Transparency: a modern essential
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Training improves care givers' and patients' wellbeing... [Full text]

	... and saves money [Full text]

	A third of type 1 diabetics have renal damage within 20 years [Full text]

	Management of self harm varies in England [Full text]

	Poorer Scottish patients with heart failure see their GPs less [Full text]

Editorials

	Informal care giving for disabled stroke survivors
	Graeme J Hankey
	BMJ  2004;328:1085-1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1085 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Roll Back Malaria: a failing global health campaign
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2004;328:1086-1087, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1086 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure showing effects of malaria]

	National screening programme for aortic aneurysm
	Roger M Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2004;328:1087-1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1087 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide
	Richard Huxtable
	BMJ  2004;328:1088-1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1088 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physical activity and coronary heart disease
	G David Batty, I-Min Lee
	BMJ  2004;328:1089-1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1089 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	No time to train the surgeons: Royal College of Surgeons of England responds
	Peter J Morris
	BMJ  2004;328:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1133 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: Medical profession must re-establish its independence from government
	Alan M Leaman
	BMJ  2004;328:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1133-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: Only repeal of European Working Time Directive will help
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2004;328:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1133-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: Golden age of surgical training didn't exist
	David T Reilly
	BMJ  2004;328:1133-1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1133-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: The rot is deep
	Aman S Coonar
	BMJ  2004;328:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1134 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: Learning from the New Zealand experience
	Lauren Ovens
	BMJ  2004;328:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1134-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: Choosing trainees carefully may be the solution
	Vipin Zamvar
	BMJ  2004;328:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1134-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons: Summary of rapid responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2004;328:1134-1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1134-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scan immediately for stroke using MRI when possible
	Dennis P Briley, Thomas Meagher
	BMJ  2004;328:1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1135 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning a blind eye: Testing the success of blinding and the CONSORT statement
	Douglas G Altman, Kenneth F Schulz, David Moher
	BMJ  2004;328:1135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1135-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning a blind eye: Authors have blinkered view of blinding
	Stephen J Senn
	BMJ  2004;328:1135-1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1135-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning a blind eye: Authors' reply
	Dean Fergusson, Kathleen Cranley Glass, Duff Waring, Stan Shapiro
	BMJ  2004;328:1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1136 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Turning a blind eye: Why we don't test for blindness at the end of our trials
	David L Sackett
	BMJ  2004;328:1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1136-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Competing interests]

	We are not "amueslied"
	Alice M Walsh, Jonathan R Hincks
	BMJ  2004;328:1136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1136-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	College proposes better deal for acute medical patients
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;328:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1091 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Companies offer surgeons incentives to use their prostheses
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1091-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1092 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors charged with planning to kill a patient for his kidneys
	Andrew Osborn
	BMJ  2004;328:1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1092-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Half of Russia's doctors face sack in healthcare reforms
	Andrew Osborn
	BMJ  2004;328:1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1092-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Newer hypnotics no better for insomnia than short acting benzodiazepines
	Liza Gibson
	BMJ  2004;328:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1093 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE gives guidance on use of new antiepileptic drugs in children
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1093-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mentally ill offenders are being wrongly held in prisons
	Paul Stephenson
	BMJ  2004;328:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1095-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	A lawyer with the Hygeia touch
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;328:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1096 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	US universities get round regulations on stem cell research
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1094 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS meets financial targets, but some trusts could do better
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1094-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UK government endorses national exercise regime
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2004;328:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1094-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New EU trials database is criticised for lack of openness
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2004;328:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1094-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1094-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Health agencies end in-fighting on malaria
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2004;328:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1095 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients with type 2 diabetes should take statins
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1095-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients will be able to report drugs' side effects
	Keren Williams
	BMJ  2004;328:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1095-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

Dr Foster's case notes

	Some way to go for consistent implementation of guidance on hip fracture
	Alex Bottle, Brian Jarman, Paul Aylin, Roger Taylor
	BMJ  2004;328:1097, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1097 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BMJ family highlights

	What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2004;328:1098, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1098 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Influence of socioeconomic deprivation on the primary care burden and treatment of patients with a diagnosis of heart failure in general practice in Scotland: population based study
	F A McAlister, N F Murphy, C R Simpson, S Stewart, K MacIntyre, M Kirkpatrick, J Chalmers, A Redpath, S Capewell, J J V McMurray
	BMJ  2004;328:1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38043.414074.EE, (Published 23 April 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Valuable insights from morbidity coding in primary care
	Tom Fahey
	BMJ  2004;328:1113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38084.560475.55, (Published 23 April 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Management of diastolic heart failure in older adults
	Ali Ahmed
	BMJ  2004;328:1114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Ergonomics in medicine and surgery
	Robert Stone, Rory McCloy
	BMJ  2004;328:1115-1118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1115 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional information]

