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Bulk‐billing rates and out‐of‐pocket costs for general practitioner services in Australia, 2022, by SA3 region: analysis of Medicare claims data

Karinna Saxby and Yuting Zhang

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): n/a-n/a

Blood pressure in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: analysis of baseline data from a prospective cohort study

Berhe W Sahle, Emily Banks, Robyn Williams, Grace Joshy, Garry Jennings, Jonathan C Craig, Nicholas G Larkins, Francine Eades, Rebecca Q Ivers and Sandra Eades

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (2): 91-101 Open Access

The impact of the BreastScreen NSW transition from film to digital mammography, 2002–2016: a linked population health data analysis

Rachel Farber, Nehmat Houssami, Kevin McGeechan, Alexandra L Barratt and Katy JL Bell

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (2): 82-90 Open Access

Clinical phenotype of COVID‐19 vaccine‐associated myocarditis in Victoria, 2021–22: a cross‐sectional study

Julia Smith, Silja Schrader, Hannah Morgan, Priya Shenton, Annette Alafaci, Nicholas Cox, Andrew J Taylor, James Hare, Bryn Jones, Nigel W Crawford, Jim P Buttery, Hazel J Clothier and Daryl R Cheng

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (1): 23-29 Free

Knowledge about COVID‐19 vaccines among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and attitudes to and behaviours regarding COVID‐19 and influenza vaccination: a survey

Shea Spierings, Victor M Oguoma, Anthony Shakeshaft, Jim Walker, Maree Toombs and James S Ward

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (1): 30-37 Open Access

Intrinsic capacity and ageing well for Aboriginal people in remote Western Australia: a longitudinal cohort study

Zoë Hyde, Kate Smith, Roslyn Malay, Dina C LoGiudice, Dawn C Bessarab, David N Atkinson, Edward Strivens and Leon Flicker

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (1): 38-46 Free

Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study

Nicki Newton, Kavisha Shah, Miranda Shaw, Emma Charlston, Melissa T Baysari, Angus Ritchie, Chenyao Yu, Adam Johnston, Jagdev Singh, Meredith Makeham, Sarah Norris, Liliana Laranjo, Clara K Chow and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S37-S48 Free

The cost of treating hypertension in Australia, 2012–22: an economic analysis

Emily R Atkins, Long Huy Nguyen, Mary Lou Chatterton, Markus Schlaich, Aletta E Schutte and Anthony Rodgers

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 612-616 Free

Defining a core set of research and development priorities for virtual care in the post‐pandemic environment: a call to action

Kavisha Shah, Nicki Newton, Emma Charlston, Miranda Shaw, Jagdev Singh, Adam Johnston, Owen Hutchings, Chenyao Yu, Pearl Wang, Aaron Jones, Angus Ritchie, Rebecca Davis, Fiona Robinson, Jennifer A Alison, Melissa T Baysari, Meredith Makeham, Sarah Norris, Liliana Laranjo, Emma Nicholls, Clara K Chow and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S49-S56 Free

Participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by people with severe mental illness, Australia, 2006–2019: a national data linkage study

Steve Kisely, Rebecca Seth, Susan J Jordan, Bradley Kendall, Dan J Siskind, Grant Sara, Justin Chapman, Lisa Brophy and David M Lawrence

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 617-622 Open Access

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants admitted to the Hunter New England neonatal intensive care unit, 2016-2021: a retrospective medical record audit

Jessica Bennett, Michelle Kennedy, Jamie Bryant, Amanual Mersha, Larissa Korostenski, Michelle Stubbs, Justine Parsons and Luke Wakely

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (1): 47-48

Health service access and quality of care provided by the Western NSW Local Health District Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a retrospective analysis of linked administrative data

Georgina M Luscombe, Andrew Wilson, Amanda J Ampt, Amy Von Huben, Kirsten Howard, Clare Coleman, Georgia Wingfield and Shannon Nott

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S8-S15 Free

Clinician experiences of a hybrid virtual medical service supporting rural and remote hospitals: a qualitative study

Anna E Thompson, Emily Saurman, Shannon Nott, Andrew Wilson and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S16-S21 Free

Patient and carer experiences of hospital‐based hybrid virtual medical care: a qualitative study

Anna E Thompson, Tim Shaw, Shannon Nott, Andrew Wilson and Emily Saurman

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S22-S27 Free

An economic evaluation of the Virtual Rural Generalist Service versus usual care in Western NSW Local Health District

Amy Von Huben, Anna E Thompson, Andrew Wilson, Georgina M Luscombe, Amelia Haigh, Kirsten Howard, Emily Saurman, Tim Shaw, Georgia Wingfield, Amanda J Ampt and Shannon Nott

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S28-S36 Free

Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2003–2022: retrospective analysis of Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry data

Emily Nehme, David Anderson, Ross Salathiel, Anthony Carlyon, Dion Stub, Peter A Cameron, Andrew Wilson, Sile Smith, John J McNeil and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 603-611 Open Access

Interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with type 2 diabetes that modify its management and cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review

Ciying Tan, Zoe Williams, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Ray Kelly, Tuguy Esgin and Elif I Ekinci

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 623-630 Open Access

Mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole‐of‐population descriptive study

Jessica Judd, Rhiannon M Pilkington, Catia Malvaso, Alexandra M Procter, Alicia Montgomerie, Jemma JA Anderson, Jon N Jureidini, Julie Petersen, John Lynch and Catherine R Chittleborough

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 540-545 Free

Management of people after stroke in 383 Victorian general practices, 2014–2018: analysis of linked stroke registry and general practice data

Muideen T Olaiya, Joosup Kim, Christopher Pearce, Kiran Bam, Dominique A Cadilhac, Nadine E Andrew, Lauren M Sanders, Amanda G Thrift, Mark R Nelson, Seana Gall and Monique F Kilkenny

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 546-553 Free

Medicare‐subsidised mental health service use during the first 15 years of life in New South Wales: a population cohort study

Oliver J Watkeys, Kimberlie Dean, Kristin R Laurens, Vaughan J Carr and Melissa J Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 554-557 Free

Assessing the adequacy and sustainability of the Northern Territory health workforce with respect to burden of disease and injury, 2009–2021: an analysis of administrative data

Yuejen Zhao, Jo Wright, Renu Unnikrishnan, Ramakrishna Chondur and Danielle Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 596-602 Free

Cerebral palsy in Australia: birth prevalence, 1995–2016, and differences by residential remoteness: a population-based register study

Hayley Smithers‐Sheedy, Emma Waight, Shona Goldsmith, Sue Reid, Catherine Gibson, Heather Scott, Linda Watson, Megan Auld, Fiona Kay, Clare Wiltshire, Gina Hinwood, Annabel Webb, Tanya Martin, Nadia Badawi and Sarah McIntyre, the ACPR Group

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 533-539 Free

Gender affirmation testosterone therapy, Australia, 2021–22: a review of PBS dispensing data

Brendan J Nolan, Sav Zwickl, Jeffrey D Zajac and Ada S Cheung

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 491-492 Open Access

Notification of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in hospitalised people in the Midwest region of Western Australia, 2012–2022: retrospective administrative data analysis

Ingrid Stacey, Yolande Knight, Claire MX Ong, Amy Lee, Suresh Karuppannan, Allison Christou and Judith M Katzenellenbogen

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 493-494 Open Access

Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID

Alex Holmes, Lance Emerson, Louis B Irving, Emma Tippett, Jeffrey M Pullin, Julie Young, David A Watters and Adina Hamilton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S12-S17 Open Access