Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out on Friday
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out on Friday

New Zealand Medical Journal 21082020
Editorial 1 - OPEN ACCESS
Transparency in the year of COVID-19 means tracking and publishing performance in the whole health system: progress on the public reporting of acute coronary syndrome data in New Zealand
Andrew Kerr, Carl Shuker, Gerry Devlin
Editorial 2
Alcohol is more harmful than cannabis
Doug Sellman
Editorial 3 – OPEN ACCESS
Time for a sea change in our COVID-19 management
Des Gorman, Murray Horn
Articles
OPEN ACCESS: Assisted dying and evidence-based law-making: a critical analysis of an article’s role in New Zealand’s referendum
Ben P White, Lindy Willmott, Jocelyn Downie, Andrew Geddis, Colin Gavaghan
Jo Hardy, Jordan Tewhaiti-Smith, Christina Baggott, James Fingleton, Alex Semprini, Mark Holliday, Robert J Hancox, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley, Matire Harwood on behalf of the PRACTICAL Study Team
4520 Evidence of inequitable use of chemotherapy in New Zealand colorectal cancer patients
Chunhuan Lao, Marion Kuper-Hommel, George Laking, Lynne Chepulis, Ross Lawrenson
Pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV-negative adults: missed opportunities for prevention
Nicholas Young, Stephen McBride, Susan Morpeth, Aliya Bryce, Ahsan Siddiqui, Hasan Bhally
Evaluating the implementation and outcomes of a sepsis pathway in the emergency department
Pourya Pouryahya, Natalie Guiney, Alastair Meyer, Neil Goldie
Quality measures in cervical lymphadenectomy for cutaneous malignancy by head and neck trained general surgeons
Fouad Nahab, Sita Ollek, Richard Harman, Richard Martin
A comparison of the clinical features and outcomes of Takotsubo syndrome across five metropolitan hospitals in New Zealand
Jen-Li Looi, Toby Verryt, Peter McLeod, Christina Chan, James Pemberton, Mark Webster, Andrew To, Mildred Lee, Andrew J Kerr
Viewpoints
OPEN ACCESS: The transition to a “virtual practice” in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: experience from one medical centre in New Zealand
Ibrahim S Al-Busaidi, Miriam Martin
Smoke-free cars legislation: it works but New Zealand should still rigorously evaluate its upcoming law
Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards
Saying it don’t make it so: a response to Winnington and MacLeod
Eric Mathison
Reflections on conducting research with healthcare users in a pandemic lockdown
Fiona Imlach
Letter
Time for a change
Chris Walls, Evan Dryson, Des Gorman, David McBride