Vol 131 No 1487: 14 December 2018

Vol 131 No 1487: 14 December 2018

• Summary of original articles

Editorial

• Addressing the treatment gap in New Zealand with more therapists—is it practical and will it work?

  Julia J Rucklidge, Kathryn A Darling, Roger T Mulder

• Why the new ‘living’ Australian Stroke Guidelines matter to New Zealand

  Karim Mahawish, P Alan Barber, Anna McRae, Julia Slark, Annemarei Ranta

Article

• Utility of whole genome sequencing for multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in a reference TB laboratory in New Zealand

  Indira Basu, James E Bower, Sally A Roberts, Gillian Henderson, Htin Lin Aung, Gregory Cook, Odette Lowe, Sandie Newton

• Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: predictors of positive and close margins and outcomes of re-excision in Northland, New Zealand

  Brodie M Elliott, Benjamin R Douglass, Daniel McConnell, Blair Johnson, Christopher Harmston

• Modelling the number of quitters needed to achieve New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal for Māori and non-Māori

  Nick Wilson, Frederieke Sanne Petrović-van der Deen, Richard Edwards, Andrew Waa, Tony Blakely

• Reliability of venous blood gas sodium, potassium and creatinine

  Pourya Pouryahya, Zhiliang Caleb Lin, Lynn Tan, Alastair Meyer

• Public support and sociodemographic correlates of public breastfeeding support in New Zealand

  Yanshu Huang, Danny Osborne, Chris G Sibley

• New Zealand’s experience of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic: a systematic review after 100 years

  Jennifer A Summers, Michael G Baker, Nick Wilson

• Sudden death in patients with serious mental illness

  Erik Monasterio, Andrew McKean, Vimu Sinhalage Christopher Frampton, Roger Mulder

Viewpoint

• Reducing the impact of the impending myopia epidemic in New Zealand

  Alex Petty, Graham Wilson

  Open Access

• Guidelines for Gender Affirming Healthcare for Gender Diverse and Transgender Children, Young People and Adults in Aotearoa, New Zealand

  Jeannie Oliphant, Jaimie Veale, Joe Macdonald, Richard Carroll, Rachel Johnson, Mo Harte, Cathy Stephenson, Jemima Bullock, David Cole, Patrick Manning

• Public health and the radio frequency radiation emitted by cellphone technology, smart meters and WiFi

  Susan Pockett

Clinical Correspondence

• There’s more to this than meets the eye

  Tom Kai Ming Wang, Mansi Turaga, Jen-Li Looi

• Acquired haemophilia A: a rare cause of postpartum haemorrhage

  Philippa Davey, Helen Allen

100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

• The Influenza Epidemic

Methuselah

• Trial of Ibudilast in progressive multiple sclerosis

Obituary

• David Murray Fergusson

  Joseph M Boden