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12 February 2011 (Vol 342, No 7793)
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New uses for existing treatments
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2011;342:d907 (Published )
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Is quality of care improving in the UK?
Peter J Pronovost, Sean M Berenholtz, Laura L Morlock
BMJ  2011;342:c6646 (Published )
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Audiovisual feedback and quality of CPR
Peter Leman
BMJ  2011;342:c7108 (Published )
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Measurement of blood pressure in primary care
Jonathan Mant, Richard McManus
BMJ  2011;342:d382 (Published )
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Postmarketing studies of drug safety
Sebastian Schneeweiss, Jerry Avorn
BMJ  2011;342:d342 (Published )
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Use of skin lightening creams
Yetunde M Olumide
BMJ  2010;341:c6102 (Published )
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Breast cancer screening: Publicity of NHS breast cancer screening programme is unfair
Klim McPherson
BMJ  2011;342:d791 (Published )
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Laparoscopy complications: Understating under-reporting
Frank W Arnold
BMJ  2011;342:d793 (Published )
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Laparoscopy complications: Apply safety rule of thumb
Rajesh Varma
BMJ  2011;342:d799 (Published )
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Aviation and patient safety: Send in the marines?
David I Ben-Tovim
BMJ  2011;342:d801 (Published )
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Aviation and patient safety: We cannot go too far in the pursuit of patient safety
Maurice Conlon
BMJ  2011;342:d802 (Published )
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Paediatric ENT surgery: Grommets and cholesteatoma
John R Cherry
BMJ  2011;342:d647 (Published )
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MMR scare: The BMJ’s measly editorial policies
Neil MacFarlane
BMJ  2011;342:d809 (Published )
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MMR scare: Are the GMC, news media, and BMJ the right tribunals?
Martin Hewitt
BMJ  2011;342:d812 (Published )
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MMR scare: Response from the UK Research Integrity Office
Ian Kennedy
BMJ  2011;342:d807 (Published )
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MMR scare: Robust procedures for research conduct are needed
Malcolm Green
BMJ  2011;342:d805 (Published )
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MMR scare: In the wake of Wakefield
Tom Bates
BMJ  2011;342:d806 (Published )
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Research approval: NHS research: a world of frosted glass
Peter Tyrer
BMJ  2011;342:d803 (Published )
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Income to survive: Clarification from BMA, please
Azeem Majeed
BMJ  2011;342:d446 (Published )
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GMC’s revalidation plans don’t tackle problem of poorly performing doctors, MPs say
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d872 (Published )
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NHS reforms do little to empower patients, charities say
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2011;342:d903 (Published )
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Pfizer closes Kent plant as it trims research spending by $1bn a year
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2011;342:d771 (Published )
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Scrutiny phase brings chance of change to NHS reform bill
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2011;342:d837 (Published )
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"Disruptive" doctors are often found to be perfectionists, agency reports
Jane Feinmann
BMJ  2011;342:d876 (Published )
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Adviser is sacked for asking whether funding for talking therapies is "new"
Caroline White
BMJ  2011;342:d875 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2011;342:d890 (Published )
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"Tsunami of obesity" threatens all regions of world, researchers find
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2011;342:d772 (Published )
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International agencies call for end to female genital mutilation
Weiyuan Cui
BMJ  2011;342:d832 (Published )
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Switzerland is to fund complementary therapies for six years while effectiveness is evaluated
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2011;342:d819 (Published )
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Researcher didn’t get ethical approval for 68 studies, investigators say
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d833 (Published )
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List of "wanted" US healthcare thieves is posted on the web
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2011;342:d831 (Published )
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Australian medical journal says no to drug industry advertising
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2011;342:d884 (Published )
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New male doctors earned 17% more than female doctors in US in 2008
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2011;342:d798 (Published )
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Research finds life is a three second experience
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2011;342:d750 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2011;342:d784 (Published )
