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Letters

Public reporting of hospital outcomes based on administrative data

Ian A Scott and Michael Ward

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (10): 574

Supplement

Pandemic influenza and critical infrastructure dependencies: possible impact on hospitals

Ralf L Itzwerth, C Raina MacIntyre, Smita Shah and Aileen J Plant

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (10): S70 Free

Health care

Fertility preservation in children newly diagnosed with cancer: existing standards of practice in Australia and New Zealand

John A Heath and Catherine J Stern

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (10): 538-541 Free

Letters

Public reporting of hospital outcomes based on administrative data

Kerry Innes, Kirsten McKenzie and Sue Walker

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (10): 574

Editorials

Inequity in rural cancer survival in Australia is not an insurmountable problem

Craig R Underhill, David Goldstein and Paul B Grogan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (9): 479-480

Research

Participation in cervical screening by Indigenous women in the Northern Territory: a longitudinal study

Philippa L Binns and John R Condon

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (9): 490-494 Free

Letters

The quality of national data on injuries requiring hospitalisation

Kirsten McKenzie, Leith F Harding, Susan M Walker, James E Harrison, Emma L Enraght-Moony and Garry S Waller

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (9): 526

Conference report

Men’s health: Indigenous and non-Indigenous men getting together

John J Macdonald, Greg Millan and Mick Adams

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (8): 416-417

Research

Men in Australia Telephone Survey (MATeS): predictors of men’s help-seeking behaviour for reproductive health disorders

Carol A Holden, Damien J Jolley, Robert I McLachlan, Marian Pitts, Robert Cumming, Gary Wittert, David J Handelsman and David M de Kretser

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (8): 418-422 Free

Health policy

"What is it with men's health?" Men, their health and the system: a personal perspective

Gregory O Malcher

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (8): 459-460

Health care

Use of drug-eluting stents in Victorian public hospitals

Bryan P Yan, Andrew E Ajani, Stephen J Duffy, Gishel New, Mark Horrigan, Gregory Szto, Antony Walton, David Eccleston, Jeffery Lefkovits, Alexander Black, Martin Sebastian, Angela L Brennan, Christopher M Reid and David J Clark, on behalf of the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) investigators

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 363-367 Free

Viewpoint

The "therapeutic footprint" of medical, complementary and alternative therapies and a doctor's duty of care

Christine R Sanderson, Bogda Koczwara and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 373-376 Free

Editorials

Health and medical research funding: an investment in Australia’s future

Levon M Khachigian

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (7): 348-349

Editorials

Clinical guidelines: what can we do to increase their use?

Richard Grol and Heather Buchan

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 301-302

Editorials

Prisons: mental health institutions of the 21st century?

Paul White and Harvey Whiteford

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 302-303

For debate

Potential impact of AUSFTA on Australia’s blood supply

Hilary J Bambrick, Thomas A Faunce and Kellie Johnston

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 320-323 Free

Viewpoint

Clinical paradigms revisited

Ami Schattner

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (5): 273-275 Free

For debate

The challenge of locum working arrangements in New South Wales public hospitals

Clare A Skinner, Rebecca L Riordan, Kylie L Fraser, John D Buchanan and Kerry J Goulston

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (5): 276-278 Free

Editorials

Organ donation: a chance for Australia to do better

Timothy H Mathew and Jeremy R Chapman

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (5): 245-246

Medicine and the law

Claiming behaviour in a no-fault system of medical injury: a descriptive analysis of claimants and non-claimants

Marie M Bismark, Troyen A Brennan, Peter B Davis and David M Studdert

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (4): 203-207 Free

Research enterprise

The returns from cardiovascular research: the impact of the National Heart Foundation of Australia’s investment

Moira A Clay, Claire Donovan, Linda Butler and Brian F Oldenburg

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (4): 209-212 Free

For debate

Is modern medicine at risk of losing the plot?

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (4): 213-216 Free

Workforce

Fewer medical graduates are choosing general practice: a comparison of four cohorts, 1980–1995

Catherine M Joyce and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (2): 102-104 Free

Editorials

Accessing oral health care in Australia

Roderick I Marshall and A John Spencer

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (2): 59-60

Clinical practice

Patients presenting to the general practitioner with pain of dental origin

Mohammed H Mansour and Stephen C Cox

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (2): 64-67 Free