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Editorial

How to introduce clinical practice guidelines

Benjamin P T Loveday, John A Windsor

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Original Articles

Projections of surgical need in New Zealand: estimates of the need for surgery and surgeons to 2026

Antony Raymont, John Simpson

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Closing the audit loop is necessary to achieve compliance with evidence-based guidelines in the management of acute pancreatitis

Saxon J Connor, Andrew R Lienert, Lisa A Brown, Philip F Bagshaw

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Economic impact of untimely surgical intervention for acute plastic surgery patients

Lawrence Kim, Swee T Tan

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Fast-track open colectomy is possible in a New Zealand public hospital

Kamran Zargar-Shoshtari, Andrew G Hill

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Training effect of skills courses on confidence of junior doctors performing clinical procedures

Manoj Patel, George Oosthuizen, Stephen Child, John A Windsor

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Fournier's gangrene: a review of 110 cases for aetiology, predisposing conditions, microorganisms, and modalities for coverage of necrosed scrotum with bare testes

Ashok M Bhatnagar, Prashant N Mohite, Manoj Suthar

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New Zealand general practitioners’ non-urgent referrals to surgeons: who and why?

Antony Raymont, Sonya Morgan, Deborah McLeod, Anthony Dowell, Andre van Rij, Jackie Cumming, Megan Pledger, Kevin Dew, Donna Cormack

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Clinical Correspondence

Ectopic varices leading to occult haemorrhage in portal hypertension: a surgical quandary

Syed I Andrabi, Jawad Ahmad, W Barry Clements

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Sedation with dexmedetomidine for vocal fold injection

Dusica Stamenkovic, Marc Hassid

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Tuberculosis-associated colocutaneous fistula

Ali Cadili, Neil Brown, Mary Stephens

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Medical image. A rare cause of stroke

Adriano R Tonelli

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Medical image. The pink lady

Ricardo Jurawan, Malcolm Arnold

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

An age of crusades

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

What divides junior doctors and consultants

Curtis Walker, Ian Powell

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Doctors in training—a broad view is needed

Phillippa Poole, Des Gorman

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Acne and non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Henrik Falhammar

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White matter lesions in a group of six patients with relapsing polychondritis

Marcin Milchert, Lidia Ostanek, Monika Mak, Lech Cyryłowski, Marek Brzosko

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Patient untwists his own torsion—and urologist's response

Graeme Browne, Stephen Mark

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Obituary

Anthony (Tony) Gerald Francis Dominick

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2009

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Erratum

ST-elevation myocardial infarction: New Zealand management guidelines

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Book Review

Osteoarthritis: National clinical guideline for care and management in adults (Royal College of Physicians)

Lisa Stamp

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