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Editorials

Treatment of alcohol problems: current status and future directions

Paul S Haber, Benjamin C Riordan and Kirsten C Morley

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 315-316 Free

Research

OPTIMISE: a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of an intervention to improve primary care for refugees in Australia

Grant M Russell, Katrina Long, Virginia Lewis, Joanne C Enticott, Nilakshi Gunatillaka, I‐Hao Cheng, Geraldine Marsh, Shiva Vasi, Jenny Advocat, Shoko Saito, Hyun Song, Sue Casey, Mitchell Smith and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 420-426 Free

Editorials

Eliminating hepatitis C in Australia needs informed patients and enabled GPs

Paul J Clark

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 318-319

Research

Adding saliva testing to oropharyngeal and deep nasal swab testing increases PCR detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in primary care and children

Jane Oliver, Shidan Tosif, Lai‐yang Lee, Anna‐Maria Costa, Chelsea Bartel, Katherine Last, Vanessa Clifford, Andrew Daley, Nicole Allard, Catherine Orr, Ashley Nind, Karyn Alexander, Niamh Meagher, Michelle Sait, Susan A Ballard, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Deborah A Williamson, Nigel W Crawford and Katherine B Gibney

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 273-278 Free

Perspectives

Why we should and how we can increase medical school admissions for persons with disabilities

Liz Fitzmaurice, Kenneth Donald, Carl Wet and Dinesh Palipana

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 249-251.e1

Perspectives

Updated Australian guidance for health care providers about “undetectable = untransmittable” for HIV

James H McMahon, Brent Allan, Daniel Grace and Nic Holas

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 201-202.e1

Medical education / Snapshot

Chalky urate in a patient with bullous tophi

Hsi Yen, Hsing‐Jou Su and Wei‐Ti Chen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 209-209.e1

Editorials

What is the role of general practice in the Chain of Survival for treating people with cardiac arrest?

Siobhán Masterson and Tomás Barry

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 214-215

Editorials

Excessive PSA testing in general practice

Justin J Coleman

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 215-216

Perspectives

Regulating complementary, unconventional and emerging treatments in Australia: a missed opportunity

Miriam Wiersma, Ian H Kerridge, Cameron L Stewart and Wendy L Lipworth

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 199-201.e1

Perspectives

Medico‐legal risks associated with fragmented care in general practice

Jack Marjot, Georgie Haysom and Penny Browne

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 203-205.e1

Research letter

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

Letters

Implementing cardiovascular disease preventive care guidelines in general practice: an opportunity missed

Joachim P Sturmberg and Carmel M Martin

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 189-189.e1

Letters

Implementing cardiovascular disease preventive care guidelines in general practice: an opportunity missed

Charlotte M Hespe, Mark F Harris and David P Peiris

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 189-189.e1

Narrative review

Co‐occurring depression and insomnia in Australian primary care: recent scientific evidence

Alexander Sweetman, Leon Lack, Emer Van Ryswyk, Andrew Vakulin, Richard L Reed, Malcolm W Battersby, Nicole Lovato and Robert J Adams

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 230-236

Medical education / Snapshot

Isolated intrathoracic kidney

Jessica Phillips and Jonathan Foo

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 108-108.e1

Ethics and law

Terra pericolosa: medical student involvement in intimate patient examinations or procedures

Paul M McGurgan and Katrina L Calvert

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 167-168.e1

Ethics and law

Doctors’ criminal law duty to report consensual sexual activity between adolescents: legal and clinical issues

Ben Mathews and Lena A Sanci

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 109-113.e1

Perspectives

Low value care is a health hazard that calls for patient empowerment

Ian A Scott, Adam G Elshaug and Melissa Fox

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 101-103.e1

Research

Psychotropic medicine prescribing and polypharmacy for people with dementia entering residential aged care: the influence of changing general practitioners

Heidi J Welberry, Louisa R Jorm, Andrea L Schaffer, Sebastiano Barbieri, Benjumin Hsu, Mark F Harris, John Hall and Henry Brodaty

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 130-136 Free

Letters

Rethinking cancer survivorship: the Prostate Cancer Survivorship Essentials Framework

Jeff Dunn, Bogda Koczwara and Suzanne Chambers

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 94-94.e1 Free

Research letter

Prostate‐specific antigen testing of asymptomatic men in Australia: an observational study based on electronic general practice data

Guilherme S Franco, Rae‐Anne Hardie, Ling Li, Chisato Imai, Gorkem Sezgin, Julie Li, Adam McLeod, Christopher Pearce and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 228-229 Free

Editorials

Improving access to community care for people with intellectual disability is needed to avert unnecessary hospitalisations

David I Ben‐Tovim and Kim Vien

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 25-26

Editorials

The road less travelled: supporting physicians to practice rurally

Jennifer A May and Anthony Scott

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 29-30 Free

Research letter

Limited clinical value of early repeat RT‐PCR testing for SARS‐CoV‐2

Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond and Deborah A Williamson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 42-43 Free