01 May 2010(vol 340, issue 7753)

Editor's Choice

• How can we make audit sexy?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2324 (Published 29 April 2010)

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Editorials

• Assessing the quality of hospitals

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2066 (Published 20 April 2010)

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• Pragmatic rehabilitation for chronic fatigue syndrome

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1799 (Published 23 April 2010)

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• Prostate cancer and deprivation

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2043 (Published 22 April 2010)

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• How cognitive biases affect our interpretation of political messages

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2276 (Published 27 April 2010)

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• Has the European Clinical Trials Directive been a success?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1862 (Published 09 April 2010)

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Letters

• Let’s debate treatment instead

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2239 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• A history lesson

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2241 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• Helping the youngest users

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2242 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• No data, no commissioning

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2134 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• What took so long?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2136 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• And now, e-publication bias

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2243 (Published 28 April 2010)

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News

• Experts call for new national screening programme for colorectal cancer

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2344 (Published 27 April 2010)

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• US specialty societies are urged to adopt code on relations with industry

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2246 (Published 23 April 2010)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2290 (Published 27 April 2010)

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• Fewer, larger centres are needed to improve children’s heart surgery, report says

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2341 (Published 27 April 2010)

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• Doctor is awarded £0.5m after her employer refused to take account of back pain

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2263 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• HIV testing in UK hospitals is a “lottery,” studies warn

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2255 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• FDA told to act to wean US citizens off high salt diet

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2219 (Published 22 April 2010)

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• Spanish doctors carry out first transplantation of a full face

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2303 (Published 27 April 2010)

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• India-EU free trade agreement threatens access to generic drugs, MSF warns

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2309 (Published 27 April 2010)

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• European court rules that NHS incentive schemes for cheap prescribing do not breach law

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2232 (Published 23 April 2010)

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• Health spokesmen disagree on how hospital closures should be managed

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2238 (Published 23 April 2010)

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• The political power of cancer

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2250 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• Rural Scotland needs innovative solutions to deliver out of hours care

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2291 (Published 27 April 2010)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2235 (Published 28 April 2010)

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Feature

• Patient coding and the ratings game

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2153 (Published 25 April 2010)

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Observations

• I was an election poster boy

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2190 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• Conflict between clinicians and politicians—and what to do about it

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2214 (Published 28 April 2010)

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Analysis

• Using hospital mortality rates to judge hospital performance: a bad idea that just won’t go away

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2016 (Published 20 April 2010)

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Research

• Nurse led, home based self help treatment for patients in primary care with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1777 (Published 23 April 2010)

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• Cost effectiveness of home ultraviolet B phototherapy for psoriasis: economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial (PLUTO study)

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1490 (Published 20 April 2010)

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• Population based time trends and socioeconomic variation in use of radiotherapy and radical surgery for prostate cancer in a UK region: continuous survey

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1928 (Published 22 April 2010)

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• Potential of an age adjusted D-dimer cut-off value to improve the exclusion of pulmonary embolism in older patients: a retrospective analysis of three large cohorts

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1475 (Published 30 March 2010)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Rethinking pragmatic randomised controlled trials: introducing the “cohort multiple randomised controlled trial” design

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1066 (Published 19 March 2010)

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Clinical Review

• Management of medication overuse headache

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1305 (Published 28 April 2010)

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Practice

• Reducing risks of tourniquets left on after finger and toe surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1981 (Published 21 April 2010)

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• Pulmonary embolism

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1421 (Published 13 April 2010)

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Obituaries

• John Pemberton

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2230 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• Patrick Beausang

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2280 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• Fayez Nazeer Botros

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2281 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• John Douglas

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2256 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• Harry Alexander Isenberg

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2283 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• Thomas Swan Matheson

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2279 (Published 26 April 2010)

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• Anna Stephenie Wilson (née Kilner)

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2275 (Published 26 April 2010)

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Views & Reviews

• A Dutch window into the development of a two tier healthcare system

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2330 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• China’s son preference—consigned to history?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2216 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• The poisoner’s handbook?

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2294 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• Survival of the Unfittest

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2224 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• The X factor

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2293 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• Lancets and libel

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2274 (Published 28 April 2010)

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Endgames

• Haemoptysis, weight loss, and pulmonary shadowing in a smoker

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c1655 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• P values

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2203 (Published 28 April 2010)

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• Rheumatology

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2210 (Published 28 April 2010)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2213 (Published 23 April 2010)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2217 (Published 23 April 2010)

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Filler

• A memorable patient

  BMJ 2010; 340 :b5403 (Published 28 April 2010)

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