Australia’s outdated definition of obesity likely hinders management and contributes to the observed gap between clinical guidelines and current practice.
This paper evaluates the efficacy, indications, outcomes and long-term considerations of bariatric surgery.
Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.
This paper describes the overall number of prescriptions and unique medicines dispensed and costs borne by a cohort of patients treated with lipid-lowering therapy.
Exploring our lives, as GPs, outside the clinic.
General practitioners are frontline workers for psychological medicine. This issue presents the latest updates on mental health topics relevant to general practice.
This paper aims to understand the experience of victim-survivors who presented at a 24-hour sexual assault service.
This paper provides an update on the maintenance or discontinuation of antidepressant medication for adults.
A case study examining an incidence of steroid-induced psychosis.
This article describes the need for real-time information about high-risk psychoactive medicines, and the development of SafeScript.
This paper offers general practitioners tips and resources to for the effective care of patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
These questions are based on the Focus articles in this issue.
This project discusses a model of care for safe and effective management of tuberculosis infection.