QOF and consent
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2010;340:c3235 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Poor vision and falls
	A John Campbell, Gordon Sanderson, M Clare Robertson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2456 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Care plans for people with Alzheimer’s disease
	Lon S Schneider
	BMJ  2010;340:c2626 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patents in synthetic biology
	Sarah Chan, John Sulston
	BMJ  2010;340:c2984 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A moment of truth for global health
	Richard Feachem, Gavin Yamey, Christina Schrade
	BMJ  2010;340:c2869 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Female genital mutilation
	Susan Bewley, Sarah Creighton, Comfort Momoh
	BMJ  2010;340:c2728 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Presumed consent: Incentivising organ donation
	Thomas A Callender
	BMJ  2010;340:c3152 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent: Realise potential of current systems before changing the law
	Elisabeth Buggins, On behalf of the Organ Donation Task Force
	BMJ  2010;340:c3159 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent: View from France: coming full circle
	Gerald Kierzek, Valeria Rac, Jean-Louis Pourriat
	BMJ  2010;340:c3160 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent: What about mandated choice?
	Hugo Wellesley
	BMJ  2010;340:c3165 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent: Authors’ reply
	Sheila Bird, John Harris
	BMJ  2010;340:c3169 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: An underdiagnosed complication of anaesthesia?
	Peter J O'Brien, Adnan Nadir, Stephan Koch, Stephen J Cole, Neil MacKenzie
	BMJ  2010;340:c3141 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital mortality rates: Beware surgeon specific rates
	Thomas C Holme, Omer Aziz
	BMJ  2010;340:c3144 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acupuncture infections: Editorial exaggerates the risk
	Adrian R White, Mike Cummings
	BMJ  2010;340:c3148 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Embracing leadership roles: Management skills need to be recognised
	Julia Cumberlege
	BMJ  2010;340:c3140 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Removing trans fat from foods: Rendering food injurious to health
	Stewart N Brock
	BMJ  2010;340:c2981 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Independent nutritional data?: British Nutrition Foundation replies
	Alan Shenkin, Paul Hebblethwaite, Judith Buttriss
	BMJ  2010;340:c3135 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lethal injections: Case for a doctor’s involvement in judicial executions
	Michael M Rivlin
	BMJ  2010;340:c2980 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Future of NHS summary care record hangs in balance
	Michael Cross
	BMJ  2010;340:c3230 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving oxygen in acute myocardial infarction may raise death risk, Cochrane review concludes
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c3227 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Higher spending in Scotland fails to deliver better outcomes
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2010;340:c3170 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More than half of diabetic patients do not get recommended annual tests
	Philip Wilson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3228 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GP who looked after baby Peter missed opportunity to save him, GMC is told
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2010;340:c3211 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor leadership at HPA is blamed for spread of E coli at farm
	Philip Wilson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3243 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2010;340:c3205 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bush administration should be investigated for torture of prisoners, says human rights group
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2010;340:c3182 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO admits to "inconsistencies" in its policy on conflicts of interest
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2010;340:c3167 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	University of California fights Nature over price increase
	Bob Roehr
	BMJ  2010;340:c3181 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tranexamic acid cuts deaths in trauma patients at risk of major bleeding
	Philip Wilson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3214 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatric surgeons learn safety tricks from pit stop rituals
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c3112 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Better access to drugs in developing countries is accelerating resistance
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2010;340:c3234 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2010;340:c3131 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Disaster Relief: What next for Haiti’s healthcare?
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2010;340:c3078 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disaster Medicine: Don’t ignore home grown medical systems
	Shahram Aarabi, Charles Jason Smithers, Joia Mukharjee
	BMJ  2010;340:c3187 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Reform: Poland’s painful market reforms
	Peggy Watson
	BMJ  2010;340:c2837 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

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	Should the Quality and Outcomes Framework be abolished? Yes
	Steve Gillam
	BMJ  2010;340:c2710 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should the Quality and Outcomes Framework be abolished? No
	A Niroshan Siriwardena
	BMJ  2010;340:c2794 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Body Politic: The biggest change in health care for a generation?
