Volume 35, Number 6, December 2008
Volume 35, No. 6, December 2008
NZFP December 2008
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CONTENTS
Transitions
1981–1990: A bright future for the journal
Ian St George
1990–1995: Regarding my editorship
Rae West
1996–2001: NZFP – looking back
Tessa Turnbull
2001–2002: New Zealand Family Physician – what’s in a name?
Campbell Murdoch
2002–2008: Editing the NZFP
Tony Townsend
Opinion and Comment
Editorial
Susan Dovey
Original Scientific Papers
Members’ feedback on what they read in the NZFP
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
The role of GIS in supporting evidence-based rural health service planning and evaluation: A New Zealand case study
Pat Farry, Ryan Thompson, Hamish Robertson, George Benwell and Martyn Williamson
Assessment and management of fatigue in rural general practice: A developing research project
Sarah Joy
‘Treating’ patients differently: A qualitative study of how clinical and social factors shape interactions between doctors and patients
Kevin Dew, Tony Dowell, Maria Stubbe, Elizabeth Plumridge, Lindsay Macdonald
Registrar's Realm
Differentiating undifferentiated dyspepsia
Michael Buckley
The pressure to act: Is hypertension controlled adequately in a general practice setting?
Emily Ross
Flu vaccine intervention in general practice: How successful is the flu vaccine alert system?
Andrew Brown
The use of complementary medicines by patientswith osteoarthritis
Laura Bentley
Continuing Medical Education
POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
Issues
Recent developments in Rural Hospital Medicine I: Rural Hospital Medicine Special Scope
Garry Nixon and Kati Blattner
Recent developments in Rural Hospital Medicine II: Experiential pathway to Fellowship of the Divisionof Rural Hospital Medicine
Jenny Dawson and Garry Nixon
GP workforce: Emerging trends
Madhukar Mel Pande
Reflections
Balls
Buzz Boothman-Burrell
Journal Review Service
Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit