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General medicine

Workforce and Education

Professional satisfaction in general practice: does it vary by size of community?

Matthew R McGrail, John S Humphreys, Anthony Scott, Catherine M Joyce and Guyonne Kalb

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 94-98 Free

Health reform

Ascendancy with a capital A: the practice nurse and short general practice consultations

Helena C Britt, Salma Fahridin and Graeme C Miller

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 84-85

In Clinical Practice

Charles Bridges-Webb AO, MB BS, MD, MM, FRACGP

Michael R Kidd, Helena C Britt, Graeme C Miller and Deborah C Saltman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 123 Free

Postcard from the UK

Pressures on UK general practice

Roger H Jones

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 70

In Clinical Practice

Evidence of increasing frequency of herpes zoster management in Australian general practice since the introduction of a varicella vaccine

Mark R Nelson, Helena C Britt and Christopher M Harrison

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 110-113 Free

Workforce and Education

General practice as a career: insights for workforce policy

Lesley M Piko and Christine B Phillips

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 99-100 Free

Health reform

Are general practitioners becoming coordinators and managers, not clinicians?

James A Best

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 85

Health reform

General practice and the Australian Government’s National Health Reform Plan

Michael R Kidd

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 71-74

In Clinical Practice

Are rates of pathology test ordering higher in general practices co-located with pathology collection centres?

David M Studdert, Helena C Britt, Ying Pan, Salma Fahridin, Clare F Bayram and Lyle C Gurrin

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 114-119 Free

In Clinical Practice

Improving implementation of evidence-based prevention in primary care

Danielle Mazza and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 101-102

Letters

Primary care services and emergency medicine

Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 63

Letters

Measurement of jugular venous pressure

David M Colquhoun and Glenn Jenkins

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 64

Editorials

Omitting family history from the hospital admission

Josephine S Thomas and Campbell H Thompson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 676-677

Editorials

Family history: the neglected risk factor in disease prevention

Jon D Emery, Fiona M Walter and David Ravine

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 677-678

Letters

Prevalence of venous thromboembolism in medical inpatients

J Alasdair Millar, Glenda E Lee and Rinaldo Ienco

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 724-726

Letters

Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia?

Alan E Dugdale

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 727-728

Supplement

Stepped care for depression in primary care: what should be offered and how?

Annemieke van Straten, Wike Seekles, Nelleke J van ‘t Veer-Tazelaar, Aartjan T F Beekman and Pim Cuijpers

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): S36 Free

At the frontline

Using child health checks to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity among urban Indigenous children

Annie R Fonda, Geoffrey K Spurling, Deborah A Askew, Peter S W Davies and Noel E Hayman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 596 Free

At the frontline

Assessing the quality of maternal health care in Indigenous primary care services

Alice R Rumbold, Ross S Bailie, Damin Si, Michelle C Dowden, Catherine M Kennedy, Rhonda J Cox, Lynette O’Donoghue, Helen E Liddle, Ru K Kwedza, Sandra C Thompson, Hugh P Burke, Alex D Brown, Tarun Weeramanthri and Christine M Connors

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 597-598 Free

Society, Culture and Health

“Just ask!” Identifying as Indigenous in mainstream general practice settings: a consumer perspective

Angela Scotney, Jillian A Guthrie, Kamalini Lokuge and Paul M Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 609 Free

Letters

Computerised prescribing: assessing the impact on prescription repeats and on generic substitution of some commonly used antibiotics

David A Newby and Jane Robertson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 543-544

Book review

Assessing elderly drivers’ roadworthiness

Ilian Kamenoff

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 536

Research

Australian clinical practice guidelines — a national study

Heather A Buchan, Kay C Currie, Emma J Lourey and Geraint R Duggan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 490-494 Free

Research

Do users of mental health services lack access to general practitioner services?

Qun Mai, C D’Arcy J Holman, Frank M Sanfilippo, Jonathan D Emery and Louise M Stewart

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 501-506 Free

Letters

An audit of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccine wastage in general practice

Caroline E Turnour, Stephen J Conaty and Michelle A Cretikos

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 541