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bmj.com Customised @lerts: Table of Contents for Saturday, 25 January 2003

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Editor's Choice

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War and learning

This Week in the BMJ

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First line treatment for COPD should be NPPV

Confused GPs are afraid to diagnose heart failure

Waiting lists: money is not the problem

Scotophobic children may be night blind

WHO strikes back

All time low for gynaecology

Top 10 tips for a computerised NHS

Editorials

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The causes of autism spectrum disorders

Peter Szatmari

BMJ 2003;326 173-174

Governance for NHS foundation trusts

Rudolf Klein

BMJ 2003;326 174-175

Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care

Stefan Priebe and Trevor Turner

BMJ 2003;326 175-176

BMJ Learning

Edward Briffa and Kamran Abbasi

BMJ 2003;326 176-177

Non-invasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

K Suresh Babu and Anoop J Chauhan

BMJ 2003;326 177-178

News

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Health professionals challenge US smallpox vaccination plan

Industry is deeply involved in funding US research

In brief

Paediatrician calls for shake up in handling child abuse cases

Police uncover large scale organ trafficking in Punjab

Adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival in early ovarian cancer

FDA halts gene therapy trials after leukaemia case in France

Restoring the profession's self esteem

Taking up cudgels for peace

News roundup

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The market for medical journals is anticompetitive, says expert

Pro-tobacco editorial content of young men’s magazines rises by 70% between 1991 and 2000

"Author pays" may be the new science publishing model

US health care should focus on 20 areas to increase impact

News Extra

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Older women less likely to receive chemotherapy for breast cancer

Changing prescription software to favour generics could save Australia

{pound}40m a year

States organise joint non-profit prescription plan to cut drug costs

Study reports on use of "touch screen" health kiosks

Babies born after fertility treatment run increased risk of genetic

disorder

Learning disability task force criticises draft mental health bill

NHS and local government try to stop introduction of "bed blocking" fines

Race for world’s top health post narrows to five

Papers

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Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation to treat respiratory failure

resulting from exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis

Josephine V Lightowler, Jadwiga A Wedzicha, Mark W Elliott, and Felix

S F Ram

BMJ 2003;326 185

NHS waiting lists and evidence of national or local failure: analysis of

health service data

Richard M Martin, Jonathan A C Sterne, David Gunnell, Shah Ebrahim,

George Davey Smith, and Stephen Frankel

BMJ 2003;326 188

Case fatality rates after admission to hospital with stroke: linked

database study

Stephen E Roberts and Michael J Goldacre

BMJ 2003;326 193-194

Career choices of United Kingdom medical graduates of 1999 and 2000:

questionnaire surveys

Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, and Gill Turner

BMJ 2003;326 194-195

Primary care

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Barriers to accurate diagnosis and effective management of heart failure in primary care: qualitative study

Ahmet Fuat, A Pali S Hungin, and Jeremy James Murphy

BMJ 2003;326 196

Identifying depression in primary care: a comparison of different methods

in a prospective cohort study

Verena Henkel, Roland Mergl, Ralf Kohnen, Wolfgang Maier, Hans-Jurgen

Moller, and Ulrich Hegerl

BMJ 2003;326 200-201

Information in Practice

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Ten ways to improve information technology in the NHS * Commentary: improve the quality of the consultation * Commentary: Clinical focus might make it

work

Azeem Majeed, Simon de Lusignan, and Sheila Teasdale

BMJ 2003;326 202-206

Clinical Review

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Science, medicine, and the future: Onchocerciasis

Achim Hoerauf, Dietrich W Buttner, Ohene Adjei, and Eric Pearlman

BMJ 2003;326 207-210

Lesson of the week: Fear of the dark in children: is stationary night

blindness the cause?

Sikander S Sidiki, Ruth Hamilton, and Gordon N Dutton

BMJ 2003;326 211-212

ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Applying educational theory in

practice

David M Kaufman

BMJ 2003;326 213-216

Education and Debate

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WHO responds

Denis Aitken

BMJ 2003;326 217-218

Statistics Notes: Interaction revisited: the difference between two

estimates

Douglas G Altman and J Martin Bland

BMJ 2003;326 219

Letters

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Open letter to Tony Blair: Call to prevent escalating violence

Carolyn Stephens

BMJ 2003;326 220

Doctors and computers

Jan K Melichar and Mark Bland

BMJ 2003;326 220

Rethinking management

Ian H Kunkler, F C Gray Southon, John L Appleby, and Russell D

Lutchman

BMJ 2003;326 221

Risk factors for cot death increase danger from infection

C Caroline Blackwell, Anthony Busuttil, and Donald M Weir

BMJ 2003;326 222

Long term effects of advice to reduce dietary salt

Graham A MacGregor, Feng J He, Ivan J Perry, M R Law, N J Wald, Lee

Hooper, Christopher Bartlett, George Davey Smith, and Shah Ebrahim

BMJ 2003;326 222

Indian objection to export of human tissue for research

Peter Forster, Ganapati Mudur, and Garga Chatterjee

BMJ 2003;326 224

Ethics dialogue between rich and poor countries is overdue

Marianne Haslegrave and John Havard

BMJ 2003;326 225

Issues relating to abortions are complicated in Nigeria

Idris Mohammed

BMJ 2003;326 225

Obituaries

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Henk Leenen

Philip England Anderson

Fritz Karl Michael Hillenbrand

Robin ("Bobby") Eliot Irvine

John Desmond Lucey

John Joseph O'Brien

Gerald Oliver Rosenvinge

Donald Herron Young

Reviews

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Book: Transitions in End of Life Care: Hospice and Related Developments in

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Zbigniew Zylicz

BMJ 2003;326 228

Book: Complexity and Healthcare: An Introduction

Christopher Martyn

BMJ 2003;326 228

Book: Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

Fred Charatan

BMJ 2003;326 229

Journal: War of words over Iraq

Rebecca Coombes

BMJ 2003;326 230

TV: The Lost Prince

Iain McClure

BMJ 2003;326 229

Website of the week: Bioterrorism

Giselle Jones

BMJ 2003;326 230

Personal Views:

A tabloid story

Geoffrey Hulman

BMJ 2003;326 231

Soundings:

Geese of a different feather

George Dunea

BMJ 2003;326 231

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Single, small adenoma low risk for recurrent colon polyps

Endpiece: Man's chief occupation

Submitting articles to the BMJ

One hundred years ago: Anaesthesia and swearing

Endpiece: An act of creation

The patient's referral letter

Endpiece: Mark Twain on evidence based practice

When I use a word: Man hater

Corrections

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Visible signs of illness from the 14th to the 20th century: systematic

review of portraits

Photofinish

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2003;326 25

Orthopaedic surgery

James Carmichael

BMJ 2003;326 25

Gaining experience in different teaching methods

Wai-Ching Leung

BMJ 2003;326 27

Role playing

Deana Midmer

BMJ 2003;326 28

Profile: Crash test doctor

Clare Hughes

BMJ 2003;326 30

Soap opera: Episode 8: Has Martha finally flipped?

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2003;326 31

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