14 January 2012(vol 344, issue 7839)

Editor's Choice

• Outcomes that matter to patients

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e318 (Published 11 January 2012)

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News

• Hospitals have no excuse for cutting services, says Nuffield Trust

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e275 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• Doctors are told to “make every contact count” to reduce costs of poor lifestyles

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e319 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Expert panel will examine feasibility of setting levels for drug driving

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e73 (Published 06 January 2012)

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• Government puts pressure on private sector to pay for removal of PIP breast implants

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e249 (Published 09 January 2012)

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• Doctor begins “Bevan’s Run” to stop the health bill

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8320 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Clinical negligence claims against plastic surgeons rise “significantly”

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e298 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Doctors’ views will be sought on direction of new IT strategy

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e185 (Published 06 January 2012)

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• Wakefield sues BMJ over MMR articles

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e310 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e291 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• US advisory panellists on drug’s safety had ties to manufacturers

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e244 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Let doctors help terminally ill patients to die, says commission

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e64 (Published 05 January 2012)

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• MPs call for review of alcohol guidelines

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e231 (Published 09 January 2012)

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• Ignoring evidence has led to ineffective drug policies, shows research

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e148 (Published 06 January 2012)

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• Haiti’s cholera outbreak provides important lessons for global health

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e39 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• MPs warn government over wasting aid money in fragile states

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e145 (Published 06 January 2012)

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• Nine in 10 Chinese are covered by medical insurance, but access to treatment remains a problem

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e248 (Published 09 January 2012)

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Editorials

• Benefits and harms of mammography screening

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8279 (Published 06 January 2012)

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• Antihypertensives in octogenarians

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7293 (Published 04 January 2012)

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• Introducing new joint replacements to clinical practice

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d8188 (Published 20 December 2011)

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• The saga of Poly Implant Prosthèse breast implants

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e306 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e76 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Research

• Possible net harms of breast cancer screening: updated modelling of Forrest report

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7627 (Published 08 December 2011)

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  • Open Access
• Overdiagnosis from non-progressive cancer detected by screening mammography: stochastic simulation study with calibration to population based registry data

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7017 (Published 23 November 2011)

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• Immediate and late benefits of treating very elderly people with hypertension: results from active treatment extension to Hypertension in the Very Elderly randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7541 (Published 04 January 2012)

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  • Open Access
• Association between bisphosphonate use and implant survival after primary total arthroplasty of the knee or hip: population based retrospective cohort study

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7222 (Published 06 December 2011)

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Feature

• Show us the data: why clinical outcomes matter

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e66 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Patient reported outcome measures: how are we feeling today?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8191 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Analysis

• The idolatry of the surrogate

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7995 (Published 28 December 2011)

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Letters

• Is a clinician’s “gut feeling” enough to identify self harm?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e142 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Difficulties in managing young people who self harm

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e143 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Ellis and Yates

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e144 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Patient related factors are also important in treating gout

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e191 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Life goes on for patients with cancer, as they desire

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e155 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Realities of medicine in South Africa lie behind its brain drain

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e201 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Root causes of doctors’ dissatisfaction must be tackled to stop brain drain

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e190 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Drug industry is now biggest defrauder of US government

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8219 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• The emperor’s NICE new clothes

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e232 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Keep it small and personal in any reconfiguration of healthcare providers

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e183 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Time to act on nonsensical outpatient follow-up ratio targets

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8243 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Let’s simply scrap authorship and move to contributorship

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e157 (Published 10 January 2012)

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• Why not switch to movie-style credits for research papers?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e179 (Published 10 January 2012)

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Observations

• Faith, hype, and charity

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e317 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• Why do single event probabilities confuse patients?

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e245 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• Consultant cover and mortality among hospital patients

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8276 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Commercialisation is bad for public health

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e149 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• Faith in medicine

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e83 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• Malingerers

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e78 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• The Illness Narratives

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e251 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Obituaries

• Tsewang Yishey Pemba

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e311 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• William “Ainslie” Anderson

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7991 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Michael Hugh Clement

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7981 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Richard Henry Lavelle

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7980 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Donald MacLean

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7978 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Tomma Muhsin

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7975 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Mitchell James Notaras

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7984 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Sigmar Gunar Norfried Saisch

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7724 (Published 07 December 2011)

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Clinical Review

• The diagnosis and management of aortic dissection

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d8290 (Published 11 January 2012)

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  • CME

Practice

• Skin camouflage

  BMJ 2012; 344 :d7921 (Published 05 January 2012)

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• Facial disfigurement

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5203 (Published 19 October 2011)

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Endgames

• An injury in a child’s elbow

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6279 (Published 22 November 2011)

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• Recurrent fever after a holiday in Turkey

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d7832 (Published 16 December 2011)

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• Allocation concealment

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e156 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Out of hours care: a call for continuity

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e279 (Published 11 January 2012)

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• Big tits

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e68 (Published 11 January 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e41 (Published 12 January 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e52 (Published 12 January 2012)

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Filler

• Doctors’ revalidation bags

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6731 (Published 20 December 2011)

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