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	Duration of symptoms of respiratory tract infections in children: systematic review
	Matthew Thompson, Talley A Vodicka, Peter S Blair, David I Buckley, Carl Heneghan, Alastair D Hay, on behalf of the TARGET Programme Team
	BMJ  2013;347:f7027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7027 (Published 11 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Red flags to screen for malignancy and fracture in patients with low back pain: systematic review
	Aron Downie, Christopher M Williams, Nicholas Henschke, Mark J Hancock, Raymond W J G Ostelo, Henrica C W de Vet, Petra Macaskill, Les Irwig, Maurits W van Tulder, Bart W Koes, Christopher G Maher
	BMJ  2013;347:f7095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7095 (Published 11 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Evaluation of pre-hospital administration of adrenaline (epinephrine) by emergency medical services for patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: controlled propensity matched retrospective cohort study
	Shinji Nakahara, Jun Tomio, Hideto Takahashi, Masao Ichikawa, Masamichi Nishida, Naoto Morimura, Tetsuya Sakamoto
	BMJ  2013;347:f6829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6829 (Published 10 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Role of diuretics, β blockers, and statins in increasing the risk of diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance: reanalysis of data from the NAVIGATOR study
	Lan Shen, Bimal R Shah, Eric M Reyes, Laine Thomas, Daniel Wojdyla, Peter Diem, Lawrence A Leiter, Bernard Charbonnel, Viacheslav Mareev, Edward S Horton, Steven M Haffner, Vladimir Soska, Rury Holman, M Angelyn Bethel, Frank Schaper, Jie-Lena Sun, John JV McMurray, Robert M Califf, Henry Krum
	BMJ  2013;347:f6745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6745 (Published 9 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	The burden of air pollution on years of life lost in Beijing, China, 2004-08: retrospective regression analysis of daily deaths
	Yuming Guo, Shanshan Li, Zhaoxing Tian, Xiaochuan Pan, Jinliang Zhang, Gail Williams
	BMJ  2013;347:f7139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7139 (Published 9 December 2013) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

Clinical Review

	Tick bite prevention and tick removal
	Christina Due, Wendy Fox, Jolyon M Medlock, Maaike Pietzsch, James G Logan
	BMJ  2013;347:f7123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7123 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Guidelines: Intravenous fluid therapy for adults in hospital: summary of NICE guidance
	Smita Padhi, Ian Bullock, Lilian Li, Mike Stroud, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2013;347:f7073, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7073 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Pain: Treating Pain in Patients with Drug-dependence Problems
	Jane C Ballantyne
	BMJ  2013;347:bmj.f3213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3213 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	More doctors are raising concerns with GMC about colleagues, MPs hear
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2013;347:f7457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7457 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeon is suspended because of concerns over eight "avoidable" deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7461 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2013;347:f7424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7424 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Ketamine should be upgraded from class C to class B drug, committee says
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2013;347:f7439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7439 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Hospital trusts will have to cut activity when integration fund comes into effect, meeting is told
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2013;347:f7434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7434 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Regulatory authority reviews GMC decisions in Mid Staffordshire cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7397 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	UK doctors’ regulator strikes off GP for persistent dishonesty
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7414 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Patients are at risk because doctors don’t know how much IV fluid they need, NICE says
	Ingrid Torjesen
	BMJ  2013;347:f7396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7396 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Imported measles and rubella pose threat to US elimination of the diseases, says CDC report
	Michael McCarthy
	BMJ  2013;347:f7373, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7373 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Widow takes fertility agency to court over storage of husband’s sperm
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2013;347:f7382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7382 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government policy is damaging people most vulnerable to alcohol misuse, warns leading doctor
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2013;347:f7385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7385 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	EU air quality limits are not stringent enough, say researchers
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2013;347:f7338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7338 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

