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 latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association (Vol 131, No 1470) 23 February 2018
Editorials
E-cigarettes—peering into the mist of uncertainty
Lutz Beckert, Stuart Jones
How comprehensive is suicide risk assessment in the emergency department?
Christopher Gale, Paul Glue
Articles
An audit of risk assessments for suicide and attempted suicide in ED: a retrospective review of quality
Wayne de Beer, Bernard De Witt, Jules Schofield, Helen Clark, Veronique Gibbons
Acceptability of electronic cigarettes as an option to replace tobacco smoking for alcoholics admitted to hospital for detoxification
Penelope Truman, Moira Gilmour, Geoffrey Robinson
Limiting complication rates in implant-based breast reconstruction
Michelle B Locke, William LE Malins, Jia Le See, John Kenealy
E-cigarette use in New Zealand—a systematic review and narrative synthesis
Sarah Merry, Christopher Bullen
Ethnic- and sex-related differences in pain characteristics, psychological distress and pain-related disability in patients attending a New Zealand teaching hospital pain service
Andrea Burri, David Rice, Nicola Kluger, Michal Kluger
Liver abscess: contemporary presentation and management in a Western population
Kareem Osman, Sanket Srinivasa, Jonathan Koea
Monitoring pre-hospital transport of severely injured patients in the Midland Region of New Zealand
Jesse Whitehead, Matt Roskruge, Colin Tan, Alistair Smith, Grant Christey
Viewpoint
Putting action into the revised Australian Medical Council standards on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Māori health
Shannon Springer, Suzanne Pitama, Kate Leslie, Shaun Ewen
Research letter
Factors influencing the smoking status of ex-prisoners reintegrating into the community after release: a pilot study
Sarah Logan, Sarah Twine, Georgia Bromiley, Holly Curtis, Jude Ball, Richard Edwards