Index to volume 327 - BMJ Group

Index to volume 327 

Entries for editorials, news, papers, primary care, information in practice, clinical review, education and debate, learning in practice, 

quality improvement report, letters and reviews are indicated by the use of symbols (E), (N), (P), (PC), (IP), (C), (ED), (LP), (Q), (L), 

and (V) respectively. Series entries are made for the ABC series, Drug points, Extracts from “Best Treatments”, Extracts from Concise 

Clinical Evidence, Fillers, For and against, Lesson of the week, Personal paper, Personal view, Recent developments, Regular review, Science, 

medicine, and the future, 10-minute consultation and the other subject series. Articles in BMJ Careers are also included in this index. 

A 

Abanades S, et al, Guidelines for anecdotes might include more 

information. 327:290 (L) 

Abbasi K, see Nundy S. 327:941 

Abbasi, Syed Fateh Shah, Obituary (NS Abbasi). 327:1111 

ABC of interventional cardiology 

— Implantable devices for treating tachyarrhythmias (T 

Houghton, et al). 327:333 (C) 

— Interventional paediatric cardiology (KP Walsh). 327:385 (C) 

— Interventional pharmacotherapy (R Philipp, et al). 327:43 (C) 

— New developments in percutaneous coronary intervention (J 

Gunn, et al). 327:150 (C) 

— Non-coronary percutaneous intervention (ED Grech). 

327:97 (C) 

— Percutaneous interventional electrophysiology (GC Kaye). 


ABC of resuscitation 

— The automated external de®brillator (R Liddle, et al). 


— Near drowning (M Harries). 327:1336 (C) 

— Resuscitation in pregnancy (S Morris, et al). 327:1277 (C) 

ABC of subfertility 

— Anovulation (D Hamilton-Fairley, et al). 327:546 (C) 

— Assisted conception. I—General principles (P Rowell, et al). 


— Assisted conception. II—In vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic 

sperm injection (P Braude, et al). 327:852 (C) 

— Assisted conception. III—Problems with assisted conception 

(P Braude, et al). 327:920 (C) 

— Assisted conception and the law in the United Kingdom (P 

Braude, et al). 327:978 (C) 

— Counselling (A Bagshawe, et al). 327:1038 (C) 

— Extent of the problem (A Taylor). 327:434 (C), 872 (L), 1226 

(L) 

— Further advances and uses of assisted conception technology 

(S Pickering, et al). 327:1156 (C) 

— Intractable infertility (A Bagshawe, et al). 327:1098 (C) 

— Making a diagnosis (A Taylor). 327:494 (C) 

— Male subfertility (A Hirsh). 327:669 (C) (correction, 1165) 

— Tubal subfertility (Y Khalaf). 327:610 (C) 

— Unexplained infertility, endometriosis, and ®broids (R Hart). 


Abernethy AP 

— et al, Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover 

trial of sustained release morphine for the management of 

refractory dyspnoea. 327:523 (P), 1288 (L) 

— see Currow DC. 327:1288 

Abizaid AS, see Bhargava B. 327:274 

Aborigines see also ethnic groups 

— Australia 

——sustaining better diabetes care (R McDermott, et al). 

327:428 (Q) 

——swimming pool bene®ts in remote communities 

——overview (G Hall, et al). 327:407 (E) 

——interventionist indigenous peoples’ studies (D Lehmann, 

et al). 327:415 (P) (correction, 663) 

— Canada, health needs (TK Young). 327:419 (P) 

— children’s hearing loss (M Sweet). 327:413 (N) 

— Mark Wenitong interview (M Sweet). 327:414 (N) 

abortion, induced see also miscarriage 

— Asia, sex selective (A Sen). 327:1297 (E) 

— ethics, curate challenges cleft palate decision (R Dobson). 

327:1307 (N) 

— EU test case may threaten rights (C Dyer). 327:1367 (N) 

— US 

——“partial birth” abortions ban (JH Tanne). 327:1009 (N) 

——violence fear after Hill execution (JH Tanne). 327:577 (N) 

Abraha I, see Traversa G. 327:18 

academic medicine see also research 

— BMJ Publishing Group campaign (J Clark, et al). 327:1001 

(E) 

— career choice (J Adams) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 

327:s86 (13 September 2003) 

— developing countries, practising just medicine in unjust world 

(Z Bhutta). 327:1000 (E) 

— (H Clark) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s85 (13 September 

2003) 

— resuscitating clinical research in UK (J Bell). 327:1041 (ED) 

Academy of Medical Sciences working group, see Bell J. 327:1041 

accident and emergency departments see emergency medical 

services 

accidents, tra$c see road tra$c accidents 

accreditation see revalidation 

ACE inhibitors see angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors 

acquired immunode®ciency syndrome see also HIV 

— Africa 

——20 m. orphans by 2010 (F Fleck). 327:1245 (N) 

——death without pain relief (D Carlisle). 327:1069 (N) 

— antiretroviral treatment breaks are not answer (D Josefson). 


— Canada, agency criticised as “AIDS denier” (D Spurgeon). 


— China, drugs abusers tested for HIV without consent (S 

Mayor). 327:579 (N) 

— developing countries 

July−December 2003 

——establishing ethical trials for treatment and prevention (B 

Lo, et al). 327:337 (ED) 

——funding shortfall (S Mayor). 327:10 (N) 

——global e#orts are “entirely inadequate” (Z Kmietowicz). 


— European Union, $1bn committed to global fund (A 

Dorozynski). 327:182 (N) 

— India 

——HIV cases rising sharply (S Kumar). 327:245 (N) 

——lessons from Africa. 327:562 (L), 563 (L) 

— mortality, decline in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in 

UK and Ireland (DM Gibb, et al). 327:1019 (P) 

— Netherlands, STD rise points to unsafe sex (T Sheldon). 


— reframing HIV and AIDS (L Stabinski, et al). 327:1101 (ED) 

— refugees, unfair burden on NHS? (DR Chadwick) (Personal 

view). 327:171 (R) 

— South Africa 

——antiretrovirals withdrawn for pregnant mothers (P Sidley). 


——Cabinet insists on antiretrovirals (P Sidley). 327:357 (N) 

——drug companies “abused” position (P Sidley). 327:946 

(N) 

——inquiry into HIV test without consent (P Sidley). 327:949 

(N) 

——introduces world’s largest treatment plan (P Sidley). 


— testing, GPs should encourage (D Singh). 327:830 (N) 

— Uganda, door to door anonymous HIV testing (B Ochan). 


— US 

——Angels in America (JH Tanne) (Film). 327:1412 (R) 

——unsafe sexual practice (D Josefson). 327:10 (N) 

— WHO approves combination pills (F Fleck). 327:1067 (N) 

— WHO global alert after grim report (F Fleck). 327:698 (N) 

acute infectious conjunctivitis, diagnostic impact of signs and 

symptoms (RP Rietveld, et al). 327:789 (PC) 

acute low back pain 

— (J Car, et al) (10 minute consultation). 327:541 (PC) 

— prognosis, systematic review (LHM Pengel, et al). 327:323 

(PC) 

acute medicine 

— Intensive Scares BBC1 (R Rao) (TV). 327:454 (R) 

— management of acute mania (PE Keck). 327:1002 (E) 

acute otitis media, life threatening complications after partially 

treated mastoiditis (J Jose, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:41 

(C) 

acute psychiatric day hospitals, e#ective care? (M Marshall). 

327:116 (E) 

acute rheumatic fever, treatment (A Cilliers). 327:631 (E) 

Adair CE, see Haggerty JL. 327:1219 

Adami H-O, see Tamimi RM. 327:622 

Adams J, Is there life after medicine? (The way I see it) BMJ 

Careers 327:s86 (13 September 2003) 

Adams S, see Dale J. 327:450 

Adamson AJ, see Moore H. 327:1085 

adenocarcinoma, risk in Barrett’s oesophagus (L Murray, et al). 

327:534 (P) 

Adil, Mahmood 

— organising international humanitarian aid (R McDonald) 

BMJ Careers 327:s121 (18 October 2003) 

— (R MacDonald) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s125 (18 October 

2003) 

adiposity see obesity 

Adler M, Sexual health. 327:62 (E) (correction, 500) 

admission see patient admission 

adolescence see also young adults 

— Adolescent Health (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1366 (N) 

— Belgium, contraceptive subsidy (R Watson). 327:945 (N) 

— carers, health of young informal carers (T Doran, et al). 

327:1388 (PC) 

— children’s use of medicines (EJ Sanz). 327:858 (ED) 

— cultural safety and (NJ Gray, et al) (Personal view). 327:457 

(R) (correction, 556) 

— State of the World Population 2003 (Z Kmietowicz). 327:829 

(N) 

adrenaline 

— anaphylaxis evidence? (APC McLean-Tooke, et al). 327:1332 

(C) 

— auto-injectable adrenaline knowledge (GR Hayman, et al). 


— given outside the context of life threatening allergic reactions. 

327:226 (L), 227 (L) 

advance directives, adherence in critical care decision making (T 

Thompson, et al). 327:1011 (P), 1406 (L), 1407 (L) 

adverse drug reactions 

— anecdotes as evidence. 327:290 (L) 

— balancing bene®ts and harms in health care (LG Cuervo, et 

al). 327:65 (E), 750 (L) 

— heart failure, polypharmacy and comorbidity (FA Masoudi, et 

al). 327:513 (E) 

— monitoring criteria (M Pirmohamed, et al). 327:1179 (E) 

— new approach to classi®cation (JK Aronson, et al). 327:1222 

(ED) 

advertising, drug industry see drug industry 

Africa see also Angola; Egypt; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; South 

Africa; Sudan; Uganda 

— AIDS 

——20 m. orphans by 2010 (F Fleck). 327:1245 (N) 

——death without pain relief (D Carlisle). 327:1069 (N) 

——lessons for India. 327:562 (L), 563 (L) 

——tackling HIV infections (JS Mukherjee, et al). 327:1104 

(ED) 

— hypertension management (S Mayor). 327:1305 (N) 

— journal publishing: James Tumwine interview (G Yamey). 


— Lassa fever, epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences 

(JK Richmond, et al) 327:1271 (C) (correction, 

328:96) 

— malaria chemoprophylaxis in non-immune travellers (P 

Schlagenhauf, et al). 327:1078 (P) 

— Ptolemy project, scalable model for delivering health 

information (M Beveridge, et al). 327:790 (IP) (correction, 

1016) 

— quality care at end of life (C Sepulveda, et al). 327:209 (ED) 

Afshari R, see Bateman DN. 327:287 

Agarwal A, TB should be diagnosed before using a 

uoroquinolone. 327:164 (L) 

Agarwal N, see Arya SC. 327:105 

Agarwal S, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

ageing see also elderly 

— child mental disorders and relative age within school year (R 

Goodman, et al). 327:472 (P), 1286 (L) 

— choice. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:339 

— di#erences. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:1103 

— penalised. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:262 

— poles apart? Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:1215 

— proof of old age. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:80 

— three stages of man’s life. 327:683 (L) 

— tyrant. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:1326 

Agell I, Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care (Books). 327:234 (R) 

Agent Orange, found in food in Vietnam (D Spurgeon). 327:521 

(N) 

Agerbo E, Risk of suicide and spouse’s psychiatric illness or suicide: 

nested case-control study. 327:1025 (P) 

aggression see under violence 

Agrawal S, see D’Sa AA. 327:680 

Ahmed I, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

AIDS see acquired immunode®ciency syndrome 

Aikens JE, see Nease DE. 327:1030 

air pollution, stroke risk during warm weather (JH Tanne). 


airplanes 

— deep vein thrombosis and: record linkage study (CW 

Kelman, et al). 327:1072 (P) 

— suicide prevention programme in US Air Force (KL Knox, et 

al). 327:1376 (P) 

Åkesson K, see Woolf AD. 327:89 

Al-Ubaydli M 

— How to be become a publisher: part 3 BMJ Careers 327:s27 

(26 July 2003) 

— How to become a publisher: part 4 BMJ Careers 327:s68 (30 

August 2003) 

— et al, The progress of medical informatics in the United Kingdom 

BMJ Careers 327:s81 (13 September 2003) 

Ala’Aldeen, Dlawer, (R Chew) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers:s173 (29 

November 2003) 

Alaszewski A, et al, How can doctors communicate information 

about risk more e#ectively? 327:728 (ED) 

alcohol drinking 

— genitourinary tract and. Q&A (FJ Dignan, et al). 327:1344 

— Scotland, law reforms (B Christie). 327:467 (N) 

— screening 

——brief intervention trials targeting excessive drinkers in 

general practice (A Beich, et al) 327:536 (PC) (correction, 

328:96) 

——psychiatric inpatients (B Barnaby, et al). 327:783 (P) 

— students, secondhand e#ects (JD Langley, et al). 327:1023 (P) 

— UK, NHS cost (R Dobson). 327:701 (N) 

alcoholism 

— doctor’s experience (Anonymous) (The way I see it) BMJ 


— elderly, rede®nition (H O’Connell, et al). 327:664 (C) 

— failure (CA Pierach) (Personal view). 327:569 (R) 

Alden B, see Ra%e AE. 327:50 

Aldrich R, et al, Using socioeconomic evidence in clinical practice 

guidelines. 327:1283 (ED) 

Alexander, Elizabeth Anne (née Gillberry), Obituary (T Alexander, 

et al). 327:346 

Alexander, John O’Donel, Obituary (A Lyell). 327:397 

Ali A, see Lim E. 327:1309 

Ali KM, Demystifying doctors (Film). 327:1114 (R) 

Ali Z, see Lim E. 327:1309 

Alia G, see Weeks AD. 327:1329 

Alikhan S, see Evans R. 327:621 

Allen D, see Rayment R. 327:331 

Allen J, Retirement should not be compulsory (The way I see it) 


allergy 

ABA-ALL 1

— increasing hospital admissions: analysis of national admissions 

data (R Gupta, et al). 327:1142 (P) 

— partial thickness burns after giant hogweed exposure (BJ 

Challacombe, et al) (Minerva). 327:112 (R) 

Allt B, I dread not death but dying (Personal view). 327:237 (R) 

Allwinn R, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Alonso-Coello P, et al, Non-pharmacological options may have 

role in postmenopausal osteoporosis. 327:1051 (L) 

Alter P, et al, Pseudoaneurysm in coronary artery disease 

(Minerva). 327:238 (R) 

alternative medicine see also herbal medicine 

— Edzard Ernst (G Watts) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers:s166 (22 


altitude illness, symptoms and treatments. 327:106 (L) 

Altman DG 

— see Higgins JPT. 327:557 

— see Lim E. 327:1309 

Alusi S, see Pickersgill T BMJ Careers 327:s107 (4 October 2003) 

Alzheimer’s disease 

— anti-in ammatory drugs and (C Martyn). 327:353 (E) 

— non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs and (M Etminan, et 

al). 327:128 (P), 751 (L), 752 (L) 

— prevention, ®sh diet (D Josefson). 327:248 (N) 

Amandua J, see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

amblyopia, should we screen and treat? (GN Dutton, et al). 


ambulatory care see day care 

Ameratunga S, see Furness S. 327:1455 

Amiel S, et al, Family Violence in Primary Care (Books). 327:686 

(R) 

aminophylline, doesn’t it make you sick (R Anthony-Pillai). 

327:923 

Amos D, see Loveland P BMJ Careers 327:s132 (25 October 

2003) 

amputation, David Sheppard (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 

327:s126 (18 October 2003) 

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Gulf veterans are developing (O 

Dyer). 327:766 (N) 

Ana J, No more free lunches. 327:341 (L) 

anaemia, elderly, prevalence (AJM de Craen, et al). 327:131 (P) 

anaesthesia, should same anaesthetist do preoperative visit and 

give subsequent anaesthetic? (B Simini, et al). 327:79 (P), 

931 (L) 

anal ®ssure, treatment (RL Nelson). 327:354 (E) 

analgesia see also pain 

— breast cancers and painkillers (JH Tanne). 327:181 (N) 

— “good death” (J Riley) (Personal view). 327:235 (R) 

— knee surgery, improve outcomes (JH Tanne). 327:1185 (N) 

analogies, communication of risks. 327:749 (L) 

anaphylaxis 

— adrenaline: given outside context of life threatening allergic 

reactions. 327:226 (L), 227 (L) 

— adrenaline: treatment evidence? (APC McLean-Tooke, et al). 


— patient auto-injectable adrenaline knowledge (GR Hayman, 

et al). 327:1328 (PC) 

anatomy, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:1293 (R) 

Anderson HR, see Gupta R. 327:1142 

Anderson J, see Howe A. 327:326 

Anderson JD, see Clarke MP. 327:1251 

Anderson P, Improving Patient Safety (Books). 327:109 (R) 

anecdotes 

— evidence-based medicine. 327:290 (L) 

— When I use a word (JK Aronson). 327:1276 

anger 

— Animal (A Iles) (Theatre). 327:687 (R) 

— Endpiece (J Spencer). 327:427 

angina 

— homemade pump (D Selvarajah). 327:1468 

— prognosis with and without a diagnosis: Whitehall II prospective 

cohort study follow up (H Hemingway, et al). 327:895 (P) 

angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors 

— angiotensin receptor blocker as e#ective as (S Gottlieb). 


— cardiovascular diseases, conundrum of HOPE study. 327:681 

(L), 682 (L) 

Angola see also Africa 

— mortality among displaced former UNITA members and 

their families (T Grein, et al). 327:650 (P) 

animal fats, breast cancer risk (JH Tanne). 327:181 (N) 

Ankarberg PH, Antidepressant prescribing and suicide. 327:288 

(L) 

Anonymous 

— Extracts from “Best Treatments” . Bulimia nervosa. Commentary: 

A patient’s story: “My life revolves around food and 

exercise". 327:382 (C) 

— A gout lifestyle? 327:1433 

— The loneliness of an alcoholic doctor (The way I see it) BMJ 


anovulation, ABC of subfertility (D Hamilton-Fairley, et al). 


