This issue's table of contents:

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Editor's Choice

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The difficulties of putting patients first

This Week in the BMJ

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Effects of involving patients are unknown

Involving users in delivering mental health services is effective

Off-pump heart surgery causes less neurocognitive impairment

Use lower CHD risk thresholds for ethnic minorities

Report cards are fine in principle

WHO may be passe

Global resurgence of tuberculosis is troubling

Buildings dominate discussions on reconfiguring health care

Editorials

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Electing WHO's next leader

Gavin Yamey and Kamran Abbasi

BMJ 2002;325 1251-1252

Optimal duration of exclusive breast feeding in low income countries

Robert E Black and Cesar G Victora

BMJ 2002;325 1252-1253

Arrhythmias and sudden death in patients taking antipsychotic drugs

Andrew Herxheimer and David Healy

BMJ 2002;325 1253-1254

Symptoms of possible oncological significance: separating the wheat from

the chaff

Nicholas Summerton

BMJ 2002;325 1254-1255

About impaired minds and closed hearts

David Taggart

BMJ 2002;325 1255-1256

News

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Failure to tackle AIDS puts millions at risk of starvation

China makes its first antiretroviral drugs for treating AIDS

In brief

GMC clears Alder Hey doctor of dishonesty

Nine candidates nominated for top WHO post

Vaccine could give protection against cervical cancer

Adrenal crisis associated with high dose inhaled steroids is more common

than previously thought

Erecting the barricades

News roundup

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Gynaecologist is struck off for sterilising women without their consent

EU parliament votes for total ban on tobacco advertising

Paediatrician suspended after she "threw objectivity to the winds"

New life form to be created

Safeguards in research are needed to protect patients’ privacy, says report

Malnutrition spreads in Argentina, once the "breadbasket" of the world

Doctors in the armed forces to get {pound}50 000 "golden hellos"

Gulf war veterans have no common pattern of peripheral nerve damage

News Extra

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Drug advertisers face scrutiny after potentially breaking FDA rules

Canadian prisons are not meeting their duty to limit spread of HIV

Trust criticised for locking up mental health patients

Papers

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Systematic review of involving patients in the planning and development of

health care

Mike J Crawford, Deborah Rutter, Catherine Manley, Timothy Weaver,

Kamaldeep Bhui, Naomi Fulop, and Peter Tyrer

BMJ 2002;325 1263

Involving users in the delivery and evaluation of mental health services:

systematic review

Emma L Simpson and Allan O House

BMJ 2002;325 1265

Assessment of neurocognitive impairment after off-pump and on-pump

techniques for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: prospective randomised controlled trial

Vipin Zamvar, David Williams, Judith Hall, Nicola Payne, Clare Cann,

Karen Young, S Karthikeyan, and John Dunne

BMJ 2002;325 1268

Application of Framingham risk estimates to ethnic minorities in United

Kingdom and implications for primary prevention of heart disease in general

practice: cross sectional population based study

Francesco P Cappuccio, Pippa Oakeshott, Pasquale Strazzullo, and Sally

M Kerry

BMJ 2002;325 1271

Association between outcome of pregnancy and glycaemic control in early

pregnancy in type 1 diabetes: population based study

Rosemary Temple, Vivien Aldridge, Richard Greenwood, Philip Heyburn,

Michael Sampson, and Katharine Stanley

BMJ 2002;325 1275-1276

Observational study of type of surgical training and outcome of definitive

surgery for primary malignant melanoma

Rona M MacKie, Caroline A Bray, and David J Hole

BMJ 2002;325 1276-1277

Drug points: Dysgeusia and burning mouth syndrome by eprosartan

Xavier Castells, Isidre Rodoreda, Consuelo Pedros, Gloria Cereza, and

Joan-Ramon Laporte

BMJ 2002;325 1277

Primary care

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Attitudes to the public release of comparative information on the quality

of general practice care: qualitative study

Martin N Marshall, Julia Hiscock, and Bonnie Sibbald

BMJ 2002;325 1278

Clinical Review

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Current medical treatment for tuberculosis

Edward D Chan and Michael D Iseman

BMJ 2002;325 1282-1286

ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic therapy in myocardial

infarction and stable angina

Gregory Y H Lip, Bernard S P Chin, and Neeraj Prasad

BMJ 2002;325 1287-1289

Education and Debate

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Reconfiguring health systems

Andy Black

BMJ 2002;325 1290-1293

WHO in 2002: Why does the world still need WHO?

Gavin Yamey

BMJ 2002;325 1294-1298

Letters

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Emergency response to 999 calls

Bernard A Foex, Darren Walter, Andrew Jones, and Charles Essex

BMJ 2002;325 1299

Wanted: patients with mental illness in role of teacher

Sir Nil

BMJ 2002;325 1300

Debate on mental illness and violence was oversimplified

Tom Clark

BMJ 2002;325 1300

The NHS, the private sector, and the virtual asylum

Philip A Sugarman, Lorna Duggan, Geoff Dickens, John C Hughes, Leila B

Cooke, Peter Carpenter, Rob Poole, Tony Ryan, and Alison Pearsall

BMJ 2002;325 1300

Sexual health services need wider approach

Lesley E Bacon and Jacqui Evans

BMJ 2002;325 1302

Efficacy, safety, and cost of new anticancer drugs

Hilary Calvert, Duncan I Jodrell, James Cassidy, Adrian L Harris,

Andrea Messori, Sabrina Trippoli, Monica Vaiani, Silvio Garattini, and

Vittorio Bertele'

BMJ 2002;325 1302

Occupational disease can also develop in non-working children

David A Green

BMJ 2002;325 1303

Power is indeed irrelevant in interpreting completed studies

Stephen J Senn

BMJ 2002;325 1304

Follow up of people fitted with hearing aids

Elizabeth M Bond and Amanda J Kvalsvig

BMJ 2002;325 1304

Obituaries

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Alan Stoddard

William Stuart Bost

William John Oldfield Box

Birendra ("Brian") Ghosh

John Dudley Jenkins

Ian Martin-Scott

Eoin Leonard McQuitty

Michael Antony Prenton

Esther Stacey (nee Fonseca)

Reviews

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Book: Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic

Michael Fitzpatrick

BMJ 2002;325 1307

Book: The Blood Doctor

Jeff Aronson

BMJ 2002;325 1307

Netlines

Harry Brown

BMJ 2002;325 1308

Web: Tumour diary

Ross Camidge

BMJ 2002;325 1308

Personal Views:

GPs and the information revolution

Mayur Lakhani

BMJ 2002;325 1309

Soundings:

If I ruled the world

George Dunea

BMJ 2002;325 1309

Minerva

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Fillers

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POEM: Barrett's oesophagus is common in men with or without GORD

One hundred years ago: The Army Medical Service as a career

A paper that changed my practice: From paper to practice doesn't always

take a decade

Endpiece: Learning from each other

A picture is worth a thousand words

Corrections

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'No' vote frees {pound}250m

A POEM a week for the BMJ

Ultrasound plus mammography may detect more early cancers

Protestors lobby parliament over proposed change in mental health law

A POEM a week for the BMJ

Book review

Career focus

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This week:

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2002;325 183

So, you'd like to be a management consultant?

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

BMJ 2002;325 183

Back pain at work

Sam Flynn and Anne Rossiter

BMJ 2002;325 185

Retirement: the end of the road or a new beginning?

Susan E Kersley

BMJ 2002;325 187

Profile: Nicola Sharp

Rhona MacDonald

BMJ 2002;325 188

Soap opera: Episode 1: The body in the evidence base room

Nicola Sharp

BMJ 2002;325 189

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