Editor's Choice

	Don’t keep taking the tablets
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2013;347:f7438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7438 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	Adrenaline for out of hospital cardiac arrest?
	Theresa Mariero Olasveengen
	BMJ  2013;347:f7268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7268 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sodium in drugs and hypertension
	Pasquale Strazzullo
	BMJ  2013;347:f7321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7321 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Restoring invisible and abandoned trials: Who is responsible for publishing the results of old trials?
	Alvaro Sanz Rubiales
	BMJ  2013;347:f7199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7199 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Erythrocytosis: Obstructive sleep apnoea does not lead to clinically significant erythrocytosis
	Andrew J King, Toby Eyre, Tim Littlewood
	BMJ  2013;347:f7340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7340 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	We need to separate old and age: We need to get another life after retirement
	Jennifer R Jessop
	BMJ  2013;347:f7173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7173 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Beyond the house of care: House of care approach for patients with long term conditions works at the local level
	Simon Eaton, Lindsay Oliver, Sue Roberts
	BMJ  2013;347:f7359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7359 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cleared GP case: Case against GP threatens whole system of healthcare
	Hilarie Williams
	BMJ  2013;347:f7343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7343 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tell us how it was for you: Whose role is it to collect patients’ stories?
	Felix Greaves
	BMJ  2013;347:f7332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7332 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	We need to separate old and age: Barriers to working in medicine and teaching after retirement
	Elizabeth A McClure
	BMJ  2013;347:f7194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7194 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New cancers on emergency admission: Care is needed in epidemiological research not to overgeneralise about cancer diagnosis and treatment
	Carmen Tsang, Alex Bottle, Azeem Majeed, Paul Aylin
	BMJ  2013;347:f7337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7337 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cigarette packaging: Children must be protected from the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics
	Nicholas Hopkinson, Colin Wallis, Bernard Higgins, Stephen Gaduzo, Rebecca Sherrington, Sarah Keilty, On behalf of Myra Stern, John Britton, Andrew Bush, John Moxham, Karl Sylvester, and 451 others
	BMJ  2013;347:f7358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7358 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Christmas 2013: Aggravations: Tied up in science: unknotting an old anaesthetic problem
	Clemens R M Barends, Anthony R Absalom
	BMJ  2013;347:f6735, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6735 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 2013: Food for Thought: A unified model of patient safety (or "Who froze my cheese?")
	Enrico Coiera, Sarah Collins, Craig Kuziemsky
	BMJ  2013;347:f7273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7273 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Welcome to the most exclusive club in the NHS
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2013;347:f7318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7318 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Humanitarian Disasters: Syria: a healthcare system on the brink of collapse
	Keir Stone-Brown
	BMJ  2013;347:f7375, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7375 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Christmas Appeal 2013: Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?
	Richard Hurley
	BMJ  2013;347:f7374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7374 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interview: Michael Kidd on primary care’s global challenge
	Tiago Villanueva
	BMJ  2013;347:f7239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7239 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Open Data: Rosiglitazone: a case of regulatory hubris
	Steven E Nissen
	BMJ  2013;347:f7428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7428 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Confidential: Parveen Kumar: Pet hate is arrogance
	BMJ  2013;347:f7367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7367 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Too Much Medicine: Medicalising unhappiness: new classification of depression risks more patients being put on drug treatment from which they will not benefit
	Christopher Dowrick, Allen Frances
	BMJ  2013;347:f7140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7140 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patient perspective: mild depression must not be ignored
	Stuart Jessup
	BMJ  2013;347:f7225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7225 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

	From the Frontline: What is the point of doctors?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2013;347:f7380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7380 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: A fat chance of slimming
	Robin Ferner
	BMJ  2013;347:f7389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7389 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Albert Edward Thompson
	Kevin G Burnand
	BMJ  2013;347:f7453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7453 (Published 11 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text]

	Arthur Maxwell House
	Barbara Kermode Scott
	BMJ  2013;347:f7188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7188 (Published 10 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text]

	David Hubel
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2013;347:f7114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7114 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Michael James Vendy Bull
	Charles Bull
	BMJ  2013;347:f7265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7265 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Agnes Kirkland Conn
	Charles Sears
	BMJ  2013;347:f7263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7263 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Antony Frank Francis
	Sadie Francis
	BMJ  2013;347:f7262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7262 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Isobel Quita Barber
	Judith Taylor
	BMJ  2013;347:f7266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7266 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Ronald McDonald Clark
	Mike Thacker
	BMJ  2013;347:f7264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7264 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Ronald Griffiths
	Charlotte Griffiths
	BMJ  2013;347:f6992, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f6992 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Shantilal Raghavji Kanani
	Krishna Somers
	BMJ  2013;347:f7258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7258 (Published 9 December 2013) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

Minerva

	A pear shaped bladder
	Babajide Olusola Olubaniyi, Tharsi Sarvananthan, Geoffrey Price
	BMJ  2013;347:f7301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7301 (Published 11 December 2013) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The benefits of mild hypothermia and other stories . . .
	BMJ  2013;347:f7310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7310 (Published 11 December 2013) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Determinants of the decline in mortality from acute myocardial infarction in England between 2002 and 2010: linked national database study
	BMJ  2013;347:f7379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f7379 (Published 10 December 2013) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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