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Editorials

Medication error in New Zealand—time to act

Alan F Merry, Craig S Webster

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Personalised medicine in New Zealand

Patrick Gladding

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Health services research: an essential part of a wider spectrum of national health information?

Laurence Malcolm, Pauline Barnett

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Original Articles

Preventable medication-related events in hospitalised children in New Zealand

Desireé L Kunac, David M Reith

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Allele frequency differences of cytochrome P450 polymorphisms in a sample of New Zealand Māori

Rod A Lea, Rebecca L Roberts, Michael R Green, Martin A Kennedy, Geoffrey K Chambers

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Surveillance of vaccine breakthrough cases following MeNZB vaccination

Anne McNicholas, Yvonne Galloway, Diana Martin, Kerry Sexton, Jane O’Hallahan

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Capitation funding of primary health organisations in New Zealand: are enrolled populations being funded according to need?

Jennifer Langton, Peter Crampton

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Correlation of physician seniority with increased emergency department efficiency during a resident doctors’ strike

Martyn Harvey, Mustafa Al Shaar, Grant Cave, Muir Wallace, Paul Brydon

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Review Article

Evidence-based recommendations for hand hygiene for health care workers in New Zealand

Peter J Larmer, Trish M Tillson, Faye M Scown, Philippa M Grant, Jamie Exton

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Case Reports

A rare cause of early post-partum haematuria secondary to uterovesical fistula

Tahrir Basheer, Dominic Lee, Warren Davis, Rahul Rindani

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Impacted radio-opaque glass in the oesophagus of a child

Titus S Ibekwe, James A Fasunla, Moronke D Akinola, Onyekwere G B Nwaorgu

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Viewpoint

What is the state of health services research in New Zealand?

Paul M Brown, Toni Ashton

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Gangrenous foot

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Medical Images

Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: multidetector-row CT findings

Kuei-Feng Tsou, Wei-Chou Chang, Shih-Hung Tsai, Ching-Feng Chang

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Portomesenteric venous gas and pneumatosis intestinalis

Selim Doganay, Mecit Kantarci, S Selcuk Atamanalp

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Alcohol and breast cancer

Trevor Smith

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An update on tobacco smoking among New Zealand health care workers, the current picture, 2006

Sharon Ponniah, Ashley Bloomfield

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"We must discuss suicide", and response by Dr Beautrais

Roger M Ridley-Smith, Annette Beautrais

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Barefoot running and walking: the pros and cons based on current evidence

Keith Rome, Dene Hancock, Daniel Poratt

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Obituaries

Arthur Newton Talbot

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David Whitney Cannings Dove

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Henry Keith Watt

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Notice

Twenty Years after the Cartwright Report: what have we learned? (preliminary notice of 29 August 2008 conference)

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Book Review

Pickerill: Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education and Dental Research (Harvey Brown)

Michael Harkness

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