The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 1 February 2010 192 3 150153 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Medical education from factors such as shorter admissions and sicker patients. General practice provides a ready source of ambulatory patients with a wide range of medical and health needs. Building cap city for teaching in general practice is integral to providing...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 20 October 2003 179 8 438-440 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.com.au EBM: Trials on Trial DETERMINING THE SAMPLE OF PARTICIPANTS to be analysed is a crucial step in reporting clinical trials. For such analyses, the gold standard is the “intention-to-treat” principle. The question of which participants are included in the analysis a...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 16 March 2009 190 6 307311 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Research disparity have contributed to pessimism about the potential to reduce mortality among Indigenous people. Yet changes in Indigenous mortality might be expected because of ch nges in background risk factors, such as falling infection rates, increasing birthwei...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 7 April 2003 178 7 316-317 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.com.au Conference Report THE INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL TRIALS SYMPOSIUM, held in Sydney in October 2002, brought together over 700 people to explore the issues and future directions for clinical trials. The support from government as well as industry and the div rsity of peopl...

We propose a semantics for belief in which the derivation of new beliefs from old ones is modeled as a computational process. Using this model, we characterize conditions under which it is appropriate to reason about other agents by simulating their inference processes with one’s own. This work was supported in part by ARPA grant F30602-95-1-0025 and NSF grant IRI-9503312. Rajesh Rao contribute...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 3 June 2002 176 11 123-124 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2002 www.mja.com.au Supplement BASED ON THE INFORMATION in this Supplement, the following dietary suggestions for fat consumption are a handy guide for doctors advising their patients on diet and nutrition. These pointers should be communicated within the context of a healthy diet inclu...

1 Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Insutitute of Science and Technology (NAIST), 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan 2 Ehime Women’s College, 421 Ibuki, Uwajima, Ehime 798-0025, Japan 3 NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), Toshima, Tokyo 170-6028, Japan 4 Department of Molecular Biology and Biotech...

Echocardiography is valuable for urgent assessment of the haemodynamic significance of pericardial effusions and thus assisting in the clinical diagnosis of cardiac tamponade. Classical echocardiographic findings (e.g. respiratory variation in trans-valvular velocities) are not always present and, when seen, may be attributable to other conditions (e.g. obesity or obstructive airways disease) (...