Antartica, doctors (A Ramsden) BMJ Careers 327:s43 (9 August 

2003) 

antenatal care see prenatal care 

Anthony R, see Jose J. 327:41 

Anthony-Pillai R, Doesn’t it make you sick. 327:923 

antibiotics 

— death, where is thy sting? (L Farrell) (Soundings). 327:877 (R) 

— intensive care patients should be given prophylactic antibiotics 

(T Sheldon). 327:770 (N) 

anticholinergic drugs see also drugs 

— overactive bladder: comparison with placebo. 327:291 (L) 

— Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (G Weitz) (History and mystery). 


anticoagulants 

— bortezomib, helps patients with relapsed myeloma (JH 

Tanne). 327:7 (N) 

— point of care testing, reliability of international normalised 

ratios (L Poller, et al). 327:30 (PC) 

antidepressants see also depression; tricyclic antidepressants 

— suicide and: Australia 1991-2000: 327:288 (L) (correction, 

586), 289 (L) (correction, 586) 

antiplatelets, interventional pharmacotherapy: ABC of interventional 

cardiology (R Philipp, et al). 327:43 (C) 

antiretroviral drugs, heart attack risk (S Gottlieb). 327:1186 (N) 

Anton C, In praise of medical secretaries. 327:991 (L) 

Anwar R 

— Good medical practice. 327:1213 

— A memorable patient. Compartment syndrome. 327:286 

— et al, How to write a case report BMJ Careers:s153 (15 


anxiety 

— criteria and severity of symptoms in primary care (DE Nease, 


— separation from depressive disorders: blind alley (E Shorter, 

et al). 327:158 (ED), 869 (L), 870 (L) 

— social anxiety disorder (FR Schneier). 327:515 (E), 1287 (L) 

appetite, hormone fragment infusion (S Mayor). 327:578 (N) 

Applebaum, David, Obituary (J Siegel-Itzkovich). 327:684 

appraisal 

— catalyst of personal development (M Conlon). 327:389 (ED) 

— e#ective revalidation (o$cial)? 327:161 (L) 

— locum doctors (EB Turya) BMJ Careers 327:s97 (27 September 

2003) 

Araj GF, see JN Samaha-Kfoury. 327:1209 

Arbyn M, et al, European Commission’s proposal for a council 

recommendation on cancer screening. 327:289 (L) 

Archer N, Interactive case report. A 2 year old child with rash and 

fever. Commentary: cardiological issues. 327:918 (C) 

Ardern-Jones A, Staying Alive (Books). 327:508 (R) 

Ariès P, The Hour of Our Death (Books). 327:230 (R) 

armed forces see also war 

— Northern Ireland, security duties and mental health of 

soldiers (G Lawrenson, et al). 327:1382 (P) 

Armstrong E, see Higgs R. 327:53 

Armstrong GL, see Hutin YJF. 327:1075 

Arnold P, Why running is not for people (This sporting life). 


Arnold RM, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

Aronson JK 

— Love and death in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde—an epic anticholinergic 

crisis (History and mystery). Commentary: Signs 

of love, not a love potion. 327:1471 

— One Man’s Medicine (Radio). 327:507 (R) 

— When I use a word. Anecdotage. 327:1276 

— et al, Joining the DoTS: new approach to classifying adverse 

drug reactions. 327:1222 (ED) 

Arroll B 

— et al, Delayed prescriptions. 327:1361 (E) 

— et al, Screening for depression in primary care with two 

verbally asked questions: cross sectional study. 327:1144 

(PC) 

art 

— autistic savant exhibition (L Eaton). 327:888 (N) 

— breast cancer survivors (A Ferriman). 327:767 (N) 

— mental health images show (L Eaton). 327:1008 (N) 

arti®cial insemination see in vitro fertilisation 

Arya SC, et al, PROSE may be useful as POEMS. 327:105 (L) 

asbestos, India, poisoning cover up by doctors (G Mudur). 


Ascherio A, see He K. 327:777, 1348 

ASCOT group of surgeons, see McCulloch P. 327:1192 

Ashcroft B, et al, Prospective semistructured observational study 

to identify risk attributable to sta# deployment, training, 

and updating opportunities for midwives. 327:584 (P) 

Ashcroft RE, In vitro fertilisation for all? 327:511 (E), 1226 (L) 

Ashton CH, Comparing cannabis with tobacco. 327:165 (L) 

Asia see also Bangladesh; China; Hong Kong; India; Iraq; Israel; 

Nepal; Pakistan; Vietnam; West Bank and Gaza Strip 

— abortion, sex selective (A Sen). 327:1297 (E) 

— drug industry, WHO tackles counterfeit medicines (S 

Pincock). 327:1126 (N) 

— Japanese encephalitis, Bill Gates’ bequest (A Elliot). 


Asia, south-east, BMJ special issue (Z Bhutta, et al). 327:941 (E) 

aspirin 

— cardiovascular diseases and 

——polypill. 327:807 (L), 808 (L), 809 (L) 

——prevention insights from modelling incremental cost e#ectiveness 

(TP Marshall). 327:1264 (PC) (correction, 

328:209) 

——protective e#ects compromised by other NSAIDs (S Gottlieb). 


— coronary surgery, therapeutic comparison meta-analysis (E 

Lim, et al) 327:1309 (P) (correction, 328:147) 

— diabetic retinopathy (EM Kohner). 327:1060 (E) 

— future: all the things that aspirin does? (R Flower). 327:572 

(E) 

— myocardial infarction 

——overview (SE Kimmel, et al). 327:1298 (E) 

——combination with ibuprofen mortality cohort study (JP 

Curtis, et al). 327:1322 (P) 

— pregnancy exposure and miscarriage risk (D-K Li, et al). 


Assendelft W, et al, Extracts from Concise Clinical Evidence. Tennis 

elbow. 327:329 (C) 

assisted conception see under in vitro fertilization 

assisted suicide see suicide, assisted 

Assmann G 

— et al, Methods to identify increased risk of coronary disease in 

the general population. 327:619 (L) 

— et al, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:808 (L) 

Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, see 

Tekkis PP. 327:1196 

asthma 

— children, proactive general practice based care (NJ Glasgow, 

et al). 327:659 (PC), 1229 (L) 

— montelukast and uticasone v. salmeterol and uticasone (L 

Bjermer, et al). 327:891 (P) 

AstraZeneca, Lancet accusation of biased research sponsorship 

(O Dyer). 327:1005 (N) 

asylum seekers see refugees 

Atapattu PCD, et al, Q&A. Saving expressed milk. 327:1338 

Atar D, see Svensson M. 327:1141 

atherosclerosis, preclinical coronary atherosclerosis in population 

with low incidence of myocardial infarction (A Bertomeu, et 


Atherton DJ, Topical corticosteroids in atopic dermatitis. 


Atkin WS, see Thompson MR. 327:263 

atopic dermatitis 

— evening primrose oil (HC Williams). 327:1358 (E) 

— topical corticosteroids (DJ Atherton). 327:942 (E) 

atopic eczema, e$cacy and tolerability of borage oil in adults and 

children (A Takwale, et al). 327:1385 (PC) 

atopy, birth order and football position (MR Perkin) (This sporting 

life). 327:1473 

atrial ®brillation 

— elderly, prevalence (AJM de Craen, et al). 327:131 (P) 

— persistent, rate control or rhythm control. 327:931 (L) 

— stroke prevention, INR level (JH Tanne). 327:638 (N) 

attention de®cit hyperactivity disorder, Case Notes R4 (C Essex) 

(Radio). 327:1353 (R) 

Attia J, et al, On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings. 327:345 

(L), 1289 (L) 

Aumonier, Frederic John, Obituary (D Lacy). 327:753 

Auquier P, see Boyer L. 327:876 

Australia see also Oceania 

— Aborigines, sustaining better diabetes care (R McDermott, et 

al). 327:428 (Q) 

— computed tomography crack down. 327:166 (L) 

— contraceptives, register of women buying emergency pill (C 

Zinn). 327:581 (N) 

— drug abuse, supervised injecting room considered successful 

(B Burton). 327:122 (N) 

— drug companies succeed in keeping payments to doctors 

secret (B Burton). 327:1248 (N) 

— general practice, asthma in children proactive care (NJ Glasgow, 

et al). 327:659 (PC), 1229 (L) 

— osteoarthritis, charity claims exaggerate dangers (R Moynihan). 


— rugby match v. New Zealand (J Silberberg, et al) (This sporting 


— stem cell research drugs to be labelled (B Burton). 327:700 

(N) 

— sterilisation, doctor must pay child raising costs (C Zinn). 


— suicide and antidepressant prescribing. 327:288 (L) (correction, 

586), 289 (L) (correction, 586) 

— swimming pools, bene®ts in Aboriginal communities (D Lehmann, 


— working abroad (J Democratis, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s57 (23 

August 2003) 

Austria see also Europe 

— medical profession. One hundred years ago. 327:590 

authors see also writing 

— charges: open sesame? 327:53 (L), 54 (L) 

autism 

— autistic savant exhibition (L Eaton). 327:888 (N) 

— children, apparent increase has stopped (S Mayor). 327:248 

(N) 

— The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Haddon) 

(Books). 327:815 (R) 

— diagnosis (G Baird, et al). 327:488 (C) 

automated external de®brillator, ABC of resuscitation (R Liddle, et 

al). 327:1216 (C) 

autopsy see postmortems 

Awan H, see Gilbert C. 327:760 

Awasthi S, et al, Helminthic infections. 327:431 (C) 

Ayli#e GA, et al, Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA 


B 

Babb PJ, see Ra%e AE. 327:50 

back surgery, “failed back surgery syndrome” (L Talbot). 

327:985 (ED) 

bacterial infections, unexplained fever in young children: how to 

manage (I Brook). 327:1094 (C) 

Baglole DJ, see Richmond JK. 327:1271 

Bagshawe A 

— et al, ABC of subfertility. Counselling. 327:1038 (C) 

— et al, ABC of subfertility. Intractable infertility. 327:1098 (C) 

Bailey A, see Treasure T. 327:73 

Baird G, et al, Diagnosis of autism. 327:488 (C) 

Bajallan, Nabil, Obituary (B Al-Shihabi). 327:625 

Baker, George Peter, Obituary (R Courtenay-Evans). 327:1409 

Baker I, see Lloyd-Williams M. 327:372 

Baker M, see Thornett A BMJ Careers:s145 (8 November 2003) 

Baldwin R, et al, eds, Younger People with Dementia: A Multidisciplinary 

Approach (Books). 327:1292 (R) 

Ball C, et al, E#ect of the critical care outreach team on patient 

survival to discharge from hospital and readmission to critical 

care: non-randomised population based study. 327:1014 

(P) 

Ballington J, Vaseline and burns. 327:1289 (L) 

Bamber SC, Radiographic results are still not routinely reported. 

327:1407 (L) 

Bamji AN, Target centred medicine: why it is essential to cheat. 


Bandyopadhyay M, see Thomas J. 327:563 

Bangladesh see also Asia 

— infant mortality: David Sack interview (G Watts). 327:1308 

(N) 

— smoking in adults: in uences. 327:165 (L) 

Bansal AS, see Hayman GR. 327:1328 

Bansal JA, see Hayman GR. 327:1328 

Baraitser P, see Pickard S. 327:1389 

Barber JA, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Barbi E, et al, Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents. 


Barclay G, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

Barker D, The midwife, the coincidence, and the hypothesis (It’s 

good to talk). 327:1428 

Barlas, John Alexander, Obituary (P Barlas). 327:1170 

Barnaby B, et al, Substance misuse in psychiatric inpatients: 

comparison of a screening questionnaire survey with case 

notes. 327:783 (P) 

Baron JH 

— British biological warfare. 327:261 

— Endpiece 

——Edinburgh medical students 1872: 327:744 

——Edinburgh poverty 1840: 327:1225 

——The physician’s countenance. 327:430 

——The wife who commands. 327:157 

Baron-Cohen S, The Essential Di#erence: Men, Women and the 

Extreme Male Brain (Books). 327:57 (R) 

Barondes SH, Better than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of 

Psychiatric Drugs (Books). 327:875 (R) 

Barr RG, et al, Methylxanthines for exacerbations of chronic 

obstructive pulmonary disease: meta-analysis of randomised 

trials. 327:643 (P) (correction, 919) 

Barraclough K 

— Bullshitting (Soundings). 327:171 (R) 

— Judges (Soundings). 327:997 (R) 

— Paradigm shift (Soundings). 327:569 (R) 

— Tony Copperfield’s Primary Care Scream (Books). 327:294 (R) 

Barrenäs M-L, et al, Research pointers. The thrifty phenotype 

hypothesis and hearing problems. 327:1199 (P) 

Barrett’s oesophagus, adenocarcinoma risk (L Murray, et al). 


Barros FC, see Victora CG. 327:901 

Bartelds A, see Marquet RL. 327:201 

Barter, Richard Wade, Obituary (S Barter). 327:685 

Barton A 

— Are clinical negligence and legal action related? 327:620 (L) 

— see Keeling P. 327:27 

Baruch G, see Moens V. 327:290 

basal cell carcinoma, review (CSM Wong, et al). 327:794 (C) 

Basskin L, Statistical interpretation can also bias research 

evidence. 327:752 (L) 

2 ALL-BAS July−December 2003

Bastable, John Ralph Graham, Obituary (G Bastable). 327:754 

Bateman DN, et al, Co-proxamol and suicide. 327:287 (L) 

Bates AW, “Author pays” publishing model. 327:53 

Baum M 

— et al, ATAC trial did not report interim results. 327:1050 (L) 

— see Thornton H. 327:101, 869 

Baverstock K, A time to ask what you want of WHO (Personal 


Baxby K, High result in prostate speci®c antigen test. 327:1227 

(L) 

Bayer R, see Lo B. 327:337 

Bayly P, see Naunheim RS. 327:1168 

Beach J, et al, General practitioners and occupational health professionals. 

327:302 (E) (correction, 1165) 

Beadle J, see Connor J. 327:826 

Beatty J, see Bycroft J BMJ Careers:s177 (6 December 2003) 

Beaumarchais P, Endpiece. Essential freedom. 327:483 

Beaune L, et al, In search of a good death. 327:222 (L) 

Beck B, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Becker NG, see Kelman CW. 327:1072 

bed occupancy see also patient admission 

— NHS, Kaiser Permanente, and US Medicare programme (C 

Ham, et al). 327:1257 (P) 

— objective assessment of appropriateness instrument. 327:107 

(L) 

Bedford H, see Elliman D. 327:1411 

Beecham L 

— BMA chairman criticises erosion of clinical autonomy. 327:8 

(N), 680 (L), 1229 (L) 

— BMA’s annual meeting rejects governance review of 

association. 327:71 (N) 

— Doctors support embryo selection to help ill siblings. 327:71 

(N) 

Beeching, Nick, (E Welch) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s45 (9 

August 2003) 

Beeton, Colin, Obituary (CJ Edge). 327:934 

Behrman A, Electroboy: a Memoir of Mania (Books). 327:875 (R) 

Beich A, et al, Screening in brief intervention trials targeting 

excessive drinkers in general practice: systematic review and 

meta-analysis 327:536 (PC) (correction, 328:96) 

Beilby J, see Glasgow NJ. 327:659 

Belgium see also Europe 

— contraception, subsidise costs to teenagers (R Watson). 


Bell CM, see Vigod SN. 327:1024 

Bell J, Resuscitating clinical research in the United Kingdom. 


Bellaby P, Communication and miscommunication of risk: 

understanding UK parents’ attitudes to combined MMR 

vaccination. 327:725 (ED), 1403 (L) 

Bellera C, see Hanley JA. 327:1457 

Belozerova A, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

Benatar SR, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

Bendiane MK, see Peretti-Watel P. 327:595 

Benjamin A, see Wilkinson J BMJ Careers 327:s91 (20 September 

2003) 

Bennell KL, see Hinman RS. 327:135 

Bennett, Gerald Charles Joseph, Announcement. 327:398 

Bennett, Sally, (R Malik) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s6 (5 July 

2003) 

Bennett, Simon, exible working in NHS (R MacDonald) BMJ 

Careers 327:s59 (23 August 2003) 

Benor DJ, Survival predictions may hasten death. 327:1048 (L) 

Bensaid M, see Coppin H. 327:132 

Bentall RP, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature 


bereavement see also death 

— euthanasia’s e#ect on bereaved family and friends (NB 

Swarte, et al). 327:189 (P) 

— suicide, helping people bereaved by suicide (K Hawton, et al). 


Berger A 

— A good death? 327:203 

— The Third Degree. MMR: Can You Decide? (TV). 327:628 

(R) 

Bernstein M, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

Berrill JW, et al, Morphine for management of refractory 

dyspnoea. 327:1288 (L) 

Berth-Jones J, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

Bertolini G, see Simini B. 327:79 

Bertomeu A, et al, Preclinical coronary atherosclerosis in a population 

with low incidence of myocardial infarction: cross 

sectional autopsy study. 327:591 (P) 

Berwick D, et al, Would the NHS bene®t from a single, identi®able 

leader? An email conversation (It’s good to talk). 


Best Evidence Medical Education, impact must be evaluated (V 

Wass, et al). 327:1362 (E) 

BestTreatments, Working with your Doctor website (A Ellner, et al). 

327:303 (E), 1109 (L) 

blockers, hypertension, comparison with calcium antagonists 

(S Gottlieb). 327:1305 (N) 

lactamases, (JN Samaha-Kfoury, et al) (Recent developments). 


Bethune CA, see McLean-Tooke APC. 327:1332 

Bettcher DW, see Shibuya K. 327:154 

Beveridge M, et al, The Ptolemy project: a scalable model for 

delivering health information in Africa. 327:790 (IP) 

(correction, 1016) 

Beverley C, see Hind D. 327:361 

Bhandari, Baij Nath, Obituary (R Gaind). 327:346 

Bhargava B, et al, New approaches to preventing restenosis. 


Bhopal R 

— et al, Prognosis for South Asian and white patients with heart 

failure in the United Kingdom. 327:1405 (L) 

— see Hunt S. 327:352 

Bhudia S, see Rashid A BMJ Careers 327:s19 (19 July 2003) 

Bhui K, see Suresh K BMJ Careers 327:s83 (13 September 2003) 

Bhutta Z 

— Practising just medicine in an unjust world. 327:1000 (E) 

— et al, Why a special issue of the BMJ on South Asia? 327:941 

(E) 

Bi BG, see Ladner J. 327:163 

Bianchi C, see Traversa G. 327:18 

bias see also statistics 

— e#ect of interpretive bias on research evidence. 327:752 (L) 

— evidence in cluster randomised trials (S Pu#er, et al). 327:785 

(PC) 

— inconsistency measurement in meta-analyses (JPT Higgins, et 

al). 327:557 (ED) 

Biggs A-M, see Macfarlane GJ. 327:1373 

Bigrigg A, A career in sexual and reproductive health BMJ 

Careers 327:s113 (11 October 2003) 

January−June 2001 

bile duct, injury during cholecystectomy nearly triples risk of 

death (S Gottlieb). 327:946 (N) 

Bindels PJE, see Rietveld RP. 327:789 

Binnie, Bertram, Obituary (P Netts, et al). 327:1231 

bioethics see ethics, medical 

bioinformatics see medical informatics 

Bioscience Innovation and Growth Team, calls for agency to 

boost UK industry (M Gould). 327:1183 (N) 

biotechnology, Sally Bennett (R Malik) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 

327:s6 (5 July 2003) 

bioterrorism 

— historical (I Loe er) (Soundings). 327:817 (R) 

— smallpox vaccines, conference highlights divisions (F Fleck). 


bipolar a#ective disorder 

— blurred vision (P Myhill). 327:1323 

— elderly, lithium prescription comparison with valproic acid. 


