Issues 2007

January/February

• Letters to the editor
• A quality framework for Australian general practice
• Capacity and the quality framework
• Professionalism and the quality framework
• Patient focus and the quality framework
• Competence and the quality framework
• Knowledge and information and the quality framework
• Financing and the quality framework
• The quality of data on general practice - A discussion of BEACH reliability and validity
• Early health assessment of refugees
• Evaluation of renal function - CARI guidelines
• Monitoring kidney function in diabetes- Frequently asked questions
• High risk squamous cell carcinoma
• Pertussis in Australia today - A disease of adolescents and adults that can kill infants
• Counselling in graphics - Visual aids for distressed patients and their doctors
• Why doctors should care about animal cruelty
• Clinical challenge
• Risk management: what is it?
• Mandatory fortification with folic acid - What would Hippocrates say?
• Producing newsletters - Criteria for success
• Information scanning for GPs
• Quality improvement activities associated with organisational capacity in general practice
• Do multidisciplinary care plans result in better care for patients with type 2 diabetes?
• Ezetimibe added to statin therapy (EASY study) - An evaluation by Australian general practitioners
• Sex, pain and cranberries - Ideas from the 2006 Registrar Research Workshop
• Health behaviours in survivors of childhood cancer

March

• Letters to the editor
• Gynaecological cancer in Australian general practice
• HPV vaccination - A paradigm shift in public health
• Pap test update
• The woman with postmenopausal bleeding
• Management of cervical cancer
• Ovarian cancer screening
• Ovarian cancer - Diagnosis and management
• Integrative medicine in gynaecological cancers
• Prevention of progression of kidney disease: diabetic nephropathy - CARI guidelines
• Rare skin cancers in general practice
• Clinical breast examination for asymptomatic women - Exploring the evidence
• Health care of refugee women
• Extending care to women lay carers
• Clinical challenge
• An unusual sore throat
• From solo practice to partnering - The evolution of the Elmore Model of Primary Health
• Systems and complexity thinking in general practice - Part 1 - clinical application
• Talking with patients from Howlong to the Himalayas - Do all our patients want us to be patient centred?
• Book review
• Is there a GP in the hospital?
• Children with a regular FP - Do they have better health behaviours and psychosocial health?
• Cervical screening in general practice - Strategies for improving participation
• Children and adolescents - Who can give consent?
• General practice consultations - How well do doctors predict patient satisfaction?
• Is your sample cupboard relevant to your practice?
• GPs, violence and work performance - 'Just part of the job?'

April

• Letters to the editor
• Mental health in general practice
• Managing mental health issues in general practice
• Adjusting to illness and other major life events - How can GPs help?
• Managing anxious patients - Cognitive behaviour therapy in general practice
• Depression and anxiety - Pharmacological treatment in general practice
• Using problem solving therapy in general practice
• Somatising disorders - Untangling the pathology
• Bipolar disorder - Assessment and management
• Benzodiazepine prescribing - Lessons from interprofessional dialogue
• Complementary therapies in mental health care
• Asymptomatic schistosomiasis in a young Sudanese refugee
• Nutrition and growth in kidney disease - CARI guidelines
• Arc welding and the risk of cancer
• A GP work plan for pandemic flu
• Clinical challenge
• Book review
• An incorrect diagnosis of psychosis?
• GPs' attitudes toward complementary medicine
• Systems and complexity thinking in general practice - Part 2 - application in primary care research
• Stress management groups in general practice - A pilot randomised trial
• Multidisciplinary care plans for diabetic patients - What do they contain?
• Breastfeeding and the responsibilities of GPs - A qualitative study of general practice registrars
• Organisational capacity and chronic disease care - An Australian general practice perspective

