Volume 34, Number 1, February 2007
Volume 34, No. 1, February 2007
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NZFP February 2007
CONTENTS
Medical Mistakes
Mistakes in General Practice
Ron Paterson
Leaping off laurels: Time for a paradigm change to promote patient safety
Susan Dovey
Errors in practice
Aine McCoy
'Oh no. It happened again!'
Steven Lillis and Veronique Gibbons
Opinion and Comment
Editorial
Tony Townsend
Original Scientific Papers
Reported changes in how rural general practices operate since the introduction of the 2001 Primary Health Care Strategy
Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Ron Janes
Improving Performance
The challenge of improving access to mental health sercices within a primary care setting
Sue Garrett, Tony Dowell, Valerie Bos, Sunny Collings, Lynn McBain and Eileen McKinlay
Doing diabetes on the Coast - the development of the West Coast Intergrated Diabetes Service
Carol Atmore
Continuing Medical Education
Beta-blockers in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - shouldn't be used or underused?
Tim Sutherland and D Robin Taylor
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Cary G Mellow
POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
Cochrane Corner: Anticholinergic drugs are effective for urge incontinence
Bruce Arroll
Issues
Health promotion in PHOs: Towards a mutual understanding of this new resource in the primary care team
Doone Winnard
Book Reviews
Tony Townsend
DVD Review
Joeseph Scott Jones
Reflections
(Four) highways through uncertainty
Bruce Arroll