Bayesian statistical methods
	Laurence Freedman
	BMJ  1996;313:569-570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Better reporting of randomised controlled trials: the CONSORT statement
	Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;313:570-571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Testing for the breast cancer predisposition gene, BRCA1
	Rosalind Eeles
	BMJ  1996;313:572-573 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multiple organ failure after trauma
	Roger Saadia, Jeffrey Lipman
	BMJ  1996;313:573-574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of clinical audit: learning to work together
	Sheila Teasdale
	BMJ  1996;313:574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Cost effectiveness of screening for and eradication of Helicobacter pylori in young patients with dyspepsia
	G H Hall, T K Daneshmend, A P Round, R Ayres
	BMJ  1996;313:622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Costs will probably vary according to local data
	Stirling Pugh
	BMJ  1996;313:622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cost of eradication treatment may have been overestimated
	N R Waugh
	BMJ  1996;313:622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies' assumptions are removed from clinical practice
	Ian Trimble, Chris Derett
	BMJ  1996;313:622-623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison groups were not clear in study
	Tony C K Tham, David R Lichtenstein
	BMJ  1996;313:623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Andrew Briggs Mark Sculpher, Robert Logan
	BMJ  1996;313:623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cost effectiveness of health checks
	John Muir, Lesley Jones, Godfrey Fowler
	BMJ  1996;313:624 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Factoring in effect on mortality from stroke increases cost effectiveness
	Jeffrey Graham
	BMJ  1996;313:624 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	M J Buxton, D Wonderling, C Normand
	BMJ  1996;313:624 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government advice on sensible drinking does not conflict with the data
	Anthony Thorley
	BMJ  1996;313:624-625 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home visiting and child injury
	Harriet MacMillan, Dan Offord
	BMJ  1996;313:625 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:625 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lactate dehydrogenase should be used as marker in testicular tumours
	Owen Hughes, Mike Bishop
	BMJ  1996;313:625 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rates of triplet pregnancies in Western Australia may be beginning to fall
	Linda Watson, Fiona Stanley, Bev Petterson
	BMJ  1996;313:625-626 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MYMOP, a patient generated measure of outcomes
	Crispin Jenkinson
	BMJ  1996;313:626 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rate of completion of forms should have been analysed by age
	W R Primrose, D G Seymore, A E Ball, E M Russell
	BMJ  1996;313:626 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reliability of such instruments needs to be proved
	Danny Ruta, Andrew Garratt
	BMJ  1996;313:626-627 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Charlotte Paterson
	BMJ  1996;313:627 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global eradication of polio by 2000 is not a realistic goal
	John Howarth
	BMJ  1996;313:627 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnoses of melanoma need further investigation
	Sam Shuster
	BMJ  1996;313:627-628 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Logistic regression models used in medical research are poorly presented
	Ralf Bender, Ulrich Grouven
	BMJ  1996;313:628 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Employing general practitioners in accident and emergency departments
	Matthew Cooke
	BMJ  1996;313:628 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All doctors should spend time in general practice to learn skills of GPs
	Helen Phillips
	BMJ  1996;313:628 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meaning of term "observational study" needs to be defined
	Robert Sherriff
	BMJ  1996;313:628 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice records should be kept on CDs
	Jonathan Charlton
	BMJ  1996;313:628-629 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Combining qualitative studies with randomised controlled trials is often useful
	Tim Weaver, Adrian Renton, Peter Tyrer, Jana Ritchie
	BMJ  1996;313:629 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence shows that cyclists should wear helmets
	Ronald M Davis, Barry Pless
	BMJ  1996;313:629 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Melatonin is available over the counter
	Deborah Jarvis
	BMJ  1996;313:629 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Expulsion of BMA members
	Harry Jacobs, P J Tomlin
	BMJ  1996;313:630 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secretary of BMA's reply
	E M Armstrong
	BMJ  1996;313:630 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Israeli Medical Association and torture
	Eran Dolev Yoram Blachar
	BMJ  1996;313:630 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  1996;313:630 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva has perpetuated a medical myth
	Patrick Lynch
	BMJ  1996;313:630 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Emergency bed register announced
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:575 [Extract] [Full text]

