This Issue in the Journal

A summary of the original articles featured in this issue of the NZMJ

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Editorial

Improving quality (IQ): a systems approach for the New Zealand health and disability sector

Annette King

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Original Articles

Adults’ perceptions of the causes and primary prevention of common fatal cancers in New Zealand

Anthony Reeder, Judy Trevena

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Equestrian injuries in New Zealand, 1993-2001: knowledge and experience

Glenda Northey

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A comparative study of drug utilisation at different levels of the primary healthcare system in Kaski district, Western Nepal

Ravi Shankar, Pawan Kumar, Manu Rana, Arun Dubey, Nagesh Shenoy

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Pre-hospital antibiotic treatment of meningococcal disease: scope for improvement

Tania Riddell, Chris Bullen

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Review Article

Anxious about electronic health records? No need to be

John Gillies, Alec Holt

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Case Report

Hiccup in patients with advanced cancer successfully treated with gabapentin: report of three cases

Giampiero Porzio, Federica Aielli, Filomena Narducci, Giustino Varrassi, Enrico Ricevuto, Corrado Ficorella, Paolo Marchetti

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Case Notes

Splenic rupture occurring as a complication of subacute bacterial endocarditis

Brad Summers, Joseph Kaminski, Martin Chandler

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Burroughs Wellcome in the High Court

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Medical Image

Colonoscopic and virtual colonoscopic images of colonic polyps

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Direct-to-consumer advertising is more profitable if it is misleading

Peter Mansfield, Barbara Mintzes

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DTCA not real advertising issue

Barrie Saunders

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More on prostate cancer screening

John Durham

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Obituaries

Donald Joseph Dobson

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Charles Peter Howden

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Notices

The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand/Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Fellowship 2004

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Medicines Classification Committee

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Erratum

Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Continuing Education Committee Anaesthetists in New Zealand, Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 September 2002

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Book Reviews

Practical child psychiatry: the clinician’s guide, Bryan Lask, Sharon Taylor, Kenneth Nunn (eds)

Bill Watkins

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MRI from picture to proton, Martin J Graves, Donald W McRobbie, Elizabeth A Moore, Martin R Prince

Tim Buckenham

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