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Infant feeding patterns before and after changes to food allergy prevention guidelines in Australia

Jennifer Koplin, Victoria Soriano, Merryn Netting and Rachel Peters

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 210-211 Open Access

Re‐assessing reactions to influenza vaccination initially classified as vaccine allergies

Beau Z Carr, Kymble Spriggs, Samar Ojaimi, Elizabeth Leahy and Sara L Barnes

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 155-156 Free

Effect of a financial incentive on responses by Australian general practitioners to a postal survey: a randomised controlled trial

Alison C Zucca, Mariko Carey, Rob W Sanson‐Fisher, Joel Rhee, Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair, Christopher Oldmeadow, Tiffany‐Jane Evans and Simon Chiu

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 585-586 Open Access

The seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific antibodies in children, Australia, November 2020 – March 2021

Archana Koirala, Heather F Gidding, Kaitlyn Vette and Kristine Macartney, the PAEDS Serosurvey Group

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 43-45 Open Access

Value of single troponin values in the emergency department for excluding acute myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Jaimi H Greenslade, Sara Berndt, Laura Stephensen, Katrina Starmer, Greg Starmer, William Parsonage, Victor Lau, Tileah Drahm‐Butler, Tania Davis, Virginia Campbell, Richard Stone, Robert Bonnin, Sarah Ashover, Tanya Milburn, Elizabeth Mowatt, Karlie Proctor, Anthony Brazzale and Louise Ann Cullen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 48-49 Free

Beyond the COVID‐19 pandemic: increasing the uptake of influenza vaccination by health and aged care workers

Lyn‐li Lim, Noleen J Bennett, Sheena G Sullivan, Ann L Bull and Leon J Worth

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 157-158 Open Access

Endoscopy volumes and outcomes at a tertiary Melbourne centre during the 2020 COVID‐19 lockdowns

Daniel Schneider, Michael Swan and Simon Hew

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 100-101 Free

High prevalence of hearing loss in urban Aboriginal infants: the Djaalinj Waakinj cohort study

Tamara Veselinović, Sharon A Weeks, Valerie M Swift, Deborah Lehmann and Christopher G Brennan‐Jones

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 46-47 Open Access

Doctors with borders: the impact of international border closures on Timorese people who need cardiac procedures

Elizabeth Paratz, Joaquina Maurays, Ricardo Flavio, Alan Appelbe and Noel Bayley

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 583-584 Free

Long‐acting reversible contraception use after medical abortion is associated with reduced likelihood of a second medical abortion

Luke E Grzeskowiak, Alice R Rumbold, Asvini Subasinghe, Danielle Mazza, Kirsten I Black, Helen Calabretto and Jenni Ilomäki

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (9): 476-477 Free

Improved survival rates after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2011–2018

Lara Harvey, Ian A Harris, Rebecca J Mitchell, Adrian Webster, Ian D Cameron, Louisa Jorm, Hannah Seymour, Pooria Sarrami and Jacqueline Close

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (8): 420-421 Free

Sentinel lymph node biopsy rates in Victoria, 2018 and 2019

Caroline Watts, Andrew Spillane, Michael A Henderson and Anne Cust, Australian Melanoma Centre of Research Excellence Study Group

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 208-209 Free

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in Australia: the first three years of the Australian Sports Brain Bank

Catherine M Suter, Andrew J Affleck, Maggie Lee, Alan J Pearce, Linda E Iles and Michael E Buckland

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 530-531 Open Access

Same‐day inguinal hernia repair in Australia, 2000–19

Joanna MZ Mills, Georgina M Luscombe and Thomas J Hugh

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (6): 303-304 Free

Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Victoria, 2006–18

Jane Oliver, Myra Hardy, Joshua Osowicki, Daniel Engelman, Andrew C Steer and Katherine Gibney

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 201-202 Open Access

Second SARS‐CoV‐2 infections twelve months after initial infections in Australia, confirmed by genomic analysis

The Victorian SARS‐CoV‐2 Reinfection Study Group

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 199-201 Open Access

Lifestyle risks for chronic disease among Australian adolescents: a cross‐sectional survey

Katrina E Champion, Cath Chapman, Lauren A Gardner, Matthew Sunderland, Nicola C Newton, Scarlett Smout, Louise K Thornton, Leanne Hides, Nyanda McBride, Steve J Allsop, Katherine Mills, Frances Kay‐Lambkin, Maree Teesson and Tim Slade, the Heath4Life team †

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (3): 156-157 Free

The readability of official public health information on COVID‐19

Olivia A Mac, Danielle M Muscat, Julie Ayre, Pinika Patel and Kirsten J McCaffery

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 373-375 Free

Sex differences in the management and outcomes of non‐ST‐elevation acute coronary syndromes

Bianca C Bachelet, Karice Hyun, Mario D'Souza, Clara K Chow, Julie Redfern and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (3): 153-155 Free

The clinical value of “exception item” colonoscopy (MBS item 32228)

Michelle Lee See, Antonio Lee, Roderick Roberts, Richard A Friedman, David G Hewett and Daniel L Worthley

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 94-95 Free

Telehealth sexual and reproductive health care during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Yan Cheng, Clare Boerma, Lucy Peck, Jessica R Botfield, Jane Estoesta and Kevin McGeechan

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 371-372 Free

The incidence of cardiac complications in patients hospitalised with COVID‐19 in Australia: the AUS‐COVID study

Kunwardeep S Bhatia, William Gaal, Leonard Kritharides, Clara K Chow and Ravinay Bhindi, on behalf of the AUS‐COVID Investigators

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 279-279 Open Access

Estimating the abortion rate in Australia from National Hospital Morbidity and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data

Louise A Keogh, Lyle C Gurrin and Patricia Moore

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 375-376 Free

Public support for phasing out the sale of cigarettes in Australia

Emily Brennan, Sarah Durkin, Michelle M Scollo, Maurice Swanson and Melanie Wakefield

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 471-472 Free

Prescribing of direct‐acting antiviral therapy by general practitioners for people with hepatitis C in an unrestricted treatment program

Fergus Stafford, Gregory J Dore, Shawn Clackett, Marianne Martinello, Gail V Matthews, Jason Grebely, Anne C Balcomb and Behzad Hajarizadeh

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 332-333 Free