— management of acute mania (PE Keck). 327:1002 (E) 

— NHS criticised over doctor’s suicide (D Singh). 327:1008 (N) 

Birchall J, see Rayment R. 327:331 

Bird DF, What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

birth order 

— football position and atopy (MR Perkin) (This sporting life). 


— interpregnancy interval and preterm birth and neonatal death 

risk (GCS Smith, et al). 327:313 (P) (correction, 851) 

birth weight see also pregnancy 

— smoking and, e#ects of grandmothers’ smoking in pregnancy 

(E Hyppönen, et al). 327:898 (P) 

Bisgaard H, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

bisphosphonates, skeletal morbidity in metastatic cancer (JR 

Ross, et al). 327:469 (P) 

Bissett K, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Biswas S, Dying for drugs. 327:343 (L) 

Bjermer L, et al, Montelukast and uticasone compared with salmeterol 

and uticasone in protecting against asthma 

exacerbation in adults: one year, double blind, randomised, 

comparative trial. 327:891 (P) 

Blachar Y, Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and 

the state of the World Medical Association. 327:1107 (L) 

Blache G, see Higgs R. 327:53 

Blackburn C, et al, E#ect of strategies to reduce exposure of 

infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home: cross 

sectional survey. 327:257 (P) 

Blackledge HM 

— et al, Prognosis for South Asian and white patients newly 

admitted to hospital with heart failure in the United 

Kingdom: historical cohort study. 327:526 (P), 1405 (L), 

1406 (L) 

— see Squire IB. 327:1406 

bladder cancers, chemotherapy before surgery improves survival 

(D Spurgeon). 327:520 (N) 

bladder disorders, anticholinergic drugs: comparison with 

placebo. 327:291 (L) 

Blade, Patrick David, Obituary (D Blade). 327:1170 

Blaiklock M, Costs of PFI and PPP have been underestimated. 


Blakemore, Colin, interview with (G Watts). 327:582 (N) 

Blamey RW, see Khan HN. 327:301 

Blanc L, see Maher D. 327:822 

Blanché H, see Coppin H. 327:132, 991 

Blanken P, see van den Brink W. 327:310 

Blanks RG, Women need better information on routine 

mammography. 327:868 (L) 

Blech J, Die Krankheitserfinder: Wie wir zu Patienten gemacht 

werden [Disease mongers: How we all become patients]. 

327:1173 (R) 

blindness, in children (C Gilbert, et al). 327:760 (E) 

Bliss M, Should elderly patients be made to sit in chairs? (Personal 

view). 327:997 (R), 1349 (L) 

Blizzard L, see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Block SD, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

blood coagulation disorders, disseminated intravascular coagulation, 

old disease, new hope (CH Toh, et al). 327:975 (C) 

blood glucose, increase during antihypertensive treatment as predictor 

of myocardial infarction. 327:290 (L) 

blood pressure see also hypertension 

— breast feeding in infancy and blood pressure in later life (CG 

Owen, et al). 327:1189 (P) 

— lowers after itraconazole (H Tandeter) (Minerva). 327:1116 

(R) 

Bloom®eld A, et al, Quality improvement perspective and healthcare 

funding decisions. 327:439 (ED) (correction, 987) 

Blundell AG, et al, Lesson of the week. Wegener’s granulomatosis 

presenting as a pleural e#usion. 327:95 (C) 

BMA Medical Book Competition, 2003 awards. 327:1080 

(opposite) 

BMJ 

— academic medicine international campaign (J Clark, et al). 


— ehealth special issue (AR Jadad, et al). 327:300 (E) 

— Online Firsts (J Smith). 327:1302 (E) 

— POEMs: what do you think? 327:105 (L) 

— retraction of publication (R Smith). 327:883 (E) 

— South Asia theme issue (Z Bhutta, et al). 327:941 (E) 

— theme issues 2004: 327:265 

BMJ Careers, job archive (J Connor, et al). 327:826 (E) 

BMJ Learning, launch (K Walsh, et al). 327:1064 (E) 

bmj.com 

— Online Firsts (J Smith). 327:1302 (E) 

— payment from 2005 (T Delamothe, et al). 327:241 (E), 1346 

(L), 1347 (L), 1348 (L) 

body language, (S Manallack) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s22 

(19 July 2003) 

Body World, Von Hagen investigated over consent (A Tu#s). 


Boehncke W-H, Immunomodulatory drugs for psoriasis. 327:634 

(E) 

Boffetta P, see Men T. 327:964 

Bogle, Ian, BMA chairman criticises erosion of clinical autonomy 

(L Beecham). 327:8 (N), 680 (L), 1229 (L) 

Bognolo G, Cardiovascular diseases (Website of the week). 


Bohnen JMA, see Vigod SN. 327:1024 

Boland L, et al, Planning for a good death: responding to 

unexpected events. Commentary: mother’s response. 


Bolton JF, see Dignan FJ. 327:1344 

Bonaccorso S, et al, What information do patients need about 

medicines? Perspectives from the pharmaceutical industry. 


Bonaparte, Napoleon, medicine during (TG Russell, et al) (Hazardous 

journeys). 327:1461 

Bonas S, see Blackburn C. 327:257 

bone marrow transplantation, register (N Stock, et al) BMJ 


Boon A, see Sharma R. 327:668, 720, 916 

Booth N, Sharing patient information electronically throughout 

the NHS. 327:114 (E), 622 (L), 623 (L) 

borage oil, atopic eczema, e$cacy and tolerability in adults and 

children (A Takwale, et al). 327:1385 (PC) 

Boreham N, see Ashcroft B. 327:584 

Borok M, see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

Borot N, see Coppin H. 327:132 

Borrill Z, et al, Retrospective analysis of evidence base for tests 

used in diagnosis and monitoring of disease in respiratory 

medicine. 327:1136 (P) 

bortezomib, helps patients with relapsed myeloma (JH Tanne). 


Borzyskowski, Margaret, Obituary (BGR Neville). 327:55 

Bosanquet N, see Sikora K. 327:1044 

Bosch J, et al, Conundrum of the HOPE study. 327:682 (L) 

Bosshard G, Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland. 


Botchu R, see Anwar R BMJ Careers 327:s153 (15 November 

2003) 

Boter H, et al, Modi®ed informed consent procedure: consent to 

postponed information. 327:284 (ED) 

Bothamley GH, et al, Tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination. 


Bousquet J, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

bowel cancers see gastrointestinal cancers 

Bowles C, Monkey tricks BMJ Careers 327:s193 (20-27 December 

2003) 

Bowling AP, et al, Patients’ preferences need thinking through for 

the NHS. 327:450 (L) 

boxing, Netherlands, banned unless rules are tightened? (T Sheldon). 


Boyd PA, et al, Terminology for our times. 327:166 (L) 

Boyer L, et al, Heat wave in France: how did the media treat the 

crisis? (The Press). 327:876 (R) 

Boyle AA, Routinely asking women about domestic violence. 


Boynton PM 

— Talk About Sex (Books). 327:627 (R) 

— see Nazareth I. 327:423, 1110 

Bradley EH, see Prigerson HG. 327:222 

Bradley NC, PROSE may be useful as POEMS. 327:105 (L) 

brain 

— The Essential Di#erence: Men, Women and the Extreme Male 

Brain (Baron-Cohen) (Books). 327:57 (R) 

— understanding sensitivity and speci®city with right side of 

brain (T-W Loong). 327:716 (C) (correction, 1043) 

brain drain 


——®rst world’s role in (LF Levy) (Personal view). 327:170 (R), 

929 (L) (correction, 1016), 930 (L) 

——great brain robbery? (V Patel). 327:926 (ED) 

brain injuries 

— heading in soccer (PR McCrory). 327:351 (E), 1168 (L) 

— ice hockey (D Spurgeon). 327:249 (N) 

Brain K, see Iredale R. 327:930 

Brand, Paul Wilson, Obituary (JE Nash). 327:292 

Brassey JR, “Hitting the Headlines” is useful resource. 327:291 

(L) 

Bratthall Å, see Barrenäs M-L. 327:1199 

Braude P 

— et al, ABC of subfertility 

——Assisted conception. II—In vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic 

sperm injection. 327:852 (C) 

——Assisted conception. III—Problems with assisted conception. 


——Assisted conception and the law in the United Kingdom. 


— see Pickering S. 327:1156 

— see Rowell P. 327:799 

Brazil, breast feeding duration and body composition: 18 year old 

Brazilian men (CG Victora, et al). 327:901 (P) 

breast cancers 

— ATAC trial: interim results can be misleading. 327:1050 (L) 

— Breast (A Ellis) (Theatre). 327:755 (R) 

— elderly women denied treatment (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1069 

(N) 

— genetic link to ovarian cancers in non-inherited cases (S 


— hormone replacement therapy and 

——doubles cancer risk (D Spurgeon). 327:9 (N) 

——German head likens to thalidomide (J Burgermeister). 


——increases risk (S Mayor). 327:359 (N) 

——media survey (J Clark). 327:400 (R) 

— letrozole drug trial early cessation (S Gottlieb). 327:885 (N) 

— locoregional treatment (D Dodwell, et al). 327:1062 (E) 

— in men (GH Perkins, et al). 327:239 (E), 930 (L) 

— risk factors, animal fats and painkillers (JH Tanne). 327:181 

(N) 

— screening 

——US v. UK (S Gottlieb). 327:948 (N) 

——women need better information about routine mammography 

(H Thornton, et al). 327:101 (ED), 868 (L), 869 (L) 

— Staying Alive: A Family Memoir (J Reibstein) (Books). 327:508 

(R) 

— stem cell transplantation not helpful (JH Tanne). 327:68 (N) 

— survivors turn to art for healing (A Ferriman). 327:767 (N) 

breast feeding see also infant milk formulas 

— blood pressure in later life and (CG Owen, et al). 327:1189 

(P) 

— obesity and 

——overview (TJ Cli#ord). 327:879 (E) 

——in childhood: cross sectional study (L Li, et al). 327:904 

(P) 

——duration in 18 year old Brazilian men (CG Victora, et al). 


breast implants 

— UK, still available (C Dyer). 327:947 (N) 

— US, safety concerns persist (R Moynihan). 327:947 (N) 

breathlessness, sustained release morphine for management of 

refractory dyspnoea (AP Abernethy, et al). 327:523 (P), 

1288 (L) 

Brennan P, see Men T. 327:964 

Brett MT, see Ra%e AE. 327:50 

Brewer B, Working with homeless people BMJ Careers 327:s187 

(13 December 2003) 

Bridgewater B, et al, Surgeon speci®c mortality in adult cardiac 

surgery: comparison between crude and risk strati®ed data. 


Bridle C, see Carter J. 327:1458 

BAS-BRI 3

Bridson J, et al, Making consent patient centred. 327:1159 (ED) 

Brindle P 

— et al, Predictive accuracy of the Framingham coronary risk 

score in British men: prospective cohort study. 327:1267 

(PC) 

— see Wong J. 327:392 

Brison DR, et al, Use eggs, not embryos, to derive stem cells. 


British Broadcasting Corporation, unethical journalism accusation 


British Medical Association 

— Adolescent Health (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1366 (N) 

— annual meeting at Swansea. One hundred years ago. 327:1161 

— contract negotiations review (O Dyer). 327:412 (N) 

— Council elections 2004-2006: 327:1204 (opposite), 1313 

(opposite) 

— Jim Johnson interview (M Gould). 327:72 (N) 

— Medical Book Competition, 2003 awards. 327:1080 (opposite) 

— Medical Ethics Today (L Eaton). 327:1306 (N) 

— Violence at Work (Z Kmietowicz). 327:889 (N) 

British Medical Association, Annual Representative Meeting, 

2003 

— BMA secretary threatens to sue representatives (A Ferriman). 

327:71 (N), 227 (L) 

— Bogle criticises erosion of clinical autonomy (L Beecham). 

327:8 (N), 680 (L), 1229 (L) 

— industrial action decision postponed (A Ferriman). 327:8 (N) 

— rejects governance review of association (L Beecham). 327:71 

(N) 

British Medical Journal see BMJ 

British Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Group, see McCulloch P. 


Britten N 

— Managing multiple morbidity in mid-life: a qualitative study 

of attitudes to drug use. Commentary: Does a prescribed 

treatment match a patient’s priorities? 327:840 (P) 

— see Elwyn G. 327:864 

Britto J, see Ramnarayan P. 327:623 

Britton A, see Hemingway H. 327:895 

Broadley KE, see Ross JR. 327:469 

Brook I, Unexplained fever in young children: how to manage 

severe bacterial infection. 327:1094 (C) 

Brooks N, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Brooksby WP, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

Brown C, see Lane T. 327:291 

Brown E, see Gatrad AR. 327:176 

Brown H 

— Netlines. 327:508 (R), 688 (R), 996 (R), 1293 (R) 

— see Oniscu GC. 327:1261 

Brown N, see Ring I. 327:404 

Brown V, see Grein T. 327:650 

Brown WN, Responding to unexpected events. 327:1049 (L) 

Brownscombe J, The zen of medicine (The way I see it) BMJ 


Bruno, Frank, media survey (R Persaud) (The Press). 327:816 (R) 

Bruzzi P, see Tan S-B. 327:47 

Bryant, Martyn John, Obituary (G Davies). 327:1053 

Bryson B, A Short History of Nearly Everything (Books). 327:994 

(R) 

Buch M, see Haake M. 327:75 

Buchan I, see Heller RF. 327:1162 

Buchbinder R, see Assendelft W. 327:329 

Bui C, see Abernethy AP. 327:523 

bulimia nervosa, (RZ Lilly, et al) (Extracts from “Best Treatments” 

). 327:380 (C) 

Buljevac D, et al, Self reported stressful life events and exacerbations 

in multiple sclerosis: prospective study. 327:646 (P) 

Bull S, Letter from a British junior doctor in Germany BMJ 


Bullamore T, It’s never been a better time to die (The Press). 


bullying see also violence 

— at work (S Flynn, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s164 (22 November 

2003) 

— Manchester mental health unit (Z Kmietowicz). 327:697 (N) 

Bundy C, Care and outcomes in young adults with type 1 

diabetes. 327:871 (L) 

Bundy DAP, see Awasthi S. 327:431 

Burgermeister J 

— Charity says its sta# are put at risk by US military’s description 

of itself as “humanitarian". 327:1248 (N) 

— French doctor at heart of euthanasia row faces murder 

charge. 327:1068 (N) 

— Germany reaches controversial deal on healthcare reform. 


— Head of German medicines body likens HRT to thalidomide. 


— Manager at baby food company is under investigation for 

manslaughter. 327:1186 (N) 

— Number of chronically hungry people is rising by 5m a year. 


— Teacher was refused job because relatives have Huntington’s 

disease. 327:827 (N) 

— Three quarters of Russia’s prisoners have serious diseases. 


Burgess, Patricia Ann, Obituary (S Munro). 327:1112 

Burgner D, Interactive case report. A 2 year old child with rash and 

fever. Commentary: diagnosis is based on clinical features. 


Burke K 

— Foundation hospitals plan defeated in Lords. 327:1126 (N) 

— GPs’ time to be freed up under plans for increased choice. 


— Long term care will “implode” unless personal care comes 

free. 327:770 (N) 

— Research should be accessible to all, says Wellcome Trust. 


Burls A 

— et al, How to make a compelling submission to NICE: tips for 

sponsoring organisations (Snakes, ladders, and spin). 


— see Pitches D. 327:1436 

Burnett, William Halliday, Obituary (J Crispin). 327:1112 

burnout, professional, zen of medicine (J Brownscombe) (The 

way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s38 (2 August 2003) 

burns, Vaseline and. 327:1289 (L) 

Burns C, see McKee W. 327:104 

Burns T, see Barnaby B. 327:783 

Burnside, Ethel Margaret, midwife, coincidence, and hypothesis 

(D Barker) (It’s good to talk). 327:1428 

Burr W 

— Non-standard grade (trust grade) doctors: a postgraduate 

dean’s view BMJ Careers 327:s133 (25 October 2003) 

— see Cooper N. 327:943 

Burry JN, More on preventing skin cancer. 327:1228 (L) 

Burton B 

— Australia opts to label drugs developed through stem cell 

research. 327:700 (N) 

— Drug companies succeed in keeping payments to doctors 

secret. 327:1248 (N) 

— Trial of supervised drug injecting room considered a success. 


Burton K, see Beveridge M. 327:790 

Burton RC, see English DR. 327:375, 1167 

Bury B 

— Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland. 327:51 (L) 

— Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising radiation. 


Butler CC, et al, Clinical course of acute infection of the upper 

respiratory tract in children: cohort study. 327:1088 (PC) 

Butler K, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Butler, Thomas Campbell 

— plague expert convicted over missing bacteria (JH Tanne). 


— plague expert indicted on 69 charges (JH Tanne). 327:699 

(N) 

Butler W, et al, Interests of charities. 327:344 (L) 

Butzkueven H, see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Buzdar A, see Baum M. 327:1050 

Bycroft J, et al, A career in urology BMJ Careers 327:s177 (6 

December 2003) 

Byford S, see Thomas S. 327:1400 

Byles J, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Byrne GJ, see Kirwan CC. 327:597 

C 

Caan W 

— Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school year. 


— Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality with detoxi®cation. 


cabbages, leaves for relief? 327:451 (L) 

Caddy J, Theme issue for patients. 327:448 (L) 

caesarean section see also labour 

— Malawi, early maternal and perinatal mortality (PM Fenton, 

et al). 327:587 (P) 

Cahill MR, A memorable patient. The expert. 327:1089 

Caine ED, see Knox KL. 327:1376 

Cairncross S, see Curtis V. 327:3 

calcium antagonists, hypertension, comparison with blockers 

(S Gottlieb). 327:1305 (N) 

Calder PC, Immunonutrition. 327:117 (E), 682 (L), 683 (L) 

Callaghan W, Reminding patients by text message. 327:564 (L) 

Callu M-F, see Moumjid N. 327:734 

Calvert N, see Hind D. 327:361 

Camargo CA, see Barr RG. 327:643 

Campbell, Malcolm Sinclair, Obituary (JMD Galloway). 327:55 

Campbell, Roderick Macrae, Obituary (AR Morrison). 327:566 

Campling FE, In search of a good death. 327:226 (L) 

Canada see also United States 

— Aborigines’ health needs (TK Young). 327:419 (P) 

— AIDS, agency criticised as “AIDS denier” (D Spurgeon). 


— cannabis, medicinal use questioned (D Spurgeon). 327:122 

(N) 

— drug industry 

——Illinois costs research (D Spurgeon). 327:700 (N) 

——local governments buy cheaper drugs (JH Tanne). 


— population level data (PA Singer, et al). 327:173 (E) 

— SARS, ethical lessons from Toronto (PA Singer, et al). 


— A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment 

of the Innu (Samson) (Books). 327:455 (R) 

cancer health services, UK, new solutions needed (K Sikora, et 


Cancer Research UK, low tar cigarettes campaign (A Iles). 


cancers see also oncology 

— children and young people, epidemiology and place of death 

in England (IJ Higginson, et al). 327:478 (P) 

— clinical trials 

——rate limiting factors in recruitment of patients (P Corrie, et 


——red tape is sti ing (O Dyer). 327:640 (N) 

——strategy for rare cancers (S-B Tan, et al). 327:47 (ED) 

— drugs, health secretary demands equal access (O Dyer). 


— experience of dying in developed and developing countries. 


— incidence among UK Gulf veterans: cohort study (GJ 

Macfarlane, et al). 327:1373 (P) 

— obesity and (C White). 327:700 (N) 

— physicians’ predictions for terminally ill (P Glare, et al). 

327:195 (P), 1048 (L) 

— prevention, drug for high risk women tested (Z Kmietowicz). 


— screening 

——cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and 

modelling of cases and deaths prevented. 327:50 (L) 

——EC proposal for a council recommendation. 327:289 (L) 

— treatment, prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (CC 

Kirwan, et al). 327:597 (P) 

— vaccine research paper withdrawn by German scientists (A 

Tu#s). 327:637 (N) 

— vitamin supplements, no reduction (D Josefson). 327:70 (N) 

cannabis see also drug abuse 

— Canada, medicinal use questioned (D Spurgeon). 327:122 

(N) 

— comparison with tobacco. 327:165 (L) 

——overview (S Sidney). 327:635 (E) 

— multiple sclerosis and, trial shows no clear bene®t (O Dyer). 


Cantillon P, see Wass V. 327:1362 

capecitabine, “radiation recall” in ammatory reaction (AM 

El-Modir, et al) (Minerva). 327:298 (R) 

capital punishment, US, forced medication to become sane (S 

Gottlieb). 327:889 (N) 

Caplan, Harold Leslie, Obituary (G Fink). 327:397 

Cappuccio FP, et al, Application of Framingham risk estimates to 

ethnic minorities in United Kingdom and implications for 

primary prevention of heart disease in general practice: 

cross sectional population based study 325:1271 (P) 

(correction, 327:919) 

Car J 

— et al, 10 minute consultation. Acute low back pain. 327:541 

(PC) 

— et al, Recurrent urinary tract infection in women (10-minute 

consultation). 327:1204 (PC) 

cardiac surgery 

— prophylactic respiratory physiotherapy after: systematic 

review (P Pasquina, et al). 327:1379 (P) 

— surgeon speci®c mortality (B Bridgewater, et al). 327:13 (P) 

Carding P, Voice pathology in the United Kingdom. 327:514 (E) 

cardiovascular diseases see also coronary disease; myocardial infarction; 

stroke 

— European Society of Cardiology guidelines (S Mayor). 


— on internet (G Bognolo) (Website of the week). 327:1354 (R) 

— on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:996 (R) 

— metabolic syndrome and (JB Meigs). 327:61 (E) 

— polypill. 327:807 (L), 808 (L), 809 (L) 

——Nicholas Wald (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s77 (6 

September 2003) 

— ramipiril, conundrum of HOPE study. 327:681 (L), 682 (L) 

— statins and, in diabetes. 327:752 (L) 

Cardozo L, Contrasts (Personal view). 327:509 (R), 680 (L) 

career advice see also job applications 

— how healthy is your career? (F Taylor, et al) BMJ Careers 


— raising your pro®le at work (M Gri$ths) (Tips on...) BMJ 


career break, (S Dinniss) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s22 

(19 July 2003) 

career mobility, A levels and intelligence as predictors in UK 

doctors (IC McManus, et al). 327:139 (LP), 810 (L) 

carers 

— health of young and elderly informal carers (T Doran, et al). 


— supporting relatives with illness (S Dosani, et al) BMJ Careers 

327s:51 (16 August 2003) 

Carlisle D 

— Africans are dying of AIDS without pain relief. 327:1069 (N) 

— AIDS will a#ect us all eventually, Mandela tells London 

audience. 327:122 (N) 

carnivals, “take regularly” (T Greenhalgh) (Soundings). 327:349 

(R) 

Carroll, James, obituary (J Carroll). 327:685 

cars 

— colour and risk of car crash injury (S Furness, et al) (Hazardous 


— for medical men. One hundred years ago. 327:740 

Carter D, see Woods K. 327:1233 

Carter J, et al, Telemedicine. 327:1458 

Carter YH, see Lloyd-Williams M. 327:221 

Carvajal A, et al, Small risk ratios may have strong public health 

impact. 327:1050 (L) 

case reports, how to write (R Anwar, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s153 

(15 November 2003) 

Casotto V, see Cuttini M. 327:222 

Cass HD 

— et al, Improving compliance with requirements on junior doctors’ 

hours. 327:270 (Q) (correction, 586) 

— see Baird G. 327:488 

Cassidy MJD, see Sims RJA. 327:462 

casualty departments see emergency medical services 

cataract 

— “couched” after blow to eye (V Pathak-Ray, et al) (Minerva). 


— Oxford surgeon claims that new treatment centre is threat to 

NHS (O Dyer). 327:580 (N) 

Cathcart RA, et al, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 22 month old 

boy (Minerva). 327:458 (R) 

Cavanagh, John Gerard Joseph ("Gerry"), Obituary (J Cavanagh). 


celecoxib, visual impairment and (DM Coulter, et al) (Lesson of 

the week). 327:1214 (C) 

central venous cannulation, ultrasonic locating devices (D Hind, 


cervical Chlamydia trachomatis infection, (P Oakeshott, et al) (10minute 


cervical screening 

— comparison of conventional cervical smear, monolayer cytology, 

and human papillomavirus DNA testing. 327:161 (L) 

— cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and modelling 

of cases and deaths prevented. 327:50 (L) 

— liquid based cytology programme (S Mayor). 327:948 (N) 

Chadwick DR, Are HIV positive asylum seekers an unfair burden 

on the NHS? (Personal view). 327:171 (R) 

Chalder T, et al, Epidemiology of chronic fatigue syndrome and 

self reported myalgic encephalomyelitis in 5-15 year olds: 

cross sectional study. 327:654 (P) 

Challacombe BJ, et al, Partial thickness burns after giant hogweed 

exposure (Minerva). 327:112 (R) 

Challita J, Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school 

year. 327:1286 (L) 

Chalmers I, et al, Descriptive survey of non-commercial 

randomised controlled trials in the United Kingdom, 1980- 

2002: 327:1017 (P), 1349 (L) 

Cham C, see Magee LA. 327:955 

Chamberlain P, see Boyd PA. 327:166 

Chambers R 

— see Mercer S. 327:882 

— see Thornett A BMJ Careers 327:s145 (8 November 2003) 

Chan-Yeung M, et al (9), Severe acute respiratory syndrome 

326:1393 (L) (correction, 327:160) 

change, primary care trusts, qualitative case studies (MN 

Marshall, et al). 327:599 (PC) 

Chapman, David John, Obituary (C Haywood). 327:566 

Chapman S, “Author pays” publishing model. 327:54 (L) 

Chapman T, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

Charatan F 

— Endpiece 

——A choice. 327:339 

——Di#erences. 327:1103 

——Hard people. 327:1037 

——Penalised. 327:262 

——Poles apart? 327:1215 

——A prayer. 327:928 

——Proof of old age. 327:80 

——Reporters and wolves. 327:1375 

——A tyrant. 327:1326 

——A warning. 327:477 

— Florida governor orders reinsertion of feeding tube. 327:1010 

(N) 

— Governor Jeb Bush intervenes in “right to die” case. 327:949 

(N) 

— Hunting the 1918 Flu (Books). 327:687 (R) 

4 BRI-CHA July−December 2003

— US agrees to cheap drug imports—as Florida o$cials break 

fake drugs ring. 327:246 (N) (correction, 556) 

charities, interests. 327:344 (L) 

Charrett, Macdonald Arthur, Obituary (P Charrett). 327:506 

Chase, George Harold Godwin, Obituary (D Chase). 327:1291 

Chaturvedi R, et al, Do school exams predict doctors’ success? 


Chaturvedi S, see Chaturvedi R. 327:810 

Chauhan N, see Poller L. 327:30 

Checchi F, see Grein T. 327:650 

chemicals, health e#ects need closer scrutiny (N Smallwood, et 

al). 327:10 (N) 

Cheng AC, et al, Ethical problems of evaluating a new treatment 

for melioidosis. 327:1280 (ED) 

Cheshire N, see Crane J. 327:911 

Chess J, see Riley SG. 327:608 

Chester MR, see Bridson J. 327:1159 

Cheung BMY, et al, E#ectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general 

practice. 327:51 (L) 

Chew R, Surviving Saddam (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s173 (29 


child abuse 

— children can sue for wrongful diagnosis (C Dyer). 327:305 

(N) 

— Every Child Matters (L Eaton). 327:577 (N) 

— GMC orders investigation of pathologist who failed to notice 

infant’s injuries (O Dyer). 327:640 (N) 

— potential for justice to miscarry (E Hey). 327:299 (E), 1109 

(L) 

child health, parental mental disorders and (P Ramchandani, et 


chimpanzees, Bella and blood sample. A memorable patient (J 

Stebbing, et al). 327:497 

Chin A-V, see O’Connell H. 327:664 

China see also Asia 

— city outlaws sale of human organs (J Parry). 327:520 (N) 

— drug abuse, tested for HIV without consent (S Mayor). 


— rural perinatal mortality retrospective cohort study (Z Wu, et 


Chinn D, see Wallace A. 327:788 

Chinthapalli RN, Who should take care of children with epilepsy? 

(Personal view). 327:1413 (R) 

Chlamydia trachomatis 

— cervical (P Oakeshott, et al) (10-minute consultation). 327:910 

(PC) 

— screening at community based contraceptive service for 

young people. 327:290 (L) 

cholecystectomy, mortality, bile duct injury (S Gottlieb). 327:946 

(N) 

cholera, Liberia, aid agency warning (P Moszynski). 327:245 (N) 

cholesterol 

— coronary disease, comparison of methods to identify 

individuals at increased risk from general population. 327:619 

(L) 

— lipid lowering drug e#ectiveness in reducing serum 

cholesterol concentration. 327:50 (L), 51 (L) 

— liver damage and protective e#ects of high density lipoprotein 

cholesterol (JT Salonen) (Research pointers). 327:1082 (P) 

— stroke risk in male US healthcare professionals and dietary fat 

intake (K He, et al). 327:777 (P), 1348 (L) 

Chong Y-S, Human milk is still best. 327:683 (L) 

Chowdhury TA 

— et al, Lesson of the week. Poor glycaemic control caused by 

insulin induced lipohypertrophy. 327:383 (C) 

— et al, Preventing diabetes in south Asians. 327:1059 

Christ, medical re ections on entombment (JP Mackenbach). 


Christakis N, see Glare P. 327:195 

Christensen EF, et al, Prehospital tracheal intubation in severely 

injured patients: a Danish observational study. 327:533 (P) 

Christensen K 

— et al, Risk of suicide in twins. 327:1169 (L) 

— see Tomassini C. 327:373 

Christie B 

— Adverse events in surgery in Scotland show a steady fall. 


— Scotland’s drinking laws set for reform to stem alcohol problems. 


— Scotland’s Health and Health Services (Books). 327:1233 (R) 

Christmas 

— Edinburgh visit (C Thorpe). 327:1472 

— quiz (L Morrison). 327:1146 

— Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. 327:1110 (L) 

chronic disease 

— falls in elderly women and drug use (DA Lawlor, et al). 

327:712 (PC), 1288 (L) 

— low back pain. 327:107 (L) 

— management, NHS new system (R Smith). 327:12 (N) 

chronic fatigue syndrome, epidemiology and self-reported myalgic 

encephalitis in 5-15 year olds (T Chalder, et al). 327:654 

(P) 

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 

— detection using peak ow rate: cross sectional survey (H Jackson, 


— methylxanthines, meta-analysis of randomised trials (RG 

Barr, et al). 327:643 (P) (correction, 919) 

chronic pain, management in children and adolescents. 327:681 

(L) 

Church MK, see Radcli#e MJ.327:251 

Churchill D, et al, The facts about franchising at Good Hope 

Hospital. 327:680 (L) 

Ciatto S, Reliability of PSA testing remains unclear. 327:750 (L) 

Ciecierski C, see Shibuya K. 327:154 

cigarettes see tobacco 

Cilliers A, Treating acute rheumatic fever. 327:631 (E) 

circumcision, female, Sudan, law tightened (P Moszynski). 


cirrhosis, treatment, rational and targeted (JP Iredale). 327:143 

(C) 

civil rights see human rights 

Clar®eld AM, A memorable exam. 327:374 

Clark BA, In search of a good death. 327:224 (L) 

Clark DWJ, see Coulter DM. 327:1214 

Clark FP, Feasibility of opportunistic disease prevention. 327:989 

(L) 

Clark H, Research’s rising star (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s85 (13 


Clark, Howard, (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s85 (13 September 

2003) 

Clark J 

— Death becomes us (Website). 327:231 (R) 

— Family Violence in Primary Care (Books). 327:686 (R) 


— Freedom from unpleasant symptoms is essential for a good 

death. 327:180 (N) 

— Furore erupts over NIH “hit list". 327:1065 (N) 

— A hot ush for Big Pharma. 327:400 (R) 

— Lesbian health (Website of the week). 327:995 (R) 

— Patient centred death. 327:174 (E) 

— Violence Against Women (Books). 327:686 (R) 

— et al, BMJ Publishing Group to launch an international campaign 

to promote academic medicine. 327:1001 (E) 

Clark M, Grommets, dude? 327:46 

Clark O, Do patients need to read research? 327:564 (L) 

Clark, Sally 

— group to review expert evidence on babies’ deaths (C Dyer). 


— media backlash against Sir Roy Meadow (N Marks) (The 

Press). 327:110 (R) 

— potential for justice to miscarry (E Hey). 327:299 (E), 1109 

(L) 

Clarke A, et al, In search of a good death. 327:221 (L) 

Clarke M, see Cuervo LG. 327:65 

Clarke MP, et al, Randomised controlled trial of treatment of 

unilateral visual impairment detected at preschool vision 

screening. 327:1251 (P) 

Clasper J, et al, Trauma life support in con ict. 327:1178 (E) 

Claster S, et al, Managing sickle cell disease. 327:1151 (C) 

Clauw D, The health consequences of the ®rst Gulf war. 


Clayton-Smith J, Genomic imprinting as a cause of disease. 


Cleary M, see Dutton GN. 327:1242 

Cli#ord TJ, Breast feeding and obesity. 327:879 (E) 

climate see also heat wave 

— Sudan, oods bring threat of disease (P Moszynski). 327:357 

(N) 

clinical competence see performance 

clinical governance see also National Health Service 

— trusts, implementation is patchy (Z Kmietowicz). 327:641 

(N) 

clinical guidelines see guidelines 

clinical trials see also randomised controlled trials; research 

— Clinical Trials for Tomorrow 

——overview (C Warlow). 327:240 (E) 

——summary (O Dyer). 327:182 (N) 

— communication, key to recruiting patients: NICE annual 

conference (C Shannon). 327:1368 (N) 

— developing countries, establishing ethical trials for AIDS 

treatment and prevention (B Lo, et al). 327:337 (ED) 

— ethics from a bayesian and decision analytic perspective. 


— ethnic groups, representation (SS Rathmore, et al). 327:763 

(E) 

— EU governments lobbied over legislation (R Watson). 


— HARLOT plc: amalgamation of world’s two oldest 

professions (DL Sackett, et al) (Snakes, ladders, and spin). 


— Lind’s ®rst scurvy trial (C Currie). 327:1418 (E) 

— over internet: feasibility (T McAlindon, et al). 327:484 (IP) 

— patient recruitment rate limiting factors in cancer research (P 

Corrie, et al). 327:320 (P) 

clothing, doctors should abandon ties and avoid nose rings. 


cluster randomised trials, evidence for risk of bias (S Pu#er, et al). 


CME see education, medical, continuing 

co-proxamol, suicide and, national mortality statistics and local 

non-fatal self-poisonings. 327:287 (L) 

Coates H, see Lehmann D. 327:415 

Coatesworth AP, see Jose J. 327:41 

Cobbe SM, see Walker A. 327:1316 

Cobden I, Two questions help determine validity of bed 

occupancy. 327:107 (L) 

Cochand-Priollet B, see Coste J. 327:162 

Cochrane Library 

— drug industry sponsorship 

——at crossroads (R Moynihan). 327:924 (ED) 

——global consultation (R Moynihan). 327:1068 (N) 

——plans to allay fears (R Moynihan). 327:1005 (N) 

Coe C, see Blackburn C. 327:257 

Coffey C, et al, Mortality in young o#enders: retrospective cohort 

study 326:1064 (correction, 327:1384) 

Cohen D, Passionate about global awareness (Pro®le) BMJ 


Colbrook P, Formal and informal suspensions and the NCAA 

BMJ Careers 327:s163 (22 November 2003) 

colchicine, acute gout (I Morris, et al) (Lesson of the week). 


Colclough JS, Smoking cessation dilemmas in prison. 327:29 

Cole C, et al, Electroconvulsive therapy. 327:621 (L) 

Cole H, Driven to distraction. 327:1203 

Coles C, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Collaborative HIV Paediatric Study (CHIPS) see Gibb DM. 


Collett B, see Watson PJ. 327:107 

Collins JE, see Cass HD. 327:270 

colorectal cancers 

— mortality, prospective national study (PP Tekkis, et al). 


