Volume 32, Number 4, August 2005
Volume 32, No. 4, August 2005
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NZFP August 2005
CONTENTS
The Care of Older People
The fountain of age: A viewpoint
Ngaire Kerse
Changing assessment processes in Older Person’s Health: Some Canterbury Tales
Sally Keeling, Brigette Larkins and Nigel Millar
Safe driving for older people: Some evidence and some practice tips
Ngaire Kerse and Graham Davison
Managing stroke: Key principles and updates
Valery L Feigin
Opinion and Comment
Editorial
Tony Townsend
Guest Editorial – Science, society, suffering and the self: A commentary on general practice for the twenty first century
Kieran Sweeney
Original Scientific Papers
Implementing Significant Event Manage-ment in general practice – potential barriers and solutions
Hayley Lord and Steven Lillis
Medication use in residential care
Ngaire Kerse
Continuing Medical Education
Buying time: Therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer’s disease
Mary Tucker
Gout and its management – the devil is in the detail
Peter Gow
Strategies for dealing with the challenging patient
Susan J Hawken
Hypothyroidism and the elderly
Marianne S Elston and John V Conaglen
Correction: Nurse Initiated Management of Childhood Gastroenteritis – April 2005
POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
Cochrane Corner: Urinary tract infections in elderly women
Bruce Arroll
Issues
Focus on child health: A quality improvement initiative
Jocelyn Tracey
Reflections
Reflection
Lance Austin
Journal Review Service
Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit