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Musculoskeletal diseases

Editorial

Ensuring a fit‐for‐purpose resource for consumers, clinicians and health services: the updated Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard

Ilana N Ackerman, Fiona Doukas, Rachelle Buchbinder, Sally Dooley, Wendy Favorito, Phoebe Holdenson Kimura, David J Hunter, James Linklater, John B North, Louise Elvin‐Walsh, Christopher Vertullo, Alice L Bhasale and Samantha Bunzli

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 197-200 Free

Editorial

The time is right to do more to reduce ACL injuries

Chris Schilling and Siddharth Rele

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 147-148 Free

Research

The economics of a national anterior cruciate ligament injury prevention program for amateur football players: a Markov model analysis

Andrew Ross, Joosup Kim, Marnee McKay, Evangelos Pappas, Natalie Hardaker, Matt Whalan and Kerry Peek

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 149-155 Free

Research letter

Reduced numbers of elective joint replacement procedures in Australia during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020–2022: a registry data analysis study

Christopher J Wall, Christopher J Vertullo, David RJ Gill, Richard S Page, Carl Holder and Paul N Smith

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 169-170 Free

Research

Expanding access to fracture liaison services in Australia for people with minimal trauma fractures: a system dynamics modelling study

Alicia R Jones, Danielle Currie, Cindy Peng, Peter R Ebeling, Jackie R Center, Gustavo Duque, Sean Lybrand, Greg Lyubomirsky, Rebecca J Mitchell, Sallie Pearson, Markus J Seibel and Jo‐An Occhipinti

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 243-248 Free

Perspectives

Prosthetic joint infection diagnosis in an age of changing clinical patterns of infection and new technologies

Joshua S Davis, David Dewar and Laurens Manning

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 225-228 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Back pain in an Australian farmer: an unusual case of cryptococcal osteomyelitis

Michael D Riceman, Caitlyn Sun, John Pierides, Jennifer Catford, Renjy Nelson and Anushia Ashokan

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 523-525 Free

Guideline summary

Australian evidence‐based guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes‐related foot disease: a guideline summary

Peter A Lazzarini, Anita Raspovic, Jenny Prentice, Robert J Commons, Robert A Fitridge, James Charles, Jane Cheney, Nytasha Purcell and Stephen M Twigg

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 485-495 Free

Editorials

Is elective spinal surgery overused in private health care in Australia?

Susan Liew

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 299-300

Research

Elective spinal surgery in New South Wales adults, 2001–20, by procedure funding type: a cross‐sectional study

Duong Thuy Tran, Adriane M Lewin, Louisa Jorm and Ian A Harris

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 303-309 Free

Perspectives

Advancing menopause care in Australia: barriers and opportunities

Susan R Davis and Karen Magraith

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (11): 500-502 Free

Editorials

Introducing Australia's clinical care standard for low back pain

Christopher G Maher, Aline Archambeau, Rachelle Buchbinder, Simon D French, Julie Morphet, Michael K Nicholas, Peter O'Sullivan, Marie Pirotta, Michael J Yelland, Leo Zeller, Nivene Saad, Elizabeth Marles, Alice L Bhasale and Christina Lane

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 354-356 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Axial crystal arthropathy mimicking facet joint septic arthritis with epidural abscess

Hannah Poole, Amy Crowe and John Daffy

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 301-303

Research

Dual‐energy x‐ray absorptiometry assessment of bone health in Australian men with prostate cancer commencing androgen deprivation therapy

Mariya F Hamid, Amy Hayden, Tania Moujaber, Sandra Turner, Howard Gurney, Mathis Grossmann and Peter Wong

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 126-130 Free

Narrative review

The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain

Lachlan Evans, Thomas O’Donohoe, Andrew Morokoff and Katharine Drummond

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 40-45 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Osteopoikilosis: benign bone islands in periarticular bones

Te‐Feng A Chou and Ching‐Hua Hsiao

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (8): 397-397

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia presenting without significant blood count abnormalities: role of medical imaging in two cases

Royston Ponraj, Jenna Langfield, Louise Wong, Ian Kerridge and William S Stevenson

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 346-347

Editorials

Advertising by orthopaedic surgeons: the tension between professionalism and commercialism

Peter FM Choong

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 235-236

Letters

Vertebral fractures after denosumab discontinuation for dental procedures: a consequence of distorted perceptions of risk

Alastair Goss

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 268-268

Letters

Vertebral fractures after denosumab discontinuation for dental procedures: a consequence of distorted perceptions of risk

Bronwyn GA Stuckey and Nely Shrestha Khatri

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 268-268

Editorials

Hip fracture surgery: the importance of evidence‐based practice

Peter FM Choong

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (8): 406-407

Research

Adherence by orthopaedic surgeons to AHPRA and Australian Orthopaedic Association advertising guidelines

Hannah Y Ryan, Geoffrey Y Sun, Masiath Monuja, Michael Gillespie, Alexander Burns, Michael Solomon and Sam Adie

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 240-245 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Vertebral fractures after denosumab discontinuation for dental procedures: a consequence of distorted perceptions of risk

Nely Shrestha Khatri and Bronwyn GA Stuckey

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (6): 283-284

Research letter

Improved survival rates after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2011–2018

Lara Harvey, Ian A Harris, Rebecca J Mitchell, Adrian Webster, Ian D Cameron, Louisa Jorm, Hannah Seymour, Pooria Sarrami and Jacqueline Close

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (8): 420-421 Free

Systematic review/meta‐analysis

Efficacy, safety, and dose‐dependence of the analgesic effects of opioid therapy for people with osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta‐analysis

Christina Abdel Shaheed, Wasim Awal, Geoffrey Zhang, Stephen E Gilbert, Daniel Gallacher, Andrew McLachlan, Richard O Day, Giovanni E Ferreira, Caitlin MP Jones, Harbeer Ahedi, Mamata Tamrakar, Fiona M Blyth, Fiona Stanaway and Christopher G Maher

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (6): 305-311 Free