Medical Journal of Australia

Article	Citations
Trajectories of depression and anxiety symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic in a representative Australian adult cohort	86
Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic	67
The 2020 special report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: lessons learnt from Australia’s “Black Summer”	62
Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: umbrella and systematic review of the global evidence	62
Modelling the impact of relaxing COVID ‐19 control measures during a period of low viral transmission	60
Effectiveness of COVID‐19 vaccines: findings from real world studies	57
The 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease	57
The efficacy and safety of paracetamol for pain relief: an overview of systematic reviews	48
Communicating with patients and the public about COVID‐19 vaccine safety: recommendations from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation	48
Failures of quarantine systems for preventing COVID‐19 outbreaks in Australia and New Zealand	47
New Australian guidelines for the treatment of alcohol problems: an overview of recommendations	42
Potential indirect impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children: a narrative review using a community child health lens	42
The prevalence and impact of unprofessional behaviour among hospital workers: a survey in seven Australian hospitals	41
Persistent symptoms up to four months after community and hospital‐managed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection	40
The 2021 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb	40
Australian recommendations for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma: a consensus statement	39
The CANBACK trial: a randomised, controlled clinical trial of oral cannabidiol for people presenting to the emergency department with acute low back pain	37
Australia in 2030: what is our path to health for all?	37
Detecting primary aldosteronism in Australian primary care: a prospective study	37
High value health care is low carbon health care	35
The readability of official public health information on COVID‐19	35
Decline in cancer pathology notifications during the 2020 COVID‐19‐related restrictions in Victoria	32
Australian and New Zealand approach to diagnosis and management of vaccine‐induced immune thrombosis and thrombocytopenia	31
Chemical analysis of fresh and aged Australian e‐cigarette liquids	31
Otitis media guidelines for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: summary of recommendations	31

A hospital‐wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID ‐19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field	30
The prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia: findings from a national survey	30
Social and occupational outcomes for young people who attend early intervention mental health services: a longitudinal study	30
Suicide by young Australians, 2006–2015: a cross‐sectional analysis of national coronial data	30
People in intensive care with COVID ‐19: demographic and clinical features during the first, second, and third pandemic waves in Australia	29
Modern paradigms for prostate cancer detection and management	29
Late mortality in people with cancer: a population‐based Australian study	29
Seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific antibodies in Sydney after the first epidemic wave of 2020	28
Patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) to guide clinical care: recommendations and challenges	27
Surgical outcomes for people with serious mental illness are poorer than for other patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	27
Self‐collection cervical screening in the renewed National Cervical Screening Program: a qualitative study	26
Increasing ICU capacity to accommodate higher demand during the COVID‐19 pandemic	25
Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID‐19 adult patient group	24
The 2022 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price	24
Reducing Medical Admissions and Presentations Into Hospital through Optimising Medicines (REMAIN HOME): a stepped wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial	24
Impact of Victoria’s Stage 3 lockdown on COVID‐19 case numbers	23
The first known case of vaccine‐induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia in Australia	22
Australian consensus recommendations for the management of hepatitis B	22
The incidence of falls after first and second eye cataract surgery: a longitudinal cohort study	21
Modelling direct and herd protection effects of vaccination against the SARS‐CoV‐2 Delta variant in Australia	21
Long term survival after acute myocardial infarction in Australia and New Zealand, 2009‒2015: a population cohort study	21
Management of atopic dermatitis: a narrative review	21
The impact of COVID ‐19 on chronic disease management in primary care: lessons for Australia from the international experience	20
The indirect impacts of COVID‐19 on Aboriginal communities across New South Wales	20
Influence of rural clinical school experience and rural origin on practising in rural communities five and eight years after graduation	20
Suicide rates for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the influence of community level cultural connectedness	20
Young‐onset dementia diagnosis, management and care: a narrative review	20
Drug‐induced liver injury in Australia, 2009–2020: the increasing proportion of non‐paracetamol cases linked with herbal and dietary supplements	19
Treatable traits in asthma: moving beyond diagnostic labels	19
Dementia prevention: the time to act is now	19
Lifestyle risks for chronic disease among Australian adolescents: a cross‐sectional survey	19
Policy considerations for mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation	19
PPE for your mind: a peer support initiative for health care workers	19
Potentially preventable hospitalisations of people with intellectual disability in New South Wales	19
Participating doctors’ perspectives on the regulation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study	19
Clinical care of children and adolescents with COVID‐19: recommendations from the National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce	18
