BMJ Table of Contents – April 12, 2003

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12 April 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7393)

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[Cover note]

Other Issues:

Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
BMJ family highlights
Papers
Primary care
Learning in practice
Clinical review
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Career focus
Website extra
Press releases

Editor's choice

The moral questions of war: Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

Mortality control charts improve monitoring of surgical performance [Full text]

Interactive case report elicits varied perspectives [Full text]

Ethnicity needs to be considered when planning clinical exams [Full text]

Counselling on exercise in general practice increases quality of life [Full text]

IL-2 receptor antibodies halve risk of renal transplantation rejection [Full text]

Malaria can worsen after initial good presentation [Full text]

Editorials

	Fighting "terrorism" with torture Derek Summerfield BMJ 2003; 326: 773-774. [Full text] [PDF]

	Images of war and medical ethics Jerome A Singh and Tania L DePellegrin BMJ 2003; 326: 774-775. [Full text] [PDF]

	Emergency contraception Anne M C Webb BMJ 2003; 326: 775-776. [Full text] [PDF]

	Workplace bullying Brian R McAvoy and John Murtagh BMJ 2003; 326: 776-777. [Full text] [PDF]

	Hospital mortality league tables Bobbie Jacobson, Jenny Mindell, and Martin McKee BMJ 2003; 326: 777-778. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Extra references]

News

Baghdad's hospitals struggle to cope with war wounded [Full text] [PDF]

In brief [Full text] [PDF]

Amnesty condemns allies' use of cluster bombs [Full text] [PDF]

Advice on withholding food and water breaks the law, group claims [Full text] [PDF]

China joins global effort over pneumonia virus [Full text] [PDF]

Commission warns against selling genetic tests direct to the public [Full text] [PDF]

Privy Council says GMC procedure on restoration to register is flawed [Full text] [PDF]

Treatment slows moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease [Full text] [PDF]

Portrait of Isaac Marks unveiled [Full text] [PDF]

Court awards damages to disabled child for having been born [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup

Environmental hazards kill five million children a year [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Genetic factors may underlie link between breast density and cancer risk [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Couple wins right to select embryo [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Welsh Labour party promises free prescriptions and free school breakfasts [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

US government issues guidelines on conflicts of interest in research [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

BMA says non-therapeutic circumcision needs consent of both parents [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Heavy drinking among US students correlates with density of alcohol outlets [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

CDC reports first case of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra

Fear of SARS thwarts medical education in Toronto [Full text]

More information needed about experience of dying, report says [Full text]

BMJ family highlights

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Papers

	Mortality control charts for comparing performance of surgical units: validation study using hospital mortality data Paris P Tekkis, Peter McCulloch, Adrian C Steger, Irving S Benjamin, and Jan D Poloniecki BMJ 2003; 326: 786-788. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Interleukin-2 receptor monoclonal antibodies in renal transplantation: meta-analysis of randomised trials Dwomoa Adu, Paul Cockwell, Natalie J Ives, Jonathan Shaw, and Keith Wheatley BMJ 2003; 326: 789. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Research pointers: Risk of subsequent thromboembolism for patients with pre-eclampsia Carl van Walraven, Muhammad Mamdani, Adam Cohn, Yasir Katib, Mark Walker, and Marc A Rodger BMJ 2003; 326: 791-792. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: More information]

Primary care

	Effectiveness of counselling patients on physical activity in general practice: cluster randomised controlled trial C Raina Elley, Ngaire Kerse, Bruce Arroll, and Elizabeth Robinson BMJ 2003; 326: 793. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Primary care in the United States: Innovations in primary care in the United States • Commentary: What can primary care in the United States learn from the United Kingdom? Thomas Bodenheimer, Azeem Majeed, and Andrew B Bindman BMJ 2003; 326: 796-799. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: List]

Learning in practice

	Effect of ethnicity on performance in a final objective structured clinical examination: qualitative and quantitative study Val Wass, Celia Roberts, Ron Hoogenboom, Roger Jones, and Cees Van der Vleuten BMJ 2003; 326: 800-803. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Transcripts extracts]

