A hybrid for open access
	Kamran Abbasi
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This week in the BMJ

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	Ultrasonography is not the only way to diagnose DVT [Full text]

	Use ACE inhibitors in patients with diabetic nephropathy [Full text]

	Paediatric cardiac surgeons are getting better [Full text]

	School runs do not affect physical activity [Full text]

	Radiological risks are not explained well [Full text]

	Early contact with patients is beneficial [Full text]

Editorials

	Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
	John R Geddes, Andrea Cipriani
	BMJ  2004;329:809-810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.809 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why the GMC is right to appeal over life prolonging treatment
	Raanan Gillon
	BMJ  2004;329:810-811, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.810 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antenatal screening for Down's syndrome
	Zarko Alfirevic, James P Neilson
	BMJ  2004;329:811-812, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.811 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing metastatic bone pain
	John A Dewar
	BMJ  2004;329:812-813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.812 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Publishing tobacco tar measurements on packets
	Nigel Gray, Peter Boyle
	BMJ  2004;329:813-814, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.813 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references w1 - w4]

	bmj.com behind access controls
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2004;329:814, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.814 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Improving mortality of coronary surgery: Study conclusions are paradoxical
	Eric Lim
	BMJ  2004;329:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.855 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving mortality of coronary surgery: Data analysis was not robust
	Sheka L C Reddy
	BMJ  2004;329:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.855-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving mortality of coronary surgery: Authors' reply
	Ben Bridgewater, Antony D Grayson
	BMJ  2004;329:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.855-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Performance monitoring should take costs to heart
	Sheila M Bird
	BMJ  2004;329:856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bypass surgery mortality is blunt measure of performance
	Ian S Gilfillan
	BMJ  2004;329:856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.856-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Vague numbers are being perpetuated
	Iain H Glencross
	BMJ  2004;329:856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.856-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: No data were produced
	Tom Bates
	BMJ  2004;329:856-857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.856-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Data relevant to patient safety should not be presented alone and out of context
	Richard Thomson
	BMJ  2004;329:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.857 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Patients should be involved as partners
	Joanne M Shaw, Melinda Letts, David Dickinson
	BMJ  2004;329:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.857-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics: Authors' reply
	Paul Aylin, Alex Bottle, Shivani Tanna, Brian Jarman
	BMJ  2004;329:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.857-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: Integrated approach is needed
	Michael Fox
	BMJ  2004;329:857-858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.857-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: Which emperor is naked?
	John P Briffa
	BMJ  2004;329:858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.858 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: With respect, Professor Baum, you've got it wrong
	Alexander Molassiotis
	BMJ  2004;329:858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.858-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: With respect, professor, the Prince of Wales is not so wrong
	Bobby K Potter
	BMJ  2004;329:858-859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.858-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: Heretics unite
	Lesley J Fallowfield
	BMJ  2004;329:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.859 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: Science is worth the effort
	Luke Devey
	BMJ  2004;329:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.859-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The prince and the professor: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2004;329:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.859-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human touch could be saved by using robots
	Nancy K O'Connor
	BMJ  2004;329:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.859-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Scientists receive Nobel prize for unravelling secrets of smell
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2004;329:815, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.815 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC decision on Southall is challenged as "unduly lenient"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:815, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.815-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;329:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.816 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Merck withdraws arthritis drug worldwide
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;329:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.816-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA to review risks of antidepressants in adults
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.816-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Vitamin supplements do not cut risk of gastrointestinal cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.817 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Can country music drive you to suicide?
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.817-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	A quarter of young children in Iraq are chronically malnourished
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2004;329:819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.819-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pathologist cleared of misconduct by GMC in Shipman hearing
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	McDonald's profits drop and Mars abandons king size bars
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	GMC appeals against judgment on withholding treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.818 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Less than half the world is likely to meet target for cutting child deaths
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2004;329:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.818-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	How images can enhance patients' understanding
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2004;329:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.818-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	European Commission wants drug companies to test products for use in children
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;329:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.818-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Seven doctors accused of failing to monitor health of addicted patients
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.818-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Czech Republic offers free beer to blood donors
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2004;329:819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.819 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US accrediting agency tightens rules for continuing medical education
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.819-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GPs given go ahead to buy care for patients
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;329:819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.819-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Women sue over epilepsy drug risks
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Labour pledges cleaner hospitals and a more patient friendly health service
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish researchers apply for licence for human cloning
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820-d [Extract] [Full text]

	US Justice Department appeals against the rulings that banning partial birth abortion is unconstitutional
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Reanalysis of alteplase for stroke stirs controversy
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.820-f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Effects of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists on mortality and renal outcomes in diabetic nephropathy: systematic review
	Giovanni F M Strippoli, Maria Craig, Jonathan J Deeks, Francesco Paolo Schena, Jonathan C Craig
	BMJ  2004;329:828, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38237.585000.7C, (Published 30 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1- w59] FREE

	Physical activity cost of the school run: impact on schoolchildren of being driven to school (EarlyBird 22)
	Brad Metcalf, Linda Voss, Alison Jeffery, Jenny Perkins, Terry Wilkin
	BMJ  2004;329:832-833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38169.688102.F71, (Published 18 August 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

