Publications

• Urban continuity of general practice care in the new century
• Between romanticism and realism: The patient’s view on continuity of care
• Why care about continuity of care?
• Continuity of care provided by general practice in Wellington over 100 years
• The cost of falls in older adults in the community
• Nurse employment in primary care – UK and New Zealand
• A varicose ulcer healed by non-surgical varicose vein treatment using ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy
• Cardiovascular risk screening and management – a targeted systematic population approach Part 1: 7000 risk assessments and audit of 2000 electronic decision support management applications – results and clinical implications
• Part 2: Implementation of clinical guidelines in primary care – lessons learnt and advice for funders
• Dementia and falling
• Bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystits
• Cochrane Corner: Proton pump inhibitors are best but Histamine 2 receptors are also better than placebo for esophagitis
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• A cautionary tale
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Appearance medicine
• Musculoskeletal medicine
• Sports medicine
• Addiction medicine
• Academic sub-specialisation in general practice: How do we choose
• Identifying psychological distress in New Zealand primary care: The General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) as a screening instrument
• Diagnosing mental illness in general practice
• Taking a closer look at Web-based CME:  An exploratory study
• What primary care wants from hospital electronic discharge summaries – a North/West Auckland perspective
• Doctors and nurses: Standing orders in primary care – a literature review
• Morbid obesity: Why diets don’t work and the role of surgery
• Managing variability in warfarin dosing:  Drugs, diseases and diets
• Cochrane Corner: Tricyclics and Venlafaxine are effective for neuropathic pain but SSRIs may not be
• Managing the cross-cultural consultation: The importance of cultural safety
• A reflection on herbal medicine and Karl Popper
• Friends, emails and bum rubs – helping amputees everywhere
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Being a professional general practitioner and using principles of professionalism to consider workforce issues in general practice
• Becoming ‘patient-centred’: A review
• Health information privacy: The patient perspective
• Nursing initiatives in primary care: An approach to risk reduction for cardiovascular disease and diabetes
• Implementation of a nursing initiative in primary care: A case report, cardiovascular disease risk reduction 
• Do patients think their general practitioner cares?
• GP workforce demographics in 2007: Gender, age, ethnicity, and work arrangements
• Dignity Conserving Care and Dignity Therapy
• What does an immunisation coordinator/ facilitator do?
• Assessment and management of miscarriage
• Intermittent asthma in children
• Cochrane Corner: Over-the-counter medications are probably not effective for acute cough
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• How many general practitioners are ‘enough’? – Forecasting GP workforce capacity in New Zealand
• The last straw? – GPs’ views on the new Section 88 Maternity Services Contract
• Identification of the reasons for medication returns
• Implementing Incident Management – reservations of practice staff
• Patient and clinician perceptions of asthma education and management in resistant asthma: A qualitative study
• Wheeze in infants and young children: Diagnoses and management options
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• REBELS: An approach to communication challenges in the consultation
• Book Review: Understanding Health Inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