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Clinical review

	Interactive case report: A 66 year old woman with a rash: case outcome • Commentary: Patient's perspective • Commentary: Vascular surgeon • Commentary: Dermatology • Commentary: View from primary care • Commentary: Learning from interactive case reports J Bligh, R Farrow, Ruth, Richard Farrow, Linda Hands, Natasha Kapur, Malcolm H A Rustin, John Benson, and Ed Peile BMJ 2003; 326: 804-807. [Full text] [PDF]

	Lesson of the week: Assessing the severity of malaria David A J Moore, Richard M Jennings, Tom F Doherty, Diana N Lockwood, Peter L Chiodini, Stephen G Wright, and Christopher J M Whitty BMJ 2003; 326: 808-809. [Full text] [PDF]

	ABC of learning and teaching: Educational environment Linda Hutchinson BMJ 2003; 326: 810-812. [Full text] [PDF]

Education and debate

	Time to abandon testing for microscopic haematuria in adults? Per-Uno Malmström BMJ 2003; 326: 813-815. [Full text] [PDF]

	Improving the quality of health care: Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care S M Campbell, J Braspenning, A Hutchinson, and M N Marshall BMJ 2003; 326: 816-819. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Further references]

Letters

	This week's letters [PDF]

	How political should a general medical journal be? Guillermo A Herrera Taracena, Pennie Marchetti, Ian G Roberts, Colin D Butler, Pandora Pound, Adam Jacobs, and Morris Doublet-Stewart BMJ 2003; 326: 820. [Full text]

	Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease B Ronan O'Driscoll, K S Babu, and A J Chauhan BMJ 2003; 326: 821. [Full text]

	Parametric survival models may be more accurate than Kaplan-Meier estimates Margaret May, Jonathan Sterne, and Matthias Egger BMJ 2003; 326: 822. [Full text]

	Opiate withdrawal and botulism: stigma delayed treatment Karl Marlowe BMJ 2003; 326: 822. [Full text]

	Shapely centrefolds Petra M Boynton and Daniel McQueen BMJ 2003; 326: 823. [Full text]

	A curriculum can be latent and informal Carol P Herbert BMJ 2003; 326: 823. [Full text]

	Dataset on deaths related to taking ecstasy looks incomplete A R W Forrest BMJ 2003; 326: 823. [Full text]

	Prisons, too, are institutions for psychiatric care Jay E Smith BMJ 2003; 326: 824. [Full text]

	Faxing helps deaf people access health services in Spain Manuel J Castillo-Garzon, Francisco J Gomez, J Alberto Raya, and Carmen Martin BMJ 2003; 326: 824. [Full text]

	Peer review should not be anonymous Harry Morrow Brown BMJ 2003; 326: 824. [Full text]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

Carlo Urbani [Full text]

Walter Martin Browne [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Hilary Barbara Joy Cooke (née Rose) [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Elizabeth Stuart Gronbach (née Ross) [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Colin Francis Herridge [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Ian Alexander McClure [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Margaret Wylie Martin (née Thomas) [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Gerald Bernard Winter [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

reviews

Multimedia

Art: DNA 50 Four Plus: Writing DNA: Irina Haivas [Full text] [PDF]

Film: In this World: Anna Ellis [Full text]

Press: Journalists debate the limits of horror: Naomi Marks [Full text]

Personal views

How 9/11 thinking can impair doctors' clinical judgment: Ralph Crawshaw [Full text]

Soundings

Orthopaedic surgeons and flaccid liberals: Kevin Barraclough [Full text]

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

POEM: No reliable test or exam finding for acute cholecystitis [Full text] [PDF]

He died "peacefully" at home [Full text] [PDF]

One hundred years ago: A medical president [Full text]

My most unfortunate mistake: The heights of folly [Full text] [PDF]

Where worlds meet [Full text] [PDF]

Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]

The Physician [Full text] [PDF]

Career focus

This week's Career focus section [PDF]

This week:: Rhona MacDonald [Full text]

Bullying in medicine: Anita Houghton [Full text]

Who's a bully then?: Elisabeth Paice and Jenny Firth-Cozens [Full text]

How can a deanery win the battle against bullying?: Brendan Hicks [Full text]

The way I see it: Me? A bully? [Full text]

TIPS ON...: What to do if you are being bullied: Anita Houghton [Full text]

Soap opera: Episode 19: Martha's appraisal: Nicola Sharp [Full text]

Website extra

Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: case report [Full text]

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