Performance matters
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Staying in was safer than evacuation in a chemical incident [Full text]

	Early treatment is vital for meningococcal disease [Full text]

	Hysterectomy doesn't seem to affect long term mortality [Full text]

	Methods of hysterectomy: the hierarchy is clear [Full text]

	ABC: principles of war surgery [Full text]

	Doctors and managers working together on costs [Full text]

Editorials

	Hysterectomy for benign conditions
	Leroy C Edozien
	BMJ  2005;330:1457-1458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1457 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Where next with revalidation?
	John J Norcini
	BMJ  2005;330:1458-1459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1458 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health research policy in the European Union
	Rodolfo Saracci, Jørn Olsen, Albert Hofman
	BMJ  2005;330:1459-1460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1459 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The future of singlehanded general practices
	Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2005;330:1460-1461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1460 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thresholds for normal blood pressure and serum cholesterol
	Steinar Westin, Iona Heath
	BMJ  2005;330:1461-1462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1461 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Health inequalities under New Labour: Relative rather than absolute gaps are important over time and place
	Anne Low, Allan Low
	BMJ  2005;330:1507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1507 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health inequalities under New Labour: Difference in findings is due to geographical coverage
	Madhavi Bajekal, Allan Baker
	BMJ  2005;330:1507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1507-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health inequalities under New Labour: Authors' reply
	Mary Shaw, George Davey Smith, Danny Dorling
	BMJ  2005;330:1507-1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1507-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making allegations without due care is wrong
	Peter J Stephens
	BMJ  2005;330:1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1508 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmacogenetics and ethnically targeted therapies: Racial drugs need to be put in context
	Jonathan D Kahn
	BMJ  2005;330:1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1508-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmacogenetics and ethnically targeted therapies: Authors' reply
	Raj Bhopal, Taslin Rahemtulla
	BMJ  2005;330:1508-1509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1508-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Younger teenagers are also at risk of mumps outbreaks
	D Graham Mackenzie, Nick Hallam, Janet Stevenson
	BMJ  2005;330:1509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1509 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' written consent when photographed could suffice for journals
	J Soler-González, M C Ruiz
	BMJ  2005;330:1509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1509-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Detecting cheating in written medical examinations: Self regulation may be way forward
	Suneel Bhat
	BMJ  2005;330:1509-1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1509-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Detecting cheating in written medical examinations: Teach, and students may learn something
	Gary J Nicholls
	BMJ  2005;330:1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Detecting cheating in written medical examinations: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;330:1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1510-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A testing time for ethical standards
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2005;330:1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1510-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shaving can be safer head lice treatment than insecticides
	Anthony Lwegaba
	BMJ  2005;330:1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1510-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	GMC hears case against paediatrician in Sally Clark trial
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1463 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Court hears shaken baby cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1463-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2005;330:1464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Alder Hey pathologist is struck off medical register
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1464-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Little progress has been made in combating hospital infections
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2005;330:1464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1464-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	National nutrition council is needed to tackle childhood obesity
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:1465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US survey shows extent of research misconduct
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1465-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Super surgeries" threaten general practice
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2005;330:1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1467-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK stops short of outright smoking ban in enclosed public places
	Kaye McIntosh
	BMJ  2005;330:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian government bans smoking in new films and TV serials
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2005;330:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1468-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	BMA calls on G8 governments to address “brain drain”
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;330:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1466 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Conduct of drug trials in poor countries must improve
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2005;330:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1466-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	College looks back to discovery of hormones
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;330:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1466-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	£10m settlement for children misdiagnosed with epilepsy
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;330:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1466-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Approval of FDA commissioner held up by emergency contraception issue
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1466-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors and company to be held liable for contraceptive failure
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2005;330:1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1467 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Autopsy supports claim that Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1467-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US stem cell research progresses despite limitations
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;330:1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1467-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Extradition bid is likely after findings against doctor
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2005;330:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1468-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Gap between NHS policy makers and doctors is "enormous"
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;330:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1468-c [Extract] [Full text]

	US government cuts penalty on tobacco firms as racketeering case closes
	Anne Harding
	BMJ  2005;330:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1468-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Heart attack care is improving in England and Wales
	Yasmina Dadi
	BMJ  2005;330:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1468-e [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;330:1469-1470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1469 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Long term effects of hysterectomy on mortality: nested cohort study
	Lisa Iversen, Philip C Hannaford, Alison M Elliott, Amanda J Lee
	BMJ  2005;330:1482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38483.669178.8F, (Published 1 June 2005) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	Creative use of existing clinical and health outcomes data to assess NHS performance in England: Part 2—more challenging aspects of monitoring
	Azim Lakhani, James Coles, Daniel Eayres, Craig Spence, Colin Sanderson
	BMJ  2005;330:1486-1492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1486 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional technical materials] FREE

