Tackling practice variation
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2011;342:d1884 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Reducing unwarranted variations in healthcare in the English NHS
	Nicholas Mays
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	What have we learnt from the rosiglitazone saga?
	Victor M Montori, Nilay D Shah
	BMJ  2011;342:d1354 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of pain from propofol injection
	Duminda N Wijeysundera, Brian P Kavanagh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1102 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pituitary apoplexy
	Janice M Kerr, Margaret E Wierman
	BMJ  2011;342:d1270 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New proposals for reorganisation of healthcare staff in England
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2011;342:d1839 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Gynaecological examinations: Good not bad medicine
	John Butler, Desmond Barton, John Shepherd, Karina Reynolds, Sean Kehoe
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	Gynaecological examinations: Author’s reply
	Desmond Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d1786 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Old drugs, new tricks: Use of intravenous lipids in clinical toxicology
	Ne-Hooi Will Loh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1764 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital reconfiguration: Southeast London—the unspoken problem
	Andrew N Bamji
	BMJ  2011;342:d1765 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs and child protection: Medical records should be shared by all
	Rajat Srivastava
	BMJ  2011;342:d1776 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs and child protection: Online conferencing might be the answer
	Chris Mills
	BMJ  2011;342:d1777 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Network meta-analysis: Results can be summarised in a simple figure
	Valeria Fadda, Dario Maratea, Sabrina Trippoli, Andrea Messori
	BMJ  2011;342:d1555 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Inquiry calls for greater transparency and quality of care in general practice
	Nigel Hawkes
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	Activists call for attacks on health professionals in Middle East to be fully investigated
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2011;342:d1807 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report shows low rate of cancer surgery in middle aged people
	Helen Mooney
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	Cardiac surgeons call for more doctors to use outcome data to improve care
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1804 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Value based drug pricing could increase NHS drugs bill
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d1759 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dirty, pretty thing
	Ben Cooper
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	Draft bill sets out how courts should weed out unreliable expert witnesses
	Clare Dyer
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	Libya’s health system struggles after exodus of foreign medical staff
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2011;342:d1879 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death toll climbs and healthcare needs escalate in Japan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2011;342:d1859 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human rights group accuses US psychiatrists of unethical treatment of prisoners
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2011;342:d1792 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New government is to introduce universal primary care for Ireland
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2011;342:d1825 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
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	Biomedical approach cannot deal with India’s public health problems, says health activist
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2011;342:d1802 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	France proposes overhaul of drug regulatory system
	Paul Benkimoun
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	Poor nutrition is increasing rates of overweight in developing countries
	Weiyuan Cui
	BMJ  2011;342:d1787 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Virtual hospital for HIV patients halves consultation times
	Aser Garcia Rada
	BMJ  2011;342:d1818 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
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Feature

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	General Practice: Bigger is better for primary care
	Nigel Hawkes
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	BMJ Group Awards: Excellence in healthcare education: top picks for 2011
	Christiane Rehwagen, Christine Ward
	BMJ  2011;342:d1728 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term conditions: How services for long term conditions could be reborn
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  2011;342:d1730 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Medicine and the Media: Panic about nuclear apocalypse overshadows Japan’s real plight
	Margaret McCartney
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Analysis

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	Time to tackle unwarranted variations in practice
	John E Wennberg
	BMJ  2011;342:d1513 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Comparative cardiovascular effects of thiazolidinediones: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
	Yoon Kong Loke, Chun Shing Kwok, Sonal Singh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1309 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of statins on atrial fibrillation: collaborative meta-analysis of published and unpublished evidence from randomised controlled trials
	Kazem Rahimi, Jonathan Emberson, Paul McGale, William Majoni, Amal Merhi, Folkert W Asselbergs, Vera Krane, Peter W Macfarlane, PWM is acting on behalf of the PROSPER Executive
	BMJ  2011;342:d1250 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevention of pain on injection of propofol: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Leena Jalota, Vicki Kalira, Elizabeth George, Yung-Ying Shi, Cyrill Hornuss, Oliver Radke, Nathan L Pace, Christian C Apfel, On behalf of the Perioperative Clinical Research Core
	BMJ  2011;342:d1110 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised trial of glutamine, selenium, or both, to supplement parenteral nutrition for critically ill patients
	Peter J D Andrews, Alison Avenell, David W Noble, Marion K Campbell, Bernard L Croal, William G Simpson, Luke D Vale, Claire G Battison, David J Jenkinson, Jonathan A Cook, and the SIGNET (Scottish Intensive care Glutamine or seleNium Evaluative Trial) Trials Group
	BMJ  2011;342:d1542 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Managing adult patients who need home parenteral nutrition
	Geert Wanten, Philip C Calder, Alastair Forbes
	BMJ  2011;342:d1447 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Guidelines: Inpatient management of diabetic foot problems: summary of NICE guidance
	T Tan, E J Shaw, F Siddiqui, P Kandaswamy, P W Barry, M Baker, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  2011;342:d1280 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Pituitary infarction: a potentially fatal cause of postoperative hyponatraemia and ocular palsy
	Helen Prescott, Elna Ellis, Steven Soule
	BMJ  2011;342:d1221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Malaria
	Deen M Mirza, Muhammad Jawad Hashim, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1149 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Sean Spence
	Steven R Hirsch
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	Solomon Adler
	Leo Guttentag
	BMJ  2011;342:d1719 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	David Prydderch Davies
	Jonathan Prydderch Davies
	BMJ  2011;342:d1713 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	John Fyfe
	Neil Marshall
	BMJ  2011;342:d1707 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ronald Parfitt
	Susan Gromett
	BMJ  2011;342:d1722 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Albert Rinsler
	Sam Rinsler, Dan Rinsler
	BMJ  2011;342:d1709 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hosie Byram Tavadia
	Douglas Stewart
	BMJ  2011;342:d1721 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reginald Lavis Walker
	D H A Boyd
	BMJ  2011;342:d1715 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: We need a simple test for prosopagnosia
	David R Fine
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	Review of the Week: A roadmap for health system reform
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2011;342:d1757 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review: Filming the foundation years
	Yusuf Mirza
	BMJ  2011;342:d1843 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Shakespeare on alcohol
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d1789 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2011;342:d1756 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Systematic failures and alternatives to audit
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d1840 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug Tales and Other Stories: Prescription charges: a tax on the English
	Ike Iheanacho
	BMJ  2011;342:d1790 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Case report: A man with hypophosphataemia
	Joanne K Y Lam, C W Lam, Annie W C Kung, Kathryn C B Tan, K S Lau, Karen S L Lam
	BMJ  2011;342:d773 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anatomy Quiz: Heart segments on short axis computed tomography section
	Jonathan Colledge, Shaun Quigley
	BMJ  2011;342:d1834 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case Report: A 42 year old man with bilateral exophthalmos and weight loss
	Stelios Tigas, Agathocles Tsatsoulis
	BMJ  2011;342:d1105 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Observational Study Design I
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;342:d1742 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: Risk factors for stroke
	BMJ  2011;342:d1782 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Faryal G Afridi, Krishnan Gokul, Dmitri Y Artioukh
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