Conflict of interests
This publication has been produced in accordance with the rules and processes outlined in the RACGP Conflict of Interest and Related Party Transactions Policy.
Acknowledgements
The RACGP gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution of the following authors, contributors and experts in the development of this guideline.
Red Book Executive Committee
Professor Danielle Mazza AM
Chair, Red Book Executive Committee
Red Book co-clinical lead – Women’s health, breast cancer, cervical cancer
Head, Department of General Practice, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
Professor Mark Morgan
Member, Red Book Executive Committee
Red Book clinical lead – Miscellaneous
Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Professor of General Practice and Head of MD program, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
Professor Nicholas Zwar
Member, Red Book Executive Committee
Executive Dean, Health Sciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
Professor Paul Glasziou AO
Member, Red Book Executive Committee
Institute Director, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare
Research Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
Red Book Editorial Committee
Professor Jon Emery
Red Book clinical lead – Cancer and genetics
Herman Professor of Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research, University of Melbourne
Professor Nigel Stocks
Red Book clinical lead – Cardiovascular
Head of the Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide
Dr James Best
Red Book clinical lead – Development and behaviour
General Practitioner
Chair, Child and Young Person's Health – RACGP Specific Interest Group
Dr George Forgan-Smith
Red Book clinical lead – Infectious diseases
General Practitioner
Professor Kelsey Hegarty
Red Book clinical lead – Injury prevention
Professor, Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women’s Hospital and University of Melbourne
Director, Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence
Associate Professor Caroline Johnson
Red Book clinical lead – Mental health and substance abuse
Academic Specialist – Primary Care (Medical Education), General Practice and Primary Care, University of Melbourne
Professor Mark Harris AO
Red Book clinical lead – Metabolic
Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales
Dr Dan Ewald
Red Book clinical lead – Musculoskeletal disorders
General Practitioner and Public Health Physician
Adjunct Associate Professor, Medical School, University of Sydney
Member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis
Red Book co-Clinical lead – Women’s health
Senior Honorary Clinical Research Fellow and Medical Student Teaching, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
Member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Chapter contributors
Professor Anne Cust
Contributor Red Book – Skin cancer
Cancer Epidemiologist
Deputy Director of the Daffodil Centre
Professor Dimity Pond
Contributor Red Book – Falls; Dementia
General Practitioner
Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Research
Dr Michael Tam
Contributor Red Book – Alcohol; Depression
Director, Primary and Integrated Care Unit, South Western Sydney Local Health District
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales
Member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Associate Professor Rowena Ivers
Contributor Red Book – Alcohol; and Smoking and nicotine vaping
Academic Leader Community Based Health Education and Chair of Phase 3 Graduate School of Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong
Member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Dr Gary Deed
Contributor Red Book – Diabetes
General Practitioner
Chair, Diabetes – RACGP Specific Interest Group
Member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Dr Monica Taylor
Contributor Red Book – Hip dysplasia
General Practitioner
Dr Karen Spielman
Contributor Red Book – Eating disorders
General Practitioner
Primary Care Mental Health Advisor, Inside Out Institute for Eating Disorders
Methodology expert
Dr Agnes Wilson, PhD
Director, hereco
RACGP project team
Mr Stephan Groombridge
National Manager, Practice Management, Standards and Quality Care
Ms Su San Mok
Program Manager, Quality Care
Ms Lynelle Cogan
Senior Project Officer, Quality Care
Ms Sue Gedeon
Senior Project Officer, Quality Care
Reviewers
The RACGP gratefully acknowledges the expert reviewers and representatives from the organisations who contributed scholarly feedback.
Members of the RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health faculty
Marie Hobden
Foundation for Alcohol, Research and Education
Dr Marguerite Tracy
General Practitioner, University of Sydney and member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Ania Mazurkiewicz
Emerging Minds, National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health
Dannii Dougherty
National Heart Foundation of Australia
Dr Brett Montgomery
General Practitioner
Joanna McGlone
Cancer Council Australia
Dr Lucie Monet
General Practitioner, HealthPathways SA
Dr Sandy Minck
General Practitioner
Dr Kenneth McCroary
General Practitioner and member, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Jennie Haarsager
Queensland Health
Dr Claire Nightingale
University of Melbourne and Cancer Australia
Associate Professor Vivienne Milch
Cancer Australia
Sophia Avery
WA Cervical Cancer Prevention Program
Associate Professor Christopher D Hogan
Coeliac Australia – Medical Advisory Committee
Professor Barbara Leggett
Gastroenterological Society of Australia
Meike Fruechtl
Gastroenterological Society of Australia
Associate Professor Joel Rhee
General Practitioner, University of New South Wales, member, RACGP Expert Committee – Research, and Chair, Cancer and Palliative Care – RACGP Specific Interest Group
Breonny Robson
Kidney Health Australia
Julia Schindlmayr
Dieticians Australia
Julie Krieger
Australasian Society of Developmental Paediatricians
Dr Georgia Rigas
General Practitioner, St George Private Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney
Joanna Munro
Health and Wellbeing Queensland
Dr Cathryn Hester
General Practitioner and Chair, RACGP Queensland faculty council
Professor Claire Jackson
Centre For Health System Reform and Integration, University of Queensland and Mater Research Institute
Dr Jenny Job
University of Queensland and Mater Research Institute
Dr Sue Page
General Practitioner and Strategic Adviser for NDIS
Dr Leela Arthur
General Practitioner, Brisbane South HealthPathways
Adrienne Hoare (Project Manager) on behalf of the Hepatitis B Program Manager (Sami Stewart), HBV National Advisory Group and key sector partners
Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
Brett Stevens (Project Manager) on behalf of the Hepatitis C Program Manager (Phoebe Schroder), HCV National Advisory Group and key sector partners
Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
Courtney Gibbs (Sexual Health Program Manager) on behalf of the Sexual Health National Advisory Group
Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
Dr Nathan Ryder
NSW Health, NSW STI Programs Unit
Professor Dorothy Keefe
Cancer Australia
Lauren Dalton
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance Australia
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Paige Preston
Lung Foundation Australia
Adjunct Professor Peter Heathcote
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Co-chair, PSA Guidelines Review
Anne Savage
CEO, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
Professor Jeff Dunn AO
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
Yixin Tan
Editor, Therapeutic Guidelines
Jane O’Connor
Senior Editor, Therapeutic Guidelines
Associate Professor Weranja Ranasinghe
Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
Associate Professor David Smith
Daffodil Centre, Cancer Council NSW and University of Sydney
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Moira Junge
CEO, Sleep Health Foundation
Professor Jane Hocking
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
Professor Jenny Doust
Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre, University of Queensland
Dr Loren Rose
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
Dr Audrey Murugesan
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
Dr Caroline Catt
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists and Chair, Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Ophthalmology Society
Dr Helene Cass
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
Healthy Male Australia