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17 May 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7398)
 
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 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
Primary care
Clinical review
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Corrections
Career focus
Press releases

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Editor's choice

 

Need good results? Fiddle them
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

Environmental tobacco smoke does not affect mortality [Full text]
Mortality is high in young offenders [Full text]
Standardised measures needed for data quality [Full text]
Targeted programmes needed for hardcore smokers [Full text]
Promising new technologies for heart failure are available [Full text]

Editorials

 

  Finding the age of the patient's heart
D Vijay Anand, David Lipkin, and Avijit Lahiri
BMJ 2003; 326: 1045-1046. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Extra references]  
 
  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
David Price and Martin Duerden
BMJ 2003; 326: 1046-1047. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Effect of passive smoking on health
George Davey Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 1048-1049. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  The therapeutic effects of meditation
Peter H Canter
BMJ 2003; 326: 1049-1050. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

Inquiry finds brains were removed without consent [Full text] [PDF]  
Public response to the Isaacs report will slow neurological research [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
Improvements in the NHS are patchy, report says [Full text] [PDF]  
UK agency unveils plans to cut infusion device errors [Full text] [PDF]  
Heart surgeons are to be rated according to bypass surgery success [Full text] [PDF]  
China is still not open enough about SARS, says WHO [Full text] [PDF]  
From hysterick disorders to biomedical research [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Hospitals take short term measures to meet targets [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Treatment for multiple myeloma shows promise [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Dog bites are no more frequent at full moon [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Inertia on folic acid has caused thousands of unnecessary deaths [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Confusion over GP contract continues [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Dozens of patients allege unnecessary heart surgery [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
United States and Germany are keen to see tobacco agreement watered down [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
US may withdraw federal funds from schools that exclude children for not taking treatment [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

SARS in China spreads from Beijing to poorer inland provinces [Full text]  
BMA calls on consultants to challenge long hours of work [Full text]  
UK government supports measures to cut drug prices in developing countries [Full text]  
A quarter of patients with neurotic disorders don’t seek help [Full text]  
NICE expands research and development role [Full text]  
Opponents of foundation hospitals vow to fight on [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98
James E Enstrom and Geoffrey C Kabat
BMJ 2003; 326: 1057. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Prepublication history]  
 
Prevalence of hardcore smoking in England, and associated attitudes and beliefs: cross sectional study
Martin J Jarvis, Jane Wardle, Jo Waller, and Lesley Owen
BMJ 2003; 326: 1061. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Mortality in young offenders: retrospective cohort study
Carolyn Coffey, Friederike Veit, Rory Wolfe, Eileen Cini, and George C Patton
BMJ 2003; 326: 1064. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  New strategies for increasing the detection of HIV: analysis of routine data
James Read and S J Winceslaus
BMJ 2003; 326: 1066-1067. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Perinatal characteristics and risk of rheumatoid arthritis
Lennart T H Jacobsson, Magnus E Jacobsson, Johan Askling, and William C Knowler
BMJ 2003; 326: 1068-1069. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Primary care

 

Systematic review of scope and quality of electronic patient record data in primary care
Krish Thiru, Alan Hassey, and Frank Sullivan
BMJ 2003; 326: 1070. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Data sources, search terms and tables]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Science, medicine, and the future: New pacing technologies for heart failure
Anthony W C Chow, Rebecca E Lane, and Martin R Cowie
BMJ 2003; 326: 1073-1077. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Lesson of the week: Variable presentation of Brugada syndrome: lessons from three generations with syncope
Adrian Plunkett, J A Hulse, B Mishra, and J Gill
BMJ 2003; 326: 1078-1079. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous coronary intervention. I: History and development
Ever D Grech
BMJ 2003; 326: 1080-1082. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Effect of regression to the mean on decision making in health care
Veronica Morton and David J Torgerson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1083-1084. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Additional figure]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Open letter to health ministers at Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Reiner Brettenthaler and Ren Salzberg
BMJ 2003; 326: 1085. [Full text]  
 
  Case fatality rates after hospital admission for stroke: Covariates were not measured
Michael D Hill
BMJ 2003; 326: 1085. [Full text]  
 
