This week's This week in the BMJ

	Decision aids do improve patients' decision making [Full text] FREE

	Staff and parents want notes kept at foot of child's bed [Full text] FREE

	More time and better continuity improve outcome at general practice consultations [Full text] FREE

	Communities' assessment of their own needs will improve quality of humanitarian aid [Full text] FREE

	Graphs showing risks help communication [Full text] FREE

	Sharing decisions is uncomfortable for GP registrars [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Paternalism or partnership?
	Angela Coulter
	BMJ  1999;319:719-720 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The increasing importance of patient surveys
	Paul D Cleary
	BMJ  1999;319:720-721 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The challenge of lay partnership
	Charlotte Williamson
	BMJ  1999;319:721-722 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gaining informed consent for screening
	Joan Austoker
	BMJ  1999;319:722-723 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Involving patients in clinical research
	Heather Goodare, Sue Lockwood
	BMJ  1999;319:724-725 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Shared decision making in a publicly funded health care system
	Mark J Sculpher, Ian Watt, Amiram Gafni
	BMJ  1999;319:725-726 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Patient partnership is not a magic formula
	Aldo Mariotto
	BMJ  1999;319:783 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient participation cannot guarantee empowerment
	Sharon Saint Lamont
	BMJ  1999;319:783 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient-partners may be political correctness gone too far
	David Carvel
	BMJ  1999;319:783 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors should help patients to communicate better with them
	Dominic F Slowie
	BMJ  1999;319:784 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cultural diversity matters
	Vasiliy Vlassov
	BMJ  1999;319:784 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whether patients should be partners depends on the patient
	Kameswari Lakshmi
	BMJ  1999;319:784 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health library in India works to empower patients
	Aniruddha Malpani
	BMJ  1999;319:785 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients can educate doctors about long term disease
	James Phillips
	BMJ  1999;319:785 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dying patients need a good relationship with their doctor
	B Kreymann
	BMJ  1999;319:785 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People with learning disabilities should be partners too
	David Martin
	BMJ  1999;319:786 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient information is often misleading
	Marco Grassi
	BMJ  1999;319:786 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reorganisations often benefit administrators rather than patients
	Neville Hughes, Paul Samet
	BMJ  1999;319:786 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media have key role in shaping use of health services
	Roberto Grilli
	BMJ  1999;319:786 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Taking medicines: concordance is not compliance
	David Dickinson, Patricia Wilkie, Miriam Harris
	BMJ  1999;319:787 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients are important links in the healthcare chain
	Paola Mosconi
	BMJ  1999;319:787 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Encouraging HIV positive people to participate in clinical trials
	Jeffrey H Williams
	BMJ  1999;319:787 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cochrane Collaboration welcomes patient participation
	Paola Rio
	BMJ  1999;319:788 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Educating patients helps the NHS
	Simon Fradd
	BMJ  1999;319:788 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government wants patient partnership to be integral part of NHS
	Gisela Stuart
	BMJ  1999;319:788 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	DrKoop.com criticised for mixing information with advertising
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:727 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unbalanced presentation of facts breaks UK drug adverts code
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:727 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients satisfied with nurse run practices
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:728 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor disciplined for "grossly undertreating" pain
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:728 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:728 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients asked to judge quality of care they receive in hospital
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:729 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Review clears Brompton surgeons
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:729 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Australia's consumer champion
	BMJ  1999;319:730 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Guided self management of asthmahow to do it
	Aarne Lahdensuo
	BMJ  1999;319:759-760 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Quality at general practice consultations: cross sectional survey
	John G R Howie, David J Heaney, Margaret Maxwell, Jeremy J Walker, George K Freeman, Harbinder Rai
	BMJ  1999;319:738-743 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rapid appraisal of needs in reproductive health care in southern Sudan: qualitative study
	Celia A Palmer
	BMJ  1999;319:743-748 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practice registrar responses to the use of different risk communication tools in simulated consultations: a focus group study
	Adrian Edwards, Glyn Elwyn, Richard Gwyn
	BMJ  1999;319:749-752 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Towards a feasible model for shared decision making: focus group study with general practice registrars
	Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards, Richard Gwyn, Richard Grol
	BMJ  1999;319:753-756 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of questionnaire on cancer family history in identifying patients at increased genetic risk in general practice
	Virginia Leggatt, James Mackay, John R W Yates
	BMJ  1999;319:757-758 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	On the beach
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1999;319:793 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Clowning in hospitals is no joke
	Caroline Simonds
	BMJ  1999;319:792 [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: clowns' code of ethics]

	All change?
	Ailsa Harrison
	BMJ  1999;319:793 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Promoting partnerships: challenges for the internet age
	Alejandro R Jadad
	BMJ  1999;319:761-764 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Helping patients access high quality health information
	Sasha Shepperd, Deborah Charnock, Bob Gann
	BMJ  1999;319:764-766 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Framework for teaching and learning informed shared decision making • Commentary: Competencies for informed shared decision making • Commentary: Proposals based on too many assumptions
	Angela Towle, William Godolphin, Trisha Greenhalgh, Jeremy Gambrill
	BMJ  1999;319:766-771 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acknowledging the expertise of patients and their organisations
	Judy Wilson
	BMJ  1999;319:771-774 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Participatory research maximises community and lay involvement
	Ann C Macaulay, Laura E Commanda, William L Freeman, Nancy Gibson, Melvina L McCabe, Carolyn M Robbins, Peter L Twohig
	BMJ  1999;319:774-778 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Partnerships with children
	Mary Dixon-Woods, Bridget Young, David Heney
	BMJ  1999;319:778-780 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What do we mean by partnership in making decisions about treatment?
	Cathy Charles, Tim Whelan, Amiram Gafni
	BMJ  1999;319:780-782 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:794 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:725 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A dilemma: Entering the minds of the elderly
	Malcolm Lindsay
	BMJ  1999;319:737 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Next best thing
	BMJ  1999;319:757 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Multiple operations on a single patient
	BMJ  1999;319:757 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A meeting which changed me: There is another way
	Patrice Metayer
	BMJ  1999;319:758 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: On the power of communication
	Hyman Davies
	BMJ  1999;319:782 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Representing your colleagues
	Trevor Pickersgill, Justin Cross
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Choosing which of the UK's 24 medical schools...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The early years of a doctor's working life...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Patients, Power and Politics: From Patients to Citizens
	Stephanie Ellis
	BMJ  1999;319:789 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1999;319:792 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Struck off, but why?
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:791 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Take your partners for the dance
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

JOURNAL

This week's JOURNAL

	Journal: Health Expectations
	Michel Wensing
	BMJ  1999;319:789 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	BMJ  1999;319:790 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Take your partners for the dance
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: systematic review
	Annette M O'Connor, Alaa Rostom, Valerie Fiset, Jacqueline Tetroe, Vikki Entwistle, Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Michael Barry, Jean Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:731-734 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Staff and family attitudes to keeping joint medical and nursing notes at the foot of the bed: questionnaire survey
	S G M Luke, A Gallagher, B W Lloyd
	BMJ  1999;319:735 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical and psychosocial predictors of illness duration from randomised controlled trial of prescribing strategies for sore throat
	P Little, C Gould, I Williamson, G Warner, M Gantley, A L Kinmonth
	BMJ  1999;319:736-737 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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