24 July 2003 (Vol 327, Issue 7408)

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Editor's Choice

Death, come closer

BMJ 2003;327:0.7 (Published 24 July 2003)

News

NHS staff cheat to hit government targets, MPs say

BMJ 2003;327:179.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

NICE issues new guidelines for patients with heart failure

BMJ 2003;327:179.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In brief

BMJ 2003;327:180.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Hospital patients say they are not fully informed about drugs

BMJ 2003;327:180.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Freedom from unpleasant symptoms is essential for a good death

BMJ 2003;327:180.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Diets high in animal fats increase risk of breast cancer, while painkillers lower risk, studies say

BMJ 2003;327:181 (Published 24 July 2003)

Unjustified seclusion of psychiatric patients is breach of human rights

BMJ 2003;327:183.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Star rating system fails to reduce variation

BMJ 2003;327:184.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Editorials

“The best places to die”

BMJ 2003;327:173 (Published 24 July 2003)

Patient centred death

BMJ 2003;327:174 (Published 24 July 2003)

Reforming the coroner's service

BMJ 2003;327:175 (Published 24 July 2003)

Palliative care needs of minorities

BMJ 2003;327:176 (Published 24 July 2003)

Helping people bereaved by suicide

BMJ 2003;327:177 (Published 24 July 2003)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Doctors need to know when and how to say die

BMJ 2003;327:221.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Humanising effects of a good death will help society

BMJ 2003;327:221.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Medical education has important role in extending palliative care

BMJ 2003;327:221.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: A good death is an oxymoron without consideration of mental health

BMJ 2003;327:222.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Health professionals' beliefs may undermine effective pain relief for dying patients

BMJ 2003;327:222.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death

BMJ 2003;327:222.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Palliative care is also remit of intensivists

BMJ 2003;327:223.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Primary healthcare teams work in new framework for better care of the dying at home

BMJ 2003;327:223.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Good death is social construction

BMJ 2003;327:223.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: What is a good death?

BMJ 2003;327:224.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Each encounter with a dying patient is a unique privilege

BMJ 2003;327:224.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Spiritual care is important for a good death

BMJ 2003;327:224.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Spiritual care of dying patients needs to be well prepared

BMJ 2003;327:224.4 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: A good death and medicalisation need not be polarised

BMJ 2003;327:224.5 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Good death is achievable if task becomes easing death, not prolonging life

BMJ 2003;327:225.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Human Rights Act 1998 imposes an obligation to facilitate a good death

BMJ 2003;327:225.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Law needs to be changed to allow terminally ill people choice of a dignified death

BMJ 2003;327:225.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Do we really know what happens in this country?

BMJ 2003;327:226.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: Both how and when determines a good death

BMJ 2003;327:226.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

In search of a good death: A good death described

BMJ 2003;327:226.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Letters - continued

Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Intramuscular adrenaline is safe

BMJ 2003;327:226.4 (Published 24 July 2003)

Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions: Cause of reactions should be identified

BMJ 2003;327:227.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions

BMJ 2003;327:227.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

BMA secretary responds to news story

BMJ 2003;327:227.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Sir Donald Harrison

BMJ 2003;327:228.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Stanley Dillon

BMJ 2003;327:228.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Eric Ronald Down

BMJ 2003;327:228.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Alec Laylee

BMJ 2003;327:229.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

James Fleming McHarg

BMJ 2003;327:229.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Charles Douglas Needham

BMJ 2003;327:229.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Suli (“Pat”) Patel

BMJ 2003;327:229.4 (Published 24 July 2003)

Ernest Herman Rainer

BMJ 2003;327:229.5 (Published 24 July 2003)

An apology:Obituary of David Horrobin

BMJ 2003;327:229.6 (Published 24 July 2003)

This Week In the BMJ

Facilitating consent for trials in dying patients

BMJ 2003;327:0.5 (Published 24 July 2003)

Caring for dying patients is a source of satisfaction and of distress

BMJ 2003;327:0.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Doctors overestimate survival

BMJ 2003;327:0.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Bereaved people cope better after euthanasia than natural death

BMJ 2003;327:0.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Patients in Uganda prefer to die at home

BMJ 2003;327:0.4 (Published 24 July 2003)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2003;327:238 (Published 24 July 2003)

Fillers

Continuous use of combined contraceptive pill minimises vaginal bleeding

BMJ 2003;327:0.6 (Published 24 July 2003)

Inside our dreams

BMJ 2003;327:194 (Published 24 July 2003)

Fear of imminent death

BMJ 2003;327:200 (Published 24 July 2003)

A good death?

