04 April 2009(vol 338, issue 7698)

Editor's Choice

• Measuring quality

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1356 (Published 02 April 2009)

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Editorials

• Reduced risk of ulcerative colitis after appendicectomy

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b225 (Published 09 March 2009)

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• Screening for type 2 diabetes in primary care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b973 (Published 18 March 2009)

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• Measuring the quality of hospital care

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b569 (Published 18 March 2009)

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• Reducing harm from alcohol

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1191 (Published 20 March 2009)

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• Late onset hypogonadism

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b352 (Published 13 February 2009)

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Letters

• Methodological considerations and differences according to sex and stroke subtypes

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1305 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Authors’ reply

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1327 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Some auto-injection pens are counterintuitive

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1303 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Clarity is needed on which sites to screen

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1308 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Ontological fallacy in heart failure

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1304 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Wanted: age adjusted outcomes

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1309 (Published 31 March 2009)

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News

• Researchers fear effects of EU draft directive on animal research

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1294 (Published 27 March 2009)

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• Government must give guidance on care of failed asylum seekers who cannot return home

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1345 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• JAMA’s new rule on whistleblowers creates controversy

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1352 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Blue plaque honours pioneers in holistic medicine

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1297 (Published 27 March 2009)

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• Five yearly checks for over 40s will save 650 lives a year, says government

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1334 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• UK doctors’ attitude to assisted dying differs strongly from the public’s

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1338 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Scottish NHS offers cash to get smokers to quit

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1306 (Published 27 March 2009)

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• System allows patients to complain about NHS and seek compensation at the same time

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1301 (Published 27 March 2009)

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• Experts call for a global fund for family planning

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1339 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• A glimpse of Freud’s Vienna

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1292 (Published 27 March 2009)

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• High Court judge overturns GMC ruling on fitness to practise

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1336 (Published 30 March 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1302 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• FDA is told to ease restrictions on morning after pill

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1313 (Published 27 March 2009)

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• Mental health services’ framework must tackle age discrimination, commission says

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1346 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Kansas doctor who performed late term abortions is acquitted

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1329 (Published 30 March 2009)

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• UN says disruptions to health care in Darfur caused by expulsion of aid agencies may not be resolved

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1341 (Published 31 March 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1296 (Published 01 April 2009)

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Feature

• Opening up the primary medical care market

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1127 (Published 31 March 2009)

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Observations

• Excessive wealth is damaging the nation’s health

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1293 (Published 01 April 2009)

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Head to Head

• Is early intervention in the major psychiatric disorders justified? Yes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a695 (Published 04 August 2008)

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• Is early intervention in the major psychiatric disorders justified? No

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a710 (Published 04 August 2008)

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Analysis

• Patients and the public deserve big changes in evaluation of drugs

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1025 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• Commentary: Risks of doing as the Romans do

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1107 (Published 31 March 2009)

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Research

• Appendicitis, mesenteric lymphadenitis, and subsequent risk of ulcerative colitis: cohort studies in Sweden and Denmark

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b716 (Published 09 March 2009)

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• Predicting risk of type 2 diabetes in England and Wales: prospective derivation and validation of QDScore

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b880 (Published 18 March 2009)

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• Evidence of methodological bias in hospital standardised mortality ratios: retrospective database study of English hospitals

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b780 (Published 18 March 2009)

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• Migraines during pregnancy linked to stroke and vascular diseases: US population based case-control study

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b664 (Published 11 March 2009)

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• Written informed consent and selection bias in observational studies using medical records: systematic review

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b866 (Published 12 March 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Management of hirsutism

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b847 (Published 27 March 2009)

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Practice

• What is the most effective management of neurogenic bladder dysfunction?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b659 (Published 12 March 2009)

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• Pregnancy and alcohol misuse

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b845 (Published 30 March 2009)

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Obituaries

• Norman Gibbon

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1290 (Published 31 March 2009)

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• William Robert Anderson Beattie

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1246 (Published 30 March 2009)

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• Henry Vincent Corbett

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1239 (Published 30 March 2009)

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• Cecil Foggitt

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1231 (Published 30 March 2009)

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• Rukn Uddin Haider

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1236 (Published 30 March 2009)

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• Agnes Thomson Kennie

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1153 (Published 20 March 2009)

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• Elaine Marion Osborne (née Sunderland)

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• Betty Victoria Thacker

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1100 (Published 17 March 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• What are coroners and pathologists for?

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1355 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• It’s the fossil fuels, stupid

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1342 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Elementary, my dear Hamish

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1337 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Sexual Deviation

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1240 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• A sign of the time

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1335 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Genome hacking

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1322 (Published 01 April 2009)

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Endgames

• “Brain attack”

  BMJ 2009; 338 :a3109 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• A breathless man with diffuse chest pain

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1105 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Comparing length of stay

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1280 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Contraception

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1278 (Published 01 April 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1289 (Published 01 April 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1298 (Published 01 April 2009)

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Filler

• Epitaph

  BMJ 2009; 338 :b1113 (Published 01 April 2009)

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