Why are we complacent about alcohol?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Safe interval for emergency caesarean section is 75 minutes [Full text]

	(Short) training does not improve peer review [Full text]

	KISS, say GPs [Full text]

	Adding amynoglycoside to lactam does not improve results [Full text]

	Preventing falls makes hospital stay safer [Full text]

	Heart attack patients need better secondary prevention [Full text]

Editorials

	Preventing falls in elderly people
	Lesley Gillespie
	BMJ  2004;328:653-654, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.653 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Extending CONSORT to include cluster trials
	Michael J Campbell
	BMJ  2004;328:654-655, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.654 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of stroke on neuroimaging
	J M Wardlaw, A J Farrall
	BMJ  2004;328:655-656, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.655 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving peer review: who's responsible?
	Frank Davidoff
	BMJ  2004;328:657-658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.657 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ training for peer reviewers
	Sara Schroter, Trish Groves
	BMJ  2004;328:658, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.658 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Suspension of doctors: Reports highlight lack of human resources and legal expertise in NHS trusts
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2004;328:709, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.709 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension of doctors: GMC may be ultimate sacrifice
	Oliver R Dearlove
	BMJ  2004;328:709, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.709-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension of doctors: Medical suspensions may have ideological nature
	D B Double
	BMJ  2004;328:709-710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.709-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension of doctors: Be careful with suspensions
	Francesco Carelli
	BMJ  2004;328:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.710 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics review in research: Research governance also delays research
	David J Torgerson, Jo C Dumville
	BMJ  2004;328:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.710-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics review in research: Role of ethics committee review is interpreted widely
	Ian L P Beales
	BMJ  2004;328:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.710-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics review in research: Ethics committees are risk averse
	Helen J Minnis
	BMJ  2004;328:710-711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.710-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics review in research: Time has come for reassessment
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  2004;328:711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.711 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: More information is needed on outcomes in individual studies
	Chris Metcalfe
	BMJ  2004;328:711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.711-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: Authors' reply
	Massimo F Piepoli, Darrel P Francis
	BMJ  2004;328:711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.711-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Data for figures]

	Increase in non-evidence based use of antidepressants in children is cause for concern
	Antonio Clavenna, Maurizio Bonati, Elisa Rossi, Marisa De Rosa
	BMJ  2004;328:711-712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.711-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Top up fees and medicine: Waive repayments completely if working life is spent in the NHS
	Danny Dorling
	BMJ  2004;328:712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.712 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Top up fees and medicine: Ability to commit to unspecified debt may take precedence over ability
	Daniel C Gibbons
	BMJ  2004;328:712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.712-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regularly imbibing Dickens may inspire healthfulness
	William G Pickering
	BMJ  2004;328:712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.712-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK government announces plan to tackle alcohol
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;328:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.659 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs need help in spotting cancer symptoms, report says
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:659, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.659-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.660 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Women sue over delays in treatment for breast cancer
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.660-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch might introduce no-claim bonus for health insurance
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2004;328:660, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.660-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hospital breached boy's human rights by treating him against his mother's wishes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Resectable pancreatic cancer needs surgery, then chemotherapy
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.661-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mother accused of murder after refusing caesarean section
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2004;328:663, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.663-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Meeting of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans, 7-10 March: Requiring doctors to take part in continuing medical education doesn't improve heart attack care
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Meeting of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans, 7-10 March: Benefits of implantable cardiac defibrillators in heart failure are confirmed
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Despite all odds, NHS staff are happy with their jobs
	Chibuzo Odigwe
	BMJ  2004;328:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.662 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Trust's mental health services are threadbare, says CHI
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.662-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	French researchers join mass protest over continuing cuts
	Brad Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.662-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Roma woman goes to UN claiming sterlisation without consent
	Carl Kovac, Ágota Hajnal
	BMJ  2004;328:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.662-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Infectious diseases expert sentenced to prison and fined
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:662, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.662-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug resistant tuberculosis soars in eastern Europe
	Chibuzo Odigwe
	BMJ  2004;328:663, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.663 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMA is frustrated by pay award for doctors on old contract
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:663, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.663-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

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	Hospitals that follow heart attack guidelines save lives
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Malnutrition reaches alarming level in Darfur, Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2004;328:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664-c [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO report calls for new approach to substance dependence
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;328:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Preventive model of health care needed, says King's Fund
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;328:664, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.664-e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Interventions for the prevention of falls in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
	John T Chang, Sally C Morton, Laurence Z Rubenstein, Walter A Mojica, Margaret Maglione, Marika J Suttorp, Elizabeth A Roth, Paul G Shekelle
	BMJ  2004;328:680, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.680 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Relevant articles and details of studies] FREE

Learning in practice

	Revalidation: the purpose needs to be clear
	Tim van Zwanenberg
	BMJ  2004;328:684-686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.684 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table A] FREE

	Revalidation for general practitioners: randomised comparison of two revalidation models
	David Bruce, Katie Phillips, Ross Reid, David Snadden, Ronald Harden
	BMJ  2004;328:687-691, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.687 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Companion paper] FREE

