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Health reform and the elephant in the room
Author(s) -
Van Der Weyden Martin B
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb03339.x
Subject(s) - citation , desk , library science , medical journal , computer science , law , political science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 7/21 December 2009 191 11/12 592-592 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au From the editor’s desk noses, and recommendations for appropriate action. However, with the occasional exception, this cavalcade of reports — despite their long lists of recommen tions — failed to provide any substantial blueprint reform. Absent were any comprehensive and detailed outlining remedial action, necessary time frames and a ant costs. It is vital that such essential details be speci any future reports recommending health care reform. his de th T year witnessed the roll-out of a suite of reports on the livery of health care in Australia, ranging from e role of preventive health, to the potential directions of primary care, the state of Australia’s public hospital system and our health care system in general. Specific protocols were presumably followed in assembling these reports, employing a convention familiar to doctors: evaluation of systemic symptoms and signs, formulation of diag-