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2010;340:c3128 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Controversy over generic substitution
	R E Ferner, Warren Lenney, John F Marriott
	BMJ  2010;340:c2548 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Effect on falls of providing single lens distance vision glasses to multifocal glasses wearers: VISIBLE randomised controlled trial
	Mark J Haran, Ian D Cameron, Rebecca Q Ivers, Judy M Simpson, Bonsan B Lee, Michael Tanzer, Mamta Porwal, Marcella M S Kwan, Connie Severino, Stephen R Lord
	BMJ  2010;340:c2265 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of a specific care plan in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: cluster randomised trial (PLASA study)
	Fati Nourhashemi, Sandrine Andrieu, Sophie Gillette-Guyonnet, Bruno Giraudeau, Christelle Cantet, Nicola Coley, Bruno Vellas, on behalf of the PLASA Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c2466 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination among Dutch infants: economic analysis of the seven valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccine and forecast for the 10 valent and 13 valent vaccines
	Mark H Rozenbaum, Elisabeth A M Sanders, Albert Jan van Hoek, Angelique G S C Jansen, Arie van der Ende, Germie van den Dobbelsteen, Gerwin D Rodenburg, Eelko Hak, Maarten J Postma
	BMJ  2010;340:c2509 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychosis alters association between IQ and future risk of attempted suicide: cohort study of 1 109 475 Swedish men
	G David Batty, Elise Whitley, Ian J Deary, Catharine R Gale, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen
	BMJ  2010;340:c2506 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short term impact of smoke-free legislation in England: retrospective analysis of hospital admissions for myocardial infarction
	Michelle Sims, Roy Maxwell, Linda Bauld, Anna Gilmore
	BMJ  2010;340:c2161 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Management of faecal incontinence in adults
	Mukhtar Ahmad, Iain J D McCallum, Mark Mercer-Jones
	BMJ  2010;340:c2964 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Rehabilitation of patients with stroke: summary of SIGN guidance
	Lorraine N Smith, Roberta James, Mark Barber, Scott Ramsay, David Gillespie, Charlie Chung, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2010;340:c2845 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Delayed diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism
	Jonathan M Grasko, Hieu H Nguyen, Paul Glendenning
	BMJ  2010;340:c2461 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Obituaries: John Havard
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2010;340:c3218 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lawrence Brimacombe
	Moira Brimacombe
	BMJ  2010;340:c3177 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robert Angus Fletcher Gilbert
	Michael Simpson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3180 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Isabel Mary Headen (Gardner) (née Woodhouse)
	Isabel Headen
	BMJ  2010;340:c3179 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Houghton
	Alban Houghton
	BMJ  2010;340:c3178 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kenneth Fawcett Mole
	Alasdair Fraser, Michael Laurence
	BMJ  2010;340:c3176 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Norman Howell Owen
	Lyn Perry, Philip Robinson
	BMJ  2010;340:c3174 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Zaki Rizk Salib
	Zaki Rizk Salib
	BMJ  2010;340:c3175 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Could kindness heal the NHS?
	Angela M Jones
	BMJ  2010;340:c3166 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: Extreme bodies: art to stimulate the mind, or a modern day freak show?
	Naveen Puri
	BMJ  2010;340:c2695 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: An injection of fear
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2010;340:c3216 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: The Notebook
	Niamh Lavin
	BMJ  2010;340:c3123 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From The Frontline: Bad medicine: chronic kidney disease
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2010;340:c3188 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: Hans Sloane’s bitter taste of success
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2010;340:c3210 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: A persistent headache
	A J Dawson, C Rowland-Hill, S L Atkin
	BMJ  2010;340:c2966 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Quiz: Sample size calculations I
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2010;340:c3104 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OnExamination Quiz: Fractures
	BMJ  2010;340:c3121 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Sheila Luk, Catherine Hockings, Colin Hopper, Helen Booth
	BMJ  2010;340:c3102 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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Filler

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	I can’t really talk right now
	Samir L Dawlatly, Timothy J McBride, Vaikunthan Rajaratnam
	BMJ  2010;340:c2368 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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