Charcot would have approved
	Fiona Godlee
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This week in the BMJ

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

	BNP is reliable in predicting prognosis of heart failure [Full text]

	Sharing stories may improve diabetes education [Full text]

	Living with myalgic encephalomyelitis [Full text]

	The NHS is waking to the challenge of chronic conditions [Full text]

	Specialists should get more involved in the care of chronic patients [Full text]

	Moving beyond guidelines in treatment of COPD [Full text]

	Improving the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness [Full text]

Editorials

	High quality care for people with chronic diseases
	Trish Groves, Edward H Wagner
	BMJ  2005;330:609-610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.609, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w6]

	Drugs for preventing cardiovascular disease in China
	Jin Ling Tang, Yong Hua Hu
	BMJ  2005;330:610-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.610, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Palliative care in chronic illness
	Scott A Murray, Kirsty Boyd, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2005;330:611-612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.611, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nurses as leaders in chronic care
	Thomas Bodenheimer, Kate MacGregor, Nancy Stothart
	BMJ  2005;330:612-613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.612, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references and details]

	Mental health in Europe
	Graham Thornicroft, Diana Rose
	BMJ  2005;330:613-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.613, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figures 1 and 2]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Developing primary palliative care
	Paul A Fox
	BMJ  2005;330:671, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.671, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing primary palliative care: Primary palliative care services must be better funded by both day and night
	Scott A Murray, Kirsty Boyd, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2005;330:671, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.671-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of two authors]

	Specialist palliative care in dementia: Patients with dementia are unable to access appropriate palliative care
	Mari Lloyd-Williams, Sheila Payne, Mick Dennis
	BMJ  2005;330:671-672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.671-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Specialist palliative care in dementia
	Shaji K Sivaraman
	BMJ  2005;330:672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.672, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Specialist palliative care in dementia: ...and hope for terminal care at home is needed in developed countries
	Adrian Treloar, Jack Newport, Josephine Venn-Treloar
	BMJ  2005;330:672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.672-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing osteoarthritis of the knee: Conclusions about use of NSAIDs are misleading
	Florence Tubach, P Ravaud, B Giraudeau
	BMJ  2005;330:672, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.672-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing osteoarthritis of the knee: Authors' reply
	Jan M Bjordal, Anne Elisabeth Ljunggren, Atle Klovning, Lars Slørdal
	BMJ  2005;330:672-673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.672-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing osteoarthritis of the knee
	Caroline A Mitchell, Ade Adebajo
	BMJ  2005;330:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.673, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing osteoarthritis of the knee: Glucosamine-chondroitin should be prescribed by doctors
	Roger Chalmers
	BMJ  2005;330:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.673-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing osteoarthritis of the knee: Opioids help manage pain in osteoarthritis
	Martin Johnson
	BMJ  2005;330:673, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.673-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial: Touch may have had non-specific effect, among other things
	Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2005;330:673-674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.673-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial
	Richard Tillett
	BMJ  2005;330:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.674, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial: Is manipulation the most cost effective addition to "best care"?
	Torill H Tveito, Hege R Eriksen
	BMJ  2005;330:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.674-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial: Manipulation alone costs more than other options so why is it recommended?
	Timothy R Church
	BMJ  2005;330:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.674-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) trial: Authors' reply
	Martin Underwood, UK BEAM Trial Team
	BMJ  2005;330:674, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.674-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Stroke patients are not treated quickly enough
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;330:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.615, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Service framework threatened by shortage of neurologists
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2005;330:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.615-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.616, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK agency to combat research misconduct
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2005;330:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.616-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC should not consider doctor's record when ruling on misconduct
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.616-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK insurers postpone using predictive genetic testing until 2011
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.617, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Do it yourself cancer gene testing raises concerns
	Anne Harding
	BMJ  2005;330:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.617-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Deaths in Darfur are grossly underestimated
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2005;330:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.619-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Number of overweight women in developing countries is increasing
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;330:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.620, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA accepts weakened antidepressant warning
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;330:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.620-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US defeated on antiabortion statements at UN women's meeting
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.621, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Environmental charity launches a visual wakeup call on climate change
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2005;330:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.621-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hospital admission leads to drug errors
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.621-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Commission demands end to "festering sore" of African poverty
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.622, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Authorities want clearer guidelines about funding long term care
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2005;330:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.618-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UK government puts children at centre of plans to improve the country's health
	Kristina Fister
	BMJ  2005;330:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.618-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Exhibition encapsulates the pills that keep us alive
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2005;330:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.618-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS complaints system is letting patients down
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.618-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Surgeon is accused of carrying out unnecessary surgery
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2005;330:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.619-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Activating stem cells may treat Alzheimer's
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.622-a [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;330:623-624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.623, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Sharing stories: complex intervention for diabetes education in minority ethnic groups who do not speak English
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Anna Collard, Noorjahan Begum
	BMJ  2005;330:628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.628 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Commentary: Using patients' narratives in complex research
	Ross E G Upshur
	BMJ  2005;330:631, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.631, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Irritable bowel syndrome
	William E Cayley
	BMJ  2005;330:632, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.632, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Self help websites] FREE

