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19 April 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7394)

 

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

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Editor's choice

 

After war, plague

Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 


This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

Severe acute respiratory syndrome demands strict control [Full text]

Patients are key players in healthcare debates [Full text]

Anticholinergics have unclear benefits in overactive bladder syndrome [Full text]

Delayed immunisation increases risk of whooping cough [Full text]

Hypertension in pregnancy may persist [Full text]

Brief counselling leads to healthier diet [Full text]


Editorials

 

 

Severe acute respiratory syndrome revisited
Maria Zambon
BMJ 2003; 326: 831-832. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

 

The surgeon as a risk factor
David Carter
BMJ 2003; 326: 832-833. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

 

Research in nursing, midwifery, and the allied health professions
Anne Marie Rafferty, Michael Traynor, David R Thompson, Irene Ilott, and Elizabeth White
BMJ 2003; 326: 833-834. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

 

The impact of antisocial lifestyle on health
Jonathan Shepherd and David Farrington
BMJ 2003; 326: 834-835. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

 

Treatment of pulmonary hypertension
Andrew J Peacock
BMJ 2003; 326: 835-836. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


News

 

Doctors forced to guard Baghdad hospitals after looting [Full text] [PDF]  

Afghanistan struggles to build post-conflict health care [Full text] [PDF]  

In brief [Full text] [PDF]  

Euro MPs threaten UK stem cell research [Full text] [PDF]  

Human genome project completed [Full text] [PDF]  

Human cloning may be impossible [Full text] [PDF]  

SARS shows no sign of coming under control [Full text] [PDF]  

Specialist ousted in research row [Full text] [PDF]  

Hospitals must be child friendly, says report [Full text] [PDF]  

Libraries face higher costs for academic journals [Full text] [PDF]  


News extra

 

GMC launches new quality standard for UK doctors [Full text]  

Nine UK doctors are suspended after accusations of viewing child pornography [Full text]  

Government cleared of favouring Labour party donor for smallpox vaccine supply [Full text]  

EU working time directive will include the time doctors spend on call [Full text]  

Doctors walk free after manslaughter conviction [Full text]  


 

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Papers

 

Effectiveness of anticholinergic drugs compared with placebo in the treatment of overactive bladder: systematic review
Peter Herbison, Jean Hay-Smith, Gaye Ellis, and Kate Moore
BMJ 2003; 326: 841-844. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Studies and references]  

 


Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and risk of hypertension and stroke in later life: results from cohort study
Brenda J Wilson, M Stuart Watson, Gordon J Prescott, Sarah Sunderland, Doris M Campbell, Philip Hannaford, and W Cairns S Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 845. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  

 


Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: case report
Moira Chan-Yeung and W C Yu
BMJ 2003; 326: 850-852. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  

 


 

Delayed immunisation and risk of pertussis in infants: unmatched case-control study
Cameron C Grant, Mavis Roberts, Robert Scragg, Joanna Stewart, Diana Lennon, Denise Kivell, Rodney Ford, and Rosalie Menzies
BMJ 2003; 326: 852-853. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


 

Science commentary: Pertussis immunisation
Abi Berger
BMJ 2003; 326: 853. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


 

Comparison of social distribution of immunisation with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, England, 1991-2001
Elizabeth Middleton and Deborah Baker
BMJ 2003; 326: 854. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


Primary care

 

Behavioural counselling to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables in low income adults: randomised trial
Andrew Steptoe, Linda Perkins-Porras, Catherine McKay, Elisabeth Rink, Sean Hilton, and Francesco P Cappuccio
BMJ 2003; 326: 855. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  

 


 

10-minute consultation: Polyarthralgia
Jo Samanta, Julia Kendall, and Ash Samanta
BMJ 2003; 326: 859. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


Information in practice

 

 

Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt
Peter Littlejohns, Jeremy C Wyatt, and Linda Garvican
BMJ 2003; 326: 860-863. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Protocol of evaluation]  

 


 

Limits to patient choice: example from anaesthesia
Rachel Markham and Andrew Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 863-864. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

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Clinical review

 