Download August 2008 issue of New Zealand Family Physician

• The legacy of Alma-Ata: Thirty years on
• What is the place of general practice within primary health care – in the Aotearoa New Zealand context? 
• Whither the Kiwi GP?
• The Quest
• Vitamin C: Evidence, application and commentary
• Long-term conditions care in general practice settings: Patient perspectives
• Cultural competence and interpreters
• Acute calf swelling
• GPEP1 Audit: Rural Hospital Transfers
• Smoking cessation resources
• A swollen knee joint
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Death: A reflection
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• 1981–1990: A bright future for the journal
• 1990–1995: Regarding my editorship
• 1996–2001: NZFP – looking back
• 2001–2002: New Zealand Family Physician – what’s in a name
• 2002–2008: Editing the NZFP
• Members’ feedback on what they read in the NZFP
• The role of GIS in supporting evidence-based rural health service planning and evaluation: A New Zealand case study
• Assessment and management of fatigue in rural general practice: A developing research project
• ‘Treating’ patients differently: A qualitative study of how clinical and social factors shape interactions between doctors and patients
• The pressure to act: Is hypertension controlled adequately in a general practice setting
• Flu vaccine intervention in general practice: How successful is the flu vaccine alert system?
• The use of complementary medicines by patients with osteoarthritis
• Recent developments in Rural Hospital Medicine I: Rural Hospital Medicine Special Scope
• Recent developments in Rural Hospital Medicine II: Experiential pathway to Fellowship of the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine
• GP workforce: Emerging trends
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Mistakes in general practice
• Leaping off laurels: Time for a paradigm change to promote patient safety
• Errors in practice
• ‘Oh no. It happened again!’
• Reported changes in how rural general practices operate since the introduction of the 2001 Primary Health Care Strategy
• The challenge of improving access to mental health services within a primary care setting
• Doing diabetes on the Coast – the development of the West Coast Integrated Diabetes Service
• Beta-blockers in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – shouldn’t be used or underused?
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Cochrane Corner: Anticholinergic drugs are effective for urge incontinence
• Health promotion in PHOs: Towards a mutual understanding of this new resource in the primary care team
• (Four) highways through uncertainty
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• What is addiction?
• Alcohol and other drugs problems in primary care
• Addiction: Yet another chronic disease for primary care?
• Alcohol: Screening, assessment and management in general practice
• Is bone health in the ‘too hard’ basket? 
• How are rural funding initiatives impacting on rural general practice?
• Population-based CVD risk measurement: A pragmatic solution for achieving this in primary care
• Management of some common hand, wrist and elbow problems – when and how to refer appropriately
• Cochrane Corner: Antibiotics are more effective in younger patients and in bilateral acute otitis media
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Drink to your health – is alcohol really cardioprotective?
• Podcasts – medical information at your computer fingertips
• Living with ‘carers’
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• New Zealand: The urgent need to focus on child health? 
• A community youth health service in Rotorua – what are the attendance patterns of young people at Rotovegas Youth Health?
• Risk and resiliency factors amongst young people attending a youth health centre
• Evolve Wellington Youth Service: A community service developed by and for young people
• The youth health specialty in New Zealand: Collaborative practice and future development
• A primary health care led response to diabetes service delivery
• Practice accreditation across a network; enabling practices
• Preventing falls in older people with visual impairment – not as straightforward as it seems
• Interpretation of liver enzyme tests – A rapid guide\
• Musculoskeletal imaging
• Cochrane Corner: Co-trimoxazole is an effective treatment for head lice
• Food allergy
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Commissioner’s Comment: A baby harmed by poor prescribing and dispensing
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Rural health – Lessons from Scotland
• A brief editorial on the state of family medicine in the US
• Australian and New Zealand medical education for rural practice
• Medical education into the future
• Changes in AUDIT scores of Auckland general practitioner patients from 1995 to 2003
• Identification and quantification of medication returned to Otago pharmacies
• Outcomes of the implementation of the Cornerstone General Practice Accreditation Programme Wellington, RNZCGP: 2007
• Croup
• Hypertension update
• Assessment and management of thyroid nodules in general practice
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Cochrane Corner: Nicotine receptor partial agonists are probably the most effective treatment to stop smoking
• Professional probity post-Fernando: A terrible beauty is born
• Do you know your legal obligations with regard to the National Cervical Screening Programme?
• Diagnosis – a logical consideration of the Science of Medicine
• An excerpt from an interview with Dr Eric Elder by Niall Holland in September 1995
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

Download August 2007 issue of New Zealand Family Physician

• Simplicity on the other side of complexity: A commentary on the challenge posed by chronic conditions in the general practice setting 
• Teamwork: A fundamental principle of primary health care and an essential prerequisite for effective management of chronic conditions
• Thinking beyond Care Plus: The work of primary health care nurses in chronic conditions programmes
• Long-term conditions and Care Plus: Local implementation
• Practice nurses’ experiences of the Care Plus programme: A qualitative descriptive study
• Chronic care management within a rural primary health organisation
• Clinicians at work: What can we learn from interactions in the consultation?
• Audit of referral for retinal photo screening for patients with diabetes in general practice
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Mental illness in people with intellectual disability
• Starting the use of probiotics in general practice?
• Cochrane Corner: Organised systems of regular follow-up and review can improve blood pressure control 
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Doin’ the 12-step: What health professionals can gain from this
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Are you my generalist or the specialist of my care?
• Generalism – the challenge of functional and somatising illnesses
• Interprofessional learning: The solution to collaborative practice in primary care
• The ‘good doctor’: Older people’s perceptions
• Comparing clinical outcomes of diabetic patients in NZ and the UK
• Medical emergencies in rural practice
• Advances in the management of age-related macular degeneration
• Medical management of rheumatoid arthritis
• Persistent cough in children
• Cochrane Corner: Antibiotics may be helpful for human bites but possibly not for animal bites
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Normative neuropsychological data: Do we need them in New Zealand?
• Reflecting on cultural competency
• Journal Review Service Journal: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Primary options for acute care: Cellulitis management in Counties Manukau DHB
• New interface approaches for telemedicine
• Another old remedy may be a ‘new’ treatment for acne: using the Cochrane controlled trials register
• Update on the use of Colchicine
• Using Ultrabroadband Internet in a critical clinical application
• ‘Really simple, summary, bang! That’s what I need.’ – Clinical information needs of New Zealand general practitioners and the resources they use to meet them
• Advancing technology
• Communication in practice: Auckland general practitioners reflect on communication events and identify their training needs
• Rural communities with direct access to metropolitan technology: Possibility or dreaming?
• Hot health websites from Bruce Arroll
• The early detection of prostate cancer in general practice: Supporting patient choice
• How will we cope? – WHEN the pandemic comes
• Pandemic influenza teaching available for general practice
• Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Long acting beta agonists – where are we at with safety
• Party pills – how little is known?
• A renaissance of true consultation?

