15 August 2009(vol 339, issue 7717)

Editor's Choice

• How to avoid unnecessary interventions

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3304 (Published 13 August 2009)

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Editorials

• Evidence based implementation of complex interventions

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3124 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• Do not-for-profit nursing homes provide better quality?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2683 (Published 04 August 2009)

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• End of life decisions and quality of care before death

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2730 (Published 30 July 2009)

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Letters

• Data, please

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3247 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Oseltamivir’s adverse events

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3249 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• What is and is not a “flu lead”

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3250 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Too soon for congratulations

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3248 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Respirator fit testing, anyone?

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3254 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Stop treating indolent lesions

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3256 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Protocols are evidence based

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3262 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Consensus and decision aids

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3260 (Published 11 August 2009)

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News

• Study finds poor access to radiotherapy services in England

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3278 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• Tories promise to scrap “top-down, bureaucratic” NHS IT programme

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3284 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3275 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• European and US agencies will cooperate to ensure ethical conduct of trials

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3274 (Published 10 August 2009)

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• Surgeon wins court injunction against dismissal

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3300 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Heart risk scoring system used by NICE may overestimate lipid disorders

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3273 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• MPs call for better treatment of court witnesses with mental health problems

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3235 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Uganda runs out of antiretroviral drugs after shortfall in aid

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3255 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Margaret Chan: A to Z

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3106 (Published 30 July 2009)

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• Europe’s biggest hospital faces privatisation

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3261 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• US children are not getting enough vitamin D, studies conclude

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3277 (Published 10 August 2009)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3257 (Published 12 August 2009)

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Feature

• A/H1N1 influenza virus: the basics

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3046 (Published 24 July 2009)

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Observations

• That sinking feeling

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3251 (Published 12 August 2009)

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Analysis

• Valuing health directly

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2577 (Published 22 July 2009)

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Research

• Effect of using an interactive booklet about childhood respiratory tract infections in primary care consultations on reconsulting and antibiotic prescribing: a cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2885 (Published 29 July 2009)

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• What factors predict differences in infant and perinatal mortality in primary care trusts in England? A prognostic model

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2892 (Published 04 August 2009)

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• Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2732 (Published 04 August 2009)

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• Comparison of direct and indirect methods of estimating health state utilities for resource allocation: review and empirical analysis

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2688 (Published 22 July 2009)

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• Performance evaluation of a new rapid urine test for chlamydia in men: prospective cohort study

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2655 (Published 29 July 2009)

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• Euthanasia and other end of life decisions and care provided in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2772 (Published 30 July 2009)

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Clinical Review

• Diagnosis and management of neuropathic pain

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3002 (Published 12 August 2009)

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Practice

• A multifaceted strategy for implementation of the Ottawa ankle rules in two emergency departments

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3056 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• The injured ankle and foot

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2901 (Published 07 August 2009)

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• Clinical prediction rules

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2899 (Published 07 August 2009)

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Obituaries

• Alan Berkman

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3245 (Published 11 August 2009)

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Views & Reviews

• Seven years of famine: health care after the crunch

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3237 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• Decline and fall (the speedy way)

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3283 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• A little more than kin

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3253 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• Hernia Repair without Disability

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3294 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• It’s not so much what you know

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3252 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• Uninsured in America? Blame the first world war

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3269 (Published 12 August 2009)

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Endgames

• A complication after a previous caesarean section

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2979 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• An unusual cause of chest pain

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3004 (Published 12 August 2009)

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• Basic psychology

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3197 (Published 12 August 2009)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3178 (Published 11 August 2009)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b3181 (Published 11 August 2009)

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Filler

• Tell your mum about it

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2367 (Published 15 July 2009)

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• Not good enough

  BMJ 2009; 339 :b2947 (Published 11 August 2009)

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