The NHS experiment
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Children with mild ambylopia may not need treatment [Full text] FREE

	Cardiac nurses can help with smoking cessation [Full text] FREE

	Balancing aspirin and statins for heart disease prevention [Full text] FREE

	Access to kidney transplants in Scotland is uneven [Full text] FREE

	NHS makes bad use of acute beds [Full text] FREE

	Lassa fever poses international challenge [Full text] FREE

	Current assessment methods overestimate coronary risk [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	What do we gain from the sixth coronary heart disease drug?
	Rebecca N Warburton
	BMJ  2003;327:1237-1238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1237 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factor scoring for coronary heart disease
	Hans-Werner Hense
	BMJ  2003;327:1238-1239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1238 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is the NHS getting better or worse?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1239-1241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1239 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lessons for the NHS from Kaiser Permanente
	Jonathan Shapiro, Sarah Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1241-1242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1241 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Should we be screening for and treating amblyopia?
	Gordon N Dutton, Marie Cleary
	BMJ  2003;327:1242-1243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1242 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treatments for heavy menstrual bleeding
	Anne Lethaby, Cindy Farquhar
	BMJ  2003;327:1243-1244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1243 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school year: Holding back may cause more harm than good
	Thomas Radecki
	BMJ  2003;327:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1286 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school year: Holding back may cause more harm
	Robyn M Greenwell
	BMJ  2003;327:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1286-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school year: Children need to be regarded as individuals in education
	Jolanda Challita
	BMJ  2003;327:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1286-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school year: Peer effects need to be considered
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2003;327:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1287 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social anxiety disorder has social and economic burden
	Antonio E Nardi
	BMJ  2003;327:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1287-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of living liver donation: Requirement for transplantation is high
	Roger Williams
	BMJ  2003;327:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1287-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of living liver donation: Surgery violates principles of beneficence and autonomy
	Michael Potts
	BMJ  2003;327:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1287-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Falls, chronic diseases, and drug use in elderly women: Lack of association may be explained
	Elliot F Epstein
	BMJ  2003;327:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1288 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Falls, chronic diseases, and drug use in elderly women: Authors' reply
	Debbie A Lawlor, Rita Patel, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2003;327:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1288-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Morphine for management of refractory dyspnoea: Opiates should be used with caution
	James W Berrill, Seamus J Linnasne
	BMJ  2003;327:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1288-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Morphine for management of refractory dyspnoea: Authors' reply
	D C Currow, Amy P Abernethy, Peter Frith
	BMJ  2003;327:1288-1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1288-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vaseline and burns: Vaseline should not be used as first aid for burns
	B A De Souza, D Furniss, G Olaofe, M Jawad
	BMJ  2003;327:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1289 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vaseline and burns: Manufacturer's reply
	John Ballington
	BMJ  2003;327:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1289-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Evidence] FREE

