25 August 2012(vol 345, issue 7871)

Editor's Choice

• Towards a unified theory of patient data

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5678 (Published 22 August 2012)

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News

• Needle and syringe exchange programme is announced for Australian prison

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5615 (Published 17 August 2012)

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• Hospitals are told to export their expertise to boost NHS income

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5681 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5657 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Services with excessive delays in delivering carotid endarterectomy should close, recommends audit

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5641 (Published 20 August 2012)

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• Researchers defend 20 mph speed limits despite rise in casualties

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5580 (Published 16 August 2012)

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• Judges rule that doctors cannot help men with locked-in syndrome to end their lives

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5602 (Published 17 August 2012)

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• Government considers a national implant register in review of cosmetic procedures

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5574 (Published 16 August 2012)

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• Romney’s running mate backtracks on plans to slash health insurance cover for older people

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5634 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• “Big tobacco can be taken on and beaten,” say Australian officials

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5579 (Published 16 August 2012)

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Editorials

• Detection of bowel cancer in kidney transplant recipients

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5081 (Published 25 July 2012)

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• Psychological distress and death from cardiovascular disease

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5177 (Published 31 July 2012)

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• Treating cancer in older people

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4954 (Published 24 July 2012)

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• Drug safety: reporting systems for the general public

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4916 (Published 07 August 2012)

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• Nurse leadership and patient safety

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4589 (Published 09 August 2012)

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• HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5412 (Published 13 August 2012)

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Research News

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5617 (Published 22 August 2012)

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Research

• Association between psychological distress and mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4933 (Published 31 July 2012)

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• Shift work and vascular events: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4800 (Published 26 July 2012)

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• Risk of cardiovascular events in people prescribed glucocorticoids with iatrogenic Cushing’s syndrome: cohort study

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4928 (Published 30 July 2012)

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• Screening for colorectal cancer and advanced colorectal neoplasia in kidney transplant recipients: cross sectional prevalence and diagnostic accuracy study of faecal immunochemical testing for haemoglobin and colonoscopy

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4657 (Published 25 July 2012)

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Research Methods & Reporting

• Interpreting diagnostic accuracy studies for patient care

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e3999 (Published 02 July 2012)

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Observations

• Every day in every way we are getting better and better: the optimism of health policy

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5608 (Published 22 August 2012)

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Feature

• Should patients be able to control their own records?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4905 (Published 30 July 2012)

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Analysis

• Why corporate power is a public health priority

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5124 (Published 21 August 2012)

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Letters

• “Osteoarthritis” on imaging may be normal wear and tear

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5594 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Structured and persistently reinforced patient education can work

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5100 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• NICE guidance ignored incentive spirometry

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5370 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Shortcomings of natural family planning methods

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5566 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Increase in pertussis may be due to increased recognition and diagnosis

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5463 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Many men are receiving unnecessary testosterone prescriptions

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5469 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Editorial on identifying melanomas in primary care was muddled

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5416 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• GPs need better scoring systems that work in primary care

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5408 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Authors’ reply to Bayley and Cave

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5417 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• We need a system that accounts for multimorbidity at practice level

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5464 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• BIA position paper on Lyme borreliosis is evidence based

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5364 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• Metaphor may fill the space created by uncertainty

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5468 (Published 21 August 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Patients must have control of their medical records

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5575 (Published 21 August 2012)

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• The scourge of ulcers

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5576 (Published 20 August 2012)

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• Holding on to Humanity

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5582 (Published 20 August 2012)

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Obituaries

• Philip Vivian Best

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5238 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• Hemraj Bodasing

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5236 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• Neil Lessels Dallas

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5227 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• Joanna Jones

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5234 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• David Murray

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5231 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• Denis Claude Pointereau

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5230 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• John R Pyne

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5239 (Published 22 August 2012)

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Clinical Review

• Facial basal cell carcinoma

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5342 (Published 21 August 2012)

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  • CME

Practice

• Management of lower urinary tract dysfunction in neurological disease: summary of NICE guidance

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5074 (Published 08 August 2012)

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• Pre-eclampsia

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e4437 (Published 19 July 2012)

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Endgames

• A 64 year old woman with headache and breathlessness

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3158 (Published 15 May 2012)

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• Acute skin failure

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5028 (Published 06 August 2012)

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• Why randomise in clinical trials?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5584 (Published 22 August 2012)

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Views & Reviews

• Bad medicine: private practice

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5503 (Published 15 August 2012)

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• An Olympic legacy for couch potatoes?

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5578 (Published 20 August 2012)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5301 (Published 22 August 2012)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2012; 345 :e5300 (Published 22 August 2012)

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