After the cameras are gone
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Antibiotic combinations have no advantage in febrile neutropenia [Full text] FREE

	Patients with stable asthma may be able to take less inhaled corticosteroid [Full text] FREE

	Test and treat is the best empirical strategy for treating dyspepsia [Full text] FREE

	Iron supplements benefit non-anaemic women with fatigue [Full text] FREE

	Verbal autopsies give higher suicide rates in rural India [Full text] FREE

	Diabetic patients' records are missing the C10 Read code [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The failures of two contracts
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:1097-1098, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1097 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients and the new contracts
	Peter Davies, John A Glasspool
	BMJ  2003;326:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1099 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New leader, new hope for WHO
	Gavin Yamey, Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2003;326:1100-1101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1100 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why clinical information standards matter
	Martin Gardner
	BMJ  2003;326:1101-1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1101 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: Guidelines are less clinical excellence than hindrance
	R K Choudhary, A M F Hassn
	BMJ  2003;326:1144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1144 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: Late adapters may never change
	Gerry Waldron
	BMJ  2003;326:1144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1144-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: NICE evaluation has data shortage and short analysis period
	James Ryan, James Piercy
	BMJ  2003;326:1144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1144-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: Editorial's multiple authorship poses difficulties
	James N Hardy
	BMJ  2003;326:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: Patients who do not comply with polypharmacy may be safer
	David J Young
	BMJ  2003;326:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1145-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Drug errors may be implicated in death
	Matthew L Grove
	BMJ  2003;326:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1145-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Standard collaborative care will be made more difficult
	A K Clarke
	BMJ  2003;326:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1145-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Authors' reply
	M Sosin, S Whitmarsh, S Handa
	BMJ  2003;326:1145-1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1145-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical community may be partly responsible for cancer misery
	P Chaturvedi
	BMJ  2003;326:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obesity may confound relation of early pregnancy loss to risk of heart disease
	Michael J Davies
	BMJ  2003;326:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1146-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy: Lesson was unnecessarily alarmist
	Brian P Saunders, Christopher B Williams
	BMJ  2003;326:1146-1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1146-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy: Additional cost for colonoscopy providers may be unnecessary
	Timothy D Heymann
	BMJ  2003;326:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1147 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ottawa ankle rules: Sign may not be objective
	Adrian Fogarty
	BMJ  2003;326:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1147-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ottawa ankle rules: Patients with ligamentous injury need better treatment in Britain
	Dishan Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1147-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ottawa ankle rules: Authors' reply
	Lucas M Bachmann, Gerben ter Riet
	BMJ  2003;326:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1147-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Investigating and managing chronic dysphagia: Dysphagia should prompt urgent gastroenterological referral
	Hal L Spencer, Stuart Riley
	BMJ  2003;326:1147-1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1147-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Investigating and managing chronic dysphagia: Gastroenterological input should have been included
	Christopher J Lewis, S E A Attwood
	BMJ  2003;326:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cover up and stay out of sun to prevent skin cancer
	John N Burry
	BMJ  2003;326:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1148-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Text messaging raises medicolegal issues
	Nicholas Norwell
	BMJ  2003;326:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1148-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	US and Germany give late support to WHO tobacco accord
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1103 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	United Kingdom has its first confirmed case of SARS
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1103-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:1104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1104 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US guidelines say blood pressure of 120/80 mm Hg is not "normal"
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:1104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1104-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Exhibition aims to bring home reality of smoking
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:1104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1104-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	GPs vote for "contractus interruptus"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:1105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1105 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Hospital consultants are to get 3% pay rise
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:1105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1105-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Patients prefer "medical labels" to lay language, study finds
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:1105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1105-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Poor security is biggest impediment to health care in Iraq
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1107-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Law against asylum seekers may have public health impact
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2003;326:1108, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1108 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Chinese scientists must test wild animals to find the host of SARS
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:1109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1109 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Identifying the fallen
	Kevin Weaver
	BMJ  2003;326:1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1110 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	EU patients are entitled to primary care in any member country
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1106 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Couple at centre of IVF controversy begin treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1106-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Drug company accused of breaking advertising regulations
	Fabian Waechter
	BMJ  2003;326:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1106-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Support from G8 countries boosts funds for global fund
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1106-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Blair says whole of NHS should be opened up to competition
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1106-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	First wave of foundation hospitals unveiled
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:1106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1106-e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Patient confidentiality challenged over HIV test results
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;326:1107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1107 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Media misled the public over the MMR vaccine, study says
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:1107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1107-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	WHO is worried that China is under-reporting SARS
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1110-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Quality improvement forum sets sights on developing countries and on patients
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1110-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	lactam monotherapy versus lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for fever with neutropenia: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Mical Paul, Karla Soares-Weiser, Leonard Leibovici
	BMJ  2003;326:1111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1111 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of identified studies] FREE