	Spoofs by any other name
	S Edouard Josse
	BMJ  2003;327:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1289-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Report predicts 20 million AIDS orphans in Africa by 2010
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;327:1245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Nearly 50 000 adults in the United Kingdom now have HIV
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2003;327:1245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1245-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:1246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1246 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Global efforts to control AIDS are "entirely inadequate"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:1246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1246-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	South Africa introduces world's largest AIDS treatment plan
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2003;327:1246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1246-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	NICE recommends faster, easier access to care for MS patients
	Anjali Jain
	BMJ  2003;327:1247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1247 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Scientists find gene linking inherited breast and ovarian cancer to non-inherited cases
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:1247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1247-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Mentally ill patients in central Europe being kept in padlocked, caged beds
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2003;327:1249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1249-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Nuffield Trust praises ambitious NHS plans but calls for better monitoring
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	GMC admits failings that left Shipman's patients unprotected
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1248 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Drug companies succeed in keeping payments to doctors secret
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2003;327:1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1248-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Charity says its staff are put at risk by US military's description of itself as "humanitarian"
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2003;327:1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1248-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Foundation hospitals will be introduced into NHS despite opposition
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1248-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	MEPs approve stem cell research using human embryos
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1248-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Neonatal deaths hamper India's infant mortality targets
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2003;327:1249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1249 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Drug company pushes for all children under 2 to be vaccinated against pneumonia
	Leanne Tite
	BMJ  2003;327:1249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1249-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Nitric oxide helps neonates with respiratory disorder
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:1249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1249-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Bush wins changes in Medicare benefits
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Conditions at Broadmoor come under attack from inspectors
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Review of abortion law demanded after abortion for cleft palate
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	NHS services not improving as fast as investment, conference told
	Colleen Shannon
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Ninety nine per cent of emergency consultants report abuse by drunk patients
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Half of general practices offer patients complementary medicine
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Migrants should not be forced to have TB and HIV screening
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-g [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New screening method for newborns can prevent complications
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-h [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Haemophiliac patient goes to High Court to get synthetic factor VIII
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-i [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Privy Council overturns ruling by the GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-j [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Frontline staff in NHS to learn to defuse violent situations
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2003;327:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1250-k [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of treatment of unilateral visual impairment detected at preschool vision screening
	M P Clarke, C M Wright, S Hrisos, J D Anderson, J Henderson, S R Richardson
	BMJ  2003;327:1251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1251 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of smoking cessation intervention after admission for coronary heart disease
	Petter Quist-Paulsen, Frode Gallefoss
	BMJ  2003;327:1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1254 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS, Kaiser Permanente, and the US Medicare programme: analysis of routine data
	Chris Ham, Nick York, Steve Sutch, Rob Shaw
	BMJ  2003;327:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1257 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Equity of access to renal transplant waiting list and renal transplantation in Scotland: cohort study
	Gabriel C Oniscu, Annemarie A H Schalkwijk, Rachel J Johnson, Helen Brown, John L R Forsythe
	BMJ  2003;327:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1261 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Coronary heart disease prevention: insights from modelling incremental cost effectiveness
	Tom Marshall
	BMJ  2003;327:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1264 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predictive accuracy of the Framingham coronary risk score in British men: prospective cohort study
	Peter Brindle, Jonathan Emberson, Fiona Lampe, Mary Walker, Peter Whincup, Tom Fahey, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2003;327:1267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1267 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences
	J Kay Richmond, Deborah J Baglole
	BMJ  2003;327:1271-1275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1271 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figures and tables] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Colchicine in acute gout
	Ian Morris, George Varughese, Peter Mattingly
	BMJ  2003;327:1275-1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1275 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of Resuscitation: Resuscitation in pregnancy
	Stephen Morris, Mark Stacey
	BMJ  2003;327:1277-1279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical problems of evaluating a new treatment for melioidosis
	Allen C Cheng, Michael Lowe, Dianne P Stephens, Bart J Currie
	BMJ  2003;327:1280-1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1280 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

	Using socioeconomic evidence in clinical practice guidelines
	Rosemary Aldrich, Lynn Kemp, Jenny Stewart Williams, Elizabeth Harris, Sarah Simpson, Amanda Wilson, Katie McGill, Julie Byles, Julia Lowe, Terri Jackson
	BMJ  2003;327:1283-1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1283 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Paul Janssen
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:1290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1290 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	George Harold Godwin Chase
	Derek Chase
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Sylvia Ray Ingold
	Laura Ivermee
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Philip James Keep
	Matthew Keep
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Mark Lionel Levy
	Harold S Levy, Fred Levy
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Alasdair Cameron Macdonald
	A J Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Theodore Robert Foster Raw
	J R F Raw
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Leonard ("Johnnie") Walker
	G Walker
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-g [Extract] [Full text] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Book: Compassion's Way: A Doctor's Quest into the Soul of Medicine
	Sanjay A Pai
	BMJ  2003;327:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1292 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Younger People with Dementia: A Multidisciplinary Approach
	Lawrence J Whalley
	BMJ  2003;327:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1292-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2003;327:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1293 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2003;327:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1293-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	TV: ER blamed for nursing shortage
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;327:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	WEBSITE OF THE WEEK: Living organ donation
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2003;327:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1294-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEW: Who'd be a reformer?
	Jonathan Shepherd
	BMJ  2003;327:1295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1295 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: What does the patient want?
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2003;327:1295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1295-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:1296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1296 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Only a third of people with chronic fatigue have chronic fatigue syndrome
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: The requirements for a surgeon
	Zameer Shah
	BMJ  2003;327:1263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1263 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Gallstones in custard
	Brian Witcombe
	BMJ  2003;327:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1270 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	When I use a word: Anecdotage
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2003;327:1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;327:1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1282 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	My holistic bakery
	Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  2003;327:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1285 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advice
	BMJ  2003;327:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7426.1291-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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