The association between child maltreatment and mental disorders in the Australian Child Maltreatment Study	18
Monitoring the genetic testing and life insurance moratorium in Australia: a national research project	18
Differences in the pre‐hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales	18
The short term safety ofCOVID‐19 vaccines in Australia:AusVaxSafetyactive surveillance, February – August 2021	18
Consensus statement on the current pharmacological prevention and management of heart failure	18
Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID ‐19 during the Omicron ( BA .1)	17
Area‐level social and economic factors and the local incidence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections in Victoria during 2020	17
Telehealth sexual and reproductive health care during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Efficacy, safety, and dose‐dependence of the analgesic effects of opioid therapy for people with osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta‐analysis	17
Pharmacogenomics in the era of personalised medicine	17
Beyond the black stump: rapid reviews of health research issues affecting regional, rural and remote Australia	17
COVID ‐19 in New South Wales children during 2021: severity and clinical spectrum	17
COPD‐X Australian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: 2022 update	17
Patterns of care for men with prostate cancer: the 45 and Up Study	16

Challenges for Medicare and universal health care in Australia since 2000	16
Uncontrolled blood pressure in Australia: a call to action	16
Clinical practice guideline for deprescribing opioid analgesics: summary of recommendations	16
Early medical abortion services provided in Australian primary care	16
COVID‐19 and residential aged care: priorities for optimising preparation and management of outbreaks	15
Building resilience to Australian flood disasters in the face of climate change	15
Psychotropic medicine prescribing and polypharmacy for people with dementia entering residential aged care: the influence of changing general practitioners	15
Establishing the worth of deprescribing inappropriate medications: are we there yet?	15
A national system for monitoring intensive care unit demand and capacity: the Critical Health Resources Information System (CHRIS)	15
Reframing palliative care to improve the quality of life of people diagnosed with a serious illness	15
The association between child maltreatment and health risk behaviours and conditions throughout life in the Australian Child Maltreatment Study	15
Renewable energy use in Australian public hospitals	15
The reality of mental health care for young people, and the urgent need for solutions	15
Revision of the Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol	15
Time for universal hepatitis B screening for Australian adults	15
Scientists in pyjamas: characterising the working arrangements and productivity of Australian medical researchers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Opioid cessation is associated with reduced pain and improved function in people attending specialist chronic pain services	14
The prevalence and nature of multi‐type child maltreatment in Australia	14
Ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia: the evidence for a new approach	14
Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death	14
Emergency department presentations during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): interrupted time series analysis	14
Prevalence of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease in regional Victoria: a prospective population‐based study	14
Offering mailed nicotine replacement therapy and Quitline support before elective surgery: a randomised controlled trial	14
Increased dispensing of prescription medications in Australia early in the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
Co‐occurring depression and insomnia in Australian primary care: recent scientific evidence	14
Health care in the metaverse	13
Realising the potential: leveraging clinical quality registries for real world clinical research	13
Population DNA screening for medically actionable disease risk in adults	13
This too shall pass: the performance of ChatGPT‐3.5, ChatGPT‐4 and New Bing in an Australian medical licensing examination	13
COVID‐19 swab‐related skull base injury	13
COVID‐19 Real‐time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response (CRISPER)	13
Challenges in delivering telemedicine to vulnerable populations: experiences of an addiction medical service during COVID‐19	13
It is time for governments to support retailers in the transition to a smoke‐free society	13
A comparison of the distribution of Medical Research Future Fund grants with disease burden in Australia	13
N95 respirators: quantitative fit test pass rates and usability and comfort assessment by health care workers	13
The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain	13
Estimating the abortion rate in Australia from National Hospital Morbidity and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data	13
Who is speaking for us? Identifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholarship in health research	13
Hospital‐acquired complications: the relative importance of hospital‐ and patient‐related factors	13
High prevalence of Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis among older people in Sydney	12
Increasing incidence of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Western Australia, particularly among Indigenous people	12
Consensus guidelines for the management of adult immune thrombocytopenia in Australia and New Zealand	12
The management of peri‐operative anaemia in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery in Australia and New Zealand: a prospective cohort study	12
The distribution of ABO RhD blood groups in Australia, based on blood donor and blood sample pathology data	12
Precision medicine in Australia: now is the time to get it right	12
The Queensland Inpatient Diabetes Survey (QuIDS) 2019: the bedside audit of practice	12
Towards consistent geographic reporting of Australian health research	12
Long COVID: sustained and multiplied disadvantage	12