• Diagnostics in Emergency Medicine
• Falls prevention strategy Towards a New Zealand free of injury from falls
• Another old remedy may be a ‘new’ treatment for aphthous ulcers
• Complementary and alternative medication and alternative therapy use by nursing home residents
• Management of anaphylaxis
• Cardiac arrest management: NZRC guidelines 2006
• The 2005 RNZCGP Oration
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Multiple service use in primary health care
• Planning for an emergency – avian flu
• Delivering improved chronic disease outcomes in primary care: An affordable, achievable and sustainable pragmatic approach for primary care – The Foundation Program
• GPs – do we need to change our name?
• What to do at the scene of a road crash
• Elegy for a country doctor Peter Grahame Snow 1934–2006

• New Zealand practice nursing in the third millennium: Key issues in 2006
• The future of practice nursing
• Why nurses in NZ stay working in rural areas
• Nursing on Stewart Island
• The RNZCGP Annual Conference
• The benefits for house surgeons of a three-month rural general practice run: First responses from a longitudinal study of rural trainees
• General practitioners’ actual and scheduled charges for consultations with children and the elderly in South Island PHOs
• Problem gamblers and their families can be helped by their GP
• Hidden under the covers: Pressure ulcers in primary care
• Managing leg ulcers – it’s not rocket science
• Tai chi for fall prevention and health
• Obesity in children
• Cochrane Corner: Acyclovir as another treatment for pityriasis rosea
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• GP midwifery, towards an alternative history
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• Steadfast flexibility: Supporting good practice
• Towards a practical solution for depression in general practice
• Self-management support: A win-win solution for the 21st century
• Increasing abdominal girth: The importance of clinical examination
• The use of totarol to treat acne in an adolescent:  A case study
• An audit of general practice excisions
• Otitis externa
• The power of the family in general practice: Enhance your effectiveness when caring for anorexia nervosa patients
• Peripheral vertigo in general practice
• Cochrane Corner: Hypertension in the elderly: When to start and when to stop
• Hothealth websites
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

Download August 2006 issue of New Zealand Family Physician

• Te Akoranga a Maui
• Maori experiences of primary health care: Breaking down the barriers
• A Maori medical model of cultural supervision
• Developing cultural competency in accordance with the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act
• A report on cultural competence training provided for two PHOs
• Cultural democracy: The way forward for primary care of hard to reach New Zealanders
• Prevalence of late-life depression at a primary care clinic in Christchurch
• Neuropathic pain
• The management of benign skin lesions
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Cochrane Corner: Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome
• The Mental Health Line
• Management of patients waiting for a first specialist assessment: Responsibilities of DHBs, specialists and GPs
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit
  
   

• Calcium metabolism: Reflections on learning and teaching in general practice
• Whither general practice education in the next 5–15 years?
• Education for general practice: Where are we going in the next fifteen years?
• The future of general practice education
• Prescribing information resources: Use and preference by New Zealand general practitioners
• The deprivation profile and ethnicity of Healthline callers
• Pterygia and pinguecula
• Hip problems in general practice
• Diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnoea
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Cochrane Corner: Whisper test is a good screen test for hearing
• Patient-centered care
• RNZCGP Oration 2006: Midlife ideals and lack of balance
• The bleeding nose
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit

• General practitioner use of delayed prescriptions for antibiotics: A cross-sectional survey
• Universal screening of newborns for hearing impairment in New Zealand
• Four ways to improve the use of respiratory drugs in rest home
• Modern management of tendon problems
• Oral and topical NSAIDs for tennis elbow
• Commissioner’s Comment Ovarian cancer and expert advice
• Drug misuse in modern sport: Are cheats still winning?
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Anterior knee pain Diagnosis and management
• Oral contraceptives and thrombosis – a follow-up
• Medicine – a dysfunctional culture
• Addressing inequalities and improving health outcomes in patients at high risk of diabetes complication
• Reviewing the doctor who practises complementary, alternative or unconventional medicine (CAM)
• Concussion in sport

