29 September 2001(vol 323, issue 7315)

This Week In the BMJ

• Home visits benefit elderly people

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• Advances bring artificial limbs closer to missing limbs

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• GPs' working arrangements affect their own health care

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• Home intervention by nurses cuts readmission for heart failure

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• National guidance distorts resource allocation

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Editorials

• Exercise for intermittent claudication

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• Screening for cancer in venous thromboembolic disease

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• Wrong biochemistry results

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• Monitoring the safety of over the counter drugs

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• Preventive home visits to elderly people

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Letters

• Prostatic symptoms

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• Community pharmacy supply of emergency contraception

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• Family history and risk of venous thromboembolism with oral contraception

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• Author's reply to criticism of study on benzodiazepines and risk of hip fracture

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• Journal should show balance, not bias, when reporting on PFI

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• Implementing clinical governance

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• Perineal massage in pregnancy

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• Removal from a GP's list: qualitative research is needed

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• Duodenal haematoma occurs in children with bicycle injuries

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• Systematic reviews and Cochrane Collaboration

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• Doctors should not participate in executions

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• Plight of Afghan people must not be forgotten

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News

• England introduces star system for hospital trusts

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• Breast clinic director accused of bullying and incompetence

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• In brief

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• Exercise and cognitive behaviour therapy are best treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome

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• Belgium cuts antibiotic use by 12%

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• Delay in GMC hearing breached doctor's human rights

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• Fake cows help to reduce sleeping sickness and use of insecticides

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• Separate vaccines could endanger children

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• Surgeons perform transatlantic operation using fibreoptics

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• China admits its AIDS crisis

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• India wakes up to threat of bioterrorism

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Clinical Reviews

• Artificial limbs

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• Oesophagus: Heartburn

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Ways of understanding

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• Ways of understanding

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• New heart attack test could reduce unnecessary hospital admissions

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• GPs concerned over plans to send patients to Europe

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• Mental health patients criticise lack of information

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• Bypass surgery can be safe for octogenarians

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• Collection of artworks by psychiatric patients finds permanent home

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• Smoking may mimic effect of antidepressants

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• UK survey finds variation in oestrogen receptor testing

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• Japan to test 1m cattle after discovery of first case of BSE

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Education campaigns can reduce stigma of depression and cut suicides

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Papers

• Randomised controlled trial of specialist nurse intervention in heart failure

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• Effectiveness of home based support for older people: systematic review and meta-analysisCommentary: When, where, and why do preventive home visits work?

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• Attitudes and training of research fellows in surgery: national questionnaire survey

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• Analysis of cord blood gas at delivery: questionnaire study of practice in the United Kingdom

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Education and debate

• Raising standards in emergency relief: how useful are Sphere minimum standards for humanitarian assistance?

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• Wrong SIGN, NICE mess: is national guidance distorting allocation of resources?

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• Complexity, leadership, and management in healthcare organisations

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Books

• The Politics of Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia

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• Relapse and Recovery in Addictions

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Personal Views

• Not made to measure

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• Djibouti

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Humanitarian aid

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Soundings

• Cruising

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Fillers

• The danger of good people

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• A certainty

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• Challenge of culture, conscience, and contract to general practitioners' care of Challenge of culture, conscience, and contract to general practitioners' care of their own health: qualitative study

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• More on pre-mortal provision

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• The final quip

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• British practitioners in Italy

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• Beyond the blame culture?

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Corrections

• Life expectancy rates show health inequalities

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• The public health benefits of mobile phones

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Obituary

• Robert James EtheridgeArthur Henry Ferguson-GowLeo Max HonigsbergerCharles Richard KnappettDavid Le Vay

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