19 June 2010(vol 340, issue 7760)

Editor's Choice

• QOF and consent

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Editorials

• Poor vision and falls

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• Care plans for people with Alzheimer’s disease

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• Patents in synthetic biology

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• A moment of truth for global health

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• Female genital mutilation

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Letters

• Incentivising organ donation

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• Realise potential of current systems before changing the law

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• View from France: coming full circle

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• What about mandated choice?

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• Authors’ reply

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• An underdiagnosed complication of anaesthesia?

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• Beware surgeon specific rates

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• Editorial exaggerates the risk

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• Management skills need to be recognised

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• Rendering food injurious to health

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• British Nutrition Foundation replies

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• Case for a doctor’s involvement in judicial executions

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News

• Future of NHS summary care record hangs in balance

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• Giving oxygen in acute myocardial infarction may raise death risk, Cochrane review concludes

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• Higher spending in Scotland fails to deliver better outcomes

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• More than half of diabetic patients do not get recommended annual tests

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• GP who looked after baby Peter missed opportunity to save him, GMC is told

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• Poor leadership at HPA is blamed for spread of E coli at farm

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• In brief

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• Bush administration should be investigated for torture of prisoners, says human rights group

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• WHO admits to “inconsistencies” in its policy on conflicts of interest

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• University of California fights Nature over price increase

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• Tranexamic acid cuts deaths in trauma patients at risk of major bleeding

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• Paediatric surgeons learn safety tricks from pit stop rituals

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• Better access to drugs in developing countries is accelerating resistance

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• What next for Haiti’s healthcare?

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• Don’t ignore home grown medical systems

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• Poland’s painful market reforms

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Head to Head

• Should the Quality and Outcomes Framework be abolished? Yes

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• Should the Quality and Outcomes Framework be abolished? No

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Observations

• The biggest change in health care for a generation?

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Analysis

• Controversy over generic substitution

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Research

• Effect on falls of providing single lens distance vision glasses to multifocal glasses wearers: VISIBLE randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2010; 340 :c2265 (Published 25 May 2010)

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• Effectiveness of a specific care plan in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: cluster randomised trial (PLASA study)

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• Cost effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination among Dutch infants: economic analysis of the seven valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccine and forecast for the 10 valent and 13 valent vaccines

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• Psychosis alters association between IQ and future risk of attempted suicide: cohort study of 1 109 475 Swedish men

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• Short term impact of smoke-free legislation in England: retrospective analysis of hospital admissions for myocardial infarction

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Clinical Review

• Management of faecal incontinence in adults

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Practice

• Rehabilitation of patients with stroke: summary of SIGN guidance

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• Delayed diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism

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Obituaries

• John Havard

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• Lawrence Brimacombe

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• Robert Angus Fletcher Gilbert

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• Isabel Mary Headen (Gardner) (née Woodhouse)

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• John Houghton

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• Kenneth Fawcett Mole

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• David Norman Howell Owen

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• Zaki Rizk Salib

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Views & Reviews

• Could kindness heal the NHS?

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• Extreme bodies: art to stimulate the mind, or a modern day freak show?

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• An injection of fear

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• The Notebook

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• Bad medicine: chronic kidney disease

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• Hans Sloane’s bitter taste of success

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Endgames

• A persistent headache

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• Sample size calculations I

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• Fractures

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• I can’t really talk right now

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