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Probable person to person transmission of novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in Eastern China, 2013: epidemiological investigation
Xian Qi, Yan-Hua Qian, Chang-Jun Bao, Xi-Ling Guo, Lun-Biao Cui, Fen-Yang Tang, Hong Ji, Yong Huang, Pei-Quan Cai, Bing Lu, Ke Xu, Chao Shi, Feng-Cai Zhu, Ming-Hao Zhou, Hua Wang
BMJ  2013;347:f4752, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4752 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Effect of telephone health coaching (Birmingham OwnHealth) on hospital use and associated costs: cohort study with matched controls
Adam Steventon, Sarah Tunkel, Ian Blunt, Martin Bardsley
BMJ  2013;347:f4585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4585 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Impact of wound edge protection devices on surgical site infection after laparotomy: multicentre randomised controlled trial (ROSSINI Trial)
Thomas D Pinkney, Melanie Calvert, David C Bartlett, Adrian Gheorghe, Val Redman, George Dowswell, William Hawkins, Tony Mak, Haney Youssef, Caroline Richardson, Steven Hornby, Laura Magill, Richard Haslop, Sue Wilson, Dion Morton, on behalf of the West Midlands Research Collaborative and the ROSSINI Trial Investigators
BMJ  2013;347:f4305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4305 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Frontotemporal dementia
Jason D Warren, Jonathan D Rohrer, Martin N Rossor
BMJ  2013;347:f4827, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4827 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Therapeutics: Long acting β2 agonists in adult asthma
Graeme P Currie, Iain Small, Graham Douglas
BMJ  2013;347:f4662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4662 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Better procurement can save the NHS in England £1.5bn over three years, says report
Ingrid Torjesen
BMJ  2013;347:f4951, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4951 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Acute trust takes over treatment centre after £53m pay off to private company
Chris Mahony
BMJ  2013;347:f4955, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4955 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Health watchdog vows to act over marketing of products to new mothers while in hospital
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2013;347:f4959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4959 (Published 6 August 2013)
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One third of US women travel more than 25 miles for an abortion
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2013;347:f4926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4926 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Flip flop policy over pioglitazone licence causes media storm in India
Soumyadeep Bhaumik
BMJ  2013;347:f4937, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4937 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Second study on valsartan is threatened with retraction over alleged data manipulation
Chris Mahony
BMJ  2013;347:f4920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4920 (Published 5 August 2013)
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European Commission orders France to lift ban on acne pill
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2013;347:f4932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4932 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Baby food giants accused of wooing mothers in India off breastfeeding
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2013;347:f4934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4934 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Democrats denounce "unprecedented" efforts by Republicans to block health law
Michael McCarthy
BMJ  2013;347:f4935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4935 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Use of β blockers during surgery may have caused 10 000 deaths in the UK
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2013;347:f4914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4914 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Don’t call low risk lesions cancer, experts say
Michael McCarthy
BMJ  2013;347:f4909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4909 (Published 2 August 2013)
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Opposition to abortion is growing in Southern and Midwestern US states
Michael McCarthy
BMJ  2013;347:f4915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4915 (Published 2 August 2013)
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Doctors should have to be accredited to support whiplash claims, say MPs
Ingrid Torjesen
BMJ  2013;347:f4916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4916 (Published 2 August 2013)
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GPs taking on out of hours work face higher indemnity fees
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2013;347:f4897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4897 (Published 2 August 2013)
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New dementia targets are proposed for GPs in next year’s QOF
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2013;347:f4902, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4902 (Published 2 August 2013)
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Judge rules as unlawful government plans to downgrade services at Lewisham hospital
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ  2013;347:f4884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4884 (Published 1 August 2013)
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US panel recommends annual CT screening for people at high risk of lung cancer
Michael McCarthy
BMJ  2013;347:f4894, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4894 (Published 1 August 2013)
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Judges uphold ruling that doctors cannot help paralysed man end his life
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2013;347:f4881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4881 (Published 1 August 2013)
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Administrators recommend dissolving Mid Staffordshire trust
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2013;347:f4880, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4880 (Published 1 August 2013)
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Indian doctors demand more specialisation seats and recognition for rural practice
Soumyadeep Bhaumik
BMJ  2013;347:f4848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4848 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Circle applies for £3.5m government loan to invest in services at Hinchingbrooke
Ingrid Torjesen
BMJ  2013;347:f4816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4816 (Published 31 July 2013)
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First do no harm
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2013;347:f4843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4843 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Human to human transmission of H7N9
James W Rudge, Richard Coker
BMJ  2013;347:f4730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4730 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Physician Payment Sunshine Act
José G Merino
BMJ  2013;347:f4828, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4828 (Published 1 August 2013)
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Medical savings accounts: Singapore’s non-solution to healthcare costs
Martin McKee, Reinhard Busse
BMJ  2013;347:f4797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4797 (Published 31 July 2013)
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India’s new policy to protect research participants
Jeremy Sugarman, Anant Bhan, Robert Bollinger, Amita Gupta
