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Letters

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Vicki Kotsirilos

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Use of the modified early warning score in emergency medical units

Imogen A Mitchell, Mary-Ann Kulh and Heather McKay

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448

Is money spent on quality improvement better spent on clinical care?

Roland J Meyer

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 452

Aseptic insertion of central venous lines to reduce bacteraemia

Chantal S Ferguson, Victoria C D’Abrera, Helen J Van Gessel and Dorothy Jones

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 448-449

Should more Australian doctors be salaried than paid by fee-for-service?

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 452-453

Delivering supplemental anatomy education: the University of Queensland model

Matthew J Roberts, Bavahuna Manoharan, Marianne Vonau, Russell W Stitz and Owen A Ung

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 449

Advertising of fast food to children on Australian television: the impact of industry self-regulation

Peta E Craig and Geoffrey Annison

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 453

Safeguard or mollycoddle? Medical student placements in Aboriginal communities

Andrew D Webster, Robert D Marshall, Lee J Fairhead, Trent Little and Falk Reinholz

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 449-450 Free

Advertising of fast food to children on Australian television: the impact of industry self-regulation

Lana Hebden, Lesley King, Anne Grunseit, Bridget Kelly and Kathy Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 453

Is it ethical for medical practitioners to prescribe alternative and complementary treatments that may lack an evidence base?

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 450-451

Pharmacogenetic screening of Indigenous Australians

Joseph D Tucci

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 386-387 Free

Factors affecting outpatient non-attendance in an Australian children’s hospital

Sean R Downer, Kannan Sethuraman and Devanath Tirupati

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 383

Emergency department website not worth the wait

Alexander M Owen

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 387

Counting the cost: estimating the number of deaths among recently released prisoners in Australia

Emma L Duncan

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 383

Routine screening for vitamin D deficiency in early pregnancy

Donald S A McLeod, Katherine A Scott, Karin M C Lust and H David McIntyre

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 384-385

Spontaneous chylothorax in a 2-year-old child

Manuel E Soto-Martinez, Vanessa Clifford, Tom Clarnette, Sarath Ranganathan and R John Massie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 385

Interferon-α-related microscopic polyangiitis in a patient with chronic hepatitis C infection

Stephen Y Oh, Brett E Jones and Suran L Fernando

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 385-386

Individual responsibility for reducing obesity: the unintended consequences of well intended messages

Jessica L Browne, Paul Zimmet and Jane Speight

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 386

Challenges in postexposure prophylaxis of a vaccinated bat carer

Heidi J Carroll, Bradley J McCall, David Looke and Bruce Fraser

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 323-324

Surgical implications of global warming

Joseph W Smith and Guy J Maddern

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 324

Clinical practice guidelines: the need for greater transparency in formulating recommendations

Robert F W Moulds

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 324-325

Prevalence and characteristics of complaint-prone doctors in private practice in Victoria

John A Buntine

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 325

Infant deaths associated with baby slings

Roger W Byard and John D Gilbert

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 321

The German Escherichia coli outbreak — could it happen here?

Martyn D Kirk

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 325-326

Prevalence of osteoporosis in Australian men and women: Geelong Osteoporosis Study

Margaret J Henry, Julie A Pasco, Geoff C Nicholson and Mark A Kotowicz

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 321-322