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Editorials

Unwarranted variation in healthcare organisation and practice for long-term conditions

Sue Wells, Rod Jackson

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Procedural sedation in the emergency department: good medicine or flirting with danger?

Benjamin van der Griend, Ross Kennedy

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The ‘Shorter Stays’ target is a whole health system target, not an emergency department target

Peter Jones

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Original Articles

National variability in provision of health services for major long-term conditions in New Zealand (a report from the ABCC NZ study)

Martin J Connolly, Timothy Kenealy, P Alan Barber, Peter Carswell, Janet Clinton, Lorna Dyall, Gerard Devlin, Robert N Doughty, Ngaire Kerse, John Kolbe, Ross Lawrenson, Allan Moffitt, Nicolette Sheridan

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Contemporary sedation practice in a large New Zealand emergency department

Martyn Harvey, Grant Cave, Chris Betham

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Manipulation of simple paediatric forearm fractures: a time-based comparison of emergency department sedation with theatre-based anaesthesia

Chris Betham, Martyn Harvey, Grant Cave

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Project RED—a successful methodology for improving emergency department performance

Michael W Ardagh, Angela M Pitchford, Anne Esson, Heather Manson, Brian Dolan

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Improving acute patient flow and resolving emergency department overcrowding in New Zealand hospitals—the major challenges and the promising initiatives

Michael W Ardagh, Gary Tonkin, Clare Possenniskie

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Emergency nurse practitioners: do they provide an effective service in managing minor injuries, compared to emergency medicine registrars?

Margaret Colligan, Caroline Collins, Bernard Foley, Peter Jones, Jennifer Miles, Irene Zeng

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Outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Does use of the Fire Service make a difference?

Andrew H Swain, Tasmin Barry, Sarah R Hoyle, Grant Haywood, Hayley Cameron, Peter D Larsen

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Viewpoint

Be wary of a mature adult, who presents with a parent

Syed H Ahmed, King S Leong

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Clinical Correspondence

Softball injury causing haemoperitoneum due to ruptured Meckel’s mesodiverticular band

Julie Woodfield, Mark Barnett, Peter Shapkov

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Listeria rhomboencephalitis

Mohamed Ramadan, Nicole M McGrath

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Medical image. Retinal macroaneurysm following a branch retinal vein occlusion

Andrew Bastawrous, Vineeth Kumar, Som Prasad

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Medical image. Gigantic evidence for a microscopic disease

Anna Ashcroft, Gary J Lim

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Letters

Bahrain health workers in danger: call to action

Brendon Gray, Paul Ockelford

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New Zealanders' favourite natural health products are ineffective

Shaun Holt, Sarah Jeffries, Andrew Gilbey

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Potential dangers of chest drains: response to case report by Drs Jayathissa and Dee

Kyle Perrin

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A policy of no pharmaceutical industry sponsorship: a case for health equity

Phillip Pinhao Chao

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Response to article “Spinal manipulation: an update of a systematic review of systematic reviews”

Dusty Quinn; on behalf of The New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association Inc

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Ernst response to Poelsma regarding spinal manipulation

Edzard Ernst

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End-of-term brief review of the New Zealand Government’s actions on five major health risk factors

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Dominion Notes: Good work by the Inspector-General

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the 209th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society: Wednesday 28 September 2011

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Obituary

Harold Thomas

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