This week's This week in the BMJ

	CRAM chart detects increase in number of surgical deaths [Full text] FREE

	Too much attention should not be paid to ranking in league tables [Full text] FREE

	System for identifying and managing underperforming doctors is inadequate [Full text] FREE

	Better techniques would reduce headache after lumbar puncture [Full text] FREE

	A third of embryos are abnormal in medical terminations of pregnancy in first trimester [Full text] FREE

	Depression may be a risk factor for heart disease in men [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Lessons from the Bristol case
	Tom Treasure
	BMJ  1998;316:1685-1686 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The need for a national body for research misconduct
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:1686-1687 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care and the NHS white papers
	John Chisholm
	BMJ  1998;316:1687-1688 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hydroxyurea therapy for sickle cell disease in Britain
	A Olujohungbe, Kornelia I Cinkotai, A Yardumian
	BMJ  1998;316:1689-1690 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community acquired pneumonia in elderly people
	S J Wort, T R Rogers
	BMJ  1998;316:1690 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Research assessment exercise
	E Malcolm Symonds, Mike Holmes, Nigel Oswald, J Martin Bland, R H McAllister-Williams, A H Young
	BMJ  1998;316:1743 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Concealed breast cancer causes delayed treatment
	Rosina Ahmed, G R McLatchie
	BMJ  1998;316:1744 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Methadone treatment is widely accepted in prisons in New South Wales
	Andrew Byrne, Kate Dolan
	BMJ  1998;316:1744 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measles, measles vaccination, and Crohn's disease
	Elizabeth Miller, Pauline Waight, R G Pebody, M Paunio, P Ruutu, Ross Lawrenson, Richard Farmer
	BMJ  1998;316:1745 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adjuvant radiotherapy is advisable for small invasive breast cancers
	Michael Twitchen
	BMJ  1998;316:1746 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Change in NHS regulations may have caused increase in malaria
	P Badrinath, O O Ejidokun, N Barnes, S Ramaiah
	BMJ  1998;316:1746 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeon never said that excimer laser should no longer be used in refractive surgery
	William Jory
	BMJ  1998;316:1747 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Milk intake and bone mineral acquisition in adolescent girls
	Susan New, Gordon Ferns, Bryan Starkey, I D Griffiths, R M Francis, Paul Appleby, Richard Eastell, Joanna Cadogan, Nicola Bright, Margo E Barker
	BMJ  1998;316:1747 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pay rates for junior doctors' additional hours need to be adjusted
	Trevor Pickersgill, H G Kynaston, Rhidian Hurle, Gary Small
	BMJ  1998;316:1748 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resuscitation
	Steve Leaves, Peter Donnelly, Carolyn Lester, David Assar, Arun Sharma
	BMJ  1998;316:1748 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resurgence of interest in medical oaths and codes of conduct
	Peter H Millard, John Scotson, J W B Forshaw
	BMJ  1998;316:1749 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colour deficient vision should not prevent a career in histopathology
	Robert B Goudie
	BMJ  1998;316:1750 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Single assessment of risk predicted which elderly patients would fall
	Christopher Price, Michael Suddes, Linda Maguire, Sam Harrison, Diarmuid O'Shea
	BMJ  1998;316:1750 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The "Diana effect"
	Rhidian Morgan-Jones, Kevin Smith, Peter Oakley, Carolyn Berry, Clive Mulholland, Michael Stevenson, Philip Reilly, John R Mitchell
	BMJ  1998;316:1750 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Compensation claims expected to follow GMC's findings
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1691 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Who will be the next chief medical officer for England?
	BMJ  1998;316:1692 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1694 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS is Commons combat zone
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1694 [Extract] [Full text]

	Double standards exist in judging traditional and alternative medicine
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:1694 [Extract] [Full text]

	Lyme disease vaccine given guarded approval in the US
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;316:1695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Call for research misconduct agency
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;316:1695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Switzerland holds referendum on genetic engineering
	Adrea Mach
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

	South Africa's liberal abortion laws challenged
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Waits over 18 months lengthen in Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

	Drop in GP registrars reversed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scotland's blood transfusion service to be reorganised
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

	Robot helps perform open heart surgery
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

