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Editorials

Children and ATVs (quad bikes) don’t mix

Michael Shepherd

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What do we do about increasing demand for Emergency Department care?

Mike Ardagh

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Original Articles

ATV (quad bike) injuries in New Zealand children: their extent and severity

Kate Anson, Elizabeth Segedin, Peter Jones

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Emergency Department utilisation: a natural experiment

Cecelia Rademeyer, Peter Jones, Stuart Dalziel, Garry Clearwater, Bernard Foley, Mazin Ghafel

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Time to definitive care for patients with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury—does a trauma system matter?

Ritwik Kejriwal, Ian Civil

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Paramedic-administered prehospital thrombolysis is safe and reduces time to treatment

Anil M Ranchord, Sandhir Prasad, Phillip Matsis, Scott A Harding

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Contemporary New Zealand coefficients for the trauma injury severity score: TRISS(NZ)

Philip J Schluter, Cate M Cameron, Tamzyn M Davey, Ian Civil, Jodie Orchard, Rangi Dansey, James Hamill, Helen Naylor, Carolyn James, Jenny Dorrian, Grant Christey, Cliff Pollard, Rod J McClure

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Using trauma injury severity score (TRISS) variables to predict length of hospital stay following trauma in New Zealand

Philip J Schluter, Cate M Cameron, Tamzyn M Davey, Ian Civil, Jodie Orchard, Rangi Dansey, James Hamill, Helen Naylor, Carolyn James, Jenny Dorrian, Grant Christey, Cliff Pollard, Rod J McClure

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Sodium fluoroacetate (1080): assessment of occupational exposures and selection of a provisional biological exposure index

Michael Beasley, Penny Fisher, Cheryl O’Connor, Charles Eason

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Clinical Correspondence

A bizarre case of drowning as a result of pandemic influenza (1918 pandemic)

Nick Wilson, Jennifer Summers, Michael Baker, Geoff Rice

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Cutaneous myiasis due to Dermatobia hominis (the human botfly) in a New Zealand traveller returned from South America

Simon C Dalton, Stephen T Chambers

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Medical image. The fractured mandible—potential pitfall

Patrick Mehanna, David Leinkram, Ian Wilson

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Medical image. Hemichorea associated with nonketotic hyperglycaemia: MR imaging findings

Mustafa Koplay, Demet İlhan Algin, Erim Gulcan

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Clinical notes on a few cases of hydatid disease of the lung

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Informed choice—is the student doctor immunisation policy deficient?

Lance Gravatt

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Additional impacts of regional nuclear war on New Zealand—and response

Kathleen Loncar, Nick Wilson, Lyndon Burford

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Erratum

Doctor Who? Inappropriate use of titles by some alternative "medicine" practitioners

NZMJ

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Book Reviews

No Ordinary Man: the remarkable life of Arthur Porritt (Graeme Woodfield and Joseph Romanos)

Frank Frizelle

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Gray's Anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice (40th edition; Susan Standring, ed)

Frank Frizelle

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Congenital Heart Disease in Adults (3rd edition; JK Perloff, JS Child, J Aboulhosn)

Chris Ellis

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Ethics, Law and Society (4th edition; J Gunning, S Holm, I Kenway, eds)

Alan Merry

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