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

Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association (Vol 131 No 1471): 9 March 2018
Editorial
Climate change, human health and the CPTPP [open access]
Oliver Hailes, Rhys Jones, David Menkes, Joshua Freeman, Erik Monasterio
Articles
Paediatric pelvic fractures: Starship Hospital experience
Mohit Bajaj, Giorgio Stefanutti, Haemish Crawford, Vipul Upadhyay
Seasonal variation in Takotsubo syndrome compared with myocardial infarction: ANZACS-QI 16
Jen-Li Looi, Mildred Lee, MSc, Corina Grey, Mark Webster, Andrew To, Andrew J Kerr
Management of suspected acute coronary syndrome patients admitted to cardiology or non-cardiology services at Auckland City Hospital: implications for future national data collection
Tom Kai Ming Wang, Kok-Lam Chow, Aaron Lin, Alexei Chataline, Harvey White, Matthew Dawes, Greg Gamble, Chris Ellis
Renal function monitoring in patients prescribed dabigatran in the Compass Health Primary Health Organisation: a quality improvement audit
Lynn McBain, Anna Kyle
Smoking prevalence among doctors and nurses—2013 New Zealand census data
Richard Edwards, Danny Tu, James Stanley, Greg Martin, Heather Gifford, Rhiannon Newcombe
What do doctors know about assessing decision-making capacity?
Greg Young, Alison Douglass, Lorraine Davison
New atrial fibrillation diagnosed perioperatively—anticoagulation practices in a secondary hospital
Alyssa Kirby, Sisira Jayathissa
Viewpoint
Mahi a Atua: a pathway forward for Māori mental health?
Diana Rangihuna, Mark Kopua, David Tipene-Leach
Clinical Correspondence
Cannabis—don’t smoke it! Four cannabis-related pathologies in one radiograph
Kate Grant, Vivienne Campbell, Lutz Beckert
Research letter
Children cycling on footpaths
Edward Randal, Romane Baland, Michael Keall