  Case fatality rates after hospital admission for stroke: Definition of stroke defines stroke mortality
David S Liebeskind
BMJ 2003; 326: 1085-1086. [Full text]  
 
  Case fatality rates after hospital admission for stroke: Authors' reply
Stephen Roberts and Michael Goldacre
BMJ 2003; 326: 1086. [Full text] [extra: Additional tables]  
 
  Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism: Reducing concentrations further would be harmful
Mike Crilly
BMJ 2003; 326: 1086. [Full text]  
 
  Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism: Restoring serum TSH to reference range should be goal of replacement
Mark P Vanderpump and Jayne A Franklyn
BMJ 2003; 326: 1086-1087. [Full text]  
 
  Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism: Authors' reply
A D Toft and G J Beckett
BMJ 2003; 326: 1087. [Full text]  
 
  Computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care: Interactive decision support is here and essential for 21st century primary care
Clive B Prince
BMJ 2003; 326: 1087. [Full text]  
 
  Computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care: Computerised decision support and reflection in action
Toby Lipman
BMJ 2003; 326: 1087-1088. [Full text]  
 
  Computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care: Authors' reply
Martin Eccles, Nikki Rousseau, Elaine McColl, John Newton, and Jeremy Grimshaw
BMJ 2003; 326: 1088. [Full text]  
 
  Transplantation has no rival
John P Hopewell
BMJ 2003; 326: 1088. [Full text]  
 
  Findings for looked after children are not generalisable
Brid Farrell
BMJ 2003; 326: 1088. [Full text]  
 
  Obituary for David Horrobin: Medicine has lost something unique and irreplaceable
Bruce G Charlton
BMJ 2003; 326: 1088-1089. [Full text]  
 
  Obituary for David Horrobin: Work inspired and continues to nurture positive clinical outcomes
Patricia Kane
BMJ 2003; 326: 1089. [Full text]  
 
  Obituary for David Horrobin: Original mind will be missed
Susan McGoldrick
BMJ 2003; 326: 1089. [Full text]  
 
  Obituary for David Horrobin: Summary of rapid responses
Sharon Davies
BMJ 2003; 326: 1089. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Robert Coleman Atkins [Full text]  
Patrick Alan Adam [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Frederick James Brunton [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
John Amsden Elliott [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Peter Moorhead [Full text]  
Christopher Jonathan Pearce [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
John Kenneth Wright [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses
Michael Fitzpatrick [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: Time out of Mind
Sabina Dosani [Full text]  

 

TV: Is this journalism that makes a difference?
Geoff Watts [Full text]  

 

Press: Blurring the boundaries
Ray Moynihan [Full text]  

 

Website Of The Week: Passive smoking
Adrian Gonzalez [Full text]  

 

Personal views

China in the grip of SARS
Therese Hesketh [Full text]  

 

Soundings

There is no evidence that...
Kevin Barraclough [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: The optimal serum digoxin concentration in men with stable heart failure in sinus rhythm is 0.5 to 0.8 ng/ml [Full text] [PDF]  
The future of the Commission for Health Improvement [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
Medicine in the time of SARS [Full text] [PDF]  
The way things were? [Full text] [PDF]  
One hundred years ago: The massacre of the innocents [Full text] [PDF]  
Endpiece: Human dignity [Full text] [PDF]  
Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain [Full text] [PDF]  

Corrections

 

  Libraries face higher costs for academic journals
BMJ 2003; 326: 1079. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Minerva
BMJ 2003; 326: 1079. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Afghanistan struggles to build post-conflict health care
BMJ 2003; 326: 1079. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Obituary of David Horrobin
BMJ 2003; 326: 1091. [Full text]  
 

Career focus

 

  This week's Career focus section [PDF]
THIS WEEK:
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

Neurolinguistic programming: the keys to success
Joanne Walter and Ardeshir Bayat [Full text]  

 

A career in forensic child and adolescent psychiatry
Alexandra Lewis [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Dealing with drugs
S Vittal Katikireddi [Full text]  

 

THE WAY I SEE IT: Paediatric clinical pharmacology training should not be left in its infancy
Emily Harrop [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Tackling harassment
Meena Patterson [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 24: Martha in court
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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