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09 March 2013 (Vol 346, Issue 7898)

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Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice section

Promises of transparency? Hold the applause

BMJ 2013;346:f1513 (Published 6 March 2013)

News

This week's News section

Care commissioning process is too laborious, study concludes

BMJ 2013;346:f1353 (Published 1 March 2013)

Nicholson insists he will oversee NHS reorganisation, despite calls for resignation

BMJ 2013;346:f1511 (Published 5 March 2013)

UK improves health outcomes but not as fast as similar countries

BMJ 2013;346:f1478 (Published 5 March 2013)

NHS spending on independent services is up by more than 10%

BMJ 2013;346:f1468 (Published 5 March 2013)

Government is to rewrite competition legislation

BMJ 2013;346:f1516 (Published 6 March 2013)

GPs face pressure from patients after Specsavers markets its NHS audiology service

BMJ 2013;346:f1501 (Published 5 March 2013)

In brief

BMJ 2013;346:f1472 (Published 5 March 2013)

Judge was wrong to insist doctors should give “burdensome” treatment to minimally conscious patient, court rules

BMJ 2013;346:f1455 (Published 4 March 2013)

Trust took 10 years to deal with consultant whose competence was in question, report says

BMJ 2013;346:f1446 (Published 4 March 2013)

Survival from breast cancer is lower in UK than in other developed countries

BMJ 2013;346:f1405 (Published 1 March 2013)

Company denies that its coding advice is aimed at improving mortality data

BMJ 2013;346:f1488 (Published 5 March 2013)

Regulator is set to call in administrators to rescue Mid Staffordshire trust

BMJ 2013;346:f1399 (Published 1 March 2013)

England’s NHS is struggling to boost productivity despite drive for efficiency, finds analysis

BMJ 2013;346:f1465 (Published 5 March 2013)

Doctor who treated torture victims in Iraq is suspended for 12 months

BMJ 2013;346:f1456 (Published 4 March 2013)

Editorials

This week's Editorials section

Alcohol marketing: grooming the next generation

BMJ 2013;346:f1227 (Published 1 March 2013)

Increasing activity in patients with Parkinson’s disease

BMJ 2013;346:f1429 (Published 6 March 2013)

Risk of people with mental illnesses dying by homicide

BMJ 2013;346:f1336 (Published 5 March 2013)

Advances in the treatment of late stage melanoma

BMJ 2013;346:f1265 (Published 4 March 2013)

Research

This week's Research section

Comparison of treatment effect sizes associated with surrogate and final patient relevant outcomes in randomised controlled trials: meta-epidemiological study

BMJ 2013;346:f457 (Published 29 January 2013)

Promotion of physical activity and fitness in sedentary patients with Parkinson’s disease: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2013;346:f576 (Published 1 March 2013)

Research - continued

Mental disorders and vulnerability to homicidal death: Swedish nationwide cohort study

BMJ 2013;346:f557 (Published 5 March 2013)

Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2013;346:f521 (Published 14 February 2013)

Feature

This week's Feature section

Andrew Witty: the acceptable face of big pharma?

BMJ 2013;346:f1458 (Published 6 March 2013)

Analysis

This week's Analysis section

Publishing cardiac surgery mortality rates: lessons for other specialties

BMJ 2013;346:f1139 (Published 28 February 2013)

Letters

This week's Letters section

More questions than answers in Mid Staffs mortality investigation

BMJ 2013;346:f1173 (Published 5 March 2013)

Editor’s reply to Ben-Tovim

BMJ 2013;346:f1203 (Published 5 March 2013)

Two incorrect assertions about study of hospital standardised mortality ratios in the West Midlands

BMJ 2013;346:f1088 (Published 5 March 2013)

GPs’ complaints go unheard

BMJ 2013;346:f1354 (Published 5 March 2013)

Clinician managers don’t want to know

BMJ 2013;346:f1356 (Published 5 March 2013)

Boardroom ethics and the syndrome of senior silence

BMJ 2013;346:f1358 (Published 5 March 2013)

Bring back absolute accountability

BMJ 2013;346:f1361 (Published 5 March 2013)

The whole hospital system needs to be addressed nationally

BMJ 2013;346:f1397 (Published 5 March 2013)

Political mindset needs to change

BMJ 2013;346:f1360 (Published 5 March 2013)

Put doctors and nurses back at the heart of decision making

BMJ 2013;346:f1364 (Published 5 March 2013)

Culture change is not easy but not that difficult

BMJ 2013;346:f1365 (Published 5 March 2013)

Changing behaviour with a human factors approach

BMJ 2013;346:f1416 (Published 5 March 2013)

IHI Open School’s quality improvement initiative

BMJ 2013;346:f1371 (Published 5 March 2013)

Patient reporting of clinical incidents

BMJ 2013;346:f1368 (Published 5 March 2013)

Observations

This week's Observations section

Adulteration of food: what it doesn’t say on the tin

Gabriel Scally

BMJ 2013;346:f1463 (Published 6 March 2013)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews section

Bad medicine: antenatal screening

Des Spence

BMJ 2013;346:f1226 (Published 26 February 2013)

Retirement: the four year itch

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2013;346:f1318 (Published 27 February 2013)

Views & Reviews - continued

Doctors have a duty to breach patient confidentiality to protect others at risk of HIV infection

Tak Kwong Chan

BMJ 2013;346:f1471 (Published 6 March 2013)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

James Mills Adam

BMJ 2013;346:f1166 (Published 21 February 2013)

John Emile Cosnett

BMJ 2013;346:f1080 (Published 6 March 2013)

James Timothy Dowson

BMJ 2013;346:f1082 (Published 6 March 2013)

Gabriel Laszlo

BMJ 2013;346:f1084 (Published 6 March 2013)

Nathaniel Minton

BMJ 2013;346:f1086 (Published 6 March 2013)

Brian V Payne

BMJ 2013;346:f1101 (Published 6 March 2013)

Alan John Rowe

BMJ 2013;346:f1231 (Published 6 March 2013)

David Ryland

BMJ 2013;346:f1089 (Published 6 March 2013)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review section

Malignant and premalignant lesions of the penis

BMJ 2013;346:f1149 (Published 6 March 2013)

Practice

This week's Practice section

Therapeutics: Newer non-oral hormonal contraception

BMJ 2013;346:f341 (Published 14 February 2013)

Endgames

This week's Endgames section

Pathological finger fracture

BMJ 2013;346:f1024 (Published 20 February 2013)

Digital subtraction angiography of the right arm

BMJ 2013;346:f208 (Published 17 January 2013)

Meta-analyses: how to read a funnel plot

BMJ 2013;346:f1342 (Published 1 March 2013)

Minerva

This week's Minerva section

Minerva

BMJ 2013;346:f1431 (Published 6 March 2013)

Minerva

BMJ 2013;346:f1430 (Published 6 March 2013)

Research News

This week's Research News section

Ondansetron looks safe in pregnancy, so far

BMJ 2013;346:f1387 (Published 6 March 2013)

No link between TNF antagonists and herpes zoster

BMJ 2013;346:f1432 (Published 6 March 2013)

Nurses can manage people with well controlled asthma

BMJ 2013;346:f1393 (Published 6 March 2013)

Antiplatelet agents for adults with chronic kidney disease?

BMJ 2013;346:f1392 (Published 6 March 2013)