02 November 2013(vol 347, issue 7931)

Editor's Choice

• Boundary crossings

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6556 (Published 30 October 2013)

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News

• Health secretary loses court battle over Lewisham Hospital

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• Health Research Authority outlines plans to improve transparency of UK clinical research

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• In brief

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• Childhood mortality varies threefold across different UK local authorities, report shows

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• Government’s choice to chair Monitor drops out after MPs reject his appointment

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• Former New Labour health adviser is named as NHS England’s new chief executive

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• Food firms’ pledge on saturated fat is “thinnest of thin interventions”

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• Swaddling increases babies’ risk of hip abnormalities

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• Medical tourism is a profitable source of income for the NHS, study finds

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• Home improvement and gardening can prolong life in over 60s, study finds

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• A film festival for health

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• NHS is told to improve hospital complaints system within a year

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Observations

• Iain Chalmers: Guilty, obsessional, and frustrated

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Editorials

• Paying for migrant healthcare

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• Mortality indicators used to rank hospital performance

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• Why can’t we improve the timeliness of cancer diagnosis in children, teenagers, and young adults?

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• What can England’s NHS learn from Canterbury New Zealand?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6513 (Published 29 October 2013)

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Research

• Bariatric surgery versus non-surgical treatment for obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5934 (Published 22 October 2013)

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• Efficacy of anti-inflammatory or antibiotic treatment in patients with non-complicated acute bronchitis and discoloured sputum: randomised placebo controlled trial

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5762 (Published 04 October 2013)

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• Including post-discharge mortality in calculation of hospital standardised mortality ratios: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5913 (Published 21 October 2013)

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• Risk of moderate to advanced kidney disease in patients with psoriasis: population based cohort study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5961 (Published 15 October 2013)

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Feature

• Simon Stevens: new NHS leader who’s “not just Mr Insurance USA”

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6512 (Published 29 October 2013)

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• Are migrant patients really a drain on European health systems?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6444 (Published 29 October 2013)

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• Migrants’ healthcare: who pays?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6483 (Published 29 October 2013)

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• Nominations open for The BMJ Awards 2014

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6515 (Published 31 October 2013)

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Analysis

• Overdiagnosis: when good intentions meet vested interests—an essay by Iona Heath

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6361 (Published 25 October 2013)

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Letters

• We need to investigate whether racial discrimination explains differences in MRCGP exam results

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• Reasons why doctors who perform well as doctors may fail the MRCGP clinical skills assessment exam

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• High failure rate of ethnic minority groups in MRCGP exam comes from changes to exam and candidate selection

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• Lack of transparency regarding collaboration with industry

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• The BMJ’s stance on collaboration with industry

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• Why must NHS health checks be commissioned by local authorities?

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Observations

• Act now to fight chronic procrastination disorder

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6119 (Published 28 October 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• I was sexually harassed as a junior by senior doctors: it still goes on, and it needs to stop

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6302 (Published 21 October 2013)

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Obituaries

• Anne Szarewski

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5890 (Published 01 October 2013)

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• Charles Henry de Boer

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• Michael Frank Butler

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• Ian Trevor Field

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• Ken Owen

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• Ian Peacock

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• Donald Winstock

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Clinical Review

• Management of nocturnal enuresis

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Practice

• Abnormal liver function tests in pregnancy

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• From haemochromatosis to liver transplant

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4423 (Published 20 August 2013)

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Endgames

• An unusual case of quadriparesis

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5728 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Convenience sampling

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Views & Reviews

• Why I worry about large international studies

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6510 (Published 29 October 2013)

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• The saviour of Hunter’s collection

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6450 (Published 24 October 2013)

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Minerva

• The health threats of thunderstorms and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6461 (Published 30 October 2013)

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• The dilemma of a cutaneous horn

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f6430 (Published 30 October 2013)

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