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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 2024; 222 (1): n/a-n/a

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

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

A rise in Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections in Victoria in late 2023 and early 2024 detected at two major testing laboratories

Maryza Graham, Thomas Tran, Changxu Zhang, Michelle Sam, Andrew Daley, Kathy Jackson and Chuan Kok Lim

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 436-437 Open Access

An outbreak of reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME) after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Sydney, 2024: retrospective case series

Joseph Joseph, Kelvin Truong, Artiene Tatian and Orli Wargon

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 434-435 Open Access

Intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion: cross‐sectional study of women attending a Perth sexual health clinic, 2019–20

Mariana Galrao, Catherine B Brooker, Alison Creagh, Richelle Douglas and Sarah Smith

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 386-388 Open Access

6‐Methylnicotine: a new nicotine alternative identified in e‐cigarette liquids sold in Australia

Caitlin Jenkins, Celine Kelso and Jody Morgan

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (6): 333-335 Open Access

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

Tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria vaccination coverage in older adults, Australia, 2023: analysis of Australian Immunisation Register data

Alexandra J Hendry, Helen E Quinn, Kristine Macartney and Frank H Beard

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 224-225 Open Access

Heat health alerts and emergency department presentations by people aged 65 years or older, Victoria, 2010–22: a case–crossover analysis

Tilda N Thomson, Joshua Szanyi and Vanora Mulvenna

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (2): 117-118 Open Access

Emergency department presentations in Queensland by First Nations people, remote residents, and young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020: interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben B Keijzers, Dinesh Palipana, John Gerrard and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581 Open Access

Reduced numbers of elective joint replacement procedures in Australia during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020–2022: a registry data analysis study

Christopher J Wall, Christopher J Vertullo, David RJ Gill, Richard S Page, Carl Holder and Paul N Smith

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 169-170 Open Access

Misperceptions about routine childhood vaccination among parents in Australia, before and after the COVID‐19 pandemic: a cross‐sectional survey study

Jessica Kaufman, Monsurul Hoq, Anthea L Rhodes, Mary‐Anne Measey and Margie H Danchin

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 530-532 Open Access

Pharmaceutical company payments to Australian doctors reported to Medicines Australia, 2019–22: a cross‐sectional analysis

Malcolm Forbes, Yeshna Bhowon and Barbara Mintzes

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (8): 425-427 Open Access

Lifestyle advice from general practitioners and changes in health‐related behaviour in Australia: secondary analysis of 2020–21 National Health Survey data

Loai Albarqouni, Hannah Greenwood, Caroline Dowsett and Paul P Glasziou

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (9): 480-481 Open Access

Ambient maximum daily temperature and mental health‐related presentations to a western Sydney emergency department, 2015–2019: analysis of hospital and meteorological data

Wen Yu Claire Ooi, Taylor A Braund, James Elhindi and Anthony WF Harris

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 379-380 Open Access

The uptake of long‐acting depot buprenorphine for treating opioid dependence in Australia, 2019–2022: longitudinal sales data analysis

Nicholas Lintzeris, Victoria Hayes and Adrian J Dunlop

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 339-340 Open Access

Post‐COVID‐19 condition symptoms 12 and 24 months after COVID‐19 during the first month of the pandemic in Melbourne: a cohort study

Dorothy Q Ling, Grace Gibney, Fiona James, Natasha E Holmes and Kyra YL Chua

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 336-338 Free

Presentations to selected Melbourne hospitals with cardiovascular disease by Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people, 2011–19: a linked administrative data analysis

Eloise Price, Aneta Kotevski, Karen Lamb, Digsu Koye, Georgia Taylor, Gabrielle Ebsworth and Luke Burchill

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 208-210 Open Access

Steatotic liver disease in rural and regional Victoria, according to the NAFLD and newer diagnostic criteria: retrospective cohort analyses of 2001–03 and 2016–18 data

Karl Vaz, William W Kemp, Ammar Majeed, John Lubel, Dianna Magliano, Kristen Glenister, Lisa Bourke, David Simmons and Stuart K Roberts

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 97-99 Open Access

COVID‐19 vaccination of children with refugee backgrounds in Western Australia: a retrospective observational study

Thomas Volkman, Roisin Clarke, Jack Anstey and Sarah Cherian

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 549-550 Open Access

The impact of COVID‐19 on consultations at an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care service: a retrospective observational study

Geoffrey K Spurling, Deborah A Askew and Noel E Hayman

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 482-484 Open Access

Undiagnosed coeliac disease identified by active case finding in first degree relatives of people with coeliac disease in Australia: a prospective observational study

Richard Muir, Anuj Sehgal, Jason A Tye‐Din and A James M Daveson

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (8): 371-373 Open Access

Preventive health checks in Australian general practice for women during mid‐life

Louise F Wilson, Annette J Dobson, Gita D Mishra and Jenny A Doust

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (9): 429-431 Open Access