BMJ Table of Contents, April 26, 2003

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26 April 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7395)

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Other Issues:

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

Editor's choice

The screening industry: Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]

This week in the BMJ

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

Descent is mainstay of altitude illness treatment [Full text]

Screening 1000 women for 35 years prevents one cervical cancer death [Full text]

Delay in TB diagnosis is more common in white people and women [Full text]

PFI is ineffective [Full text]

Assessment of bed blocking lacks valid tools [Full text]

Manual therapy is cost effective for treating neck pain [Full text]

Editorials

	The national service framework for children Alan W Craft BMJ 2003; 326: 891-892. [Full text] [PDF]

	Managing Barrett's oesophagus Stuart Jon Spechler BMJ 2003; 326: 892-894. [Full text] [PDF]

	Screening for cancer with computed tomography Stephen J Swensen BMJ 2003; 326: 894-895. [Full text] [PDF]

	Failures of the therapeutic chain as a cause of drug ineffectiveness Albert Figueras and Joan-Ramon Laporte BMJ 2003; 326: 895-896. [Full text] [PDF]

News

SARS virus identified, but the disease is still spreading [Full text] [PDF]

Canada reports more than 300 suspected cases of SARS [Full text] [PDF]

In brief [Full text] [PDF]

London GP cleared of serious professional misconduct [Full text] [PDF]

Moving house on medical grounds improves health [Full text] [PDF]

Iraq's hospitals struggle to provide a service [Full text] [PDF]

Nigerians in drug trial take their case to US court [Full text] [PDF]

Government tries to "out manoeuvre" doctors over pay [Full text] [PDF]

Health takes centre stage in election campaigns in Scotland and Wales [Full text] [PDF]

GPs take on a dental challenge [Full text] [PDF]

News extra

Explosion of internet advertisements for protection against SARS [Full text]

US patient privacy law comes into effect [Full text]

Drug companies pay out millions after overcharging Medicaid [Full text]

Government fails to meet targets for sexually transmitted infections [Full text]

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Papers

	Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: analysis of cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and modelling of cases and deaths prevented A E Raffle, B Alden, M Quinn, P J Babb, and M T Brett BMJ 2003; 326: 901. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study Matthew G Dunnigan and Allyson M Pollock BMJ 2003; 326: 905. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	Delay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, London, 1998-2000: analysis of surveillance data Alison Rodger, Shabbar Jaffar, Stuart Paynter, Andrew Hayward, Jacqui Carless, and Helen Maguire BMJ 2003; 326: 909-910. [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug points: Erythromelalgia induced by possible calcium channel blockade by ciclosporin Gurvinder P Thami and Mala Bhalla BMJ 2003; 326: 910. [Full text] [PDF]

Primary care

Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial • Commentary: Bootstrapping simplifies appreciation of statistical inferences
Ingeborg B C Korthals-de Bos, Jan L Hoving, Maurits W van Tulder, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken, Herman J Adèr, Henrica C W de Vet, Bart W Koes, Hindrik Vondeling, Lex M Bouter, and Marcus Müllner
BMJ 2003; 326: 911. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

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Clinical review

	Altitude illness P W Barry and A J Pollard BMJ 2003; 326: 915-919. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Extra references and definitions]

	Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain G Sodeck, B Partik, and H Domanovits BMJ 2003; 326: 920. [Full text] [PDF]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Creating teaching materials Richard Farrow BMJ 2003; 326: 921-923. [Full text] [PDF]

	ABC of diabetes: Retinopathy Peter J Watkins BMJ 2003; 326: 924-926. [Full text] [PDF]

Education and debate

	Inappropriately delayed discharge from hospital: What do we know? Norman Vetter BMJ 2003; 326: 927-928. [Full text] [PDF]

Letters

	This week's letters [PDF]

	Policies on SARS in UK boarding schools are confused Ian Wong BMJ 2003; 326: 929. [Full text]

	EU working time directive Alan R Berry and Michael S Molloy BMJ 2003; 326: 929. [Full text]

	Effectiveness of hip protectors David Torgerson, Jill Porthouse, Pekka A Kannus, Susan E Kurrle, Ian D Cameron, Gabriele Meyer, Andrea Warnke, and Ingrid Mühlhauser BMJ 2003; 326: 930. [Full text]

	Quality of impact factors of general medical journals Miquel Porta and Joseph L Y Liu BMJ 2003; 326: 931. [Full text]

	Overseas members of the BMA Peter A Sims, S G Barber, Jane L McLennan, and Jeremy Strachan BMJ 2003; 326: 932. [Full text]

	Four futures for scientific and medical publishing David G Guest and Joseph Ana BMJ 2003; 326: 932. [Full text]

	Applying evidence is problem not just for educational quality Peter Griffiths and Angus Forbes BMJ 2003; 326: 933. [Full text]

	Seven steps to evidence based general practice Max Lagnado and Simone Kohll BMJ 2003; 326: 933. [Full text]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

David Sutton [Full text]

Peter Bakaj [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

David Gatehouse [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Frederick Thomas Graves [Full text]

John Holland [Full text]

David Livingston MacKinnon [Full text]

Keith Maxwell Morris [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Alison Sarah Jane Prosser [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Gerard David Horace Shawe [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Victor Henry Springett [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

reviews

Multimedia

Book: International Child Health Care: A Practical Manual for Hospitals Worldwide: Saw Sian Chin [Full text]

Netlines: Harry Brown [Full text]

Radio: The Reith lectures 2003: The Emerging Mind: Iain McClure [Full text] [PDF]

Website of the week: Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Trevor Jackson [Full text]

Personal views

The other war: Richard Kirk [Full text]

Time to show unity against SARS: David Chao [Full text]

How popular perceptions of risk from SARS are fermenting discrimination: Justin Schram [Full text]

Soundings

Walking the walk: James Owen Drife [Full text]

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

POEM: Peripheral white cell count can't identify infants who don't have bacterial meningitis [Full text] [PDF]

Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]

A patient who changed my practice: I should have known better [Full text] [PDF]

One hundred years ago: Newspaper medicine [Full text]

Corrections

	*Mark Twain on evidence based practice* BMJ 2003; 326: 910. [Full text] [PDF]

	*Filler: He died "peacefully" at home* BMJ 2003; 326: 910. [Full text] [PDF]

Career focus

This week's Career focus section [PDF]

This week:: Rhona MacDonald [Full text]

Is there a doctor in the House?: Andrew Murrison [Full text]

Medical politics: Brian Keighley [Full text]

Getting that all important job: part one: Anita Houghton [Full text]

Profile: Political practitioner: Peter Cross [Full text]

Profile: Political campaigner: Wendy Sarah Brown [Full text]

Soap opera: Episode 21: The visit of the Magi: Nicola Sharp [Full text]

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