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Editorials

Quality and equity in cardiovascular health in New Zealand: the need for agreed achievable standards of care, cohesive planning, and action

Norman Sharpe, Gerard Wilkins

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Extracranial carotid artery disease: the stroke burden of intervention

Tim Buckenham

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Original Articles

Management of patients admitted with an Acute Coronary Syndrome in New Zealand: results of a comprehensive nationwide audit

Chris Ellis, Greg Gamble, John French, Gerald Devlin, Philip Matsis, John Elliott, Stewart Mann, Michael Williams, Harvey White (For the New Zealand Acute Coronary Syndromes [NZACS] Audit Group)

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Acute Coronary Syndrome patients in New Zealand receive less invasive management when admitted to hospitals without invasive facilities

Chris Ellis, Gerald Devlin, Philip Matsis, John Elliott, Michael Willliams, Greg Gamble, Stewart Mann, John French, Harvey White (For the New Zealand Acute Coronary Syndromes [NZACS] Audit Group)

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Cardiac rehabilitation services in New Zealand: access and utilisation

Fiona Doolan-Noble, Joanna Broad, Tania Riddell, Diana North

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Exponential increase in clinical use of plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) assays

Tim Yandle, Steve Fisher, John Livesey, Eric Espiner, Mark Richards, Gary Nicholls

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Special Article

Guidelines for pre-hospital administration of fibrinolytic therapy by New Zealand general practitioners

The Pre-Hospital Fibrinolysis Guidelines Working Party

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Viewpoint

A call to action on Maori cardiovascular health

Dale Bramley, Tania Riddell, Sue Crengle, Elana Curtis, Matire Harwood, Deidre Nehua, Papaarangi Reid

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The management of public hospitals in New Zealand

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Medical Image

Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) demonstrating cholecystolithiasis and aberrant pancreatic duct anatomy

Timothy Eglinton, Angus Watson

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Medicalisation of abortion

Bill Douglas

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State-imposed abuse of doctors

Bill Douglas

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How concordant are hospital discharge codes with physicians' diagnoses?

Sue McAuley, Harry Rea, Sunil Kumar, Catherine Lamont

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Obituary

Robert Charles Stewart Dick

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Book Reviews

Netter's Internal Medicine (Marschall Runge, Andrew Greganti)

Barry Colls

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Evidence-based Dermatology (Hywel Williams, Luigi Naldi, Michael Bigby, et al)

Anne Davis

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