Volume 223, Issue 4 | The Medical Journal of Australia

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Editor’s choice

Healthy ageing

Michael Skilton, Alison Williams and Wendy Morgan

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 173-173 Free

Perspective

Innovative approaches to fall prevention in community‐dwelling older adults

Kim Delbaere, Catherine Sherrington, Catherine M Said and Vasikaran Naganathan

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 174-176 Open Access

A salute to ten years of Australian Clinical Care Standards: celebrations and challenges

Alice L Bhasale, Carolyn Hullick, Maria B Sukkar and Anne Duggan

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 177-179 Free

Lung cancer biobanking in Australia: challenges and future directions

Sarah Yeo, Stephen Q Wong, Farzaneh Atashrazm, Andreas Behren, Anthony T Papenfuss, Natalia Vukelic, Lisa Briggs, Ashleigh R Poh, Daniel Steinfort, Natasha Smallwood, Kate Sutherland, Vivek Naranbhai, Sagun Parakh and Tracy Leong

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 180-184 Open Access

Ethics and law

Dignity of risk in residential aged care: a call to reframe understandings of risk

Maria Foundas

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 186-188 Open Access

Research

The prevalence of and variation in indicators of the quality and safety of long term aged care in Australia, 2019: a cross‐sectional population‐based study

Tesfahun C Eshetie, Gillian E Caughey, Catherine Lang, Olivia Ryan, Renuka Visvanathan, Craig Whitehead, Keith Evans, Janet K Sluggett, Jyoti Khadka, Carolyn Dawkins, Helena Williams, Miranda Starke, Sara Blunt, Anne Liddell, Megan Corlis, Anna Sheppeard, Penelope Lello, Marilyn Thien, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 189-196 Open Access

Development and calibration of the 2023 Australian cardiovascular disease risk prediction equations: a model updating study

Ellie Paige, Emily Banks AM, Yuehan Zhang, Anushka Patel, Mark Woodward, Natalie Raffoul, Garry Jennings and Rodney T Jackson

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 197-204 Open Access

The Telephysiotherapy for Older People (TOP‐UP) program for improving mobility in people receiving aged care: a hybrid type 1 effectiveness–implementation randomised controlled trial

Rik Dawson, Marina Pinheiro, Juliana Oliveira, Abby Haynes, Vasikaran Naganathan, Morag E Taylor, Nina Bowes, Karn Nelson, Jenny Rayner and Catherine Sherrington

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 205-213 Open Access

Research letter

Estimated carbon emissions for PBS‐subsidised prescription respiratory inhalers, Australia, 2019–2023: a descriptive analysis

Luise Kazda, Alexandra L Barratt, Sean Docking, Kristen Pickles, Darlene Cox, Ross S Bailie, Kate Wylie and Katy JL Bell

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 214-217 Open Access

Narrative Review

Models of care across settings supporting ageing in place: a narrative review

Maria C Inacio, Stephanie Harrison, Johannes Schwabe, Maria Crotty and Gillian E Caughey

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 218-225 Open Access

Letter to the editor

Participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by people with severe mental illness, Australia, 2006–2019: a national data linkage study

Oyedeji Ayonrinde, Sara Mohamed and Jenna Nensi

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 226-226 Free