18 September 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7212)

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Editor's Choice

Take your partners for the dance

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Take your partners for the dance

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

News

DrKoop.com criticised for mixing information with advertising

BMJ 1999;319:727.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Unbalanced presentation of facts breaks UK drug adverts code

BMJ 1999;319:727.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Patients satisfied with nurse run practices

BMJ 1999;319:728.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Doctor disciplined for “grossly undertreating” pain

BMJ 1999;319:728.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:728.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Patients asked to judge quality of care they receive in hospital

BMJ 1999;319:729.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Review clears Brompton surgeons

BMJ 1999;319:729.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Australia's consumer champion

BMJ 1999;319:730 (Published 18 September 1999)

Editorials

Paternalism or partnership?

BMJ 1999;319:719 (Published 18 September 1999)

The increasing importance of patient surveys

BMJ 1999;319:720 (Published 18 September 1999)

The challenge of lay partnership

BMJ 1999;319:721 (Published 18 September 1999)

Gaining informed consent for screening

BMJ 1999;319:722 (Published 18 September 1999)

Involving patients in clinical research

BMJ 1999;319:724 (Published 18 September 1999)

Shared decision making in a publicly funded health care system

BMJ 1999;319:725.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Patient partnership is not a magic formula

BMJ 1999;319:783.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Patient participation cannot guarantee empowerment

BMJ 1999;319:783.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Patient-partners may be political correctness gone too far

BMJ 1999;319:783.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Doctors should help patients to communicate better with them

BMJ 1999;319:784.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Cultural diversity matters

BMJ 1999;319:784.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Whether patients should be partners depends on the patient

BMJ 1999;319:784.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Health library in India works to empower patients

BMJ 1999;319:785.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Patients can educate doctors about long term disease

BMJ 1999;319:785.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Dying patients need a good relationship with their doctor

BMJ 1999;319:785.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

People with learning disabilities should be partners too

BMJ 1999;319:786.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Letters - continued

Patient information is often misleading

BMJ 1999;319:786.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Reorganisations often benefit administrators rather than patients

BMJ 1999;319:786.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Media have key role in shaping use of health services

BMJ 1999;319:786.4 (Published 18 September 1999)

Taking medicines: concordance is not compliance

BMJ 1999;319:787.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Patients are important links in the healthcare chain

BMJ 1999;319:787.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Encouraging HIV positive people to participate in clinical trials

BMJ 1999;319:787.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Cochrane Collaboration welcomes patient participation

BMJ 1999;319:788.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Educating patients helps the NHS

BMJ 1999;319:788.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Government wants patient partnership to be integral part of NHS

BMJ 1999;319:788.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Clinical Review

Guided self management of asthma—how to do it

BMJ 1999;319:759 (Published 18 September 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:794 (Published 18 September 1999)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:725.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Entering the minds of the elderly

BMJ 1999;319:737 (Published 18 September 1999)

Next best thing

BMJ 1999;319:757.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Multiple operations on a single patient

BMJ 1999;319:757.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

There is another way

BMJ 1999;319:758 (Published 18 September 1999)

On the power of communication

BMJ 1999;319:782 (Published 18 September 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Sharing decisions is uncomfortable for GP registrars

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 18 September 1999)

More time and better continuity improve outcome at general practice consultations

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 18 September 1999)

Decision aids do improve patients' decision making

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 18 September 1999)

Graphs showing risks help communication

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 18 September 1999)

Communities' assessment of their own needs will improve quality of humanitarian aid

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 18 September 1999)

Staff and parents want notes kept at foot of child's bed

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 18 September 1999)

Papers

Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: systematic review

BMJ 1999;319:731 (Published 18 September 1999)

Staff and family attitudes to keeping joint medical and nursing notes at the foot of the bed: questionnaire survey

BMJ 1999;319:735 (Published 18 September 1999)

Clinical and psychosocial predictors of illness duration from randomised controlled trial of prescribing strategies for sore throat

BMJ 1999;319:736 (Published 18 September 1999)

General practice

Quality at general practice consultations: cross sectional survey

BMJ 1999;319:738 (Published 18 September 1999)

Rapid appraisal of needs in reproductive health care in southern Sudan: qualitative study

BMJ 1999;319:743 (Published 18 September 1999)

General practice registrar responses to the use of different risk communication tools in simulated consultations: a focus group study

BMJ 1999;319:749 (Published 18 September 1999)

Towards a feasible model for shared decision making: focus group study with general practice registrars

BMJ 1999;319:753 (Published 18 September 1999)

Evaluation of questionnaire on cancer family history in identifying patients at increased genetic risk in general practice

BMJ 1999;319:757.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Education and debate

Promoting partnerships: challenges for the internet age

BMJ 1999;319:761 (Published 18 September 1999)

Helping patients access high quality health information

BMJ 1999;319:764 (Published 18 September 1999)

Framework for teaching and learning informed shared decision makingCommentary: Competencies for informed shared decision makingCommentary: Proposals based on too many assumptions

BMJ 1999;319:766 (Published 18 September 1999)

Acknowledging the expertise of patients and their organisations

BMJ 1999;319:771 (Published 18 September 1999)

Participatory research maximises community and lay involvement

BMJ 1999;319:774 (Published 18 September 1999)

Partnerships with children

BMJ 1999;319:778 (Published 18 September 1999)

What do we mean by partnership in making decisions about treatment?

BMJ 1999;319:780 (Published 18 September 1999)

Books

Patients, Power and Politics: From Patients to Citizens

BMJ 1999;319:789.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview

BMJ 1999;319:792.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Journal

Health Expectations

BMJ 1999;319:789.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

NETLINES

NETLINES

BMJ 1999;319:790 (Published 18 September 1999)

PRESS

Struck off, but why?

BMJ 1999;319:791 (Published 18 September 1999)

Personal Views

Clowning in hospitals is no joke

BMJ 1999;319:792.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

All change?

BMJ 1999;319:793.1 (Published 18 September 1999)

Soundings

On the beach

BMJ 1999;319:793.2 (Published 18 September 1999)

Career focus

Representing your colleagues

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7212 (Published 18 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7212 (Published 18 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7212 (Published 18 September 1999)