	Stepping down inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: randomised controlled trial
	Gillian Hawkins, Alex D McMahon, Sara Twaddle, Stuart F Wood, Ian Ford, Neil C Thomson
	BMJ  2003;326:1115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1115 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Empirical prescribing for dyspepsia: randomised controlled trial of test and treat versus omeprazole treatment
	Gianpiero Manes, Antonella Menchise, Claudio de Nucci, Antonio Balzano
	BMJ  2003;326:1118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1118 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of suicide rates in rural India using verbal autopsies, 1994-9
	A Joseph, S Abraham, J P Muliyil, K George, J Prasad, S Minz, V J Abraham, K S Jacob
	BMJ  2003;326:1121-1122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1121 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Participation in screening for cardiovascular risk by people with schizophrenia or similar mental illnesses: cross sectional study in general practice
	D P J Osborn, M B King, I Nazareth
	BMJ  2003;326:1122-1123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1122 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Iron supplementation for unexplained fatigue in non-anaemic women: double blind randomised placebo controlled trial
	F Verdon, B Burnand, C-L Fallab Stubi, C Bonard, M Graff, A Michaud, T Bischoff, M de Vevey, J-P Studer, L Herzig, C Chapuis, J Tissot, A Pécoud, B Favrat
	BMJ  2003;326:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1124 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Randomised crossover trial comparing the performance of Clinical Terms Version 3 and Read Codes 5 byte set coding schemes in general practice
	Philip J B Brown, Victoria Warmington, Michael Laurence, A Toby Prevost
	BMJ  2003;326:1127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1127 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of Read codes in diabetes management in a south London primary care group: implications for establishing disease registers
	Jeremy Gray, Douglas Orr, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2003;326:1130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1130 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain: case outcome
	G Sodeck, B Partik, H Domanovits
	BMJ  2003;326:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Patient's view
	Peter Hartl, Gottfried Sodeck
	BMJ  2003;326:1133-1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1133-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Challenge for emergency physicians
	Harald Herkner
	BMJ  2003;326:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1134 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Questions for general practice
	Alistair Howitt
	BMJ  2003;326:1134-1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1134-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Cardiovascular management
	Irene Lang
	BMJ  2003;326:1135-1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1135 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: More to be learnt from the discussion than the diagnosis
	Ed Peile
	BMJ  2003;326:1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1136 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous coronary intervention. II: The procedure
	Ever D Grech
	BMJ  2003;326:1137-1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1137 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Health and development in the Arab world: which way forward?
	Samer Jabbour
	BMJ  2003;326:1141-1143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Arab world state of health and development statistics] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Alexander Russell
	Bernard Valman
	BMJ  2003;326:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1149 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard Michael ("Mike") Burton
	Reg Britt, Tom Burton
	BMJ  2003;326:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1149-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Kenneth John Gurling
	Hugh Gurling
	BMJ  2003;326:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1149-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Book: Presumed Curable: An Illustrated Casebook of Victorian Psychiatric Patients in Bethlem Hospital
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2003;326:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1150 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Evidence-Based Public Health
	Phil Ayres
	BMJ  2003;326:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1150-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Theatre: Cancer Tales
	Monica Desai, Adrian Gonzalez
	BMJ  2003;326:1151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1151 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:1151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1151-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Promoting blood donation among British Muslims
	Aziz Sheikh, A R Gatrad
	BMJ  2003;326:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1152 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Website Of The Week: SARS revisited
	Fabian Waechter
	BMJ  2003;326:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1152-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Foundation hospitals: we've been here before
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2003;326:1153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1153 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Reader's consent
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2003;326:1153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1153-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:1154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1154 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Topical NSAIDs offer poor pain relief for corneal abrasions
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: The prevention of juvenile smoking
	BMJ  2003;326:1126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1126 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advice
	BMJ  2003;326:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1149-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study
	BMJ  2003;326:1123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1123 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:1123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1123-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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