Issues 2008

January/February

• Improving the health of Australians
• Letters to the editor
• Lifestyle matters
• Smoking cessation - What works?
• Alcohol intervention - what works?
• Helping patients lose weight - what works?
• Encouraging physical activity - five steps for GPs
• Beyond chemotherapy - Demystifying the new targeted cancer treatments
• Glucocorticoids in early rheumatoid arthritis
• Cyclic nausea and vomiting in childhood
• Lipid lowering therapy for adults with diabetes
• Pitfalls in managing falls
• Clinical challenge
• EBM journal clubs in general practice
• Caring for patients with opioid dependence
• Defibrillators - Their use in general practice
• GP supervisors - Their professional development and involvement in assessment
• Professional Practice Book Reviews
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease - Impact of guidelines on GP management
• Influences on the prescribing of new drugs
• General practice patients - Their readiness to quit smoking
• Abnormal PSA tests - Delays in referral
• Youth vouchers for GP services - A pilot project
• AFP in Practice
• GP management of dementia - A consumer perspective
• Motivational care planning - Self management in indigenous mental health

March

• A man with contracted fingers
• AFP in Practice
• End of life decisions and the law
• A mirror or a window? - The Irish Registrar Exchange Program
• Urinary incontinence Pathophysiology and management outline
• Urinary incontinence Assessment in women: stress, urge or both?
• Urinary incontinence Procedural and surgical treatments for women
• Physiotherapy for urinary incontinence
• Improving chronic illness care - Revisiting the role of care planning
• Urinary incontinence in the older patient
• The more things change...
• Letters to the editor
• Treating the symptoms of osteoarthritis - Oral treatments
• A pilot study of telephone based asthma management
• Beta blockers in systolic heart failure
• Getting the message across - Professional interpreters in general practice
• Breast and cervical cancer in indigenous women - Overcoming barriers to early detection
• Promoting e-communication - Lessons from a feasibility study
• More than just dry skin
• Lessons from the TAPS study Knowledge and skills errors
• Clinical challenge
• Concepts of sexuality and health among Iranian women in Australia

April

• Not allergic to life
• Letters to the editor
• Allergic rhinitis
• Allergy prevention - Current recommendations and new insights
• Allergy testing and referral in children
• Allergic rhinitis - practical management strategies
• Food allergy in adults
• Patient education - how to use an EpiPen®
• Management of spinal cord injury in general practice - Part 1
• In general practice, 'always expect the unexpected'
• Pathological hoarding
• Lessons from the TAPS study - errors relating to medical records
• Is it insulin allergy?
• Supporting clinical teachers - A review of the literature
• AFP in Practice
• Clinical challenge
• Doctors as patients
• Colorectal cancer management - The role of the GP
• Managing shoulder pain in general practice - Assessment, imaging and referral
• Coordinated anticoagulation management in a rural setting
• Using computer based templates for chronic disease management
• Book reviews
• Telephone based asthma management - financial and individual benefits
• General practice registrars and research - attitudes toward participation
• Too many of us have gone early - Priorities in heart health education for Aboriginal people

May

• Vertiginous syndrome
• Hoarseness - What is the voice trying to tell you?
• Chronic rhinosinusitis - 'It's my sinus doc!'
• Asymmetrical hearing loss
• Hearing impairment - Technological advances and insights
• When to refer a child to an otolaryngologist
• The way we look at things
• Letters to the editor
• Management of spinal cord injury in general practice - Part 2
• Vertigo - Part 1 - Assessment in general practice
• Vitamin D and people with intellectual disability
• Clinical Challenge
• AFP in Practice
• Ear syringing: minimising the risks
• New medical graduates - Can general practice help with training?
• The medical humanities - A brief introduction
• What do GPs get out of participating in research? - Experience of the LEAP trial
• Lessons from the TAPS study - Reducing the risk of patient harm
• Clinical breast examination of asymptomatic women - Attitudes and clinical practice
• Practice based research - Lessons from the field

June

• Letters to the editor
• Clinical Challenge
• AFP in Practice
• Teaching psychiatry in general practice
• Access to children's medical records
• Participatory action research in indigenous health
• This sylvan game
• Practice nurses and research - The Fremantle Primary Prevention study
• Does general practice Google?
• Universal telenursing triage in Australia and New Zealand - A new primary health service
• International medical graduates - Challenges faced in the Australian training program
• Combining vocational and research training
• Quality of diabetes care - A comparison of division diabetes registers
• Book reviews
• Challenges for children
• Gaining children's confidence - The judicious use of silliness
• AD(H)D
• Chronic abdominal pain in children
• School Refusal
• Oppositional defiant disorder
• Adults with diabetes - Pharmacological management of hypertension
• Vertigo - Part 2 - management in general practice
• Patient education - Management of benign positional vertigo
• Reducing CVD risk - Integration of clinical and laboratory criteria
• Access and limitations of community services for older persons - A guide for the GP
• Lessons from the TAPS study - Message handling and appointment systems
• Women, coronary artery disease and diabetes
• Pelvic examination of asymptomatic women - Attitudes and clinical practice
• Guideline development process for the Health for Kids in the South East project
• Evidence based guideline for the management of bronchiolitis
• Evidence based guideline for the management of croup
• Evidence based guideline for the management of diarrhoea with or without vomiting in children

