18 May 2002(vol 324, issue 7347)

This Week In the BMJ

• One lesson improves knowledge of emergency contraception

  BMJ 2002; 324 :a (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Patients say they use diaries, but they don't

  BMJ 2002; 324 :e (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Visual experience and genes cause myopia

  BMJ 2002; 324 :0 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Offering money increases questionnaire response rates

  BMJ 2002; 324 :b (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Beware of your neighbour's cat

  BMJ 2002; 324 :g (Published 18 May 2002)

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• PFI hospitals are not value for money

  BMJ 2002; 324 :h (Published 18 May 2002)

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• GPs reluctant to screen for impaired glucose tolerance

  BMJ 2002; 324 :d (Published 18 May 2002)

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• New consent rules threaten public health

  BMJ 2002; 324 :f (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Aluminium sulphate spill did not affect health

  BMJ 2002; 324 :c (Published 18 May 2002)

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Editorials

• Emergency vascular surgery

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1167 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Improving the response rates to questionnaires

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1168 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Implications of the EU directive on clinical trials for emergency medicine

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1169 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Selection of medical students

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1170 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Twenty thousand conversations

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1171 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Letters

• Discomfort of patient power

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1214 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Questions for Dr Foster

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1215 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Medical emergency teams and cardiac arrests in hospital

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1215 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Was it a heart attack?

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1216 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• New score is needed to predict risk of coronary heart disease

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1217 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Using real patients in professional medical exams

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1217 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1218 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Misdiagnosis of epilepsy

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1219 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• 10-minute consultation: Rhinitis

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1219 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Experience based treatment of head lice

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1220 (Published 18 May 2002)

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News

• MPs call for more publicly funded capital projects in the NHS

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1173 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Life expectancy is consistently underestimated, say researchers

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1173 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1174 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Muslim patients suffer as Hindu doctors fear for their safety

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1174 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Trusts cancel 10% of operating theatre sessions

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1174 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms should “wait and see”

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1175 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Trial shows azithromycin is no better than vitamin C for bronchitis

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1175 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Trust chiefs cause flood of serious cases to GMC

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1177 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• PFI is here to stay

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1178 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Clinical Reviews

• Myopia

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1195 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Cat scratch disease

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1199 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Conditions affecting the right side of the heart

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1201 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1226 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Editor's Choice

• Myopia and the private finance initiative

  BMJ 2002; 324 :i (Published 18 May 2002)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• US reviews smallpox vaccination policy

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1176 (Published 11 May 2002)

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• Campaign to eliminate disfiguring disease is stepped up

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1176 (Published 11 May 2002)

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• US Senate considers proposal to tighten drug patent law

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1176 (Published 11 May 2002)

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• Journals are inconsistent in their choice of articles to be fast-tracked

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1176 (Published 11 May 2002)

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• Decoding of soil bacterium genome points way to new antibiotics

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1176 (Published 11 May 2002)

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• Australia's detention policy puts refugees' health at risk, says report

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1177 (Published 11 May 2002)

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• Psychiatrist settles dispute with Toronto University

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1177 (Published 11 May 2002)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Spain sets up inquiry after use of frozen eggs for in vitro fertilisation

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1178 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• NHS could help boost local communities, says King's Fund

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1178 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• HIV positive girl made ward of court after father refuses to allow her treatment

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1178 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Papers

• Improving teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception: cluster randomised controlled trial of a teacher led intervention

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1179 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1183 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Increasing use of the emergency department in a Swiss hospital: observational study based on measures of the severity of cases

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1186 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Prescribing incentive schemes in two NHS regions: cross sectional surveyCommentary: Prescribing incentive schemes—more evidence is needed of how they work

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1187 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Retrospective study of mortality after a water pollution incident at Lowermoor in north Cornwall

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1189 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Primary care

• Impaired glucose tolerance: qualitative and quantitative study of general practitioners' knowledge and perceptions

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1190 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Information in practice

• Patient non-compliance with paper diaries

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1193 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Improving the use of clinical databases

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1194 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Education and debate

• Private finance and “value for money” in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1205 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Consent, confidentiality, and the threat to public health surveillanceCommentary: Don't waive consent lightly—involve the public

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1210 (Published 18 May 2002)

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ART

• Outsider Art

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1222 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Film

• I Am Sam

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1223 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Book

• Health Care in Central Asia

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1223 (Published 18 May 2002)

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PRESS

• Private Eye Special Report on MMR

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1224 (Published 18 May 2002)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Eye sites

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1224 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Personal View

• Occupied Territories: entry denied

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1225 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Soundings

• The test

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1225 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Fillers

• Saving time?

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1189 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Aphorisms for old age

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1190 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Edward Jenner

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1199 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• A Tudor husband's instruction to his pregnant wife

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1210 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Corrections

• This Week in the BMJ

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1185 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Canada sees a bigger role for private companies in health care

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1185 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Ellis Baker

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1221 (Published 18 May 2002)

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Obituaries

• John Montague Graham

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1221 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Nigel Holmes

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1221 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Keith Willerby Lovel

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1221 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• Geoffrey Cheadle Myddelton

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1221 (Published 18 May 2002)

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• John Hubert Shelswell

  BMJ 2002; 324 :1221 (Published 18 May 2002)

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