This week's This week in the BMJ

	Visual experience and genes cause myopia [Full text] FREE

	One lesson improves knowledge of emergency contraception [Full text] FREE

	Offering money increases questionnaire response rates [Full text] FREE

	Aluminium sulphate spill did not affect health [Full text] FREE

	GPs reluctant to screen for impaired glucose tolerance [Full text] FREE

	Patients say they use diaries, but they don't [Full text] FREE

	New consent rules threaten public health [Full text] FREE

	Beware of your neighbour's cat [Full text] FREE

	PFI hospitals are not value for money [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Emergency vascular surgery
	Bruce Campbell, John Chester
	BMJ  2002;324:1167-1168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1167 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the response rates to questionnaires
	Liam Smeeth, Astrid E Fletcher
	BMJ  2002;324:1168-1169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1168 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Implications of the EU directive on clinical trials for emergency medicine
	Ernst A Singer, Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2002;324:1169-1170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1169 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Selection of medical students
	Peter Tutton, Max Price
	BMJ  2002;324:1170-1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1170 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Twenty thousand conversations
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;324:1171-1172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1171 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Discomfort of patient power
	Daniel McQueen, Peter D White, Richard Fuller, Michael C Sharpe
	BMJ  2002;324:1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Questions for Dr Foster
	James O Drife
	BMJ  2002;324:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1215 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical emergency teams and cardiac arrests in hospital
	Gary B Smith, Jerry Nolan, Andrew King, Peter Pockney, Mick Nielsen, Maureen Coombes, Ian Bailey, Mike Clancy, Michael Buist, Gaye Moore, Stephen Bernard, Bruce Waxman, Tuan Nguyen, Jeremy Anderson
	BMJ  2002;324:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1215/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Was it a heart attack?
	Eric S Kilpatrick, Alastair C H Pell, Jill P Pell
	BMJ  2002;324:1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1216 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New score is needed to predict risk of coronary heart disease
	Peter Brindle, Tom Fahey, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2002;324:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1217 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Using real patients in professional medical exams
	David I Newble, John Dearlove
	BMJ  2002;324:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1217/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recombinant human parathyroid hormone
	Gemma Kuijpers, Bruce Schneider, Bruce Stadel, Eric Colman, Jonathan Reeve
	BMJ  2002;324:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1218 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misdiagnosis of epilepsy
	Richard Morton, Richard E Appleton
	BMJ  2002;324:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1219 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-minute consultation: Rhinitis
	Natalie Brookes, Hesham Saleh, Ian Mackay, Andrew McCombe
	BMJ  2002;324:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1219/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Experience based treatment of head lice
	Liz Crossan
	BMJ  2002;324:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	MPs call for more publicly funded capital projects in the NHS
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2002;324:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1173 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Life expectancy is consistently underestimated, say researchers
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;324:1173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1173/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1174 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Muslim patients suffer as Hindu doctors fear for their safety
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;324:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1174/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trusts cancel 10% of operating theatre sessions
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:1174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1174/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms should "wait and see"
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;324:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trial shows azithromycin is no better than vitamin C for bronchitis
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1175/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Trust chiefs cause flood of serious cases to GMC
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2002;324:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1177/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	PFI is here to stay
	BMJ  2002;324:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1178 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	US reviews smallpox vaccination policy
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1176 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Campaign to eliminate disfiguring disease is stepped up
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2002;324:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1176/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US Senate considers proposal to tighten drug patent law
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1176/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Journals are inconsistent in their choice of articles to be fast-tracked
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1176/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Decoding of soil bacterium genome points way to new antibiotics
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1176/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australia�s detention policy puts refugees� health at risk, says report
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2002;324:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1177 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Psychiatrist settles dispute with Toronto University
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:1177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1177/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Spain sets up inquiry after use of frozen eggs for in vitro fertilisation
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2002;324:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1178/a [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS could help boost local communities, says King�s Fund
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1178/b [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV positive girl made ward of court after father refuses to allow her treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1178/c [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Impaired glucose tolerance: qualitative and quantitative study of general practitioners' knowledge and perceptions
	Graeme Wylie, A Pali S Hungin, Joanne Neely
	BMJ  2002;324:1190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1190 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Patient non-compliance with paper diaries
	Arthur A Stone, Saul Shiffman, Joseph E Schwartz, Joan E Broderick, Michael R Hufford
	BMJ  2002;324:1193-1194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1193 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Infopoints: Improving the use of clinical databases
	Nick Black, Mary Payne
	BMJ  2002;324:1194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1194 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Myopia
	Douglas R Fredrick
	BMJ  2002;324:1195-1199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1195 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Cat scratch disease
	Alexander Williams, Christopher D Sheldon, Terry Riordan
	BMJ  2002;324:1199-1200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1199 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions affecting the right side of the heart
	Richard A Harrigan, Kevin Jones
	BMJ  2002;324:1201-1204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1201 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The test
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2002;324:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1225/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Occupied Territories: entry denied
	Ben Alofs
	BMJ  2002;324:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1225 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Private finance and "value for money" in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?
	Allyson M Pollock, Jean Shaoul, Neil Vickers
	BMJ  2002;324:1205-1209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1205 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Three tables]

