03 March 2001 (Vol 322, Issue 7285)

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Editor's Choice

Medical error: creeping from words to action

BMJ 2001;322:0.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Medical error: creeping from words to action

BMJ 2001;322:0.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

News

BMA may seek legal challenge over curbs on private practice

BMJ 2001;322:507 (Published 3 March 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;322:508.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

UK sets up fund to improve child health in Commonwealth

BMJ 2001;322:508.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Professor faces GMC for failure to prevent and report fraud

BMJ 2001;322:508.3 (Published 3 March 2001)

New UK guidance on resuscitation calls for open decision making

BMJ 2001;322:509.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Dutch GP found guilty of murder faces no penalty

BMJ 2001;322:509.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Breast feeding safer than mixed feeding for babies of HIV mothers

BMJ 2001;322:511.3 (Published 3 March 2001)

Increases in life expectancy likely to be smaller in future

BMJ 2001;322:512.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Bush's initiative could help groups that promote faith healing

BMJ 2001;322:512.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Editorials

Medical errors: a common problem

BMJ 2001;322:501 (Published 3 March 2001)

New approach to the consultant contract

BMJ 2001;322:502 (Published 3 March 2001)

Using clinical evidence

BMJ 2001;322:503 (Published 3 March 2001)

Higher dose inhaled corticosteroids in childhood asthma

BMJ 2001;322:504 (Published 3 March 2001)

Controlling infection in British nursing homes

BMJ 2001;322:506 (Published 3 March 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Not again!

BMJ 2001;322:548 (Published 3 March 2001)

Data protection and patients' consent

BMJ 2001;322:549 (Published 3 March 2001)

Safeguards for research using large scale DNA collections

BMJ 2001;322:551.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Mortality in joggers

BMJ 2001;322:551.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Accuracy of ATLS guidelines for predicting systolic blood pressure

BMJ 2001;322:552 (Published 3 March 2001)

Severity of overdose after restriction of paracetamol availability

BMJ 2001;322:553 (Published 3 March 2001)

Guidelines for prevention of falls in people aged over 65

BMJ 2001;322:554 (Published 3 March 2001)

Unicef is crucial in promoting and supporting breast feeding

BMJ 2001;322:555.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Evidence and belief in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

BMJ 2001;322:555.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Twins and asthma

BMJ 2001;322:556 (Published 3 March 2001)

Letters - continued

Eradicating Helicobacter pylori in non-ulcer dyspepsia may not be cost effective

BMJ 2001;322:557.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Tobacco industry must not dump its high nitrosamine tobacco on poor countries

BMJ 2001;322:557.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;322:564 (Published 3 March 2001)

Fillers

Freedom of press

BMJ 2001;322:525.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

The surgical treatment of migraine

BMJ 2001;322:526.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Importance of compassion

BMJ 2001;322:531.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Live and let live

BMJ 2001;322:537.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

Adverse events may cost NHS £1bn a year

BMJ 2001;322:0.6 (Published 3 March 2001)

A simple statement can increase women's understanding of a normal smear test result

BMJ 2001;322:0.8 (Published 3 March 2001)

Prostitutes working outdoors experience more violence than those working indoors

BMJ 2001;322:0.7 (Published 3 March 2001)

Young smokers participate in tobacco marketing schemes

BMJ 2001;322:0.3 (Published 3 March 2001)

Educational pack improves GP's management of menorrhagia

BMJ 2001;322:0.5 (Published 3 March 2001)

Researchers are positive about involving consumers in trials

BMJ 2001;322:0.4 (Published 3 March 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Blood pressure measuring devices: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension

BMJ 2001;322:531.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Liver abscesses and hydatid disease

BMJ 2001;322:537.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Blood pressure measuring devices: recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension

BMJ 2001;322:544 (Published 3 March 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Vaccine against cervical cancer virus passes phase 1 trials

BMJ 2001;322:510.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

UK child poverty falls by a third

BMJ 2001;322:510.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

UK seeks to prevent 50 000 winter deaths from “fuel poverty”

BMJ 2001;322:510.3 (Published 3 March 2001)

Women take four top jobs in health and social care in Wales

BMJ 2001;322:510.4 (Published 3 March 2001)

Protein can predict survival from breast cancer

BMJ 2001;322:510.5 (Published 3 March 2001)

Xenotransplantation unlikely to solve organ shortage in near future

BMJ 2001;322:510.6 (Published 3 March 2001)

Israeli doctors may now use cadavers for training purposes

BMJ 2001;322:511.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Catalan parliament pushes for legalisation of cannabis as therapy

BMJ 2001;322:511.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Irish government asked to pay obstetricians' insurance premiums

BMJ 2001;322:512.3 (Published 3 March 2001)

Internet drug trafficking needs international counter offensive

BMJ 2001;322:512.4 (Published 3 March 2001)

Israel gives health cover to children of illegal workers

BMJ 2001;322:512.5 (Published 3 March 2001)

Breast feeding safer than mixed feeding for babies of mothers with HIV

BMJ 2001;322:512.6 (Published 3 March 2001)

Papers

Cross sectional study of young people's awareness of and involvement with tobacco marketing

BMJ 2001;322:513 (Published 3 March 2001)

Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review

BMJ 2001;322:517 (Published 3 March 2001)

Involving consumers in designing, conducting, and interpreting randomised controlled trials: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2001;322:519 (Published 3 March 2001)

Management of menorrhagia: an audit of practices in the Anglia menorrhagia education study

BMJ 2001;322:523 (Published 3 March 2001)

Violence by clients towards female prostitutes in different work settings: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2001;322:524 (Published 3 March 2001)

Primary care

Women's understanding of a “normal smear test result”: experimental questionnaire based study

BMJ 2001;322:526.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Information in practice

Just in time information for clinicians: a questionnaire evaluation of the ATTRACT project

BMJ 2001;322:529 (Published 3 March 2001)

Publishing raw data and real time statistical analysis on e-journals

BMJ 2001;322:530 (Published 3 March 2001)

Education and debate

Reforming the contract of UK consultantsCommentary: To increase consultants' activity should not be the main aim

BMJ 2001;322:541 (Published 3 March 2001)

Books

Privacy and Confidentiality in Mental Health Care

BMJ 2001;322:560.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Tackling Inequalities: Where are we now and what can be done?

BMJ 2001;322:560.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Patient Care in Neurology

BMJ 2001;322:561.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Some Mother's Daughter: the Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence

BMJ 2001;322:561.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

PRESS

Blunders will never ceaseHow the media report medical errorsA risky business

BMJ 2001;322:562.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

Blunders will never cease

BMJ 2001;322:563.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Empowering consumers

BMJ 2001;322:562.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Soundings

How to be a health secretary

BMJ 2001;322:563.2 (Published 3 March 2001)

Corrections

Lipid concentrations and the use of lipid lowering drugs: evidence from a national cross sectional survey

BMJ 2001;322:525.1 (Published 3 March 2001)

John Woolley

BMJ 2001;322:559 (Published 3 March 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Ronald CanneyJohn (Jack) Douglas DaviesEdward Mervyn EvansColin McLaren MaddoxErnst PhilippJacob ShapiroEric Charles TillLeon J WarshawArthur WhitewrightStanley Fausst Yolles

BMJ 2001;322:558 (Published 3 March 2001)