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Infectious diseases

Perspectives

COVID‐19 and residential aged care: priorities for optimising preparation and management of outbreaks

Georgia E Aitken, Alice L Holmes and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 6-8.e1 Free

Letters

Prolonged SARS‐CoV‐2 positivity: a challenge for Australian clinicians

Eliza Jane T Milliken, Sarah Browning and Danielle A Rohl

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 45-45.e1 Free

Perspectives

PPE for your mind: a peer support initiative for health care workers

Tahnee L Bridson, Kym Jenkins, Kieran G Allen and Brett M McDermott

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 8-11.e1 Free

Letters

Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID‐19 adult patient group

Katherine E Triplett and Luke W Collett

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 45-45.e1 Free

Editorials

A New Year, the top research articles, and a call to deliver a “net zero” Australian health care system by 2040

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 17-19 Free

Letters

Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID‐19 adult patient group

David J Brewster, Christopher J Groombridge and Jonathan J Gatward

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 46-46.e1 Free

Editorials

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19: known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns

Mervyn Singer

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 20-21 Free

Research

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic

Aidan JC Burrell, Breanna Pellegrini, Farhad Salimi, Husna Begum, Tessa Broadley, Lewis T Campbell, Allen C Cheng, Winston Cheung, D James Cooper, Arul Earnest, Simon J Erickson, Craig J French, John M Kaldor, Edward Litton, Srinivas Murthy, Richard E McAllister, Alistair D Nichol, Annamaria Palermo, Mark P Plummer, Mahesh Ramanan, Benjamin AJ Reddi, Claire Reynolds, Tony Trapani, Steve A Webb and Andrew A Udy

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 23-30 Free

Editorial

Health and medicine in a pandemic year: moving from the “winter of despair” to the “spring of hope”

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 484-488 Free

Perspectives

Impact of Victoria’s Stage 3 lockdown on COVID‐19 case numbers

Allan Saul, Nick Scott, Brendan S Crabb, Suman S Majumdar, Benjamin Coghlan and Margaret E Hellard

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 494-496.e1 Free

Reflections

The breakfast tray

Jillian Chau

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 504-504

Christmas competition / Winner

Scientists in pyjamas: characterising the working arrangements and productivity of Australian medical researchers during the COVID‐19 pandemic

David G Chapman and Cindy Thamrin

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 516-520 Free

Christmas competition / Third place

The year of the ‘rona: an uncontrolled trial in verse

Rob D Mitchell

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 524-524 Free

Perspectives

Changes in medical scientific publication associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic

Kirsty A Whitmore, Kevin B Laupland, Clare M Vincent, Felicity A Edwards and Michael C Reade

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 496-499.e1 Free

Medical history

Meningitis and the military: the remarkable story of the first use of penicillin in Australia (1943)

Ameneh Khatami, Philip N Britton, Glendon Farrow, Megan Phelps and Alyson Kakakios

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 508-510.e1

Letters

Environmentally sustainable health care: now is the time for action

Anthony Capon, Diana L Madden and Philip G Truskett

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 479-479.e1

Research

Mental health of people in Australia in the first month of COVID‐19 restrictions: a national survey

Jane RW Fisher, Thach D Tran, Karin Hammarberg, Jayagowri Sastry, Hau Nguyen, Heather Rowe, Sally Popplestone, Ruby Stocker, Claire Stubber and Maggie Kirkman

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 458-464 Free

Guideline summary

The 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Anna P Ralph, Sara Noonan, Vicki Wade and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 220-227 Free

Research letters

Associations between restrictions on public mobility and slowing of new COVID‐19 case rates in three countries

Tu Hao Tran, Suraj N Sasikumar, Annemarie Hennessy, Aiden O'Loughlin and Lucy Morgan

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 471-473 Free

Perspectives

Can AI help in the fight against COVID‐19?

Ian A Scott and Enrico W Coiera

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 439-441.e2 Free

Perspectives

A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field

Kirsty L Buising, Deborah Williamson, Benjamin C Cowie, Jennifer MacLachlan, Elizabeth Orr, Christopher MacIsaac, Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond, Stephen Muhi, James McCarthy, Andrea B Maier, Louis Irving, Denise Heinjus, Cate Kelly and Caroline Marshall

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (3): 101-104.e1 Free

Letters

ECG: essential in care of patients with COVID‐19

Kaitlyn Lam, Sarah McClelland and Michael J Dallo

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 476-476.e1 Free

Perspectives

Tenecteplase (and common sense) in short supply during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Mark Parsons, Leonid Churilov, Aletta E Schutte and Christopher Levi

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 442-443.e1 Free

Research letter

Successful containment to date of SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in the Northern Territory

Nicholas M Douglas, Ella M Meumann, Vicki L Krause and Jane Davies, for the Northern Territory COVID‐19 Response Group

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 218-219 Free

Letters

Public health crises and the need for accessible information

Ariella Meltzer

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 478-478.e1 Free