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Medical assistants (MAs) have always been vital to the effective operation of our primary care clinic. Each physician in our university-based, hospital-run clinic has an assigned MA, and a good MA can make a clinic day run smoothly. One who is not efficient or does not understand the physician’s work process, however, can slow down the whole clinic and make a workday very frustrating. Surprisin...

Confidentiality and disclosure limitation are topics that are inherently statistical but, until recently, they have received limited attention from statistical methodologists. That situation has changed considerably in the present decade. In this paper, we provide an introduction and overview of some statistical disclosure limitation issues that are of special relevance to public health studies...

Rapid HIV testing was approved in Australia in December 2012. Data was collected to describe the early experience of using rapid testing in Australia but as the information was collected, the authors noted that there appeared to be a high rate of HIV diagnoses amongst rapid testers. Further analysis confirmed this impression, when the rate was compared to a baseline rate of HIV diagnoses over t...