The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer. Should be abandoned.
	M Lawson, A Johnston
	BMJ  1993;307:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.123 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer. Repeat experiment exonerates instrument.
	J Garrow, C Summerbell
	BMJ  1993;307:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.123-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer. Manufacturer fights back.
	J A Dinning
	BMJ  1993;307:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.123-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer. Don't condemn it without proper evidence.
	D Churchill, M Beevers, D G Beevers
	BMJ  1993;307:123-124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.123-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer. Instrument is accurate if used properly.
	W E Miall
	BMJ  1993;307:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.124-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer. Used in epidemiology, not individual people.
	W W Holland
	BMJ  1993;307:124-125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.124-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing serum cholesterol. Confusion remains over whom to treat.
	D F Weetman
	BMJ  1993;307:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.125 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing serum cholesterol. Lower cholesterol of doubtful benefit to anyone.
	U Ravnskov
	BMJ  1993;307:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.125-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring patients' views of their health. SF 36 misses the mark.
	S M Hunt, S P McKenna
	BMJ  1993;307:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.125-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring patients' views of their health. Reliability of SF 36 remains uncertain.
	T Sheldon
	BMJ  1993;307:125-126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.125-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring patients' views of their health. Definitions of health status should be rationalised.
	E Dickinson, P Gompertz, R Harwood, S Ebrahim
	BMJ  1993;307:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.126 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring patients' views of their health. The term outcome is ambiguous.
	J Kilgour-Christie, A H Watt
	BMJ  1993;307:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.126-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring patients' views of their health. SF 36 is suitable for elderly patients.
	N Singleton, A Turner
	BMJ  1993;307:126-127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.126-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing meningococcal infection. Don't delay giving antibiotics.
	G Farmer
	BMJ  1993;307:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.127-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical angiologists. Britain needs them.
	G D Lowe, J Belch, P R Bell, P D Smith, J A Dormandy, F G Fowkes, P A Gaines, F Housley, M I Jayson, A Nicolaides
	BMJ  1993;307:127-128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.127-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical angiologists. Europe already has them.
	M Catalano
	BMJ  1993;307:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.128 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers. Persuade smokers to give up before surgery.
	N J Odom, S S Ashraf, M H Sharif, K Akhtar
	BMJ  1993;307:128-129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.128-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers. Rationed services should go to those who benefit.
	V Bansal
	BMJ  1993;307:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.129-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching communication skills. Putting it on paper helps patient understanding.
	J S Price
	BMJ  1993;307:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.130 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching communication skills. Funding required for teaching programmes.
	M E Preston-Whyte, R K McKinley
	BMJ  1993;307:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.130-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' satisfaction with psychiatric care.
	M Crowe, G Strathdee, A Sair, W Caan
	BMJ  1993;307:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.130-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	The Hawksley random zero sphygmomanometer: Measuring instruments are never perfect
	Simon J Ellis, P J Ellis
	BMJ  1993;307:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.124 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring Patients' views of their health: SF 36 may reinforce ageism
	Antony Johansen
	BMJ  1993;307:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.127 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing meningococcal infection: Don't delay giving antibiotics: Authors' reply
	Marcel Van Deuren, Roland J J Koopman, Alfons M Horrevorts, Jacques F G M Meis, Frederik W Santman, Jos W M Van Der Meer, Beatrix J Van Dijke
	BMJ  1993;307:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.127-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers: Smokers pay taxes too
	M Ashley-Miller
	BMJ  1993;307:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.128-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers: Wartime cigarette rations hooked a generation
	Kathleen Abraham
	BMJ  1993;307:128-129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.128-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers: Send us your patients who smoke
	M Sinclair, R Pillai, S Westaby
	BMJ  1993;307:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.129 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers: Unsubstantiated assertion
	M A Edgar
	BMJ  1993;307:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.129-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers: Trial of thrombolysis favours smokers
	A Blesovsky
	BMJ  1993;307:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.129-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to heart surgery for smokers: Authors' reply
	M J Underwood, J S Bailey
	BMJ  1993;307:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.129-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnic minorities and women should be represented on GMC
	Gwen Adshead
	BMJ  1993;307:130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.130-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Gene therapy begins
	BMJ  1993;307:82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.82-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	London's specialist centres cut by half
	BMJ  1993;307:88, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.88 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Rural population mixing and childhood leukaemia: effects of the North Sea oil industry in Scotland, including the area near Dounreay nuclear site
	BMJ  1993;307:91, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.91 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Why have child pedestrian death rates fallen?