Clinical review

	Radiological review of pneumothorax
	A R O'Connor, W E Morgan
	BMJ  2005;330:1493-1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1493 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of conflict and disaster: Principles of war surgery
	Steve J Mannion, Eddie Chaloner
	BMJ  2005;330:1498-1500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1498 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Programme budgeting and marginal analysis: bridging the divide between doctors and managers
	Danny Ruta, Craig Mitton, Angela Bate, Cam Donaldson
	BMJ  2005;330:1501-1503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	GMC and the future of revalidation: Time for radical reform
	Kieran Walshe, Lawrence Benson
	BMJ  2005;330:1504-1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Press: Shaken and stirred?
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2005;330:1513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Who Killed my Baby?
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2005;330:1514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Making revalidation credible
	Mike Pringle
	BMJ  2005;330:1515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1515 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Let the patients decide
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2005;330:1515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1515-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;330:1516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1516 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Melatonin is effective for some sleep disorders
	BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Shallow animals
	Peter Morrell
	BMJ  2005;330:1481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1481 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: What's your motivation?
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2005;330:1492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1492 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An event that changed my life
	Geoffrey Marsh
	BMJ  2005;330:1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Discovery
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;330:1503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Recent developments in inhaled therapy in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	BMJ  2005;330:1485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1485 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Management of pregnancies with RhD alloimmunisation
	BMJ  2005;330:1485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1485-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with an intensive rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic low back pain: the MRC spine stabilisation trial
	BMJ  2005;330:1485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1485-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	How can I find out about career prospects as a clinical pharmacologist in the United Kingdom?
	Emma Baker
	BMJ  2005;330:s254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s254, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is it true that to get a specialist registrar type 1 rotation, one must have done some dedicated research work and must have a number of publications and presentations?
	Rahul Rao
	BMJ  2005;330:s254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s254-a, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is clinical governance?
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  2005;330:s254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s254-b, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;330:gp255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.sgp255, (Published 25 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;330:s255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s255, (Published 25 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The rise and fall of anatomy
	Kaji Sritharan
	BMJ  2005;330:s255-s256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s255-a, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Off the wall solutions for on the ball doctors
	BMJ  2005;330:s256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s256, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Personal support 2: How to make the most of a mentoring relationship
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2005;330:s257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s257, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patient confidentiality
	Lynn Hagger
	BMJ  2005;330:s258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s258, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Confidentiality—the final betrayal
	Brian Keighley
	BMJ  2005;330:gp259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.sgp259, (Published 25 June 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Organising a revision programme for final year medical students
	Nawaz Walji
	BMJ  2005;330:s259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s259, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is general practice family friendly?
	Ruth Chambers
	BMJ  2005;330:gp260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.sgp260, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is general practice family friendly?
	Attiya Khan
	BMJ  2005;330:gp260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.sgp260-a, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Working as a medical demonstrator in physiology
	Willoughby Morgan
	BMJ  2005;330:s260-s261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s260, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Managing drug misuse in primary care
	Jane H Roberts
	BMJ  2005;330:gp261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.sgp261, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A histopathologist who stepped out of the lab
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2005;330:s262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.s262, (Published 25 June 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Hamilton Naki
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2005;330:1511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1511 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ronald James Bower
	Donald Portsmouth
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Haydn Hughes
	Jon Hughes, Kath Hughes
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Kipling
	Mike Kipling
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sherwood George William Rainsbury
	David Shreeve
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Ruddock Solari
	Edmund Dunstan
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Harold Bernard Watson
	R D S Watson
	BMJ  2005;330:1512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1512-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Evacuation decisions in a chemical air pollution incident: cross sectional survey
	S Kinra, G Lewendon, R Nelder, N Herriott, R Mohan, M Hort, S Harrison, V Murray
	BMJ  2005;330:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1471 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Evacuation decisions in chemical incidents benefit from expert health advice
	Peter J Baxter
	BMJ  2005;330:1474-1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1474 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The role of healthcare delivery in the outcome of meningococcal disease in children: case-control study of fatal and non-fatal cases
	Nelly Ninis, Claire Phillips, Linda Bailey, Jon I Pollock, Simon Nadel, Joseph Britto, Ian Maconochie, Andrew Winrow, Pietro G Coen, Robert Booy, Michael Levin
	BMJ  2005;330:1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1475 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Methods of hysterectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
	Neil Johnson, David Barlow, Anne Lethaby, Emma Tavender, Liz Curr, Ray Garry
	BMJ  2005;330:1478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1478 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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