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Drug Development: Old drugs, new tricks
Allen F Shaughnessy
BMJ  2011;342:d741 (Published )
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Out of Hours: Lactation wars
Christopher Martyn
BMJ  2011;342:d835 (Published )
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Lobby Watch: Policy Exchange
Jane Cassidy
BMJ  2011;342:d648 (Published )
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Health Systems Perspectives: Cross-border healthcare in the European Union: clarifying patients’ rights
Helena Legido-Quigley, Ilaria Passarani, Cecile Knai, Reinhard Busse, Willy Palm, Matthias Wismar, Martin McKee
BMJ  2011;342:d296 (Published )
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Large scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals: mixed method evaluation
Amirta Benning, Maisoon Ghaleb, Anu Suokas, Mary Dixon-Woods, Jeremy Dawson, Nick Barber, Bryony Dean Franklin, Alan Girling, Karla Hemming, Martin Carmalt, Gavin Rudge, Thirumalai Naicker, Ugochi Nwulu, Sopna Choudhury, Richard Lilford
BMJ  2011;342:d195 (Published )
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Multiple component patient safety intervention in English hospitals: controlled evaluation of second phase
Amirta Benning, Mary Dixon-Woods, Ugochi Nwulu, Maisoon Ghaleb, Jeremy Dawson, Nick Barber, Bryony Dean Franklin, Alan Girling, Karla Hemming, Martin Carmalt, Gavin Rudge, Thirumalai Naicker, Amit Kotecha, M Clare Derrington, Richard Lilford
BMJ  2011;342:d199 (Published )
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Effect of real-time feedback during cardiopulmonary resuscitation outside hospital: prospective, cluster-randomised trial
David Hostler, Siobhan Everson-Stewart, Thomas D Rea, Ian G Stiell, Clifton W Callaway, Peter J Kudenchuk, Gena K Sears, Scott S Emerson, Graham Nichol, and the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators
BMJ  2011;342:d512 (Published )
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Conventional versus automated measurement of blood pressure in primary care patients with systolic hypertension: randomised parallel design controlled trial
Martin G Myers, Marshall Godwin, Martin Dawes, Alexander Kiss, Sheldon W Tobe, F Curry Grant, Janusz Kaczorowski
BMJ  2011;342:d286 (Published )
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Effect of training traditional birth attendants on neonatal mortality (Lufwanyama Neonatal Survival Project): randomised controlled study
Christopher J Gill, Grace Phiri-Mazala, Nicholas G Guerina, Joshua Kasimba, Charity Mulenga, William B MacLeod, Nelson Waitolo, Anna B Knapp, Mark Mirochnick, Arthur Mazimba, Matthew P Fox, Lora Sabin, Philip Seidenberg, Jonathon L Simon, Davidson H Hamer
BMJ  2011;342:d346 (Published )
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Telehealthcare for long term conditions
Susannah McLean, Denis Protti, Aziz Sheikh
BMJ  2011;342:d120 (Published )
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Uncertainties Page: Does home oxygen benefit people with chronic heart failure?
Andrew L Clark, Miriam J Johnson, Iain Squire
BMJ  2011;342:d234 (Published )
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Uncertainties Page: Research to decrease areas of clinical uncertainty
Andrew Farmer, Ruairidh Milne, Tom Walley
BMJ  2011;342:d369 (Published )
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Safety Alerts: Essential care after an inpatient fall: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
Frances Healey, Adam Darowski, Tara Lamont, Sukhmeet Panesar, Susan Poulton, Jonathan Treml, Martin Wiese
BMJ  2011;342:d329 (Published )
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Pamela Mary Dodson
Helen Dodson
BMJ  2011;342:d844 (Published )
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Michael Francis Pilcher
Heloise Palmer
BMJ  2011;342:d847 (Published )
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William Boal Rodgers
Rodger Charlton
BMJ  2011;342:d858 (Published )
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Roger Martin Ewart Seal
Allen R Gibbs
BMJ  2011;342:d851 (Published )
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Shaadat Shariff
Amina Shariff
BMJ  2011;342:d854 (Published )
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Gaius Backholer Sutton
Andrew Sutton
BMJ  2011;342:d658 (Published )
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Personal View: Free speech and professional duty: why I couldn’t fight tabloid rumours
Gillian Needham
BMJ  2011;342:d752 (Published )
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Review of the Week: How the autism epidemic came to be
Iain McClure
BMJ  2011;342:d852 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Full of bile
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2011;342:d845 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Doctors
Rob Hicks
BMJ  2011;342:d846 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Care less
Des Spence
BMJ  2011;342:d877 (Published )
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Starting Out: We need more rationality around cancer
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2011;342:d769 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Meta-analyses V
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2011;342:d686 (Published )
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Case Report: Neck lump in a young woman
D Burrage, F U Hassan, S Clarke
BMJ  2011;342:d26 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Glasgow coma scale
BMJ  2011;342:d730 (Published )
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Sacha Goolamali, John Fleming, Elizabeth Higgins
BMJ  2011;342:d775 (Published )
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The talisman effect
Chris Ellis
BMJ  2010;341:c5916 (Published )
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