The New Zealand medical journal
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To analyse the impact of receiving a medical complaint on doctors in New Zealand. ⋯ This study indicates that receiving a medical complaint has a significant negative impact on the doctor, and on important components of the doctor-patient relationship. It suggests that in the first few days and weeks after receiving a complaint, a doctor may need emotional and practising support. This study finds no evidence that the receipt of a complaint improves the delivery of patient care.
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Comparative Study
Caring for patients and families at the end of life: withdrawal of intensive care in the patient's home.
To describe our experience of transporting 17 intensive care patients home to die. ⋯ All the patients in this report were Maori or Polynesian and all families reported this as a positive experience. Since completion of this report, we have taken our first European patient home to die.
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This study examined basic aspects of knowledge and attitudes towards resuscitation in a New Zealand urban community. ⋯ Although attitudes of the community toward CPR are positive, theoretical knowledge relating to basic CPR is poor. This suggests that present community CPR educational strategies have limited efficacy.
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This study investigates whether work-related respiratory symptoms and acute falls in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), previously observed in current welders, are related to measured workplace exposures to total fume and metals. ⋯ Nickel exposure from metal inert gas (MIG) and tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding is associated with work-related respiratory symptoms and aluminium exposure from welding is associated with a fall in FEV1 of at least 5 % after 15 minutes of work.