Learning in practice

	What should undergraduate medical students know about psoriasis? Involving patients in curriculum development: modified Delphi technique
	Abdelaziz Alahlafi, Susan Burge
	BMJ  2005;330:633-636, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.633, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaire] FREE

	Preparing the 21st century global healthcare workforce
	Sheri D Pruitt, JoAnne E Epping-Jordan
	BMJ  2005;330:637-639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.637, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments in inhaled therapy in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	C B Cooper, D P Tashkin
	BMJ  2005;330:640-644, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.640, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Monitoring in chronic disease: a rational approach
	Paul Glasziou, Les Irwig, David Mant
	BMJ  2005;330:644-648, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.644, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient's journey with myalgic encephalomyelitis
	Bie Nio Ong, Daphne Evans, Andrew Bartlam
	BMJ  2005;330:648-650, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.648, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Role of specialists in common chronic diseases
	Linda Gask
	BMJ  2005;330:651-653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.651, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Condition based payment: improving care of chronic illness
	Albert DiPiero, David G Sanders
	BMJ  2005;330:654-657, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.654, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rising to the challenge: will the NHS support people with long term conditions?
	Tim Wilson, David Buck, Chris Ham
	BMJ  2005;330:657-661, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.657, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health reform through coordinated care: SA HealthPlus
	Malcolm W Battersby
	BMJ  2005;330:662-665, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.662, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Trials should inform structures and processes needed for tailoring interventions
	Jean Macq
	BMJ  2005;330:665-666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.665, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctor-patient relationships in chronic illness: insights from forensic psychiatry
	Colin Campbell, Gill McGauley
	BMJ  2005;330:667-670, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.667, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Progress Against Heart Disease
	Harry Hemingway
	BMJ  2005;330:677, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.677, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Jamie's School Dinners
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2005;330:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.678, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Optimist: Meditations on Medicine. Collected Essays 1994-2003
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2005;330:678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.678-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Tanzania and diabetes—a model for developing countries?
	Kaushik Ramaiya
	BMJ  2005;330:679, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.679, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Year of delivery
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2005;330:679, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.679-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:680, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.680, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Two-drug hypertension regimen increases CVD mortality
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The difference
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.627, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medscape conference coverage: American College of Gastroenterology—69th Annual Scientific Meeting Orlando, Florida
	BMJ  2005;330:636, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.636, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Trouble at sea
	Gabriel Jaffe
	BMJ  2005;330:666, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.666, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A good pizza joint
	Joanna Stephens
	BMJ  2005;330:670, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.670, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676-f [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Abstinence only programmes do not change sexual behaviour, Texas study shows
	BMJ  2005;330:653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.653, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between suicide attempts and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
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	Obituary: Alfred Ian Douglas Prentice
	BMJ  2005;330:653, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.653-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BMJ USA

	On experts
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2005;330:E340, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.E340, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	RAPID RESPONSE FROM BMJ.COM
	Patrick W Sullivan
	BMJ  2005;330:E341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.E341, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Sued's corner
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2005;330:E342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.E342, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The doctor, teacher, daughter
	Rebekah Wang-Cheng
	BMJ  2005;330:E342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.E342-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:E343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.E343, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	I am in the middle of the traditional preregistration house officer year, but would like to apply for an F2 post to commence in August this year—is this possible?
	Anne Hastie
	BMJ  2005;330:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s112, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	This is a general question—is there much demand for experienced general practitioners in the English health system?
	Anne Hastie
	BMJ  2005;330:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s112-a, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What hoops does a fully qualified US psychiatrist have to jump through to work as a fully qualified psychiatrist in the United Kingdom?
	Rahul Rao
	BMJ  2005;330:s112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s112-b, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Flexible friends
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s113, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Training in clinical oncology<$DOWNLINK>
	Carrie Featherstone, Nicholas S Reed
	BMJ  2005;330:s113-s115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s113-a, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Back to medicine 2
	Trisha Macnair
	BMJ  2005;330:s115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s115, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A flexible career—making it work
	Mark Rogers
	BMJ  2005;330:s116-s117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s116, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Writing an operative note
	Justin Yeung
	BMJ  2005;330:s116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s116-a, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting a good reference
	Raju Sureshkumar
	BMJ  2005;330:s117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s117, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors and nurses: allies or competitors?
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2005;330:s118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s118, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A glass half full: concentrate on your capabilities, not deficits
	T P E Wells
	BMJ  2005;330:s119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s119, (Published 19 March 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The neurosurgeon shadowed by Ian McEwan for his latest book
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:s120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.s120, (Published 19 March 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Jeremy Swan
	BMJ  2005;330:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.675, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Andrews Byrne
	Sheena Blenkinsopp
	BMJ  2005;330:675, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.675-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Teng Chia-Tung
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676, (Published 19 March 2005) [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David John Gould
	Bill Bowers
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Douglas Macdonald
	Alistair Adam
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ivan Myer Sievers
	Graham Sievers
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas Eldon Scott Stowell
	Michael Williams
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Walter Hewitt Toms
	J K Anand
	BMJ  2005;330:676, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.676-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	How well does B-type natriuretic peptide predict death and cardiac events in patients with heart failure: systematic review
	Jenny A Doust, Eva Pietrzak, Annette Dobson, Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  2005;330:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7492.625 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Full search strategy] FREE

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