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Volume 217 Issue 7

3 October 2022

News

News briefs

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 329-330

Perspectives

Quality improvement strategies in trauma care: review and proposal of 31 novel quality indicators

Joshua G Kovoor, Jonathan Henry W Jacobsen and Zsolt J Balogh, for the Trauma Care Verification and Quality Improvement Writing Group †

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 331-335 Open Access

Seafarers on the shore: issues raised by Australian doctors treating seafarers

John J Bockxmeer and Nilukshi Ranwala

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 335-337 Open Access

Australia needs to implement a national health strategy for doctors

Chanaka Wijeratne, Margaret P Kay, Mark H Arnold and Jeffrey CL Looi

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 338-341 Open Access

Building resilience to Australian flood disasters in the face of climate change

Sotiris Vardoulakis, Veronica Matthews, Ross S Bailie, Wenbiao Hu, Luis Salvador‐Carulla, Alexandra L Barratt and Cordia Chu

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 342-345 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia presenting without significant blood count abnormalities: role of medical imaging in two cases

Royston Ponraj, Jenna Langfield, Louise Wong, Ian Kerridge and William S Stevenson

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 346-347

Editorials

How intensive care has adapted to the changing face of COVID‐19 in Australia

Theresa Jacques and Kush Deshpande

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 348-349 Free

Practice and system improvements for better physical health and longer lives for people living with serious mental illness

Rosemary V Calder, James A Dunbar and Maximilian P Courten

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 350-351 Free

Research

People in intensive care with COVID‐19: demographic and clinical features during the first, second, and third pandemic waves in Australia

Husna Begum, Ary S Neto, Patricia Alliegro, Tessa Broadley, Tony Trapani, Lewis T Campbell, Allen C Cheng, Winston Cheung, D James Cooper, Simon J Erickson, Craig J French, Edward Litton, Richard McAllister, Alistair Nichol, Annamaria Palermo, Mark P Plummer, Hannah Rotherham, Mahesh Ramanan, Benjamin Reddi, Claire Reynolds, Steven AR Webb, Andrew A Udy and Aidan Burrell

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 352-360 Open Access

Study protocol

The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) project: a mixed methods study protocol

Gerard M O'Reilly, Kate Curtis, Yesul Kim, Biswadev Mitra, Kate Hunter, Courtney Ryder, Delia V Hendrie, Nick Rushworth, Afsana Afroz, Shane D'Angelo, Jin Tee and Mark C Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 361-365 Open Access

Research letter

Primary headache drug treatment in emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand

Kevin Chu, Anne‐Maree Kelly, Frances Kinnear, Gerben Keijzers and Sinan Kamona

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 366-367 Open Access

Guideline summary

Care for adults with COVID‐19: living guidelines from the National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Heath White, Steve J McDonald, Bridget Barber, Joshua Davis, Lucy Burr, Priya Nair, Sutapa Mukherjee, Britta Tendal, Julian Elliott, Steven McGloughlin and Tari Turner

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 368-378 Open Access

Letters

Skeletons in the closet: time to give human bones acquired by health practitioners for educational purposes the respect they deserve

Jon Cornwall, Sabine Hildebrandt and Thomas Champney

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 379-379

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Kootsy Canuto, Karla J Canuto, Jason Bonson and James Smith

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 380-380 Free

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Yuejen Zhao and Shu Qin Li

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 380-380 Free

Supplement

Being Equally Well: Ending the neglect of physical health for people with serious mental illness

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): Open Access