Volume 34, Number 2, April 2007
Volume 34, No. 2, April 2007
NZFP April 2007
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CONTENTS
Addiction
What is addiction?
Doug Sellman
Alcohol and other drugs problems in primary care
Ian Scott
Addiction: Yet another chronic disease for primary care?
Helen J Moriarty
Alcohol: Screening, assessment and management in general practice
John McMenamin
Opinion and Comment
Editorial
Tony Townsend
Original Scientific Papers
Is bone health in the 'too hard' basket?
Kamal K Kumar and Helen J Moriarty
How are rural funding initiatives impacting on rural general practice?
Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Ron James
Improving Performance
Population-based CVD risk measurement: A pragmatic solution for achieving this in primary care
David Nixon, Kevin Preston, Steve Chamberlain and Matt Smith
Continuing Medical Education
Management of some common hand, wrist and elbow problems - when and how to refer appropriately
Simon Chinchanwala
POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
Cochrane Corner: Antibiotics are more effective in younger patients and in bilateral acute otitis media
Bruce Arroll
Issues
Drink to your health - is alcohol really cardioprotective?
Graham Gulbransen and Ross McCormick
Podcasts - medical information at your computer fingertips
Jo Scott-Jones
Reflections
Living with 'carers'
Deidre Mackay
Journal Review Service
Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit