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9 February 2008 (Vol 336, No 7639)
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The value of complaints
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.538877.DE
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Sugary drinks, fruit, and increased risk of gout
Martin Underwood
BMJ  2008;336:285-286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.667731.80
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Involving users in developing health services
Gillian M Craig
BMJ  2008;336:286-287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.598750.80, (Published 29 January 2008)
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Improving access to research data in Europe
Philipa Mladovsky, Elias Mossialos, Martin McKee
BMJ  2008;336:287-288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39409.633576.BE
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Strategies for prescribing statins
Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Andreas Sönnichsen
BMJ  2008;336:288-289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39387.573947.80
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Malnutrition in hospitals
Mike Lean, Martin Wiseman
BMJ  2008;336:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39449.723090.80
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Aspirin resistance: What is the risk of cardiovascular morbidity?
Peter Elwood, Gareth Morgan
BMJ  2008;336:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.465706.3A
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Benign prostatic hyperplasia: {alpha}1 adrenoreceptor antagonists and cataract surgery
Nathaniel E Knox Cartwright
BMJ  2008;336:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.506933.3A
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Safety in health care: Saying sorry is not admission of liability
Emma Cuzner
BMJ  2008;336:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.531343.3A
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Doctors and climate change: Impact of medical ethics
John C Chambers
BMJ  2008;336:291-292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.533125.3A
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Doctors and climate change: Impact of increasing world population
Gerry Silverstein
BMJ  2008;336:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.508530.3A
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Condoms in preventing STIs: No magic bullet
Miguel A Martinez-Gonzalez
BMJ  2008;336:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.510220.3A
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Condoms in preventing STIs: Not used in oral sex
Ravindra Gokhale
BMJ  2008;336:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.509329.3A
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Condoms in preventing STIs: Sex is fun, remember?
Elizabeth Pisani
BMJ  2008;336:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.511944.3A
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Breaking up foundation programme offers no advantages, says leading dean
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.392870.4E
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Fight over extended hours reaches deadlock
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.364572.DB
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Make patient safety part of everyday routines, says watchdog
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:294-295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.372188.DB
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England launches scheme to encourage use of "care bundles"
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;336:294-295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.870856.C2
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Three more general practices in England to be run by private company
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;336:295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.889155.C2
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Fewer than one in 10 people will die at home by 2030, study predicts
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;336:295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.712639.C2
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In brief
BMJ  2008;336:296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.661343.DB
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European Commission opts against traffic light system for food labelling
Rory Watson
BMJ  2008;336:296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.676343.C2
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Dutch trial of probiotics in acute pancreatitis is to be investigated after deaths
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2008;336:296-297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.327350.C2
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FDA is failing to inspect drug and device makers, government reports say
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;336:297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.413137.DB
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Double dipping: the new challenge for health and safety
Fred Kavalier
BMJ  2008;336:297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.918090.C2
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European agencies find 14% of flu isolates are resistant to oseltamivir
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.466019.DB
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Doctors urged to take up challenge of climate change
Lesley Morrison
BMJ  2008;336:298-299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.626632.DB
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Germans urged to have flu vaccination as supplies reach all time high
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;336:298-299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.395197.DB
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Killings prompt charity to withdraw from Somalia
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;336:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.903391.C2
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Most doctors still don’t report adverse reactions to drugs
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;336:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.533530.4E
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Registries needed to track cancer deaths in poor countries, says report
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;336:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.400590.DB
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WHO report warns deaths from tobacco could rise beyond eight million a year by 2030
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2008;336:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.532361.DB
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Circumcision of men did not cut HIV transmission to their wives
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;336:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.496725.DB
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Government to press trusts to meet screening targets for chlamydia
Caroline White
BMJ  2008;336:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39483.656609.DB
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;336:300-301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.430313.80
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Sudden infant death: Does cot death still exist?
Jonathan Gornall
BMJ  2008;336:302-304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.496146.AD
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Yankee Doodling: What’s missing in the US candidates’ healthcare proposals
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2008;336:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39478.692766.59
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Payment for performance in health care
Russell Mannion, Huw T O Davies
BMJ  2008;336:306-308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39463.454815.94
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Soft drinks, fructose consumption, and the risk of gout in men: prospective cohort study
Hyon K Choi, Gary Curhan
BMJ  2008;336:309-312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39449.819271.BE, (Published 31 January 2008)
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Assessing the promise of user involvement in health service development: ethnographic study
Nina Fudge, Charles D A Wolfe, Christopher McKevitt
BMJ  2008;336:313-317, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39456.552257.BE, (Published 29 January 2008)
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Universal parenting programme to prevent early childhood behavioural problems: cluster randomised trial
Harriet Hiscock, Jordana K Bayer, Anna Price, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Susan Rogers, Melissa Wake
BMJ  2008;336:318-321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.609676.AE, (Published 31 January 2008)
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Assessing mental capacity: the Mental Capacity Act
Timothy R J Nicholson, William Cutter, Matthew Hotopf
BMJ  2008;336:322-325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39457.485347.80
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The Competent Novice: Dealing with complaints
Judith Cave, Jane Dacre
BMJ  2008;336:326-328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39455.639340.AD
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10-minute consultation: Management of recurrent gout
Robin Fox
BMJ  2008;336:329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39273.712674.94
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Personal View: We need better data on smoking in pregnancy
Carmel O’Gorman
BMJ  2008;336:330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.677188.BD
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On the road with MS
Colin Martin
BMJ  2008;336:331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.586505.DE
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From the Frontline: The perils of commissioning bias
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;336:332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39482.634919.DE
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The Bigger Picture: The errors in our ways
Mary E Black
BMJ  2008;336:332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39478.683866.59
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Between the Lines: Never mind the quality
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;336:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39478.638588.59
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Medical Classics: Woyzeck
Iain McClure
BMJ  2008;336:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.612975.59
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Jabran Talib Ali, Ian Halliday Coulson
BMJ  2008;336:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.485266.80
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BMJ  2008;336:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39479.508819.80
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For sale: estate car
Richard Smith
BMJ  2008;336:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39199.735104.BE
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Call for papers: sport and exercise medicine
BMJ  2008;336:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39477.650185.DE
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"BITS?"
Imran Zakria
BMJ  2008;336:325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39294.488113.AD
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Pramod Karan Sethi
Anand Arya
BMJ  2008;336:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39481.617095.BE
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Walter Edward Spencer Bain
D R Pugh
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39470.661227.BE
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Alan Lyell
John Thomson
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39477.694838.BE
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James Graham Mann
Dora J Mann
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39470.673947.BE
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George Inglis Manson
L D Ritchie
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39477.670220.BE
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Thomas Ernest Oppe
Alan Craft
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39428.735046.BE
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Campbell Grieve Stalker
David Mason
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.763808.BE
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John Oscar Reginald Stewart
Jim Stewart
BMJ  2008;336:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39470.612940.BE
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