We need to put the evidence to work
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2009;339:b5236 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Socioeconomic inequalities in survival in neonates
	Ron Gray, Marie C McCormick
	BMJ  2009;339:b5041 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The case for population-wide salt reduction gets stronger
	Lawrence J Appel
	BMJ  2009;339:b4980 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The economic impact of pandemic influenza
	Alan Maynard, Karen Bloor
	BMJ  2009;339:b4888 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of diabetes using the oral glucose tolerance test
	Bayanne Olabi, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  2009;339:b4354 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End of life care in the acute hospital setting
	Polly Edmonds, Rachel Burman, Wendy Prentice
	BMJ  2009;339:b5048 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Training surgeons: Clinical judgment skills are needed too
	J Graham Williams
	BMJ  2009;339:b5137 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: The 10 000 hour rule
	Donald MacDonald, Kieran Jefferson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5138 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: Reorganise out of hours rotas
	Simon Paterson-Brown
	BMJ  2009;339:b5139 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training surgeons: EWTD in the European capital
	Ashok K Bohra
	BMJ  2009;339:b5141 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Consider bronchoalveolar lavage
	Chris Thorpe, Stuart Darcy
	BMJ  2009;339:b5094 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recurrent respiratory infection: HIV needs to be excluded
	Paul Collini, Julia Greig
	BMJ  2009;339:b5135 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Varenicline and suicide: Risk of psychiatric side effects with varenicline
	Thomas J Moore, Curt D Furberg
	BMJ  2009;339:b4964 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Varenicline and suicide: Authors’ reply
	David Gunnell, David Irvine, Lesley Wise, Claire Davies, Richard M Martin
	BMJ  2009;339:b4969 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery for obesity: Option of plastic surgery is a postcode lottery
	Ihab Hujazi, James Henderson
	BMJ  2009;339:b4961 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past lessons and health reform: Breaking the cycle
	Stephen F Hayes
	BMJ  2009;339:b5131 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Participating in research: Patients deserve more than a "Thank you"
	Hasnain M Dalal, Jenny Wingham, Philip Evans, Rod Taylor, John Campbell
	BMJ  2009;339:b4522 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Participating in research: What might I, a patient, think?
	Hazel Thornton
	BMJ  2009;339:b4820 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Dr Foster patient safety ratings are flawed, confusing, and outdated, trusts say
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2009;339:b5181 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pfizer ordered to pay $103m over hormone drugs and breast cancer
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2009;339:b5085 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	UK hospitals ordered to cut risk of drugs going wrongly into spinal fluid
	Jane Feinmann
	BMJ  2009;339:b5076 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimum price for alcohol proves hard to swallow in Scotland
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2009;339:b5120 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving homoeopathy on the NHS is unethical and unreliable, MPs are told
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2009;339:b5080 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients to be consulted on whether their records can be used for research
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2009;339:b5238 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report shows wide variation in cancer survival across England
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2009;339:b5207 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Skunk poses higher risk of psychosis than traditional hash
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;339:b5206 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from children
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b5086 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Researchers stand by diuretics as first line treatment for hypertension
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2009;339:b5119 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rare instance of organ donation in Japan highlights shortage of donors
	Chana Schoenberger
	BMJ  2009;339:b5081 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doubling investment in maternal health would "transform the future of developing nations"
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b5095 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European parliament says health benefits of fighting climate change must be recognised
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5185 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New HIV infections down 17% in past eight years
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2009;339:b5070 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Campaigners warn that discrimination threatens progress against HIV and AIDS
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2009;339:b5123 (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:b5148 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Quality of Care: On the origin of variation
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2009;339:b5071 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Yankee Doodling: Mammograms, poor communication, and politics
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2009;339:b5175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? Yes
	Ben Goldacre
	BMJ  2009;339:b4949 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? No
	Vincent Lawton
	BMJ  2009;339:b4953 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Is haemoglobin A1c a step forward for diagnosing diabetes?
	Eric S Kilpatrick, Zachary T Bloomgarden, Paul Z Zimmet
	BMJ  2009;339:b4432 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Predicting risk of osteoporotic fracture in men and women in England and Wales: prospective derivation and validation of QFractureScores
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland
	BMJ  2009;339:b4229 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of prospective studies
	Pasquale Strazzullo, Lanfranco D'Elia, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Francesco P Cappuccio
	BMJ  2009;339:b4567 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Socioeconomic inequalities in survival and provision of neonatal care: population based study of very preterm infants
	Lucy K Smith, Elizabeth S Draper, Bradley N Manktelow, David J Field
	BMJ  2009;339:b4702 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The economy-wide impact of pandemic influenza on the UK: a computable general equilibrium modelling experiment
	Richard D Smith, Marcus R Keogh-Brown, Tony Barnett, Joyce Tait
	BMJ  2009;339:b4571 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Research Methods & Reporting

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	Good publication practice for communicating company sponsored medical research: the GPP2 guidelines
	Chris Graf, Wendy P Battisti, Dan Bridges, Victoria Bruce-Winkler, Joanne M Conaty, John M Ellison, Elizabeth A Field, James A Gurr, Mary-Ellen Marx, Mina Patel, Carol Sanes-Miller, Yvonne E Yarker, for the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals
	BMJ  2009;339:b4330 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Review

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	Managing complications of the diabetic foot
	Kelly Cheer, Cliff Shearman, Edward B Jude
	BMJ  2009;339:b4905 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Rational Testing: Investigation of incidental hypercalcaemia
	Devina Joshi, Jacqueline R Center, John A Eisman
	BMJ  2009;339:b4613 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality Improvement Report: Improving quality in resource poor settings: observational study from rural Rwanda
	Meera Kotagal, Patrick Lee, Caste Habiyakare, Raymond Dusabe, Philibert Kanama, Henry M Epino, Michael L Rich, Paul E Farmer
	BMJ  2009;339:b3488 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Geoffrey Dean
	Michael Hutchinson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5100 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Richard James Bayly
	Sally Thomson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gareth Richard Melville-Jones
	Sally Williams
	BMJ  2009;339:b2959 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Michael Naish
	Sonya Naish
	BMJ  2009;339:b5168 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dennis Snow Ridley
	Anthony Bryceson
	BMJ  2009;339:b5170 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Lionel Somervell
	William A M Cutting, Jeffrey M Dolphin
	BMJ  2009;339:b5008 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Encounter with a doula: is the system failing new mothers?
	Abhijoy Chakladar
	BMJ  2009;339:b5112 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: The forgotten poet laureate
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2009;339:b5182 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Human Guinea Pigs
	Martin Eastwood
	BMJ  2009;339:b5114 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Science friction
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2009;339:b5176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outside the Box: Round robin
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2009;339:b5191 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: An 80 year old woman who fell in her home
	Frede Frihagen, Lars Nordsletten, Roald Bahr
	BMJ  2009;339:b4839 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Random allocation III
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2009;339:b5072 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination quiz: Tuberculosis
	BMJ  2009;339:b5082 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Anushka Chaudhry, Jeremy Tate
	BMJ  2009;339:b5096 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2009;339:b5093 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Filler

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	Unwise words: now that’s wasn’t very clever
	Tom Wells
	BMJ  2009;339:b4530 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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