	BMJ  1993;307:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.116 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: How can we best prolong life? Benefits of coronary risk factor reduction in non-diabetic and diabetic subjects
	BMJ  1993;307:116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.116-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	News
	BMJ  1993;307:83-88, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.83 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NOTES
	BMJ  1993;307:96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.96-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary
	BMJ  1993;307:121-122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.121 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicopolitical Digest
	BMJ  1993;307:131-136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.131 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings
	BMJ  1993;307:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.137 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view
	Richard Walker
	BMJ  1993;307:138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.138 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	BMJ  1993;307:139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.139 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1993;307:142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.142 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	BMJ  1993;307:140-141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.140 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	The lasting trauma of the concentration camps.
	C Garland
	BMJ  1993;307:77-78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.77 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The health of the nation's research and development.
	J R Hampton
	BMJ  1993;307:78-79, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.78 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hand transmitted vibration.
	J Harrison
	BMJ  1993;307:79-80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.79 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nursing elderly patients out of bed.
	G Mulley
	BMJ  1993;307:80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.80 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Private health care: patients' beliefs and practice.
	N Black
	BMJ  1993;307:81-82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.81 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Whither health care in South Africa?
	D Woods, D Power
	BMJ  1993;307:82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.82 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Administration of vitamin K to newborn infants and childhood cancer.
	H Ekelund, O Finnström, J Gunnarskog, B Källén, Y Larsson
	BMJ  1993;307:89-91, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.89 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Insulin resistance in offspring of hypertensive parents.
	O L Beatty, R Harper, B Sheridan, A B Atkinson, P M Bell
	BMJ  1993;307:92-96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.92 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A decade of diabetes: keeping children out of hospital.
	P G Swift, J R Hearnshaw, J L Botha, G Wright, N T Raymond, K F Jamieson
	BMJ  1993;307:96-98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.96 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recruitment methods for screening programmes: trial of an improved method within a regional osteoporosis study.
	D J Torgerson, M J Garton, C Donaldson, I T Russell, D M Reid
	BMJ  1993;307:99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.99 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Will it hurt, doctor? Factors predicting patients' experience of pain during double contrast examination of the colon.
	S Steine
	BMJ  1993;307:100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.100 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Developing organisational vision in general practice.
	A al-Shehri, I Stanley, P Thomas
	BMJ  1993;307:101-103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.101 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients with fatigue in general practice: a prospective study.
	L Ridsdale, A Evans, W Jerrett, S Mandalia, K Osler, H Vora
	BMJ  1993;307:103-106, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.103 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Management of raised blood pressure in New Zealand: a discussion document.
	R Jackson, P Barham, J Bills, T Birch, L McLennan, S MacMahon, T Maling
	BMJ  1993;307:107-110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.107 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health professionals and South Africa: supporting change in the health sector.
	T Waterston, A Zwi
	BMJ  1993;307:110-112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.110 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with Serbian repression in an Albanian population.
	L Jones
	BMJ  1993;307:112-114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.112 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines for the management of spontaneous pneumothorax. Standards of Care Committee, British Thoracic Society.
	A C Miller, J E Harvey
	BMJ  1993;307:114-116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.114 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of one to seven. Services for children: primary care.
	L Peter
	BMJ  1993;307:117-120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6896.117 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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