	Number of frontline NHS staff has fallen
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:575 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:576 [Extract] [Full text]

	Patients want ban on operations by doctors with hepatitis B
	Martyn Halle
	BMJ  1996;313:576 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medical Research Council unit takes tobacco cash
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;313:577 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS overhauls funding of medical education
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:577 [Extract] [Full text]

	Computers prescribed to French doctors
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:578 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scotland has wide health care variations
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;313:578 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors warned over New Zealand jobs
	Carmel Williams
	BMJ  1996;313:578 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Influences of practice characteristics on prescribing in fundholding and non-fundholding general practices: an observational study
	Robert P H Wilson, Juanita Hatcher, Stuart Barton, Tom Walley
	BMJ  1996;313:595-599 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cervical screening in the inner cities: is the opportunistic approach still worthwhile?
	Hilary Stirland, O A N Husain, E Blanche Butler, Sandra Cater, Kathleen Sheridan Russell
	BMJ  1996;313:600 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The clinical course of shoulder pain: prospective cohort study in primary care
	Peter Croft, Daniel Pope, Alan Silman
	BMJ  1996;313:601-602 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New referrals, a decreasing phenomenon in 1971-94: analysis of registry data in the Netherlands
	Eloy H Van de Lisdonk, C Van Weel
	BMJ  1996;313:602 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Remembering Ruth
	Bernard Dixon, Colin Douglas, James Owen Drife, George Dunea, Liam Farrell, Trisha Greenhalgh, Judith Hollis-Triantafillou, Ian Robertson, Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:631 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Care in the community: a conflict of interests?
	Scott Murray
	BMJ  1996;313:632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why I became a doctor
	Maria Vassallo
	BMJ  1996;313:632-633 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Total Purchasing: A Model for Locality Commissioning
	William A Warin
	BMJ  1996;313:634 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prion Diseases
	J W Almond
	BMJ  1996;313:634 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Best books on paediatrics: a personal choice
	Mark Rosenthal
	BMJ  1996;313:635 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For Debate: The statistical basis of public policy: a paradigm shift is overdue
	R J Lilford, D Braunholtz
	BMJ  1996;313:603-607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	For Debate: Will we ever know when to treat HIV infection?
	Andrew N Phillips, George Davey Smith, Margaret A Johnson
	BMJ  1996;313:608-610 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caring for Older People: Ethnic elders
	Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1996;313:610-613 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Iatrogenic ileal obstruction: a complication of umbilical cord clamping
	P Chapman-Sheath, D Wilcox, Q Mok, D Drake
	BMJ  1996;313:613-614 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC OF Work Related Disorders: OCCUPATIONAL CANCERS
	C A Veys
	BMJ  1996;313:615-619 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:636 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO:
	BMJ  1996;313:590 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:614 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Portfolio Careers
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The concept of a consultant session should be abandoned, and ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;313 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Cure or curse?
	Douglas Carnal
	BMJ  1996;313:633 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Treatment of menorrhagia during menstruation: randomised controlled trial of ethamsylate, mefenamic acid, and tranexamic acid
	John Bonnar, Brian L Sheppard
	BMJ  1996;313:579-582 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Category of exposure to HIV and age in the progression to AIDS: longitudinal study of 1199 people with known dates of seroconversion
	Patrizio Pezzotti, Andrew N Phillips, Maria Dorrucci, Alessandro Cozzi Lepri, Noya Galai, David Vlahov, Giovanni Rezza
	BMJ  1996;313:583-586 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation of common allelic variation at vitamin D receptor locus to bone mineral density and postmenopausal bone loss: cross sectional and longitudinal population study
	H L Jorgensen, J Scholler, J C Sand, M Bjuring, C Hassager, C Christiansen
	BMJ  1996;313:586-590 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of deletion polymorphism of angiotensin converting enzyme gene on progression of diabetic nephropathy during inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme: observational follow up study
	Hans-Henrik Parving, Peter Jacobsen, Lise Tarnow, Peter Rossing, Laure Lecerf, Odette Poirier, Francois Cambien
	BMJ  1996;313:591-594 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dyschromatopsia (number 97) and rectal bleeding
	Gareth J Stiff, Puthucode N Haray, Michael E Foster
	BMJ  1996;313:594 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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