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 now
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out now
NZMJ VOL 131 NO 1485
Editorials
Rural Matters
Peter Crampton, Jo Baxter
Gout in Aotearoa New Zealand: the equity crisis continues in plain sight
Nicola Dalbeth, Tony Dowell, Catherine Gerard, Peter Gow, Gary Jackson, Carl Shuker, Leanne Te Karu
Articles
A prospective audit of the 10-year outcomes from low dose-rate brachytherapy for early stage prostate cancer
David S Lamb, Lynne Greig, Grant Russell, John N Nacey, Kim Broome, Mohua Jain, Judith Murray, Peter J Lamb, Lisa Woods
Privacy protection for health information research in New Zealand district health boards
Vithya Yogarajan, Michael Mayo, Bernhard Pfahringer
Te Wero tonu—the challenge continues: Māori access to medicines 2006/07–2012/13 update
Scott Metcalfe, Kebede Beyene, Jude Urlich, Rhys Jones, Catherine Proffitt, Jeff Harrison, Ātene Andrews
Incidence of motor neurone disease within MidCentral Region, New Zealand
Alexandra Caulfield, Pietro Cariga
Antidepressant prescribing in New Zealand between 2008 and 2015
Sam Wilkinson, Roger T Mulder
Distress in informal carers of the elderly in New Zealand
Nicola Swain
Viewpoint
1. Proposal for a National Interprofessional School of Rural Health
Garry H Nixon, Ngaire M Kerse, Warwick Bagg, Margot A Skinner, Peter J Larmer, Peter Crampton
2. Mana Tū: a whānau ora approach to type 2 diabetes
Matire Harwood, Taria Tane, Laura Broome, Peter Carswell, Vanessa Selak, Jennifer Reid, Phil Light, Tereki Stewart
Clinical Correspondence
Surgical management of self-inflicted facial gunshot wounds
Katie Goad, Thasvir Singh
Letters
A population-based study of the diabetes paradox in stress cardiomyopathy
George M Watson, Christina W Chan, Kit Doudney, Paul G Bridgman