limited clinical value of early repeat RT‐PCR testing for SARS‐CoV‐2

Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond and Deborah A Williamson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 42-43 Free

Careers

Prof Susan Sawyer: carving out her own path

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): C1 Free

Supplement

Building a sustainable rural physician workforce

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): Open Access

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