	What the educators are saying
	Ed Peile, Colin Macdougall, Lara McCarthy
	BMJ  2004;328:692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.692 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments in secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction
	Hasnain Dalal, Philip H Evans, John L Campbell
	BMJ  2004;328:693-697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.693 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references and a second patient's perspective]

	Interactive case report: A 66 year old woman with breathlessness: case presentation
	Douglas Lowdon, Marion McMurdo
	BMJ  2004;328:698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.698 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of smoking cessation: Setting up a cessation service
	Penny Spice
	BMJ  2004;328:699-701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.699 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials
	Marion K Campbell, Diana R Elbourne, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2004;328:702-708, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.702 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Reviews

	Book: The Brainstorms Village: Epilepsy in our World
	E H Reynolds
	BMJ  2004;328:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.715 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.715-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2004;328:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.716 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Your life in their hands
	Giulio Bognolo
	BMJ  2004;328:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.716-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Saving the past: where do we stop?
	Andrew Bamji
	BMJ  2004;328:717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Love's a funny thing
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2004;328:717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.717-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:718, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.718 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Tamsulosin is effective for renal colic
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Life
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.672 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Old theories and old men
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2004;328:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.675 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical trivia
	Jayesh Doshi
	BMJ  2004;328:679, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.679 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2004;328:683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.683 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The essence remains unchanged
	Helen Ruth Offman
	BMJ  2004;328:691, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.691 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Q&A: Blocked ears and flying
	Parthasarathy Ramesh, John McCormack, Aaron J Baxter, Theo Fenton
	BMJ  2004;328:708, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.708 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Decline in mortality, AIDS, and hospital admissions in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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	ABC of smoking cessation: Nicotine replacement therapy
	BMJ  2004;328:686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.686-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of low dose ramipril on cardiovascular and renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and raised excretion of urinary albumin: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial (the DIABHYCAR study)
	BMJ  2004;328:686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.686-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I'm a general practitioner planning to work in a developing country for a while. How will this affect my appraisal and revalidation?
	Brian Keighley
	BMJ  2004;328:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s112, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Should I stay on a senior house officer rotation even though the consultant in charge of the final six months (and the specialty I'm most keen on) is retiring?
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2004;328:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s112-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Will prolonged study leave still be possible under the new general practitioner contract?
	Bill Irish
	BMJ  2004;328:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s112-b, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Could you tell me what training I need to succeed in medical informatics and whether it helps to be a clinician?
	Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
	BMJ  2004;328:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s112-c, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s113, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ever been stalked?<$DOWNLINK>
	Ronan J McIvor
	BMJ  2004;328:s113-s114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s113-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Leaving your job: part 3
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2004;328:s115-s116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s115, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women in Psychiatry Special Interest Group
	Rosalind Ramsay
	BMJ  2004;328:s116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s116, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Retraining: scary but worth it
	Christopher Bulstrode
	BMJ  2004;328:s117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s117, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Combating hospital acquired infection
	Rachna Sharma
	BMJ  2004;328:s117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s117-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Round up of responses
	Mark G Slade, Yogish C Kudva, John Gothard, Ian S Gilfillan, Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s118, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do you Trust these posts?
	Jaspreet Somal, Olugbemisola Oworu
	BMJ  2004;328:s118-s119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s118-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editor's response
	Glyn J Burtt, Sarah E Wheastone, Roderick D D Duncan, Sam Oddi, Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s119, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Results<$DOWNLINK>
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2004;328:s120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.s120, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Humphry Osmond
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.713 [Extract] [Full text]

	Philip Fairbrother Barwood
	Giles Barwood
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William David Doey
	Louise Doey
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William ("Bill") Guthrie
	The Guthrie family
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Ralph Hudson
	Timothy ffytche
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Noel McGalliard
	David Wong
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Deepak Mahabir
	Martin Gulliford
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Tracey Scales
	P Hampson
	BMJ  2004;328:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.714-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	National cross sectional survey to determine whether the decision to delivery interval is critical in emergency caesarean section
	Jane Thomas, Shantini Paranjothy, David James
	BMJ  2004;328:665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38031.775845.7C, (Published 15 March 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	lactam monotherapy versus lactam-aminoglycoside combination therapy for sepsis in immunocompetent patients: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials
	Mical Paul, Ishay Benuri-Silbiger, Karla Soares-Weiser, Leonard Leibovici
	BMJ  2004;328:668, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38028.520995.63, (Published 2 March 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Full list of references to excluded files] FREE

	Effects of training on quality of peer review: randomised controlled trial
	Sara Schroter, Nick Black, Stephen Evans, James Carpenter, Fiona Godlee, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38023.700775.AE, (Published 2 March 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Test papers, descriptions of errors and review quality instrument] FREE

	Effectiveness of targeted falls prevention programme in subacute hospital setting: randomised controlled trial
	Terry P Haines, Kim L Bennell, Richard H Osborne, Keith D Hill
	BMJ  2004;328:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7441.676 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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