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Infectious diseases

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

Editorials

Mental health and COVID‐19: are we really all in this together?

Patrick McGorry

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 454-455 Free

Perspectives

COVID‐19 in a Sydney nursing home: a case study and lessons learnt

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 393-396.e1 Free

Letters

Prolonged PCR positivity in health care workers with COVID‐19: implications for practice guidelines

Kyra YL Chua, Natasha E Holmes and Jason Kwong

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 430-430.e1 Free

Perspectives

Implications of COVID‐19 for an ageing population

Nicolette R Holt, Johannes T Neumann, John J McNeil and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 342-344.e1 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Polyneuritis cranialis from varicella zoster virus reactivation

Jesse A Schnall, Sadid F Khan, Luigi Zolio, Jason C Ray and Adam WJ Jenney

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 352-353.e1

Research letters

Efficacy of an enclosure for reducing aerosol exposure during patient intubation

James Derrick, Jeneen Thatcher and Joyce Chau Ping Wong

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 372-373 Free

Letters

Travel restrictions and evidence‐based decision making for novel epidemics

Jessica Stanhope and Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 431-431.e1 Free

Letters

COVID‐19 response: the perspectives of infectious diseases physicians and clinical microbiologists

David A Foley and Emma Tippett, On behalf of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 431-431.e1 Free

Perspectives

Considerations for cancer immunotherapy during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Yada Kanjanapan and Desmond Yip

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 390-392.e1 Free

Consensus statement

COVID‐19 safety: aerosol‐generating procedures and cardiothoracic surgery and anaesthesia — Australian and New Zealand consensus statement

Joanne F Irons, Warren Pavey, Jayme S Bennetts, Emily Granger, Elli Tutungi and Aubrey Almeida

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 40-44 Free

Letters

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on medical education

Lucy E Kirk and Imogen Mitchell

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 334-334.e1 Free

Letters

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on medical education

Adrienne J Torda, Gary Velan and Vlado Perkovic

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 334-334.e1 Free

Letters

COVID‐19 social isolation‐induced takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Jon Rivers and Joshua F Ihle

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 336-336.e1 Free

Research

“No jab, no pay”: catch‐up vaccination activity during its first two years

Brynley P Hull, Frank H Beard, Alexandra J Hendry, Aditi Dey and Kristine Macartney

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 364-369 Free

Perspectives

Fit testing of N95 or P2 masks to protect health care workers

Adrian Regli and Britta S Ungern‐Sternberg

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 293-295.e1 Free

Perspectives

Australia can use population level mobility data to fight COVID‐19

Lucinda Adams, Robert J Adams and Tarun Bastiampillai

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 296-297.e1 Free

Research letters

Fewer presentations to metropolitan emergency departments during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Andrew W Kam, Sarah G Chaudhry, Nathan Gunasekaran, Andrew JR White, Matthew Vukasovic and Adrian T Fung

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 370-371 Free