— screening, frequency would improve detection (S Gottlieb). 


— test can show whether drugs will work (D Spurgeon). 327:183 

(N) 

Colquhoun M, see Liddle R. 327:1216 

Colville, Deborah, (R Little) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s110 (4 

October 2003) 

coma, British hospitals and di#erent versions of Glasgow coma 

scale: telephone survey (MF Wiese). 327:782 (P) 

Commission for Health Care Audit and Inspection, patient 

con®dentiality threatened (C Dyer). 327:580 (N) 

Commission for Health Improvement 

— hospital and ambulance ratings (Z Kmietowicz). 327:119 (N) 

— What CHI has Found In: NHS Direct Services Sector Report (R 

Dobson). 327:1126 (N) 

commitment of mentally ill see also mental disorders; mental 

health 

— London’s State of Mind (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1184 (N) 

— psychiatric protection order for “battered mental patient” (T 

Szasz) (Ward round). 327:1449 

— unjusti®ed seclusion of psychiatric patients is breach of 

human rights (C Dyer). 327:183 (N) 

communicable diseases 

— Nick Beeching (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s45 (9 August 

2003) 

— Russia, prisoners (J Burgermeister). 327:1066 (N) 

communication see also doctor-patient relations; language; 

writing 

— body language (S Manallack) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


— child friendly (S Gada) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s126 (18 


— in developing countries. 327:450 (L) 

— ethnic groups, self reports with non-English speakers (S 

Hunt, et al). 327:352 (E) 

— how to have a happier working life: part 2 (R MacDonald) 

(Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s62 (23 August 2003) 

— importance of being understood. A memorable patient (I 

Vlad). 327:836 

— listen to patient (B Kirkup) (Personal view). 327:401 (R) 

— listening skills (S Manallack) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s29 

(26 July 2003) 

— The New Medical Conversation: Media, Patients, Doctors, and the 

Ethics of Scientific Communication (Mazur) (Books). 327:755 

(R) 

— patients’ relatives (F Mohammed) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 

327:s190 (13 December 2003) 

— risks: BMJ special issue 

——overview (A Edwards). 327:691 (E), 1403 (L), 1404 (L) 

——contribution of decision aids (AM O’Connor). 327:736 

(ED) 

——decision aids (AM O’Connor, et al). 327:736 (ED) 

——e#ects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: 

Cochrane systematic review (A Edwards, et al). 


——how can doctors communicate information about risk 

more e#ectively? (A Alaszewski, et al). 327:728 (ED) 

——in uence of law on risk and informed consent (DJ Mazur). 


——making sense of web information (S Woloshin, et al). 


——patients’ understanding of risk (H Thornton). 327:693 

(E), 1403 (L) 

——reporting risk—that’s entertainment (G Easton) (Personal 


——role in shared decision making (W Godolphin). 327:692 

(E), 1403 (L), 1404 (L) 

——simple tools (G Gigerenzer, et al). 327:741 (ED), 1403 (L) 

——strategies to help patients understand risks (J Paling). 


——teaching medical students and doctors (P Sedgwick, et al). 


——understanding UK parents’ attitude to combined MMR 

vaccination (P Bellaby). 327:725 (ED), 1403 (L) 

——using analogies. 327:749 (L) 

— risks at population level: application of population impact 

numbers (RF Heller, et al) 327:1162 (ED) (correction, 

328:35) 

— telephones (M Gri$ths) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s27 (26 

July 2003) 

— Working with your Doctor website (A Ellner, et al). 327:303 (E), 

1109 (L) 

community health care, Health and Social Care Bill: end of 

Bevan’s vision? (AM Pollock, et al). 327:982 (ED) 

community health councils, new patients’ forums are no 

substitute: Commons’ report (A Gulland). 327:121 (N) 

compartment syndrome, A memorable patient (R Anwar). 327:286 

complaints by patients, Caldera (I Quigley) BMJ Careers 

327:s196 (20-27 December 2003) 

computed tomography, Australia, crack down. 327:166 (L) 

computers see also information systems; medical informatics 

— health information systems: South Africa. 327:164 (L), 165 

(L) 

concordance. see patient concordance 

conferences, presentation tips (G Lyratzopoulos) BMJ Careers 

327:s35 (2 August 2003) 

con®dentiality 

— CHAI powers threaten (C Dyer). 327:580 (N) 

— patients’ information must be guaranteed. 327:812 (L) 

— privacy of patients’ information in hospital lifts (SN Vigod, et 


con ict of interest, Nature, extended to review authors (S 


congestive heart failure, spironolactone and (M Svensson, et al). 


conjunctivitis 

— diagnostic impact of signs and symptoms (RP Rietveld, et al). 


— keratoconjunctivitis after streptococcal cross-infection by 

patient’s sputum (M Punekar, et al) (Minerva). 327:1058 (L) 

Conlon M, Appraisal: the catalyst of personal development. 


Connolly EM, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Connor J 

— et al, BMJ Careers job archive. 327:826 (E) 

— see Dosani S. 327:961 

— see Furness S. 327:1455 

Conradi P, et al, Interpretation of randomised trials is indeed 

open to debate. 327:752 (L) 

constipation, management (MA Kamm). 327:459 (E) 

consultants see also doctors 

— contract 

——BMA negotiations review (O Dyer). 327:412 (N) 

——closer to deal after concessions (A Gulland). 327:182 (N) 

——vote in favour of revised contract (Z Kmietowicz). 327:945 

(N) 

— job share story (K Hofberg, et al) (The way I see it) BMJ 

Careers 327:s142 (1 November 2003) 

— returning to work in UK as locum consultant (A Papagiannis) 


— specialist registrars acting up as (T Pickersgill, et al) BMJ 


consultations see also referrals 

— opportunistic disease prevention: ethically justi®able? (L 

Getz, et al). 327:498 (ED), 989 (L) 

— teleconsultation, evaluation for specialist opinion referrals 

(PB Jacklin, et al). 327:84 (IP) 

— telephone. 327:53 (L), 345 (L) 

continuity of care, multidisciplinary review (JL Haggerty, et al). 


contraceptives, Belgium, cost subsidy to teenagers (R Watson). 


contraceptives, postcoital, Australia, register of women buying 

emergency pill (C Zinn). 327:581 (N) 

Cook DG, see Owen CG. 327:1189 

Cook L, In search of a good death. 327:225 (L) 

Cooper E, see Bothamley GH. 327:243 

Cooper H, et al, Representation of South Asian people in 

randomised trials. 327:394 (L) 

Cooper N 

CHA-COO 5

— Medical training did not teach me what I really needed to 

know (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s190 (13 December 

2003) 

— et al, The rise of trust doctors. 327:943 (E) 

Copper®eld K, Tony Copperfield’s Primary Care Scream (Books). 


Coppin H, et al, Longevity and carrying the C282Y mutation for 

haemochromatosis on the HFE gene: case control study of 

492 French centenarians. 327:132 (P), 990 (L), 991 (L) 

Cornelson B, Endpiece. To die. 327:1031 

coronary bypass surgery, rating heart surgeons’ success. 327:107 

(L) 

coronary disease see also cardiovascular diseases 

— passive smoking and mortality: California. 327:501 (L), 502 

(L), 503 (L), 504 (L), 505 (L) 

— prevention 

——insights from modelling incremental cost e#ectiveness (TP 

Marshall). 327:1264 (PC) (correction, 328:209) 

——new drugs: cost e#ectiveness? (RN Warburton). 327:1237 

(E) 

— pseudoaneurysm (P Alter, et al) (Minerva). 327:238 (R) 

— restenosis, new approaches to preventing (B Bhargava, et al). 


— scoring 

——overview (H-W Hense). 327:1238 (E) 

——predictive accuracy of Framingham coronary risk score in 

British men (P Brindle, et al). 327:1267 (PC) 

— screening, comparison of methods to identify individuals. 


— smoking cessation, intervention after admission (P Quist- 

Paulsen, et al). 327:1254 (P) 

— surgery, aspirin indirect therapeutic comparison metaanalysis 

(E Lim, et al) 327:1309 (P) (correction, 328:147) 

coroners, reforming coroner’s service (CM Milroy, et al). 327:175 

(E) 

Correa, Andrew, Obituary (R Roberts, et al). 327:1112 

Corrie P, et al, Rate limiting factors in recruitment of patients to 

clinical trials in cancer research: descriptive study. 327:320 

(P) 

corticosteroids see steroids 

Cosgrove K, see Taket A. 327:673 

cost e#ectiveness 

— coronary disease 

——insights from modelling incremental cost e#ectiveness (TP 

Marshall). 327:1264 (PC) (correction, 328:209) 

——new drug cost e#ectiveness? (RN Warburton). 327:1237 

(E) 

— neck pain, comparison of physiotherapy, manual therapy and 

GP care. 327:395 (L) 

— public place de®brillators in improving survival after prehospital 

cardiopulmonary arrest (A Walker, et al). 327:1316 (P) 

Coste J, et al, Cervical cancer screening. 327:162 (L) 

Coulter DM, et al, Lesson of the week. Celecoxib, rofecoxib, and 

acute temporary visual impairment. 327:1214 (C) 

Coulthard MG 

— et al, Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic 

dehydration in children 326:157 (ED) (corrections, 

326:497, 327:422) 

— et al, A nurse led education and direct access service for the 

management of urinary tract infections in children: prospective 

controlled trial. 327:656 (PC), 1346 (L) 

counselling, ABC of subfertility (A Bagshawe, et al). 327:1038 (C) 

Coupland C 

— et al, Severe tra$c injuries to children, Trent, 1992-7: time 

trend analysis. 327:593 (P) 

— see Hippisley-Cox J. 327:51 

Courtenay, Harold Logan, Obituary (C Bradshaw). 327:566 

Cousins, Cecil Herbert, Obituary (HJ Brown). 327:566 

COX 2 inhibitors, Celecoxib, rofecoxib, and acute temporary 

visual impairment (DM Coulter, et al) (Lesson of the week). 


Craft, Ian, accuses BBC of unethical journalism (O Dyer). 


Craig, David Duncan, Obituary (C Stossel, et al). 327:993 

cranberry juice, interaction with warfarin (R Suvarna, et al) 

(Drug points). 327:1454 

Crane J, et al, Recent developments in vascular surgery. 327:911 

(C) 

Crannery A, Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. 327:355 

(E), 1051 (L) 

Crawford M, see Sibbett CH. 327:971 

Crawshaw R, Compassion’s Way: A Doctor’s Quest into the Soul of 

Medicine (Books). 327:1292 (R) 

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant 

— second patient to receive experimental treatment (C Dyer). 


— small improvement seen in teenager (S Mayor). 327:765 (N) 

— trials held up because of disagreements (O Dyer). 327:1069 

(N) 

Cri du chat syndrome, child of non-consanguinous parents (TH 

Koh, et al) (Minerva). 327:570 (R) 

Critchley J, Passive smoking. 327:501 (L) 

critical care 

— advance directives, adherence in decision making (T Thompson, 

et al). 327:1011 (P), 1406 (L), 1407 (L) 

— e#ect of outreach team on patient survival to discharge from 

hospital and readmission (C Ball, et al). 327:1014 (P) 

criticism, essential freedom. Endpiece (P Beaumarchais). 327:483 

Crosby D 

— How my tonsils were saved. 327:960 

— The reunion. 327:987 

Cross E, see Coupland C. 327:593 

cross infection 

— Hospital Infection (Ayli#e, et al) (Books). 327:1410 (R) 

— methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus control (G 

Duckworth). 327:1177 (E) 

— UK plan (S Pincock). 327:1366 (N) 

Cross P 

— The man behind the polypill (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s77 (6 


— One legged and proud (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s126 (18 


— Psychiatry, presidents and patients (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


— Stewart Mercer on Professor Paul Dieppe (The doctor who 

in uenced me most) BMJ Careers 327:s123 (18 October 

2003) 

— Surgical sensation (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s37 (2 August 

2003) 

— The “village” GP (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s101 (27 


— Wall of silence BMJ Careers 327:s134 (25 October 2003) 

— et al, A formidable pair (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s52 (16 

August 2003) 

— et al, Relative support BMJ Careers 327:s51 (16 August 2003) 

— see Dosani S BMJ Careers 327s:51 (16 August 2003) 

Crossley KM, see Hinman RS. 327:135 

Crossman D, see Gunn J. 327:150 

Crouch, Lawrence, Obituary (RJ Courtenay-Evans). 327:55 

Crowe S, Opening training schemes to change. 327:336 

Cuervo LG, et al, Balancing bene®ts and harms in health care. 


Cullen P, see Assmann G. 327:619, 808 

Cumberland D, see Gunn J. 327:150 

Cummins, Brian, Obituary (HB Coakham, et al). 327:1053 

Cunningham C 

— et al, Health research and indigenous health. 327:445 (ED) 

— et al, Indigenous by de®nition, experience, or world view. 


— see O’Connell H. 327:664 

curiosity, father in law’s life (L Morrison). 327:1146 

Currell R, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Currie BJ, see Cheng AC. 327:1280 

Currie C, Clinical arithmetic. 327:1418 (E) 

Currie GP, et al, A career in respiratory medicine BMJ Careers 


Currow DC 

— et al, Morphine for management of refractory dyspnoea. 


— see Abernethy AP. 327:523 

Curtis JP, et al, Aspirin, ibuprofen, and mortality after myocardial 

infarction: retrospective cohort study. 327:1322 (P) 

Curtis MJ 

— Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland. 327:52 (L), 

226 (L) 

— In search of a good death. 327:223 (L) 

— What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

Curtis V, et al, Water, sanitation, and hygiene at Kyoto. 327:3 (E) 

Cuttini M, et al, In search of a good death. 327:222 (L) 

cystic ®brosis, pneumothorax in (G Taccetti, et al) (Minerva). 


D 

Da Cas R, see Traversa G. 327:18 

Daar AS, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

Dahlgren J, see Barrenäs M-L. 327:1199 

Daish, Peter, Obituary (FM Ackland, et al). 327:1409 

Dale J, et al, Copying letters to patients. 327:450 (L) 

Daniels TWV, Communicating risk. 327:1403 (L) 

Darwin C, see McRobbie H. 327:811 

Darzi A, see Moorthy K. 327:1032 

Dash P, et al, Increasing the impact of health services research. 


Dass SB, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

databases, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:688 (L) 

Davey Smith G 

— ed, Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches (Books). 327:1352 

(R) 

— see Hyppönen E. 327:898 

— see Lawlor DA. 327:1383 

David AS, see Hotopf M. 327:1370 

Davidson A, see Hind D. 327:361 

Davidson MJ, Chronic low back pain. 327:107 (L) 

Davies CS, see Liddle R. 327:1216 

Davies HTO, see Marshall MN. 327:599 

Davies MJ, see Wills CJ. 327:260 

Davies, Richard Hugh Trevor, Obituary (L Davies). 327:754 

Davis AM, High result in prostate speci®c antigen test. 327:1227 

(L) 

Davis D, et al, The case for knowledge transition: shortening the 

journey from evidence to e#ect. 327:33 (LP) 

Davis J, Theme issue for patients. 327:448 (L) 

Davis RM, Passive smoking. 327:503 (L) 

Dawson I, Sex di#erence in infant mortality in India is re ected 

in England and Wales. 327:1169 (L) 

Dawson, Sheila Fay (Mrs Oleesky), Obituary (S Oleesky). 


day care 

— acute psychiatric hospitals (M Marshall). 327:116 (E) 

— e#ectiveness of out-of-home day care for disadvantaged families 

(T Toroyan, et al). 327:906 (PC) 

— pilot programme for hospital admissions: evaluation (H 

McLeod, et al). 327:1147 (Q) 

de Abajo F, see Carvajal A. 327:1050 

de Berker DA 

— Theme issue for patients. 327:448 (L) 

— Too many stars are bad for you. 327:680 (L) 

de Craen AJM, et al, Prevalence of ®ve common clinical 

abnormalities in very elderly people: population based cross 

sectional study. 327:131 (P) 

de Cremoux P, see Coste J. 327:162 

de Górgolas M, see Rivas P. 327:711 

de Haan RJ, see Boter H. 327:284 

de Launay, Leonard Desmond, Obituary (P de Launay). 


de Melker RA, see Zwart S. 327:1324 

de Muckadell OBS, see Lassen A. 327:603 

De Souza BA, et al, Vaseline and burns. 327:1289 (L) 

de Vos R, see van Alem AP. 327:1312 

deafness, Philip Zazove (J Ra#erty) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


Dean G, The Turnstone: A Doctor’s Story (Books). 327:1353 (R) 

Dear KBG, see Tan S-B. 327:47 

Dearlove O, see Panchagula U. 327:931 

death see also bereavement; mortality; palliative care 

— And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Morrison) (Books). 


— BMJ special issue 

——The Art of Dying (U Tayal). 327:235 (R) 

——cat’s death (S Stephenson) (Personal view). 327:236 (R) 

——changing art of obituary writers (T Bullamore) (The Press). 


——child with cerebral palsy (MJ Marret) (Personal view). 


——dead set up home inside dreams. Endpiece (J Willis). 


——doctors’ emotional reactions to recent death of patient 

(EM Redinbaugh, et al). 327:185 (P) 

——dramatic climax to staged life (B Twisselmann). 327:220 

——dread not death but dying (B Allt) (Personal view). 327:237 

(R) 

——environmental disposal of dead (I Loe er) (Soundings). 


——euthanasia: e#ect on bereaved family and friends (NB 

Swarte, et al). 327:189 (P) 

——fear of imminent death (R Hurley). 327:200 

——freedom from pain goes a long way to “good death” (J 

Riley) (Personal view). 327:235 (R) 

——freedom from unpleasant symptoms is essential for good 

death (J Clark). 327:180 (N) 

——good death in Uganda (E Kikule). 327:192 (P) 

——good death? (A Berger). 327:203 

——healthy view of dying (J Neuberger). 327:207 (ED) 


——helping people bereaved by suicide (K Hawton, et al). 


——historical and cultural variants on good death (T Walter). 


——The Hour of Our Death (Ariès) (Books). 327:230 (R) 

——on internet (J Clark) (Website). 327:231 (R) 

——medical re ections on entombment of Christ (JP Mackenbach). 


——New Zealand: medical decisions at end of life made by 

GPs (K Mitchell, et al). 327:202 (PC) 

——novel consent process for research in dying patients unable 

to give consent (E Rees, et al). 327:198 (P) 

——palliative care needs of minorities (AR Gatrad, et al). 


