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26 August 2010 Volume 341, Issue 7770

[Author index]

Cover
  1. Editor's Choice
  2. Editorials
  3. Letters
  4. News
  5. Short Cuts
  6. Feature
  7. Observations
  8. Analysis
  9. Research
  10. Research Methods & Reporting
  11. Clinical Review
  12. Practice
  13. Obituaries
  14. Views & Reviews
  15. Endgames
  16. Minerva
  17. Filler
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Issue information

[Cover note]

Editor's Choice

This week's Editor's Choice[Section PDF]

  • More research is needed—but what type?

    • Fiona Godlee
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4662 (Published 25 August 2010)

Editorials

This week's Editorials[Section PDF]

  • How long should treatments be continued?

    • Jonathan C Craig,
    • Angela C Webster,
    • Clement Loy
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4102 (Published 19 August 2010)

  • Miscarriage and time to next pregnancy

    • Julia Shelley
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4181 (Published 5 August 2010)

  • Unequal access to health care in England

    • Ann Bowling,
    • Martin McKee
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c3726 (Published 11 August 2010)

  • From a cancer drug fund to value based pricing of drugs

    • Martin Duerden
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4388 (Published 12 August 2010)

  • What does the white paper mean for hospital consultants?

    • Hugo Mascie-Taylor
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4433 (Published 17 August 2010)

Letters

This week's Letters[Section PDF]

  • Mildly abnormal liver tests: Don’t forget coeliac disease and drug history

    • Michael O Kinney
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4603 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Mildly abnormal liver tests: Myth of γ glutamyltransferase

    • Rousseau Gama,
    • Logan Manikam,
    • Helen Louise Ashby
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4604 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Hyperintensities on MRI: White matter and depression

    • Joe J Vattakatuchery,
    • Jaya Joy
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4611 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • NICE on bacterial meningitis: Possible additions to summary

    • Elizabeth H Price
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4466 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Colorectal cancer screening: Randomised trials of flexible sigmoidoscopy

    • Wendy Atkin,
    • Ines Kralj-Hans,
    • Jane Wardle,
    • Stephen Duffy
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4618 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Colorectal cancer screening: Author’s reply

    • Michael Bretthauer
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4620 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Small studies in meta-analyses: Making the best of a little

    • Sebastian Straube,
    • R Andrew Moore,
    • Sheena Derry,
    • Phil J Wiffen
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4463 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Inequalities in mortality: Study rates, not standardised mortality ratios

    • Luc Bonneux
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4614 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Orphan drugs: Relating price determination to disease prevalence

    • Andrea Messori,
    • Americo Cicchetti,
    • Luigi Patregani
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4615 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Funding care for older people: Government guidance caused rise in long term care spending

    • Nigel Dudley
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4613 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Surgery and spondylosis: Inappropriate partners

    • Mark J Turtle
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4439 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • War on drugs: Is drugs policy the great game?

    • Jon M Orrell
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4610 (Published 24 August 2010)

News

This week's News[Section PDF]

  • New UK figures show further rise in sexually transmitted infections

    • Susan Mayor
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4666 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • South African army is brought in to defend hospitals

    • Pat Sidley
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4639 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • In brief

    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4660 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Local government will review doctor struck off in UK, German medical association says

    • Ned Stafford
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4653 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • US report calls for national strategy to reduce overuse of medical imaging

    • Susan Mayor
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4658 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Whooping cough outbreak hits several US states

    • Bob Roehr
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4627 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Russia is to crack down on sales of alcohol

    • Andrew Osborn
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4642 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Public calls for more direct government action to fight health issues

    • Adrian O’Dowd
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4594 (Published 20 August 2010)

  • MPs step in to save the UK’s only mobile tuberculosis detection unit

    • Andrew Jack
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4597 (Published 20 August 2010)

  • UK government announces review of consultants’ bonus payments

    • Susan Mayor
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4624 (Published 23 August 2010)

  • GPs should not profit personally from NHS reforms, say doctors’ leaders

    • Adrian O’Dowd
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4633 (Published 24 August 2010)

Short Cuts

This week's Short Cuts[Section PDF]

  • All you need to read in the other general journals

    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4619 (Published 25 August 2010)

Feature

This week's Feature[Section PDF]

  • Health White Paper : New kids on the block

    • Peter Davies
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4421 (Published 24 August 2010)

  • Research in Action: Lost without translation?

    • Geoff Watts
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4363 (Published 18 August 2010)

Observations

This week's Observations[Section PDF]

  • Yankee Doodling: Smoking versus obesity: must we target only one?