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in Australia: the first three years of the Australian Sports Brain Bank	12
The need for improved Australian data on social determinants of health inequities	12
Endoscopic bariatric therapies for obesity: a review	11
Show me the money: how do we justify spending health care dollars on digital health?	11
Australia's political engagement on health and climate change: the MJA–Lancet Countdown indicator and implications for the future	11
Dynamic consent and personalised medicine	11
Cancer Australia consensus statement on COVID‐19 and cancer care: embedding high value changes in practice	11
Social restrictions during COVID ‐19 and major trauma volume at a level 1 trauma centre	11
The NDIS at ten years: designing an equitable scheme for the next decade	11
Climate, housing, energy and Indigenous health: a call to action	11
The diagnosis and initial management of melanoma in Australia: findings from the prospective, population‐based QSkin study	11
Sex differences in the management and outcomes of non‐ST‐elevation acute coronary syndromes	11
An electronic decision support‐based complex intervention to improve management of cardiovascular risk in primary health care: a cluster randomised trial (INTEGRATE)	11
Congenital syphilis on the rise: the importance of testing and recognition	11
Fertility, pregnancy and post partum management after bariatric surgery: a narrative review	11
Changes in medical scientific publication associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Prevalence, patterns of use, and socio‐demographic features of e‐cigarette use by Australian adolescents: a survey	11
When will opioid agonist therapy become a normal part of comprehensive health care?	11
Living clinical guidelines for stroke: updates, challenges and opportunities	11
The characteristics of SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive children who presented to Australian hospitals during 2020: a PREDICT network study	11
Public mental health service use by people with intellectual disability in New South Wales and its costs	11
Why proper understanding of confidence intervals and statistical significance is important	11
Mental health and wellbeing of health and aged care workers in Australia, May 2021 – June 2022: a longitudinal cohort study	11
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the career of junior doctors	11
Transforming health settings to address gender‐based violence in Australia	11
We need a model of health and aged care services that adequately supports Australians with dementia	10
Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation	10
Screening outcomes by risk factor and age: evidence from BreastScreen WA for discussions of risk‐stratified population screening	10
Dispensing of psychotropic medications to Australian children and adolescents before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2013–2021: a retrospective cohort study	10
Residential medication management reviews in Australian residential aged care facilities	10
Possum bites man: case of Buruli ulcer following possum bite	10
Latest evidence casts further doubt on the effectiveness of headspace	10

COVID‐19 and changes in the National Immunisation Program: a unique opportunity to optimise the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)	10
Utilisation, access and recommendations regarding technologies for people living with type 1 diabetes: consensus statement of the ADS/ADEA/APEG/ADIPS Working Group	10
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on routine vaccinations in Victoria	10
The change from UMAT to UCAT for undergraduate medical school applicants: impact on selection outcomes	10
Ophthalmology and the emergence of artificial intelligence	10
Patient‐reported outcomes and personalised cancer care	10
On entering Australia’s third year with COVID‐19	10
We need to chat about artificial intelligence	10
Surveillance for SARS‐CoV‐2 variants of concern in the Australian context	10
Australia must act to prevent airborne transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2	9
The impact of practice size and ownership on general practice care in Australia	9
Coping with uncertainty in clinical practice: a narrative review	9
Consensus recommendations on the management of hepatitis C in Australia's prisons	9
The seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV ‐2‐specific antibodies in children, Australia, November 2020 – March 2021	9
Implementing voluntary assisted dying in a major public health service	9
Building a sustainable rural physician workforce	9
Incidence and causes of early unplanned readmission after hospitalisation with peripheral arterial disease in Australia and New Zealand	9
Emergency department presentations by residents of Sydney quarantine hotels during the COVID‐19 outbreak	9
The landscape of COVID‐19 trials in Australia	9
A general practice intervention for people at risk of poor health outcomes: the Flinders QUEST cluster randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation	9
Long term risk of distant metastasis in women with non‐metastatic breast cancer and survival after metastasis detection: a population‐based linked health records study	9
Management of type 2 diabetes in young adults aged 18–30 years: ADS/ADEA/APEG consensus statement	9
Activating people to partner in health and self‐care: use of the Patient Activation Measure	9
Harnessing the nursing and midwifery workforce to boost Australia's clinical research impact	9
Care for adults with COVID ‐19: living guidelines from the National COVID ‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce	9
Infectious syphilis in women and heterosexual men in major Australian cities: sentinel surveillance data, 2011–2019	9
Universal genetic testing for women with newly diagnosed breast cancer in the context of multidisciplinary team care	9
Cough in Children and Adults: Diagnosis, Assessment and Management (CICADA). Summary of an updated position statement on chronic cough in Australia	9
Climate change, society, and health inequities	9
The prevalence of tinnitus in the Australian working population	8
A prospective multicentre study of per‐oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for achalasia in Australia	8
Infant feeding patterns before and after changes to food allergy prevention guidelines in Australia	8
