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Perspective

A future for the hospital‐in‐the‐home (HITH) deteriorating patient: shifting the paradigm

Mya Cubitt and Seok Lim

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 168-171 Free

Perspective

Decentralised COVID‐19 molecular point‐of‐care testing: lessons from implementing a primary care‐based network in remote Australian communities

Belinda Hengel, Rebecca J Guy, Dawn Casey, Lorraine Anderson, Kirsty Smith, Kelly Andrewartha, Tanya D Applegate, Amit Saha, Philip Cunningham, Lucas DeToca, William D Rawlinson, Marianne Martinello, Annie Tangey, Prital Patel, Mark DS Shephard, Susan Matthews and Louise Causer

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 172-178 Free

Research

Potentially preventable medication‐related hospitalisations with cardiovascular disease of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Queensland, 2013–2017: a retrospective cohort study

Jean Spinks, Gabor Mihala, Warren Jennings, Robert S Ware, Lisa M Kalisch Ellett, Elizabeth E Roughead and Daniel Williamson

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 198-204 Free

Perspective

Improving palliative care for people who use alcohol and other drugs

Grace FitzGerald, Jon Cook, Peter Higgs, Charles Henderson, Sione Crawford and Thileepan Naren

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 164-167 Free

Perspective

The role of GLP‐1 receptor agonists in the management of obesity: risks and opportunities for the Australian health care system

Christopher Kanellis, Kyle Williams, Darcy Q Holt, Jennifer Wong, Rachel David, Ravi Carothers and Suong Le

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): 118-121 Free

Editorial

Equity first: mapping who gets what is essential to re‐designing the NDIS

Jennifer Smith‐Merry and Kyo‐yi J Chang

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): 131-132 Free

Editorial

The impact of differences in bulk‐billing rates: strategies for greater equity in Medicare

Sebastian P Rosenberg and Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): 133-134 Free

Research

Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model

Michael Wright, Shona Bates, Andrew W Bazemore and Michael R Kidd

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): 149-154 Free

Research letter

Use of ChatGPT to obtain health information in Australia, 2024: insights from a nationally representative survey

Julie Ayre, Erin Cvejic and Kirsten J McCaffery

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 210-212 Free

Letter to the editor

National Hypertension Taskforce of Australia: a roadmap to achieve 70% blood pressure control in Australia by 2030

Madeleine M Cosgrave, Catherine A Brumby, Matthew A Roberts and Lawrence P McMahon

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (2): 104-104 Free

Perspective

Is the term bulk‐billing still relevant in today's landscape of health policy reform?

Michael Wright and May Chin

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (2): 66-68

Research

Bulk‐billing rates and out‐of‐pocket costs for general practitioner services in Australia, 2022, by SA3 region: analysis of Medicare claims data

Karinna Saxby and Yuting Zhang

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): 144-148

Letter to the editor

Setting the standard: no LGBTI+ health equity without data equity

Karinna Saxby and Mohamed A Hammoud

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (1): 52-52 Free

Perspective

Making climate change a national health priority: Australia's first National Health and Climate Strategy

Georgia Behrens, Madeleine Skellern, Alice McGushin, Paul Kelly and The Hon Ged Kearney

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (2): 63-65

Editorial

A Northern Territory‐trained health workforce is required to meet its context‐specific disease burden and health care needs

Dominic Upton and Varunika Ruwanpura

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 594-595 Free

Research

Clinician experiences of a hybrid virtual medical service supporting rural and remote hospitals: a qualitative study

Anna E Thompson, Emily Saurman, Shannon Nott, Andrew Wilson and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S16-S21 Free

Research

Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2003–2022: retrospective analysis of Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry data

Emily Nehme, David Anderson, Ross Salathiel, Anthony Carlyon, Dion Stub, Peter A Cameron, Andrew Wilson, Sile Smith, John J McNeil and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 603-611 Free

Research

Patient and carer experiences of hospital‐based hybrid virtual medical care: a qualitative study

Anna E Thompson, Tim Shaw, Shannon Nott, Andrew Wilson and Emily Saurman

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S22-S27 Free

Letter to the editor

Defining the gap, emphasising the deficit

Bridie Mulholland

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 631-632 Free

Research

An economic evaluation of the Virtual Rural Generalist Service versus usual care in Western NSW Local Health District

Amy Von Huben, Anna E Thompson, Andrew Wilson, Georgina M Luscombe, Amelia Haigh, Kirsten Howard, Emily Saurman, Tim Shaw, Georgia Wingfield, Amanda J Ampt and Shannon Nott

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S28-S36 Free

Letter to the editor

The New South Wales Pharmacy Trial for herpes zoster: on the nose?

Christian P Pappas, Timothy R Holmes and Minas T Coroneo

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 632-632 Free

Research

Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study

Nicki Newton, Kavisha Shah, Miranda Shaw, Emma Charlston, Melissa T Baysari, Angus Ritchie, Chenyao Yu, Adam Johnston, Jagdev Singh, Meredith Makeham, Sarah Norris, Liliana Laranjo, Clara K Chow and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S37-S48 Free

Perspective

The Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a hybrid virtual model of care designed to improve health access and outcomes in rural and remote communities

Shannon Nott, Georgia Wingfield, Amelia Haigh, Georgina M Luscombe, Anna E Thompson, Emily Saurman, Tim Shaw, Amy Von Huben, Kirsten Howard and Andrew Wilson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S3-S7 Free

Research

Defining a core set of research and development priorities for virtual care in the post‐pandemic environment: a call to action

Kavisha Shah, Nicki Newton, Emma Charlston, Miranda Shaw, Jagdev Singh, Adam Johnston, Owen Hutchings, Chenyao Yu, Pearl Wang, Aaron Jones, Angus Ritchie, Rebecca Davis, Fiona Robinson, Jennifer A Alison, Melissa T Baysari, Meredith Makeham, Sarah Norris, Liliana Laranjo, Emma Nicholls, Clara K Chow and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S49-S56 Free

Research

Health service access and quality of care provided by the Western NSW Local Health District Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a retrospective analysis of linked administrative data

Georgina M Luscombe, Andrew Wilson, Amanda J Ampt, Amy Von Huben, Kirsten Howard, Clare Coleman, Georgia Wingfield and Shannon Nott

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S8-S15 Free