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Respiratory tract diseases

Health care

Domiciliary oxygen therapy services in Tasmania: prescription, usage and impact of a specialist clinic

Andrew Jones, Richard Wood-Baker and E Haydn Walters

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 632-634 Free

Obituary

Cyril Percival Victorious Evans OBE, MB BS, DTM, FRCP, FRACP, FRACMA

David B Evans and David de Souza

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 457 Free

Occupational health

Mushroom worker’s lung: organic dust exposure in the spawning shed

Ryan F Hoy, Jeffrey J Pretto, David van Gelderen and Christine F McDonald

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 472-474

Lessons from practice

A fatal case of necrotising pneumonia due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

David C Risson, Enda D O’Connor, Roger W Guard, Jacqueline M Schooneveldt and Graeme R Nimmo

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 479-480 Free

Research

Trends in hospital admissions and mortality from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Australia, 1993–2003

David H Wilson, Graeme Tucker, Peter Frith, Sarah Appleton, Richard E Ruffin and Robert J Adams

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (8): 408-411 Free

Snapshot

Pulmonary artery aneurysm

Zubair Ahmad, Imrana Masood and Saurabh K Singh

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (6): 314 Free

Improving clinical care

The effects of oxygen therapy in patients presenting to an emergency department with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Simon A Joosten, Mariko S Koh, Xiaoning Bu, David Smallwood and Louis B Irving

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (5): 235-238 Free

Improving clinical care

Revisiting oxygen therapy in patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Iven H Young

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (5): 239

Letters

Conundrums in community-acquired pneumonia

Patrick G P Charles, Paul D R Johnson and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (2): 102-103

Notable cases

Potential link between HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) use and interstitial lung disease

Tim Walker, Joe McCaffery and Chris Steinfort

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (2): 91-94 Free

Letters

Conundrums in community-acquired pneumonia

Michael Montalto

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (2): 102-103

Letters

Conundrums in community-acquired pneumonia

Patrick J Bradley

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (2): 102-103

MJA Practice Essentials — Allergy

6: Rhinitis and asthma: united airway disease

Janet Rimmer and John W Ruhno

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (10): 565-571 Free

Editorials

Conundrums in community-acquired pneumonia

Patrick G P Charles, Paul D R Johnson and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 131-132

Editorials

Lung transplantation in Australia: barriers to translating new evidence into clinical practice

Greg Snell, Tom Kotsimbos and Trevor J Williams

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 428-429

Medicine and the community

"Exasperations" of asthma: a qualitative study of patient language about worsening asthma

Stephen D Vincent, Brett G Toelle, Rosalie A Aroni, Christine R Jenkins and Helen K Reddel

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (9): 451-454 Free

Position statement

Cough in children: definitions and clinical evaluation

Anne B Chang, Lou I Landau, Peter P Van Asperen, Nicholas J Glasgow, Colin F Robertson, Julie M Marchant and Craig M Mellis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (8): 398-403 Free

Clinical update

COPDX: an update of guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a review of recent evidence

Michael J Abramson, Alan J Crockett, Peter A Frith and Christine F McDonald

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (7): 342-345 Free

Notable cases

Middle lobe syndrome as the pulmonary manifestation of primary Sjögren's syndrome

Horng-An Chen, Shinn-Liang Lai, Wei-Kang Kwang, Juhn-Cherng Liu, Chun-Hsiung Chen and De-Feng Huang

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): 294-295 Free

Medicine and the community

Trends in asthma prevalence and population changes in South Australia, 1990–2003

David H Wilson, Robert J Adams, Richard E Ruffin, Graeme Tucker, Anne W Taylor and Sarah Appleton

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 226-229 Free

Research

Zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Indigenous Australian children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infection: a randomised controlled trial

Anne B Chang, Paul J Torzillo, Peter M Stewart, Naomi C Boyce, Andrew V White, Gavin R Wheaton, David M Purdie, John Wakerman and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 107-112 Free

Letters

Safety of hospital in the home

Allen C Cheng, Andrew J Hughes, Julian B Stella and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 142-144

Letters

Safety of hospital in the home

Les J Toop, Michael J Epton, Graham R B McGeoch, G Ian Town, Simon M H Wynn-Thomas, Robin D Dawson, Michael C Hlavac, Anja M Werno and Paul D Abernethy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 142-144

Letters

Safety of hospital in the home

Bin Soo Ong, Margaret A Karr, Daniel K Y Chan, Anthony Frankel and Qing Shen

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 142-144

Letters

Severe nocturnal bradycardia with daytime tachycardia in obstructive sleep apnoea

John C Bridgman and William F Heddle

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 93-94