The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

Editorial
Commentary on Labour’s pledge pre-election by Editor in Chief

Articles

Preventing acute kidney injury: assessing awareness to temporarily discontinue ‘at-risk’ medicines during acute illness in a New Zealand cohort
Dianne Vicary, Colin Hutchison, Trudi Aspden

Falls risk factor assessment and secondary prevention in the older old
Katherine Bloomfield, Marcus Lau, Martin J Connolly

Challenges for the future: the gastroenterology specialist workforce in New Zealand
Rosemary Stamm, Kristina Aluzaite, Malcolm Arnold, Thomas Caspritz, Campbell White, Michael Schultz

Atrial fibrillation in acute coronary syndrome: patient characteristics and appropriate utilisation of anti-thrombotic therapy in New Zealand (ANZACS-QI 39)
Charles Yao-Cheng Ho, Mildred Lee, Chris Nunn, Jonathon White, Andrew J Kerr, on behalf of the ANZACS-QI investigators

Hip abductor tendon tears—a survey of New Zealand orthopaedic surgeons
Mark F Zhu, David S Musson, Jacob T Munro

Appropriateness of trimethoprim as empiric treatment for cystitis in 15–55 year-old women: an audit
James E Ussher, Gary N McAuliffe, Juliet A Elvy, TRIME auditors, Arlo Upton

Chronic hepatitis B infection—an unmet medical need in New Zealand 35 years after universal neonatal vaccination
Erin Horsfall, Ed Gane, Ahmad Anwar, Chris Moyes, Alex Lampen-Smith, Susan Hay, Chris Cunningham

OPEN ACCESS

An understanding of discordant SARS-CoV-2 test results: an examination of the data from a central Auckland laboratory
Shivani Fox-Lewis, Sharmini Muttaiyah, Fahimeh Rahnama, Gary McAuliffe, Sally Roberts

Age-related differences in SARS-CoV-2 testing in the Northern Region of New Zealand
Aakash V Chhibber, Sharmini Muttaiyah, Gary McAuliffe, Shivani Fox-Lewis, Mary De Almeida, Matthew Blakiston, Veronica Playle, Andrew Fox-Lewis, Sally Roberts

Viewpoints

Is there a syndrome caused by radiofrequency electromagnetic fields?
Mark Elwood

Likely to be OPEN ACCESS :
New Zealand’s ‘Cannabis Legalisation and Regulation Bill’: an evidence-based assessment and critique of essential regulatory components towards policy outcomes
Benedikt Fischer, Dimitri Daldegan-Bueno