This week's This week in the BMJ

	Fluids and inotropes reduce the risk of major elective surgery [Full text] FREE

	Still no final decision on best immunosuppressant after kidney transplantation [Full text] FREE

	Frail elderly people have a spectrum of needs [Full text] FREE

	Including a placebo arm in a trial is likely to reduce recruitment [Full text] FREE

	Racist patients present a dilemma for healthcare workers [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Reducing the risk of major elective surgery
	Tom Treasure, David Bennett
	BMJ  1999;318:1087-1088 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing atrial fibrillation in elderly people
	Kate M English, Kevin S Channer
	BMJ  1999;318:1088-1089 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Independent inquiries into homicide
	Alec Buchanan
	BMJ  1999;318:1089-1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing chronic disease
	Ronald M Davis, Edward H Wagner, Trish Groves
	BMJ  1999;318:1090-1091 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New Labour and the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1999;318:1092 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Children poisoned with illegal drugs in Glasgow
	Jack Beattie
	BMJ  1999;318:1137 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety and effectiveness of nurse telephone consultation in out of hours primary care
	Vikram Tanna, Kate Blackmore, Louise Dodd, Samantha Twist, Steve George, Val Lattimer
	BMJ  1999;318:1137 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical trials
	David Barer, José Antonio Sacristán, Inès Galende
	BMJ  1999;318:1138 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing antibiotics for sore throats
	Morten Lindbaek
	BMJ  1999;318:1138 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylaxis against malaria
	David N Durrheim, Peter A Leggat, Andrew Jamieson, Ashley M Croft, Dominic P Whitehouse
	BMJ  1999;318:1139 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National code of marketing of formula milks is not properly enforced in Sri Lanka
	Terence Perera
	BMJ  1999;318:1140 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol screening and management guidelines
	Sudha Bulusu, Lawrence E Ramsay, E J Wallis, I U Haq, P R Jackson, W W Yeo
	BMJ  1999;318:1140 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of NSAIDs on bone healing have been widely reported in maxillofacial journals
	Daryl Godden
	BMJ  1999;318:1141 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People are "participants" in research
	Iain Chalmers, William Jackson, David Carvel
	BMJ  1999;318:1141 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting on quality of life in RCTs
	Susan P Wright, Olivier Chassany, Jean François Bergmann, Charles Caulin
	BMJ  1999;318:1142 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug misuse stems from a person's autonomy to choose
	J M Hall
	BMJ  1999;318:1142 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch system of peer review is different and effective
	Peter Bourdillon
	BMJ  1999;318:1143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South African government's response to AIDS crisis is sound
	Udo Schuklenk
	BMJ  1999;318:1143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ECT was never used indiscriminately in early treatment of shell shock
	Alex Baker
	BMJ  1999;318:1143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Value of educational visits in obstetrics
	Jane Pannikar, Andrew Farkas, Richard Edmondson, Philip Banfield
	BMJ  1999;318:1143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Having non-medical readers of papers on internet will enhance peer review
	Paul Whatling
	BMJ  1999;318:1144 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Population figures for capitation formulas need to be designed differently
	Roy Carr-Hill, David Roberts
	BMJ  1999;318:1145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reviews have to be fair and unbiased
	Joseph J Y Sung, Philip K T Li, John E Sanderson, Jean Woo
	BMJ  1999;318:1145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical student electives and infectious diseases
	Jeanette Meadway, Stephen T Green
	BMJ  1999;318:1145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early discharge after surgery for breast cancer
	Diana Harcourt, Simon Cawthorn, Nicholas Ambler, Nichola Rumsey
	BMJ  1999;318:1146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The introduction of walk in health centresthe end of general practice?
	Shaun O'Connell
	BMJ  1999;318:1146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Wellcome Trust and drug giants fund gene marker database
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:1093 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bone marrow transplants do not help in breast cancer
	by Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1093 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:1094 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	An egg a day is not harmful
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:1094 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Former JAMA editor starts electronic journal
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:1094 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Controversy rekindled over pill and risk of breast cancer
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:1095 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP on trial for murder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1095 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients say the NHS is ageist
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1095 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:1096 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	World Medical Association opposes Icelandic gene database
	Nigel Duncan
	BMJ  1999;318:1096 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS to target smokers
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:1096 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Call for international community to protect children in Kosovo
	Negin Shamsian
	BMJ  1999;318:1097 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trusts are failing to check on locums
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1097 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS Direct will cover England by end of 2000
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1097 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Survey shows haphazard provision of UK stroke services
	Mark Pownall
	BMJ  1999;318:1098 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	No extra government funding for NHS staff over millennium period
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1999;318:1098 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hospital meals should be part of clinical care
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:1098 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Avian flu returns to Hong Kong
	Joanne McManus
	BMJ  1999;318:1098 [Extract] [Full text]

