This week's This week in the BMJ

	Colloids no better than crystalloids for fluid replacement in hypovolaemic patients [Full text] FREE

	Inpatient and day care are equally good in acute rheumatoid arthritis [Full text] FREE

	Heparin (1 U/ml) flushes of peripheral venous catheters prolongs their potency [Full text] FREE

	Use of magnesium in pre-eclampsia is growing [Full text] FREE

	Understanding patients' cultural beliefs helps health providers serve them better [Full text] FREE

	Epidemiological data are of little use in guiding clinical practice [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Informed consent: edging forwards (and backwards)
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:949-951 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the health of NHS workers
	John Harrison
	BMJ  1998;316:951-952 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chernobyl and public health
	Keith Baverstock
	BMJ  1998;316:952-953 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inflammatory responses and coronary heart disease
	Michael A Mendall
	BMJ  1998;316:953-954 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Clinical management of meningococcal disease
	Terence Stephenson, A P Winrow, K A V Cartwright, J M Stuart, P A L Wylie, D Stevens, W Drake, III, Annette L Wood, Martin J Gill, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Flemming Hald Steffensen, Henrik C Schønheyder, Gunnar Lauge Nielsen, Jørn Olsen
	BMJ  1998;316:1015 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analysis of cigarette smoking, bone mineral density, and risk of hip fracture
	David J Torgerson, David M Reid, Marion K Campbell, Malcolm Law, Allan Hackshaw
	BMJ  1998;316:1017 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood products produced from plasma from donors in UK are still being made
	C H Dash
	BMJ  1998;316:1017 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lumbar puncture and headache
	Terry Muldoon, Steve Yentis, Felicity Reynolds, Geraldine O'Sullivan, A Strachan, J Train, Mark R Nel, Neville Robinson
	BMJ  1998;316:1018 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking, alcohol and coffee consumption, and H pylori infection
	Francesco Luzza, Maria Imeneo, Maria Maletta, Francesco Pallone, A O Quartero, N J de Wit, Hermann Brenner, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Gunter Bode, Guido Adler
	BMJ  1998;316:1019 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN Declaration of Human Rights
	P J Tomlin, Anita Berlin
	BMJ  1998;316:1020 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Devices Agency wants to see prospective clinical study of contraceptive device
	Susanne M Ludgate
	BMJ  1998;316:1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients offered treatment for CHD need full information to make decision
	P McCormack, Marc Levine, Robert E Rangno
	BMJ  1998;316:1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decline in cognitive function in Parkinson's disease may be due to dementia with Lewy bodies
	Jan Grace, I G McKeith
	BMJ  1998;316:1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Publication of pictures of patient on BMJ's website was mistake
	David Bullimore
	BMJ  1998;316:1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Consultant suspended for not getting consent for cardiac procedure
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MMR vaccine policy is backed
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	Labour talks tough on waiting lists
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO identifies 16 countries struggling to control tuberculosis
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	Plan proposed for healthier NHS workforce
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	India to ban female sterilisation with malaria drug
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS Executive stands by Read codes
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada faces more strikes
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	China moves to change policy on child quotas
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch coalition tackles waiting lists
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK public calls for legislation over living wills
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

