05 February 2011(vol 342, issue 7792)

Editor's Choice

• Chronic disease must top the agenda

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d716 (Published 02 February 2011)

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Editorials

• Anticoagulation in people with atrial fibrillation

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d530 (Published 31 January 2011)

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• Chest compression or conventional CPR after out of hospital cardiac arrest?

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• Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d201 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Adverse outcomes from IVF

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d436 (Published 28 January 2011)

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• Prevention and control of chronic diseases

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Letters

• NHS reform is unnecessary reinvention

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• What about training?

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• Support for open letter

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• Opportunity cost of the Cancer Drugs Fund

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• Cancer Drugs Fund is not a fair allocation of NHS resources

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• And just how do you define narrow therapeutic ratio?

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• Author’s reply

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• NICE calls for a register

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• Flu’s impact on intensive care

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d640 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• The regulation killing health research in the UK

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• A publicly available database accelerates academic production

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• Data monitoring committees and selective outcome reporting

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• Time for a national register

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• Flawed assumption in analysis

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d448 (Published 01 February 2011)

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News

• Florida judge says entire health reform act is unconstitutional

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d704 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• MPs support NHS reform as health bill passes first parliament debate

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• New appointment to drug advisory body sparks controversy

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• Experts express doubts that food and drink industries have the motives to improve health

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• BMA calls special representative meeting to discuss concerns over reforms

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• Last US manufacturer of drug used in executions stops production

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d590 (Published 27 January 2011)

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• In brief

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• US health department recovers $4bn through antifraud action

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d615 (Published 28 January 2011)

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• High smoking rates in 1940s, 1950s and 1960s in US explain comparatively lower life expectancy of older Americans

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d574 (Published 27 January 2011)

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• MEPs criticise WHO over H1N1 pandemic advice

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d652 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• Spain’s tougher line on smoking in public places spreads to other countries

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d617 (Published 28 January 2011)

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• Gates and Cameron pledge new money to eradicate polio

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d706 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• Germany pushes for more organ donation

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d660 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• FDA panel advice may require trials to prove safety of ECT

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d661 (Published 31 January 2011)

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• “Inverse benefit law” explains how drug marketing undermines patient safety

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

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Feature

• Well enough to work?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d599 (Published 02 February 2011)

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• Does poor health justify NHS reform?

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d566 (Published 28 January 2011)

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Observations

• “Make the care of your patient your first concern”

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Analysis

• How should we balance individual and population benefits of statins for preventing cardiovascular disease?

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• Unanswered questions over NHS health checks

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c6312 (Published 26 January 2011)

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Research

• Validation of risk stratification schemes for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial fibrillation: nationwide cohort study

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d124 (Published 31 January 2011)

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• Outcomes of chest compression only CPR versus conventional CPR conducted by lay people in patients with out of hospital cardiopulmonary arrest witnessed by bystanders: nationwide population based observational study

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c7106 (Published 27 January 2011)

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• Effect of pay for performance on the management and outcomes of hypertension in the United Kingdom: interrupted time series study

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d108 (Published 25 January 2011)

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• Impact of a statewide intensive care unit quality improvement initiative on hospital mortality and length of stay: retrospective comparative analysis

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d219 (Published 31 January 2011)

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• Portrayal of caesarean section in Brazilian women’s magazines: 20 year review

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d276 (Published 25 January 2011)

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Clinical Review

• The assessment and management of rectal prolapse, rectal intussusception, rectocoele, and enterocoele in adults

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Practice

• Testing for secondary causes of osteoporosis

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• Safer loading doses of medicines: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

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Obituaries

• Leslie James Clark-Wilson

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• John Mark Gibson

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• Catherine Margaret Hall

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• Anthony Howard James

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• Samarthji Lal

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• Ian Hayes Fyfe Murray

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Views & Reviews

• We should push for evidence based sentencing in criminal justice

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d612 (Published 02 February 2011)

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• Inside art

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d240 (Published 02 February 2011)

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• Tuberculosis and genius

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d604 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d50 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• Bad medicine: cardiology

  BMJ 2011; 342 :d670 (Published 01 February 2011)

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• Definitely not acceptable: drug company sues journal over review

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Endgames

• Meta-analyses IV

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• An asthmatic child with a troublesome cough

  BMJ 2011; 342 :c6846 (Published 02 February 2011)

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• Axial computed tomography image through the neck (soft tissue windows)

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• A patient with a red eye

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Minerva

• Minerva

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• Minerva

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Filler

• Analysis of temporal trends in the BMJ archive

  BMJ 2010; 341 :c3306 (Published 21 October 2010)

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