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Editorials

Systems of care: need for hub and spoke systems of care for patients with myocardial infarction. A call for action

Harvey D White

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The changing face of prehospital care in New Zealand: the role of extended care paramedics

Andrew H Swain, Sarah R Hoyle, Andrew W Long

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Evaluation and management of fever in children

Tony Walls

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Original Articles

Door to balloon times: streamlining admission for primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Neil Swanson, Christopher Nunn, Steve Holmes, Gerry Devlin

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Are at-risk New Zealand women receiving recommended cardiovascular preventive therapy?

Olivia Bupha-Intr, Sally B Rose, Beverley A Lawton, C Raina Elley, Anthony C Dowell

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A retrospective review of the use of thromboprophylaxis in patients who subsequently developed a venous thromboembolism after discharge from hospital

Diane N Wiseman, Jeff Harrison

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Performance of Framingham cardiovascular risk scores by ethnic groups in New Zealand: PREDICT CVD-10

Tania Riddell, Sue Wells, Rod Jackson, Ai-Wei Lee, Sue Crengle, Dale Bramley, Shanthi Ameratunga, Romana Pylypchuk, Joanna Broad, Roger Marshall, Andrew Kerr

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A comparative analysis of the cardiovascular disease risk factor profiles of Pacific peoples and Europeans living in New Zealand assessed in routine primary care: PREDICT CVD-11

Corina Grey, Sue Wells, Tania Riddell, Andrew Kerr, Dudley Gentles, Romana Pylypchuk, Roger Marshall, Shanthi Ameratunga, Paul Drury, C Raina Elley, Cambell Kyle, Rod Jackson

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Use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in the New Zealand context from 2000 to 2007

Peter D Larsen, Praveen De Silva, Scott A Harding, Ellen Woodcock, Nigel A Lever

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Special Article

New Zealand primary implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation and biventricular pacing guidelines

Warren Smith on behalf of the New Zealand Pacing and Electrophysiology Group

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Viewpoint

Cultural issues in research, a reflection

Rawiri Blundell, Veronique Gibbons, Steven Lillis

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Clinical Correspondence

Severe hepatitis in a primary sclerosing cholangitis patient receiving recent cetirizine therapy

Ricardo Jurawan, Anthony Smith

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Cerebral venous thrombosis in autoimmune enteropathy

Annemarei Ranta, Rohitha Mokanahalli

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Medical image. Horn that does not adorn

Sanjay K Bandyopadhyay, Ranjana Bandyopadhyay, Anita Dutta

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Medical image. Haematometrocolpos secondary to vaginal atresia: US and MRI findings

Selim Doganay, Ali Yikilmaz, Guven Kahriman, Ibrahim Sacit Tuna, Abdülhakim Coskun

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Special Series

Maximising learning through effective supervision

Joy Rudland, Warwick Bagg, Stephen Child, Wayne de Beer, Wayne Hazell, Phillippa Poole, Dale Sheehan, Tim J Wilkinson

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Deaths from Exophthalmic Goitre (Graves' Disease)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

National Women’s Hospital deserves a fair and balanced history—with response by Linda Bryder

Ron W Jones

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Prevalence of smoking in rural Samoa

Shawn S Barnes, Christian Small, Jillian Bennett, Jason Barnes, Ryan Keogh

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Sudden infant death and co-sleeping: a better message

David Tipene-Leach

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Obituaries

Susan Dorothy Frances Clements (née Alexander)

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Robert Lawson Thompson

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Timothy Savage

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Book Review

Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre (Rhona Flin and Lucy Mitchell, eds)

Peter Stiven

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