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
Beware the noxious weed that is ‘evidence-based policy’ running rife
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Beware the noxious weed that is ‘evidence-based policy’ running rife
Wednesday 23 May 2018, 06:00 AM

The early part of 2018, in health policy terms, feels like the calm before the storm. Apart from the minister of health kicking the $10 decrease in GP fees down the road, most of the talk has been (as it usually is at this point in the political cycle) about the gaps and failures attributable to the previous government
Fundamentally, I have only two problems with use of the term “evidence-based policy”. The first problem is the word “based”, and the second is the wor