This week's This week in the BMJ

	Terms used to describe trials may have different meanings for patients [Full text] FREE

	Two thousand schizophrenia trials, 1948-97and still much room for improvement [Full text] FREE

	Concealed random allocation protects against bias in clinical trials [Full text] FREE

	Quality of life is rarely and poorly measured in randomised controlled trials [Full text] FREE

	Patient centred care produced greater satisfaction but less knowledge [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Unbiased, relevant, and reliable assessments in health care
	Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  1998;317:1167-1168 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical trials in primary care
	Robbie Foy, Jayne Parry, Brian McAvoy
	BMJ  1998;317:1168-1169 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Trials: the next 50 years
	Richard Peto, Colin Baigent
	BMJ  1998;317:1170-1171 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cluster randomised trials: time for improvement
	Marion K Campbell, Jeremy M Grimshaw
	BMJ  1998;317:1171-1172 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Being a modern pharmaceutical company
	Richard Sykes
	BMJ  1998;317:1172-1180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Protecting children from armed conflict
	Derek Summerfield, C D Cooper, David Meddings
	BMJ  1998;317:1249 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised controlled trial exists of levonorgestrel intrauterine system for menorrhagia
	Amaju Ikomi, Nutan Gupta
	BMJ  1998;317:1250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clarification of comments on trial of aminosidine in visceral leishmaniasis
	P Olliaro, T K Jha
	BMJ  1998;317:1250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children
	David Bramble, Anne Klassen, Parminder Raina, Anton Miller, Shoo Lee, M S Thambirajah, Andrew Weaver, Geoffrey D Kewley
	BMJ  1998;317:1250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholestanol and survival with simvastatin
	E J Wallis, R Williamson, L E Ramsay, W W Yeo, P R Jackson, Tatu A Miettinen, Helena Gylling, Timo Strandberg, Seppo Sarna
	BMJ  1998;317:1252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol lowering diets and coronary heart disease
	M F Oliver, Shaun Conway
	BMJ  1998;317:1253 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Single dose of anti-D immunoglobulin for antenatal prophylaxis is smaller in the Netherlands than in the United Kingdom
	Bob van Dijk
	BMJ  1998;317:1253 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	EU doctors get caught in training trap
	Andrea Perinti
	BMJ  1998;317:1254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK surgeons may undergo performance review every five years
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;317:1173 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Expert team to investigate concerns at Scottish hospital
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;317:1173 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US abortion doctor shot dead
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1998;317:1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Iceland breast cancer study questions the risk attributable to gene mutations
	Vicki Madden
	BMJ  1998;317:1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unmatched bone marrow transplants successfully treat leukaemia
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:1175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK survey shows improved diet in elderly
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK paediatric surgeon wins libel damages
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US expands prescribing recommendations for aspirin
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:1176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nurse shortage threatens UK care
	Louise McKee
	BMJ  1998;317:1176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Neutron beam therapy targets brain cancer
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:1176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	The ethics of randomised controlled trials from the perspectives of patients, the public, and healthcare professionals
	Sarah J L Edwards, R J Lilford, J Hewison
	BMJ  1998;317:1209-1212 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	ABC of oxygen: Assessing and interpreting arterial blood gases and acid-base balance
	Adrian J Williams
	BMJ  1998;317:1213-1216 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Randomised controlled trial of patient centred care of diabetes in general practice: impact on current wellbeing and future disease risk
	Ann Louise Kinmonth, Alison Woodcock, Simon Griffin, Nicki Spiegal, Michael J Campbell
	BMJ  1998;317:1202-1208 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Winter draws on
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;317:1261 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Evaluating new treatments
	Lawrence Cranberg
	BMJ  1998;317:1261 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Controlled trials: the 1948 watershed
	Richard Doll
	BMJ  1998;317:1217-1220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of randomisation in the Medical Research Council's clinical trial of streptomycin in pulmonary tuberculosis in the 1940s
	Alan Yoshioka
	BMJ  1998;317:1220-1223 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mammography and the politics of randomised controlled trials • Commentary: The public has a role to play in translating evidence into practice • Commentary: Why are researchers surprised when there is not a smooth transition from research into practice?
	Jane Wells, Giok J Ong, Hilda Bastian
	BMJ  1998;317:1224-1230 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Marketing medicines through randomised controlled trials: the case of interferon
	Toine Pieters
	BMJ  1998;317:1231-1233 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"A calculated risk": the Salk polio vaccine field trials of 1954
	Marcia Meldrum
	BMJ  1998;317:1233-1236 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Efficient management of randomised controlled trials: nature or nurture
	Barbara Farrell
	BMJ  1998;317:1236-1239 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Experimentation and social interventions: a forgotten but important history
	Ann Oakley
	BMJ  1998;317:1239-1242 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The controlled clinical trial turns 100 years: Fibiger's trial of serum treatment of diphtheria
	Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Peter C Gøtzsche, Christian Gluud
	BMJ  1998;317:1243-1245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Ovarian ablation in breast cancer, 1896 to 1998: milestones along hierarchy of evidence from case report to Cochrane review
	Michael J Clarke
	BMJ  1998;317:1246-1248 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	Bookcase
	BMJ  1998;317:1262 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Tuberculosis: story of medical failure
	Chris Holme
	BMJ  1998;317:1260 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  1998;317:1262 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: Never underestimate a placebo
	J H Baron
	BMJ  1998;317:1190 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient to remember: A surfeit of experts
	H A Dewar
	BMJ  1998;317:1200 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: The BMA under fire
	BMJ  1998;317:1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Labour and refreshment
	BMJ  1998;317:1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: How to buy gadgets
	BMJ  1998;317:1202 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;317:1209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The inflating lady
	Solomon Almond
	BMJ  1998;317:1230 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Words: Nosocomial
	Irvine Loudon
	BMJ  1998;317:1242 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme
	BMJ  1998;317:1254 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of community leg ulcer clinics
	Peter J Franks, Christine J Moffatt
	BMJ  1998;317:1254 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antiretroviral combination therapy and HIV infection
	BMJ  1998;317:1254 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Urological surgery
	Neville Harrison
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Recent concern in Britain has centered round the relative unpopularity ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Student electives may form an important bridge between undergraduate experience ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Another of those surveys that looks at the academic achievement ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TBRCT