	Another AIDS "cure" scandal hits South Africa
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1998;316:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults
	Jean Paul Galmiche, Eric Letessier, Carmelo Scarpignato
	BMJ  1998;316:1720-1723 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Deaths from low dose paracetamol poisoning
	S Bridger, K Henderson, E Glucksman, A J Ellis, J A Henry, Roger Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:1724-1725 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Depression as a risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in men: population based case-control study
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Katherine Fielding, Mike Pringle
	BMJ  1998;316:1714-1719 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Understanding controlled trials: Crossover trials
	Bonnie Sibbald, Chris Roberts
	BMJ  1998;316:1719-1720 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Say no to Viagra
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;316:1755 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Was the paper I wrote a fraud?
	Cameron Bowie
	BMJ  1998;316:1755 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whistleblowing or professional assassination
	BMJ  1998;316:1756 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Dealing with research misconduct in the United Kingdom • An American perspective on research integrity • Conduct unbecomingthe MRC's approach • An editor's response to fraudsters • Deception: difficulties and initiatives • Honest advice from Denmark
	Drummond Rennie, Imogen Evans, Michael J G Farthing, Cyril Chantler, Shireen Chantler, Povl Riis
	BMJ  1998;316:1726-1733 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Half of all doctors are below average
	Jan Poloniecki
	BMJ  1998;316:1734-1736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five times: coincidence or something more serious? • What should a junior doctor have done? • You cannot expect people to be heroes • Put out the fire or risk an inferno • Present system of whistleblowing is unsatisfactory
	Miles Irving, Donald M Berwick, Peter Rubin, Tom Treasure
	BMJ  1998;316:1736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Competence, professional self regulation, and the public interest
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  1998;316:1740-1742 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1758 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;316:1712 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: The plebiscite result
	BMJ  1998;316:1712 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A Priori
	BMJ  1998;316:1724 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Retraction
	BMJ  1998;316:1700 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	North of England evidence based guideline development project: guideline on the use of aspirin as secondary prophylaxis for vascular disease in primary care
	BMJ  1998;316:1733 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	What do postgraduate deans do?
	Elizabeth Paice, Ilfra Goldberg
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Burnout - the exhaustion of physical or emotional strength as ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The elaborate overlapping complexity of bodies involved in deciding how ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Junior hospital doctors are thought most at risk for sleep ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The dark side of medicine
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Who killed Cock Robin?
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1998;316:1757 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	King's Fund launches quality service • GMC tells Privy Council about exam concerns • NHS fraud buster named • Junior doctors call for more consultants • New members elected to medical advisory committee
	BMJ  1998;316:1754 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Elizabeth Timgwilian Davies-Humphreys • Christopher Adrian Holborow • Frederick James Gordon ("Jimmy") Jefferiss • Philip Vincent Kielty • Harvey McTaggart • Susan Lynn Maxwell • Francis John Milward • Dushyanthan ("Dushy") Surendranath Nadarajah • Jeremiah Gerard Dermot O'Sullivan • Douglas Wyness Thomson ("Doug") Paul • Brian Stephen Quinn • Irwin Bruce Speight • Felix Ernest Weale
	John Davies-Humphreys, Ronald Zeegen, J R W Harris, Vincent Kielty, Jr, Harold Jones, Gordon McNaught, Austin Brown, S Montgomery, P Le Feuvre, Timothy Milward, A Santhakumaran, G J O'Sullivan, Ian Burns, Niall Quinn, E Lucy Speight, Norman Rothnie
	BMJ  1998;316:1752 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Cumulative risk adjusted mortality chart for detecting changes in death rate: observational study of heart surgery
	J Poloniecki, O Valencia, P Littlejohns
	BMJ  1998;316:1697-1700 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reliability of league tables of in vitro fertilisation clinics: retrospective analysis of live birth rates • Commentary: How robust are rankings? The implications of confidence intervals
	E Clare Marshall, David J Spiegelhalter, Colin Sanderson, Martin McKee
	BMJ  1998;316:1701-1705 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Underperforming doctors: a postal survey of the Northern Deanery
	George Taylor
	BMJ  1998;316:1705-1708 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Prevention of headache after lumbar puncture: questionnaire survey of neurologists and neurosurgeons in United Kingdom:
	M G Serpell, G J Haldane, D R S Jamieson, D Carson
	BMJ  1998;316:1709-1710 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Problems in retrieving national data on births: questionnaire survey
	Lesley Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:1710-1711 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Abortion rates in England in 1995: comparative study of data from district health authorities
	Veena Soni Raleigh
	BMJ  1998;316:1711-1712 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Embryonic abnormalities at medical termination of pregnancy with mifepristone and misoprostol during first trimester: observational study
	G Blanch, S Quenby, E S Ballantyne, C M Gosden, J P Neilson, K Holland
	BMJ  1998;316:1712-1713 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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