BMJ  2013;347:f4841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4841 (Published 31 July 2013)
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The Liverpool care pathway: a cautionary tale
Katherine E Sleeman, Emily Collis
BMJ  2013;347:f4779, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4779 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Private medicine's real manifesto: Article is a call to arms to defend the NHS
John Puntis
BMJ  2013;347:f4860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4860 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Financial crisis in the NHS: Formation of the "Multinational Health Service" is to blame for financial crisis in the NHS
Sebastian Kraemer
BMJ  2013;347:f4864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4864 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Assessing quality of hospitals in England: Chief quality officers should be drawn from chartered quality professionals
Philip Carroll, Philip Pearson
BMJ  2013;347:f4873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4873 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Preventing admission of older people: Preventive care programmes keep people active and independent for longer
A J Tulloch, D L Beales
BMJ  2013;347:f4874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4874 (Published 6 August 2013)
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NICE on rehabilitation: New guidelines on rehabilitation likely to restrict practices and stifle innovation
Anand D Pandyan, Kate Radford (associate professor in rehabilitation research (long term conditions) and president Society for Research in Rehabilitation (SRR), University of Nottingham, UK); Stephen Ashford (consultant physiotherapist, National Institute for Health Resea
BMJ  2013;347:f4876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4876 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Circle Health: Circle Health’s sums do not add up after all
Martin McKee
BMJ  2013;347:f4898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4898 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Austerity in Europe: First reliable data suggest a possible increase in suicides in Greece
Konstantinos N Fountoulakis, Sotirios A Koupidis, Ilias A Grammatikopoulos, Pavlos N Theodorakis
BMJ  2013;347:f4900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4900 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Austerity in Europe: Unemployment and suicides during the recession in Italy
Roberto De Vogli
BMJ  2013;347:f4908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4908 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Trade secrets: Healthcare should be excluded from EU free trade negotiations with United States and India
Richard FitzGerald
BMJ  2013;347:f4911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4911 (Published 6 August 2013)
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Medical Marijuana: The growth of medical marijuana
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2013;347:f4755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4755 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Ethics Man: Waking up to the effects of fatigue in doctors
Daniel K Sokol
BMJ  2013;347:f4906, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4906 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Tobacco Control: UK government’s delay on plain tobacco packaging: how much evidence is enough?
Crawford Moodie, Linda Bauld, Martine Stead
BMJ  2013;347:f4786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4786 (Published 31 July 2013)
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From the Heart: Improving the UK’s performance on survival after cardiac arrest
Aseem Malhotra, Roby Rakhit
BMJ  2013;347:f4800, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4800 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Personal View: Doctors should listen to the whole patient: don’t forget the stethoscope in neurological examination
Christian M Burd
BMJ  2013;347:f4625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4625 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Personal View: Africa could learn from India’s burgeoning pharma sector
Sakthivel Selvaraj
BMJ  2013;347:f4235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4235 (Published 2 August 2013)
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In and Out of Hospital: The fight for good writing
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2013;347:f4878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4878 (Published 2 August 2013)
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From the Frontline: The pursuit of imperfection
Des Spence
BMJ  2013;347:f4780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4780 (Published 1 August 2013)
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Harry Ralph Claude Riches
Penelope Riches Mills
BMJ  2013;347:f4309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4309 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Florence Pauline Cowmeadow
Richard Cowmeadow, Jane Mounty
BMJ  2013;347:f4318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4318 (Published 31 July 2013)
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John Stuart Edmondson
Pat Edmondson
BMJ  2013;347:f4323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4323 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Pamela Aihie
Avan Aihie Sayer
BMJ  2013;347:f4325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4325 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Lance Lee Bromley
Rex Stanbridge
BMJ  2013;347:f4326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4326 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Audrey Finnegan
Michael Crawford
BMJ  2013;347:f4457, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4457 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Picture Quiz: A growing abdominal problem
Kunal Kulkarni, Neeta Lakhani, Alexandra Cope, Daniel McGrath
BMJ  2013;347:f4547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4547 (Published 5 August 2013)
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Statistical Question: What is number needed to harm (NNH)?
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2013;347:f4869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4869 (Published 2 August 2013)
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Case Report: Cough and weight loss in a young man
S J Chavda, A Shepherd, C Hasford
BMJ  2013;347:f4537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4537 (Published 1 August 2013)
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Anatomy Quiz: Coronal oblique proton density weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the left shoulder
Nikolaos Papadakos
BMJ  2013;347:f4150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4150 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Anatomy Quiz: Digital subtraction angiography of the right lower leg
Nikolaos Papadakos
BMJ  2013;347:f4152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4152 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Reversal of established practices and other stories . . .
BMJ  2013;347:f4743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4743 (Published 31 July 2013)
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Curious case of MRI scan failure
Mike Sury, Owen Arthurs, Prashanth Reddy
BMJ  2013;347:f4751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4751 (Published 31 July 2013)
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The Physician Payment Sunshine Act
BMJ  2013;347:f4899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4899 (Published 2 August 2013)
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European regulator appeals against order stopping it from releasing clinical study documents
BMJ  2013;347:f4867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4867 (Published 31 July 2013)
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