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Professor Bruce Arroll urges you to consider whether you should make mental health diagnoses in primary care, remembering that diagnoses should be of more benefit than harm to patients
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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
