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Editor's Choice

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Needed: transformational leaders

This Week in the BMJ

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Nurses can carry out preoperative assessment

Bacterial vaginosis is not a strong risk factor for early miscarriage

Participants may never know which arm of the trial they were in

Doctors overlook living wills

Short courses in evidence based medicine can work

Editorials

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Antibiotics for acute purulent rhinitis

Bruce Arroll and Timothy Kenealy

BMJ 2002;325 1311-1312

Sensory stimulation in dementia

Alistair Burns, Jane Byrne, Clive Ballard, and Clive Holmes

BMJ 2002;325 1312-1313

A clinical trials register for Europe

Alison Tonks

BMJ 2002;325 1314-1315

Drug eluting coronary stents

N P Jenkins, B D Prendergast, and M Thomas

BMJ 2002;325 1315-1316

News

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People with schizophrenia must have a say in their treatment

Hospitals in north of England outperform those in south

In brief

Smaller families aid economic growth, says UN report

Better research needed on childhood obesity, report says

Mouse genome shows many disease genes shared with humans

Sharing of uncertainty can unnerve patients

Paediatricians did not have duty of care to patient's mother

Health department to improve investigation of waiting list fiddles

High nut consumption may reduce risk of diabetes

Sculpture symbolises passing on of clinical skills

News roundup

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Private doctors must improve their treatment of tuberculosis, says WHO

Canada’s healthcare system should focus on primary care, report says

Drug companies urged to make drugs available at cost price to the poor

Consultants resist pooled lists for routine surgery

Woman who had attended euthanasia workshop kills herself

UK government approves heroin use on prescription

GMC committee chairman stands down while inquiry takes place

News Extra

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Health Secretary Milburn refuses to renegotiate contract

Companies refuse to deliver drugs as hospital debts soar

Lack of expertise and funding are hampering prostate cancer screening and

treatment

Papers

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Effectiveness of appropriately trained nurses in preoperative assessment:

randomised controlled equivalence/non-inferiority trial

Helen Kinley, Carolyn Czoski-Murray, Steve George, Chris McCabe, John

Primrose, Charles Reilly, Richard Wood, Paula Nicolson, Caroline

Healy, Susan Read, John Norman, Ellen Janke, Hameed Alhameed, Nick

Fernandes, and Eileen Thomas

BMJ 2002;325 1323

Withholding the artificial administration of fluids and food from elderly

patients with dementia: ethnographic study

Anne-Mei The, Roeline Pasman, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Miel Ribbe,

and Gerrit van der Wal

BMJ 2002;325 1326

Informing participants of allocation to placebo at trial closure: postal

survey

Zelda Di Blasi, Ted J Kaptchuk, John Weinman, and Jos Kleijnen

BMJ 2002;325 1329

Fatal toxicity of serotoninergic and other antidepressant drugs: analysis

of United Kingdom mortality data

Nicholas A Buckley and Peter R McManus

BMJ 2002;325 1332-1333

Drug points: Leflunomide can potentiate the anticoagulant effect of

warfarin

V Lim and I Pande

BMJ 2002;325 1333

Primary care

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Association between bacterial vaginosis or chlamydial infection and

miscarriage before 16 weeks' gestation: prospective community based cohort

study

Pippa Oakeshott, Phillip Hay, Sima Hay, Frances Steinke, Elizabeth

Rink, and Sally Kerry

BMJ 2002;325 1334

10-minute consultation: Food allergy

Aziz Sheikh and Samantha Walker

BMJ 2002;325 1337

Learning in practice

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Do short courses in evidence based medicine improve knowledge and skills?

Validation of Berlin questionnaire and before and after study of courses in evidence based medicine

L Fritsche, T Greenhalgh, Y Falck-Ytter, H-H Neumayer, and R Kunz

BMJ 2002;325 1338-1341

Clinical Review

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Withdrawing life support and resolution of conflict with families

Jenny Way, Anthony L Back, and J Randall Curtis

BMJ 2002;325 1342-1345

Lesson of the week: Misleading electrocardiographic results in patient with hyperkalaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis

P K Moulik, C Nethaji, and A A Khaleeli

BMJ 2002;325 1346-1347

ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic therapy in acute coronary

syndromes

Robert D S Watson, Bernard S P Chin, and Gregory Y H Lip

BMJ 2002;325 1348-1351

Education and Debate

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Values and leadership

David Pendleton and Jennifer King

BMJ 2002;325 1352-1355

WHO in 2002: Interview with Gro Brundtland

Gavin Yamey

BMJ 2002;325 1355

Letters

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Copying letters to patients

Diana Jelley, Tim van Zwanenberg, Caron Walker, Barbara L Meredith,

and Hamish M A Towler

BMJ 2002;325 1359

Comparison of different measures of blood pressure

William T Hamilton, Deborah Sharp, Tom Marshall, Paolo Palatini, Mark

Brueren, and Alvine Bissery

BMJ 2002;325 1360

Pleasing some of the people none of the time

Paul Hilton and Karen L Ward

BMJ 2002;325 1361

Retaining nurses in the NHS

Steven J Lewis, Heather M Gage, Rosemary Pope, Fiona Lake, Janet M

Pinder, and F David Beggs

BMJ 2002;325 1362

Thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke

Howard Mann and Hazel Thornton

BMJ 2002;325 1363

When medical students go off the rails

Jonathan H S Fuller and Sheila Otto

BMJ 2002;325 1364

CONSORT statement requires closer examination

Douglas G Altman, Kenneth F Schulz, and David Moher

BMJ 2002;325 1364

Making coffee has advantages

John Addison

BMJ 2002;325 1364

Obituaries

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Frances Ames

John Crammer

John Bower Hickling

Linda Hazel Hignett

Ali M Ali Ibrahim

Douglas Hugh Nelson

Israel Rocker

Andrew Steven Truman White

Reviews

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Book: The Demon in the Freezer

Fred Charatan

BMJ 2002;325 1367

Press: "Cosmo" for drug users

Tony Sheldon

BMJ 2002;325 1368

TV: Horizon---Homeopathy: The Test

Trevor Jackson

BMJ 2002;325 1367

Website of the week: Food allergy

Anna Ellis

BMJ 2002;325 1368

Personal Views:

Overseas doctors need more attention

Rahij Anwar

BMJ 2002;325 1369

Soundings:

Feel free to ululate

James Owen Drife

BMJ 2002;325 1369

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: High fibre and guar gum are equally helpful in IBS, but gum is better tolerated

Endpiece: The noble profession

Computer madness

Submitting articles to the BMJ

A memorable patient: But the greatest of these is charity

Corrections

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GMC clears Alder Hey doctor of dishonesty

Minerva

The SCOFF questionnaire and clinical interview for eating disorders in

general practice: comparative study

Whooping cough---a continuing problem

Developing the role of patients as teachers

Rachael Elizabeth Spencer

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2002;325 191

Medical leadership

Duncan Empey, Sheila Peskett, and Peter D Lees

BMJ 2002;325 191

Cognitive intelligence

Brian McMullen

BMJ 2002;325 193

The current crisis in GP recruitment

Peter Cross

BMJ 2002;325 194

Profile: Stavia Blunt

Sabina Dosani

BMJ 2002;325 196

Soap opera: Episode 2: Martha Millstone is in shock

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2002;325 197

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