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	Effect of systemic steroids on post-tonsillectomy bleeding and reinterventions: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Jennifer Plante, Alexis F Turgeon, Ryan Zarychanski, François Lauzier, Louise Vigneault, Lynne Moore, Amélie Boutin, Dean A Fergusson
	BMJ  2012;345:e5389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5389 (Published 28 August 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web Extra]

	Effect of assertive outreach after suicide attempt in the AID (assertive intervention for deliberate self harm) trial: randomised controlled trial
	Britt Morthorst, Jesper Krogh, Annette Erlangsen, Francisco Alberdi, Merete Nordentoft
	BMJ  2012;345:e4972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e4972 (Published 22 August 2012) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Competent Novice: Early management of acutely ill ward patients
	Paul J Frost, Matt P Wise
	BMJ  2012;345:e5677, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5677 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	German ethics council backs religious circumcision if specific conditions met
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2012;345:e5789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5789 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Outbreaks among travellers linked to almost twofold rise in measles cases
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2012;345:e5797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5797 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Court case adjourned after diagnosis of persistent vegetative state changes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;345:e5803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5803 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Anorexic woman cannot be force fed, judge rules
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2012;345:e5804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5804 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trusts required to show they are providing NICE approved treatments
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2012;345:e5819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5819 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Lower circumcision rates mean higher health costs, US study says
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2012;345:e5776, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5776 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	A window on the psychiatric mind
	Toby Pitts-Tucker
	BMJ  2012;345:e5696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5696 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	South London Healthcare Trust may be run by the private sector or broken up
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2012;345:e5780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5780 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	G20 pathologist is struck off
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2012;345:e5785, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5785 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Spanish doctors protest against law that excludes immigrants from public healthcare
	Aser García Rada
	BMJ  2012;345:e5716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5716 (Published 23 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Many foundation trusts face tough financial future, warns Monitor
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2012;345:e5745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5745 (Published 23 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF]

	Fight to tackle unhealthy lifestyles has widened gap in health inequalities
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2012;345:e5707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5707 (Published 23 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Man with locked-in syndrome who fought for doctors to end his life has died
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2012;345:e5729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5729 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Editor's Choice

	Towards a unified theory of patient data
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2012;345:e5678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5678 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Sanctity of life law: Being aware of opposite dangers
	David A Jones
	BMJ  2012;345:e5541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5541 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ pay wall: Yes, let’s take down the BMJ pay wall
	David L Bisset
	BMJ  2012;345:e5600, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5600 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Designer drugs: Deaths associated with new designer drug 5-IT
	L Nitin Seetohul, Peter D Maskell, Giorgia De Paoli, Derrick J Pounder
	BMJ  2012;345:e5625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5625 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Postmortem examinations: Pathologists and coroners must work together on retaining tissue at necropsy
	Mary Sheppard
	BMJ  2012;345:e5626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5626 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blood stained nappy: Escherichia coli O157 causes blood stained nappies
	Michael A Crilly
	BMJ  2012;345:e5627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5627 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fasting during Ramadan: What should doctors do about fasting during Ramadan?
	Fareed Iqbal
	BMJ  2012;345:e5629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5629 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Perspective on vitamin D: Hypovitaminosis D and disease: consequence rather than cause?
	Rousseau Gama, Jenna L Waldron, Helen L Ashby, Michael P Cornes, Julia Bechervaise, Cyrus Razavi, Osmond L Thomas, Sanjiv Chugh, Shreeram Deshpande, Clare Ford
	BMJ  2012;345:e5706, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5706 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Perspective on vitamin D: Vitamin D: don’t forget mental health
	David B Menkes
	BMJ  2012;345:e5710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5710 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Targets for NHS commissioners: No incentives for new NHS commissioners to act for children
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2012;345:e5711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5711 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing overdiagnosis: Potential sources of overdiagnosis in histopathology
	Murali Varma, Varsha Shah
	BMJ  2012;345:e5722, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5722 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Care of rare diseases: Transfer of high cost drugs to NICE risks fragmentation of care of rare diseases
	Chris J Hendriksz, On behalf of D A Hughes, A B Mehta, J E Wraith, S E Jones, U Ramaswami, P Deegan, R Lachmann, E Murphy, T Hiwot, S V Vijay, F Stewart, M Cleary; Society for Mucupolysaccharide Diseases, Association for Glycogen Storage Disease (UK), Gauchers Association,
	BMJ  2012;345:e5727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5727 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Families and organ donation: Donation must be a gift
	Jacqueline Monaghan
	BMJ  2012;345:e5733, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5733 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Families and organ donation: Consolidate the donor register with unambiguous affirmation from next of kin
	M D Dominic Bell
	BMJ  2012;345:e5734, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5734 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Increase in vitamin D testing: Good reason to test for vitamin D deficiency
	Helga M Rhein
	BMJ  2012;345:e5303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5303 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Medicine and the Media: The V word: selling genital hygiene products to women
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2012;345:e5732, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5732 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Life and Death: Every day in every way we are getting better and better: the optimism of health policy
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2012;345:e5608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5608 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Methods & Reporting

	Sample size calculations: should the emperor’s clothes be off the peg or made to measure?
	Geoffrey Norman, Sandra Monteiro, Suzette Salama
	BMJ  2012;345:e5278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5278 (Published 23 August 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

	Personal View: Rising litigation does not mean falling standards
	Paul Nisselle
	BMJ  2012;345:e5760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5760 (Published 28 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The nature of hypertension
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2012;345:e5750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5750 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Clean Air Act 1956
	Robert Heys
	BMJ  2012;345:e5751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5751 (Published 24 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Laying Foundations: The "exclamation mark" school of patient safety
	Oliver Ellis
	BMJ  2012;345:e5731, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5731 (Published 23 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Methadone is no panacea
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2012;345:e5670, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5670 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Josephine Elaine Hammond
	Alina Piesowicz, Marian McGowan
	BMJ  2012;345:e5667, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5667 (Published 23 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text]

	Neil Lessels Dallas
	William Jory
	BMJ  2012;345:e5227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5227 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Denis Claude Pointereau
	Patricia Pointereau
	BMJ  2012;345:e5230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5230 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	David Murray
	John S G Blair
	BMJ  2012;345:e5231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5231 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Joanna Jones
	Jill Hepburn, Angela Beattie, Sally Martin
	BMJ  2012;345:e5234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5234 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Hemraj Bodasing
	Neena Bodasing
	BMJ  2012;345:e5236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5236 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	Philip Vivian Best
	A J Kitching
	BMJ  2012;345:e5238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5238 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

	John R Pyne
	Michael Pyne
	BMJ  2012;345:e5239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5239 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [Print PDF]

Endgames

	Statistical Question: Why randomise in clinical trials?
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2012;345:e5584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5584 (Published 22 August 2012) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	BMJ  2012;345:e5300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5300 (Published 22 August 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minh Lam, Jane Ravenscroft, Jason Neil-Dwyer
	BMJ  2012;345:e5301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5301 (Published 22 August 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Print PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Back on the autistic spectrum
	BMJ  2012;345:e5736, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5736 (Published 24 August 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A national early warning score for acutely ill patients
	BMJ  2012;345:e5717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.e5717 (Published 22 August 2012) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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