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Patients’ attitudes about the use of placebo treatments: telephone survey
Sara Chandros Hull, Luana Colloca, Andrew Avins, Nancy P Gordon, Carol P Somkin, Ted J Kaptchuk, Franklin G Miller
BMJ  2013;347:f3757, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3757 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Care in specialist medical and mental health unit compared with standard care for older people with cognitive impairment admitted to general hospital: randomised controlled trial (NIHR TEAM trial)
Sarah E Goldberg, Lucy E Bradshaw, Fiona C Kearney, Catherine Russell, Kathy H Whittamore, Pippa E R Foster, Jil Mamza, John R F Gladman, Rob G Jones, Sarah A Lewis, Davina Porock, Rowan H Harwood, on behalf of the Medical Crises in Older People Study Group.
BMJ  2013;347:f4132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4132 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Analysis of the systematic reviews process in reports of network meta-analyses: methodological systematic review
Aïda Bafeta, Ludovic Trinquart, Raphaèle Seror, Philippe Ravaud
BMJ  2013;347:f3675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3675 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Care of the dying patient in the community
Emily Collis, R Al-Qurainy
BMJ  2013;347:f4085, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4085 (Published 3 July 2013)
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10-Minute Consultation: A pain in the bottom
Fareed Iqbal, Andrew D Beggs, Tim Holt, Douglas M Bowley
BMJ  2013;347:f4192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4192 (Published 1 July 2013)
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GP gets warning over discharge summary errors that led to patient’s death
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2013;347:f4330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4330 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Society of Homeopaths is censured over misleading claims
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4345 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Immigrants could be charged £500 a year to use NHS
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4357 (Published 4 July 2013)
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India’s human rights commission seeks answers over shortage of TB drugs
Soumyadeep Bhaumik
BMJ  2013;347:f4301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4301 (Published 3 July 2013)
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BMJ joins campaign to put "science into assessment of research," as its impact factor rises
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2013;347:f4327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4327 (Published 3 July 2013)
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In brief
BMJ  2013;347:f4234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4234 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Survival rates after bowel cancer surgery reach all time high, audit shows
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2013;347:f4266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4266 (Published 3 July 2013)
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GSK confirms probe by Chinese authorities
Jane Parry
BMJ  2013;347:f4328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4328 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Hunt acknowledges need to make emergency medicine and general practice more attractive
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2013;347:f4332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4332 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Five patients benefit from India’s first "domino" kidney swap
Cheryl Travasso
BMJ  2013;347:f4260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4260 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Hunt promises crackdown on foreigners who misuse NHS, despite GPs’ objections to checking entitlement
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4280 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Another US health system adopts "tobacco-free" hiring policy
Michael McCarthy
BMJ  2013;347:f4294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4294 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Surgeon condemns crude data on outcomes for causing "debacle"
Zosia Kmietowicz, Krishna Chinthapalli
BMJ  2013;347:f4299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4299 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Large rise in consultants’ pay has not improved productivity, say MPs
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2013;347:f4267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4267 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Diclofenac shouldn’t be prescribed to people with heart problems, drug agency says
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2013;347:f4285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4285 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Doctors in India defy guidelines on generic drugs
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2013;347:f4244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4244 (Published 1 July 2013)
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US court ruling gives broad free speech protection to scientific articles
Michael McCarthy
BMJ  2013;347:f4259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4259 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Dementia experts are optimistic despite decline in hope for effective drugs
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4265 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Peers call for UK to harness "enormous" potential of regenerative medicine
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2013;347:f4248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4248 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Access to HIV drugs should be widened, says WHO
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2013;347:f4172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4172 (Published 1 July 2013)
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GP is suspended for failing to provide shared care for child over nine year period
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2013;347:f4238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4238 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Great Ormond Street Hospital gagged doctor who raised safety concerns
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2013;347:f4253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4253 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Educational "events" have only a small part in how doctors learn, conference is told
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4255 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Record number of fake drugs are seized in crackdown
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2013;346:f4204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4204 (Published 28 June 2013)
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GP who ran out of hours service provided inadequate care, tribunal hears
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2013;346:f4217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4217 (Published 28 June 2013)
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Suspect a PE? Less may be more
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2013;347:f4314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4314 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Health in all policies
Ilona Kickbusch
BMJ  2013;347:f4283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4283 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Too much medicine; too little care
