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How can we make audit sexy?
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;340:c2324 (Published )
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Assessing the quality of hospitals
Nick Black
BMJ  2010;340:c2066 (Published )
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Pragmatic rehabilitation for chronic fatigue syndrome
Rona Moss-Morris, William Hamilton
BMJ  2010;340:c1799 (Published )
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Prostate cancer and deprivation
Kari A O Tikkinen, Anssi Auvinen
BMJ  2010;340:c2043 (Published )
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How cognitive biases affect our interpretation of political messages
Martin McKee, David Stuckler
BMJ  2010;340:c2276 (Published )
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Has the European Clinical Trials Directive been a success?
L J Frewer, D Coles, K Champion, J Demotes-Mainard, N Goetbuget, K Ihrig, I Klingmann, C Kubiak, S A Lejeune, F McDonald, J Apperley
BMJ  2010;340:c1862 (Published )
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Do adults have ADHD?: Let’s debate treatment instead
Martin W Wetzel
BMJ  2010;340:c2239 (Published )
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Do adults have ADHD?: A history lesson
Matthew P C Smith
BMJ  2010;340:c2241 (Published )
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Cannabis use disorders: Helping the youngest users
Woody Caan
BMJ  2010;340:c2242 (Published )
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NHS commissioning system: No data, no commissioning
Peter A West
BMJ  2010;340:c2134 (Published )
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NHS commissioning system: What took so long?
Nicholas J Sharvill
BMJ  2010;340:c2136 (Published )
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Open access publishing: And now, e-publication bias
Ane Krag Jakobsen, Robin Christensen, Robert Persson, Else Marie Bartels, Lars Erik Kristensen
BMJ  2010;340:c2243 (Published )
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Experts call for new national screening programme for colorectal cancer
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;340:c2344 (Published )
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US specialty societies are urged to adopt code on relations with industry
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c2246 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;340:c2290 (Published )
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Fewer, larger centres are needed to improve children’s heart surgery, report says
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c2341 (Published )
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Doctor is awarded £0.5m after her employer refused to take account of back pain
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c2263 (Published )
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HIV testing in UK hospitals is a "lottery," studies warn
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c2255 (Published )
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FDA told to act to wean US citizens off high salt diet
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2010;340:c2219 (Published )
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Spanish doctors carry out first transplantation of a full face
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2010;340:c2303 (Published )
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India-EU free trade agreement threatens access to generic drugs, MSF warns
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2010;340:c2309 (Published )
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European court rules that NHS incentive schemes for cheap prescribing do not breach law
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c2232 (Published )
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Health spokesmen disagree on how hospital closures should be managed
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c2238 (Published )
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The political power of cancer
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;340:c2250 (Published )
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Rural Scotland needs innovative solutions to deliver out of hours care
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2010;340:c2291 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c2235 (Published )
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Hospital Performance: Patient coding and the ratings game
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;340:c2153 (Published )
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Medicine and the Media: I was an election poster boy
Quentin Shaw
BMJ  2010;340:c2190 (Published )
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Life and Death: Conflict between clinicians and politicians—and what to do about it
Iona Heath
BMJ  2010;340:c2214 (Published )
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Using hospital mortality rates to judge hospital performance: a bad idea that just won’t go away
Richard Lilford, Peter Pronovost
BMJ  2010;340:c2016 (Published )
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Nurse led, home based self help treatment for patients in primary care with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial
Alison J Wearden, Christopher Dowrick, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Richard P Bentall, Richard K Morriss, Sarah Peters, Lisa Riste, Gerry Richardson, Karina Lovell, Graham Dunn, on behalf of the Fatigue Intervention by Nurses Evaluation (FINE) trial writing group and the FINE trial group
BMJ  2010;340:c1777 (Published )
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Cost effectiveness of home ultraviolet B phototherapy for psoriasis: economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial (PLUTO study)
Mayke B G Koek, Vigfus Sigurdsson, Huib van Weelden, Paul H A Steegmans, Carla A F M Bruijnzeel-Koomen, Erik Buskens
BMJ  2010;340:c1490 (Published )
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Population based time trends and socioeconomic variation in use of radiotherapy and radical surgery for prostate cancer in a UK region: continuous survey
Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Josephine M Barbiere, David C Greenberg, Karen A Wright, David E Neal
BMJ  2010;340:c1928 (Published )
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Potential of an age adjusted D-dimer cut-off value to improve the exclusion of pulmonary embolism in older patients: a retrospective analysis of three large cohorts
Renee A Douma, Gregoire le Gal, Maaike Sohne, Marc Righini, Pieter W Kamphuisen, Arnaud Perrier, Marieke J H A Kruip, Henri Bounameaux, Harry R Buller, Pierre-Marie Roy
BMJ  2010;340:c1475 (Published )
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Rethinking pragmatic randomised controlled trials: introducing the "cohort multiple randomised controlled trial" design
Clare Relton, David Torgerson, Alicia O'Cathain, Jon Nicholl
BMJ  2010;340:c1066 (Published )
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From Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Management of medication overuse headache
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
BMJ  2010;340:c1305 (Published )
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Safety Alerts: Reducing risks of tourniquets left on after finger and toe surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
Tara Lamont, Frances Watts, John Stanley, John Scarpello, Sukhmeet Panesar
BMJ  2010;340:c1981 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Pulmonary embolism
Guy Meyer, Pierre-Marie Roy, Serge Gilberg, Arnaud Perrier
BMJ  2010;340:c1421 (Published )
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John Pemberton
Jon Nicholl, Walter Holland
BMJ  2010;340:c2230 (Published )
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Patrick Beausang
Alan McKenzie, Sheila Johnstone
BMJ  2010;340:c2280 (Published )
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Fayez Nazeer Botros
Michael Fitzpatrick
BMJ  2010;340:c2281 (Published )
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John Douglas
Pauline Douglas-Ohren
BMJ  2010;340:c2256 (Published )
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Harry Alexander Isenberg
Lesley Isenberg, David Isenberg
BMJ  2010;340:c2283 (Published )
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Thomas Swan Matheson
Jane Matheson, Ian Matheson
BMJ  2010;340:c2279 (Published )
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Anna Stephenie Wilson (née Kilner)
Max Wilson, Frances Coyne, Peter Burrows
BMJ  2010;340:c2275 (Published )
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Personal View: A Dutch window into the development of a two tier healthcare system
Joe V Guadagno, Chris H Polman
BMJ  2010;340:c2330 (Published )
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Review of the Week: China’s son preference—consigned to history?
Therese Hesketh
BMJ  2010;340:c2216 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The poisoner’s handbook?
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c2294 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Survival of the Unfittest
Kenneth Collins
BMJ  2010;340:c2224 (Published )
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From the Frontline: The X factor
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c2293 (Published )
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Past Caring: Lancets and libel
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2010;340:c2274 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: Haemoptysis, weight loss, and pulmonary shadowing in a smoker
Toni Jordan, Martin J Ledson, Kamlesh Mohan
BMJ  2010;340:c1655 (Published )
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Statistical Question: P values
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c2203 (Published )
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OnExamination Quiz: Rheumatology
BMJ  2010;340:c2210 (Published )
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BMJ  2010;340:c2213 (Published )
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Mohammad Tahir Masoud, Alan P Rotchford
BMJ  2010;340:c2217 (Published )
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A memorable patient
Stuart J Fergusson
BMJ  2010;340:b5403 (Published )
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