19 September 2009(vol 339, issue 7722)

Editor's Choice

• The crooked timber of humanity

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3813 (Published 17 September 2009)

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Editorials

• Ethnic minorities and their perceptions of the quality of primary care

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3797 (Published 17 September 2009)

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• Meeting the health needs of trafficked persons

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3326 (Published 26 August 2009)

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• Age based discrimination in health and social care services

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3378 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Does improving quality of care save money?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3678 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• Health and climate change

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3669 (Published 15 September 2009)

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Letters

• Politicians must heed health effects of climate change

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3672 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• NHS organisations, let’s all sign up to the 10:10 campaign

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3693 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• A baroness replies

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3762 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Doctors’ attitudes surveyed

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3761 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Life is a terminal condition

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3682 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Doctors, steer entirely clear

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3760 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Authors respond to editorial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3687 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Doctors can be trusted

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3685 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Counting end of life decisions

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3690 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Precise diagnosis and treatment

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3747 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Don’t forget HIV

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3621 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Roche responds

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3758 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Should flu have at least one respiratory symptom?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3757 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Researching the small things that matter

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3749 (Published 14 September 2009)

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News

• China gears up for swine flu vaccination as virus spreads inland

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3778 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• GPs are to be paid £5.25 a shot for swine flu vaccination

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3815 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3789 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Researchers, like politicians, use “spin” in presenting their results, conference hears

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3779 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• More than 20% of articles have a “guest” author, study shows

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3783 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Doctors’ view of care pathway for dying patients clashes with audit findings

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3799 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Doctor is cleared of asking nurse to give fatal dose to dying patient

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3812 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Obama calls on Congress to pass health reform and explains his plan

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3719 (Published 10 September 2009)

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• Four in 10 deaths among young people worldwide from injuries, study finds

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3742 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Mentally ill prisoners continue to face death penalty in Japan, says Amnesty

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3729 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• AIDS awareness campaign that used Hitler lookalike provokes anger and support

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3793 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Nominations open for next year’s BMJ Group awards

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3766 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Fighting and lack of rain result in mounting crisis in southern Sudan

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3792 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Wellcome Trust and Merck join forces to develop vaccines for low income countries

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3804 (Published 17 September 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3739 (Published 15 September 2009)

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Feature

• Population: the forgotten priority

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3750 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Putting safety on the curriculum

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3725 (Published 15 September 2009)

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Observations

• No power for the people

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3735 (Published 14 September 2009)

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Head to Head

• Is rate more important than rhythm in treating atrial fibrillation? Yes

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3173 (Published 21 August 2009)

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• Is rate more important than rhythm in treating atrial fibrillation? No

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3174 (Published 21 August 2009)

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Analysis

• Economics of biological therapies

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3276 (Published 21 August 2009)

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Research

• Effects of a physiotherapy and occupational therapy intervention on mobility and activity in care home residents: a cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3123 (Published 01 September 2009)

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• Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3264 (Published 03 September 2009)

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• Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3454 (Published 10 September 2009)

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• The effects of excluding patients from the analysis in randomised controlled trials: meta-epidemiological study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3244 (Published 07 September 2009)

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• Understanding why some ethnic minority patients evaluate medical care more negatively than white patients: a cross sectional analysis of a routine patient survey in English general practices

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3450 (Published 17 September 2009)

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• The benefits of steroids versus steroids plus antivirals for treatment of Bell’s palsy: a meta-analysis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3354 (Published 07 September 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Autoimmune liver disease for the non-specialist

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3305 (Published 08 September 2009)

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Practice

• Preoperative risk assessment for bleeding and thromboembolism

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2299 (Published 03 September 2009)

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• Digoxin specific antibody fragments (Digibind) in digoxin toxicity

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2884 (Published 03 September 2009)

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Obituaries

• Jane Margery Wynne

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3790 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Ruth Goodman (née Sabel)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3703 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• Julius Hoenig

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3715 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• Iain Cran McLean

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3740 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• Charalampos Proukakis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3736 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• Nirmal Satsangi (née Bhatia)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3706 (Published 11 September 2009)

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• Robert Miles Swinburne

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3585 (Published 04 September 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• A healthy alternative to climate change negotiations

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3741 (Published 14 September 2009)

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• Left to rot

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3788 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Death shall have no dignity

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3506 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Sister Morphine

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3806 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• A wicked encyclopaedia

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3814 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• All that glisters

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3734 (Published 14 September 2009)

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Endgames

• Relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3626 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Persistent diarrhoea in a young woman

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3369 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• Calcium

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3711 (Published 16 September 2009)

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• An itchy ear that became painful

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3632 (Published 16 September 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3700 (Published 15 September 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3712 (Published 15 September 2009)

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