This week's TBRCT

	STREPTOMYCIN IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (Reprinted from BMJ 1948:ii:790-1)
	BMJ  1998;317:1248 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	THE CONTROLLED THERAPEUTIC TRIAL (Reprinted from BMJ 1948:ii:791-2)
	BMJ  1998;317:1248 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	STREPTOMYCIN TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (Reprinted from BMJ 1948:ii769-782)
	BMJ  1998;317:1248 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Fifty years of randomised controlled trials
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs in England will receive advice about PCGs • WMA to examine doping in sport • BMA warns about cuts to defence medical services • Confusion remains over patient packs
	BMJ  1998;317:1257 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Randomised Controlled Trials: A User's Guide
	John-Paul Vader
	BMJ  1998;317:1258 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies: a systematic review
	M J Campbell
	BMJ  1998;317:1258 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Urinary Disorders and Male Health: A Decision Making Guide for Patients
	Trevor Gibbs
	BMJ  1998;317:1258 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:1258 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Philip Henry Connell • Allan Urquhart Downie • Christopher Chilcot Evans • John Bonham Carter Evelegh • Gustav ("Gus") Julius Fraenkel • Desmond Robert Gamble • Alexander ("Sanyi") Gellert • Beryl Jennie Goff • Henry Russell
	Thomas Bewley, Stephen Lock, Tim Ashmore, Ann Harden, A G Huff, David Pyke, Elizabeth I Tanner, Vera Somen, Andrew Gellert, Brenda Grimmett, K J Waters, T S Waters
	BMJ  1998;317:1255 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Random allocation or allocation at random? Patients' perspectives of participation in a randomised controlled trial
	Katie Featherstone, Jenny L Donovan
	BMJ  1998;317:1177-1180 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Content and quality of 2000 controlled trials in schizophrenia over 50 years
	Ben Thornley, Clive Adams
	BMJ  1998;317:1181-1184 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The unpredictability paradox: review of empirical comparisons of randomised and non-randomised clinical trials
	Regina Kunz, Andrew D Oxman
	BMJ  1998;317:1185-1190 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reporting on quality of life in randomised controlled trials: bibliographic study
	Caroline Sanders, Matthias Egger, Jenny Donovan, Deborah Tallon, Stephen Frankel
	BMJ  1998;317:1191-1194 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Analysis and interpretation of cost data in randomised controlled trials: review of published studies
	Julie A Barber, Simon G Thompson
	BMJ  1998;317:1195-1200 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised trial of hospital versus home administered enemas for flexible sigmoidoscopy
	Jonathan N Lund, Declan Buckley, David Bennett, Charles Maxwell-Armstrong, Andrew Smith, Gillian Tierney, John Scholefield
	BMJ  1998;317:1201-1210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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