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Editorials

Complaints and quality: handle with care!

Ron Paterson

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Quality improvement—from policy to action

Mary Seddon, John Buchanan

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Original Articles

The immediate and long-term impact on New Zealand doctors who receive patient complaints

Wayne Cunningham

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New Zealand doctors’ attitudes towards the complaints and disciplinary process

Wayne Cunningham

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The medical complaints and disciplinary process in New Zealand: doctors’ suggestions for change

Wayne Cunningham

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Surgeons’ experiences of complaints to the Health and Disability Commissioner

Richard Tapper, Laurence Malcolm, Frank Frizelle

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Trends and patterns of avoidable hospitalisations in New Zealand: 1980–1997

Arunachalam Dharmalingam, Ian Pool, Sandra Baxendine, Janet Sceats

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Information Technology systems in general practice medicine in New Zealand

Rebecca Didham, Isobel Martin, Richelle Wood, Ken Harrison

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Review Article

Professional leadership and organisational change: progress towards developing a quality culture in New Zealand’s health system

Pauline Barnett, Laurence Malcolm, Lyn Wright, Christine Hendry

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Viewpoint

Is New Zealand according too much importance to continuous quality improvement in healthcare?

Stephen Buetow, Gregor Coster

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

More of ‘The management of public hospitals in New Zealand’

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Medical Image

Coronary collateral blood flow visualised by transoesophageal echocardiography

Constantin Marcu, Edward Prokop, Andre Ghantous

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Medicolegal

Psychiatrist – Professional Misconduct

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Obituary

Peter Barrie Herdson

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Erratum

Alcohol consumption and its contribution to the burden of coronary heart disease in middle-aged and older New Zealanders: a population-based case-control study

NZMJ

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Book Reviews

In Practice: The lives of New Zealand women doctors in the 21st century (Rosy Fenwicke)

Helen Lunt

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NINDS at 50: Celebrating 50 years of brain research (Lewis Rowland)

Martin Pollock

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ABC of subfertility (Alison Taylor, Peter Braude)

Greg Phillipson

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