30 October 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7473)

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Editor's Choice

From optimism to hubris

BMJ 2004;329:0.9 (Published 28 October 2004)

News

AMA calls for inquiry into doctors' role in abuse of prisoners

BMJ 2004;329:993.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

BMA says scientists should take part in bioterrorism debate

BMJ 2004;329:993.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:994.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Shortage of emergency doctors will take eight years to rectify

BMJ 2004;329:994.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Commission unveils shocking pictures for cigarette packs

BMJ 2004;329:994.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Doctors need not ventilate baby to prolong his life

BMJ 2004;329:995.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

NICE guidance on epilepsy recommends specialist diagnosis

BMJ 2004;329:995.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

BMA continues to oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia

BMJ 2004;329:997.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Doctors and drug companies are locked in “vicious circle”

BMJ 2004;329:998.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Companies may face tighter regulation over promoting drugs

BMJ 2004;329:998.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

What's the evidence that NICE guidance has been implemented? Results from a national evaluation using time series analysis, audit of patients' notes, and interviews

BMJ 2004;329:999 (Published 28 October 2004)

Editorials

What has evidence based medicine done for us?

BMJ 2004;329:987 (Published 28 October 2004)

Evidence based policy making

BMJ 2004;329:988 (Published 28 October 2004)

Teaching evidence based medicine

BMJ 2004;329:989 (Published 28 October 2004)

Evidence based medicine has come a long way

BMJ 2004;329:990 (Published 28 October 2004)

The essence of EBM

BMJ 2004;329:991 (Published 28 October 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

General practitioners say that evidence based information is changing practice

BMJ 2004;329:1043.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Truth and evidence based medicine: spin is everything

BMJ 2004;329:1043.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Compulsory registration of clinical trials: Publicly funded national register of trials would be best in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2004;329:1043.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Compulsory registration of clinical trials: Maybe European research should be protected

BMJ 2004;329:1044.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Compulsory registration of clinical trials: Under-reporting is not an option

BMJ 2004;329:1044.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Pressures are growing to publish clinical trials

BMJ 2004;329:1044.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Adenotonsillectomy in children with mild symptoms: Watchful waiting may deny children opportunity for development

BMJ 2004;329:1045.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Adenotonsillectomy in children with mild symptoms: Watchful waiting is appropriate

BMJ 2004;329:1045.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Adenotonsillectomy in children with mild symptoms: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:1045.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Biopsy of potentially operable hepatic colorectal metastases is not useless but dangerous

BMJ 2004;329:1045.4 (Published 28 October 2004)

Transradial angiography may deleteriously affect patency of radial artery grafts

BMJ 2004;329:1046.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Email consultations in health care: Set your auto reply to “no”

BMJ 2004;329:1046.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Email consultations in health care: Patients need to be given a choice

BMJ 2004;329:1046.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Thure von Uexküll

BMJ 2004;329:1047.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Dharam Pal Singh Anhal

BMJ 2004;329:1047.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Errington Miles Blenkinsopp

BMJ 2004;329:1047.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Obituaries - continued

Dennis Geoffrey Brown

BMJ 2004;329:1048.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Raymond Colback

BMJ 2004;329:1048.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Katharina Dorothea Dalton

BMJ 2004;329:1048.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Christine Anne Ellington (née Wellard)

BMJ 2004;329:1048.4 (Published 28 October 2004)

Audrey Irene Freeth

BMJ 2004;329:1048.5 (Published 28 October 2004)

John Macbeth

BMJ 2004;329:1048.6 (Published 28 October 2004)

Stanley Arthur Mason

BMJ 2004;329:1048.7 (Published 28 October 2004)

Andrew Shannon Ramsey

BMJ 2004;329:1048.8 (Published 28 October 2004)

Andrew Henderson Torrance

BMJ 2004;329:1048.9 (Published 28 October 2004)

Clinical Review

How does evidence based guidance influence determinations of medical negligence?

