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Motivations, barriers and enablers for medical and forensic examiners in New South Wales sexual assault services: a qualitative interview study

Natalie Edmiston, Sam Sperring, Rosalie Power, Samantha Ryan, Kathryn Evans, Jane Ussher and Ellie Freedman

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 85-91 Open Access

Symptom burden, quality of life, and diagnostic journey of people with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Australia, 2021–24: a descriptive patient registry data study

Marie‐Claire Seeley, Gemma Wilson, Eric Ong, Amy Langdon, Jonathan Chieng, Danielle Bailey, Kristina Comacchio, Amanda Page, Dennis H Lau and Celine Gallagher

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 159-160 Open Access

The incidence of and risk factors for hospitalisations and amputations for people with diabetes‐related foot ulcers in Queensland, 2011–19: an observational cohort study

Yuqi Zhang, Susanna M Cramb, Steven M McPhail, Rosana Pacella, Jaap J Netten, Ewan M Kinnear and Peter A Lazzarini

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 149-158 Open Access

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices on the National Lung Cancer Screening Program: a qualitative study from Worimi and Awabakal country

Tanika L Ridgeway (Worimi), Kayden Roberts‐Barker (Wiradjuri), Kade Booth and Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 38-45 Open Access

Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study

Stephen P McDonald AM, Katie Cundale, Christopher E Davies, Kelli Karrikarringka Owen (Kaurna, Nharangga, and Ngarrindjeri), Kerry Dole, Feruza Kholmurodova, Matilda D’Antoine (Paakantyi) and Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 46-53 Open Access

Bone health perspectives among Indigenous people: a qualitative study

Troy Walker (Yorta Yorta), Karan P Singh, Vanessa Gan, Brooke Conley (Ngiyampaa), Jessica Bravo, Nigel Smith (Weilwan), April Clarke (Eastern Maar, Kirrae Whurrung, Djap Wurrung), Jackson Baker, Louise J Maple‐Brown, Robin M Daly, Jennifer Browne, Jesse Zanker, Cat Shore‐Lorenti, David Scott, Peter R Ebeling and Ayse Zengin

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 92-100 Open Access

What do Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory value during the operation journey? A qualitative study

Edith B Waugh, Marita Hefler, Sophie Pascoe, Mark Mayo, Matthew JL Hare, David A Story, Neil Wilkshire, Peter Henwood, David Croker and Jampijinpa Ross

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 30-37 Open Access

Factors that affect the provision of medical abortion services in Australian primary care: a mixed methods systematic review

Greta Skahill and Mridula Shankar

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 101-110 Open Access

Remote patient monitoring for managing acute COVID‐19, and mortality and hospital use in Sydney, New South Wales, 2021–22: a retrospective observational cohort study

Myong Gyu Kim, Phuong Thao Phan, Cambell McMaster, Praveen Indraratna, Jennifer Yu, Allison Martin, Rebecca Pinheiro, Lisa Altman, Guenter Schreier, Benjamin Kwan, Pamela Konecny, Jeffrey J Post, Nigel Lovell, Sze‐Yuan Ooi and Kristen Overton

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 550-557 Open Access

The intersection of rurality and dementia prevalence in Australia for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non‐Indigenous peoples

Antonia J Clarke, Marwan Ahmed, Judith M Katzenellenbogen, John Towney (Wiradjuri), Anna H Balabanski, Adrienne Withall (Dharawal Yuin), Kylie Radford and Amy Brodtmann

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 510-516 Open Access

Improved cancer survival in the Northern Territory: identifying progress and disparities for Aboriginal peoples, 1991–2020

Rowena Boyd, Michail Charakidis, C Paul Burgess, Sarah Dugdale, Craig Castillon (Jawoyn, Katherine Region, NT), Dzulfikaar Sutandar and Alyson Wright

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 517-523 Free

Evaluating the impact of COVID‐19 vaccination strategies on infections and hospitalisations in Victoria with non‐seasonal epidemic wave patterns: a modelling study

Fenella McAndrew, Romesh Abeysuriya and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 558-566 Open Access

Smartphone‐activated volunteer responders and survival to discharge after out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2018–23: an observational cohort study

Belinda Delardes, Mads Christian Tofte Gregers, Emily Nehme, Michael Ray, Dylan Hall, Tony Walker, David Anderson, Daniel Okyere, Ashanti Dantanarayana and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 504-509 Open Access

