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Research letters

Improving communication with Aboriginal hospital inpatients: a quasi‐experimental interventional study

The Communicate Study group*

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 180-181 Free

Systematic review

Recruiting and retaining general practitioners in rural practice: systematic review and meta‐analysis of rural pipeline effects

Jessica Ogden, Scott Preston, Riitta L Partanen, Remo Ostini and Peter Coxeter

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (5): 228-236 Free

Editorials

The role of cost‐effectiveness analyses in investment decision making by primary health networks

Sally Hall Dykgraaf and Amanda Barnard

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 72-73

Editorials

Critically ill Indigenous Australians and mortality: a complex story

Paul J Secombe, Alex Brown, Michael J Bailey and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 13-14 Free

Perspectives

COVID‐19: planning for the aftermath to manage the aftershocks

Steven G Faux, Kathy Eagar, Ian D Cameron and Christopher J Poulos

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 60-61.e1 Free

Research

A computer‐guided quality improvement tool for primary health care: cost‐effectiveness analysis based on TORPEDO trial data

Bindu Patel, David P Peiris, Anushka Patel, Stephen Jan, Mark F Harris, Tim Usherwood, Kathryn Panaretto and Thomas Lung

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 73-78 Free

Perspectives

Is Australia over‐reliant on residential aged care to support our older population?

Suzanne M Dyer, Madeline Valeri, Nimita Arora, Dominic Tilden and Maria Crotty

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 156-157.e1 Free

Perspectives

Challenges of diabetes management during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Emma S Scott, Alicia J Jenkins and Gregory R Fulcher

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 56-57.e1 Free

Perspectives

Location and primary health care reform

Gemma C Ma and Jeanette E Ward

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 111-113.e1

Perspectives

Opening the lines of communication: towards shared decision making and improved end‐of‐life care in the Top End

Emma Spencer and Eswaran Waran

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 10-11.e1 Free

Letters

The impact of Victoria's real time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) on a cohort of people who inject drugs

Dagnachew M Fetene, Peter Higgs, Suzanne Nielsen, Filip Djordjevic and Paul Dietze

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 141-141.e1

Perspectives

Reducing stillbirth safely in Australia

Roshan Selvaratnam, Mary‐Ann Davey and Euan M Wallace

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 9-9.e1

Research

Long term outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians after hospital intensive care

William G Mitchell, Adam Deane, Alex Brown, Shailesh Bihari, Hao Wong, Rajaram Ramadoss and Mark Finnis

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 16-21 Free

Editorial

Will online symptom checkers improve health care in Australia?

Adam G Dunn

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 512-513

Perspectives

The vitamin D testing rate is again rising, despite new MBS testing criteria

Louisa Gordon, Mary Waterhouse, Ian R Reid and Rachel E Neale

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 155-155.e1

Perspectives

Drug repurposing in the era of COVID‐19: a call for leadership and government investment

Jennifer H Martin and Nikola A Bowden

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 450-452.e1 Free

Perspectives

Australian residential aged care is understaffed

Kathy Eagar, Anita Westera and Conrad Kobel

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 507-508.e1

Perspectives

Early clinical response to a high consequence infectious disease outbreak: insights from COVID‐19

Amanda M Rojek, Martin Dutch, David Camilleri, Emma Gardiner, Emma Smith, Caroline Marshall, Kirsty L Buising, Nicola Walsham and Mark Putland

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 447-450.e1 Free

Research

Home ward bound: features of hospital in the home use by major Australian hospitals, 2011–2017

Michael Montalto, Patrick McElduff and Kristy Hardy

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 22-27 Free

Editorial

The GP workforce: no room for complacency

Nicholas J Glasgow and Kirsty A Douglas

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (9): 408-409

Letters

The impact of an alcohol floor price on critical care admissions in Central Australia

Sarah C Clifford, Kalinda E Griffiths and James A Smith

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (8): 385-385.e1

Letters

The impact of an alcohol floor price on critical care admissions in Central Australia

Paul J Secombe, Michael J Bailey and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (8): 385-385.e1

Research letters

Marked variation in out‐of‐pocket costs for cancer care in Western Australia

Neli S Slavova‐Azmanova, Jade C Newton and Christobel M Saunders

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 525-526 Free

Perspectives

Climate health inquiry: where sustainability, public health law and climate action intersect

Tarun S Weeramanthri, Sarah Joyce and Revle Bangor‐Jones

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (8): 347-349.e1

Research

Surge capacity of intensive care units in case of acute increase in demand caused by COVID‐19 in Australia

Edward Litton, Tamara Bucci, Shaila Chavan, Yvonne Y Ho, Anthony Holley, Gretta Howard, Sue Huckson, Philomena Kwong, Johnny Millar, Nhi Nguyen, Paul Secombe, Marc Ziegenfuss and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 463-467 Free