The New Zealand Medical Journal is out on Friday

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

OPEN ACCESS: Combination budesonide/formoterol inhaler as sole reliever therapy in Māori and Pacific people with mild and moderate asthma

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

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