	ABC of rheumatology: Low back pain
	Cathy Speed
	BMJ  2004;328:1119-1121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms in men
	J J Earnshaw, E Shaw, M R Whyman, K R Poskitt, B P Heather
	BMJ  2004;328:1122-1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1122 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons from developing nations on improving health care
	Donald M Berwick
	BMJ  2004;328:1124-1129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Linking disease control programmes in rural Africa: a pro-poor strategy to reach Abuja targets and millennium development goals
	David H Molyneux, Vinand M Nantulya
	BMJ  2004;328:1129-1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1129 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further examples of programmes]

Reviews

	Book: Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care
	David Woods
	BMJ  2004;328:1139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1139 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Autism and Creativity: Is there a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2004;328:1139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1139-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2004;328:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1140 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Media hype? It's not as bad as it seems
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1140-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Are we creating a health pariah class?
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2004;328:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1141 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: I don't know much, but this I do know
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2004;328:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1141-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:1142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1142 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: LMW heparin effective for pulmonary embolus
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Reduction of dislocations immediately after the accident
	Walter G. Walford
	BMJ  2004;328:1113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1113-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Deafness makes you depressed
	Simon Barley
	BMJ  2004;328:1132, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1132 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Every breath you take
	BMJ  2004;328:1104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1104 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Interactive case report: Treatment of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
	BMJ  2004;328:1104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1104-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clustering of common risk factors does not explain risk of CHD
	BMJ  2004;328:1104, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1104-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	How do I obtain a position as an English speaking general practitioner in the Costa Blanca area of Spain?
	James Sherifi
	BMJ  2004;328:s182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s182, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am interested in pursuing a career in a non-governmental organisation or the United Nations in a medical capacity. How do I go about this?
	Mark Wilson
	BMJ  2004;328:s182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s182-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am in my fifth year at medical school and I'm planning to spend a year participating in a health promotion scheme in Africa. Is it better to do this now than after I have graduated?
	Nick Beeching
	BMJ  2004;328:s182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s182-b, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am interested in working in the Middle East on a long term basis. Could someone please advise me on how to find jobs and on the working conditions?
	Nick Banatvala
	BMJ  2004;328:s182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s182-c, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s183, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Accident and emergency in Jamaica<$DOWNLINK>
	Clare Hayes-Bradley
	BMJ  2004;328:s183-s184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s183-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practice on the other side of the world
	Connie Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:s185-s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s185, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Becoming a medical diving referee
	Anuradha Arasu
	BMJ  2004;328:s186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s186, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychiatry in the Caribbean
	Cyrus Abbasian
	BMJ  2004;328:s187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s187, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working in New Zealand—a positive experience
	Paul Grant
	BMJ  2004;328:s187-s188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s187-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An anaesthetist's nightmare in North America
	Damon Kamming
	BMJ  2004;328:s188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s188, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	In and out of Africa
	Ellen Welch
	BMJ  2004;328:s189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s189, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Planning work overseas
	Mark Wilson
	BMJ  2004;328:s189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s189-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Put patients first<$DOWNLINK>
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2004;328:s190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.s190, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Patrick Trevor-Roper
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2004;328:1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1137 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Brunskill Brierley
	D I Graham
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Samuel Howard Davies
	Christopher A Ludlam
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Hewspear
	John Lester
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Francis Robert Stanley Knight
	Julia Kilby
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Matthew McLearie
	Roeland Raymakers
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Wendy Scott
	C Beard
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Buchanan Smellie
	Ruth Affleck, Mary Taylor
	BMJ  2004;328:1138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1138-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Training carers of stroke patients: randomised controlled trial
	Lalit Kalra, Andrew Evans, Inigo Perez, Anne Melbourn, Anita Patel, Martin Knapp, Nora Donaldson
	BMJ  2004;328:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1099 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: The CONSORT table] FREE

	Training care givers of stroke patients: economic evaluation
	Anita Patel, Martin Knapp, Andrew Evans, Inigo Perez, Lalit Kalra
	BMJ  2004;328:1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1102 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Health economics checklist] FREE

	Predictors for the development of microalbuminuria and macroalbuminuria in patients with type 1 diabetes: inception cohort study
	Peter Hovind, Lise Tarnow, Peter Rossing, Berit Ruud Jensen, Malene Graae, Inge Torp, Christian Binder, Hans-Henrik Parving
	BMJ  2004;328:1105, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38070.450891.FE, (Published 19 April 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Variations in the hospital management of self harm in adults in England: observational study
	Olive Bennewith, David Gunnell, Tim Peters, Keith Hawton, Allan House
	BMJ  2004;328:1108-1109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7448.1108 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of sampling process] FREE

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