Health and economic policy
	Peter Draper, Hugo Crombie
	BMJ  1995;311:1-2 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why do qualitative research?
	Roger Jones
	BMJ  1995;311:2 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New opportunities in practice nursing
	Pamela Venning, Martin Roland
	BMJ  1995;311:3 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal colleges' advice on alcohol consumption
	J Michael Gaziano, Charles Hennekens
	BMJ  1995;311:3-4 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New directions in information for patients
	Philip Meredith, Mark Emberton, Carol Wood
	BMJ  1995;311:4-5 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS-wide networking and patient confidentiality
	Ross Anderson
	BMJ  1995;311:5-6 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Follow up in breast cancer
	Eva Grunfeld, Pat Yudkin, Ruth Adewuyl-Dalton, Martin P Vessey, David Mant
	BMJ  1995;311:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients prefer specialist follow up
	Jane Maher, Jane Bradburn, Ruth Adewuyi-Dalton
	BMJ  1995;311:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Impossible to state which NSAID is safer
	Stephen Revell, Linda Fenney
	BMJ  1995;311:54-55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressants and suicide
	Ian Whyte, Nick Buckley, Greg Carter
	BMJ  1995;311:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study is based on unproved assumptions
	Allan House, Trevor Sheldon, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1995;311:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study did not consider treatment efficacy
	Lars F Gram, Per Kragh-Sorensen, Goran Isacsson, Ulf Bergman
	BMJ  1995;311:55-56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study's conclusion is unwarranted
	Morris Bernadt, Rachel Hammill
	BMJ  1995;311:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The two study groups may not be comparable
	David Gunnell
	BMJ  1995;311:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressants prescribed for conditions other than depression
	A P Fletcher
	BMJ  1995;311:56-57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Susan S Jick, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  1995;311:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ultrasound treatment for pressure ulcers
	David Machin
	BMJ  1995;311:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines on appropriate indications for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
	Mark H Wilcox, John G Cunniffe, Catherine Tremlett
	BMJ  1995;311:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
	T Walley
	BMJ  1995;311:57-58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating myopia
	William Jory
	BMJ  1995;311:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elective procedures for normal conditions need high standards
	Michael Gilkes
	BMJ  1995;311:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic testing for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in newborn infants
	J F Goodwin
	BMJ  1995;311:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A positive screening test for an untreatable condition provides psychological relief from uncertainty
	Theresa Marteau, Susan Michie
	BMJ  1995;311:58-59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dosage of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors
	John Mcmurray
	BMJ  1995;311:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants' workload in outpatient clinics
	Andrew P Volans
	BMJ  1995;311:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants spend more time with each patient than in the past
	Helene Irvine, Peter Scott
	BMJ  1995;311:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of care has improved
	B D W Harrison, D N L Ralphs
	BMJ  1995;311:59-60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One cause for the decline may be the fall in senior junior staff
	W M Seymour
	BMJ  1995;311:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatry has restructured its service delivery
	Janet Bruce
	BMJ  1995;311:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Existing outpatient services could be more efficient
	Trudie Roberts, A M Heagerty, Paula Foster
	BMJ  1995;311:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants may be seeing many new patients since 1991
	C B Koay, C A Milford
	BMJ  1995;311:60-61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Barts, the general, and the fat controller
	P E Pears
	BMJ  1995;311:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rhetoric of research
	A J Singleton
	BMJ  1995;311:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Embrace scientific rhetoric for its power
	Doron Junger
	BMJ  1995;311:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recent review has similar findings
	Anthony Kessel
	BMJ  1995;311:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	This is an action situation
	A O Robson
	BMJ  1995;311:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Applicants for senior medical positions in New Zealand
	Alec J Ekeroma
	BMJ  1995;311:61-62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting research in medical journals and newspapers
	Anke M Van Trigt, Flora M Haaijer-Ruskamp, Lolkje T W De Jong-Van Den Berg
	BMJ  1995;311:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating the measles immunisation campaign
	Nigel Higson
	BMJ  1995;311:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prayer can prevent the end of the world
	Harvey Gordon
	BMJ  1995;311:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexism in advertisements
	Michael Jackson
	BMJ  1995;311:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	GPs call for separate out of hours contract
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:7 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	South Africa to get national health service
