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
New Zealand Medical Journal, vol 131, no 1476: 8 June 2018
Editorial One
Lynch syndrome: much progress but many questions remain
John Keating
Editorial Two
Is it time for New Zealand to adopt alcohol policy that will reduce the harm from alcohol?
Professor Jennie Connor, Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago
Articles
Changes in New Zealand’s alcohol environment following implementation of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act (2012)
Stephen Randerson, Sally Casswell, Taisia Huckle
The New Zealand PIPER Project: colorectal cancer survival according to rurality, ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation—results from a retrospective cohort study
Katrina Sharples, Melissa Firth, Victoria Hinder, Andrew Hill, Mark Jeffery, Diana Sarfati, Charis Brown, Carol Atmore, Ross Lawrenson, Papaarangi Reid, Sarah Derrett, Jerome Macapagel, John Keating, Adrian Secker, Charles De Groot, Christopher Jackson, Michael Findlay
Crisis resolution: consumer, family and referrer perspectives on care
Frances A Carter, M Joan Taylor, Madeline J Weston, Teresa A Quigley, John H Beveridge, Robert AJ Green, Steve Duffy, Joseph M Boden
Violence and aggression in the emergency department is under-reported and under-appreciate
Sandra K Richardson, Paula C Grainger, Michael W Ardagh, Russell Morrison
Holding a mirror to society? Progression towards achieving better sociodemographic representation among the University of Otago’s health professional students
Peter Crampton, Naomi Weaver, Andrea Howard
Paediatric team handover: a time to learn?
Stephen Bradley, John P Egan, Marcus Henning
Viewpoint
The Matthew effect in New Zealand rural hospital trauma and emergency care: why rural simulation-based education matters
Marc Gutenstein, Sampsa Kiuru