• A study on back and shoulder pain in a random sample of the Auckland public
• Has general practice changed
• The business of general practice
• General practice: Sound business practice
• Spironolactone is effective for hirsutism
• Getting on with the business of general practice
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• The funding has changed – We need to change the business model
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Workplace bullying – the facts
• The myth of short term acute low back pain
• After hours care and the death of urban general practice in New Zealand
• The business of general practice
• Hypertrichosis and hirsutism
• Assessing performance 8: How to avoid a competence review
• How well does a telephone triage service meet the needs of older people?
• Palliative care knowledge of some South Island GPs

• Counselling in primary care is effective in the short term
• Comparison of general practitioner and practice nurse perceived barriers to immunisation uptake
• Good communication skills: Benefits for doctors and patients
• Information, EBM, and the art of general practice
• Diagnosis and management of endometriosis
• Problem alcohol drinkers: Detecting and intervening
• Disentangling doctors and drug companies: Will New Zealand lead the way?
• An epidemic of depression or the medicalisation of unhappiness
• New horizons, old values Remaking the reputation of generalism in a changed world
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• A comparison of health care in Singapore and New Zealand: The influence of society and culture
• New horizons – celebrating the art of general practice
• Efficacy of therapies, other than HRT, for menopausal symptoms
• Commissioner’s Comment Missed diagnosis of myocardial infarction
• Improving the results of surgical excision of skin lesions

• Urinary tract infections in elderly women
• Hypothyroidism and the elderly
• Managing stroke: Key principles and updates
• Gout and its management – the devil is in the detail
• Strategies for dealing with the challenging patient
• Changing assessment processes in Older Person’s Health: Some Canterbury Tales
• The fountain of age: A viewpoint
• Safe driving for older people: Some evidence and some practice tips
• Medication use in residential care
• Implementing Significant Event Management in general practice – potential barriers and solutions
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Science, society, suffering and the self: A commentary on general practice for the twenty first century
• Focus on child health: A quality improvement initiative
• Buying time: Therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer’s disease 

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• Buying time: Therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer’s disease
• A reply and a review of the management of eczema using only fully subsidised medications
• ACC and tai chi
• Treatment for irritable bowel
• Cornerstone: The General Practice Accreditation Programme
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• The black hole of general practice manpower
• Coxibs controversy 
• The story of Cornerstone: A brief history on the development of general practice accreditation in New Zealand
• Stopping the clock: Therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer’s disease
• Cornerstone: building quality practice systems
• Complaints, hindsight bias, and the short-circuit of grief into grievance
  
   

• Is a concentration on generalist medical practitioners the solution to the New Zealand health workforce crisis?
• Working on salary for Newtown Union Health Service
• Collaboration is the only way
• Health care and a new primary medical care model – lessons from the United Kingdom and Australia
• Targeted health checks by nurses in general practice: Are they feasible? Sexual abuse counselling: Treatment rates provided by psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors under ACC funding
• Immunisation knowledge and beliefs of health science and non-health science students at the University of Otago
• Acne 
• The use of natriuretic peptides in contemporary management of heart failure
• Thyrotoxicosis: Pathophysiology, assessment and management
• POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Education for general practice: Where are we going in the next fifteen years?
• Practical Solutions
• The deprivation profile and ethnicity of Healthline callers
• RNZCGP Oration 2006: Midlife ideals and lack of balance
• Calcium metabolism Reflections on learning and teaching in general practice

• General practice emergencies in ophthalmology
• Cochrane Corner Fracture prevention in postmenopausal women
• The assessment and management of common male sexual difficulties in family practice
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• The management of mental disorders: A small sample of Auckland based general practitioners
• Perspective on the primary care treatment of leptospirosis
• Emergency contraception
• Assessing performance 1: There but for the Grace of God go I
• Should all general practitioners be vocationally registered
• Assessing performance – a personal view
• Performance appraisal – a need or a want?

• Practical evidence-based internet resources
• Asian language school student and primary care patient responses to a screening tool detecting concerns about risky lifestyle behaviours
• Persistent pain in older adults – we can do better!
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matter
• What is good general practice? Three different views
• Management of inflammatory joint disease
• The pain of it all
• Mainly on morphine and methadone and pain in palliative care in New Zealand in 2004
• Patient-Physician Relationship, III
• Migraine Some answers to some challenging questions
• Assessing performance 2: How should the underperforming doctor be identified?
• Low back pain management in primary care

• Low dose tricyclic antidepressants for depression
• The changing face of coeliac disease
• Management of acute asthma in children
• The complexity of perfection
• Complexity and uncertainty as the links between science and the humanities in general practice
• Going forth: The career aspirations of general practice trainees 2000–2003
• Shades of grey: Complexity in health care of older people
• Management of common infections in general practice
• Complexity – not as complicated as it looks
• Commissioner’s Comment Oral contraceptives and thrombosis
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Those were the days…
• Universal electronic health records: A qualitative study of lay perspectives
• Issues with medical certificates
• Assessing performance 3: How well can peers and patients rate a doctor’s performance?
• Low back pain – It doesn’t need to be a pain in the butt

• The public and private interface in New Zealand primary health care
• Decongestants and antihistamines for the common cold
• Maori health - the challenge
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Many North Island rural general practitioners appear not to use Internet websites as a frequent source of health information
• Management of common infections in general practice: Part 2
• Massage therapy and complementary and alternative medicine: Attitudes and use among general practitioners and patients in Auckland, New Zealand
• New challenges in vaccinology
• What’s new in hypertension?
• Obesity prevention
• Parent views on school based immunisation A survey of parents of year 1 and 6 in three diverse Auckland schools
• Towards a culture of supporting professional development for primary care professionals: A key component of successfully implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy
• Assessing performance 4: Reviewing communication skills
• Management of atrial fibrillation in the elderly
• Looking upstream: A user’s guide to disease prevention

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• Erythromycin may be effective for pityriasis rosea: using the Cochrane controlled trials register
• Therapeutic monitoring of warfarin – an audit of monitoring protocols and outcomes
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• How cultural differences impact on my consultations
• Quality in general practice and involvement in teaching; is there an association?
• Culturally sensitive general practice
• Clinical skills lab at the annual RNZCGP Conference 2004
• Children’s understanding of the role of medicines in treating infectious illnesses
• Dermoscopy and the diagnosis of melanoma
• Commissioner’s Comment Follow-up of specialist referrals
• Immunisation education in the antenatal period
• What do academic GPs do and how is that related to the College
• Cultural contrasts
• Assessing performance 5: Assessing knowledge
• Halitosis – raising a stink
• College response to HDC
• Foreign Chinese students in New Zealand
  
   

• Do vocationally registered GPs obtain better outcomes than other GPs?
• Antidepressants are effective for dysthymia but what is dysthymia?
• Managing depression in primary health care
• Long-term outcome of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Resolution – or practitioner inattention?
• Mental health in general practice and primary care
• Insulin therapy in Type 2 diabetes
• Whither primary mental health care
• Fatty liver
• Is there hope in palliative care?
• A multi-disciplinary focus for primary care research
• The compassion meter: An important diagnostic instrument?
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Assessing performance 6: Reviewing proceduralists
• Self-mutilation among adolescents and youth: Some clinical perspectives
• The Otago Exercise Programme: An evidence-based approach to falls prevention for older adults living in the community

• Delayed prescriptions: Evolution of an innovation
• Screening in normal risk adults
• Family Medicine Equals Power
• Symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia
• Gendered approaches to health policy – how does this impact on men’s health
• Controversies and questions in the management of deep vein thrombosis
• Strategy rests on shoulders of general practice team
• Information management and patients’ rights
• Functional somatic syndromes or dysfunctional somatic syndromes?
• Humanity in an ‘e’ world
• Vital signs of privacy: Old verities in the new world
• Crisis calls to Healthline
• Understanding the conflicts of disability
• Plantar fasciitis

• The treatment of hypertension in the metabolic syndrome
• What’s new in using blood pressure medication
• Dyslipidaemia and the metabolic syndrom
• ADHD in adults
• Launch of online alcohol workshop
• Traditional slide Pap smears are not out of date
• Thiazolidenediones and the metabolic syndrome
• Setting boundaries around the physical disciplining of children in New Zealand
• Telephone triage reduces out-of-hours work for country doctors
• Patients’ and general practitioners’ attitudes towards complementary medicine in Wanganui, New Zealand
• The metabolic syndrome as a contributor to morbidity or: How fat in the gut causes heart attacks
  June 

• WONCA Europe 2002/RCGP 50th Jubilee Conference
• Antibiotics for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Measuring physical activity in primary health care research: Validity and reliability of two questionnaires
• Community-based opioid detoxification – future roles for GPs?
• The Dunedin RNZCGP Research Unit Computer Research Network: an update to 2003 and beyond
• Fractures of the upper extremity
• Antimicrobial resistance: are we losing the war?
• The importance of continuity of care in emerging primary health care organisations
• Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• A united approach to COPD management
• General practice and the quest for unity
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – issues in primary care
• Nortriptyline: Cheap and effective medication now approved for smoking cessation
• Singing the praises of Occupational Therapy
• COPD: Definition, epidemiology and diagnosis
  
