The problem with ISTCs
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2009;338:b1863 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Swine flu
	Richard Coker
	BMJ  2009;338:b1791 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibiotics for acute cough in primary care
	Alastair D Hay, Katy V Juttner
	BMJ  2009;338:b834 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood disability and social policies
	Peter Rosenbaum
	BMJ  2009;338:b1020 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis and treatment of primary hypothyroidism
	Amit Allahabadia, Salman Razvi, Prakash Abraham, Jayne Franklyn
	BMJ  2009;338:b725 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unemployment and health
	Danny Dorling
	BMJ  2009;338:b829 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Parenteral drug errors: Reported error rates are likely to be underestimation
	Bryony Dean Franklin, Katja Taxis, Nick Barber
	BMJ  2009;338:b1814 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypertension in young people: Investigations in young people
	Paul L Padfield
	BMJ  2009;338:b1733 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Transient ischaemic attack: Giant cell arteritis and transient visual loss
	Catherine M Guly, John A Olson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1809 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality in primary health care: Complexity: a simple approach to quality. Are we there yet?
	Terry Kemple
	BMJ  2009;338:b1812 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality in primary health care: The shaman and QOF
	Chris Gunstone
	BMJ  2009;338:b1813 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Working Time Directive: Running out of time? Perhaps not
	Andrew F Goddard
	BMJ  2009;338:b1815 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I want to see the consultant: Patients’ long and winding road
	Louise Spooner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1810 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I want to see the consultant: Continuity of care is important
	Katherine G White, Tag McEntegart, Deana Kenward
	BMJ  2009;338:b1811 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Mass information campaign starts in UK as flu cases rise to 28
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b1857 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Staff shortages persist at troubled Mid Staffordshire trust
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;338:b1833 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b1839 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE launches portal for professionals to access clinical and non-clinical evidence
	Helen Mooney
	BMJ  2009;338:b1828 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global aid agencies boost support to poorer nations to fight flu threat
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b1856 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rheumatoid arthritis patients should be referred more swiftly, consensus statement urges
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1831 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European flu toll reaches 107 confirmed cases
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2009;338:b1859 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polyclinics could be focus of care for offenders with mental health problems, author of report says
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1841 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Darzi opens first of London’s polyclinics
	Oona Mashta
	BMJ  2009;338:b1836 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health minister Ara Darzi pushes innovation in the NHS
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;338:b1825 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors pull their weight in changing NHS
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2009;338:b1844 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Audit shows quality of lung cancer treatment in UK lags behind other countries
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b1830 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report calls for end of drug promotion to doctors
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;338:b1852 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hanumappa Sudarshan: the quiet reformer
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1794 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Indian paediatrician has been two years in prison without trial
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2009;338:b1864 (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:b1826 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Yankee Doodling: No gifts, please, we’re doctors
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2009;338:b1835 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	A/H1N1 influenza: questions and answers
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2009;338:b1849 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Freedom of Information: Open government?
	Jane Cassidy
	BMJ  2009;338:b1798 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Independent sector treatment centres: learning from a Scottish case study
	Allyson M Pollock, Graham Kirkwood
	BMJ  2009;338:b1421 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effect of point of care testing for C reactive protein and training in communication skills on antibiotic use in lower respiratory tract infections: cluster randomised trial
	Jochen W L Cals, Christopher C Butler, Rogier M Hopstaken, Kerenza Hood, Geert-Jan Dinant
	BMJ  2009;338:b1374 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Participation in life situations of 8-12 year old children with cerebral palsy: cross sectional European study
	Jerome Fauconnier, Heather O Dickinson, Eva Beckung, Marco Marcelli, Vicki McManus, Susan I Michelsen, Jackie Parkes, Kathryn N Parkinson, Ute Thyen, Catherine Arnaud, Allan Colver
	BMJ  2009;338:b1458 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sociodemographic variations in the contribution of secondary drug prevention to stroke survival at middle and older ages: cohort study
	Rosalind Raine, Wun Wong, Gareth Ambler, Sarah Hardoon, Irene Petersen, Richard Morris, Mel Bartley, David Blane
	BMJ  2009;338:b1279 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meeting information needs of patients with incurable progressive disease and their families in South Africa and Uganda: multicentre qualitative study
	Lucy Selman, Irene J Higginson, Godfrey Agupio, Natalya Dinat, Julia Downing, Liz Gwyther, Thandi Mashao, Keletso Mmoledi, Anthony P Moll, Lydia Mpanga Sebuyira, Barbara Panajatovic, Richard Harding
	BMJ  2009;338:b1326 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research

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	Effect of guideline based computerised decision support on decision making of multidisciplinary teams: cluster randomised trial in cardiac rehabilitation
	Rick Goud, Nicolette F de Keizer, Gerben ter Riet, Jeremy C Wyatt, Arie Hasman, Irene M Hellemans, Niels Peek
	BMJ  2009;338:b1440 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Kawasaki disease
	Anthony Harnden, Masato Takahashi, David Burgner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1514 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	The Competent Novice: How to handle stress and look after your mental health
	Amy Iversen, Bruno Rushforth, Kirsty Forrest
	BMJ  2009;338:b1368 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Request for slimming tablets
	S W Mercer, M E J Lean
	BMJ  2008;337:a1287 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Spence Galbraith
	Christopher Bartlett, Sarah Galbraith
	BMJ  2009;338:b1827 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Michael Reid Campbell
	Desmond Eccles
	BMJ  2009;338:b1771 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Roy Austen Glover
	David Roy Glover
	BMJ  2009;338:b1687 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	George Wyllie Howie Jardine
	James Douglas
	BMJ  2009;338:b1793 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Malcolm John Lewis
	Richard Slack, Francis O'Grady
	BMJ  2009;338:b1676 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alan James Mearns
	Charles Vize
	BMJ  2009;338:b1677 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alister Macgregor Nisbet
	Bill McIntyre
	BMJ  2009;338:b1790 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alexander John Smith
	J H Jones
	BMJ  2009;338:b1797 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: The flu epidemic in Mexico: the challenges for doctors
	Julio Sotelo, Rogelio Perez-Padilla
	BMJ  2009;338:b1820 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Hospitals within hospitals
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2009;338:b1787 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: An impossible woman
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b1808 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Clinical Examination
	David Warriner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1786 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Mexican standoff
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b1832 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Of rabbit and humble pie
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;338:b1817 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Type I and type II errors
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b1799 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Diabetic ketoacidosis
	BMJ  2009;338:b1801 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: Recurrent chest infection in a 5 year old boy
	A M Murdoch, L P Thia, A Gupta, C L Hogg
	BMJ  2009;338:b945 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: A man with high blood pressure
	Brian McKinstry, Paul Padfield
	BMJ  2009;338:b1550 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b1829 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stephen Paul Guy, Nirmal Tulwa
	BMJ  2009;338:b1842 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	A false alarm
	Philip Timms
	BMJ  2009;338:b1184 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TARTS at the dinner table
	Martin Nuttall
	BMJ  2009;338:b1179 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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