Need good results? Fiddle them
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Environmental tobacco smoke does not affect mortality [Full text] FREE

	Mortality is high in young offenders [Full text] FREE

	Standardised measures needed for data quality [Full text] FREE

	Targeted programmes needed for hardcore smokers [Full text] FREE

	Promising new technologies for heart failure are available [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Finding the age of the patient's heart
	D Vijay Anand, David Lipkin, Avijit Lahiri
	BMJ  2003;326:1045-1046, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1045 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	David Price, Martin Duerden
	BMJ  2003;326:1046-1047, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1046 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of passive smoking on health
	George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:1048-1049, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1048 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The therapeutic effects of meditation
	Peter H Canter
	BMJ  2003;326:1049-1050, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1049 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Open letter to health ministers at Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
	Reiner Brettenthaler, Ren Salzberg
	BMJ  2003;326:1085, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1085 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case fatality rates after hospital admission for stroke: Covariates were not measured
	Michael D Hill
	BMJ  2003;326:1085, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1085-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case fatality rates after hospital admission for stroke: Definition of stroke defines stroke mortality
	David S Liebeskind
	BMJ  2003;326:1085-1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1085-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case fatality rates after hospital admission for stroke: Authors' reply
	Stephen Roberts, Michael Goldacre
	BMJ  2003;326:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1086 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional tables]

	Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism: Reducing concentrations further would be harmful
	Mike Crilly
	BMJ  2003;326:1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1086-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism: Restoring serum TSH to reference range should be goal of replacement
	Mark P Vanderpump, Jayne A Franklyn
	BMJ  2003;326:1086-1087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1086-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thyroid function tests and hypothyroidism: Authors' reply
	A D Toft, G J Beckett
	BMJ  2003;326:1087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1087 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care: Interactive decision support is here and essential for 21st century primary care
	Clive B Prince
	BMJ  2003;326:1087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1087-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care: Computerised decision support and reflection in action
	Toby Lipman
	BMJ  2003;326:1087-1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1087-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care: Authors' reply
	Martin Eccles, Nikki Rousseau, Elaine McColl, John Newton, Jeremy Grimshaw
	BMJ  2003;326:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1088 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Transplantation has no rival
	John P Hopewell
	BMJ  2003;326:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1088-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Findings for looked after children are not generalisable
	Brid Farrell
	BMJ  2003;326:1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1088-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary for David Horrobin: Medicine has lost something unique and irreplaceable
	Bruce G Charlton
	BMJ  2003;326:1088-1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1088-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary for David Horrobin: Work inspired and continues to nurture positive clinical outcomes
	Patricia Kane
	BMJ  2003;326:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1089 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary for David Horrobin: Original mind will be missed
	Susan McGoldrick
	BMJ  2003;326:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1089-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary for David Horrobin: Summary of rapid responses
	Sharon Davies
	BMJ  2003;326:1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1089-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Inquiry finds brains were removed without consent
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1051, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1051 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Public response to the Isaacs report will slow neurological research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1051, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1051-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:1052, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1052 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Improvements in the NHS are patchy, report says
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2003;326:1052, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1052-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK agency unveils plans to cut infusion device errors
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;326:1053, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1053 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart surgeons are to be rated according to bypass surgery success
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:1053, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1053-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	China is still not open enough about SARS, says WHO
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:1055, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1055-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	From hysterick disorders to biomedical research
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Hospitals take short term measures to meet targets
	BMJ  2003;326:1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1054 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Treatment for multiple myeloma shows promise
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1054-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Dog bites are no more frequent at full moon
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1054-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Inertia on folic acid has caused thousands of unnecessary deaths
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2003;326:1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1054-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Confusion over GP contract continues
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1054-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Dozens of patients allege unnecessary heart surgery
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:1055, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1055 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	United States and Germany are keen to see tobacco agreement watered down
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;326:1055, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1055-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US may withdraw federal funds from schools that exclude children for not taking treatment
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:1055, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1055-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	SARS in China spreads from Beijing to poorer inland provinces
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056-a [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA calls on consultants to challenge long hours of work
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056-b [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government supports measures to cut drug prices in developing countries
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056-c [Extract] [Full text]

