09 June 2001(vol 322, issue 7299)

This Week In the BMJ

• A new method can validate primary care electronic notes

  BMJ 2001; 322 :e (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Most doctors place defibrillator panels incorrectly

  BMJ 2001; 322 :f (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Deprivation increases deaths from diabetes

  BMJ 2001; 322 :c (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Faster ambulance response would cut deaths from cardiac arrest

  BMJ 2001; 322 :b (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Sending standardised letters helps people stop smoking

  BMJ 2001; 322 :d (Published 09 June 2001)

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Editorials

• Diabetes black spots and death by postcode

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1375 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Euthanasia: where the Netherlands leads will the world follow?

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1376 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Research with children

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1377 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• The new NHS information technology strategy

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1378 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Drug treatment for obesity

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1379 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Letters

• Medical errors

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1421 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Adverse events in British hospitals

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1425 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Cycle injury trends: helmets are most likely explanation

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1427 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Computer assisted learning aids management of course information

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1428 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Patients with depression can be taught how to improve recovery

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1428 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in children in Birmingham

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1428 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Conclusions about type 1 diabetes and hygiene hypothesis are premature

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1429 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• What author really said about malaria and climate change

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1429 (Published 09 June 2001)

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News

• Most GPs would consider resigning from NHS

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1381 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Senior hospital doctors issue warning to new government

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1381 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1382 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• UK senior scientists support animal genetic modification

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1382 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Sleeping sickness re-emerges in Africa after years of civil war

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1382 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Dutch doctors change policy on treating preterm babies

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1383 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Few incompetent doctors are reported to US national data bank

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1383 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Tobacco companies exploit women, says WHO

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1384 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Limiting operations to high volume teams has wide implications

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1384 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Clinical Reviews

• Obesity

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1406 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Antiretroviral drugs

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1410 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1395 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Editor's Choice

• What to do next?

  BMJ 2001; 322 :0 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• What to do next?

  BMJ 2001; 322 :a (Published 09 June 2001)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Genetic variant increases risk of schizophrenia

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1384 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Failures in genetic programming may cause death and defects in cloned animals

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1384 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Papers

• Effect of reducing ambulance response times on deaths from out of hospital cardiac arrest: cohort study

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1385 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Excess mortality in a population with diabetes and the impact of material deprivation: longitudinal, population based study

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1389 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Do doctors position defibrillation paddles correctly? Observational study

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1393 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Differences in therapeutic consequences of exercise testing between a rural and an urban Danish county: population based study

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1394 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Primary care

• Cost effectiveness of computer tailored and non-tailored smoking cessation letters in general practice: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1396 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Information in practice

• A survey of validity and utility of electronic patient records in a general practice

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1401 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Education and debate

• Implementing clinical governance: turning vision into reality

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1413 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Who should measure quality of life?

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1417 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Books

• The General Practice Jigsaw: The Future of Education, Training and Professional Development

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1431 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• How Scientists Explain Disease

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1431 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Difficult Diabetes

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1432 (Published 09 June 2001)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Diabetes

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1432 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Reviews

• Bestsellers

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1432 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1434 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Personal View

• A tale of seven surgeons

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1433 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Soundings

• Epiphany

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1433 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Fillers

• Insights on the internet

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1388 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• A change of heart

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1400 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• My room

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1405 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Revitalised

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1409 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• The drink question in Russia

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1410 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• An urgent fax

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1420 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Corrections

• Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1395 (Published 09 June 2001)

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• Two more medical schools to open

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1395 (Published 09 June 2001)

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Obituary

• William Greig Fettes AdamsMargaret Hilary BirchLeonard CromeMaurice Henry HandollCrawford John Thurston

  BMJ 2001; 322 :1430 (Published 09 June 2001)

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