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 New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

NZMJ Vol 131 No 1480: 17 August 2018
Editorials
A genome project for Māori and Pasifika: charting a path to equity in genomic medicine for Aotearoa,
Martin Kennedy
Is there a place for day hospitals in older persons mental health care?
Matthew Croucher
Provincial or Tertiary Surgical Treatment for Rectal Cancer in New Zealand?
Ian Bissett
Articles
Psychogeriatric day hospital reduces depression and anxiety symptoms and improves quality of life
Petra Hoggarth
A multicentre, benchmarking study of rectal cancer management in provincial New Zealand Hospitals
Michael J O’Grady, Josephine O’Grady, Rebecca Shine, Gerard Bonnet, Tim Eglington
What keeps Northland General Practitioners working in Northland?
Tanya Maria Quin, Kyle Eggleton
A media content analysis of New Zealand’s district health board Population-Based Funding Formula (PBFF)
Aaron N Chester, Erin C Penno, Robin DC Gauld
Ethnic disparities in community antibacterial dispensing in New Zealand, 2015.
Naomi Whyler, Andrew Tomlin, Murray Tilyard, Mark Thomas
Antipsychotic prescribing in New Zealand between 2008 and 2015
Sam Wilkinson, Roger T Mulder
First, do no harmony: an examination of attitudes to music played in operating theatres
Anantha Narayanan, Andrew Gray
An audit of regular medication compliance prior to presentation for elective surgery
Daniel Wood, Nicholas Lightfoot
Viewpoint
Genomic medicine must reduce, not compound, health inequities: the case for auora-enhancing genomic resources for New Zealand
Stephen P Robertson, Jennie Harré Hindmarsh, Sarah Berry, Vicky A Cameron, Murray P Cox, Ofa Dewes, Robert N Doughty, George Gray, Jessie C Jacobsen, Albert Laurence, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, Susan Morton, Andrew N Shelling, Dianne Sika-Paotonu, Anna Rolleston, Jonathan R Skinner, Russell G Snell, Andrew Sporle, Cristin Print, Tony R Merriman, Maui Hudson, Philip Wilcox
Clinical Correspondence
Redundant laparoscopic adjustable gastric band tubing causing internal hernia and small bowel obstruction
Erika Fernandes, James Tan, Glenn Farrant, Karl Kodeda
Letter
A new report on the effects of a policy used to restrict access to elective inguinal hernia surgery
Philip Bagshaw