Paul Glasziou, Ray Moynihan, Tessa Richards, Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2013;347:f4247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4247 (Published 2 July 2013)
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YODA and truth seeking in medicine
Peter Doshi, S Swaroop Vedula, Tianjing Li
BMJ  2013;347:f4251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4251 (Published 2 July 2013)
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England’s national programme for IT
Trisha Greenhalgh, Justin Keen
BMJ  2013;346:f4130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4130 (Published 28 June 2013)
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Inhaled drugs and global warming: Cost of switching inhalers is high in carbon trading terms
Carl J Reynolds
BMJ  2013;347:f4162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4162 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Inhaled drugs and global warming: Authors’ reply to Reynolds
Toby Hillman, Frances Mortimer, Nicholas S Hopkinson
BMJ  2013;347:f4164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4164 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Statins and risk of diabetes: Risk of diabetes with statins must be monitored in each patient
Maurizio Bifulco
BMJ  2013;347:f4170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4170 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Statins and risk of diabetes: Statins and the Quality and Outcomes Framework
David G Taylor
BMJ  2013;347:f4171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4171 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Analgesic failure and success: Don’t ignore non-pharmacological aspects of analgesia while pursuing analgesic success
Nitin Gupta
BMJ  2013;347:f4173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4173 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Meeting needs in learning disability: All opportunities should now be taken to meet the needs of patients with learning difficulties
Matthew A Hoghton, Pauline Heslop, Anna Marriott, Peter Fleming, Lesley Russ, Peter Blair
BMJ  2013;347:f4190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4190 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Premature deaths across England: Austerity measures hit the sickest hardest
David Taylor-Robinson, Rachael Gosling, Dominic Harrison, Mohammed Khan, Ben Barr
BMJ  2013;347:f4208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4208 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Premature deaths across England: Time to focus on positive health indicators to reduce health inequalities
Michael C Watson, Emily Clare Watson
BMJ  2013;347:f4210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4210 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Glaucoma: Don’t forget that central corneal thickness affects intraocular pressure
Ilias Georgalas, Dionisis Pagoulatos, Chryssanthi Koutsandrea, Dimitrios Papaconstantinou
BMJ  2013;347:f4215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4215 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Glaucoma: Authors’ reply to Georgalas and colleagues
Anthony King, Augusto Azuara-Blanco, Anja Tuulonen
BMJ  2013;347:f4216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4216 (Published 2 July 2013)
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NICE on feverish illness in children: Hypothermia and the assessment of sick children
Anna Cronin de Chavez, Charmaine Childs, Shona Kelly, Angela Mary Tod, Derek Burke
BMJ  2013;347:f4220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4220 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Consultants' contracts: Time for a putsch of the l’oréal consultants?
Jerard Ross
BMJ  2013;347:f4225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4225 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Consultants' contracts: The few who abuse their position bring all consultants into disrepute
Kevin J H Newman
BMJ  2013;347:f4231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4231 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Public Health: BMJ briefing: meet the new masters of public health
Richard Vize
BMJ  2013;346:f4242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4242 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Body Politic: Doctors may have lost the chance to make a difference
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4200 (Published 3 July 2013)
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In search of social equipoise
M Petticrew, M McKee, K Lock, J Green, G Phillips
BMJ  2013;347:f4016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4016 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Second trimester abortion for fetal abnormality
Richard Lyus, Stephen Robson, John Parsons, Jane Fisher, Martin Cameron
BMJ  2013;347:f4165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4165 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Too Much Medicine: When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found
Renda Soylemez Wiener, Lisa M Schwartz, Steven Woloshin
BMJ  2013;347:f3368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3368 (Published 2 July 2013)
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Personal View: Deaths in trials should always be reported
Jeppe Schroll
BMJ  2013;347:f4219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4219 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Personal View: India must overhaul medical training to act on antimicrobial resistance
Abdul Ghafur
BMJ  2013;347:f4230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4230 (Published 3 July 2013)
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The Bigger Picture: International health is a misnomer
Mary E Black
BMJ  2013;347:f4167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4167 (Published 2 July 2013)
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The Best Medicine: Private medicine’s real manifesto
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2013;347:f4188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4188 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Hilary Koprowski
Laura Newman
BMJ  2013;347:f4104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4104 (Published 1 July 2013)
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Picture Quiz: A young athlete with bradycardia
Nabeel Sheikh, Sanjay Sharma
BMJ  2013;347:f4258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4258 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Iatrogenic compartment syndrome in neonatal care
Maria Serenella Pignotti, Elisabetta Agostini, Patrizio Fiorini
BMJ  2013;347:f4161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4161 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Voting behaviour on FDA committees and other stories . . .
BMJ  2013;347:f4241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4241 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Pneumonia and pneumonia related mortality in patients with COPD treated with fixed combinations of inhaled corticosteroid and long acting β2 agonist: observational matched cohort study (PATHOS)
BMJ  2013;347:f4375, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4375 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Risk of incident diabetes among patients treated with statins: population based study
BMJ  2013;347:f4356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4356 (Published 4 July 2013)
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
BMJ  2013;347:f4310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4310 (Published 3 July 2013)
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Restoring invisible and abandoned trials: a call for people to publish the findings
BMJ  2013;346:f4223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4223 (Published 28 June 2013)
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