To receive this page (and more) by e-mail, subscribe to Customised @lerts

22 July 1995 (Vol 311, No 6999)
Other issues: prev. next
space
space
Down Editorials
Down Letters
Down News
Down General practice FREE
Down Soundings
Down Personal views
Down Medicine and books
Down Education and debate
Down Minerva
Down Fillers
Down Corrections FREE
Down MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA
Down MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST
Down Papers FREE
Down RETRACTION FREE
Down Career focus FREE
space



[Search ALL Issues]


To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.

spaceEditorials back

This week's Editorials

Screening for diabetic retinopathy
Bob Ryder
BMJ  1995;311:207-208
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

The boundary between health care and social care
Maggie Pearson, Gerald Wistow
BMJ  1995;311:208-209
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Performance indicators for general practice
F Azeem Majeed, Simon Voss
BMJ  1995;311:209-210
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Reviewers chosen by authors
Alison Tonks
BMJ  1995;311:210
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceLetters back

This week's Letters

Folic acid and the prevention of neural tube defects
Jonathan Reggler
BMJ  1995;311:256
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Chapati flour should be fortified as well
Bobbie Jacobson
BMJ  1995;311:256
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Most pregnant women do not take folic acid
Geoffrey Sharpe, Gavin Young
BMJ  1995;311:256
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Preconceptional supplementation is impractical
Catherine Boon, Sally Hull
BMJ  1995;311:256
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Folate has potential to cause harm
E H Reynolds
BMJ  1995;311:257
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Evidence based medicine
David A Fitzmaurice
BMJ  1995;311:257
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Megatrials are subordinate to medical science
Bruce G Charlton
BMJ  1995;311:257
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Must be applied critically
Malcolm Griffiths
BMJ  1995;311:257
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Many questions cannot be answered by evidence based medicine
Oliver Dearlove, A Sharples, K O'Brien, C Dunkley
BMJ  1995;311:257-258
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

No guidance is provided for situations for which evidence is lacking
Glenn W Jones, Stephen M Sagar
BMJ  1995;311:258
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Quality cannot always be quantified
Blair H Smith
BMJ  1995;311:258
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice will start publication in September
Andrew Miles
BMJ  1995;311:258-259
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Accurate references are important
A B S Mitchell
BMJ  1995;311:259
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Authors' reply
William Rosenberg, Anna Donald
BMJ  1995;311:259
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Compliance with medication among elderly people
A K Shah
BMJ  1995;311:259
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Author's reply
Catherine Lowe
BMJ  1995;311:259
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Prophylactic aspirin and peptic ulcer bleeding
Gordon R Fryers
BMJ  1995;311:259-260
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Author's reply
Michael Langman
BMJ  1995;311:260
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Treatment of childhood asthma
Liesl Osman, Sue Ross
BMJ  1995;311:260
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Mineralocorticoid effects of high dose hydrocortisone
Naveed A Sattar, Allan Gaw
BMJ  1995;311:260
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Interventions in OXCHECK study waste resources
I U Haq, W W Yeo, P R Jackson, L E Ramsay
BMJ  1995;311:260
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Assessing coronary risk
John S Yudkin
BMJ  1995;311:260-261
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Authors' reply
Steven A Grover, Ilka Lowensteyn, Katja Estrey, Lawrence Joseph, Michal Abrahamowicz, Yvonne Steinert
BMJ  1995;311:261
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Hospital security
Jeffrey Phillips, Michelle Soskin
BMJ  1995;311:261
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Handling scientific fraud
R P Husemeyer
BMJ  1995;311:261-262
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BMJ nurtures spoof publication
Tim Owen
BMJ  1995;311:262
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical fraud is common
Vicky Rippere
BMJ  1995;311:262
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Prospective registration of health care research would help
Iain Chalmers, Muir Gray, Trevor Sheldon
BMJ  1995;311:262
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Serious allegations are hard to believe
R P Ryan
BMJ  1995;311:262
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Author's reply
Stephen Lock
BMJ  1995;311:262
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Osteoporosis
M Azria
BMJ  1995;311:263
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Strategies for reducing coronary risk factors in primary care
A S Wierzbicki, T M Reynolds
BMJ  1995;311:263
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Smuggling of tobacco in Europe
Clive Turner
BMJ  1995;311:263
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Measurement of bone density in osteoporosis
E M Tayler
BMJ  1995;311:263-264
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

The future of fundholding
J R Wilkinson
BMJ  1995;311:264
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Rationing
P J Ayres
BMJ  1995;311:264
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medical profession should develop consensus on health priorities via debates
Iain J Robbe
BMJ  1995;311:264
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Treatment of lupus syndromes
Andrew J Carmichael
BMJ  1995;311:264
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Author's reply
Michael L Snaith
BMJ  1995;311:264-265
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Smoking among secondary schoolchildren
Anne Charlton, David White
BMJ  1995;311:265
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Vaccinations for travellers
Guy Bally
BMJ  1995;311:265
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