May

• Letters to the Editor
• Management of travel related problems in general practice
• The pre-travel consultation - An overview
• Travel vaccination
• Fitness to travel - Assessment in the elderly and medically impaired
• Prevention of malaria in travellers
• The returned traveller with diarrhoea
• Assessment of febrile illness in the returned traveller
• Traveller's 'funny tummy' - Reviewing the evidence for complementary medicine
• Notification - what's it all about?
• Treating actinic keratoses with imiquimod
• Diagnosing prostate cancer - What GPs need to know
• Travelling with medications - Some lessons learned
• Prevention of progression of kidney disease - CARI guidelines
• Hiding from the sun - Vitamin D deficiency in refugees
• Age related macular degeneration - New developments in treatment
• Clinical Challenge
• Insurance reports
• ClimateGP - Web based patient education
• Do women have a role in early detection of prostate cancer? - Lessons from a qualitative study
• GP workforce participation in Tasmania
• Treatment of patients with pulmonary embolism entirely in Hospital in the Home

June

• Acute shoulder pain in primary care - an observational study
• The use of oral antidiabetic agents in primary care
• Letters to the editor
• Chronic musculoskeletal problems managed in general practice
• Sports medicine meets musculoskeletal medicine
• Gait and posture Assessment in general practice
• Hip pain A focus on the sporting population
• Shoulder pain
• Back, chest and abdominal pain. Is it spinal referred pain?
• Musculoskeletal ultrasound. Used to best advantage
• Musculoskeletal conditions What's new from Cochrane and how might this affect your practice?
• Acceptance onto dialysis - CARI guidelines
• Better primary health care for refugees - catch up immunisation
• Acupuncture in musculoskelatal disorders - is there a point?
• Levator ani syndrome - a case study and literature review
• Clinical Challenge
• Failure to diagnose: epidural abscess
• How to survive as a basic team registrar

July

• Letters to the editor
• Atrial fibrillation in Australian general practice
• Emergency management of acute cardiac arrhythmias
• Pharmacologic management of tachycardia
• Management of atrial fibrillation
• Catheter ablation techniques in managing arrhythmias
• Pacemaker therapies in cardiology
• Integrative medicine and arrhythmias
• Colchicine - What is its place in the management of acute gout?
• Thyroid lumps and bumps
• How I use the internet
• Actinic keratoses
• Skin and Cushing syndrome
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus - Guidelines for initiating insulin therapy
• Painful nodules on the fingers and toes
• Clinical challenge
• Just one opioid prescription?
• Publishing in peer review journals - Criteria for success
• Failure to diagnose: long QT syndrome
• Refugee youth - Immunisation status and GP attendance
• Macrocytosis - An Australian general practice perspective
• Clinical usefulness of ‘vocal fremitus' and 'vocal resonance' - GP perceptions and practice
• Skin cancer in general practice - Impact of an early detection campaign

August

• Letters to the editor
• Adolescent attendances in general practice
• The mental health of adolescents - Assessment and management
• Sex, contraception and health
• Substance abuse and harm minimisation in adolescents
• Adolescent overweight and obesity - How best to manage in the general practice setting
• Eating disorders in adolescents
• Adolescents with chronic disease – The double whammy
• Premenstrual disorders in adolescent females – Integrative management
• Strontium ranelate - Does it affect the management of postmenopausal osteoporosis?
• All creatures great and small
• Malaria in the Australian refugee population
• Surveillance of second cancer after previous childhood cancer treatment
• First do no harm...
• Clinical challenge
• AFP in Practice
• Adolescents and confidentiality
• Convening a conference - Facilitating networking among delegates
• Book reviews
• A person-practice-program fit - Evaluation of a GP training placement process
• Shared decision making between registrars and patients - Web based decision aids

