QOF and whistleblowers
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2009;338:b2263 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Sigmoidoscopy screening for colorectal cancer
	Thomas F Imperiale
	BMJ  2009;338:b2084 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of enteric fever
	Christopher M Parry, Nick J Beeching
	BMJ  2009;338:b1159 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing the face of whistleblowing
	Peter Gooderham
	BMJ  2009;338:b2090 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Conservative Party’s policies on health
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2009;338:b2198 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Science in court
	Evan Harris
	BMJ  2009;338:b2254 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Rules of conscience: BMJ’s poor portrayal of issues
	Susanne Iqbal, Philip Skogstad
	BMJ  2009;338:b2190 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rules of conscience: Betray ethics, betray trust
	Jennifer J Freyd
	BMJ  2009;338:b2191 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating failed asylum seekers: Access to primary care
	Peter Hall, Ina van der Loeff, Rayah Feldman, Rosalind Bragg, Fizza Qureshi, Marion Birch, Yusef Azad, Lisa Power, Sonya Sceats
	BMJ  2009;338:b2193 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating failed asylum seekers: Stick to our ethical principles
	Selena H Gleadow Ware
	BMJ  2009;338:b2192 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open government?: Timely access to information
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2009;338:b2194 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clostridium difficile: Community Clostridium difficile
	Jayakeerthi Rangaiah, Mark Wilks, Michael Millar
	BMJ  2009;338:b2195 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trampoline injuries: How to avoid injury
	Andrew Bogacz, Brodie Paterson, Adarsh Babber, Simon Menelaws, Tim Drew
	BMJ  2009;338:b2197 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Cardiac services have improved in UK but more capacity needed
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;338:b2253 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US abortion doctor murdered in Kansas
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;338:b2237 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b2217 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;338:b2265 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Annual deaths from climate change could reach half a million by 2030
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2009;338:b2227 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report says workforce planning must accommodate part time working for female doctors
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;338:b2252 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South African healthcare professionals march for better pay and conditions
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2009;338:b2256 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical aid teams trying to access Gaza question UK government support
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2214 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GP faces GMC hearing over 12 deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2187 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS trusts are taken to task over lax treatment of personal data
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2009;338:b2171 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	International criticism prompts Sri Lanka to improve health services for conflict victims
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;338:b2228 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recession takes toll on grants from medical research charities
	Jo Waters
	BMJ  2009;338:b2177 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Australian report urging more transparency in public health research is kept unpublished
	Melissa Sweet
	BMJ  2009;338:b2238 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Number of babies born by assisted reproduction rises by 12%
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;338:b2208 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US Congress introduces bill to end free access to federally funded research
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2009;338:b2199 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Canadian minister rejects claims of improper breast cancer treatment
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2009;338:b2246 (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:b2196 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	US health reform: Obama’s top priority
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;338:b2143 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Border Crossing: Advocacy for all
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2009;338:b2212 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	International experience of paying for expensive medicines
	Monica Desai, Ellen Nolte, Nicholas Mays, Athanasios Nikolentzos
	BMJ  2009;338:b1993 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Risk of colorectal cancer seven years after flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: randomised controlled trial
	Geir Hoff, Tom Grotmol, Eva Skovlund, Michael Bretthauer, for the Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Prevention Study Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b1846 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of the quality and outcomes framework on diabetes care in the United Kingdom: retrospective cohort study
	Melanie Calvert, Aparna Shankar, Richard J McManus, Helen Lester, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  2009;338:b1870 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A comparison of fluoroquinolones versus other antibiotics for treating enteric fever: meta-analysis
	Durrane Thaver, Anita K M Zaidi, Julia Critchley, Asma Azmatullah, Syed Ali Madni, Zulfiqar A Bhutta
	BMJ  2009;338:b1865 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial
	Angelo E Volandes, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, Michael J Barry, Muriel R Gillick, Kenneth L Minaker, Yuchiao Chang, E Francis Cook, Elmer D Abbo, Areej El-Jawahri, Susan L Mitchell
	BMJ  2009;338:b2159 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Prognosis and prognostic research: Developing a prognostic model
	Patrick Royston, Karel G M Moons, Douglas G Altman, Yvonne Vergouwe
	BMJ  2009;338:b604 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Diagnosis and management of prosthetic joint infection
	Philippa C Matthews, Anthony R Berendt, Martin A McNally, Ivor Byren
	BMJ  2009;338:b1773 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Change page: Consider β blockers for patients with heart failure
	Henry Krum
	BMJ  2009;338:b1728 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines: Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease in children and adults: summary of NICE guidance
	Roberta Richey, Peter Howdle, Elizabeth Shaw, Tim Stokes, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2009;338:b1684 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Point: Hypoglycaemia induced by second generation antipsychotic agents in schizophrenic non-diabetic patients
	Yutaro Suzuki, Junzo Watanabe, Naoki Fukui, Vural Ozdemir, Toshiyuki Someya
	BMJ  2009;338:a1792 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Otto Gerhard Prokop
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2009;338:b2219 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gerhard Behr
	Winston Turner
	BMJ  2009;338:b2233 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mary Corbett
	Michael Shipley
	BMJ  2009;338:b2231 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Lockhart Cowan
	A I G Kerr
	BMJ  2009;338:b2235 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Henry James Eastes
	Peter Brunyate
	BMJ  2009;338:b2234 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	William Hartley
	Richard Hartley
	BMJ  2009;338:b2232 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bee Hooi Tan
	Tom Lee
	BMJ  2009;338:b1987 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Walter Chukwuma Uduku
	Ola Uduku
	BMJ  2009;338:b2071 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Improving healthcare services for men
	Ian Banks
	BMJ  2009;338:b2129 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Performing surgery
	Roger Kneebone, Rajesh Aggarwal
	BMJ  2009;338:b2257 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Curing crime
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;338:b2240 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: An Account of the Foxglove
	William O Goldthorp
	BMJ  2009;338:b2189 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Playing the numbers
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;338:b2239 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Starting Out: A view from the beach
	Kinesh Patel
	BMJ  2009;338:b2168 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Statistical question: Allocation bias
	John Fletcher
	BMJ  2009;338:b2162 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture quiz: The tired patient
	Bryan Renton
	BMJ  2009;338:b1623 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Head injury and brain anatomy
	BMJ  2009;338:b2163 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case report: Persistently raised alkaline phosphatase in a woman with osteomalacia
	H U Rehman
	BMJ  2009;338:b1874 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	BMJ  2009;338:b2172 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clare Defty, Muralidhar Sivaram, Keith W Radcliffe, Saleem M Taibjee
	BMJ  2009;338:b2166 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	"The Q word"
	David Warriner
	BMJ  2009;338:b1286 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From our archive: Effect of large doses of histamine on gastric secretion of HCl (1953)
	BMJ  2009;338:b1270 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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