    • Douglas Kamerow
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4631 (Published 24 August 2010)

Analysis

This week's Analysis[Section PDF]

  • US moves to improve health decisions

    • Sean R Tunis,
    • Steven D Pearson
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c3615 (Published 23 August 2010)

  • Commentary: Knowledge is not always power

    • Nicholas Mays
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4217 (Published 23 August 2010)

Research

This week's Research[Section PDF]

  • Maintenance treatment with quetiapine versus discontinuation after one year of treatment in patients with remitted first episode psychosis: randomised controlled trial

    • Eric Y H Chen,
    • Christy L M Hui,
    • May M L Lam,
    • Cindy P Y Chiu,
    • C W Law,
    • Dicky W S Chung,
    • Steve Tso,
    • Edwin P F Pang,
    • K T Chan,
    • Y C Wong,
    • Flora Y M Mo,
    • Kathy P M Chan,
    • T J Yao,
    • S F Hung,
    • William G Honer
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4024 (Published 19 August 2010)

  • Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study

    • Kim Delbaere,
    • Jacqueline C T Close,
    • Henry Brodaty,
    • Perminder Sachdev,
    • Stephen R Lord
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4165 (Published 20 August 2010)

  • Effect of interpregnancy interval on outcomes of pregnancy after miscarriage: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics in Scotland

    • Eleanor R Love,
    • Siladitya Bhattacharya,
    • Norman C Smith,
    • Sohinee Bhattacharya
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c3967 (Published 5 August 2010)

  • Equity in access to total joint replacement of the hip and knee in England: cross sectional study

    • Andy Judge,
    • Nicky J Welton,
    • Jat Sandhu,
    • Yoav Ben-Shlomo
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4092 (Published 11 August 2010)

  • Delivering the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: cost effectiveness analysis

    • M Gillett,
    • H M Dallosso,
    • S Dixon,
    • A Brennan,
    • M E Carey,
    • M J Campbell,
    • S Heller,
    • K Khunti,
    • T C Skinner,
    • M J Davies
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4093 (Published 20 August 2010)

Research Methods & Reporting

This week's Research Methods & Reporting[Section PDF]

  • Importance of accurately identifying disease in studies using electronic health records

    • Douglas G Manuel,
    • Laura C Rosella,
    • Thérèse A Stukel
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4226 (Published 19 August 2010)

Clinical Review

This week's Clinical Review[Section PDF]

  • Evaluating the child who presents with an acute limp

    • Daniel C Perry,
    • Colin Bruce
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4250 (Published 20 August 2010)

Practice

This week's Practice[Section PDF]

  • Guidelines: Diagnosis and management of adults with chronic heart failure: summary of updated NICE guidance

    • Abdallah Al-Mohammad,
    • Jonathan Mant,
    • Philippe Laramee,
    • Sharon Swain
    • , on behalf of the Chronic Heart Failure Guideline Development Group
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4130 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Uncertainties Page: Should treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction differ from that for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction?

    • Philip Jong,
    • Robert McKelvie,
    • Salim Yusuf
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4202 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Easily Missed?: Foreign body inhalation in children

    • Kay Wang,
    • Anthony Harnden,
    • Anne Thomson
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c3924 (Published 18 August 2010)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries[Section PDF]

  • Mark Borisovich Mirsky

    • Boleslav Lichterman
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4577 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Douglas Cecil Cornish

    • Howel Jones
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4419 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Terence Telford Chapman

    • Suzanne Chapman
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4534 (Published 18 August 2010)

  • Alexander Rattray Dow

    • Leslie Bartlet,
    • Robin Donald
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4517 (Published 18 August 2010)

  • William Richard Easy

    • Geoff Douglas
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4520 (Published 18 August 2010)

  • Ross Meuros Paxton

    • Richard Parrish
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4522 (Published 18 August 2010)

  • Eleanor Symmers (née Farrell)

    • Tom Anderson,
    • Bill Symmers
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4511 (Published 18 August 2010)

Views & Reviews

This week's Views & Reviews[Section PDF]

  • Personal View: Haiti: the emergency is over

    • Nick Rose
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4504 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Review of the Week: Shivers down the backbone

    • John Quin
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4558 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Between the Lines: Fever pitch

    • Theodore Dalrymple
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4562 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Medical Classics: Barney’s Version

    • Michelle Canavan,
    • Desmond O’Neill
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4561 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • From the Frontline: Cervical screening: a smear campaign

    • Des Spence
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4640 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Drug Tales and Other Stories: Withdrawal of Mixtard 30: who on earth cares?

    • Ike Iheanacho
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4634 (Published 25 August 2010)

Endgames

This week's Endgames[Section PDF]

  • Statistical Question: Hazard ratios

    • Philip Sedgwick,
    • Louise Marston
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4566 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • Picture Quiz: Management of paediatric burns

    • A W N Reid,
    • J Akhtar,
    • O P Shelley
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4485 (Published 25 August 2010)

  • OnExamination Question: Pancreatitis

    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4582 (Published 25 August 2010)

Minerva

This week's Minerva[Section PDF]
  • BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4559 (Published 25 August 2010)
    • Lik Thai Lim,
    • Chee Peng Cheng,
    • Pankaj Kumar Agarwal
    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c4581 (Published 25 August 2010)

Filler

  • Endpiece: Explain it to your grandmother

    BMJ 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c3723 (Published 25 August 2010)
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