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Editorials

Turning the tide of inequalities in heart health

Norman Sharpe, Lance O’Sullivan

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Where to next with tobacco smokers?

Ross McCormick , Doug Sellman , Geoff Robinson

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Original Articles

Will a web-based cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment programme increase the assessment of CVD risk factors for Māori?

Robyn Whittaker, Dale Bramley, Sue Wells, Alistair Stewart, Vanessa Selak, Sue Furness, Natasha Rafter, Paul Roseman, Rod Jackson

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Maternal smoking: risks related to maternal asthma and reduced birth weight in a Pacific Island birth cohort in New Zealand

Sarnia Carter, Teuila Percival, Janis Paterson, Maynard Williams

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Prescribing oxygen therapy. An audit of oxygen prescribing practices on medical wards at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Matthew Boyle, Janice Wong

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Community hospital versus tertiary hospital comparison in the treatment and outcome of patients with acute coronary syndrome: a New Zealand experience

Eng Wei Tang, Cheuk-Kit Wong, Peter Herbison

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Troponin testing for chest pain in primary healthcare: a survey of its use by general practitioners in New Zealand

Kate Law, Raina Elley, James Tietjens, Stewart Mann

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Troponin testing for chest pain in primary healthcare: a New Zealand audit

Stewart Mann, James Tietjens, Kate Law, Raina Elley

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Case Report

Recurrent muscle infarction (with involvement of the arm) in a diabetes patient

Mohammed Alansari, David Hamilton, Kim Wong

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Special Series

Quality improvement in healthcare in New Zealand. Part 2: are our patients safe—and what are we doing about it?

Alan Merry, Mary Seddon, on behalf of EPIQ

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Case of rudimentary uterus and appendages

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Medical Image

Meningococcal septic shock with adrenal apoplexy—Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome

Rajiv Sinha , Dipak Kanabar

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

More on alcohol and youth. Has the NZMA demonstrated that it is not a credible source of advice to Parliament?

John Langley , Kypros Kypri

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PHARMAC and statins—getting the best population health gains

Peter Moodie , Sean Dougherty , Scott Metcalfe

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Optimising Chlamydia testing within constrained funding

Arthur Morris, Michael McCarthy

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Prioritisation in a stressed-out service

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Quality versus value

Jim Vause

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Obituary

Douglas Ian Chisholm

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Notice

Index of NZMJ Obituaries: 1887–June 2006

Basil Hutchinson and NZMA

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