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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

Private equity investment in health care delivery, Australia, 2008–2022

Victoria L Berquist

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 368-371 Free

The Australian Health Care Homes trial: quality of care and patient outcomes. A propensity score‐matched cohort study

Duong T Tran, Michael O Falster, Jim Pearse, Deniza Mazevska, Patrick McElduff, Sallie Pearson, Kees C Gool, Jane Hall and Louisa Jorm

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 372-378 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 impact of tightened prescribing restrictions for PBS-subsidised opioid medicines and the introduction of half-pack sizes, Australia, 2020–21: an interrupted time series analysis

Forrest C Koch, Jake Olivier, Jonathan Brett, Nicholas A Buckley, Natasa Gisev, Sallie Pearson and Benjamin Daniels

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 315-322 Open Access

Long COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey

Mulu Woldegiorgis, Gemma Cadby, Sera Ngeh, Rosemary J Korda, Paul K Armstrong, Jelena Maticevic, Paul Knight, Andrew Jardine, Lauren E Bloomfield and Paul V Effler

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 323-330 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

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

Expanding access to fracture liaison services in Australia for people with minimal trauma fractures: a system dynamics modelling study

Alicia R Jones, Danielle Currie, Cindy Peng, Peter R Ebeling, Jackie R Center, Gustavo Duque, Sean Lybrand, Greg Lyubomirsky, Rebecca J Mitchell, Sallie Pearson, Markus J Seibel and Jo‐An Occhipinti

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 243-248 Open Access

First implantable cardiac defibrillator insertions in New South Wales, 2005–2020: an analysis of linked administrative data

Lin Zhu, Andrew Hayen, Bianca Blanch, Nathan Engstrom, Jenny A Doust, Christopher Semsarian and Katy JL Bell

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 249-257 Open Access

The effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination for protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants against infection, 2012–2017: a retrospective cohort study

Lisa McHugh, Heather A D’Antoine, Mohinder Sarna, Michael J Binks, Hannah C Moore, Ross M Andrews, Gavin F Pereira, Christopher C Blyth, Paul Van Buynder, Karin Lust and Annette K Regan

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 196-201 Open Access

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

The views of parents and carers on managing acute otitis media in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: a qualitative study

Jennifer S Reath, Sarah O'Brien, Letitia Campbell, Hasantha Gunasekera, Claudette A Tyson, Deborah A Askew, Wendy Hu, Tim Usherwood, Kelvin Kong, Peter Morris, Amanda J Leach, Robyn Walsh and Penelope A Abbott

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 202-207 Open Access

Who smokes in Australia? Cross‐sectional analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics survey data, 2017–19

Jessica Yi Han Aw, Christina Heris, Raglan Maddox, Grace Joshy and Emily Banks AM

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 154-163 Open Access

Bronchiectasis among Indigenous adults in the Top End of the Northern Territory, 2011–2020: a retrospective cohort study

Claire Gibbs, Timothy Howarth, Adriana Ticoalu, Winnie Chen, Payi L Ford, Asanga Abeyaratne, Lata Jayaram, Gabrielle McCallum and Subash S Heraganahally

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 188-195 Open Access

Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in Australia: a retrospective real world cohort study

Luke S McLean, Annette M Lim, Mathias Bressel, Jenny Lee, Rahul Ladwa, Alexander D Guminski, Brett Hughes, Samantha Bowyer, Karen Briscoe, Samuel Harris, Craig Kukard, Rob Zielinski, Muhammad Alamgeer, Matteo Carlino, Jeremy Mo, John J Park, Muhammad A Khattak, Fiona Day and Danny Rischin

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 80-90 Open Access

The Alfred Health post‐COVID‐19 service, Melbourne, 2020–2022: an observational cohort study

Anne E Holland, Daniel Fineberg, Tunya Marceau, Melissa Chong, Jessica Beaman, Lisa Wilson, Jo‐Anne Buchanan, Jacqueline Uren, Simone Dal Corso, Natasha A Lannin, Mariana Hoffman, Christie R Mellerick, Kathya Fernando and Janet Bondarenko

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 91-96 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

Changes in the numbers of hospital‐based abortions and outpatient early medical abortions in Victoria, 2012–22: a retrospective cohort study

Melvin B Marzan, Eleanor Johnson, Patricia Moore, Heng Jiang and Lisa Hui

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 145-153 Open Access

The prevalence of and factors associated with prior induced abortion among women who gave birth in Victoria, 2010–2019

Kristina Edvardsson, Kirsten I Black, Deborah Bateson, Wendy V Norman, Mridula Shankar, Leesa Hooker, Xia Li and Angela J Taft

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 138-144 Open Access

Socio‐economic status and access to fluoridated water in Queensland: an ecological data linkage study

Christopher T Sexton, Diep H Ha, Thu Le, Ratilal Lalloo, Pauline Ford, Loc G Do and Nicole Stormon

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 74-79 Open Access

Wood heater smoke and mortality in the Australian Capital Territory: a rapid health impact assessment

Sotiris Vardoulakis, Fay H Johnston, Nigel Goodman, Geoffrey G Morgan and Dorothy L Robinson

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 29-34 Open Access

Disruption of gender‐affirming health care, and COVID‐19 illness, testing, and vaccination among trans Australians during the pandemic: a cross‐sectional survey

Sav Zwickl, Tomi Ruggles, Alex FQ Wong, Ariel Ginger, Lachlan M Angus, Kalen Eshin, Teddy Cook and Ada S Cheung

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 23-28 Open Access

The value of maternity care in Queensland, 2012–18, based on an analysis of administrative data: a retrospective observational study

Emily J Callander, Joanne C Enticott, Bonnie Eklom, Jenny Gamble and Helena J Teede

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 535-541 Open Access

The burden of occupational injury attributable to high temperatures in Australia, 2014–19: a retrospective observational study

Blesson M Varghese, Alana Hansen, Nick Mann, Jingwen Liu, Ying Zhang, Tim R Driscoll, Geoffrey G Morgan, Keith Dear, Anthony Capon, Michelle Gourley, Vanessa Prescott, Vergil Dolar and Peng Bi

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 542-548 Open Access