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26 April 2008 (Vol 336, Issue 7650)

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Editor's Choice

Reduce, reuse, recycle

BMJ 2008;336:0.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

News

New thinking is needed to increase local care for patients

BMJ 2008;336:907.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Polyclinics could close 1700 general practices, Conservatives claim

BMJ 2008;336:907.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

In brief

BMJ 2008;336:908.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Low reimbursement means US doctors with many ethnic minority patients have less time for each consultation

BMJ 2008;336:908.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Danish government turns to doctors to tackle rising absenteeism from work

BMJ 2008;336:908.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

One third of hepatitis B carriers in Hong Kong have severe liver fibrosis

BMJ 2008;336:909 (Published 24 April 2008)

Primary care trusts provide poor information for practice based commissioning

BMJ 2008;336:910.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Being “humorous without being disrespectful”

BMJ 2008;336:910.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

BMA rejects proposal that GPs should pay cost of patients’ unnecessary visits to emergency departments

BMJ 2008;336:910.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

Paediatricians “have grave concerns” about GMC procedures for child protection work

BMJ 2008;336:911.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

NHS managers call for calm in debate on polyclinics

BMJ 2008;336:911.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Food price rises will increase deaths from malnutrition, Swiss foundation warns

BMJ 2008;336:912.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Charity calls on governments to give 10% of funding to people orphaned by AIDS

BMJ 2008;336:912.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Pilot study shows cost effective approach to enable people to die at home

BMJ 2008;336:912.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

Palliative care toolkit developed for staff in developing countries

BMJ 2008;336:913.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

FDA works with US health insurers to identify drug problems

BMJ 2008;336:913.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Health minister says data showing that child health in South Africa is not improving are unreliable

BMJ 2008;336:913.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

Revalidation needs proper testing before adoption throughout UK

BMJ 2008;336:913.4 (Published 24 April 2008)

One in five US soldiers have depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, study finds

BMJ 2008;336:913.5 (Published 24 April 2008)

Radiographers increase cancer detection rate, but at cost

BMJ 2008;336:913.6 (Published 24 April 2008)

Most cases of research misconduct go undetected, conference told

BMJ 2008;336:913.7 (Published 24 April 2008)

UK government to spend £1bn on development research in next five years

BMJ 2008;336:913.8 (Published 24 April 2008)

Editorials

Screening for MRSA

BMJ 2008;336:899 (Published 24 April 2008)

How to improve surgical outcomes

BMJ 2008;336:900 (Published 24 April 2008)

Editorials - continued

Sentinel lymph node biopsy in malignant melanoma

BMJ 2008;336:902 (Published 24 April 2008)

Patient and public involvement in clinical trials

BMJ 2008;336:903 (Published 24 April 2008)

Short Cuts

All you need to read in the other general journals

BMJ 2008;336:914 (Published 24 April 2008)

Research

Impact of rapid screening tests on acquisition of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: cluster randomised crossover trial

BMJ 2008;336:927 (Published 24 April 2008)

Cumulative funnel plots for the early detection of interoperator variation: retrospective database analysis of observed versus predicted results of percutaneous coronary intervention

BMJ 2008;336:931 (Published 24 April 2008)

Volume of procedures and risk of recurrence after repair of groin hernia: national register study

BMJ 2008;336:934 (Published 24 April 2008)

Feature

When is a polyclinic not a polyclinic?

BMJ 2008;336:916 (Published 24 April 2008)

Analysis

How can quality of health care be safeguarded across the European Union?

BMJ 2008;336:920 (Published 24 April 2008)

GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

BMJ 2008;336:924 (Published 24 April 2008)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Dutch research reflects problems with the Liverpool care pathway

BMJ 2008;336:905.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Let’s return to representative planning for a population

BMJ 2008;336:905.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Study misses internet’s greater collection of support websites

BMJ 2008;336:905.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

Is fetal RHD typing in all RhD negative women cost effective?

BMJ 2008;336:906.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Sweeping misrepresentation will fuel fear and prejudice

BMJ 2008;336:906.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Pure speculation is dangerous

BMJ 2008;336:906.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

Observations

They’re digging up the trees they’ve just planted

Nigel Hawkes

BMJ 2008;336:919 (Published 24 April 2008)

Views & Reviews

Listen to the wounded healers

Philip Thomas

BMJ 2008;336:960 (Published 24 April 2008)

Enough to wish you were asleep

Neville W Goodman

BMJ 2008;336:961 (Published 24 April 2008)

X ray specs

Des Spence

BMJ 2008;336:962.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Why I love a free lunch

Kinesh Patel

BMJ 2008;336:962.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

No room for Plato

Theodore Dalrymple

BMJ 2008;336:963.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Doctor at Dien-Bien-Phu

Robert M Bruce-Chwatt, Richmond, Surrey

BMJ 2008;336:963.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Alice Ricciardi

BMJ 2008;336:964 (Published 24 April 2008)

Obituaries - continued

John Leslie Robert Barlow

BMJ 2008;336:965.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Robert Danbury

BMJ 2008;336:965.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

William Peter Gover Jones

BMJ 2008;336:965.3 (Published 24 April 2008)

Herbert Kay

BMJ 2008;336:965.4 (Published 24 April 2008)

Brian Walter Pullen

BMJ 2008;336:965.5 (Published 24 April 2008)

James Howard Stiff

BMJ 2008;336:965.6 (Published 24 April 2008)

Robert Irvine Wilson

BMJ 2008;336:965.7 (Published 24 April 2008)

Clinical Review

Investigation of blunt abdominal trauma

BMJ 2008;336:938 (Published 24 April 2008)

Practice

Change Page: Use graduated compression stockings postoperatively to prevent deep vein thrombosis

BMJ 2008;336:943 (Published 24 April 2008)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:966.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Minerva

BMJ 2008;336:966.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Filler

The red mixture

BMJ 2008;336:937 (Published 24 April 2008)

Making a Difference

Making a difference: running the gauntlet to improve health care

BMJ 2008;336:947 (Published 24 April 2008)

A major burden on children

BMJ 2008;336:948.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

A shrinking window of opportunity

BMJ 2008;336:948.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Never had it so good?

BMJ 2008;336:950.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Adapting what is known

BMJ 2008;336:950.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Not just a “lifestyle disease”

BMJ 2008;336:952.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Reducing harm through quality improvement

BMJ 2008;336:952.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Help and hope at the bottom of the pile

BMJ 2008;336:954.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Improving shared decision making in osteoarthritis

BMJ 2008;336:954.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

A substantial cause of preventable illness

BMJ 2008;336:956.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

The challenge of safer prescribing

BMJ 2008;336:956.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Care for all at the end of life

BMJ 2008;336:958.1 (Published 24 April 2008)

Reliable comfort and meaningfulness

BMJ 2008;336:958.2 (Published 24 April 2008)

Correction

Adverse drug reactions in elderly people

BMJ 2008;336:0.2 (Published 24 April 2008)