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
The latest issue of New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The latest issue of New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

New Zealand Medical Journal volume 132, issue 1491, 8 March 2019
Editorial
Where are we going with cancer treatment in New Zealand?
Tamara Mullaney, Frank Frizelle
Articles
New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology Guidelines on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Afrasyab Khan, Arvenia B Berahmana, Andrew S Day, Murray L Barclay, Michael Schultz
Relationship between estimated glomerular filtration rate and incident cardiovascular disease in and ethnically diverse primary care cohort
Emma Church, Katrina Poppe, Matire Harwood, Suneela Mehta, Corina Grey, Vanessa Selak, Mark R Marshall, Susan Wells
Developing a regional cancer service; lessons from the Waitemata Cancer Patient Experience Survey
Jonathan Koea, Sue French, Karen Hellesoe, Peter Sandiford
The factors that lead to a delay between general practitioner referral of symptomatic patients and specialist diagnosis of colorectal cancer: an audit in the Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Ada Yee, Tara Linton, Mei-Sze Lee, Simon Raimes
Vision screening in New Zealand: an audit of the B4 School Check
William Muller, Logan Mitchell, Graham Wilson
Considering evidence for ethnicity bias using assessment case scenarios and medical student correctness and certainty
Mike Tweed, Gordon Purdie, Cameron Lace
District health board of residence, ethnicity and socioeconomic status all impact publicly funded insulin pump uptake in New Zealand patients with type 1 diabetes
Benjamin J Wheeler, Rhiannon Braund, Barbara Galland, Anastasia Mikuscheva, Esko Wiltshire, Craig Jefferies, Michel de Langey
Clinical Correspondence
Beau lines and telogen effluvium following aluminium phosphide poisoning
Samaneh Nakhaee, Nasim Zamani, Omid Mehrpour
Successful intravascular lithotripsy for severely calcified left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis
Aleksandra Pineda, Aniket Puri, Bijan Jahangiri
Research Letter
Lifespan of New Zealand Second World War veterans from one large cemetery: the case for a national-level study
Nick Wilson, Glyn Harper
Letters
Comment on: “Quality of electronic records documenting adverse drug reactions…”
John S Fountain, Susan H Kenyon
Switching from gabapentin to pregabalin
Pauline McQuoid
Advancing transgender healthcare teaching in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Althea Gamble Blakey, Gareth Treharne
Nothing short of universal healthcare coverage, fully funded and without charge both in primary and hospital care is good enough for New Zealand
Stephen Main