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Mental health services should aim to improve safety [Full text] FREE
Cervical screening is probably responsible for reducing deaths [Full text] FREE
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Asthma resource centre did not improve management of asthma [Full text] FREE
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Time for evidence based medical education
Stewart Petersen
BMJ  1999;318:1223-1224
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The case for structuring the discussion of scientific papers
Michael Docherty, Richard Smith
BMJ  1999;318:1224-1225
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Suicide and homicide by people with mental illness
John Geddes
BMJ  1999;318:1225-1226
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Management of pituitary tumours
John S Bevan
BMJ  1999;318:1226-1227
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Chronic pelvic pain syndrome
Graz Luzzi, Michael O'Leary
BMJ  1999;318:1227-1228
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Genetically modified foods and the Pusztai affair
Jonathan M Rhodes
BMJ  1999;318:1284
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Vitamin D deficiency
C H Cheetham, Rosemarie Freaney, Malachi J McKenna, Lina Nashef, Edmund Lamb, J E Compston
BMJ  1999;318:1284
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Medical rules are needed in marathons in the United Kingdom
Phillip Loyley, Pauline Loyley
BMJ  1999;318:1285
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Pseudo-EBM-ers have their own lexicon
Sam Shortt
BMJ  1999;318:1286
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Pregnancy does not mean that patients with tuberculosis must stop treatment
Graham Bothamley, Will Elston
BMJ  1999;318:1286
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Cluster randomised trials
Nick Freemantle, John Wood, Marion K Campbell, Jeremy M Grimshaw
BMJ  1999;318:1286
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Areca nuts can have deleterious effects
Chetan Trivedy, Saman Warnakulasuriya, Timothy J Peters
BMJ  1999;318:1287
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Fractures of the thoracolumbar spine in major trauma patients
Ray McGlone, Sarah Walters
BMJ  1999;318:1287
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Evidence does not exist that dyspepsia heralds gastric cancer in its earliest stage
Thomas S Low-Beer
BMJ  1999;318:1288
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Adjusting for multiple testing in studies is less important than other concerns
Thomas V Perneger
BMJ  1999;318:1288
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Cited studies did not show relation between maternal anxiety and birth weight
Michael Perkin
BMJ  1999;318:1288
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Inclusive questions are needed when taking a sexual history
Peter Meacher
BMJ  1999;318:1289
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Drugs for epilepsy have teratogenic risks
Elisabeth M Rosser, Louise C Wilson
BMJ  1999;318:1289
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Alcohol intake and cancer of the upper digestive tract
Carlo La Vecchia, Silvia Franceschi, Adriano Favero, Renato Talamini, Eva Negri, K K Cheng, C Cummins, R Maric, Vaughan Reed, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Christine Caygill, Morten Grønbæk, Thorkild I A Sørensen
BMJ  1999;318:1289
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Meeting the healthcare needs of refugees and asylum seekers
David Barr, J B Ashton
BMJ  1999;318:1291
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UK lags behind in fight against heart disease
Benjamin Hope
BMJ  1999;318:1229
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Ethnic Albanian doctor abducted from her home in Kosovo
Benjamin Hope
BMJ  1999;318:1229
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In brief
BMJ  1999;318:1230
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GMC advises trusts on governance
John Warden
BMJ  1999;318:1230
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Cloning may cause health defects
Judy Jones
BMJ  1999;318:1230
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Reform at WHO is too slow, say critics
Phyllida Brown
BMJ  1999;318:1231
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Some HIV patients can stop taking prophylaxis against infections
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  1999;318:1231
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Thousands of smear tests reviewed
Doug Payne
BMJ  1999;318:1231
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Fee for service doctors dispense more antibiotics in Canada
Greg Basky
BMJ  1999;318:1232
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Germany fails to introduce drugs "blacklist"
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  1999;318:1232
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New virus is identified in Malaysia epidemic
Adam Easton
BMJ  1999;318:1232
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Australian army infected troops and internees in second world war
Georgina Kenyon
BMJ  1999;318:1233
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US conference looks at improving patient safety
Norra MacReady
BMJ  1999;318:1233
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Dutch minister warns that illegal immigrants must receive care
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1999;318:1234
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EU tackles pollution related illness
Rory Watson
BMJ  1999;318:1234
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European network for patients' rights set up
Tessa Richards
BMJ  1999;318:1234
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This week's Clinical review

Recent advances: Hepatology
M McCarthy, M L Wilkinson
BMJ  1999;318:1256-1259
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ABC of labour care: Operative delivery
Geoffrey Chamberlain, Philip Steer
BMJ  1999;318:1260-1264
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This week's General practice