   

• Euthanasia – Ethical issues
• Caesarean section
• Partner abuse – recognition and management in general practice
• Corticosteroids for shoulder pain
• Advancing understanding of medical errors in general practice: A discussion of recent research from the American Academy of Family Physicians
• ‘Positive Partners, Strong Families’ – evaluation of a community-based communication and conflict resolution course for couples
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• General practice research in New Zealand and the world: a report from the WONCA Invitational Conference on Research in Family Medicine
• Ethics: four levels for GPs
• Examining the general practice workforce of rural Northland
• Infant environmental tobacco smoke exposure following a smoking in pregnancy intervention programme
• Maori callers to a telephone triage service

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• Why are guidelines not used and what can be done to change that?
• Treatment for leg cramps
• Benefits of best practice guidelines: Evaluating and applying the evidence
• Clinical disagreement: A silent topic in general practice
• Doctors developing patient trust: Perspectives from the United States and New Zealand
• Attending an arrest – a personal reflection
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Using adolescent and parent simulated patients
• Partner abuse
• The heart, the passion of general practice
• Primary Health Organisations, communities and the underlying determinants of health
• The management of tinnitus
• Evidence-based medicine in primary care: Perils and pitfalls
• Practical approach to viral hepatitis in New Zealand
   

• Is avoidance of chronic, moderate-severe child asthma a potentially non-adaptive response by patients and informal caregivers? Over the counter treatment for acute cough
• Over the counter treatment for acute cough
• Common questions in inflammatory bowel disease
• What is general practice research?
• Prescribing in New Zealand general practice: Part 1
• Prescribing in New Zealand general practice: Part 2
• What constitutes good research in general practice?
• Questionnaire development for the management of mental disorders in general practice
• Asking good research questions in general practice
• Chlamydia – the young adults’ epidemic
• Genetics and genetic testing: Questions, answers and case scenarios
• POEMs Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
• Self-administered cattle selenium supplement
  
  

• Prescribing costs – whose responsibility?
• Finding a better balance between pharmaceutical supply and demand – a medicinal issue
• Editorial: to write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard 
• Paediatric prescribing in New Zealand
• Repeat prescribing practice in New Zealand
• Can community service card possession be used to measure need?
• Asthma, allergy and the hygiene hypothesis
• Assessing Capacity
• Interpretation of an elevated serum ferritin
• How the professional mentor works; paradigms and our thinking as GPs – example: anxiety and panic
• Cochrane Corner: At last an effective treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding
• Philosophy in general practice: the concept of recognition
• Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit
  
  

• Smoking cessation – a cheap medication is now available
• Rural health – a barometer of the health of New Zealand
• Otitis externa
• Interpretation of liver enzyme tests – a rapid guide
• Recommendations for GPs regarding imaging with respect to low back pain: A modified Delphi and evidence-based study
• GP management and referral of low back pain: A Delphi and evidence-based study
• Infectious diarrhoea – a laboratory perspective
• Retention before recruitment – creating the contexts of sustainable rural health services
• Grass roots rurality
• Wonca’s smallest, most remote meeting
• Auditor General’s Report on the Purchasing of Primary Health Care Provided in General Practice
• The holidays at Healthline
• Rural health academic units: Education and research by rural practitioners, for rural practitioners in the rural setting
• Rural surgery

• Four clinical guidelines – their use and usefulness to GPs
• Nocturnal enuresis 
• Do you smoke? Trainee intern GP project
• Management or opioid treatment in the primary health care setting 
• The 2002 College Conference 
• Treaty obligations 
• Schizophrenia, drugs and diabetes
• Vulnerable people
• Perspectives on co-morbidity or substand misuse and mental illness among youth
• Management of type 2 diabetes 
• Learning how to care for people with intellectual disabilities 
• The health car of people with intellectual disabilities 
   

• Attitudes about genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility: A survey of general practitioners, medical students, and women in the northern region of New Zealand
• Weight loss: what works and what doesn’t
• Still a time to be mature?
• The persistent dry mouth
• Update on infertility Assessment and management in primary care
• Does changing Dihydropyridine Calcium Channel Blockers for subsidy reasons affect blood pressure control? 
• Uses of information management and technology in postgraduate education for general practice
• New roles, new rules and new challenges for general practice
• A year in Zimbabwe – facing the reality of AIDS
• The ‘wired’ practice – what’s new in Primary Care IT?
• New Zealand mothers’ knowledge of and attitudes towards immunisation

