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Research

Improving paediatric asthma outcomes in primary health care: a randomised controlled trial

Smita Shah, Susan M Sawyer, Brett G Toelle, Craig M Mellis, Jennifer K Peat, Marivic Lagleva, Timothy P Usherwood and Christine R Jenkins

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 405-409 Free

Letters

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

Robert F W Moulds

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

Letters

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

John A Buntine

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 325

Clinical focus

Blurred vision and pain in the eye

Michael H Barnett, Gurjit Chohan and Leo Davies

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 329-332 Free

Case reports

An unusual cause of caustic burns

Robert J Knight, Tania McWilliams, Dawn Reeler, Liz Whan and Fiona Wood

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (6): 355-356 Free

Letters

What does the future hold for general medicine?

Alan E O’Connor

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 263

Letters

Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

Claire E Johnson and Geoffrey K Mitchell

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 267

Letters

Predictive validity of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test for medical students’ academic performance

Barry N J Walters

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 267-268

Letters

The impact of potential new diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia

Barbara Depczynski, Vincent W Wong, Hamish D Russell and Nicole Opie

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 268

Case reports

Harlequin syndrome after jogging

Agustín Toll and Alberto Gálvez-Ruiz

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 288 Free

Letters

What does the future hold for general medicine?

Joanna R Sutherland

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (5): 263

Health care delivery

Keeping the connection

James A Best

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 214

Health care delivery

Chronic disease management items in general practice: a population-based study of variation in claims by claimant characteristics

Kirsty A Douglas, Laurann E Yen, Rosemary J Korda, Marjan Kljakovic and Nicholas J Glasgow

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 198-202 Free

In Clinical Practice

Referral pathways in colorectal cancer: findings from a qualitative study in general practice

Mark F Harris, Shane W Pascoe, Lisa J Crossland, Justin J Beilby, Craig Veitch and Allan D Spigelman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 178

Health reform

When big isn’t beautiful: lessons from England and Scotland on primary health care organisations

James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 219-221 Free

Health care delivery

Ram’s horn nails

Nicola Mumoli

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 202

Preventive health

General practice and preventive health care: a view through the eyes of community members

Danielle Mazza, Lyndel K Shand, Narelle Warren, Helen Keleher, Colette J Browning and Emma J Bruce

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 180-183 Free

Education and research

In-practice and distance consultant on-call general practitioner supervisors for Australian general practice?

Susan M Wearne

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 224-228 Free

Health care delivery

Increased bulk-billing for general practice consultations in regional and remote areas, 2002–2008

Xenia Dolja-Gore, Julie E Byles, Deborah J Loxton, Richard L Hockey and Annette J Dobson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 203-204

Health care delivery

The Refugee Health Network of Australia: towards national collaboration on health care for refugees

Christine B Phillips, Mitchell M Smith, Margaret Kay and Sue Casey

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 185-186

In Clinical Practice

Predictors of accuracy of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice

Nicholas A Zwar, Guy B Marks, Oshana Hermiz, Sandy Middleton, Elizabeth J Comino, Iqbal Hasan, Sanjyot Vagholkar and Stephen F Wilson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 168-171 Free

Education and research

NHMRC funding for primary health care research, 2000–2008

Ellen L McIntyre, Danielle Mazza and Naomi P Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 230

Health care delivery

The general practitioner’s role in providing mental health services to Australians, 1997 and 2007: findings from the national surveys of mental health and wellbeing

Ruth A Parslow, Virginia Lewis and Geraldine Marsh

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 205-209 Free

Health care delivery

Access to primary health care services by community-based asylum seekers

Erin A Spike, Mitchell M Smith and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 188-191 Free

In Clinical Practice

Australian dispensing doctors’ prescribing: quantitative and qualitative analysis

David Lim, Jon D Emery, Janice Lewis and V Bruce Sunderland

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 172-175 Free