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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 08 February 2003
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This issue's table of contents:
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Editor's Choice
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Protecting children
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/f?etoc
This Week in the BMJ
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High risk of HIV infection during remand in Thailand
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0?etoc
Communication with seriously ill children is challenging
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/a?etoc
Decision support systems disrupt GPs' workflow
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/b?etoc
Cardiac troponin T is raised in severe pulmonary embolism
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/c?etoc
Competent in evidence based medicine? Take the Fresno test
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/d?etoc
TSH is a poor measure of severity of tissue hypothyroidism
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/e?etoc
Editorials
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Child protection---lessons from Victoria Climbie
David Hall
BMJ 2003;326 293-294
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/293?etoc
Medical experts and the criminal courts
Christopher M Milroy
BMJ 2003;326 294-295
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/294?etoc
Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism
Anthony D Toft and Geoffrey J Beckett
BMJ 2003;326 295-296
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/295?etoc
The prevention and treatment of jet lag
Andrew Herxheimer and Jim Waterhouse
BMJ 2003;326 296-297
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/296?etoc
Donating books and journals to less developed countries
Trish Groves, Sallie Nicholas, and John Hudson
BMJ 2003;326 298
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/298?etoc
News
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Bush criticised for not giving AIDS money to Global Fund
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/299?etoc
Researchers launch major initiative to hunt human cancer genes
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/299/a?etoc
In brief
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/300?etoc
Arkansas bans selling of clean urine to beat drug testing
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/300/a?etoc
"Weak" safety culture behind errors, says chief medical officer
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/300/b?etoc
Pharmaceutical industry is main influence in GP prescribing
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/301?etoc
Women still have difficulty getting local contraceptive advice
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/301/a?etoc
Doctors told to use positive language in managing pain
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/301/b?etoc
Trial shows that homoeopathic arnica is no better than placebo
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/303/c?etoc
Sally Clark freed after appeal court quashes her convictions
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/304?etoc
GP suspended for enrolling patients in drug trials without consent
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/304/a?etoc
News roundup
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Patient complaints procedure uncertain as health councils abolished
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/302?etoc
Consumers Association calls for better information for patients
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/302/a?etoc
Chocolate cigarettes "recruit" children to smoking
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/302/b?etoc
Sleep deprivation increases cardiac risk in women
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/302/c?etoc
Report says 100 Roma women have been forcibly sterilised in Slovakia
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/302/d?etoc
German doctors "work to rule" in protest at government plans
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/303?etoc
Dietary acrylamide may not cause cancer
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/303/a?etoc
Scotland breaks rank to offer compensation to hepatitis C victims
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/303/b?etoc
News Extra
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Doctors should be more aggressive in treating hypertension in diabetic
patients
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/304/b?etoc
Bush proposes Medicare reform in "state of the union" address
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/304/c?etoc
Belgium signs agreement to treat NHS patients
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/304/d?etoc
Israel to move more psychiatric services into the community
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/304/e?etoc
Papers
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Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life
threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents
Bridget Young, Mary Dixon-Woods, Kate C Windridge, and David Heney
BMJ 2003;326 305
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7384/305?etoc
Risk of prevalent HIV infection associated with incarceration among
injecting drug users in Bangkok, Thailand: case-control study
Aumphornpun Buavirat, Kimberly Page-Shafer, G J P van Griensven, J S
Mandel, J Evans, J Chuaratanaphong, S Chiamwongpat, R Sacks, and A
Moss
BMJ 2003;326 308
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7384/308?etoc
Serum thyroid stimulating hormone in assessment of severity of tissue
hypothyroidism in patients with overt primary thyroid failure: cross
sectional survey
Christian Meier, Peter Trittibach, Merih Guglielmetti, Jean-Jacques
Staub, and Beat Muller
BMJ 2003;326 311-312
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/311?etoc
Cardiac troponin T in the severity assessment of patients with pulmonary
embolism: cohort study
Karin Janata, Michael Holzer, Anton N Laggner, and Marcus Mullner
BMJ 2003;326 312-313
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/312?etoc
Primary care
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Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised
evidence based guidelines in primary care
Nikki Rousseau, Elaine McColl, John Newton, Jeremy Grimshaw, and
Martin Eccles
BMJ 2003;326 314
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7384/314?etoc
Learning in practice
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Validation of the Fresno test of competence in evidence based medicine
Kathleen D Ramos, Sean Schafer, and Susan M Tracz
