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A working mother visits for a medications review. Cardiologist Chris Ellis explains her INR test result, her anticoagulation and the need for well-funded rheumatic fever prevention strategies
1. Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Heart Foundation of New Zealand. The New Zealand guidelines for rheumatic fever: 2014 update. Available at www.heartfoundation.org.nz (100 pages)
2. Woulfe C. Fever pitch. New Zealand Listener, 21 July 2017.
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
