This Week In the BMJ

• Quality of care before admission to intensive care is often poor

  BMJ 1998; 316 :a (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Cell counts of bursal fluid provide a simple test for septic bursitis

  BMJ 1998; 316 :d (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Long term hormone replacement therapy is needed to prevent hip fractures

  BMJ 1998; 316 :b (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Revised guidelines on advanced life support cover the use of automated defibrillators

  BMJ 1998; 316 :c (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Doctors may put patients off with antismoking advice

  BMJ 1998; 316 :e (Published 20 June 1998)

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Editorials

• Suboptimal care of patients before admission to intensive care

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1841 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Hormone replacement therapy again

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1842 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• 1998 European guidelines on resuscitation

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1844 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Why all the fuss about genetically modified food?

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1845 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Planning the United Kingdom's medical workforce

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1846 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Making self regulation credible

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1847 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Letters

• Reducing the vertical transmission of HIV

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1899 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Late diagnosis of HIV infection in children causes distress

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1901 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Risk of breast cancer is also increased among retired US female airline cabin attendants

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1902 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Intractable problems need long term solutions, not quick fixes

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1902 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Copper is unlikely to cause contact allergy

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1902 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Topical chloramphenicol is an outmoded treatment

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1903 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Screening for prostate cancer

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1903 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• The use or uselessness of annual public health reports

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1904 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Treating Helicobacter pylori infection after surgery is unnecessary

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1904 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• WMA urges national medical associations to ensure that economic sanctions respect agreed exemptions

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1905 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Clinical trials should be designed to include elderly people

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1905 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Why clinical audit doesn't work

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1905 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Having electronic preprints is logical

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1907 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Education still needs to be improved for trainee doctors

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1907 (Published 20 June 1998)

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News

• Newcastle GP charged with murder

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1849 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• US government calls for tighter regulation of clinical trials

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1849 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• In brief

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1850 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Many journals have not retracted “fraudulent” research

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1850 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Male suicide rate rises as Irish Troubles ease

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1850 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• NHS hospital doctors face compulsory audit

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1851 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Loss of doctors from NHS can be stemmed

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1851 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Cot death linked to prolonged QT interval

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Doctors involved in South Africa's biological warfare programme

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Canadian province to bring in licence fees for tobacco companies

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Hospital building delays are “a thing of the past”

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• GP faces manslaughter charges

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Radical reform of NHS information strategy on the way

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Concern mounts about Welsh cardiology services as consultants leave

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1852 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Clinical Reviews

• Postnatal depression

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1884 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Acute obstructive hydrocephalus complicating bacterial meningitis in childhood

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1887 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1916 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Editor's Choice

• “Airway, breathing, and circulation are the prerequisites of life”

  BMJ 1998; 316 :0 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Papers

• Confidential inquiry into quality of care before admission to intensive care

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1853 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Hormone replacement therapy and risk of hip fracture: population based case-control study

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1858 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult advanced life support

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1863 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult single rescuer basic life support

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1870 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Simple tests for septic bursitis: comparative study

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1877 (Published 20 June 1998)

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General practice

• Qualitative study of patients' perceptions of doctors' advice to quit smoking: implications for opportunistic health promotion

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1878 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Primary care: core values Patient centred primary care

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1882 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Filler

• It pays to be specific

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1889 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Education and debate

• Truth, the first casualtyDeadly charadesCommunication is a vital part of careDoctors and patients should be fellow travellers

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1890 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Action on clinical audit: progress report

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1893 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Managing demand in general practice

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1895 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Randomising groups of patients

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1898 (Published 20 June 1998)

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Junior doctors conferenceJuniors want to be included in working time directiveHIV should not be barrier to medical schoolPublic health doctors look to the futureSecond wave of health action zones launchedBMA Notice

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1910 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Soundings

• My role model

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1913 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Personal View

• The credibility gap

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1913 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Medicine and books

• Science and the Retreat From Reason

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1915 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Wit and Fizz: Selected Works of Ruth Holland

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1915 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Career focus

• Bridging the gap after vocational training

  BMJ 1998; 316 :S2-7148 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1998; 316 :S3-7148 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1998; 316 :S3a-7148 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1998; 316 :S3b-7148 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Fillers

• What's a parameter?

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1877 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Why I became an anaesthetist

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1914 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Corrections

• Miscellaneous

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1869 (Published 20 June 1998)

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• Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1881 (Published 20 June 1998)

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Obituary

• Norman John BadhamGodfrey Malcolm (“Mac”) BakerEmanuel Alfred CachiaJohn Emsley CoatesJohn CostelloAlexander Peter DickJohn Michael FacciniThomas John FairbankJohn Cedric GoligherHarold Barnett HewittJohn MacDonald (“Angus”) Holmes

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1908 (Published 20 June 1998)

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