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24 May 2003 (Volume 326, Issue 7399)
 
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Other Issues:
 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
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 the cameras are gone
Richard Smith [Full text] [PDF]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

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

 

Antibiotic combinations have no advantage in febrile neutropenia [Full text]
Patients with stable asthma may be able to take less inhaled corticosteroid [Full text]
Test and treat is the best empirical strategy for treating dyspepsia [Full text]
Iron supplements benefit non-anaemic women with fatigue [Full text]
Verbal autopsies give higher suicide rates in rural India [Full text]
Diabetic patients' records are missing the C10 Read code [Full text]

Editorials

 

  The failures of two contracts
Richard Smith
BMJ 2003; 326: 1097-1098. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patients and the new contracts
Peter Davies and John A Glasspool
BMJ 2003; 326: 1099. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  New leader, new hope for WHO
Gavin Yamey and Kamran Abbasi
BMJ 2003; 326: 1100-1101. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Why clinical information standards matter
Martin Gardner
BMJ 2003; 326: 1101-1102. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

US and Germany give late support to WHO tobacco accord [Full text] [PDF]  
United Kingdom has its first confirmed case of SARS [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
US guidelines say blood pressure of 120/80 mm Hg is not "normal" [Full text] [PDF]  
Exhibition aims to bring home reality of smoking [Full text] [PDF]  
GPs vote for "contractus interruptus" [Full text] [PDF]  
Hospital consultants are to get 3% pay rise [Full text] [PDF]  
Patients prefer "medical labels" to lay language, study finds [Full text] [PDF]  
Poor security is biggest impediment to health care in Iraq [Full text] [PDF]  
Law against asylum seekers may have public health impact [Full text] [PDF]  
Chinese scientists must test wild animals to find the host of SARS [Full text] [PDF]  
Identifying the fallen [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

EU patients are entitled to primary care in any member country [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Couple at centre of IVF controversy begin treatment [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Drug company accused of breaking advertising regulations [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Support from G8 countries boosts funds for global fund [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Blair says whole of NHS should be opened up to competition [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
First wave of foundation hospitals unveiled [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Patient confidentiality challenged over HIV test results [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Media misled the public over the MMR vaccine, study says [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

WHO is worried that China is under-reporting SARS [Full text]  
Quality improvement forum sets sights on developing countries and on patients [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

{beta} lactam monotherapy versus {beta} lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for fever with neutropenia: systematic review and meta-analysis
Mical Paul, Karla Soares-Weiser, and Leonard Leibovici
BMJ 2003; 326: 1111. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: List of identified studies]  
 
Stepping down inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: randomised controlled trial
Gillian Hawkins, Alex D McMahon, Sara Twaddle, Stuart F Wood, Ian Ford, and Neil C Thomson
BMJ 2003; 326: 1115. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Empirical prescribing for dyspepsia: randomised controlled trial of test and treat versus omeprazole treatment
Gianpiero Manes, Antonella Menchise, Claudio de Nucci, and Antonio Balzano
BMJ 2003; 326: 1118. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Evaluation of suicide rates in rural India using verbal autopsies, 1994-9
A Joseph, S Abraham, J P Muliyil, K George, J Prasad, S Minz, V J Abraham, and K S Jacob
BMJ 2003; 326: 1121-1122. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Participation in screening for cardiovascular risk by people with schizophrenia or similar mental illnesses: cross sectional study in general practice
D P J Osborn, M B King, and I Nazareth
BMJ 2003; 326: 1122-1123. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Primary care

 

Iron supplementation for unexplained fatigue in non-anaemic women: double blind randomised placebo controlled trial
F Verdon, B Burnand, C-L Fallab Stubi, C Bonard, M Graff, A Michaud, T Bischoff, M de Vevey, J-P Studer, L Herzig, C Chapuis, J Tissot, A Pécoud, and B Favrat
BMJ 2003; 326: 1124. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Information in practice

 

Randomised crossover trial comparing the performance of Clinical Terms Version 3 and Read Codes 5 byte set coding schemes in general practice
Philip J B Brown, Victoria Warmington, Michael Laurence, and A Toby Prevost
BMJ 2003; 326: 1127. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Use of Read codes in diabetes management in a south London primary care group: implications for establishing disease registers
Jeremy Gray, Douglas Orr, and Azeem Majeed
BMJ 2003; 326: 1130. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain: case outcome
G Sodeck, B Partik, and H Domanovits
BMJ 2003; 326: 1133. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Commentary: Patient's view
Peter Hartl and Gottfried Sodeck
BMJ 2003; 326: 1133-1134. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Commentary: Challenge for emergency physicians
Harald Herkner
BMJ 2003; 326: 1134. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Commentary: Questions for general practice
Alistair Howitt
BMJ 2003; 326: 1134-1135. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Commentary: Cardiovascular management
Irene Lang
BMJ 2003; 326: 1135-1136. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Commentary: More to be learnt from the discussion than the diagnosis
Ed Peile
BMJ 2003; 326: 1136. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous coronary intervention. II: The procedure
Ever D Grech
BMJ 2003; 326: 1137-1140. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Health and development in the Arab world: which way forward?
Samer Jabbour
BMJ 2003; 326: 1141-1143. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Arab world state of health and development statistics]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: Guidelines are less clinical excellence than hindrance
R K Choudhary and A M F Hassn
BMJ 2003; 326: 1144. [Full text]  
 
  NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: Late adapters may never change
Gerry Waldron
BMJ 2003; 326: 1144. [Full text]  
 
  NICE guidance on laparoscopic surgery for inguinal hernias: NICE evaluation has data shortage and short analysis period
James Ryan and James Piercy
BMJ 2003; 326: 1144. [Full text]  
 
  Beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: Editorial's multiple authorship poses difficulties
James N Hardy
BMJ 2003; 326: 1145. [Full text]  
 
  Beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice: Patients who do not comply with polypharmacy may be safer
David J Young
BMJ 2003; 326: 1145. [Full text]  
 
  Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Drug errors may be implicated in death
Matthew L Grove
BMJ 2003; 326: 1145. [Full text]  
 
  Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Standard collaborative care will be made more difficult
A K Clarke
BMJ 2003; 326: 1145. [Full text]  
 
  Methotrexate and bone marrow suppression: Authors' reply
M Sosin, S Whitmarsh, and S Handa
BMJ 2003; 326: 1145-1146. [Full text]  
 
  Medical community may be partly responsible for cancer misery
P Chaturvedi
BMJ 2003; 326: 1146. [Full text]  
 
  Obesity may confound relation of early pregnancy loss to risk of heart disease
Michael J Davies
BMJ 2003; 326: 1146. [Full text]  
 
  Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy: Lesson was unnecessarily alarmist
Brian P Saunders and Christopher B Williams
BMJ 2003; 326: 1146-1147. [Full text]  
 
  Fatal dysnatraemia caused by elective colonoscopy: Additional cost for colonoscopy providers may be unnecessary
Timothy D Heymann
BMJ 2003; 326: 1147. [Full text]  
 
  Ottawa ankle rules: Sign may not be objective
Adrian Fogarty
BMJ 2003; 326: 1147. [Full text]  
 
  Ottawa ankle rules: Patients with ligamentous injury need better treatment in Britain
Dishan Singh
BMJ 2003; 326: 1147. [Full text]  
 
  Ottawa ankle rules: Authors' reply
Lucas M Bachmann and Gerben ter Riet
BMJ 2003; 326: 1147. [Full text]  
 
  Investigating and managing chronic dysphagia: Dysphagia should prompt urgent gastroenterological referral
Hal L Spencer and Stuart Riley
BMJ 2003; 326: 1147-1148. [Full text]  
 
  Investigating and managing chronic dysphagia: Gastroenterological input should have been included
Christopher J Lewis and S E A Attwood
BMJ 2003; 326: 1148. [Full text]  
 
  Cover up and stay out of sun to prevent skin cancer
John N Burry
BMJ 2003; 326: 1148. [Full text]  
 
  Text messaging raises medicolegal issues
Nicholas Norwell
BMJ 2003; 326: 1148. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Alexander Russell [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Richard Michael ("Mike") Burton [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Kenneth John Gurling [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: Presumed Curable: An Illustrated Casebook of Victorian Psychiatric Patients in Bethlem Hospital
Sean A Spence [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: Evidence-Based Public Health
Phil Ayres [Full text]  

 

Theatre: Cancer Tales
Monica Desai and Adrian Gonzalez [Full text]  

 

Netlines: NETLINES
Harry Brown [Full text]  

 

Website Of The Week: SARS revisited
Fabian Waechter [Full text]  

 

Personal views

Promoting blood donation among British Muslims
Aziz Sheikh and A R Gatrad [Full text]  

 

Foundation hospitals: we've been here before
Neville W Goodman [Full text]  

 

Soundings

Reader's consent
James Owen Drife [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: Topical NSAIDs offer poor pain relief for corneal abrasions [Full text] [PDF]  
One hundred years ago: The prevention of juvenile smoking [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
Advice [Full text]  

Corrections

 

  Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study
BMJ 2003; 326: 1123. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Minerva
BMJ 2003; 326: 1123. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Career focus

 

   
THIS WEEK: THIS WEEK
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

Living and working in Sweden
Johannes von Rosen [Full text] [extra: Additional information about Sweden]  

 

How to become a publisher: part I
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli [Full text]  

 

Getting that all important job: part 2
Anita Houghton [Full text]  

 

Tips on...: Learning from mistakes
Radhika Puttha and Ramesh Thalava [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Roots versus risk
Ed Cooper [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 25: An obstetric emergency
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

 

 

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