	A quarter of patients with neurotic disorders don�t seek help
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056-d [Extract] [Full text]

	NICE expands research and development role
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Opponents of foundation hospitals vow to fight on
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1056-f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Systematic review of scope and quality of electronic patient record data in primary care
	Krish Thiru, Alan Hassey, Frank Sullivan
	BMJ  2003;326:1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1070 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Data sources, search terms and tables] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: New pacing technologies for heart failure
	Anthony W C Chow, Rebecca E Lane, Martin R Cowie
	BMJ  2003;326:1073-1077, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1073 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Variable presentation of Brugada syndrome: lessons from three generations with syncope
	Adrian Plunkett, J A Hulse, B Mishra, J Gill
	BMJ  2003;326:1078-1079, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1078 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous coronary intervention. I: History and development
	Ever D Grech
	BMJ  2003;326:1080-1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1080 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Effect of regression to the mean on decision making in health care
	Veronica Morton, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2003;326:1083-1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1083 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figure]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Book: Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses
	Michael Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2003;326:1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1092 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Time out of Mind
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2003;326:1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1092-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Is this journalism that makes a difference?
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2003;326:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1093 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit parade: Hit Parade
	BMJ  2003;326:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1093-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Blurring the boundaries
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1094 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website Of The Week: Passive smoking
	Adrian Gonzalez
	BMJ  2003;326:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1094-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: China in the grip of SARS
	Therese Hesketh
	BMJ  2003;326:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1095 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: There is no evidence that...
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2003;326:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1095-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1096 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: The optimal serum digoxin concentration in men with stable heart failure in sinus rhythm is 0.5 to 0.8 ng/ml
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The future of the Commission for Health Improvement
	BMJ  2003;326:1052, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1052-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1063 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine in the time of SARS
	Andrew C F Hui
	BMJ  2003;326:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1067 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The way things were?
	Richard Mark Graham
	BMJ  2003;326:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1069 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The massacre of the innocents
	BMJ  2003;326:1072, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1072 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Human dignity
	Robert Richardson
	BMJ  2003;326:1077, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1077 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A 42 year old man with acute chest pain
	BMJ  2003;326:1079, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1079-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Libraries face higher costs for academic journals
	BMJ  2003;326:1079 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:1079 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Afghanistan struggles to build post-conflict health care
	BMJ  2003;326:1079 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary of David Horrobin
	BMJ  2003;326:1091 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Robert Coleman Atkins
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;326:1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1090 [Extract] [Full text]

	Patrick Alan Adam
	JUSTIN ROBBINS
	BMJ  2003;326:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1091 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Frederick James Brunton
	Keith Dewbury, Peter Cook
	BMJ  2003;326:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1091-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Amsden Elliott
	Colin Ruck
	BMJ  2003;326:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1091-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Moorhead
	Richard Dreaper
	BMJ  2003;326:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1091-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Christopher Jonathan Pearce
	Richard Bayliss
	BMJ  2003;326:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1091-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Kenneth Wright
	Barry Peach
	BMJ  2003;326:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1091-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98
	James E Enstrom, Geoffrey C Kabat
	BMJ  2003;326:1057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1057 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

	Prevalence of hardcore smoking in England, and associated attitudes and beliefs: cross sectional study
	Martin J Jarvis, Jane Wardle, Jo Waller, Lesley Owen
	BMJ  2003;326:1061, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1061 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality in young offenders: retrospective cohort study
	Carolyn Coffey, Friederike Veit, Rory Wolfe, Eileen Cini, George C Patton
	BMJ  2003;326:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1064 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New strategies for increasing the detection of HIV: analysis of routine data
	James Read, S J Winceslaus
	BMJ  2003;326:1066-1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1066 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	RESEARCH POINTERS: Perinatal characteristics and risk of rheumatoid arthritis
	Lennart T H Jacobsson, Magnus E Jacobsson, Johan Askling, William C Knowler
	BMJ  2003;326:1068-1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7398.1068 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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