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 New Zealand Medical Journal is out on Friday
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out on Friday

Editorial
Open Access / No paywall
COVID-19, 20, 21: lessons from New Zealand’s 2020 response for 2021 and beyond
Ashley Bloomfield
Articles
4768. Referral for investigation: a redundant SNOMED-CT chief presenting complaint
Peter G Jones, Mark Gardener
4795. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for early stage lung cancer and lung metastases in a New Zealand population
Rebecca Geary, Nur Azri Bin Haji Mohd Yasin, Frank Lin, Deborah Whalley, Ziad Thotathil, Charles DeGroot
4805. New Zealand's vocational Rural Hospital Medicine Training Programme: the first ten years
Katharina Blattner, Rory Michael Miller, Rachael Lawrence-Lodge, Garry Nixon, Patrick McHugh, Joel Pirini
4817. Anticoagulant-related intracranial haemorrhage: time to anticoagulant reversal improving but still slower than thrombolysis for ischaemic stroke (Hutt Valley DHB)
Holly J Mee, Hugh Carl Hanger, Tim Wilkinson, James Michael Beharry, Teddy Wu
4830. The clinical workforce caring for emerging adults with diabetes in New Zealand is under resourced (Waikato DHB)
Ryan Paul, Vickie Corbett
Review Article
4587. Pacific peoples and alcohol: a review of the literature
Vili Hapaki Nosa, Gemma Malangahu, Janine Paynter, Dudley Gordon Ralph Gentles, David Newcombe
Case Report
4625. Cobalt toxicity: a preventable and treatable cause for possibly life-threatening cardiomyopathy (Southern DHB)
Gabriella Giacon, Ken Boon
Viewpoint
OPEN ACCESS /No PAYWALL
4662. COVID-19 outbreak management in a hospital ward: lessons learned to prevent, prepare and respond to infectious disease outbreaks in healthcare settings (BoP Public Health)
Catherine Habel, Jerome Ng, Phil Shoemack, Kate Grimwade, Fiona Miller, Jen Boryer,
OPEN ACCESS /No PAYWALL
4886. Estimating the effect of selective border relaxation on COVID-19 in New Zealand (Auckland Airport media also part of this)
Benjamin James Smith, Arthur J Morris, Ben Johnston, S Child, Simon Thornley
Open Access/ No Paywall
4979 Estimating the risk of outbreaks of COVID-19 associated with shore leave by merchant ship crews: simulation studies for New Zealand
Nick Wilson, Antony Blakely, Michael G Baker, Martin Eichner