BMJ 2004;329:1024 (Published 28 October 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:1019.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:1054 (Published 28 October 2004)

Fillers

Donepezil is ineffective in long term treatment of dementia

BMJ 2004;329:0.8 (Published 28 October 2004)

A fishy tale

BMJ 2004;329:1007 (Published 28 October 2004)

Buddha and evidence based medicine

BMJ 2004;329:1016 (Published 28 October 2004)

Discoveries

BMJ 2004;329:1023.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Early lessons

BMJ 2004;329:1028 (Published 28 October 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;329:1032.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Webchat

BMJ 2004;329:1035 (Published 28 October 2004)

Effect of postnatal depression on other members of the mother's family

BMJ 2004;329:1042 (Published 28 October 2004)

This Week In the BMJ

Evidence based guidance affects courts' rulings

BMJ 2004;329:0.6 (Published 28 October 2004)

“Mindlines” are still preferred to guidelines

BMJ 2004;329:0.4 (Published 28 October 2004)

Video assisted thoracic surgery is useful but underused

BMJ 2004;329:0.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Evidence based teaching works best at the bedside

BMJ 2004;329:0.5 (Published 28 October 2004)

NICE influences prescribing but has more to do

BMJ 2004;329:0.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Routine EBM staff meetings are popular and useful

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 28 October 2004)

Evidence based training improves surfactant use

BMJ 2004;329:0.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Public Library of Science launches “author pays” model

BMJ 2004;329:996.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

United Nations fails to agree on human cloning

BMJ 2004;329:996.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Global warming threatens reversal in fight against poverty, says report

BMJ 2004;329:996.3 (Published 29 October 2004)

Doctor fabricated research while depressed

BMJ 2004;329:996.4 (Published 28 October 2004)

Law is introduced in US Congress to give access to details of clinical trials

BMJ 2004;329:996.5 (Published 28 October 2004)

Commission plans to adopt “a lighter touch”

BMJ 2004;329:997.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Local purchasing of health services is hindering improvements in cancer services

BMJ 2004;329:997.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Shortage of flu vaccine in US sparks political row

BMJ 2004;329:998.3 (Published 28 October 2004)

Colleges join forces to issue guidance on resuscitation training

BMJ 2004;329:998.4 (Published 28 October 2004)

Shorter hospital shifts reduce errors and improve patient outcomes

BMJ 2004;329:998.5 (Published 28 October 2004)

Trust guilty of fiddling figures on cancellations but is cleared of accounting faults

BMJ 2004;329:998.6 (Published 28 October 2004)

Medical students can cause blood pressure to rise, report says

BMJ 2004;329:998.7 (Published 28 October 2004)

Papers

Is NICE delivering the goods?

BMJ 2004;329:1003 (Published 28 October 2004)

Collaborative quality improvement to promote evidence based surfactant for preterm infants: a cluster randomised trial

BMJ 2004;329:1004 (Published 28 October 2004)

Video assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of pneumothorax and lung resections: systematic review of randomised clinical trials

BMJ 2004;329:1008 (Published 28 October 2004)

Variation in use of video assisted thoracic surgery in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2004;329:1011 (Published 28 October 2004)

Half full or half empty VATS?

BMJ 2004;329:1012.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Primary care

Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care

BMJ 2004;329:1013 (Published 28 October 2004)

Learning in practice

What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? A systematic review

BMJ 2004;329:1017 (Published 28 October 2004)

Quality Improvement Reports

Integrating evidence based medicine into routine clinical practice: seven years' experience at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

BMJ 2004;329:1020 (Published 28 October 2004)

The fool wonders, the wise (women) ask… about tropical diseases in their practice

BMJ 2004;329:1023.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Education and debate

Evaluating the teaching of evidence based medicine: conceptual framework

BMJ 2004;329:1029 (Published 28 October 2004)

A conceptual framework may be of limited value

BMJ 2004;329:1032.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

“Evidence of me” in evidence based medicine?

BMJ 2004;329:1033 (Published 28 October 2004)

Putting evidence into practice: how middle and low income countries “get it together”

BMJ 2004;329:1036 (Published 28 October 2004)

Inappropriate use of randomised trials to evaluate complex phenomena: case study of vaginal breech delivery

BMJ 2004;329:1039 (Published 28 October 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

MMR: Science and Fiction. Exploring the Vaccine Crisis; MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know

BMJ 2004;329:1049 (Published 28 October 2004)

US media needled over flu vaccine shortage

BMJ 2004;329:1050 (Published 28 October 2004)

Does evidence based medicine do more good than harm?

BMJ 2004;329:1051.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Hit parade

BMJ 2004;329:1051.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

NETLINES

BMJ 2004;329:1052.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Evidence from samples of one

BMJ 2004;329:1052.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Learning from evidence based mistakes

BMJ 2004;329:1053.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Of free condoms

BMJ 2004;329:1053.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Corrections

Are written responses to some referrals to a general haematology clinic acceptable?

BMJ 2004;329:1012.2 (Published 28 October 2004)

Systematic review of the relative efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids in the treatment of acute renal colic

BMJ 2004;329:1019.1 (Published 28 October 2004)

Tobacco companies aimed to keep smokers hooked, court told

BMJ 2004;329:1019.2 (Published 28 October 2004)