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Volume 218 Issue 3

20 February 2023

Editor’s choice

Responding to both established and emerging health challenges

Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 99-99 Free

Perspectives

Now is the time to act on nutrition in medical education

Eleanor J Beck, Lauren Ball, Breanna M Lepre, Rachael McLean, Clare Wall, Melissa Adamski, Helen McCarthy and Jennifer Crowley

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 100-102 Open Access

Cardiovascular disease risk screening in Australia: evidence and data gaps

Ellie Paige, Natalie Raffoul, Emma Lonsdale and Emily Banks

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 103-105 Open Access

Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins, Ann Borda and Kimberly Humphrey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 106-110 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Cervical cord infarction mimicking migraine in a patient with vertebral artery dissection

Alanna Rottler, Yew Li Dang, Wai Foong Hooi, David Burrows, Hong Kuan Kok and Douglas Crompton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 111-112 Open Access

Snapshot

Wong‐type dermatomyositis

Li Chai and Ze‐Hu Liu

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 113-113

Reflection

Palliative care through the lens of a medical student

Dominique S Schell

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 114-115

Editorials

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on emergency department presentations: an opportunity for renewal?

Amith Shetty and Jean‐Frederic Levesque

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 116-117 Free

Dispelling misconceptions about who uses e‐cigarettes and why

Alexander Larcombe

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 117-118

Overcoming the burden of cystic fibrosis

John Massie

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 118-119

Research

Emergency department presentations during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben Keijzers, Andrea Marshall, Emma J Hall, Jamie Ranse, Ping Zhang, Gary Grant, Ya‐Ling Huang, Dinesh Palipana, Yang D Teng, Benjamin Gerhardy, Jaimi H Greenslade, Philip Jones and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 120-125 Open Access

Dual‐energy x‐ray absorptiometry assessment of bone health in Australian men with prostate cancer commencing androgen deprivation therapy

Mariya F Hamid, Amy Hayden, Tania Moujaber, Sandra Turner, Howard Gurney, Mathis Grossmann and Peter Wong

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 126-130 Free

E‐cigarette use by people who smoke or have recently quit, New South Wales, 2016–2020

Becky Freeman, Katherine Owen, Sandra Rickards, Alecia Brooks, Philip J Clare and Anita Dessaix

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 131-137 Open Access

Research letter

Diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in adults: Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry data, 2000–2019

Amelia Lin, Keith Wong, Simone K Visser, Helen Jo, Yasmeen Al‐Hindawi, Katrin Kosbab‐Jackson, Molly Cocks, Anastasia Volovets, Paul Haber, Kirsten Hammond, Nicole Taylor, Veronica Yozghatlian, Edmund MT Lau, Nathaniel S Marshall, Tara Aquino‐Salomon and Sheila Sivam

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 138-139 Free

Letters

Balancing the medical and social needs of children during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Zoë Hyde

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 140-140 Open Access

Balancing the medical and social needs of children during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Keith Grimwood and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 140-140 Open Access

Long term risk of distant metastasis in women with non‐metastatic breast cancer and survival after metastasis detection: a population‐based linked health records study

Andrea Smith, Vicki Durston and Sam Mills

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 141-141 Open Access

The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain

James L Mallows, Bridget Honan and Sierra Beck

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 142-142 Open Access

The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain

Luke P Dawson, Emily Nehme, Ziad Nehme, Karen Smith and Dion Stub

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 142-142