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• Echocardiography, congestive heart failure and integrated care
• Better Maori health living in a healthy environment
• Reflection on the previous work of Maori doctors in their communities: Sir Maui Pomare, Sir Rangi Hiroa and Dr Tutere Wi Repa
• Upper respiratory tract infections: what you can do if you don’t prescribe antibiotics
• My life as a Raglan GP
• Workload, interventions and outcome in general practice obstetrics: An analysis of six and a half years of obstetric care
• Lessons to be learned from THE HEALTH AND DISABILITY COMMISSIONER’S FINDINGS, Sexual abuse
• Culturally competent health care
• Perspectives on the delivery of population health services in primary care
• Neuropsychological features of dementia
• Letter from the West Island
• The whakapapa of Maori doctors in Aotearoa NZ
• Prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
• Maori health – Maori don’t need a ‘begging bowl’
• Te Ohu Rata O Aotearoa
• A clinical approach to white patches in the mouth

• Warts: what is effective and what is not
• Chronic fatigue syndrome – a patient-centered approach
• Meeting’d out: Is internet CME the answer?
• Lessons to be learned from THE HEALTH AND DISABILITY COMMISSIONER’S FINDINGS
• Fibromyalgia: An opportunity to explore the human experience of disability, and the implications for rehabilitation
• Vocation, Vocation, Vocation Rural general practice – a pathway to eldership
• General practice changes in South Auckland from 1990 to 1999: A threat to continuity of care?
• Skin testing in asthma and hay fever
• Understanding the patient with medically unexplained disorders – a patient-centred approach
• The fruits of unbelief
• Just a little prick!
• Opting out: Why patients change doctors
• Barriers to childhood immunisation among New Zealand mothers
• Low back pain – a brief summary
• Chelation therapy for ischaemic heart disease
• On the pathophysiology of ME/CFS
• Reminiscences of the chronic fatigue syndrome
• Current issues in hormonal contraception
• Functional somatic complaints in children and adolescents: What could be beneath the veil?

• A health promotion audit methodology based on repeated assessments of absolute rise
• Dementia: the privilege of caring
• Is your practice elder-friendly?
• The elderly: A personal perspective
• Detecting and monitoring risk in older people
• Hot tips on managing the elderly
• The Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act
• Age-related hearing loss: pitfalls and problems
• Survey of North Shore residents’ views of general practice

• Cognitive behaviour therapy and the management of chronic pain 
• Possible ways to reverse the increase in pertussis incidence
• Recommendations for pain management in palliative care
• Pain management in palliative care: a modified Delphi consultation study
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux in children
• How good is your doctor? 
• A study of the management of post myocardial infarction patients after discharge from hospital
• Neuromuscular disorders (I)
  Abnormal vaginal discharge

• Men’s health – a neglected area?
• Improving melanoma detection in general practice
• Ethical dimensions of New Zealand rural general practice
• Primary prevention of ischaemic heart disease in men with an emphasis on lipid modification
• GPs’ preferences for vocational education through flexible learning
• Drained rural colleagues seek peace of mind
• Erectile dysfunction: an overview
• Andropause: fact or fiction?
  
  

• Is digitalis effective in congestive heart failure in patients in sinus rhythm?
• The weaver’s tale
• Osteoarthritis in the hand
• Member views on RNZCGP education and standards programmes
• The future of General Practice
• Immunisation adverse reaction monitoring through the use of parent-held diaries\
• Millennium 2000 questions for allChronic lower leg pain in active people
• Drug-related morbidity and mortality – the elderly at risk
• A shared voice for primary care
• Passion Oration given to the RNZCGP, June 2001
• Rural general practitioners in New Zealand: November 1999 census
• Special Interest Groups in the College
• Who are the GPs of New Zealand?

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• Dermoscopy in melanoma diagnosis
• Treating phimosis
• Time out to do a DIH
• Does combining inhaled ipratropium bromide with beta2agonists for initial treatment of acute asthma in children result in improved outcomes?
• Continuing Professional Development or Compulsory Re-accreditation?
• Maintaining professional standards
• The maintenance of professional competence
• Skin diseases that affect the mouth
• Update on barium x-ray examinations of the gastro-intestinal tract
• Explaining suffering and healing: A comparison of Pentecostal and secular general practitioner
• Dermoscopy in melanoma diagnosis
• Deprivation profiles in Wellington IPA practice
• Does follow-up telephone support encourage general practitioners to continue using an alcohol screening and brief intervention programme?
• Osteoporosis Case Studies
• Aiming for Excellence: The outcome
• Optimism on health quality at launch of Practice Standards
• PACman and Mrs MOPS
• Keystone III