Randomised controlled trial of educational package on management of menorrhagia in primary care: the Anglia menorrhagia education study
Guy R K Fender, Andrew Prentice, Tess Gorst, Richard M Nixon, Stephen W Duffy, Nicholas E Day, Stephen K Smith
BMJ  1999;318:1246-1250
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Clustered randomised trial of an intervention to improve the management of asthma: Greenwich asthma study
U N Premaratne, J A C Sterne, G B Marks, J R Webb, H Azima, P G J Burney
BMJ  1999;318:1251-1255
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This week's Soundings

... a joy forever
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1999;318:1297
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This week's Personal views

I don't believe in excellence
BMJ  1999;318:1297
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This week's Education and debate

Guidelines for evaluating papers on educational interventions
Education Group for Guidelines on Evaluation
BMJ  1999;318:1265-1267
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Evaluating and researching the effectiveness of educational interventions
Linda Hutchinson
BMJ  1999;318:1267-1269
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Evaluating educational interventions
M Wilkes, J Bligh
BMJ  1999;318:1269-1272
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Trend spotting: fashions in medical education
Joseph K Campbell, Cindy Johnson
BMJ  1999;318:1272-1275
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Does continuing medical education in general practice make a difference?
Peter Cantillon, Roger Jones
BMJ  1999;318:1276-1279
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Learner centred approaches in medical education
John A Spencer, Reg K Jordan
BMJ  1999;318:1280-1283
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1999;318:1298
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This week's Fillers

A valuable lesson: Always check the x ray film
Rashid N Siddiqui
BMJ  1999;318:1239
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My elective: The silent sentinels
David Cummins
BMJ  1999;318:1245
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Endpiece: For a fee
BMJ  1999;318:1251
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Endpiece: Gender
BMJ  1999;318:1251
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Endpiece: Umpire needed
Alexander Pope
BMJ  1999;318:1280
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Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
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Choosing a career
John Bache
BMJ  1999;318:2
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Briefing: Cracks are appearing in the Australian plan to be ...
BMJ  1999;318:3
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Briefing: Having a portfolio career is a vogue concept, but it ...
BMJ  1999;318:3a
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Briefing: The web archive of Career focus has become an extensive ...
BMJ  1999;318:3b
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Briefing: Cognitive behavioural therapy was ignored EDITOR- The recent article on ...
BMJ  1999;318:3c
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This week's CHOICE

"I don't know": the three most important words in education
BMJ  1999;318
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This week's NETLINES

Netlines
Harry Brown
BMJ  1999;318:1295
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"I don't know": the three most important words in education
BMJ  1999;318
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This week's MULTIMEDIA

Book: Forensic Sciences in Clinical Medicine: A Case Study Approach
Kevin Hollowood, Deborah Rogers
BMJ  1999;318:1294
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Book: Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Alex Brooks
BMJ  1999;318:1294
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Book: War and Public Health
Anthony Zwi
BMJ  1999;318:1295
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Media: "Don't smoke," buy Marlboro
William D Novelli
BMJ  1999;318:1296
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Website of the week: http://www.monash.edu.au/inforatics/index.htm
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1999;318:1296
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA launches consultation on Helsinki Declaration Accident departments are not used properly PCGs and PCTs will have advantages Health secretary asked to look at workforce crisis Managed clinical networks move ahead in Scotland
BMJ  1999;318:1293
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This week's Obituaries

Henry Taylor Howatt John Erskine Malcolm Ronald George Milne William Francis O'Dwyer Jeffrey Richard Scholey
R Holmes, Alexandra Hardie, James McG Imray, H E Counihan
BMJ  1999;318:1292
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This week's Papers

Suicide within 12 months of contact with mental health services: national clinical survey
Louis Appleby, Jenny Shaw, Tim Amos, Ros McDonnell, Catherine Harris, Kerry McCann, Katy Kiernan, Sue Davies, Harriet Bickley, Rebecca Parsons
BMJ  1999;318:1235-1239
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Mental disorder and clinical care in people convicted of homicide: national clinical survey
Jenny Shaw, Louis Appleby, Tim Amos, Ros McDonnell, Catherine Harris, Kerry McCann, Katy Kiernan, Sue Davies, Harriet Bickley, Rebecca Parsons
BMJ  1999;318:1240-1244
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Effect of screening on cervical cancer mortality in England and Wales: analysis of trends with an age period cohort model
Peter Sasieni, Joanna Adams
BMJ  1999;318:1244-1245
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