Nirsevimab immunisation of infants and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)‐associated hospitalisations, Western Australia, 2024: a population‐based analysis

Lauren E Bloomfield, Nevada V Pingault, Rachel E Foong, Sarah French, Jo‐Anne Morgan, Ushma Wadia, Hannah C Moore, Christopher C Blyth, Peter C Richmond, Paul K Armstrong and Paul V Effler

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 568-570 Open Access

Social determinants of health and intensive care unit admission rates and outcomes for children, Australia, 2013–2020: analysis of national registry data

Katie M Moynihan, Vanessa Russ, Darren Clinch, Lahn Straney, Johnny Millar, Marino Festa, Natasha Nassar, Shreerupa Basu, Thavani Thavarajasingam, Debbie Long, Paul J Secombe and Anthony J Slater, for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group and Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 412-421 Open Access

The prevalence of intimate partner violence in Australia: a national survey

Ben Mathews, Kelsey L Hegarty, Harriet L MacMillan, Monica Madzoska, Holly E Erskine, Rosana Pacella, James G Scott, Hannah Thomas, Franziska Meinck, Daryl Higgins, David M Lawrence, Divna Haslam, Sara Roetman, Eva Malacova and Timothy Cubitt

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 440-448 Open Access

Incidental findings during lung low‐dose computed tomography cancer screening in Australia and Canada, 2016–21: a prospective observational study

Asha Bonney, Diane M Pascoe, Mark W McCusker, Daniel Steinfort, Henry Marshall, Annette McWilliams, Fraser J Brims, Emily Stone, Paul Fogarty, Jeremy D Silver, Brad Milner, Elizabeth Silverstone, Eugene Hsu, Duy Nguyen, Christopher Rofe, Cameron White, XinXin Hu, John Mayo, Renelle Myers, Kwun M Fong, Renee Manser and Stephen Lam

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 403-411 Open Access

The relative toxicity of medicines detected after poisoning suicide deaths in Australia, 2013–19: a data linkage case series study

Jessy Lim, Nicholas A Buckley, Kate Chitty, Andrea L Schaffer, Jennifer Schumann, Zein Ali and Rose Cairns

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (7): 339-347 Open Access

Geographic remoteness‐based differences in in‐hospital mortality among people admitted to NSW public hospitals with heart failure, 2002–21: a retrospective observational cohort study

Imants Rubenis, Gregory Harvey, Karice Hyun, Vincent Chow, Leonard Kritharides, Andrew P Sindone, David B Brieger and Austin CC Ng

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (7): 348-355 Open Access

The costs and benefits of a prison needle and syringe program in Australia, 2025–30: a modelling study

Farah Houdroge, Samantha Colledge‐Frisby, Nadine Kronfli, Rebecca J Winter, Joanne Carson, Mark Stoove and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 396-402 Open Access

Accountability, ambition, and quantifiable action in the carbon emission reduction plans of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies in Australia: a cross‐sectional analysis

Hayden Burch, Georgia Brown, Oliver Adler, Jason Wong and Kenneth D Winkel

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (6): 305-312 Open Access

Early cardiovascular collapse after envenoming by snakes in Australia, 2005–2020: an observational study (ASP‐31)

Geoffrey K Isbister, Katherine Z Isoardi, Angela L Chiew, Shane Jenkins and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (6): 313-317 Open Access

The oral health care needs of people living in residential aged care, Australia, 2016–20: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Gillian E Caughey, Tracy Air, Miia Rahja and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (6): 318-320 Open Access

Mandatory research projects during medical specialist training in Australia and New Zealand: a survey of trainees’ experiences and reports

Paulina Stehlik, Caitlyn Withers, Rachel C Bourke, Adrian G Barnett, Caitlin Brandenburg, Christy Noble, Alexandra Bannach‐Brown, Gerben B Keijzers, Ian A Scott, Paul P Glasziou, Emma C Veysey, Sharon Mickan, Mark Morgan, Hitesh Joshi, Kirsty Forrest, Thomas G Campbell and David A Henry

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (5): 231-239 Open Access

Closing the gap in kidney disease: validating the reporting of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identification in a clinical quality registry using linked data

Heather J Baldwin, Nicole De La Mata, Grant Sara, Faye McMillan, Brett Biles, Jianyun Wu, Paul Lawton, Stephen McDonald and Angela C Webster

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (5): 240-248 Open Access