	Education and debate: Consent, confidentiality, and the threat to public health surveillance • Commentary: Don't waive consent lightlyinvolve the public
	Chris Verity, Angus Nicoll, Donal Manning
	BMJ  2002;324:1210-1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Definitions and list]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1226 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Saving time?
	BMJ  2002;324:1189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1189/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Aphorisms for old age
	BMJ  2002;324:1190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1190/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Edward Jenner
	BMJ  2002;324:1199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1199/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A Tudor husband's instruction to his pregnant wife
	BMJ  2002;324:1210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1210/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	This Week in the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;324:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1185 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Canada sees a bigger role for private companies in health care
	BMJ  2002;324:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1185/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ellis Baker
	BMJ  2002;324:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1221/e [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

ART

This week's ART

	Art: Outsider Art
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2002;324:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1222 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Health Care in Central Asia
	Jane Salvage
	BMJ  2002;324:1223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1223/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

This week's FILM

	Film: I Am Sam
	Peter Byrne
	BMJ  2002;324:1223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1223 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Private Eye Special Report on MMR
	David Elliman, Helen Bedford
	BMJ  2002;324:1224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1224 [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Myopia and the private finance initiative
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Eye sites
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2002;324:1224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1224/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Montague Graham
	Leslie Adams
	BMJ  2002;324:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1221 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nigel Holmes
	Harvey C Mason
	BMJ  2002;324:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1221/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Keith Willerby Lovel
	Nick Mann
	BMJ  2002;324:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1221/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Geoffrey Cheadle Myddelton
	A J Myddelton, D R Myddelton
	BMJ  2002;324:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1221/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Hubert Shelswell
	T C Thorne
	BMJ  2002;324:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1221/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Improving teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception: cluster randomised controlled trial of a teacher led intervention
	Anna Graham, Laurence Moore, Deborah Sharp, Ian Diamond
	BMJ  2002;324:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1179 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review
	Phil Edwards, Ian Roberts, Mike Clarke, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Sarah Pratap, Reinhard Wentz, Irene Kwan
	BMJ  2002;324:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1183 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increasing use of the emergency department in a Swiss hospital: observational study based on measures of the severity of cases
	Brigitte Santos-Eggimann
	BMJ  2002;324:1186-1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1186 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Background information] FREE

	Prescribing incentive schemes in two NHS regions: cross sectional survey • Commentary: Prescribing incentive schemesmore evidence is needed of how they work
	Mark Ashworth, Stacey Golding, Lindsey Shephard, Azeem Majeed, Frank Sullivan
	BMJ  2002;324:1187-1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1187 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Retrospective study of mortality after a water pollution incident at Lowermoor in north Cornwall
	P J Owen, D P B Miles, G J Draper, T J Vincent
	BMJ  2002;324:1189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1189 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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