Vol. 124 No. 1344

LETTER

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

Phillip Pinhao Chao

LETTER

Bahrain health workers in danger: call to action

Brendon Gray, Paul Ockelford

VIEWPOINT

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

Syed H Ahmed, King S Leong

ARTICLE

Contemporary sedation practice in a large New Zealand emergency department

Martyn Harvey, Grant Cave, Chris Betham

100 YEARS AGO IN THE NZMJ

Dominion Notes: Good work by the Inspector-General

ARTICLE

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

LETTER

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

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

LETTER

Ernst response to Poelsma regarding spinal manipulation

Nick Wilson, George Thomson, Richard Edwards

OBITUARY

Harold Thomas

ARTICLE

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

CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE

Listeria rhomboencephalitis

Mohamed Ramadan, Nicole M McGrath

ARTICLE

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

Chris Betham, Martyn Harvey, Grant Cave

CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE

Medical image. Gigantic evidence for a microscopic disease

Anna Ashcroft, Gary J Lim

CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE

Medical image. Retinal macroaneurysm following a branch retinal vein occlusion

Andrew Bastawrous, Vineeth Kumar, Som Prasad

ARTICLE

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

LETTER

New Zealanders' favourite natural health products are ineffective

Shaun Holt, Sarah Jeffries, Andrew Gilbey

ARTICLE

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

LETTER

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

Kyle Perrin

EDITORIAL

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

Benjamin van der Griend, Ross Kennedy

PROCEEDINGS

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

ARTICLE

Project RED—a successful methodology for improving emergency department performance

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

LETTER

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

CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE

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

Julie Woodfield, Mark Barnett, Peter Shapkov

EDITORIAL

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

Peter Jones

EDITORIAL

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

Sue Wells, Rod Jackson