September

• letters to the editor
• Herd immunity
• Rural GPs' management of vehicle related trauma
• Care of the haematology patient and their family - The GP viewpoint
• Presentations of nausea and vomiting
• How Western Australian registrars choose training practices
• Identifying unmet needs in older patients - Nurse-GP collaboration in general practice
• Nausea and vomiting in adults/A diagnostic approach
• Disenfranchised grievers - The GP's role in management
• Follow up of test results after hours
• Moving to the UK as a GP - The process explained
• Functional nausea and vomiting
• A painful gum
• Hyperemesis gravidarum - Assessment and management
• Chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting - Prevention and treatment
• Understanding bulimia
• Diabetes monitoring - albuminuria - Frequently asked questions
• Osteoarthritis management of the knee - Treatment options post the NSAID cardiotoxicity controversy
• Hepatitis in refugees who settle in Australia
• The needs of older people with asthma
• Integrative management of nausea and vomiting
• Chemotherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer - Is there a role?
• Children and autism - Part 1 - recognition and pharmacological management
• Epidemic syphilis exhibits diverse manifestations
• Letters to the editor
• Clinical challenge

October

• Letters to the editor
• Management of haemachromatosis in general practice
• Population genetic screening
• Family genetics
• Genetics and preventive health care
• Genetics and blood - Haemoglobinopathies and clotting disorders
• Pharmacogenomics - The potential of genetically guided prescribing
• Children and autism - management with complementary medicines and dietary interventions
• The red eye in contact lens - a high risk presentation
• Sphygmomanometer calibration - Why, how and how often?
• Nonpharmacological interventions for rheumatoid arthritis
• Learning disorders, dyslexia, and vision
• Pigmented and thickened axillary folds
• A failure to relax
• Sex and the older man - GP perceptions and management
• Physical activity promotion - Are GPs getting the message?
• What keeps Melbourne GPs satisfied in their jobs?
• Clinical challenge
• AFP in Practice
• Failure to diagnose: Addison disease
• Fighting disease with fruit

November

• Letters To The Editor
• GP Of The Year Awards
• Management Of Stroke In General Practice
• A painful gum
• Stroke In Children
• Clinical Challenge
• Acute stroke patients - Early hospital management
• AFP in Practice
• Community care after stroke
• Failure to follow up CT reports
• Stroke resources for GPs
• One family's stroke experience
• The Peugeot led recovery
• Occupational violence in general practice
• An audit of INR control in the Australian indigenous setting
• Promoting patient centred palliative care through case conferencing
• The psychosocial experience of women with PCOS - A case control study
• A risk score to diagnose depression in general practice
• Cancer education and training in primary health care - A national audit of training providers
• Complementary therapies for cerebrovascular disease
• Oral corticosteroids - Their place in the management of adhesive capsulitis
• Diagnostic dilemmas in unusual presentations of gout
• The prescribing dilemma of benzodiazepines
• Impacts of alcohol use in pregnancy - The role of the GP
• Time Is Brain - Acute Stroke Management
• Acute stroke patients - Early hospital management

December

• Letters To The Editor
• List of reviewers 2007
• AFP Index 2007
• Skin malignancies in general practice
• Climate change and primary health care
• Drought and its effect on mental health - How GPs can help
• Fighting with fire - How bushfire suppression can impact on fire fighters' health
• Recycled water and human health effects
• Environmental toxins and health - The health impact of pesticides
• Healthy patients, healthy planet - Green recommendations for GP health promotion
• ‘Detox': science or sales pitch?
• Lead - Toxicology and assessment in general practice
• Recurring melanoma - A case study
• Exercise based cardiac rehabilitation in chronic heart failure
• Age related macular degeneration - Should your patients be taking additional supplements?
• Primary hyperparathyroidism and familial hyperparathyroid syndromes
• Clinical use of anti-TNF-? biological agents - A guide for GPs
• Fitting disability into practice - Focus on spinal cord injury
• Clinical teacher training - Maximising the 'ad hoc' teaching encounter
• Clinical challenge
• AFP in Practice
• Unsafe sharps management
• Living with toxic poisioning
• Weapons of war - Humanitarian and medical impact
• Narrative and poetry writing for professional development
• Inadequate chemoprophylaxis and the risk of malaria
• Physical activity promotion in general practice - Patient attitudes
• GPs want tailored, user friendly evidence summaries - A cross sectional study in New South Wales
• Registrar clinical teaching visits - Evaluation of an assessment tool
• Management of skin cancer in Australia - A comparison of general practice and skin cancer clinics