11 July 1998(vol 317, issue 7151)

This Week In the BMJ

• Collaboration between primary care and social services can be improved

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• GPs tend to report only serious reactions to new drugs

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• Recovery is quicker after laparoscopic hernia repair — but there is a cost

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• Most of healthcare budget is spent on care not cure

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• Financial strain has a major impact on mental health

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• Children with inflammatory bowel disease fail to have their growth or sexual development recorded

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Editorials

• Pulmonary embolism

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• Vitamin B-6: food or medicine?

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• Improving the management of soft tissue sarcoma

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• Bournewood: an indefensible gap in mental health law

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• Quality to the fore in health policy—at last

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Letters

• Impact of surgery for stress incontinence on morbidity

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• Risk factors for winter outbreak of acute diarrhoea in France

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• Physical dependence on zopiclone

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• Doctors need to know more about advance directives

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• Rescue thrombolysis may work even though primary thrombolysis has failed

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• Quality of life assessments may help some patients

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• Integrated care pathways increase use of guidelines

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• Lumbar puncture should not be delayed in subarachnoid haemorrhage

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• Doctors must understand terminology used to describe psychological therapies

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• Improving management of diabetes in residential and nursing homes

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• Discrimination against gay and lesbian doctors goes against GMC's guidance

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• Levonorgestrel intrauterine device can be left in place for five years

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News

• Government gives details of quality drive in the NHS in England

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• In brief

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• BMA's chairman calls on Labour to face the facts

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• Smoking is more dangerous for black Americans

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• Doctors could have greater role in spotting domestic violence

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• Sustained fall in UK blood lead levels reported

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• Some sudden unexpected deaths in infancy may be avoidable

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• Protease inhibitors may cause fat abnormalities and heart disease

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• New HIV strain may be resistant to drugs

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• Drug company fails to stop publication of report

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• FDA warns about heartburn drug

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• Cigarette ingredients must be revealed

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• Amyloid clearly implicated in Alzheimer's disease

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• Tau protein linked to dementia

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Clinical Review

• Sexually transmitted infections

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Cost and quality

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Papers

• Randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open mesh repair for inguinal hernia: outcome and cost

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• Demographic and epidemiological determinants of healthcare costs in Netherlands: cost of illness study

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• Poverty, unemployment, and common mental disorders: population based cohort study

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• Underreporting of suspected adverse drug reactions to newly marketed (“black triangle”) drugs in general practice: observational study

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• Neglect of growth and development in the clinical monitoring of children and teenagers with inflammatory bowel disease: review of case records

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General practice

• From collaboration to commissioning: developing relationships between primary health and social services

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• Primary care: core values Developing primary care: gatekeeping, commissioning, and managed care

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Education and debate

• Deliberate self harm in Sri Lanka: an overlooked tragedy in the developing world

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• Managing demand for secondary care services: the changing context

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• When to act on the evidence

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Shadow health team calls for GP ballotNational home health guide launchedHelp planned for carersMinimum wage will hit NHSDGHs should remain backbone of secondary care

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Soundings

• Catastrophic cat care

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Personal View

• Plus ça change…

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Career focus

• Mentoring for overseas doctors

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• Alternative definitions

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• Words that count

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• The new NHS: National Health Service Act

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• Today's dogma may be tomorrow's joke

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• Golden age of surgery

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• Ceremonial haemoglobinuria

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Obituary

• Trevor Lloyd DaviesGeorge Roy GreenGeorge Michael KanePatrick James Thompson MillenTom Pickles PattinsonJohn Maitland (“Johnny”) Watermeyer

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