Through the patients’ eyes
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b588 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Promoting breast feeding in the community
	Adriano Cattaneo
	BMJ  2009;338:a2657 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of emergency oxygen in adults
	R M Leach, A C Davidson
	BMJ  2009;338:a2790 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heart failure with a normal ejection fraction
	John E Sanderson, Gabriel W K Yip
	BMJ  2009;338:b52 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Antibiotics for skin surgery: Preoperative integrity of skin surface predicts infection risk
	Sophie C Weatherhead, Clifford M Lawrence
	BMJ  2009;338:b516 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conflicting recommendations: Let’s not forget AGREE
	Francoise Cluzeau, On behalf of the AGREE Research Trust
	BMJ  2009;338:b407 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conflicting recommendations: Checklist for guidelines
	Joan McClusky
	BMJ  2009;338:b384 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical safety checklists: What the papers say
	Ivan P Hudecek
	BMJ  2009;338:b517 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical safety checklists: Watch how Great Ormond Street uses WHO checklist on YouTube
	Barry G Lambert, Imran Mushtaq, Martin Elliot, Isabeau Walker
	BMJ  2009;338:b518 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Worrying behaviour on electives: Practising on the poor?
	Samantha J J Radstone
	BMJ  2009;338:b519 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Apologies and legal liability: Saying sorry is not the same as admitting legal liability
	John Holden
	BMJ  2009;338:b520 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Brazil and India clash with EU over seizure of generic drugs
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b558 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors announce death of woman at centre of Italian "right to die" case
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2009;338:b574 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Daschle nomination as US health tsar failed because of income tax problems and industry ties
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b551 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obama signs health bill to insure four million more children
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b498 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Israeli shells killed three daughters of Palestinian gynaecologist, investigation finds
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2009;338:b523 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Italian doctors can report illegal immigrants to police, under proposed law
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2009;338:b548 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b556 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE recommends kidney cancer drug it previously rejected on cost grounds
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b499 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Healthcare providers have new panel to appeal to against unfair competition
	Nicholas Timmins
	BMJ  2009;338:b534 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence lacking for memory clinics to tackle dementia, say critics
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b550 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs are urged to raise awareness of health inequalities
	Andrew Moscrop
	BMJ  2009;338:b544 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Men whose semen samples thawed can sue trust, say judges
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b501 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ readers vote for doctors who have made a difference to health care
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2009;338:b567 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measles cases in England and Wales rise sharply in 2008
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2009;338:b533 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2009;338:b526 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Patient Safety: Safety first
	Jane Feinmann
	BMJ  2009;338:b420 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Yankee Doodling: The taxing case of Tom Daschle
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2009;338:b565 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media: Health journalism: two clicks away from Britney Spears?
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b570 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	New design rules for driving innovation in access to secondary care in the NHS
	Hugh Rogers, Lynne Maher, Paul E Plsek
	BMJ  2008;337:a2321 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effectiveness of policy to provide breastfeeding groups (BIG) for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Pat Hoddinott, Jane Britten, Gordon J Prescott, David Tappin, Anne Ludbrook, David J Godden
	BMJ  2009;338:a3026 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antenatal peer support workers and initiation of breast feeding: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Christine MacArthur, Kate Jolly, Lucy Ingram, Nick Freemantle, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Ros Hamburger, Julia Brown, Jackie Chambers, Khalid Khan
	BMJ  2009;338:b131 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of primary care electronic medical record database in drug efficacy research on cardiovascular outcomes: comparison of database and randomised controlled trial findings
	Richard L Tannen, Mark G Weiner, Dawei Xie
	BMJ  2009;338:b81 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Preserving professional credibility: grounded theory study of medical trainees’ requests for clinical support
	Tara J T Kennedy, Glenn Regehr, G Ross Baker, Lorelei Lingard
	BMJ  2009;338:b128 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Publication guidelines for quality improvement studies in health care: evolution of the SQUIRE project
	Frank Davidoff, Paul Batalden, David Stevens, Greg Ogrinc, Susan E Mooney, for the SQUIRE development group
	BMJ  2009;338:a3152 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Dementia
	Alistair Burns, Steve Iliffe
	BMJ  2009;338:b75 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Change Page: Prescribe prednisolone alone for Bell’s palsy diagnosed within 72 hours of symptom onset
	Vishnu Madhok, Gavin Falk, Tom Fahey, Frank M Sullivan
	BMJ  2009;338:b255 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A 38 year old woman with hypotensive shock at the onset of menstruation: case presentation
	Sergio Serrano Villar, Juncal Perez-Somarriba, Talia Sainz Costa, Sarah Winstanley, Tomas Santillana Lopez, Luis Escribano Mora, Baltasar Orejas Gonzalez
	BMJ  2009;338:b6 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Naomi Datta
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b389 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	George Alexander Cockburn Esson
	John MacDonald
	BMJ  2009;338:b535 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charles Kickham Heffernan
	Seamus Heffernan
	BMJ  2009;338:b469 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Lewis Herbert
	John Crane
	BMJ  2009;338:b538 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Michael Platten
	Michael Gough
	BMJ  2009;338:b465 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Zubeda Bano Rahman
	Tauheed Shaikh
	BMJ  2009;338:b532 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frank Robertson
	Ian Robertson, Colin Waine
	BMJ  2009;338:b471 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jennifer Mary Tisdall (née Vann)
	M W Tisdall
	BMJ  2009;338:b474 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The cowardly cyborg
	James Woodcock, Rachel Aldred
	BMJ  2009;338:b522 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Stopping the traffic
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2009;338:b493 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Cold comfort
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b554 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Doctor Glas
	Mahmood Bhutta
	BMJ  2009;338:b476 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: A penny for your thoughts
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b552 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Best Medicine: Ulysses
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2009;338:b546 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Probability and prevalence
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b539 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quiz: Community paediatrics
	BMJ  2009;338:b537 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: Hemiparesis in a 36 year old man
	Michael V Holmes, Atul Mehta, Marsha Y Morgan
	BMJ  2009;338:b90 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: An unusual case of palpitations
	Simon W Dubrey, Sanjay K Kohli, Paresh A Mehta, Richard Grocott-Mason
	BMJ  2009;338:a3087 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Faisal Azam, Thomas Kneale, Simon Gollins
	BMJ  2009;338:b504 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;338:b495 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	My first job
	Paul Vincent
	BMJ  2009;338:b334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ policy on trials of drugs and devices: advice to authors
	BMJ  2009;338:b146 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The cost of carpal tunnel syndrome
	Gareth Payne
	BMJ  2009;338:b444 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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