What happened to care?
C J Burns-Cox
BMJ  1995;311:265
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceNews back

This week's News

Nicotine is addictive, rules FDA
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:211
[Extract] [Full text]

Britain's breast cancer services need overhaul
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;311:211-212
[Extract] [Full text]

Headlines
BMJ  1995;311:212
[Extract] [Full text]

Woman compensated for removal of ovaries
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;311:212
[Extract] [Full text]

Gynaecologist struck off for catalogue of failures
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;311:213
[Extract] [Full text]

Consultant suspended after hundreds of errors
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:213-214
[Extract] [Full text]

Canadian medical residents strike over fees
Peter Vaughan
BMJ  1995;311:214
[Extract] [Full text]

French GPs launch organ donor campaign
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:214-215
[Extract] [Full text]

Israel brings psychiatric care in from cold
Judy Siegelitzovich
BMJ  1995;311:215
[Extract] [Full text]

Pressure group pleads for a healthy planet
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:215
[Extract] [Full text]

MPs seek to control medical genetics
John Warden
BMJ  1995;311:216
[Extract] [Full text]

Senator's bellicosity kindles bigotry
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:216
[Extract] [Full text]

spaceGeneral practice back

This week's General practice

Predicting acute maxillary sinusitis in a general practice population
Jens Georg Hansen, Henrik Schmidt, Jorn Rosborg, Elisabeth Lund
BMJ  1995;311:233-236
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Videotaping of general practice consultations: effect on patient satisfaction
L Malcolm Campbell, Frank Sullivan, T Stuart Murray
BMJ  1995;311:236
[Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceSoundings back

This week's Soundings

Malpractice reform
George Dunea
BMJ  1995;311:267
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

Guidelines are good for you
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1995;311:267
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spacePersonal views back

This week's Personal views

Drive on
Jo Alexander
BMJ  1995;311:269
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceMedicine and books back

This week's Medicine and books

The Diary of a Breast
Irene M Peat
BMJ  1995;311:270
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

Women and the Health Care Industry: An Unhealthy Relationship?
Mary Ann Elston
BMJ  1995;311:270-271
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

Making Sense of Computers in General Practice
Mike Pringle
BMJ  1995;311:271
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Practice Guidelines 1995
Gene Feder
BMJ  1995;311:271
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceEducation and debate back

This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: How to ensure that guidelines are effective
Richard Thomson, Michael Lavender, Rajan Madhok
BMJ  1995;311:237-242
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

How To Do It: Make an application for flexible (part time) training
Jacqueline Morrell, Angela Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:242-244
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ABC of Medical Computing: GETTING YOUR THOUGHTS ON PAPER
Nicholas Lee, Andrew Millman
BMJ  1995;311:245-249
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Lesson of the Week: Cocaine and adrenaline paste: a fatal combination?
K E A Nicholson, J E G Rogers
BMJ  1995;311:250-251
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Qualitative Research: Qualitative interviews in medical research
Nicky Britten
BMJ  1995;311:251-253
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceMinerva back

This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:272
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceFillers back

This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
John Barlow
BMJ  1995;311:249
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceCorrections back

This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:265
[Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceMEDICINE AND THE MEDIA back

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Messages in the dust
Lynne Low
BMJ  1995;311:268
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

It makes your hair curl
Caroline White
BMJ  1995;311:268-269
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceMEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST back

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Minister urges reduction in juniors' working hours • BMA says rabies rules should stay • All career registrars will transfer to specialist registrar grade • Community care is blocking beds, doctors say
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:266
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spacePapers back

This week's Papers

Effects of London helicopter emergency medical service on survival after trauma
J P Nicholl, J E Brazier, H A Snooks
BMJ  1995;311:217-222
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Incidence of and mortality from acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in the United Kingdom
T A Rockall, R F A Logan, H B Devlin, T C Northfield
BMJ  1995;311:222-226
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Relation between parasuicide, suicide, psychiatric admissions, and socioeconomic deprivation
David J Gunnell, Tim J Peters, Robert M Kammerling, Jane Brooks
BMJ  1995;311:226-230
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Changing patterns of iron deficiency anaemia in the second year of life
John A James, Gabrielle J Laing, Stuart Logan
BMJ  1995;311:230
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Extent of hepatitis B immunisation among medical and dental students
V Sivarajasingam, J Laszlo, G R Ogden
BMJ  1995;311:231
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Drug points: Hypersensitivity to retinol palmitate injection
W B Shelley, E D Shelley, N Y Talanin
BMJ  1995;311:232
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Drug points: Laryngeal oedema after isosorbide dinitrate spray and sublingual nifedipine
T Silfvast, A Kinnunen, T Varpula
BMJ  1995;311:232
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Drug points: Tinnitus and ciprofloxacin
J Paul, N M Brown
BMJ  1995;311:232
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceRETRACTION back

This week's RETRACTION

Retraction of article
BMJ  1995;311:231
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceCareer focus back

Read this week's articles on http://careers.bmj.com/careers/

To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.




Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student 

BMJ