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Volume 221 Issue 5

2 September 2024

Editor's choice

Building and acting on the evidence for primary prevention of cancer

Elizabeth Zuccala

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 229-229 Free

Perspective

Overcoming disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma outcomes in First Nations Australians: a strategic plan for action

Jessica Howell, Troy Combo, Paula Binks, Kylie Bragg, Sarah Bukulatjpi, Kirsty Campbell, Paul J Clark, Melissa Carroll, Jane Davies, Teresa de Santis, Kate R Muller, Bella Nguyen, John K Olynyk, Nicholas Shackel, Patricia C Valery, Alan J Wigg, Jacob George and Stuart K Roberts

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 230-235 Open Access

Priorities for planetary health equity in Australia

Sharon Friel, Katherine Trebeck, Nicholas Frank, Sandro Demaio, Megan Arthur, Chelsea Hunnisett and Francis Nona

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 236-238 Open Access

Using conversant artificial intelligence to improve diagnostic reasoning: ready for prime time?

Ian A Scott, Tim Miller and Carmel Crock

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 240-243 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Smouldering COVID‐19 XBB.1.5. subvariant pneumonitis: a case report

Sara Davison, Tanmay Kanitkar, Dimitrios Menouhos, Thomas Ewin, Catherine S Marshall, Peter Boan and Sonja Janson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 244-245 Free

Editorial

What is behind the declining incidence of melanoma in younger Australians?

Anne E Cust, Richard A Scolyer AO and Georgina V Long AO

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 246-247 Free

The rise and rise of predatory journals and the risks to clinical practice, health and careers: the APAME 2024 Sydney declaration on predatory or pseudo journals and publishers

Nicholas J Talley, Virginia Barbour, José Florencio F Lapeña, Peter L Munk and Wilfred C G Peh

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 248-250 Free

Research

Changes in the incidence of melanoma in Australia, 2006–2021, by age group and ancestry: a modelling study

David C Whiteman, Rachel E Neale, Peter Baade, Catherine M Olsen and Nirmala Pandeya

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 251-257 Open Access

Sensitivity and specificity of Aboriginal‐developed items to supplement the adapted PHQ‐9 screening measure for depression: results from the Getting it Right study

Timothy Skinner, Alex Brown, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto, Sara F Farnbach, Nicholas Glozier, Deborah A Askew, Graham Gee, Alan Cass and Maree L Hackett

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 258-263 Open Access

The impact of ageing‐in‐place reforms on the provision of home care packages for older Australians, 2008–21: a repeated cross‐sectional study

Johannes Schwabe, Gillian E Caughey, Steve L Wesselingh, Craig Whitehead, Renuka Visvanathan, Keith Evans and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 264-269 Open Access

Mental health training for physicians supervising resident physicians: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Aimée Gayed, Jessica Strudwick, Nathasha Kugenthiran, Anthony D LaMontagne, Andrew Mackinnon, Helen Christensen, Nicholas Glozier and Samuel Harvey

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 270-276 Open Access

Research letter

Measuring progress toward the Closing the Gap healthy birthweight target for Indigenous babies: an analysis of Queensland perinatal data, 2011–2020

M Mamun Huda, James Ward and Abdullah Al Mamun

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 277-278 Open Access

Narrative review

Developing the green operating room: exploring barriers and opportunities to reducing operating room waste

Ludmilla Pillay, Kenneth D Winkel and Timothy Kariotis

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 279-284 Open Access

Letter to the editor

The rise of direct‐to‐consumer telemedicine services in Australia: implications for primary care and future research

Vishnu Khanal, Deborah J Russell and John Wakerman

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 285-285 Free

Hidden danger: maize starch excipient allergy

Wala Hamid Haj Ali, Corey Borg and Catherine Leggett

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 285-286 Free