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	Safety and efficacy of antibiotics compared with appendicectomy for treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitis: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Krishna K Varadhan, Keith R Neal, Dileep N Lobo
	BMJ  2012;344:e2156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2156 (Published 5 April 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Early detection and intervention evaluation for people at risk of psychosis: multisite randomised controlled trial
	Anthony P Morrison, Paul French, Suzanne L K Stewart, Max Birchwood, David Fowler, Andrew I Gumley, Peter B Jones, Richard P Bentall, Shôn W Lewis, Graham K Murray, Paul Patterson, Kat Brunet, Jennie Conroy, Sophie Parker, Tony Reilly, Rory Byrne, Linda M Davies, Graham Dunn
	BMJ  2012;344:e2233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2233 (Published 5 April 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lung protective mechanical ventilation and two year survival in patients with acute lung injury: prospective cohort study
	Dale M Needham, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Pedro A Mendez-Tellez, Victor D Dinglas, Jonathan E Sevransky, Cheryl R Dennison Himmelfarb, Sanjay V Desai, Carl Shanholtz, Roy G Brower, Peter J Pronovost
	BMJ  2012;344:e2124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2124 (Published 5 April 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Rational Testing: Interpreting and investigating proteinuria
	Oliver T Browne, Sunil Bhandari
	BMJ  2012;344:e2339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2339 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Study identifies behaviours in young children that might prevent obesity
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2012;344:e2608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2608 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP practices abandon boundaries to widen choice for patients
	Ingrid Torjesen
	BMJ  2012;344:e2600, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2600 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Virgin Care is set to take over two NHS community health services in Surrey
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2012;344:e2605, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2605 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Private healthcare market may be anti-competitive with poor returns for patients
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;344:e2606, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2606 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Governments needs to explore alternative to prohibitionist drug policies, says report
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2012;344:e2610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2610 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government’s demand for raids on abortion clinics cost 580 inspections and £1m, says regulator
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2012;344:e2613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2613 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Guidelines mean that you can have a DIY assisted suicide, but not a professional one
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;344:e2592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2592 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fertility regulator tells clinics to treat egg and sperm donors better to boost numbers
	Ingrid Torjesen
	BMJ  2012;344:e2594, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2594 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Most laboratory cancer studies cannot be replicated, study shows
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;344:e2555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2555 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Prescribing for women patients is less likely to follow guidelines than prescribing for their male counterparts
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2012;344:e2560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2560 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor is struck off for failing to disclose manslaughter conviction in Spain
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;344:e2554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2554 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Editor's Choice

	Who are tomorrow’s generalists?
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2012;344:e2495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2495 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

	Should conservative treatment of appendicitis be first line?
	Olaf J Bakker
	BMJ  2012;344:e2546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2546 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lung protective ventilation
	Luigi Camporota, Nicholas Hart
	BMJ  2012;344:e2491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2491 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is it time for a new kind of hospital physician?
	R M Temple, V Kirthi, L J Patterson
	BMJ  2012;344:e2240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2240 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Hospital episode statistics: The importance of knowing context of hospital episode statistics when reconfiguring the NHS
	Lauren Brennan, Mando Watson, Robert Klaber, Tagore Charles
	BMJ  2012;344:e2432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2432 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Neglected Diseases: How collaboration is providing new drugs for neglected diseases
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2012;344:e2453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2453 (Published 5 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Improving Health Awards 2012: Research paper of the year: interventions to improve health
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2012;344:e2444, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2444 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Body Politic: Lansley has pulled off one of the profoundest reforms ever
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;344:e2429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2429 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

	Personal View: We need female doctors at all levels and in all specialties
	Jane Dacre
	BMJ  2012;344:e2325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2325 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Arrested hydrocephalus and the Round Britain Quiz
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2012;344:e2406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2406 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
	Andrew Moscrop
	BMJ  2012;344:e2440, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2440 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: The late show
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2012;344:e2445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2445 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Medical heresy: ditch the eponyms
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2012;344:e2503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2503 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Peter Goodwin
	Laura Newman
	BMJ  2012;344:e2496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2496 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

Endgames

	Case Report: A 90 year old man with difficulty swallowing and proximal muscle weakness
	H U Rehman
	BMJ  2012;344:e461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e461 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: Acute headache and visual field defect
	Mark D Wilkie, Rafid Al-Mahfoudh
	BMJ  2012;344:e2229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2229 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: One way analysis of variance
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2012;344:e2427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2427 (Published 4 April 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Jacob P Thyssen, Torkil Menné, Claus Zachariae
	BMJ  2012;344:e2441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2441 (Published 4 April 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2012;344:e2443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2443 (Published 4 April 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

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