The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Association is out today

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The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Association is out today

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Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association (Vol 130 No 1460) 11 August 2017

Editorials

Rheumatic fever as an indicator of child health
Diana Lennon

Not too much; not too little; just right: remediation during medical school
Phillippa Poole

Articles

Emm type distribution of group A streptococcus isolates from the throat swabs of children living in areas with a high (Northland and Gisborne) or low (Palmerston North) incidence of acute rheumatic fever
Noah Mhlanga, Grace Sharp, Mary Nulsen

Medication-related patient harm in New Zealand hospitals
Gillian Robb, Elizabeth Loe, Ashika Maharaj, Richard Hamblin, Mary E Seddon 

What is the relationship between visual impairment and cognitive function in octogenarians?
Denise S de Kok, Ruth O Teh, Avinesh Pillai, Martin J Connolly, Tim J Wilkinson, Robert Jacobs, Marama Muru-Lanning, Anna Rolleston, Simon A Moyes, Dieuwke Schiphof, Ngaire Kerse

Is a rheumatic fever register the best surveillance tool to evaluate rheumatic fever control in the Auckland region?
Diana Lennon, Te Aro Moxon, Philippa Anderson, Alison Leversha, Timothy Jelleyman, Peter Reed, Catherine Jackson

Mortality within 30 days of systemic anticancer therapy at a tertiary cancer centre: assessing the safety and quality of clinical care
Michelle Wilson, Weng Mak, Melissa Firth, Sanjeev Deva, Michael Findlay

Predictors of medical student remediation and their underlying causes: early lessons from a curriculum change in the University of Auckland Medical Programme
Brian Grainger, Jill Yielder, Papaarangi Reid, Warwick Bagg

Viewpoint

An in-country model of workforce support for trained mid-level eye care workers in Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands
Julie Brûlé, Benoit Tousignant, Graeme Nicholls, Matthew G Pearce

Letter

Are young people eating their way to bowel cancer?
Jacqui Keenan, Alan Aitchison, Frank Frizelle