BMJ 2003;326 319-321
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/326/7384/319?etoc
Clinical Review
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Making decisions about hormone replacement therapy
Janice Rymer, Ruth Wilson, and Karen Ballard
BMJ 2003;326 322-326
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/322?etoc
Lesson of the week: Misdiagnosis of epilepsy in patients prescribed
anticonvulsant drugs for other reasons
M Oto, A J C Russell, A McGonigal, and R Duncan
BMJ 2003;326 326-327
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/326?etoc
ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Problem based learning
Diana F Wood
BMJ 2003;326 328-330
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/328?etoc
Education and Debate
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Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at
risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and
ethical viewpoints
Ros Tassicker, Julian Savulescu, Loane Skene, Pam Marshall, Lara
Fitzgerald, and Martin B Delatycki
BMJ 2003;326 331-333
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/331?etoc
Letters
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Systematic review of celecoxib for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
Peter Juni, Rebekka Sterchi, Paul Dieppe, Scott Metcalfe, Sean
Dougherty, Wayne McNee, Jonathan J Deeks, Lesley A Smith, and Matthew
D Bradley
BMJ 2003;326 334
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/334?etoc
General practitioner screening for excessive alcohol use
Stephen Rollnick, Jim McCambridge, Francis Keaney, John Strang,
Stephen Rollnick, Robert Patton, and Robin Touquet
BMJ 2003;326 336
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/336?etoc
Antiretroviral therapy: new solutions bring new problems
Joanne L Atkins, Simon Eccles, and Peter E M Butler
BMJ 2003;326 337
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/337?etoc
Model for Bangalore helped disseminate information to doctors in India
C B Sridhar and Deena Suresh
BMJ 2003;326 337
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/337/a?etoc
Depressed patients need more than drugs and psychiatrists
Sharon J Williams
BMJ 2003;326 338
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/338?etoc
Host should also protect students on electives from HIV
Nigel R M Tai, Sue Nielson, and Ken Boffard
BMJ 2003;326 338
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/338/a?etoc
Disposal of remains of fetuses of under 24 weeks' gestation
R G Forster
BMJ 2003;326 338
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/338/b?etoc
Obituaries
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Arthur H Coleman
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339?etoc
Geoffrey Neish Barker
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/a?etoc
Kathleen May Corbett
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/b?etoc
Keith Kenneth Eaton
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/c?etoc
Christopher Grahame Fagg
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/d?etoc
Joseph Finer
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/e?etoc
Nathaniel Hockman
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/f?etoc
Evan Osmond Leyshon Hoskins
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/g?etoc
Robert Vernon Holmes Jones
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/339/h?etoc
Reviews
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Book: Handhelds for Doctors
Andrew Harrison
BMJ 2003;326 341
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/341?etoc
Book: Science: A History 1543-2001
Sanjay A Pai
BMJ 2003;326 341
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/341/a?etoc
Press: Mystery of the imported plagues
Trevor Jackson
BMJ 2003;326 342
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/342?etoc
Website of the week: North American style
Jocalyn Clark
BMJ 2003;326 342
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/342/a?etoc
Personal Views:
The police should take the lead on protecting children from criminal abuse
David Southall, Martin Samuels, and John Bridson
BMJ 2003;326 343
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/343?etoc
Soundings:
Mornings
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ 2003;326 343
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/343/a?etoc
Minerva
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http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/344
Fillers
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POEM: Uterine rupture is associated with a history of caesarean section,
even without labour
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/0/g?etoc
Endpiece: The art of surgery
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/308/a?etoc
A patient who changed my practice: Northern Ireland weather
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/313?etoc
Endpiece: What's a doctor?
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/314/a?etoc
Endpiece: Paper thin
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/326/a?etoc
Corrections
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Testing new pharmaceutical products in children
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/321?etoc
Involving patients can work in home blood glucose testing
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/321/a?etoc
Institutional corruption in medicine
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/333?etoc
Career focus
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This week:
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ 2003;326 41
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S41?etoc
Surgical oncology
David A Rew
BMJ 2003;326 41
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S41a?etoc
Obstetrics and gynaecology: where are we now?
Jane Ramsay
BMJ 2003;326 43
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S43?etoc
The doctor who influenced me most: Linda Cardozo on Bob Atlay
Peter Cross
BMJ 2003;326 44
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S44?etoc
Profile: Breast is best
Samena Chaudhry
BMJ 2003;326 45
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S45?etoc
The way I see it: Resensitisation: how working in general practice can make
you human again
Trevor Yellon
BMJ 2003;326 46
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S46?etoc
TIPS ON...: Giving poster presentations
Mark Griffiths
BMJ 2003;326 46
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S46a?etoc
Soap opera: Episode 10: Patients before paperwork
Nicola Sharp
BMJ 2003;326 47
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7384/S47?etoc
Daily summaries of health stories appearing in the UK Press
http://bmj.com/uknews/
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