	What can experience add to early medical education? Consensus survey
	Tim Dornan, Chris Bundy
	BMJ  2004;329:834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.834 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What the educators are saying
	Peter Cantillon
	BMJ  2004;329:838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.838 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments and current status of gene therapy using viral vectors in the United Kingdom
	Kate Relph, Kevin Harrington, Hardev Pandha
	BMJ  2004;329:839-842, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.839 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis: an imported infection among travellers to central and South America
	Sukhbir Ahluwalia, Stephen D Lawn, Jeevendra Kanagalingam, Henry Grant, Diana N J Lockwood
	BMJ  2004;329:842-844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.842 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of preterm birth: Immediate care of the preterm infant
	Peter W Fowlie, William McGuire
	BMJ  2004;329:845-848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.845 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Informed consent and communication of risk from radiological and nuclear medicine examinations: how to escape from a communication inferno
	Eugenio Picano
	BMJ  2004;329:849-851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.849 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics in practice: Making clinical decisions when the stakes are high and the evidence unclear
	Wendy Hu, Andrew Kemp, Ian Kerridge
	BMJ  2004;329:852-854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.852 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1-12]

Reviews

	Book: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;329:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.862 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Art: Future Face
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;329:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.863 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2004;329:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.864 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: Film reopens euthanasia debate in Spain
	Gonzalo Casino
	BMJ  2004;329:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.864-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: When TV damned the drug regulators
	Patrick Waller
	BMJ  2004;329:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.865 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: The Welshman in the temple
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2004;329:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.865-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.866 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Erectile dysfunction is common with long distance cycling
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Bad news
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;329:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The best physician
	Sonal Singh
	BMJ  2004;329:833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.833 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: And a memorable day
	Bryan Scaife
	BMJ  2004;329:833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.833-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A 35 year old woman with diabetic nephropathy who wants a baby
	BMJ  2004;329:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.844 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Food for x ray
	Brian Witcombe
	BMJ  2004;329:848, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.848 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Should life be longer?
	Claus A Pierach
	BMJ  2004;329:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.854 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Taking account of future technology in cost effectiveness analysis
	BMJ  2004;329:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.837 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of a flow chart on use of blood transfusions in primary total hip and knee replacement: prospective before and after study
	BMJ  2004;329:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.837-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Does the exact result that you get in the PLAB exam, for example, 129 or 150 or 160, make any difference when you are looking for jobs?
	Adekunle Olowu
	BMJ  2004;329:s146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s146, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is the SHO banding system?
	Dan Saunders
	BMJ  2004;329:s146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s146-a, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are publications and paper presentations at conferences good to have on a CV for an SHO job?
	Thomas Shakespeare
	BMJ  2004;329:s146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s146-b, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What do I need to do to secure an SHO post in the histopathology schools in the 2005 intake?
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  2004;329:s146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s146-c, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have an MD in pathology from India and I want to pursue a career in forensic medicine. Who should I contact?
	Roy Palmer
	BMJ  2004;329:s146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s146-d, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting on in medicine
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;329:s147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s147, (Published 9 October 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trainer taming: part 1<$DOWNLINK>
	Ray Clarke
	BMJ  2004;329:s147-s148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s147-a, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shift work and doctors' health
	John Hobson
	BMJ  2004;329:s149-s150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s149, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Locum motives
	Cyrus Abbasian
	BMJ  2004;329:s151-s152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s151, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surgical dress code—according to Sir Lancelot Spratt
	Luke Cascarini
	BMJ  2004;329:s152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s152, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postgraduate diploma in evidence based health care (EBHC)
	Neelima Deshpande
	BMJ  2004;329:s153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s153, (Published 9 October 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teaching medical students in the community
	Bruno Rushforth
	BMJ  2004;329:s153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s153-a, (Published 9 October 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Happy hypnotherapist
	Anuradha Arasu
	BMJ  2004;329:s154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.s154, (Published 9 October 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Philip Michael Stell
	Alan G Kerr
	BMJ  2004;329:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.860 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sheila Callender
	David Weatherall
	BMJ  2004;329:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.860-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Margaret Monica Fisher (née Hanford)
	F W Hanford
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Dudley Harte
	David Harte
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Stephen Hughes-Games
	Ivor Doney
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ian George Kelly
	David Hamblen
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thakorlal Vallabhdas Raivadera
	Shreekant Raivadera
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Louis Reid Robinson
	T A J Dawson
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas Wilson Roddie
	Anne Nicholls, Ian Roddie
	BMJ  2004;329:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.861-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Combined use of rapid D-dimer testing and estimation of clinical probability in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis: systematic review
	Tonya L Fancher, Richard H White, Richard L Kravitz
	BMJ  2004;329:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38226.719803.EB, (Published 21 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality in England after Bristol: descriptive analysis of hospital episode statistics 1991-2002
	Paul Aylin, Alex Bottle, Brian Jarman, Paul Elliott
	BMJ  2004;329:825, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.825 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figures and tables] FREE

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