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Editorials

Lessons from complaints: implications for medical education

Ron Paterson

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Realising the research power of complaints data

Marie M Bismark, David M Studdert

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Original Articles

Opportunities to learn from medical incidents: a review of published reports from the Health and Disability Commissioner

Sara Temelkovski, Kathleen Callaghan

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Sickness presenteeism in a New Zealand hospital

Lisa M Bracewell, Duncan I Campbell, Palmira R Faure, Emily R Giblin, Tessa A Morris, Liyana B Satterthwaite, Cameron D A Simmers, Caroline M Ulrich, John D Holmes

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Towards a reliable and accurate ethnicity database at district and national levels: progress in Canterbury

Laurence Malcolm

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Distinguishing between tertiary and secondary facilities: a case study of cardiac diagnostic-related groups (DRGs)

Paul Rouse, Ajit Arulambalam, Ralph Correa, Cornelia Ullman

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Special Article

Four policies to end the sale of cigarettes and smoking tobacco in New Zealand by 2020

Murray Laugesen, Marewa Glover, Trish Fraser, Ross McCormick, John Scott

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Review Article

Measuring the safety culture in a hospital setting: a concept whose time has come?

Gillian Robb, Mary Seddon

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Viewpoints

Building on myths: an economist's response to the Ministerial Review Group Report on the Health System

Rhema Vaithianathan

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The benefits and risks of DHBs contracting out elective procedures to private providers

Toni Ashton

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Using information and communications technology to enable the exchange of information between New Zealand clinicians and health providers

Ross McKenna

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Making ‘safety’ the focus of investigations into adverse events in health care

Kathleen Callaghan, Graham Hunt

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Clinical Correspondence

The first account of a bite by the New Zealand native spider Trite planiceps (Araneae: Salticidae)

José G B Derraik, Phil J Sirvid, Marius Rademaker

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Myocarditis following katipo spider bite

Ruth Crook, Nigel Harrison, Derek Gibbons

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Medical image. Angina bullosa haemorrhagica

Anthony Bertram

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Special Series

In search of professionalism: implications for medical education

Andy Wearn, Hamish Wilson, Susan J Hawken, Stephen Child, Clinton J Mitchell

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The History of a Medical School: Part 1

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Consensus Statements

New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology statement on the use of biological therapy in inflammatory bowel disease

Michael Schultz, Richard Gearry, Russell Walmsley, Andrew S Day, Alan Fraser, John Wyeth, Murray Barclay, Geoff Clover, Cathryn Whiteside

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 202nd Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 6 May 2010

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letter

Drug advertisements: what a physician should know

Raktim Kumar Ghosh, Samhati Mondal Ghosh

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Notice

University of Otago Faculty of Medicine Freemasons Postgraduate Fellowships in Paediatrics and Child Health for 2011

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Book Review

Under One Roof: A History of Waikato Hospital (John Armstrong)

H Bramwell Cook

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