	The children's advocate
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Using epidemiological data to guide clinical practice: review of studies on cardiovascular disease and use of combined oral contraceptives
	Philip C Hannaford, Vicci Owen-Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:984-987 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Transferring medical images on the world wide web for emergency clinical management: a case report
	David S Johnson, Rajinder P Goel, Paul Birtwistle, Phil Hirst
	BMJ  1998;316:988-989 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	When can odds ratios mislead?
	Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies, Iain Kinloch Crombie, Manouche Tavakoli
	BMJ  1998;316:989-991 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	BMJ  1998;316:992 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Periodontitis for medical practitioners
	Trevor L P Watts
	BMJ  1998;316:993-996 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Asthma and allergy
	A J Newman Taylor
	BMJ  1998;316:997 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Cecil Helman, A Mu'min Chowdhury
	BMJ  1998;316:978-983 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: longer version] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Mistakes
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;316:1026 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Most patients don't read the BMJ Editorial by Smith and Education and debate pp 1000-11
	James J Rankine
	BMJ  1998;316:1026 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nuchal translucencyscreening without consent
	Josephine Venn-Treloar
	BMJ  1998;316:1026 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	What Are Doctors For?
	Peter Herbert
	BMJ  1998;316:1028 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Specialist Outreach Clinics in General Practice
	Roland Petchey
	BMJ  1998;316:1028 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Pocket Guide to Grant Applications
	Nick Black
	BMJ  1998;316:1028 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good
	Tom Wilkie
	BMJ  1998;316:1028 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical debate: Informed consent in medical research • Informed consenta response to recent correspondence • Changing the BMJ's position on informed consent would be counterproductive • Informed consenta publisher's duty • Trial subjects must be fully involved in design and approval of trials • Studies that do not have informed consent from participants should not be published
	Len Doyal, J S Tobias, Mary Warnock, Lisa Power, Heather Goodare
	BMJ  1998;316:1000-1005 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thrombolytic treatment for acute ischaemic stroke: consent can be ethical
	Richard I Lindley
	BMJ  1998;316:1005-1007 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent and research
	David Benatar, Solomon R Benatar
	BMJ  1998;316:1008-1010 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version]

	Videos, photographs, and patient consent
	Catherine A Hood, Tony Hope, Phillip Dove
	BMJ  1998;316:1009-1011 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Coping with loss: Separation and other problems that threaten relationships
	Robert S Weiss
	BMJ  1998;316:1011-1013 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Economic evaluation: an introduction
	James Raftery
	BMJ  1998;316:1013-1014 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	Good engineering is not good medicine
	Stephen Ong
	BMJ  1998;316:1014 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1030 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Good engineering is not good medicine
	Stephen Ong
	BMJ  1998;316:1013 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;316:955 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Returning doctors to medicine
	Maureen Baker, Gifford Batstone, Steve Kisely
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Practical papers on clinical practice
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Task force will involve NHS staff • Health minister reassures GPs on primary care groups • College wants GPs and social workers to have closer links
	BMJ  1998;316:1025 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Flora Bridge • Barrie Alfred Ernest Chapman • Amiya Kumar Chatterjee • Hugh Wordsworth Cornford • Cecil Francis Cunniffe • Edward Casburn Davies • John Harvey Green • Joseph Donovan Hamlett • Robert ("Bob") High • Raymond Lowe King • Frederick Lanceley • Edmond Rene Lecutier • Alastair William Maxwell • Matthew Robert ("Matt") Neely
	D F Reynolds, L A Lees, RupaDavid Bessant, Martin Hartog, John G Cunniffe, T J Jones, P L Frank, Robin Vlies, Alec High, Steven Ford, Paul Booth, M J Garrett, Angila Lecutier, Paul Edington, A McCalister
	BMJ  1998;316:1023 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Fluid resuscitation with colloid or crystalloid solutions in critically ill patients: a systematic review of randomised trials
	Gill Schierhout, Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1998;316:961-964 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] [extra: Data Supplement] FREE

	Is day care equivalent to inpatient care for active rheumatoid arthritis? Randomised controlled clinical and economic evaluation
	C Michael Lambert, Nigel P Hurst, John F Forbes, Alison Lochhead, Mary Macleod, George Nuki
	BMJ  1998;316:965-969 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Benefit of heparin in peripheral venous and arterial catheters: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Adrienne G Randolph, Deborah J Cook, Calle A Gonzales, Maureen Andrew
	BMJ  1998;316:969-975 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of anticonvulsants in eclampsia and pre-eclampsia: survey of obstetricians in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
	A Metin Gülmezoglu, Lelia Duley
	BMJ  1998;316:975-976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Satisfaction with clinical nurse specialists in a breast care clinic: questionnaire survey
	Linda Garvican, Elisabeth Grimsey, Peter Littlejohns, Sue Lowndes, Nigel Sacks
	BMJ  1998;316:976-977 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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