——part of person’s history (B Twisselmann). 327:220 

——patient centred death (J Clark). 327:174 (E) 

——patients’ voices are needed in debates on euthanasia (YYW 

Mak, et al). 327:213 (ED) (correction, 556) 

——A perfect death? (J Morris) (Personal view). 327:236 (R) 

——photographed: one patient’s story (S O’Connor, et al)(The 


——physicians’ survival predictions in terminally ill cancer 

patients (P Glare, et al). 327:195 (P), 1048 (L) 

——planning for good death: responding to unexpected events 

(Y Saunders, et al). 327:204 (ED), 1049 (L) 

——population level data (PA Singer, et al). 327:173 (E) 

——quality care at end of life in Africa (C Sepulveda, et al). 


——reforming coroner’s service (CM Milroy, et al). 327:175 

(E) 

——requests for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in 

Dutch general practice: trend analysis (RL Marquet, et al). 


——search of good death. 327:221 (L), 222 (L), 223 (L), 224 

(L), 225 (L), 226 (L) 

——correspondence responses. 327:1047 (L) 

— burial alive (G Dunea) (Soundings). 327:629 (R) 

— children and young people with cancer, place of death in 

England (IJ Higginson, et al). 327:478 (P) 

— Cradle to Grave (C Martin) (Art). 327:1233 (R) 

— present tense of “to die". Endpiece (B Cornelson). 327:1031 

Debnath D, The greater man, the greater courtesy. 327:96 

decision making see also patient participation 

— clinical support tools to improve EBM learning in students 

(GM Leung, et al). 327:1090 (LP) 

— risk communication aids (AM O’Connor, et al). 327:736 

(ED) 

— Second Opinion: Doctors, Diseases and Decisions in Modern 

Medicine (Horton) (Books). 327:399 (R) 

Deeks JJ, see Higgins JPT. 327:557 

Deenadayalu, Sooba Rama, Obituary (YK Seedat). 327:1409 

deep vein thrombosis, air travel and: record linkage study (CW 

Kelman, et al). 327:1072 (P) 

defibrillators 

— automated external: ABC of resuscitation (R Liddle, et al). 


— heart arrest 

——automated external de®brillator use by ®rst responders in 

out of hospital arrest (AP van Alem, et al). 327:1312 (P) 

——cost e#ectiveness of public place de®brillators in 

improving survival (A Walker, et al). 327:1316 (P) 

Del Mar C 

— et al, How many conditions can a GP screen for? 327:1117 

(E) 

— see English DR. 327:375, 1167 

del Pozo JG, see Carvajal A. 327:1050 

Delamothe T 

— Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s 

Women Physicians (Art). 327:1054 (R) 

— et al, Paying for bmj.com. 327:241 (E), 1346 (L), 1347 (L), 

1348 (L) 

— see Jadad AR. 327:300 

Delaney BC, et al, Dyspepsia results may not apply in primary 

care. 327:811 (L) 

delivery see labour 

dementia, Younger People with Dementia: A Multidisciplinary 

Approach (Baldwin, et al, eds) (Books). 327:1292 (R) 

Demicheli V, see Je#erson T. 327:750 

Democratis J, et al, Medicine in the Northern Territory: an alternative 

Australian experience BMJ Careers 327:s57 (23 

August 2003) 

Denmark see also Europe 

— hyperparathyroidism surgery (P Vestergaard, et al). 327:530 

(P) 

— mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in 

Copenhagen (M Nordentoft, et al). 327:81 (PC) 

— prehospital tracheal intubation in severely injured patients 

(EF Christensen, et al). 327:533 (P) 

— suicide 

——risk in twins: 51 year follow up (C Tomassini, et al). 

327:373 (P), 1168 (L), 1169 (L) 

——spouse’s psychiatric illness or suicide (E Agerbo, et al). 


— The Visit of the Royal Physician (Enquist) (Books). 327:508 (R) 

Dennis M 

— Modi®ed informed consent procedure: consent to postponed 

information. Commentary: an imperfect compromise. 


— see Lloyd-Williams M. 327:372 

— see Toh CH. 327:974 

Department of Health 

— Maintaining the Momentum (O Dyer). 327:1007 (N) 

— Making Amends (C Dyer). 327:7 (N), 620 (L) 

— Our Inheritance, Our Future (F Kavalier, et al). 327:2 (E) 

— sta$ng cut (A Elliot). 327:1068 (N) 

depression see also antidepressants 

— criteria and severity of symptoms in primary care (DE Nease, 


— insulin resistance and: British women’s heart and health study 

(DA Lawlor, et al). 327:1383 (P) 

— palliative care, is “Are you depressed?” an appropriate 

question? (M Lloyd-Williams, et al). 327:372 (P) 

— selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors v. tricyclic antidepressants 

in primary care. 327:288 (L) (correction, 586), 289 (L) 


— Mike Shooter interview. 327:682 (L) 

6 COP-DEP July−December 2003

— statins may reduce risk (D Josefson). 327:467 (N) 

— treatment, improves pain in elderly (JH Tanne). 327:1185 (N) 

depression, postnatal see also pregnancy 

— treatment (V Hendrick). 327:1003 (E) 

depressive disorders, separation from anxiety: blind alley in psychopharmacology 

and classi®cation of disease (E Shorter, et 

al). 327:158 (ED), 869 (L), 870 (L) 

Derbyshire SWG, Second Opinion (Books). 327:399 (R) 

dermatitis, atopic see atopic dermatitis 

Derrick G, Lessons we can learn from organ retention (Personal 


Deshpande A, In search of a good death. 327:226 (L) 

Deshpande N, see Dale J. 327:450 

Desikan P, How we should deal with John Doe (Personal view). 


Devadasan N, et al, Health of indigenous people. 327:988 (L) 

Devadasan R, see Devadasan N. 327:988 

Devane, Desmond Michael, Obituary (M Devane). 327:398 

developing countries see also global health 

— AIDS 

——establishing ethical trials for treatment and prevention (B 

Lo, et al). 327:337 (ED) 

——funding shortfall (S Mayor). 327:10 (N) 

——tackling HIV infections (JS Mukherjee, et al). 327:1104 

(ED) 

— cancers, experience of dying: comparison with developing 

countries. 327:222 (L) 

— doctor-patient communication. 327:450 (L) 

— drug industry. 327:343 (L) 

— drugs 

——could still be costly (F Fleck). 327:639 (N) 

——World Trade Organization deal (AM Pollock, et al). 


——World Trade Organization ®nally agrees cheap drugs deal 

(F Fleck). 327:517 (N) 

— ®rst world’s role in world brain drain (LF Levy) (Personal 

view). 327:170 (R), 929 (L) (correction, 1016), 930 (L) 

— hospital equipment donation (AR Gatrad, et al) BMJ Careers 


— information services, Ptolemy project: scalable delivery 

model (M Beveridge, et al). 327:790 (IP) (correction, 1016) 

— Médecins Sans Frontières (G Mudur). 327:11 (N) 

— palliative care, Dingle Spence (G Yamey) (Pro®le) BMJ 

Careers 327:s30 (26 July 2003) 

— partnership with universities of richer world: New Year’s 

resolution (DJ Weatherall, et al). 327:1415 (E) 

— practising just medicine in unjust world (Z Bhutta). 327:1000 

(E) 

— recruiting doctors: great brain robbery? (V Patel). 327:926 

(ED) 

— sexual and reproductive health of older women (C Elias, et 


— sexually transmitted infections: partner noti®cation (S 

Hawkes, et al). 327:633 (E) 

— water supply, Kyoto Forum 2003 (V Curtis, et al). 327:3 (E) 

— work experience (Y Ismail) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 


Devi S, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Devlin N, et al, WHO evaluates NICE. 327:1061 (E) 

Dhariwal DK, see Gibbons AJ BMJ Careers 327:s1 (5 July 

2003) 

diabetes 

— 18th International Diabetes Federation Congress, Paris. 

Medscape conference coverage. 327:1161 

— doctor’s experience (R Hirst) BMJ Careers 327:s181 (6 


— elderly, wards for Struldbruggs (D Kerr) (Ward round). 


— intensive education for lifestyle change (C Fox, et al). 


— pregnancy outcome in northeast England and in Norway: 

1994-7 (G Hawthorne, et al) 321:730 (P) (RETRACTION, 

327:905, correction 1016). 929 (L) 

— prevention 

——huge numbers must change lifestyle (G Watts). 327:1365 

(N) 

——Paci®c people (S Foliaki, et al). 327:437 (ED) 

——south Asians (TA Chowdhury, et al). 327:1059 

— statins cut cardiovascular events. 327:752 (L) 

diabetes mellitus, elderly, prevalence (AJM de Craen, et al). 


diabetes mellitus, insulin-dependent 

— care and outcomes in young adults: retrospective review (CJ 

Wills, et al). 327:260 (P), 871 (L) 

— “prayer” sign complication (S Mahadevan, et al) (Minerva). 


diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent 

— Australia, sustaining better care in indigenous communities 

(R McDermott, et al). 327:428 (Q) 

— metabolic syndrome and (JB Meigs). 327:61 (E) 

— POEMs, review article survey (AF Shaughnessy, et al). 

327:266 (IP), 811 (L) 

— spurious hyperglycaemia and icodextrin in peritoneal dialysis 

uid (SG Riley, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:608 (C) 

Diabetes UK, interests. 327:344 (L) 

diabetic retinopathy, aspirin (EM Kohner). 327:1060 (E) 

diagnosis, bullshitting (K Barraclough) (Soundings). 327:171 (R) 

diagnostic tests 

— general practice, how many conditions can a GP screen for? 

(C Del Mar, et al). 327:1117 (E) 

— respiratory diseases, retrospective analysis of evidence base (Z 

Borrill, et al). 327:1136 (P) 

diarrhoea, developing countries, Kyoto Forum 2003 (V Curtis, et 


diastolic heart failure, prevention and treatment (RS Vasan). 


Dick E, Observership—what is it and how can I do one? BMJ 


Dickens BM, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

Dickinson D, et al, What information do patients need about 

medicines? Ask the patients—they may want to know more 

than you think. 327:861 (ED) 

Dieppe P, see Mercer S. 327:882 

Dieppe, Paul, Stewart Mercer on (The doctor who in uenced me 

most) (P Cross) BMJ Careers 327:s123 (18 October 2003) 

dietary fat, stroke risk in male US healthcare professionals and (K 

He, et al). 327:777 (P), 1348 (L) 

Digbeu H, see Ladner J. 327:163 

Dignan FJ, et al, Q&A. Alcohol and the genitourinary tract. 


dignity, useless concept (R Macklin). 327:1419 (E) 

Dillner L, see Walsh K. 327:1064 

Dillon, Stanley, Obituary (R Dillon). 327:228 

Dinning, Trevor Alfred Ridley, Obituary (D Simpson). 327:1230 


Dinniss S, In praise of mucking about (The way I see it) BMJ 


directly observed treatment 

— impact of DOTS v. DOTS-plus on multidrug resistant tuberculosis 

and tuberculosis deaths: decision analysis. 327:164 

(L) 

— tuberculosis treatment concordance (D Maher, et al). 


disabled people 

— depiction on road tra$c signs: international comparison (RP 

Gale, et al) (Hazardous journeys). 327:1456 

— equality for people with disabilities in medicine (S Mercer, et 


— medical students and GMC (P Rubin) BMJ Careers 327:s123 

(18 October 2003) 

disadvantaged people see under poverty 

P′disa#ection” room, (RD Price, et al). 327:1464 

disease in general practice: cross sectional population based 

study. 325:12 

disseminated intravascular coagulation, old disease, new hope 

(CH Toh, et al). 327:975 (C) 

diving, medical o$cer (D Wheeler) BMJ Careers 327:s21 (19 July 

2003) 

Dobbie R, see Smith GCS. 327:313 

Dobson R 

— Curate given go-ahead to challenge decision over abortion. 


— Demand exceeds capacity for NHS Direct. 327:1126 (N) 

— Fire eating is bad for your health. 327:519 (N) 

— Heavy drinking costs the NHS £1.7bn a year, report says. 


— High heels ruled out as risk factor in osteoarthritis of the 

knee. 327:768 (N) 

— Industry sponsored studies twice as likely to have positive 

conclusions about costs. 327:1006 (N) 

— Mental health bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny. 


— New health research centre set up in Wales. 327:1366 (N) 

— O$cials warn of multiple drug resistance in the community. 


doctor-patient relations see also communication; patient participation 

— Afterlife (KM Ali) (Film). 327:1114 (R) 

— amorous advances (A Kirkpatrick) BMJ Careers 327:s100 (27 


— bullshitting (K Barraclough) (Soundings). 327:171 (R) 

— clothing, abandon ties and avoid nose rings. 327:345 (L), 

1289 (L) 

— doctors’ opinions: France (P Peretti-Watel, et al). 327:595 (P) 

— greater courtesy (D Debnath). 327:96 

— second only to that with families (S Pincock). 327:581 (N) 


Medicine (Horton) (Books). 327:399 (R) 

— Stormy Weather (KM Ali) (Film). 327:1114 (R) 

— what does the patient want? (L Farrell) (Soundings). 327:1295 

(R) 

— Working with your Doctor website (A Ellner, et al). 327:303 (E), 

1109 (L) 

doctors see also consultants; general practitioners; junior doctors; 

locum doctors; non-standard grade doctors; overseas 

doctors; preregistration house o$cers 

— countenance. Endpiece. 327:430 

— emotional reactions to recent death of patient (EM 

Redinbaugh, et al). 327:185 (P) 

— good: Metsu’s The Doctor’s Visit (P O’Donnell). 327:340 

— identity crisis (L Farrell) (Soundings). 327:457 (R), 933 (L) 

— risk communication e#ectiveness (A Alaszewski, et al). 


— as writers (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:688 (L) 

doctors’ role 

— Compassion’s Way: A Doctor’s Quest into the Soul of Medicine 

(Crawshaw) (Books). 327:1292 (R) 

— doctors struggle to de®ne the essence of being doctor. 


— The Good Doctor (Galgut) (Books). 327:994 (R) 

— thoughts for new students at new medical school (R Smith) 

(It’s good to talk). 327:1430 

doctors, women see also women 

— Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women 

Physicians (T Delamothe) (Art). 327:1054 (R) 

— Christine Evans (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s37 (2 August 

2003) 

— obstetrics, male doctor as honorary woman (JO Drife) 

(Soundings). 327:297 (R) 

— surgery, Deborah Colville (R Little) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


Dodwell D, et al, Locoregional treatment for breast cancer. 


Dolan A, see Blackburn C. 327:257 

domestic violence see also violence 

— Family Violence in Primary Care (Amiel, et al, eds). 327:686 (R) 

— routinely asking women in health settings (A Taket, et al). 

327:673 (ED), 1345 (L) 

— Violence Against Women: A Physician’s Guide to Identification 

and Management (Liebschutz, et al, eds) (Books). 327:686 (R) 

Dominiczak MH, Issues related to humanities are close to core of 

science. 327:1049 (L) 

Donohoe G, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

Donovan KL, see Riley SG 327. see under 

Donovan RJ, see English DR. 327:375 

Doran T, et al, Health of young and elderly informal carers: 

analysis of UK census data. 327:1388 (PC) 

Dorozynski A 

— Chirac announces investigation into heat wave’s death toll. 


— EU commits $1bn to global fund. 327:182 (N) 

— Heat wave triggers political con ict as French death rates rise. 


Dosani S 

— Better than Prozac (Books). 327:875 (R) 

— Caring for Jewish Patients (Books). 327:169 (R) 

— et al, Recruitment of doctors to non-standard grades in the 

NHS: analysis of job advertisements and survey of 

advertisers. 327:961 (P) 

— see Cross P BMJ Careers 327:s51 (16 August 2003) 

dose-response relationship, teleoanalysis, combining data from 

di#erent types of study (NJ Wald, et al). 327:616 (ED) 

Dossey L, see Olshansky B. 327:1465 

Doughty JC, et al, Tamoxifen is unproved for gynaecomastia. 


Douglas C 

— Glue, spark, or string? (Soundings). 327:111 (R) 

— Growing algorithms from seed (Soundings). 327:509 (R) 

— Looking on the bright side (Soundings). 327:1355 (R) 

— Now we are quite old (Soundings). 327:937 (R) 

Douglass JA, et al, Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic 

reactions. 327:226 (L) 

Dowell A, see Lawton B. 327:845 

Dowling S, see Ramsden A BMJ Careers 327:s43 (9 August 2003) 

Down, Eric Ronald, Obituary (D Kalra, et al). 327:228 

Downie AC, Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising 

radiation. 327:1166 (L) 

Doyle D, see Butler W. 327:344 

Doyle P, see Macfarlane GJ. 327:1373 

Draper BM, Antidepressant prescribing and suicide. 327:288 (L) 

Draper ES, et al, Tables for predicting survival for preterm births 

are updated. 327:872 (L) 

Drever F, see Doran T. 327:1388 

Drife JO 

— Brava at Fountains (Soundings). 327:689 (R) 

— Honorary woman (Soundings). 327:297 (R) 

— Who cleans the clogs? (Soundings). 327:1115 (R) 

Drlicek M, et al, What is a good death? 327:1048 (L) 

drowning, near: ABC of resuscitation (M Harries). 327:1336 (C) 

drug abuse see also cannabis; heroin 

— Australia, supervised injecting room considered successful (B 

Burton). 327:122 (N) 

— China, tested for HIV without consent (S Mayor). 327:579 

(N) 

— screening, psychiatric inpatients (B Barnaby, et al). 327:783 

(P) 

drug industry see also drugs; prescriptions, drug 

— advertising 

——children’s book row (U Tayal). 327:412 (N) 

——website launched to expose “tricks” (M Sweet) (Websites). 


— Australia, succeed in keeping payments to doctors secret (B 

Burton). 327:1248 (N) 

— BMJ special issue, no more free lunches. 327:341 (L), 342 

(L), 343 (L), 344 (L) 

— Canada 

——Illinois research on savings (D Spurgeon). 327:700 (N) 

——US local governments buy cheaper drugs (JH Tanne). 


— Cochrane Library sponsorship 

——at crossroads (R Moynihan). 327:924 (ED) 

——global consultation (R Moynihan). 327:1068 (N) 

——plans to allay fears (R Moynihan). 327:1005 (N) 

——positive conclusions about costs (R Dobson). 327:1006 

(N) 


——World Trade Organization deal (AM Pollock, et al). 


