15 October 2011(vol 343, issue 7827)

Editor's Choice

• A sunshine act for Europe

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6593 (Published 13 October 2011)

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Editorials

• Control of MRSA in intensive care units

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5885 (Published 06 October 2011)

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• Conflicts of interest in guideline panel members

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5728 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Increased risk of glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes with statins

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5004 (Published 08 August 2011)

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• Elder abuse

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6027 (Published 22 September 2011)

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• Bahraini health workers to be retried before a civilian court

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6547 (Published 12 October 2011)

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Letters

• Summary should have included advice for women of childbearing potential

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6485 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Evidence for key recommendation in NICE guidance on hypertension is poor

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6494 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Don’t β blockers still have a role in hypertension?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6495 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Ethnicity and hypertension: not as black and white as NICE makes out

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6501 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Authors’ reply to Harding and colleagues, Taylor, Cruickshank, and El Turabi and Payne

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6506 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• NICE is improving access to guidance

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6512 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Challenge of responding to PVL positive Staphylococcus aureus skin infection

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6477 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Don’t forget pets in PVL positive Staphylococcus aureus infection

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6338 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• NHS IT requires the wisdom of the crowd not the marketplace

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6484 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Moving beyond the cathedral model for IT development

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6480 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• UK tobacco firms behind cancer export drive

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6491 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Delia Smith and the ethics committee

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6511 (Published 12 October 2011)

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News

• Plans for information collection from NHS put doctors in “impossible position”

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6556 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Organ donors’ funeral costs should be paid, report says

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6557 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Commission calls for medical training to become more generalist

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6465 (Published 06 October 2011)

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• GP surgery recommends private treatment to patients after cutbacks

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6463 (Published 06 October 2011)

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• NICE guidelines on multiple sclerosis are being ignored

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6525 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Stafford Hospital receives formal warning from regulator

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6562 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6505 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• US Senate criticises home health companies for “gaming” Medicare

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6454 (Published 07 October 2011)

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• US expert panel recommends against prostate cancer screening

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6479 (Published 10 October 2011)

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• France targets tobacco industry to raise cash for global health

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6521 (Published 10 October 2011)

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• Developing countries must balance access to antibiotics with action to curb resistance

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6471 (Published 07 October 2011)

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• Taiwan transplant team blamed for HIV positive organ blunder

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6523 (Published 10 October 2011)

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• Promise of retrial for Bahraini doctors was for Western eyes only

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6567 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Dutch primary care staff protest against budget cuts

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6497 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Scientist who linked chronic fatigue syndrome to XMRV is sacked

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6541 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Wages are slashed and waiting lists grow as Catalonia’s health cuts bite

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6466 (Published 07 October 2011)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6476 (Published 12 October 2011)

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Feature

• Letting the sunshine in on doctor-pharma relationships

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6459 (Published 11 October 2011)

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Observations

• Keep Our NHS Public

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6528 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• In defence of the NHS: why writing to the House of Lords was necessary

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6535 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Quality rankings for US hospitals are released

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6539 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• The government’s criticisms of PFI don’t add up

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6566 (Published 12 October 2011)

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Analysis

• A nudge in the right direction for organ donation—but is it enough?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5726 (Published 14 September 2011)

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Research

• Screening, isolation, and decolonisation strategies in the control of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units: cost effectiveness evaluation

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5694 (Published 06 October 2011)

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• Impact of CONSORT extension for cluster randomised trials on quality of reporting and study methodology: review of random sample of 300 trials, 2000-8

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5886 (Published 26 September 2011)

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• Speed of updating online evidence based point of care summaries: prospective cohort analysis

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5856 (Published 23 September 2011)

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• Prevalence of financial conflicts of interest among panel members producing clinical practice guidelines in Canada and United States: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5621 (Published 11 October 2011)

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Clinical Review

• Actinomycosis

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6099 (Published 11 October 2011)

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Practice

• Appendicitis

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5976 (Published 06 October 2011)

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• Living with alkaptonuria

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5155 (Published 29 September 2011)

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Obituaries

• Leslie Le Quesne

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6543 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Raymund Noel Patrick Carroll

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6380 (Published 04 October 2011)

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• Denis Murphy

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6374 (Published 04 October 2011)

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• Eric Joseph Newton

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6377 (Published 04 October 2011)

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• David Grahame-Smith

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6378 (Published 04 October 2011)

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• Seymour Jamie Gerald Spencer

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6376 (Published 04 October 2011)

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• Agnes Macfarlane Stark

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5969 (Published 22 September 2011)

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• Elisabeth Anne Whitely

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6193 (Published 12 October 2011)

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Views & Reviews

• Care homes shouldn’t profit from delays in assessing their residents for discharge from hospital

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6570 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Memoirs of New Labour’s NHS chief

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6579 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Mortality and immortality

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6449 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• The Hand of God

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6450 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Doctor speak

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6537 (Published 11 October 2011)

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• Ink spots: are tattoos useful?

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6455 (Published 11 October 2011)

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Endgames

• Screening tests and indices of performance: effects of prevalence

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6483 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Abdominal pain

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d4444 (Published 14 September 2011)

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• Eczema

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6509 (Published 13 October 2011)

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• Magnetic resonance image of the heart

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d5321 (Published 29 September 2011)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6473 (Published 12 October 2011)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2011; 343 :d6472 (Published 12 October 2011)

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