Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
New Zealand Medical Journal Vol 132 number 1492, 29 March 2019
This is not us – OPEN ACCESS
Kate Baddock
Call for action on equity from three angles (references three of the articles below – Fuimaono, Walsh and Came)
Jade AU Tamatea, Nina Scott, Hemi Curtis
Articles
The perspectives of Samoan patients and health professionals about access to renal services in New Zealand
Ryder Afele Fuimaono, Faafetai Sopoaga, Sarah Derrett, Rob Walker
High level of capture of coronary intervention and associated acute coronary syndromes in the all New Zealand acute coronary syndrome quality improvement cardiac registry and excellent agreement with national administrative datasets (ANZACS-QI 25)
Andrew J Kerr, Mildred Lee, Yannan Jiang, Corina Grey, Sue Wells, Michael Williams, Rod Jackson, Katrina Poppe, on behalf of the ANZACS-QI investigators
Pyogenic liver abscess: incidence, causality, management and clinical outcomes in a New Zealand cohort
Jan Kubovy, Shwan Karim, Steven Ding
Prime Minister for a day: children’s views on junk food marketing and what to do about it
Louise N Signal, Gabrielle LS Jenkin, Michelle B Barr, Moira Smith, Tim J Chambers, Janet Hoek, Cliona Ni Mhurchu
The contribution of avoidable mortality to the life expectancy gap in Māori and Pacific populations in New Zealand—a decomposition analysis
Michael Walsh, Corina Grey
Viewpoint
Upholding Te Tiriti, ending institutional racism and Crown inaction on health equity
Heather Came, Tim McCreanor, Leanne Manson, Kerri Nuku
RESEARCH Letter
Adoption of international privacy standards in New Zealand health information research