	Women with heart failure survive longer than men
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1999;318:1098 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Motor neurone disease
	Pamela J Shaw
	BMJ  1999;318:1118-1121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case report: Low back pain: which is the best way forward?
	Ash Samanta, Jo Beardsley
	BMJ  1999;318:1122-1123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Labour in special circumstances
	Geoffrey Chamberlain, Philip Steer
	BMJ  1999;318:1124-1127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: When "NAI" means not actually injured
	Clifford Mayes, Calum Macleod
	BMJ  1999;318:1127-1128 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Is recruitment more difficult with a placebo arm in randomised controlled trials? A quasirandomised, interview based study
	A J Welton, M R Vickers, J A Cooper, T W Meade, T M Marteau
	BMJ  1999;318:1114-1117 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Premedical science
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;318:1153 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	There are ethical issues in ophthalmology
	M P Clarke
	BMJ  1999;318:1153 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical dilemma: Dealing with racist patients • Doctors are people too • Commentary: A role for personal values ... and management • Commentary: Isolate the problem • Commentary: Courteous containment is not enough
	Mary Selby, Julia Neuberger, Charles Easmon, Pippa Gough
	BMJ  1999;318:1129-1131 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The World Bank and world health: Focus on South AsiaII: India and Pakistan
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1999;318:1132-1135 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Definitions of efficiency
	Stephen Palmer, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  1999;318:1136 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1154 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Mark Twain on Christian Science
	BMJ  1999;318:1113 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A man's best friend
	Attributed to Groucho Marx
	BMJ  1999;318:1113 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Prejudices
	Albert Einstein
	BMJ  1999;318:1113 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Victorian medicine: Our grandfather's patient
	Geoffrey Russell Steele Grogono, Basil John Steele Grogono
	BMJ  1999;318:1117 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Give a remedy a thorough trial
	Submitted by J H Baron
	BMJ  1999;318:1121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Special correspondence: Berlin
	BMJ  1999;318:1124 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A salutary lesson: Patients sometimes behave like our Snoopy
	Tony Fox
	BMJ  1999;318:1131 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Doing research
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: It was Human Resource and Development week last week, and ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Non-principal GPs are disenfranchised from many of the processes of ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Managing chronic disease
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Managing chronic disease
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Evidence-Based Practice in Primary Care
	Tom Fahey
	BMJ  1999;318:1150 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
	David Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;318:1150 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Prime time torture
	Kerri Sherlock, Barbara Ayotte
	BMJ  1999;318:1151 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Turning off the television
	Miriam E Bar-on
	BMJ  1999;318:1152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: web.ukonline.co.uk/members/n.robinson/NHS_direct/NHSD.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs want walk in centres piloted properly • Junior doctors call for health tax • BMA receives assurances on Health Bill
	BMJ  1999;318:1149 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Bullough • John Cramsie Camac • Anne Kirkman Collins • Elizabeth Mary Curry (née Tuck) • Christopher John Day • Hubert Crayden Edmunds • Stuart Crisp Farman • Anthony Hargreaves • Sidney Lee • Charles Lennox Ogilvy Macalister • Kenneth William Hand Browning McAlpine • Ridley Scott • Pronob Kumar Thakur • Wilfred Robert Trotter
	Regina Bullough, Selwyn H Goodacre, Lindy Cartner, Cath Chapman, Chris Oates, Hilary Enevoldson, Eric K Gardner, E M Edmunds, O C Wetherell, J E O'Connor, Frula Shear, K R Peel, George Bigley, Virginia van Haga, Veronica Thakur, E J Ross, Margaret E Morgans
	BMJ  1999;318:1147 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Reducing the risk of major elective surgery: randomised controlled trial of preoperative optimisation of oxygen delivery
	Jonathan Wilson, Ian Woods, Jayne Fawcett, Rebecca Whall, Wendy Dibb, Chris Morris, Elizabeth McManus
	BMJ  1999;318:1099-1103 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of the flow of patients through the trial] FREE

	Tacrolimus versus cyclosporin for immunosuppression in renal transplantation: meta-analysis of randomised trials
	Greg A Knoll, Robert C Bell
	BMJ  1999;318:1104-1107 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Profile of disability in elderly people: estimates from a longitudinal population study
	BMJ  1999;318:1108-1111 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Immunisation of infants at risk of perinatal transmission of hepatitis B: retrospective audit of vaccine uptake
	Diane E Wallis, Elizabeth H Boxall
	BMJ  1999;318:1112-1113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Cyclosporin neurotoxicity after chemotherapy
	Deborah A Tweddle, Kevin P Windebank, Quentin Campbell Hewson, S Murray Yule
	BMJ  1999;318:1113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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