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Editorial

What is high quality critical care?

David Knight

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Original Articles

Aiming for zero: decreasing central line associated bacteraemia in the intensive care unit

Mary E Seddon, Catherine J Hocking, Pat Mead, Catherine Simpson

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Why Māori women continue to smoke while pregnant

Marewa Glover, Anette Kira

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Post-caesarean section surgical site infection: rate and risk factors

Marcus Ghuman, Deirdre Rohlandt, Grace Joshy, Ross Lawrenson

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Self-reported oral health care and access to oral health information among pregnant women in Wellington, New Zealand

Bianca M Claas, Lis Ellison-Loschmann, Mona Jeffreys

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Impact of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine on genital wart diagnoses at Auckland Sexual Health Services

Jeannie Oliphant, Nicky Perkins

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Terminations of pregnancy associated with isotretinoin use in New Zealand

Peter Moodie, Richard Jaine, Jason Arnold, Scott Metcalfe, Mike Bignall, Bruce Arroll

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Review Article

The role of humans in the importation of ticks to New Zealand: a threat to public health and biosecurity

Allen C G Heath, Scott Hardwick

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Viewpoint

Improving termination of pregnancy services in New Zealand

Martha Silva, Toni Ashton, Rob McNeill

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Clinical Correspondence

Sirenomelia

Gouranga Santra, Narayan Pandit, Pradip Kumar Sinha, Mrinal K Das

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Medical image. Intimal intimation

Manar Khashram, Rosemary Wyber

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Letters

A paradigm shift in recreational drug use: the challenge of legal highs in New Zealand

Chris Wilkins

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Seroprevelance study of pandemic strain influenza A H1N1 (pH1N1) in Wellington children: the usefulness of testing children in a hospital setting

Rosalind Wood, Graeme Lear, Ashton Stewart, Tim Blackmore

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Are healthy people being manipulated into becoming chiropractic clients?

Shaun Holt

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Colchicine prescribing in patients with gout

Nicola Dalbeth, Peter Gow

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The “Twin Study” and the misunderstanding of epidemiology that clouds occupational associations and low back disorder

David McLean, Neil Pearce, Christopher B Walls, Richard D Wigley

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Spigelian hernia secondary to trauma in an adult patient

Fraser Welsh, William Gilkison, Spencer Beasley

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The obesity pandemic, the diabetes ‘tsunami’, and the lack of adequate sports grounds for children in Auckland, New Zealand

José G B Derraik, Martin de Bock, Chris Ruffell, Fredrik Ahlsson, Wayne S Cutfield

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

The treatment of functional diseases of the stomach: part 2

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Medical History

Who invented and used this curious bistoury?

H Bramwell Cook

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituary

Jack Murray Costello

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Book Reviews

A Guide to Evidence-based Integrative and Complementary Medicine (V Kotsirilos, L Vitetta, A Sali)

Timothy Kenealy

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Control of the Leishmaniases: Report of a Meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Control of Leishmaniases. WHO Technical Report Series, No. 949 (World Health Organization)

Stephen T Chambers

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Khaki Angels: Kiwi stretcher-bearers in the First and Second World Wars (Brendan O'Carroll)

John Morton

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