 

West Nile encephalitis
Tom Solomon, Mong How Ooi, David W C Beasley, and Macpherson Mallewa
BMJ 2003; 326: 865-869. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: US distribution ans spread map]  

 


 

ABC of learning and teaching: Web based learning
Judy McKimm, Carol Jollie, and Peter Cantillon
BMJ 2003; 326: 870-873. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


 

ABC of diabetes: Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and lipids
Peter J Watkins
BMJ 2003; 326: 874-876. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


Education and debate

 

 

Improving the quality of health care: Methods for incorporating patients' views in health care
Michel Wensing and Glyn Elwyn
BMJ 2003; 326: 877-879. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


Letters

 

 

This week's letters [PDF]

 

 

Racism and health
Paramjit S Gill, Raj S Bhopal, Kwame McKenzie, and Ruby Kaul
BMJ 2003; 326: 880. [Full text]  

 

 

Spirituality and clinical care
Daniel R Nethercott, Matt J Hawker, Ed Day, Simon Wilkes, and Alex Copello
BMJ 2003; 326: 881. [Full text]  

 

 

National service framework for diabetes leaves questions open
Richard H Greenwood, K M Shaw, and P Winocour
BMJ 2003; 326: 881. [Full text]  

 

 

Cardiovascular risk scores and prescribing in diabetes
Jamie Smith, Roger Corrall, Graham P Leese, Lesley Hall, and Roland Jung
BMJ 2003; 326: 882. [Full text]  

 

 

Failing to bark and barking
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
BMJ 2003; 326: 882. [Full text]  

 

 

Competing interests
Stephen J Senn, Ivar S Kristiansen, Jonathan O'B Hourihane, Richard Smith, and Sara Schroter
BMJ 2003; 326: 883. [Full text]  

 

 

Barriers to managing heart failure in primary care
Russell C Davis, Gurbir Bhatia, Michael Sosin, Jane Stubley, Mark F Lambert, and Ian S Watt
BMJ 2003; 326: 883. [Full text]  

 

 

Congestion charging
Michael Joffe, Jennifer Mindell, and Stanley Feldman
BMJ 2003; 326: 884. [Full text]  

 


Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

David Horrobin [Full text]  

Amal Kumar Chatterjee [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

David James Darby [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

James George Duncan [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

Hugh Hughes [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

David Graham Leaver [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

Frank Robert Geoffrey Mellor [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

Sheila Wallace [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  


reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: A Life Course Approach to Women's Health

Tammy J Clifford [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: Life Means Nothing Behind the Green Wall

James S Dawson [Full text]  

 

Book: The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia

Joff Lelliott [Full text]  

 

Website of the week: Eating fruit and vegetables

Giselle Jones [Full text]  

 


Personal views

"There's none so blind as the double blind." Discuss

Anthony Seaton [Full text]  

 


Soundings

Educating the consumer

George Dunea [Full text]  

 


Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]


Fillers

 

POEM: Asymptomatic meniscal tears are as common as symptomatic ones [Full text] [PDF]  

Endpiece: Two of the same [Full text]  

Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  

Endpiece: Confide in your doctor [Full text]  

A memorable patient: How a refugee community deals with adoption [Full text] [PDF]  

Endpiece: Every old man's complaint [Full text]  


Corrections

 

 

Brain haemorrhage in babies may not indicate violent abuse
BMJ 2003; 326: 849. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

 

Diagnosis and management of scalp ringworm
BMJ 2003; 326: 849. [Full text] [PDF]  

 

 

German surgeon is investigated about trading of organs
BMJ 2003; 326: 849. [Full text] [PDF]  

 


Career focus

 

 

This week's Career focus section [PDF]

This week:

Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

Neurolinguistic programming: temperament and character types

Joanne Walter and Ardeshir Bayat [Full text]  

 

Doctors and their faiths

Ka-Po Chan, Mark Pickering, Sanjay A Pai, Aziz Sheikh, and Andrew Solomon [Full text]  

 

Soap opera: Episode 20: The cupboard, creme eggs, and lottery tickets

Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 


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