July

• Acute care
• Letters to the editor
• Referrals to A&E
• Ocular emergencies
• Sexual health care for sex workers
• Association of epilepsy and burns - A case control study
• Changing GPs' attitudes to research - Do N of 1 trials hold the key?
• Cardiac rehabilitation - Reducing hospital readmissions through community based programs
• Stabilising the newborn for transfer - Basic principles
• Initial management of cardiac arrhythmias
• Management of dyslipidaemia - Evidence and practical recommendations
• Book reviews
• Good Samaritans
• Price fixing in general practice
• A road to humanity
• The RACGP Fellowship examination
• AFP in Practice
• HPV vaccine catch up schedule - An opportunity for chlamydia screening
• Clinical Challenge
• Dental problems in diabetes - Add a dentist to the diabetes team
• Emergency drugs in general practice
• Lessons from the TAPS study - Management of medical emergencies

August

• GPs understanding of how depression affects gay and HIV positive men
• The GreenClinic pilot - ±«ÓãÊÓƵal intervention for environmentally sustainable general practice
• GPs as medical educators - An Australian train-the-trainer program
• Prevalence of psychological distress in university students - Implications for service delivery
• That 'gut feeling'
• Assessing hypogonadism in men - How helpful are current testosterone assays?
• Doctors, disease and James Joyce
• Letters to the editor
• Upper abdominal pain
• Generation Z - Striking the balance: healthy doctors for a healthy community
• Rational investigation of upper abdominal pain
• Reminder or recall?
• Assessing general practice knowledge base - The applied knowledge test
• AFP in Practice
• Clinical Challenge
• Helicobacter pylori - The latest in diagnosis and treatment
• Reasoning for registrars - An overview for supervisors and medical educators
• Surgical causes of upper abdominal pain
• Nonabdominal causes of abdominal pain - Finding your heart in your stomach!
• Lessons from the TAPS study - Managing investigation results - is your practice system safe?
• Iatrogenic neuropsychiatric syndromes
• Cholesteatoma - diagnosing the unsafe ear
• Androgen deprivation therapy - Managing side effects
• 'Great tan but I feel awful'

September

• Diabetes cycles of care in general practice - Do government incentives help
• Integrated GP and allied health care for patients with type 2 diabetes
• Journal impact factor and its importance for AFP
• New 45-49 year health checks - GP uptake of MBS item 717
• An inquiry - Aesthetics of art in hospitals
• Medicare Australia and the Professional Services Review Scheme
• Indigenous Lifescripts - A tool for modifying lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease
• Clinical Challenge
• Evaluation of an Australian-Irish general practice registrar exchange
• AFP in Practice
• Chronic disease management
• Letters to the editor
• The management of chronic problems
• The role of general practice in cancer care
• Management of recurrent depression
• Asthma management in general practice - A chronic disease health priority
• Challenges in diabetes management
• Reducing the risk of adverse thrombotic events - The role of aspirin and clopidogrel
• Assessing elderly people to drive - Practical considerations
• Lessons from the TAPS study - Communication failures between hospitals and general practices

October

• Influenza
• Plan your pandemic - A guide for GPs
• Searching for Salmonella
• Could it be Legionella?
• Bugs and the big bang
• Letters to the editor
• Lessons from the TAP S study - Warfarin: a major cause of threats to patient safety
• Age determination in refugee children
• Survivorship care after breast cancer
• Red flags in scleroderma
• A 'wellness check' for every adult in Australia
• Clinical Challenge
• Trapped in the net? - What to look for in a web based CPD program
• AFP in Practice
• Violence in the consulting room - A multifactorial strategy for prevention and harm minimisation
• Navigating general practice - The use of geographic information systems
• ABLE - assessment based learning
• Book reviews
• Metaphor in clinical practice
• How to conduct effective skill building workshops
• The desire for research in general practice
• GP management of osteoarthritic pain in Hong Kong
• Evaluation of e-textbooks - DynaMed, MD Consult and UpToDate
• Improving glycaemic and BP control in type 2 diabetes - The effectiveness of tai chi
• Allied mental health referral - Trends in the Adelaide Hills Division of General Practice
• Improving vaccination cold chain in the general practice setting

November

• In the real world
• Somatisation
• 'ËœI just don't feel right'
• Pathology testing in the tired patient - A rational approach
• Aches, pains and osteoarthritis
• 'I've been bleeding from the bowel'
• Lessons from the TAPS study - Recall and reminder systems
• Steroid injection in lateral epicondylar pain
• Type 2 diabetes - which BGLs matter? - The fasting, pre- and post-prandial glycaemia debate
• The painful mouth
• Clinical Challenge
• AFP in Practice
• A 'target' skin lesion
• Failure to diagnose: bowel obstruction
• Medical students go back to school - The Triple A journey
• The role of spirituality in medicine
• Book reviews
• Multidisciplinary care plans and diabetes - Benefits for patients with poor glycaemic control
• Enhancing the choice of general practice as a career
• Antihypertensive prescribing - A survey of general practice supervisors and registrars
• GPs' experiences with loneliness

December

• Working toward a goal
• Closing the indigenous health gap
• Letters to the editor
• Indigenous patients
• Beyond the mainstream - Health gains in remote Aboriginal communities
• Patient centred care - Cultural safety in indigenous health
• Vitamin D - A review
• 'My knee is swollen'
• Flucloxacillin induced acute renal failure
• AFP in Practice
• Clinical Challenge
• Indigenous community members as teachers of indigenous health
• Lost without translation
• Book Reviews
• Teaching medical history to medical students - The Monash experience
• A nurse led model of chronic disease care - An interim report
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments - Barriers to improving uptake
• Trends in GP home visits