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1995;311:8-9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain seeks more home grown doctors
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Child protection report urges more balance
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;311:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	European antismoking group loses grant
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1995;311:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch sex selection clinic faces opposition
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1995;311:10-11 [Extract] [Full text]

	Special hospital funding changes announced
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	Decline in male fertility may be linked to insecticide
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;311:11-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	American Medical Association opposes patents
	Charles-Gene Mcdaniel
	BMJ  1995;311:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Vice regal endorsement of euthanasia fuels republican debate
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1995;311:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Margaret Beckett's third way: cooperation and partnership
	BMJ  1995;311:13-14 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Use of vitamin B-12 in Leicestershire practices: a single topic audit led by a medical audit advisory group
	Robin C Fraser, Azhar Farooqi, Roz Sorrie
	BMJ  1995;311:28-30 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Audit in general practice: factors influencing participation
	Richard Baker, Noelle Robertson, Azhar Farooqi
	BMJ  1995;311:31-34 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Asking patients to write lists: feasibility study
	John F Middleton
	BMJ  1995;311:34 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Happy wanderers
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1995;311:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eureka
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1995;311:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	I can no longer "ration"
	Dudley Mathews
	BMJ  1995;311:66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	New Pathways to Medical Education: Learning to Learn at Harvard Medical School
	Chris Mcmanus
	BMJ  1995;311:67 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mad Cow Disease: The History of BSE in Britain
	R M Ridley
	BMJ  1995;311:67-68 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Releasing Resources to Achieve Health Gain
	Calum Paton
	BMJ  1995;311:68 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stroke: 100 Maxims
	Peter Sandercock
	BMJ  1995;311:69 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Have you read ...?
	BMJ  1995;311:69 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Population screening for genetic susceptibility to disease
	Angus Clarke
	BMJ  1995;311:35-38 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pecked to death by (flying) ducks: court decision may extinguish smoking on aircraft
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1995;311:38-40 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Collings report on general practice in England in 1950: unrecognised, pioneering piece of British social research?
	Roland Petchey
	BMJ  1995;311:40-42 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Qualitative Research: Reaching the parts other methods cannot reach: an introduction to qualitative methods in health and health services research
	Catherine Pope, Nick Mays
	BMJ  1995;311:42-45 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Medical Computing: CHOOSING A COMPUTER SYSTEM
	Nicholas Lee, Andrew Millman
	BMJ  1995;311:46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When is it futile for ambulance personnel to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
	Andrew K Marsden, G Andre Ng, Kirsty Dalziel, Stuart M Cobbe
	BMJ  1995;311:49-51 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:70 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	On first name terms
	A L Wyman
	BMJ  1995;311:45 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:62 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	From the local medical committee conference • Reaccreditation must take a lower priority • Falling recruitment and morale must be addressed • Conference censures GMSC over generic prescribing • GPs doubt independence of review body • Complaints procedure should be more flexible • Home visits are anachronistic • Registrars' continued unease with summative assessment • GPs should not charge for travel vaccinations
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:63 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	"Abnormal" illness behaviour in chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis
	Peter Trigwell, Simon Hatcher, Michael Johnson, Philip Stanley, Allan House
	BMJ  1995;311:15-18 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Stroke patients' views on their admission to hospital
	Pandora Pound, Michael Bury, Patrick Gompertz, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1995;311:18-22 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and admission to hospital for upper gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation: a record linkage case-control study
	J M M Evans, A D McMahon, M M McGilchrist, G White, F E Murray, D G McDevitt, T M MacDonald
	BMJ  1995;311:22-26 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of pneumococcal septicaemia in patients with chronic lymphoproliferative malignancies
	R Gowda, F M Razvi, G P Summerfield
	BMJ  1995;311:26-27 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mechanisms behind hypocholesterolaemia in hairy cell leukaemia
	Gunnar Juliusson, Sigurd Vitols, Jan Liliemark
	BMJ  1995;311:27 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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