14 February 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7436)

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This Week In the BMJ

Identifying excessive mortality depends on test used

BMJ 2004;328:0.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Introducing Dr Foster's case notes

BMJ 2004;328:0.5 (Published 12 February 2004)

Does intraoperative death affect surgeons' subsequent practice?

BMJ 2004;328:0.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Statin use varies across Europe and is on the increase

BMJ 2004;328:0.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Practice based education increases delivery of preventive health care to children

BMJ 2004;328:0.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Editor's Choice

Abusing patients by denying them choice

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 12 February 2004)

Editorials

Where are we now with hormone replacement therapy?

BMJ 2004;328:357 (Published 12 February 2004)

Thalassaemia major: the murky story of deferiprone

BMJ 2004;328:358 (Published 12 February 2004)

Discrete choice experiments in health care

BMJ 2004;328:360 (Published 12 February 2004)

Facing up to surgical deaths

BMJ 2004;328:361 (Published 12 February 2004)

Dr Foster case notes

BMJ 2004;328:362 (Published 12 February 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Objective assessment of technical skills in surgery

BMJ 2004;328:403.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Objective assessment of technical skills in surgery

BMJ 2004;328:403.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Treating inguinal hernias

BMJ 2004;328:403.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Treating inguinal hernias

BMJ 2004;328:403.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Treating inguinal hernias

BMJ 2004;328:404.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Prevention of coronary heart disease

BMJ 2004;328:404.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Prevention of coronary heart disease

BMJ 2004;328:405.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Prevention of coronary heart disease

BMJ 2004;328:405.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Prevention of coronary heart disease

BMJ 2004;328:405.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Prevention of coronary heart disease

BMJ 2004;328:405.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Payment for coroners' postmortem examinations

BMJ 2004;328:406.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Payment for coroners' postmortem examinations

BMJ 2004;328:406.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Omega 3 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2004;328:406.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Omega 3 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2004;328:406.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Omega 3 fatty acids and cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2004;328:406.5 (Published 12 February 2004)

Making Amends misses the point

BMJ 2004;328:407.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Doctors are tending to be perceived as inherently bad

BMJ 2004;328:407.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Tsars are the limit

BMJ 2004;328:407.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

News

Government task force needed to tackle obesity

BMJ 2004;328:363.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Reid reduces targets for NHS

BMJ 2004;328:363.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

News - continued

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:364.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Smoking is causing impotence, miscarriages, and infertility

BMJ 2004;328:364.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Increase in autism is due to changes in diagnosis, study claims

BMJ 2004;328:364.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Controversial disease dropped from Prozac product information

BMJ 2004;328:365.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

South African doctors march in protest

BMJ 2004;328:365.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Follow up for childhood cancer survivors needs clarification

BMJ 2004;328:365.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Report accuses NHS of institutional racism

BMJ 2004;328:367.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Scientists have uncovered the structure of 1918 flu virus

BMJ 2004;328:368.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Mortality from avian flu is higher than in previous outbreak

BMJ 2004;328:368.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Biofeedback for pelvic floor dysfunction in constipation

BMJ 2004;328:393 (Published 12 February 2004)

Use of simple advice and behavioural support

BMJ 2004;328:397 (Published 12 February 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:414 (Published 12 February 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Cochrane proposes further limits on commercial funding

BMJ 2004;328:366.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Government should increase benefit levels to allow healthy living, says trust

BMJ 2004;328:366.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Cigarette packs to feature graphic images

BMJ 2004;328:366.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Germany's new charging system has mixed results

BMJ 2004;328:366.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

South African health service must strengthen infection control measures

BMJ 2004;328:366.5 (Published 12 February 2004)

Photo diagnosis can cut waiting times for dermatology

BMJ 2004;328:367.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Payments for operations will be standardised

BMJ 2004;328:367.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Gulf war syndrome case collapses

BMJ 2004;328:367.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Dr Foster's case notes

Acute stroke units and early CT scans are linked to lower in-hospital mortality rates

BMJ 2004;328:369 (Published 12 February 2004)

BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals

BMJ 2004;328:370 (Published 12 February 2004)

Papers

Benefits and harms associated with hormone replacement therapy: clinical decision analysis

BMJ 2004;328:371 (Published 12 February 2004)

Retrospective cohort study of false alarm rates associated with a series of heart operations: the case for hospital mortality monitoring groups

BMJ 2004;328:375 (Published 12 February 2004)

Should surgeons take a break after an intraoperative death? Attitude survey and outcome evaluation

BMJ 2004;328:379 (Published 12 February 2004)

Patients' preferences for the management of non-metastatic prostate cancer: discrete choice experiment

BMJ 2004;328:382 (Published 12 February 2004)

Variations and increase in use of statins across Europe: data from administrative databases

BMJ 2004;328:385 (Published 12 February 2004)

Prevalence of asthma and allergy in schoolchildren in Belmont, Australia: three cross sectional surveys over 20 years

BMJ 2004;328:386 (Published 12 February 2004)

Primary care

Practice based education to improve delivery systems for prevention in primary care: randomised trial

BMJ 2004;328:388 (Published 12 February 2004)

Education and debate

Paying for statins

BMJ 2004;328:400 (Published 12 February 2004)

paying to choose

BMJ 2004;328:402.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Nature of Panic: A Walk Through Fear in Pictures and Words

BMJ 2004;328:410 (Published 12 February 2004)

Let Them Eat Prozac

BMJ 2004;328:411.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

BMJ 2004;328:411.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Horizon: Thalidomide: A Second Chance?

BMJ 2004;328:412.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Explicit ads seek to halt rise in sexual diseases

BMJ 2004;328:412.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Why I'm a reluctant rapid responder

BMJ 2004;328:413.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

In committee

BMJ 2004;328:413.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Fillers

Risk of suicide in bipolar disorder is least with lithium

BMJ 2004;328:0.6 (Published 12 February 2004)

Winter holidays

BMJ 2004;328:387 (Published 12 February 2004)

Avoiding a stab in the dark

BMJ 2004;328:392 (Published 12 February 2004)

Treating nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

BMJ 2004;328:396.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Chronic fatigue syndrome

BMJ 2004;328:399 (Published 12 February 2004)

Ward rounds ain't what they used to be

BMJ 2004;328:402.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Advice

BMJ 2004;328:409.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Corrections

Systematic review of role of bisphosphonates on skeletal morbidity in metastatic cancer

BMJ 2004;328:384.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Thousands of families to sue over retained organs

BMJ 2004;328:384.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

When to retract?

BMJ 2004;328:384.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

One hundred years ago: Hypnotism in Abyssinia

BMJ 2004;328:384.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Use of automated external defibrillator by first responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest: prospective controlled trial

BMJ 2004;328:396.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Cognitive behaviour therapy affects brain activity differently from antidepressants

BMJ 2004;328:396.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Career Focus

BMJ 2004;328:396.3 (Published 12 February 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Hubert Talbot (“Joe”) Ford

BMJ 2004;328:408.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Peter Quilliam

BMJ 2004;328:408.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

William John Dickson (“Bill”) Bradfield

BMJ 2004;328:409.1 (Published 12 February 2004)

Carole Susan Brown

BMJ 2004;328:409.2 (Published 12 February 2004)

Guy Tancred Hamilton

BMJ 2004;328:409.4 (Published 12 February 2004)

Linda Anne Hardwick

BMJ 2004;328:409.5 (Published 12 February 2004)

Alex Sakula

BMJ 2004;328:409.6 (Published 12 February 2004)

William Hotchkis Richmond Waters

BMJ 2004;328:409.7 (Published 12 February 2004)