27 November 2021(vol 375, issue 8316)

This Week

• The dangers in policy and practice of following the consensus

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2885 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• Sepsis guidance may change as result of deaths of two women from herpes infection after giving birth

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2881 (Published 23 November 2021)

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• Seven days in medicine: 17-23 November 2021

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2871 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• Reverse cuts to children’s centres, peers urge government

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2851 (Published 19 November 2021)

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• Sixty seconds on . . . wine, chocolate, and coffee

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2868 (Published 22 November 2021)

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• Covid-19: Doctors will refuse to limit use of antiviral drug to unvaccinated patients, say ethicists

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2855 (Published 19 November 2021)

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• Overcrowding and long delays in A&E caused over 4000 deaths last year in England, analysis shows

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2835 (Published 18 November 2021)

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• Covid-19: AstraZeneca says its antibody drug AZD7442 is effective for preventing and reducing severe illness

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2860 (Published 19 November 2021)

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• Covid-19: Ten Conservative MPs and peers referred companies to “VIP lane” that won £1.6bn of PPE contracts

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2825 (Published 17 November 2021)

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• Give people choice of treatment options for depression, says NICE

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2877 (Published 23 November 2021)

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• Covid-19 and pregnancy: vaccine hesitancy and how to overcome it

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2862 (Published 22 November 2021)

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• Sanitation workers: covid-19’s forgotten frontline

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2875 (Published 24 November 2021)

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• Life expectancy by ethnic group in England

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e068537 (Published 09 November 2021)

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• Elder abuse in the UK: out of the shadows and on to the agenda

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2828 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• mRNA vaccines: hope beneath the hype

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2744 (Published 24 November 2021)

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• Covid-19: Why China is sticking to “zero tolerance” public health measures

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2756 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• Headlines play down the gravity of covid-19 in children

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2826 (Published 25 November 2021)

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Research

• Ambient heat and risks of emergency department visits among adults in the United States: time stratified case crossover study

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e065653 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• Discordant and inappropriate discordant recommendations in consensus and evidence based guidelines: empirical analysis

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e066045 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• Can we trust strong recommendations based on low quality evidence?

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2833 (Published 25 November 2021)

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• Elapsed time since BNT162b2 vaccine and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: test negative design study

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e067873 (Published 25 November 2021)

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Comment

• Partha Kar: Holding up a mirror to racism in the NHS

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2832 (Published 19 November 2021)

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• Covid-19 caseload in the UK—assessments and mitigations

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2843 (Published 18 November 2021)

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• Encouraging covid vaccine uptake and safe behaviours—an uphill struggle against government complacency

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2773 (Published 12 November 2021)

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• David Oliver: Dismissing unwell people to argue for pandemic freedoms is abhorrent and unrealistic

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2844 (Published 24 November 2021)

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• Helen Salisbury: E-consultations are increasing the GP workload

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2867 (Published 23 November 2021)

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• Women’s wellbeing and the burden of unpaid work

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n1972 (Published 31 August 2021)

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• Independent SAGE can be judged on its successes just as the UK government can be judged on its failures

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2797 (Published 17 November 2021)

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• Independent SAGE has been an outstanding success

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2804 (Published 17 November 2021)

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• Independent SAGE replies to The BMJ

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2850 (Published 22 November 2021)

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• Test and trace system continues to fail

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2808 (Published 18 November 2021)

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• Parliamentary committee report on covid-19 response: the difference between an apology and repentance

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2813 (Published 18 November 2021)

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• Radical or not, NICE makes evidence based recommendations

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2831 (Published 19 November 2021)

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• We need rebels to imagine better futures

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2836 (Published 22 November 2021)

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• PPE: producing polluted environment

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2822 (Published 18 November 2021)

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• Joan Ripley

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2118 (Published 27 August 2021)

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• David Alfred Owen Sutton

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2119 (Published 27 August 2021)

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• Stanford Bourne

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2110 (Published 27 August 2021)

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• Damian Vincent McGivern

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2117 (Published 27 August 2021)

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• David Michael Roberts

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2111 (Published 27 August 2021)

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• Charles Wakeley

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2112 (Published 27 August 2021)

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• Michael Peckham: professor of oncology and artist

  BMJ 2021; 374 :n2325 (Published 22 September 2021)

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Education

• Is cerclage safe and effective in preventing preterm birth in women presenting early in pregnancy with cervical dilatation?

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e067470 (Published 12 November 2021)

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• GPs may help people at risk of self-harm by asking open questions and acknowledging distress

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2380 (Published 25 October 2021)

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• Unexplained metabolic acidosis

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e067276 (Published 24 November 2021)

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• Hemichorea in non-ketotic hyperglycaemia

  BMJ 2021; 375 :e066994 (Published 24 November 2021)

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• Pandemic mental health . . . and other stories

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2817 (Published 25 November 2021)

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Careers

• Cradle to grave general practice: the family doctor

  BMJ 2021; 375 :n2811 (Published 23 November 2021)

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