Consent for treatment of gender dysphoria in minors: evolving clinical and legal frameworks	8
Healthy indoor air is our fundamental need: the time to act is now	8
Adding saliva testing to oropharyngeal and deep nasal swab testing increases PCR detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in primary care and children	8
Prescribing of direct‐acting antiviral therapy by general practitioners for people with hepatitis C in an unrestricted treatment program	8
Strengthening the reporting of harms of all interventions in clinical trials	8
Review of management priorities for invasive infections in people who inject drugs: highlighting the need for patient‐centred multidisciplinary care	8
Introducing Australia's clinical care standard for low back pain	8
Introducing general practice enrolment in Australia: the devil is in the detail	8
D‐dimer testing for early detection of venom‐induced consumption coagulopathy after snakebite in Australia ( ASP ‐29)	8
Prevalence, pathogenesis and spectrum of neurological symptoms in COVID‐19 and post‐COVID‐19 syndrome: a narrative review	8
The acceptability and usability of two HIV self‐test kits among men who have sex with men: a randomised crossover trial	8
Absolute risk assessment for guiding cardiovascular risk management in a chest pain clinic	8
Parental consent and the treatment of transgender youth: the impact ofRe Imogen	8
Improving recruitment to clinical trials for regional and rural cancer patients through a regionally based clinical trials network	8
Low value care is a health hazard that calls for patient empowerment	8
Not in my backyard: COVID‐19 vaccine development requires someone to be infected somewhere	8
Putting the “good” into Good Clinical Practice	7
Interrogating the intentions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: a narrative review of research outputs since the introduction of Closing the Gap	7
COVID‐19 in children: time for a new strategy	7
Opioid prescribing in Australia: too much and not enough	7
Roadmap to incorporating group A Streptococcus molecular point‐of‐care testing for remote Australia: a key activity to eliminate rheumatic heart disease	7
Overt and covert recordings of health care consultations in Australia: some legal considerations	7
Buprenorphine: extended‐release formulations “a game changer”!	7
Placebos in clinical care: a suggestion beyond the evidence	7
Care of older people and people requiring palliative care with COVID‐19: guidance from the Australian National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce	7
Principles for setting air quality guidelines to protect human health in Australia	7
Self‐collection for HPV screening: a game changer in the elimination of cervical cancer	7
Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data	7
Australian fertility preservation guidelines for people with cancer 2022: review and recommendations	7
National Heart Foundation of Australia: position statement on coronary artery calcium scoring for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Australia	7
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS), a national survey of the prevalence of child maltreatment and its correlates: methodology	7
E‐cigarette or vaping product use‐associated lung injury in an adolescent	7
The expanding geographic range of dengue in Australia	7
Genetic testing in cardiovascular disease	7
Better understanding of the scope and nature of LGBTQA+ religious conversion practices will support recovery	7
Impact of pre‐surgery hospital transfer on time to surgery and 30‐day mortality for people with hip fractures	7
A planetary health–organ system map to integrate climate change and health content into medical curricula	7
Hepatocellular carcinoma in Indigenous Australians: a call to action	7
Voluntary assisted dying and telehealth: Commonwealth carriage service laws are putting clinicians at risk	7
Reforming our health care system: time to rip off the band‐aid?	7
Diabetes mellitus and the progression of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease to decompensated cirrhosis: a retrospective cohort study	7
The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain	7
Insomnia and workplace productivity loss among young working adults: a prospective observational study of clinical sleep disorders in a community cohort	7
Access to voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators	7
Non‐invasive prenatal testing: clinical utility and ethical concerns about recent advances	7
Long term all‐cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among women who undergo fertility treatment	7
Preparing for out‐of‐season influenza epidemics when international travel resumes	7
Is BCG vaccination of possums the solution to the Buruli ulcer epidemic in south‐eastern Australia?	7
Prompt access to cataract surgery is vital for preventing falls in older people	6
The ambulatory glucose profile and its interpretation	6
Cholecystectomy for people aged 50 years or more with mild gallstone pancreatitis: predictors and outcomes of index and interval procedures	6
Access to voluntary assisted dying in Australia requires fair remuneration for medical practitioners	6
Functional neurological disorders: an Australian interdisciplinary perspective	6
The influence of socio‐economic conditions on the epidemiology ofCOVID‐19 in Australia	6
Feasibility of organ donation following voluntary assisted dying in Australia: lessons from international practice	6
The COVID Positive Pathway: a collaboration between public health agencies, primary care, and metropolitan hospitals in Melbourne	6
Japanese encephalitis virus: changing the clinical landscape of encephalitis in Australia	6
The value proposition of investigator‐initiated clinical trials conducted by networks	6
Screening and prevention of ovarian cancer	6
The impact of re‐opening the international border on COVID‐19 hospitalisations in Australia: a modelling study	6
The National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce: changing systems to achieve equitable access to kidney transplantation	6
Practical recommendations to communicate with patients about health‐related conspiracy theories	6
Current and emerging medications for the management of obesity in adults	6