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Correction 18 Jul 2011

Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

Lorna K Rosenwax, Beverley A McNamara, Kevin Murray, Rebecca J McCabe, Samar M Aoun and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 104

Research 4 Jul 2011

Socioeconomic disparities in stroke rates and outcome: pooled analysis of stroke incidence studies in Australia and New Zealand

Emma L Heeley, Jade W Wei, Kristie Carter, Md Shaheenul Islam, Amanda G Thrift, Graeme J Hankey, Alan Cass and Craig S Anderson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 10-14 Free

Viewpoint 20 Jun 2011

Using hospital standardised mortality ratios to assess quality of care — proceed with extreme caution

Ian A Scott, Caroline A Brand, Grant E Phelps, Anna L Barker and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 645-648 Free

Research 6 Jun 2011

Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

Lorna K Rosenwax, Beverley A McNamara, Kevin Murray, Rebecca J McCabe, Samar M Aoun and David C Currow

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 570-573 Free

Medicine and the community 6 Jun 2011

A national survey of general practitioners’ experiences of patient-initiated aggression in Australia

Laura E Forrest, Pushpani M Herath, Ian S McRae and Rhian M Parker

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 605-608 Free

Closing the gap 16 May 2011

Epidemiology of syphilis in Australia: moving toward elimination of infectious syphilis from remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?

James S Ward, Rebecca J Guy, Snehal P Akre, Melanie G Middleton, Carolien M Giele, Jiunn Y Su, Craig A Davis, Handan Wand, Janet B Knox, Patricia S Fagan, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor and Darren B Russell

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 525-529 Free

Closing the gap 16 May 2011

Sepsis in the tropical Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory: disease burden and impact on Indigenous Australians

Joshua S Davis, Allen C Cheng, Mark McMillan, Alex B Humphrey, Dianne P Stephens and Nicholas M Anstey

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 519-524 Free

Research 2 May 2011

Streamlining elective surgery care in a public hospital: the Alfred experience

Judy A Lowthian, Andrea J Curtis, Bernadette L Comitti, Peter A Cameron, Martin J Keogh, William R Johnson, James Tomlinson and Andrew M Stripp

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (9): 448-451 Free

Editor's choice 18 Apr 2011

What to study: matching funding to need

Annette G Katelaris

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 379 Free

Research 18 Apr 2011

Landscape of cancer clinical trials in Australia: using trial registries to guide future research

Rachel F Dear, Alexandra L Barratt, Kevin McGeechan, Lisa Askie, John Simes and Martin H N Tattersall

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 387-391 Free

Research 18 Apr 2011

Children Attending Paediatricians Study: a national prospective audit of outpatient practice from the Australian Paediatric Research Network

Harriet Hiscock, Gehan Roberts, Daryl Efron, Jillian R Sewell, Hannah E Bryson, Anna M H Price, Frank Oberklaid, Michael South and Melissa A Wake

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 392-397 Free

Corrections 4 Apr 2011

When do I know I am cured? Using conditional estimates to provide better information about cancer survival prospects

Peter D Baade, Danny R Youlden and Suzanne K Chambers

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (7): 376

Medicine and the community 7 Mar 2011

Australian general practitioner chlamydia testing rates among young people

Fabian Y S Kong, Rebecca J Guy, Jane S Hocking, Tony Merritt, Marie Pirotta, Clare Heal, Isabel Bergeri, Basil Donovan and Margaret E Hellard

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 249-252 Free

Correction 7 Mar 2011

Detecting undiagnosed diabetes using glycated haemoglobin: an automated screening test in hospitalised patients

Nyoli A Valentine, Tariq M Alhawassi, Greg W Roberts, Parind P Vora, Stephen N Stranks and Matthew P Doogue

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 243 Free

Research 21 Feb 2011

Detecting undiagnosed diabetes using glycated haemoglobin: an automated screening test in hospitalised patients

Nyoli A Valentine, Tariq M Alhawassi, Greg W Roberts, Parind P Vora, Stephen N Stranks and Matthew P Doogue

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 160-164 Free

Public health 7 Feb 2011

Iodine status of Aboriginal teenagers in the Darwin region before mandatory iodine fortification of bread

Dorothy E M Mackerras, Gurmeet R Singh and Creswell J Eastman

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 126-130 Free

Health care 7 Feb 2011

Clinical predictive value of the ABCD2 score for early risk of stroke in patients who have had transient ischaemic attack and who present to an Australian tertiary hospital

Lauren M Sanders, Velandai K Srikanth, Helen Psihogios, Kitty K Wong, David Ramsay and Thanh G Phan

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 135-138 Free

Research 17 Jan 2011

When do I know I am cured? Using conditional estimates to provide better information about cancer survival prospects

Peter D Baade, Danny R Youlden and Suzanne K Chambers

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 73-77 Free

Research 3 Jan 2011

The projected impact of population and high-risk strategies for risk-factor control on coronary heart disease and stroke events

Erkki A Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Benjamin Philpot, Edward D Janus, Nathalie Davis-Lameloise and James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 10-15 Free

Research 3 Jan 2011

Syncope and seizures following human papillomavirus vaccination: a retrospective case series

Nigel W Crawford, Hazel J Clothier, Sonja Elia, Teresa Lazzaro, Jenny Royle and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 16-18 Free

Bites and stings 6 Dec 2010

Clinical effects of red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) envenoming and correlation with venom concentrations: Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-11)

Andrew Churchman, Margaret A O’Leary, Nicholas A Buckley, Colin B Page, Alan Tankel, Chris Gavaghan, Anna Holdgate, Simon G A Brown and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 696-700 Free

Christmas offerings 6 Dec 2010