Measuring quality
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;338:b1356 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Reduced risk of ulcerative colitis after appendicectomy
	Antje Timmer, Florian Obermeier
	BMJ  2009;338:b225 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for type 2 diabetes in primary care
	Peter E H Schwarz, Jiang Li, Stefan R Bornstein
	BMJ  2009;338:b973 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring the quality of hospital care
	John Wright, Kaveh G Shojania
	BMJ  2009;338:b569 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing harm from alcohol
	Martin McKee, Paul Belcher, Tamara Hervey
	BMJ  2009;338:b1191 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Late onset hypogonadism
	T Hugh Jones
	BMJ  2009;338:b352 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Lifestyle habits and risk of stroke: Methodological considerations and differences according to sex and stroke subtypes
	Tobias Kurth
	BMJ  2009;338:b1305 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lifestyle habits and risk of stroke: Authors’ reply
	Phyo Kyaw Myint, Kay-Tee Khaw, On behalf of all coauthors
	BMJ  2009;338:b1327 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allergies hysteria is just nuts: Some auto-injection pens are counterintuitive
	Per Lav Madsen, Nick Mattsson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1303 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MRSA screening: Clarity is needed on which sites to screen
	Simon F Hill
	BMJ  2009;338:b1308 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heart failure in need of a diagnosis: Ontological fallacy in heart failure
	Hugh F McIntyre
	BMJ  2009;338:b1304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Let's not turn elderly people into patients: Wanted: age adjusted outcomes
	Erik Buskens
	BMJ  2009;338:b1309 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Researchers fear effects of EU draft directive on animal research
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;338:b1294 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government must give guidance on care of failed asylum seekers who cannot return home
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b1345 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	JAMA’s new rule on whistleblowers creates controversy
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b1352 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blue plaque honours pioneers in holistic medicine
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1297 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five yearly checks for over 40s will save 650 lives a year, says government
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b1334 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK doctors’ attitude to assisted dying differs strongly from the public’s
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1338 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scottish NHS offers cash to get smokers to quit
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2009;338:b1306 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	System allows patients to complain about NHS and seek compensation at the same time
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b1301 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Experts call for a global fund for family planning
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1339 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A glimpse of Freud’s Vienna
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;338:b1292 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High Court judge overturns GMC ruling on fitness to practise
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b1336 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b1302 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FDA is told to ease restrictions on morning after pill
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b1313 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health services’ framework must tackle age discrimination, commission says
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b1346 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kansas doctor who performed late term abortions is acquitted
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b1329 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UN says disruptions to health care in Darfur caused by expulsion of aid agencies may not be resolved
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b1341 (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:b1296 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Primary care: Opening up the primary medical care market
	Jo Ellins, Chris Ham, Helen Parker
	BMJ  2009;338:b1127 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: Excessive wealth is damaging the nation’s health
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2009;338:b1293 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is early intervention in the major psychiatric disorders justified? Yes
	Patrick D McGorry
	BMJ  2008;337:a695 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is early intervention in the major psychiatric disorders justified? No
	Anthony Pelosi
	BMJ  2008;337:a710 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Patients and the public deserve big changes in evaluation of drugs
	Silvio Garattini, Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2009;338:b1025 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Risks of doing as the Romans do
	Michael Tremblay
	BMJ  2009;338:b1107 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Appendicitis, mesenteric lymphadenitis, and subsequent risk of ulcerative colitis: cohort studies in Sweden and Denmark
	Morten Frisch, Bo V Pedersen, Roland E Andersson
	BMJ  2009;338:b716 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predicting risk of type 2 diabetes in England and Wales: prospective derivation and validation of QDScore
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland, John Robson, Aziz Sheikh, Peter Brindle
	BMJ  2009;338:b880 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evidence of methodological bias in hospital standardised mortality ratios: retrospective database study of English hospitals
	Mohammed A Mohammed, Jonathan J Deeks, Alan Girling, Gavin Rudge, Martin Carmalt, Andrew J Stevens, Richard J Lilford
	BMJ  2009;338:b780 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Migraines during pregnancy linked to stroke and vascular diseases: US population based case-control study
	Cheryl D Bushnell, Margaret Jamison, Andra H James
	BMJ  2009;338:b664 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Written informed consent and selection bias in observational studies using medical records: systematic review
	Michelle E Kho, Mark Duffett, Donald J Willison, Deborah J Cook, Melissa C Brouwers
	BMJ  2009;338:b866 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Management of hirsutism
	Olympia Koulouri, Gerard S Conway
	BMJ  2009;338:b847 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Uncertainties Page: What is the most effective management of neurogenic bladder dysfunction?
	Brian Buckley, Adrian M Grant
	BMJ  2009;338:b659 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pregnancy Plus: Pregnancy and alcohol misuse
	Irene Guerrini, Siobhan Jackson, Francis Keaney
	BMJ  2009;338:b845 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Norman Gibbon
	H J Goldsmith
	BMJ  2009;338:b1290 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Robert Anderson Beattie
	Chris Robinson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1246 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Henry Vincent Corbett
	Richard Corbett
	BMJ  2009;338:b1239 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cecil Foggitt
	John Pemberton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1231 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rukn Uddin Haider
	Asma Z Faruqi
	BMJ  2009;338:b1236 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Agnes Thomson Kennie
	Gordon Brown
	BMJ  2009;338:b1153 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elaine Marion Osborne (née Sunderland)
	Christel Mavor
	BMJ  2009;338:b1155 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Betty Victoria Thacker
	Simon Thacker
	BMJ  2009;338:b1100 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: What are coroners and pathologists for?
	Colin Reisner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1355 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: It’s the fossil fuels, stupid
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2009;338:b1342 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Elementary, my dear Hamish
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b1337 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Sexual Deviation
	Kate Robertson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1240 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: A sign of the time
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b1335 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Genome hacking
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;338:b1322 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture quiz: "Brain attack"
	S Macdonald, A Dixit, M G Wyatt
	BMJ  2009;338:a3109 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: A breathless man with diffuse chest pain
	Mahendran Chetty, Ratna Alluri, Graeme P Currie
	BMJ  2009;338:b1105 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical question: Comparing length of stay
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b1280 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Contraception
	BMJ  2009;338:b1278 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b1289 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gayathri Kumari Rajakaruna, Hatem Abusriwil, Adam William Seccombe, Nazim Nathani
	BMJ  2009;338:b1298 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Epitaph
	Quentin Shaw
	BMJ  2009;338:b1113 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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