JPHC June 2012
Volume 4, Number 02 June 2012 JPHC index ISSN 1172-6156 (Online)
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Editorials
From the Editor
What is evidence-based practice and how do we get there?
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Guest Editorial
Why do we always end up here? Evidence-based medicine’s conceptual cul-de-sacs and some off-road alternative routes
Trisha Greenhalgh
The case for practice-based evidence to support evidence-based practice
Barry Parsonson
Original Scientific Papers
Quantitative Research
Access in New Zealand to antidotes for accidental and intentional drug poisonings
Victoria Abbott, Michaela Creighton, Janelle Hannam, Timothy Vincent, Carolyn Coulter
Prescription drug misuse: quantifying the experiences of New Zealand GPs
Janie Sheridan, Sophie Jones, Trudi Aspden
Gender differences in financial barriers to primary health care in New Zealand
Santosh Jatrana, Peter Crampton
Qualitative Research
Access to general practice for Pacific peoples: a place for cultural competency
Melissa Ludeke, Ronald Puni, Lynley Cook, Maria Pasene, Gillian Abel, Faafetai Sopoaga
New Zealand pharmacists’ experiences, practices and views regarding antibiotic use without prescription
Majd Dameh, Pauline Norris, James Green
Is our focus right? Workforce development for primary health care nursing
Eileen McKinlay, Jill Clendon, Sue O’Reilly
Mixed Method Research
Teamwork—general practitioners and practice nurses working together in New Zealand
Mary Finlayson, Antony Raymont
Back to Back
Adherence to evidence-based guidelines is the key to improved health outcomes for general practice patients: Yes and No
Yes: Jim Vause; No: Dee Mangin
Continuing Professional Development
Cochrane Corner: Topical antibiotics are probably better than systemic antibiotics for chronically discharging ears with an underlying perforation
Bruce Arroll
String of PEARLS about skin lesions
Vaikoloa: Pacific workforce development within primary health care
Siro Fuatai
Potion or Poison? Guarana
David Woods
Nuggets of Knowledge: ß-blockers in COPD—yes, it’s OK (with care)
Linda Bryant
Viewpoint
Diagnosis in primary care: probabilistic reasoning
Bruce Arroll, GM Allan, C Raina Elley, Tim Kenealy, James McCormack, Ben Hudson, Karen Hoare
Letters to the Editor
Book Review
Essentials of Human Nutrition
edited by Jim Mann and A Stewart Truswell
Reviewed by Lynette Fergusson