The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

Volume 30, No. 4, August 2003

NZFP August 2003

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CONTENTS

Ethics, error, euthanasia

Ethics: four levels for GPs
Campbell Miller

Advancing understanding of medical errors in general practice: a discussion of recent research from the American Academy of Family Physicians
Susan M Dovey

Euthanasia- ethical issues
Tony Baird

Protecting patient information
Donald Evans

Opinion and Comment

Editorial:
Tony Townsend

Swamp Rat

Original Scientific Papers

Infant environmental tobacco smoke exposure following a smoking in pregnancy intervention programme
Philip J Schluter & Rodney PK Ford

Maori callers to a telephone triage service
Ian St George, Michelle Branney, Wendy Horo-Gregory, Lisa Duncan & Matthew Cullen

'Positive Partners, Strong Families' - evaluation of a community-based communication and conflict resolution course for couples
Felicity A Goodyear-Smith & Tannis M Laidlaw

Continuing Medical Education

Caesarean section
Sue Belgrave

Partner abuse - recognition and management in general practice
Faye Clark

POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence the Matters

Cochrane Corner: Corticosteriods for shoulder pain
Bruce Arroll

Issues

Examining the general practice workforce of Northland
Adam Norris

General Practice research in New Zealand and the world: a report from the WONCA Invitational Conference on Research in Family Medicine
Ngaire Kerse & Susan Dovey

Book Review
Tony Townsend

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit