18 March 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7237)

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Editor's Choice

Facing up to medical error

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Facing up to medical error

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

News

MPs call for safeguards for people with personality disorder

BMJ 2000;320:731.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Force feeding of Ian Brady declared lawful

BMJ 2000;320:731.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Type 2 diabetes is a major drain on resources

BMJ 2000;320:732.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Imitating Mickey Mouse can be dangerous

BMJ 2000;320:732.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:732.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

New standards set for abortion care

BMJ 2000;320:733.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Another option for Down's syndrome screening available

BMJ 2000;320:733.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Charity calls for help for people of Aral Sea area

BMJ 2000;320:734.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Doctors develop new treatment for cystic fibrosis

BMJ 2000;320:734.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

UK juniors to debate pay offer

BMJ 2000;320:734.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

Rate of HIV transmission among Africans in UK “underestimated”

BMJ 2000;320:735.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Adding fatty acids to baby milk improves development

BMJ 2000;320:735.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

US drug companies announce vaccine initiative

BMJ 2000;320:736.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Transplanted pancreatic stem cells can reverse diabetes in mice

BMJ 2000;320:736.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Doctors develop new treatment for cystic fibrosis

BMJ 2000;320:736.4 (Published 18 March 2000)

Editorials

Safe health care: are we up to it?

BMJ 2000;320:725 (Published 18 March 2000)

Medical error: the second victim

BMJ 2000;320:726 (Published 18 March 2000)

Accreditation's role in reducing medical errors

BMJ 2000;320:727 (Published 18 March 2000)

Why error reporting systems should be voluntary

BMJ 2000;320:728 (Published 18 March 2000)

Let's talk about error

BMJ 2000;320:730 (Published 18 March 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

PFI rides again

BMJ 2000;320:797 (Published 18 March 2000)

Choosing between home and hospital delivery

BMJ 2000;320:798 (Published 18 March 2000)

Helicobacter pylori and myocardial infection

BMJ 2000;320:799 (Published 18 March 2000)

Treatment of schizophrenia

BMJ 2000;320:800 (Published 18 March 2000)

Preventing pressure sores

BMJ 2000;320:801 (Published 18 March 2000)

World Trade Organisation agreements should be subject to health impact assessment

BMJ 2000;320:802 (Published 18 March 2000)

Letters - continued

Britain is ahead of US in dealing with misconduct

BMJ 2000;320:803.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Chinese hypnosis can cause qigong induced mental disorders

BMJ 2000;320:803.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Dental recalls are useful for detecting oral cancer

BMJ 2000;320:803.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

Carbon monoxide poisoning

BMJ 2000;320:804.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

More reluctance in accepting evidence on smoking and cancer

BMJ 2000;320:804.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Student publications

BMJ 2000;320:805.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Meningitis C immunisation is low among young people who are not in education

BMJ 2000;320:805.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:814 (Published 18 March 2000)

Fillers

The war in South Africa: “Comforts” and luxuries

BMJ 2000;320:750.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

When I use a word … nice?

BMJ 2000;320:750.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

Realising why

BMJ 2000;320:796.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

A cerebral massage?

BMJ 2000;320:796.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Lower error rates in reading radiographs can be sustained by redesigning the system

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

Portable computerised prescribing may reduce errors

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 18 March 2000)

A system approach to reducing error works better than focusing on individuals

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 18 March 2000)

Healthcare staff deny effects of stress and tiredness

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 18 March 2000)

Preventive home visits need improving

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 18 March 2000)

Older people suffer more adverse events but they have more complex care

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 18 March 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Reporting and preventing medical mishaps: lessons from non-medical near miss reporting systems

BMJ 2000;320:759 (Published 18 March 2000)

Acute limb ischaemia

BMJ 2000;320:764 (Published 18 March 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Coeliac disease specific antigen found

BMJ 2000;320:736.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

Irish government sets up inquiry into retained body organs

BMJ 2000;320:736.5 (Published 18 March 2000)

UK junior doctors will debate improved pay offer

BMJ 2000;320:736.6 (Published 18 March 2000)

Listen to patients, urges mental health report

BMJ 2000;320:736.7 (Published 18 March 2000)

Sex: when less means more

BMJ 2000;320:736.8 (Published 18 March 2000)

Papers

Reducing errors made by emergency physicians in interpreting radiographs: longitudinal study

BMJ 2000;320:737 (Published 18 March 2000)

Incidence and types of preventable adverse events in elderly patients: population based review of medical records

BMJ 2000;320:741 (Published 18 March 2000)

Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys

BMJ 2000;320:745 (Published 18 March 2000)

Papers - continued

Implementation of rules based computerised bedside prescribing and administration: intervention study

BMJ 2000;320:750.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

General practice

Effects of preventive home visits to elderly people living in the community: systematic review

BMJ 2000;320:754 (Published 18 March 2000)

Education and debate

Human error: models and management

BMJ 2000;320:768 (Published 18 March 2000)

System changes to improve patient safety

BMJ 2000;320:771 (Published 18 March 2000)

Epidemiology of medical error

BMJ 2000;320:774 (Published 18 March 2000)

How to investigate and analyse clinical incidents: Clinical Risk Unit and Association of Litigation and Risk Management protocol

BMJ 2000;320:777 (Published 18 March 2000)

On error management: lessons from aviation

BMJ 2000;320:781 (Published 18 March 2000)

Anaesthesiology as a model for patient safety in health care

BMJ 2000;320:785 (Published 18 March 2000)

Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals

BMJ 2000;320:788 (Published 18 March 2000)

Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety

BMJ 2000;320:791 (Published 18 March 2000)

Detecting and reporting medical errors: why the dilemma?

BMJ 2000;320:794 (Published 18 March 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Health secretary wants to expand NHS servicesHospital league tables are misleadingMinister orders review of GP's out of hours servicesBMA responds to CMO's proposals

BMJ 2000;320:808 (Published 18 March 2000)

Books

Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor get away with Murder

BMJ 2000;320:809.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Growing up in Britain: Ensuring a Healthy Future for Our Children

BMJ 2000;320:809.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

The Arts in Healthcare: Learning from Experience

BMJ 2000;320:810.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

CD

Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook on CD-ROM

BMJ 2000;320:810.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

TV

Sultans of spin

BMJ 2000;320:811.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Error in medicine

BMJ 2000;320:811.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Personal Views

Looking back …

BMJ 2000;320:812.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Plane speaking

BMJ 2000;320:813.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

NETLINES

Netlines

BMJ 2000;320:812.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Soundings

Crisis in the air

BMJ 2000;320:813.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Corrections

Reviews

BMJ 2000;320:753.1 (Published 18 March 2000)

Not time to put cot death to bed

BMJ 2000;320:753.2 (Published 18 March 2000)

Recent advances in intensive care

BMJ 2000;320:753.3 (Published 18 March 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

George Stirk AdamsWilliam Ernest BeerArdeshir Kavasji Boman-BehramWinston GothardMary HellierEric Edward JonesDermot Henry Graham MacQuaideRobert Leslie OakesNeil Justin O'DohertyWilliam Dumbreck RodenJagdish Chand TanejaJames Stretton Young

BMJ 2000;320:806 (Published 18 March 2000)