BMJ 2003;327:203 (Published 24 July 2003)

Death as part of a person's history

BMJ 2003;327:220.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Death as the dramatic climax to a staged life

BMJ 2003;327:220.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Attacks on NHS staff increasing, MPs say

BMJ 2003;327:182.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

EU commits $1bn to global fund

BMJ 2003;327:182.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Tattooists use pigments designed as car paint

BMJ 2003;327:182.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Consultants are closer to pay deal after winning concessions

BMJ 2003;327:182.4 (Published 24 July 2003)

EU to ban use of unsubstantiated health claims for food products

BMJ 2003;327:182.5 (Published 24 July 2003)

MRC to fund more trials of complex treatments

BMJ 2003;327:182.6 (Published 24 July 2003)

Doctor who botched sterilisation has to pay cost of raising child

BMJ 2003;327:183.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Genetic test can show whether drugs to treat colon cancer will work

BMJ 2003;327:183.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Free retroviral drugs could save up to 1.7 million South Africans

BMJ 2003;327:184.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Community pharmacies saved from deregulation plans

BMJ 2003;327:184.3 (Published 24 July 2003)

Surgeons accepting incentives from prosthesis makers must register their interests

BMJ 2003;327:184.4 (Published 24 July 2003)

Emergency service under threat from working time directive

BMJ 2003;327:184.5 (Published 24 July 2003)

Food emergency looms in war torn Sudan

BMJ 2003;327:184.6 (Published 24 July 2003)

More than half of male medical students don't practise safe sex on holiday

BMJ 2003;327:184.7 (Published 24 July 2003)

Papers

Doctors' emotional reactions to recent death of a patient: cross sectional study of hospital doctors

BMJ 2003;327:185 (Published 24 July 2003)

Effects of euthanasia on the bereaved family and friends: a cross sectional study

BMJ 2003;327:189 (Published 24 July 2003)

A good death in Uganda: survey of needs for palliative care for terminally ill people in urban areas

BMJ 2003;327:192 (Published 24 July 2003)

A systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients

BMJ 2003;327:195 (Published 24 July 2003)

Novel consent process for research in dying patients unable to give consent

BMJ 2003;327:198 (Published 24 July 2003)

Primary care

Twenty five years of requests for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in Dutch general practice: trend analysis

BMJ 2003;327:201 (Published 24 July 2003)

National survey of medical decisions at end of life made by New Zealand general practitioners

BMJ 2003;327:202 (Published 24 July 2003)

Education and debate

Planning for a good death: responding to unexpected events

BMJ 2003;327:204 (Published 24 July 2003)

mother's response

BMJ 2003;327:206 (Published 24 July 2003)

A healthy view of dying

BMJ 2003;327:207 (Published 24 July 2003)

Quality care at the end of life in Africa

BMJ 2003;327:209 (Published 24 July 2003)

Patients' voices are needed in debates on euthanasia

BMJ 2003;327:213 (Published 24 July 2003)

Dead body with mourners: medical reflections on the entombment of Christ

BMJ 2003;327:215 (Published 24 July 2003)

Historical and cultural variants on the good death

BMJ 2003;327:218 (Published 24 July 2003)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

The Hour of Our Death

BMJ 2003;327:230.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

BMJ 2003;327:230.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Death becomes us

BMJ 2003;327:231 (Published 24 July 2003)

It's never been a better time to die

BMJ 2003;327:232 (Published 24 July 2003)

A death photographed: one patient's story

BMJ 2003;327:233 (Published 24 July 2003)

Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care

BMJ 2003;327:234.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

The good of small things

BMJ 2003;327:234.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

Freedom from pain goes a long way to a “good death”

BMJ 2003;327:235.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

The Art of Dying

BMJ 2003;327:235.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

A perfect death?

BMJ 2003;327:236.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Freddie

BMJ 2003;327:236.2 (Published 24 July 2003)

I dread not death but dying

BMJ 2003;327:237.1 (Published 24 July 2003)

Environmentally friendly disposal of the dead

BMJ 2003;327:237.2 (Published 24 July 2003)