• Are ACE inhibitors effective in preventing microalbuminuria and the progression of early diabetic renal disease to end stage renal failure?
• The strategic direction of maternity care in New Zealand
• Evaluation of the Otago diabetes guidelines
• The strength of the generalist
• Practice teams helping parents improve nutrition for children
• What trainee interns experience on their general practice run
• Blinding, randomisation and authority within clinical trials
• The loneliness of the long distance computer geek Social isolation and computer use in children
• RNZCGP 2002–2004 Maintenance of Professional Standards Programme
• Policy Manifesto – a vital tool that needs your input
• Cervical screening in general practice
• Pharmacy prescription additions
• No more playing aeroplanes at dinner
• The general practitioner as paediatrician
• Through tragedy comes change

• Vulval pain disorders
• Reactive arthritis
• Using computers to screen adolescent substance use
• Reversal of persistent cytolysis in cervical smears by alkaline douching
• The challenge continues for rural GPs
• Staging, treatment and current investigations for breast cancer - a GP perspective

• Diagnosis of rare complication by teledermatology
• It'll never happen to me!
• How I stopped worrying and learnt to love the bomb!
• Self-care offers GPs better and longer lives
• What we need to know about the DHAS
• A Toast to doctor health
• Doctors on the verge of a nervous breakdown

• Assessment of the patient with joint pain
• The collection of patient ethnicity data:  a challenge for general practice
• Spondyloarthropathies and their diagnosis
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis and its long term outcome
• Cameras, lights , WONCA!

• Sick of the flu? A study of the influenza vaccine: prevalence and patient awareness in general practice
• When antidepressants don't work well: pharmacological options to improve the response
• Treating anxiety - with a focus on panic disorder
• Lessons learned from a green prescription evaluation too many layers, too many players
• Millennium 2000 - questions for all
• Treating drug addiction in general practice
• The case for routine antenatal HIV screening
• Schizophrenia in old age
• Guidelines for youth suicide prevention
• Mental health spectres linger
  
   

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• The diagnosis and treatment of acute maxillary sinusitis
• When is a UTI really an STI
• HRT use by New Zealand women: knowledge, reasons for use and information sources
• New quality standards to raise patient safety
• Pegasus initiative to reduce antibiotic use
• Topical antibiotics - more harm than good? 
• Self-care for GPs: the role of supervision

• Decision making New Zealand women speak about doctors and HRT
• Fifteen years of structural reform – where to now
• Inequities in public primary care expenditure in the Auckland region
• Diabetes care in general practice
• Why would clinicians want to participate in disease management?
• Direct access echocardiography as a heart failure disease management tool
• Patient-held care plans for New Zealand

• Antibiotics and the common cold: patient demand v need
• Accurate diagnosis often difficult in sinusitis
• Acute dizziness: initial assessment and management
• ‘Not an easy task’: first time motherhood – the role of the GP
• Patient self-management in chronic fatigue syndrome: an action research study
• Which vaginal antifungals are safe to use with condoms?
• Maternity care under consumer spotlight

• Care of the dying can increase your job satisfaction
• GPs and chiropractors: an improving relationship
• Nurse prescribing lack primary care input
• The role of sentinel networks in general practice research in New Zealand and internationally
• Canterbury medication reviews: a case series review of the medications of nine IHC clients

• Nurse prescribing gathers steam
• Poliovirus in New Zealand 1915-1997
• Making Read Codes easy and useful in New Zealand general practice: a simplified approach to the classification of Reasons for Encounter
• A cautionary tale of tendonitis
• Antibiotic resistance and the GP: when less is more
• Genetically engineered food - the right to say no
• Balancing GP responsibility between practice and patient
• Just how unsafe is Ciproxin in paediatrics?

• Rural health care needs incentives
• The use of interpreters by South Auckland GPs
• Predicting the next measles epidemic
• Converse and celebrate your freedom
• Active treatment of colorectal hepatic metastases

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• Episcope use speeds melanoma detection
• New standards hasten move to teleradiology
• Does education improve GPs' skin surgery?
• Practice Nurses in the Waikato, 1991-1992: What was their patient mix and pattern of care?
• Less invasive options on hand for menorrhagia
• Technology catches up with rheumatology
• Loose lips will save hips
• Assessing fracture risk with bone densitometry
• To be like any good GP: a qualitative study of GPVTP participants' perceptions of learning general practice
• Hounded by head lines, GPs must take a stand

• The common cold: what does the public think and want?
• Being the spouse of a general practitioner
• Travel health advice: too big for general practice?
• Practice standards are go!
• Sore throat diagnosis and management in a general practice after-hours service
• Emerging diseases present a major health challenge