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Occupational health expert David McBride describes a risk assessment framework for identifying and protecting staff potentially vulnerable to COVID-19, which has been developed during an under-resourced era in occupational medicine
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Bush A, Pavord I. Highlights from this issue. Thorax 2013;68(3):i.
Al-Shaqsi S, Gauld R, McBride D, et al. The state of healthcare disaster plans in New Zealand and the Sultanate of Oman: An international comparative analysis. Advances in Emergency Medicine 2014;758728.
Al-Shaqsi S, McBride D, Gauld R, et al. Are we ready? Preparedness of acute care providers for the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand. Emerg Med J 2013;30(8):611–14.
Al-Shaqsi S, Gauld R, Lovell S, et al. Challenges of the New Zealand healthcare disaster preparedness prior to the Canterbury earthquakes: a qualitative analysis. NZ Med J 2013;126(1371):9–18.
Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
