Editor's Choice: How to avoid unnecessary interventions
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;339:b3304 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Evidence based implementation of complex interventions
	Richard Thomson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3124 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do not-for-profit nursing homes provide better quality?
	R Tamara Konetzka
	BMJ  2009;339:b2683 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End of life decisions and quality of care before death
	Ira Byock
	BMJ  2009;339:b2730 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	A/H1N1 pandemic: Data, please
	Wilfrid Treasure
	BMJ  2009;339:b3247 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 pandemic: Oseltamivir’s adverse events
	Mark Strong, Julia Burrows, Paul Redgrave
	BMJ  2009;339:b3249 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 pandemic: What is and is not a "flu lead"
	Maureen Baker, Martin Marshall
	BMJ  2009;339:b3250 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 pandemic: Too soon for congratulations
	Tony M Hirst
	BMJ  2009;339:b3248 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 pandemic: Respirator fit testing, anyone?
	Abhijoy Chakladar, Peter O Beaumont, David R Uncles
	BMJ  2009;339:b3254 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening overdiagnosis: Stop treating indolent lesions
	Andy Evans, Eleanor Cornford, Jonathan James
	BMJ  2009;339:b3256 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening overdiagnosis: Protocols are evidence based
	Hilary M Dobson, Jeremy St J Thomas
	BMJ  2009;339:b3262 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening overdiagnosis: Consensus and decision aids
	Alexandra L Barratt
	BMJ  2009;339:b3260 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Study finds poor access to radiotherapy services in England
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2009;339:b3278 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tories promise to scrap "top-down, bureaucratic" NHS IT programme
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3284 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2009;339:b3275 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European and US agencies will cooperate to ensure ethical conduct of trials
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b3274 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeon wins court injunction against dismissal
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b3300 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heart risk scoring system used by NICE may overestimate lipid disorders
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b3273 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MPs call for better treatment of court witnesses with mental health problems
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b3235 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uganda runs out of antiretroviral drugs after shortfall in aid
	Henry Wasswa
	BMJ  2009;339:b3255 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Margaret Chan: A to Z
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2009;339:b3106 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Europe’s biggest hospital faces privatisation
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2009;339:b3261 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US children are not getting enough vitamin D, studies conclude
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b3277 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2009;339:b3257 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Pandemic flu: A/H1N1 influenza virus: the basics
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2009;339:b3046 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: That sinking feeling
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;339:b3251 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Valuing health directly
	Paul Dolan, Henry Lee, Dominic King, Robert Metcalfe
	BMJ  2009;339:b2577 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effect of using an interactive booklet about childhood respiratory tract infections in primary care consultations on reconsulting and antibiotic prescribing: a cluster randomised controlled trial
	Nick A Francis, Christopher C Butler, Kerenza Hood, Sharon Simpson, Fiona Wood, Jacqueline Nuttall
	BMJ  2009;339:b2885 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What factors predict differences in infant and perinatal mortality in primary care trusts in England? A prognostic model
	Nick Freemantle, J Wood, C Griffin, P Gill, M J Calvert, A Shankar, J Chambers, C MacArthur
	BMJ  2009;339:b2892 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Vikram R Comondore, P J Devereaux, Qi Zhou, Samuel B Stone, Jason W Busse, Nikila C Ravindran, Karen E Burns, Ted Haines, Bernadette Stringer, Deborah J Cook, Stephen D Walter, Terrence Sullivan, Otavio Berwanger, Mohit Bhandari, Sarfaraz Banglawala, John N Lavis, Brad Petrisor, Holger Schunemann, Katie Walsh, Neera Bhatnagar, Gordon H Guyatt
	BMJ  2009;339:b2732 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of direct and indirect methods of estimating health state utilities for resource allocation: review and empirical analysis
	David Arnold, Alan Girling, Andrew Stevens, Richard Lilford
	BMJ  2009;339:b2688 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Performance evaluation of a new rapid urine test for chlamydia in men: prospective cohort study
	Elpidio-Cesar Nadala, Beng T Goh, Jose-Paolo Magbanua, Penelope Barber, Alison Swain, Sarah Alexander, Vivian Laitila, Claude-Edouard Michel, Lourdes Mahilum-Tapay, Ines Ushiro-Lumb, Catherine Ison, Helen H Lee
	BMJ  2009;339:b2655 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Euthanasia and other end of life decisions and care provided in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium
	Lieve Van den Block, Reginald Deschepper, Johan Bilsen, Nathalie Bossuyt, Viviane Van Casteren, Luc Deliens
	BMJ  2009;339:b2772 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Diagnosis and management of neuropathic pain
	R Freynhagen, M I Bennett
	BMJ  2009;339:b3002 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Quality Improvement Report: A multifaceted strategy for implementation of the Ottawa ankle rules in two emergency departments
	Taryn Bessen, Robyn Clark, Sepehr Shakib, Geoffrey Hughes
	BMJ  2009;339:b3056 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis in General Practice: The injured ankle and foot
	Dan Mayer
	BMJ  2009;339:b2901 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis in General Practice: Clinical prediction rules
	Gavin Falk, Tom Fahey
	BMJ  2009;339:b2899 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Alan Berkman
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2009;339:b3245 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Seven years of famine: health care after the crunch
	Muir Gray
	BMJ  2009;339:b3237 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Decline and fall (the speedy way)
	Michael Farrell
	BMJ  2009;339:b3283 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A little more than kin
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b3253 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Hernia Repair without Disability
	Martin Kurzer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3294 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Live from London: It’s not so much what you know
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2009;339:b3252 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Uninsured in America? Blame the first world war
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2009;339:b3269 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A complication after a previous caesarean section
	Niamh Barrett, Sharon R Sheehan, Deirdre J Murphy
	BMJ  2009;339:b2979 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Picture Quiz: An unusual cause of chest pain
	Madhuchanda Bhattacharyya, Minaxi Dattani
	BMJ  2009;339:b3004 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Basic psychology
	BMJ  2009;339:b3197 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Yincent Tse, Eileen Brennan, Kjell Tullus
	BMJ  2009;339:b3178 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;339:b3181 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Tell your mum about it
	Maryam Alfa-Wali
	BMJ  2009;339:b2367 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Not good enough
	Christopher Brown
	BMJ  2009;339:b2947 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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