——World Trade Organization ®nally agrees cheap drugs deal 

(F Fleck). 327:517 (N) 

— interests of charities. 327:344 (L) 

— Netherlands, employee who queried trial wins appeal (T 

Sheldon). 327:307 (N) 

— NICE told to break links (Z Kmietowicz). 327:637 (N) 

— patients, relationships with organisations. 327:343 (L), 344 

(L) 

— South Africa, “abused” position (P Sidley). 327:946 (N) 

— US 

——cheap imports allowed (F Charatan). 327:246 (N) 


——FDA wants other rich countries to share development 

costs (JH Tanne). 327:830 (N) 

——politicians want federal funding to discover cost e#ectiveness 

(R Moynihan). 327:642 (N) 

drug monitoring 

— criteria (M Pirmohamed, et al). 327:1179 (E) 

— “yellow card” inquiry (L Eaton, et al). 327:308 (N) 

Drug points 

— Fatal lactic acidosis associated with tenofovir (P Rivas, et al). 


— Possible interaction between warfarin and cranberry juice (R 

Suvarna, et al). 327:1454 

— Pulmonary embolism possibly associated with olanzapine 

treatment (IM Waage, et al). 327:1384 

— Weight loss associated with levetiracetam (S Hadjikoutis, et 

al). 327:905 

drug regulation 



— Medicines Control Agency, slated by Commons committee 

(D Singh). 327:10 (N) 

drug resistance, microbial, o$cials warn of community resistance 

(R Dobson). 327:360 (N) 

drugs see also anticholinergic drugs; drug industry; immunomodulatory 

drugs; non-steroidal anti-in ammatory 

drugs; prescriptions, drug 

— children, sugar in liquid drugs (AD Meyer, et al). 327:1040 


— interventional pharmacotherapy: ABC of interventional 

cardiology (R Philipp, et al). 327:43 (C) 

— new, cost e#ectiveness (RN Warburton). 327:1237 (E) 

— One Man’s Medicine (JK Aronson) R4 (Radio). 327:507 (R) 

— Pharmakon (T Jackson) (Art). 327:1055 (R) 

— what information do patients need? (D Dickinson, et al). 


Drummond C, see Barnaby B. 327:783 

D’Sa AA, et al, Target centred medicine. 327:680 (L), 1229 (L) 

Ducas J, et al, ABC of interventional cardiology. Percutaneous coronary 

intervention cardiogenic shock 326:1450 (correction, 

327:336) 

Duckworth G, Controlling methicillin resistant Staphylococcus 

aureus. 327:1177 (E) 

Dudley N, Be careful when extrapolating trial data to real life. 


Duff C, Poppies in Kosovo, gerbera daisies in Basra (Personal 


Dugdale P, see Glasgow NJ. 327:659 

Dunbar, James Mellis, Obituary (JA Dunbar, et al). 327:292 

Duncan K, Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer 

Virus (Books). 327:687 (R) 

Dunea G 

— Diagnosing house o$cer fatigue (Soundings). 327:1057 (R) 

— A gift for thanksgiving (Soundings). 327:1413 (R) 

— Medical thaumaturgy (Soundings). 327:401 (R) 

— Weapons of mass destruction kill dinosaurs (Soundings). 


Dunn DT, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Dunn H, see Tong CYW. 327:290 

Dunn KM, Problems with sexual function. 327:1109 (L) 

Duong T, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Durham SR, Treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis. 327:1229 (L) 

Durie M, Providing health services to indigenous peoples. 


DEP-DUR 7

Dutton GN, et al, Should we be screening for and treating 

amblyopia? 327:1242 (E) 

Dutton P, Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents. 


Duxbury F, Routinely asking women about domestic violence. 


Dwyer T, see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Dyer C 

— Commission withdraws legal aid for parents suing over MMR 

vaccine. 327:640 (N) 

— Court rules that NHS must pay overseas treatment. 327:831 

(N) 

— Doctor sentenced for manslaughter of leukaemia patient. 


— Doctor’s manslaughter trial halted owing to defendant’s 

health. 327:123 (N) 

— GMC admits failings that left Shipman’s patients unprotected. 


— Group to review babies’ deaths. 327:10 (N) 

— Health authorities cannot force doctors to act against 

conscience. 327:1187 (N) 

— Investigators should be trained to “think dirty” about cause of 

death, Shipman report says. 327:123 (N) 

— Judges rule that children can sue for wrongful diagnosis of 

abuse. 327:305 (N) 

— New bill will regulate the retention of tissue. 327:1304 (N) 

— New consent form designed for release of medical records. 


— New powers for CHAI “threaten patient con®dentiality". 


— NHS sta# should inform patients of negligent acts. 327:7 (N), 

620 (L) 

— Permanent loss of awareness is crucial to diagnosis of PVS. 


— Second vCJD patient to receive experimental treatment. 


— Silicone breast implants still available in UK. 327:947 (N) 

— Test case may threaten abortion rights. 327:1367 (N) 

— Unjusti®ed seclusion of psychiatric patients is breach of 

human rights. 327:183 (N) 

— Women lose legal ®ght to use their frozen embryos. 327:831 

(N) 

Dyer O 

— Attacks on NHS sta# increasing, MPs say. 327:182 (N) 

— BBC accused of unethical journalism. 327:67 (N) 

— BMA reviews its fraught contract negotiations. 327:412 (N) 

— Children have been neglected in u prevention strategy. 


— City reacts negatively as GlaxoSmithKline announces plans 

for new drugs. 327:1366 (N) 

— Doctor gave “woeful” evidence. 327:1124 (N) 

— Eye surgeon claims that new treatment centre is a threat to 

NHS. 327:580 (N) 

— Fertilisation authority to review “egg giving". 327:250 (N), 

872 (L) 

— Foundation hospitals will be introduced into NHS despite 

opposition. 327:1248 (N) 

— GMC clears psychiatrist accused of encouraging “false 

memories". 327:580 (N) 

— GMC investigates pathologist who failed to notice infant’s 

injuries. 327:640 (N) 

— Government ®ghts opposition to foundation hospitals. 


— GP suspended for lying to cover up negligence. 327:888 (N) 

— GPs protest at plans to publicise their performance. 327:830 

(N) 

— Health secretary demands patients have equal access to cancer 

drugs. 327:1007 (N) 

— Imperial Tobacco plans to deny link between smoking and 

lung cancer. 327:888 (N) 

— Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories has damaged 

health, charity report says. 327:1303 (N) 

— Labour leaders are defeated over foundation hospitals. 


— Lancet accuses AstraZeneca of sponsoring biased research. 


— MRC to fund more trials of complex treatments. 327:182 (N) 

— Parliament to look again at issue of “assisted dying” for 

terminally ill patients. 327:1186 (N) 

— Professor is replaced as lead scientist while GMC investigates 

his research 326:1416 (N) (correction, 327:483) 

— Psychiatrist faces GMC hearing. 327:517 (N) 

— Red tape is sti ing research, charity says. 327:640 (N) 

— Reid accused of breach of promise over foundation hospitals. 


— Suicide among women prisoners at a record high, report says. 


— Trial shows no clear bene®t from cannabis for patients with 

MS. 327:1128 (N) 

— Trials for vCJD treatment held up because of disagreements. 


— US pacemaker manufacturer faces British lawsuit. 327:466 

(N) 

— Veterans of the ®rst Gulf war are developing amyotrophic lateral 

sclerosis. 327:766 (N) 

— Wake®eld Council is ordered to pay for residential care after 

11 year delay. 327:521 (N) 

— Women may ovulate two or three times a month. 327:124 (N) 

dyspepsia, empirical prescribing, test and treat v. omeprazole. 


dyspnoea, sustained release morphine for management of refractory 

dyspnoea (AP Abernethy, et al). 327:523 (P), 1288 (L) 

E 

Eades S, see Cunningham C. 327:445 

Eason S, et al, Cryoprecipitate leakage into Hartmanns solution 

causes clot (Minerva). 327:758 (R) 

Eastgate, John, psychiatrist faces GMC hearing (O Dyer). 


Easton G 

— 21st century GP BMJ Careers 327:s41 (9 August 2003) 

— Nearly 1000 doctors out of work BMJ Careers 327:s28 (26 

July 2003) 

— Reporting risk—that’s entertainment (Personal view). 327:756 

(R), 1404 (L) 

— View from the top (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s46 (9 August 

2003) 

Eaton L 

— The Clausewitz of the NHS. 327:890 (N) 

— Congresswomen protest at partial abortion bill. 327:1126 (N) 

— Exhibition challenges views on autism. 327:888 (N) 

— Government proposes shake up in child protection services. 


— Hospital patients say they are not fully informed about drugs. 


— John Reid plans to introduce “patient advisers” into GP surgeries. 


— Lords committee warns of gaps in infection control measures. 


— Medical ethics teaching should be overhauled, says BMA. 


— Mental health images go on show. 327:1008 (N) 

— Wellcome Trust gallery opens at British Museum. 327:1010 

(N) 

— WHO launches initiative to encourage eating fruit and 

vegetables. 327:1125 (N) 

— “Yellow card” announcement used to head o# concerns, 

experts claim. 327:308 (N) 

ebmj see bmj.com 

Ebrahim S 

— see Brindle P. 327:1267 

— see Lawlor DA. 327:712, 1288, 1383 

Eccles S, Non-standard grade (trust grade) doctors: the BMA 

juniors’ view BMJ Careers 327:s131 (25 October 2003) 

ecstasy, Science article retraction (S Pincock). 327:579 (N) 

eczema, e$cacy and tolerability of borage oil in adults and children 

(A Takwale, et al). 327:1385 (PC) 

Edgcumbe DP, Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising 


Edmonds L, see Lim E. 327:1309 

Edmonds PM, see Ross JR. 327:469 

education, midwifery, risk attributable to sta# deployment and 

training (B Ashcroft, et al). 327:584 (P) 

education, medical see also examinations; learning; schools, medical; 

teaching 

— communication of risks (P Sedgwick, et al). 327:694 (E) 

— Germany, training shortened (A Tu#s). 327:1127 (N) 

— global awareness, Trevor Gibbs (D Cohen) (Pro®le) BMJ 


— monitoring the revolution (V Wass, et al). 327:1362 (E) 

— not what I really needed to know (N Cooper) (The way I see 

it) BMJ Careers 327:s190 (13 December 2003) 

— patient participation (A Howe, et al). 327:326 (LP), 1110 (L) 

— postgraduate, MSc course establishment tips (K Suresh, et al) 


education, medical, continuing 

— appraisal: catalyst of personal development (M Conlon). 


— Big brother is watching (your CPD) (V Sankar). 327:855 

— BMJ Learning launch (K Walsh, et al). 327:1064 (E) 

— general practice, evaluation of extended training in Northern 

Ireland: qualitative study (CH Sibbett, et al). 327:971 (LP) 

— knowledge translation: shortening journey from evidence to 

e#ect (D Davis, et al). 327:33 (LP) 

education, medical, postgraduate 

— deferred for yacht race (N Jacobsen) BMJ Careers 327:s140 (1 


— opening training schemes (S Crowe). 327:336 

— regional teaching programme for MRCP (UK) examination 

(M Witham, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s172 (29 November 

2003) 

— training in US (A Rashid, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s19 (19 July 

2003) 

education, medical, undergraduate 

— death of teaching autopsy (G O’Grady). 327:802 (ED) 

— ethics, BMA calls for overhaul (L Eaton). 327:1306 (N) 

— gynaecology teaching associates (S Pickard, et al). 327:1389 

(LP) 

— part time training (B Rushforth) (The way I see it) BMJ 


Edwards A 

— Communicating risks. 327:691 (E), 1403 (L), 1404 (L) 

— Communicating risks through analogies. 327:749 (L) 

— et al, E#ects of communicating individual risks in screening 

programmes: Cochrane systematic review. 327:703 (P) 

— see Elwyn G. 327:864 

— see Gigerenzer G. 327:741 

— see Thornton H. 327:101, 869 

Edwards, Jack, Obituary (M Voight, et al). 327:813 

Edwards R, see Heller RF. 327:1162 

Edwin N, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Egypt see also Africa 

— medicine at time of Napoleon Bonaparte (TG Russell, et al) 

(Hazardous journeys). 327:1461 

El-Modir AM, et al, “Radiation recall” in ammatory reaction 

caused by capecitabine (Minerva). 327:298 (R) 

El-Nimr G, et al, In search of a good death. 327:224 (L) 

El-Sayeh HG, Using student doctor or trainee doctor may be 

helpful. 327:1110 (L) 

elbow, tennis elbow (W Assendelft, et al) (Extracts from Concise 

Clinical Evidence). 327:329 (C) 

elderly see also ageing; health services for the elderly; long-term 

care 

— alcoholism, rede®nition (H O’Connell, et al). 327:664 (C) 

— breast cancers, women denied treatment (Z Kmietowicz). 


— carers, health of elderly informal carers (T Doran, et al). 


— depiction on road tra$c signs: international comparison (RP 

Gale, et al) (Hazardous journeys). 327:1456 

— falls 

——chronic diseases and drug use (DA Lawlor, et al). 327:712 

(PC), 1288 (L) 

——preventing fractures (AD Woolf, et al). 327:89 (C) (correction, 

663) 

— lithium and valproic acid prescription patterns. 327:395 (L) 

— made to sit in chairs? (M Bliss) (Personal view). 327:997 (R), 

1349 (L) 

— prevalence of ®ve common clinical abnormalities (AJM de 

Craen, et al). 327:131 (P) 

— renal diseases, increasing number (RJA Sims, et al). 327:462 

(E) 

— whispered voice test: systematic review (S Pirozzo, et al). 


electroconvulsive therapy, recommendations are likely to improve 

standards. 327:621 (L) 

electronic medical records see also medical records 

— primary care, regression or progression? 327:622 (L) 

— sharing information throughout NHS (N Booth). 327:114 

(E), 622 (L), 623 (L) 

electronic publishing see also publishing 

— developing countries, Ptolemy project, scalable model for 

delivering health information (M Beveridge, et al). 327:790 

(IP) (correction, 1016) 


Elias C, et al, Reproductive and sexual health of older women in 

developing countries. 327:64 (E) 

Elliman D, et al, Hear the silence (TV). 327:1411 (R) 

Elliot A 

— Bill Gates boosts ®ght against virus that threatens three 

billion in Asia. 327:1366 (N) 

— Department of Health to cut two ®fths of its sta#. 327:1068 

(N) 

— US food industry ensures that consumers are not told to eat 

less. 327:1067 (N) 

Elliott A 

— Government faces pressure to tackle obesity. 327:1125 (N) 

— Sports expert defends “chocolate for equipment” scheme. 


Elliott C, Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American 

Dream (Books). 327:567 (R) 

Elliott, Christopher John Richard (R Dreaper). 327:1231 

Ellis A 

— Breast (Art). 327:755 (R) 

— Rare cancers (Website of the week). 327:58 (R) 

Ellis BG, see Thompson MR. 327:263, 871 

Ellner A 

— Rethinking prescribing in the United States. 327:1397 (ED) 

— et al, Speak up! 327:303 (E), 1109 (L) 

— see Woloshin S. 327:695 

Elstein M, see Ashcroft B. 327:584 

Elwyn G 

— et al, “Doing prescribing": how doctors can be more e#ective. 


— see Edwards A. 327:703 

— see Mak YYW. 327:213 

email see also internet 

— virtues of virtual committee (DE Morris) BMJ Careers 

327:s157 (15 November 2003) 

Emberson J, see Brindle P. 327:1267 

Emberton M, see Lane T. 327:291 

emergencies, junior doctors: fewer night operations (S Mayor). 


emergency contraceptives see contraceptives, postcoital 

emergency medical services 

— CHI ratings fall (Z Kmietowicz). 327:119 (N) 

— focus is on patients’ clinical needs and distress. 327:451 (L) 

— myocardial infarction outside hospital 

——automated external de®brillator use by ®rst responders 

(AP van Alem, et al). 327:1312 (P) 

——cost e#ectiveness of public place de®brillators in 

improving survival (A Walker, et al). 327:1316 (P) 

——prehospital thrombolysis 

———overview (BD Prendergast). 327:1 (E) 

———cohort study (DK Pedley, et al). 327:22 (P), 1051 (L) 

— rapid tranquillisation for agitated patients: midazolam v. 

haloperidol plus promethazine (TREC Collaborative 

Group). 327:708 (P) 

emergency medicine 

— career advice (A Lockey) BMJ Careers 327:s155 (15 November 

2003) 

— Ed Glucksman (C Hughes) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s158 


— oncologists experience (R Hunter). 327:103 

Emery G, see English DR. 327:375 

Empey D, see Peskett S BMJ Careers 327:s179 (6 December 

2003) 

Emslie S, et al, eds, Improving Patient Safety: Insights from 

American, Australian and British Healthcare (Books). 327:109 

(R) 

Emson, Daksha, NHS criticised over suicide of mentally ill doctor 

(D Singh). 327:1008 (N) 

encephalitis, Bill Gates’ bequest (A Elliot). 327:1366 (N) 

endometriosis, ABC of subfertility (R Hart). 327:721 (C) 

energy intake, pregnant women: boy/girl comparison. 327:621 

(L), 622 (L) 

English DR, et al, Evaluation of aid to diagnosis of pigmented 

skin lesions in general practice: controlled trial randomised 

by practice. 327:375 (PC), 1167 (L) 

Enquist PO, The Visit of the Royal Physician (Books). 327:508 (R) 

Enstrom JE, et al, Passive smoking. 327:504 (L) 

entombment, Christ: medical re ections (JP Mackenbach). 


environment 

— disposal of dead (I Loe er) (Soundings). 327:237 (R) 

— prisons and mental health (J Nurse, et al). 327:480 (PC), 989 

(L) 

environmental pollution 

— Agent Orange, found in food in Vietnam (D Spurgeon). 


— Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists Disagree 

(Moore) (Books). 327:568 (R) 

epilepsy, who should take care of children? (RN Chinthapalli) 


Epstein EF 

— Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke. 327:1348 (L) 

— Falls, chronic diseases, and drug use in elderly women. 


equipment, hospital, donation to developing countries (AR Gatrad, 

et al) BMJ Careers 327:s12 (12 July 2003) 

ER, nursing shortage and (J Lenzer) (TV). 327:1294 (R) 

erectile dysfunction, incidence and patient characteristics before 

and after UK viagra introduction. 327:1109 (L), 1110 (L) 

Erens B, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

Ernst E 

— Herbal medicines put into context. 327:881 (E) 

— My holistic bakery. 327:1285 

Ernst, Edzard, (G Watts) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s166 (22 


Escribà JM, see Grein T. 327:650 

Escudier V, see Chowdhury TA. 327:383 

Esmail, Aneez, (P Cross, et al) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s52 (16 

August 2003) 

Essex C, Case Notes (Radio). 327:1353 (R) 

ethics see also human rights 

— BBC accused of unethical journalism (O Dyer). 327:67 (N) 

ethics, medical see also con®dentiality; euthanasia; informed consent; 

suicide, assisted 

— clinical trials from a bayesian and decision analytic 

perspective. 327:105 (L) 

— dignity: useless concept (R Macklin). 327:1419 (E) 

— drug taking: wolf in sheep’s clothing (I Heath). 327:856 (ED) 

— health authorities, cannot force doctors to act against 

conscience (C Dyer). 327:1187 (N) 

— Israeli Medical Association and state of World Medical 

Association. 327:561 (L), 1107 (L), 1108 (L) 

— John Harris (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s36 (2 August 2003) 

— Medical Ethics Today (L Eaton). 327:1306 (N) 

8 DUT-ETH July−December 2003

— melioidosis treatment evaluation (AC Cheng, et al). 327:1280 

(ED) 

— opportunistic disease prevention in consultation: justi®able? 

(L Getz, et al). 327:498 (ED), 989 (L) 

— SARS, lessons from Toronto (PA Singer, et al). 327:1342 

(ED) 

— sex selection, doctors support embryo selection to help ill siblings 

(L Beecham). 327:71 (N) 

— sperm removal from dead men: Israel (J Siegel-Itzkovich). 


— The Turnstone: A Doctor’s Story (Dean) (Books). 327:1353 (R) 

— US, President’s Council on Bioethics (L Turner) (Personal 


Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network 

— see Lo B. 327:337 

— see MacQueen KM. 327:340 

ethnic groups see also Aborigines; indigenous peoples; racial discrimination; 

South Asians 

— interview panel mix (HV Williams). 327:322 

— NHS management sta#, increase planned (Z Kmietowicz). 


— Pakistani and Bangladeshi, in uences on smoking in adults. 


— palliative care needs (AR Gatrad, et al). 327:176 (E), 1049 (L) 

— representation in clinical research (SS Rathmore, et al). 


— research, self reports with non-English speakers (S Hunt, et 


— US, health disparities in American Indians and Alaska 

Natives (U Tayal). 327:305 (N), 449 (L) 

Etminan M, et al,E#ect of non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs 

on risk of Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review and metaanalysis 

of observational studies. 327:128 (P), 751 (L), 752 

(L) 

Europe see also Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; France; 

Germany; Ireland; Italy; Macedonia; Netherlands; Northern 

Ireland; Norway; Poland; Russia; Scotland; Slovakia; 

Switzerland; Wales 

— cancer and obesity (C White). 327:700 (N) 

— mentally ill patients kept in caged beds (K Krosnar). 


European Society of Cardiology 

— congress 2003. Medscape conference coverage. 327:973 

— guidelines on cardiovascular disease (S Mayor). 327:518 (N) 

European Union 

— abortion test case may threaten rights (C Dyer). 327:1367 

(N) 

— AIDS, $1bn committed to global fund (A Dorozynski). 


— European Research Council (R Watson). 327:768 (N) 

— food products ban (R Watson). 327:182 (N) 

— human organ tra$cking (R Watson). 327:1009 (N) 

— induction programmes for doctors (Y-L Ong, et al) BMJ 


— parliament tries to stamp out tra$cking in human organs (R 

Watson). 327:1009 (N) 

— proposal for a council recommendation on cancer screening. 


— stem cell research using human embryos approved (R 


— Working Time Directive, implementation (R MacDonald) 

BMJ Careers 327:s9 (12 July 2003) 

euthanasia see also suicide, assisted 

— France 

——doctor faces murder charge (J Burgermeister). 327:1068 

(N) 

——doctors’ opinions (P Peretti-Watel, et al). 327:595 (P) 

— Germany, doctor investigated for killing 76 patients (A Tu#s). 


— Netherlands 

——e#ect on bereaved family and friends (NB Swarte, et al). 


——requests in general practice: trend analysis (RL Marquet, 


——“terminal sedation” de®nition (T Sheldon). 327:465 (N) 


— patient voices are needed (YYW Mak, et al). 327:213 (ED) 


Evans A, see Hughes C. 327:939 

Evans AR, see Lewis PM. 327:1108 

Evans, Christine, (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s37 (2 

August 2003) 

Evans DB, see Shibuya K. 327:154 

Evans J, see Smeeth L. 327:1027 

Evans JA, Community clinics can treat sexually transmitted 

infections. 327:104 (L) 

Evans M, see Davis D. 327:33 

Evans MG, Evaluating computerised health information systems. 


Evans, Natallie, frozen embryos case lost (C Dyer). 327:831 (N) 

Evans PC, et al, Electroconvulsive therapy. 327:621 (L) 

Evans R, Endpiece. Three sides. 327:789 

evening primrose oil, atopic dermatitis (HC Williams). 327:1358 

(E) 

Everington, Sam, (P Cross, et al) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s52 

(16 August 2003) 

evidence based medicine see also POEM* 

— anecdotes as evidence. 327:290 (L) 



— clinical decision support tools to improve learning in students 

(GM Leung, et al). 327:1090 (LP) 

— vets (T Greenhalgh) (Soundings). 327:1175 (R) 

examinations see also education, medical 

— during pregnancy (F Kelly). 327:679 

— failure, but still pillar of success (A Panja) (Personal view). 


— French-speaking Canada (AM Clar®eld). 327:374 

— My First MRCP Book (Montgomery, et al) (Books). 327:294 

(R) 

exercise 

— “chocolate for equipment” scheme defended (A Elliott). 


— girls’ schools. One hundred years ago. 327:668 

— physical education in primary school children (KM Mallam, 


— prolongation of life. One hundred years ago. 327:133, 715 

expedition medicine, doctors in Antartica (A Ramsden) BMJ 


expert witness, fall from grace (N Marks) (The Press). 327:110 

(R) 

extracorporeal shock wave therapy, plantar fasciitis, e#ectiveness 

(M Haake, et al). 327:75 (P), 870 (L) 

Extracts from “Best Treatments” 


— Bulimia nervosa (RZ Lilly). 327:380 (C) 

— Treating nicotine addiction (A Jain). 327:1394 (C) 

Extracts from Concise Clinical Evidence, Tennis elbow (W Assendelft, 

et al). 327:329 (C) 

Eychmuller S, see Glare P. 327:195 

eye, orbital air after toilet straining (N Puvanachandra, et al) 


eye diseases, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:996 (R) 

Eysenbach G, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

F 

Fabbri LM, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

Fabri BM, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

facial surgery, transplants should not be done without more 

research (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1184 (N) 

Fadiman A 

— The challenge of concordance 327:867 (correction, 328:35) 

— The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down 327:867 (correction, 

328:35) 

faecal incontinence 

— anal ®ssure treatment (RL Nelson). 327:354 (E) 

— treatment options (MA Kamm). 327:1299 (E) 

Fahey D, Reminding patients by text message. 327:564 (L) 

Fahey T 

— see Brindle P. 327:1267 

— see Wong J. 327:392 

"failed back surgery syndrome", (L Talbot). 327:985 (ED) 

Faivre J, see Arbyn M. 327:289 

Fakoya AO, Tackling India’s HIV epidemic. 327:562 (L) 

fallopian tubes, ABC of subfertility (Y Khalaf). 327:610 (C) 

falls 

— chronic diseases and drug use in elderly (DA Lawlor, et al). 


— preventing fractures in elderly (AD Woolf, et al). 327:89 (C) 


family relations 

— attitudes to research using samples from postmortems (C 

Womack, et al). 327:781 (P) 

— planning for good death: responding to unexpected events (Y 

Saunders, et al). 327:204 (ED), 1049 (L) 

— support services (P Cross, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s51 (16 

August 2003) 

Farmer P, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New 

War on the Poor (Books). 327:1232 (R) 

Farmer PE, see Mukherjee JS. 327:1104 

Farquhar C, see Lethaby A. 327:1243 

Farré M, see Abanades S. 327:290 

Farré X, see Bertomeu A. 327:591 

Farrell L 

— Death, where is thy sting? (Soundings). 327:877 (R) 

— Identity crisis (Soundings). 327:457 (R), 933 (L) 

— A secret revealed (Soundings). 327:59 (R) 

— What does the patient want? (Soundings). 327:1295 (R) 

Farrelly L, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

farting, “I was too well brought up to say it” (M Gore). 327:1208 

Favre R, see Peretti-Watel P. 327:595 

Fay AC, see McLean-Tooke APC. 327:1332 

Fazekas BS, see Abernethy AP. 327:523 

Fazel M, et al, Mental health of refugee children: comparative 

study. 327:134 (P) 

Feder G, see Taket A. 327:673 

Feig JC, see Knox KL. 327:1376 

Feliciello MC, Theme issue for patients. 327:448 (L) 

female genital mutilation see circumcision, female 

femoral fractures, don’t place all your trust in machines. A memorable 

patient (CA Willis-Owen). 327:1084 

Fenton KA, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

Fenton PM, et al, Caesarean section in Malawi: prospective study 

of early maternal and perinatal mortality. 327:587 (P) 

Ferguson M, see Rashid A. 327:223 

Fernández-Guerrero ML, see Rivas P. 327:711 

Ferner RE 

— Is concordance the primrose path to health? 327:821 (E) 

— see Aronson JK. 327:1222 

— see Pirmohamed M. 327:1179 

Ferns GA, see Wang TWM. 327:50 

Ferrie JE, see Kivamäki M. 327:364 

Ferriman A 

— Arranging genes to create art and understanding. 327:830 

(N) 

— BMA secretary threatens to sue representatives. 327:71 (N), 

227 (L) 

— Breast cancer survivors turn to art for healing. 327:767 (N) 

— Digital archive of Lancet is launched. 327:888 (N) 

— Doctors postpone decision on industrial action. 327:8 (N) 

— Have editors got their priorities right? (Journals). 327:1113 

(R) 

— Human body inspires festive tree decoration. 327:1305 (N) 

— Lancet calls for tobacco to be made illegal. 327:1364 (N) 

— Large increases occur in cancers of skin and prostate. 


— Nu$eld Trust praises ambitious NHS plans but calls for better 

monitoring. 327:1250 (N) 

— Patients should ask more about their medicines, group says. 


— Photos that “make you see the world in a new way". 327:700 

(N) 

— Public health doctors “hopeless” at using media (The Press). 


— Users and sta# of mental health service exhibit their work. 


Ferry, Rose Marion, Obituary (P Edwards). 327:874 

fetal development 

— adult adiposity and: India (AM Prentice). 327:880 (E) 

— adult origins of coronary disease 

——breast feeding and blood pressure (CG Owen, et al). 


——Ethel Burnside’s records: coincidence and hypothesis (D 

Barker) (It’s good to talk). 327:1428 

— thrifty phenotype hypothesis, hearing problems and (M-L 

Barrenäs, et al) (Research pointers). 327:1199 (P) 

fever, unexplained, in young children: how to manage severe bacterial 

infection (I Brook). 327:1094 (C) 

®broids, ABC of subfertility (R Hart). 327:721 (C) 

®ction 

— doctors as writers (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:688 (L) 

— A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (Murray) (Books). 


Field DJ, see Draper ES. 327:872 

Fieldhouse R, et al, The National Association of Non-Principals 


Fielding R, et al, Communicating risk. 327:1404 (L) 

®llers 

— All stitched up (R Milton). 327:1476 

— All that glisters is not gold (TE Love). 327:1315 

— Big brother is watching (your CPD) (V Sankar). 327:855 

— British biological warfare (JH Baron). 327:261 

— “The call we all dread...” (NK Sabharwal). 327:663 

— A case of “Alpine armailli’s apple hands syndrome” (B Graz). 


— The challenge of concordance (A Fadiman). 327:867 

— Christmas quiz (L Morrison). 327:1146 

— A Christmas visit (C Thorpe). 327:1472 

— Curiouser and curiouser (L Morrison). 327:1146 

— Death as the dramatic climax to a staged life (B 

Twisselmann). 327:220 

— Death as part of a person’s history (B Twisselmann). 327:220 

— Doesn’t it make you sick (R Anthony-Pillai). 327:923 

— Driven to distraction (H Cole). 327:1203 

— Emergency medicine in a cancer hospital (R Hunter). 


— Endpiece 

——Angry (J Spencer). 327:427 

——A choice (F Charatan). 327:339 

——Di#erences (F Charatan). 327:1103 

——Edinburgh medical students 1872 (JH Baron). 327:744 

——Edinburgh poverty 1840 (JH Baron). 327:1225 

——Essential freedom (P Beaumarchais). 327:483 

——Fire and ice (MN Lowenthal). 327:1335 

——Hard people (F Charatan). 327:1037 

——Inside our dreams (J Willis). 327:194 

——It’s never the time (K Hepburn). 327:860 

——Penalised (F Charatan). 327:262 

——The physician’s countenance (JH Baron). 327:430 

——Poles apart? (F Charatan). 327:1215 

——A prayer (F Charatan). 327:928 

——Proof of old age (F Charatan). 327:80 

——Reporters and wolves (F Charatan). 327:1375 

——The requirements for a surgeon (Z Shah). 327:1263 

——Three sides (R Evans). 327:789 

——To die (B Cornelson). 327:1031 

——A tyrant (F Charatan). 327:1326 

——A warning (F Charatan). 327:477 

——The wife who commands (JH Baron). 327:157 

——Wise words (R Sharma). 327:917 

— Ethnic mix (HV Williams). 327:322 

— Fear of imminent death (R Hurley). 327:200 

— From cardiac anaesthetist to humanist o$ciant (R Fletcher). 

327:748, 1169 (L) 

— Gallstones in custard (B Witcombe). 327:1270 

— Good medical practice (R Anwar). 327:1213 

— A good death? (A Berger). 327:203 

— A gout lifestyle? (Anonymous). 327:1433 

— The greater man, the greater courtesy (D Debnath). 327:96 

— Grommets, dude? (M Clark). 327:46 

— A history lesson (C Rundle). 327:545 (correction, 1043) 

— How my tonsils were saved (D Crosby). 327:960 

— “I was too well brought up to say it” (M Gore). 327:1208 

— Images of the good doctor in Western medicine: the 

doctor-patient relationship (part 2) (P O’Donnell). 327:340 

— It’s always worth trying (F Kelly). 327:679 

— The Kylemore nuns (R McGouran). 327:970 

— Medscape conference coverage 

——18th International Diabetes Federation Congress, Paris. 


——European Society of Cardiology congress 2003: 327:973 

— A memorable exam (AM Clar®eld). 327:374 

— A memorable patient 

——Bella and the blood sample (J Stebbing, et al). 327:497 

——Cold comfort (M Gri$ths). 327:1225 

——Compartment syndrome (R Anwar). 327:286 

——Cyril (P Harding). 327:609 

——Don’t place all your trust in machines (CA Willis-Owen). 


——The expert (MR Cahill). 327:1089 

——Fortunes of war (BG Jones, et al). 327:1341 

——The importance of being understood (I Vlad). 327:836 

— A mistake that might have been my last (D Landsborough). 


— A mixture of medication (M Gutenstein). 327:549 

— My holistic bakery (E Ernst). 327:1285 

— One hundred years ago 

——The advantages and disadvantages of the profession of 

medicine. 327:618 

——The annual meeting at Swansea. 327:1161 

——Automobiles for medical men. 327:740 

——How to be healthy without doctors. 327:391 

——Hygiene of girls’ schools. 327:668 

——The hygienic reform of female clothing. 327:1046 

——The medical profession in Austria. 327:590 

——Nursing as an occupation. 327:1150 

——The open-air treatment of surgical tuberculosis. 327:560 

——The prolongation of life 

——The summer holiday. 327:715 

——Tobacco and snu#. 327:133 

——The responsibility of surgeons and their fees B.C. 2300: 


——Wage-earning school children. 327:535 

——Whisky. 327:325 

— Opening training schemes to change (S Crowe). 327:336 

— A paper that changed my practice. Asking the right question (A 

Hamilton). 327:378 

— Paws for thought (A Johnstone). 327:1392 

— Pump it up (D Selvarajah). 327:1468 

— Q&A 

——Alcohol and the genitourinary tract (FJ Dignan, et al). 


——Saving expressed milk (PCD Atapattu, et al). 327:1338 

——Wrinkly skin (D Weiler, et al). 327:1328 

— The reunion (D Crosby). 327:987 

— Room for improvement (RD Price, et al). 327:1464 

— Shocking language (A Rule). 327:422 

— Shy and retiring (BM Southcott). 327:279 

— Smoking cessation dilemmas in prison (JA Colclough). 


— Smoking on exhibition? (N Shinji, et al). 327:1093 

— Sweet dreams and sour awakenings (AD Meyer, et al). 


— A teenager in love (A Ward). 327:981 

— Telemedicine (J Carter, et al). 327:1458 

— Through the looking glass (P Myhill). 327:1323 

— Two memorable physicians (R Gabriel). 327:479 

— When I use a word. Anecdotage (JK Aronson). 327:1276 

— Who invented that bleeping thing? (F Smith). 327:719 

®nasteride, prostate cancer prevention (JH Tanne). 327:9 (N) 

ETH-FIN 9

Finch TL, et al, Integrating service development with evaluation 

in telehealthcare: an ethnographic study. 327:1205 (IP) 

Finland see also Europe 

— neck pain treatment, comparison of di#erent methods (M 

Viljanen, et al). 327:475 (P) 

Finlay IG, see Mak YYW. 327:213 

Finlay, Robert, Obituary (S Finlay). 327:813 

®re, world end. Endpiece (MN Lowenthal). 327:1335 

®re eating, bad for your health (R Dobson). 327:519 (N) 

First MB, et al, Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders. 


Fischbacher C, see Bhopal R. 327:1405 

®sh, Alzheimer’s diseases, prevention (D Josefson). 327:248 (N) 

Fisher, Allan, Obituary (M Helfgott-Fisher). 327:108 

Fisher JP 

— Third world brain drain. 327:930 (L) 

— see Unger J-P. 327:450 

Fisˇter K, Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health (Books). 327:347 (R) 

Fitchett AEJ, Don’t blame religion for poor funerals. 327:1169 

(L) 

Fitzmaurice DA 

— General practitioners with special clinical interests. 327:933 

(L) 

— What happened to the valid POEMs? A survey of review articles 

on the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Commentary: The 

faults of expert reviews are already well known. 327:269 (IP) 

Fitzpatrick C, No more free lunches. 327:342 (L) 

Fitzpatrick M 

— Hear the silence (TV). 327:1411 (R) 

— Routinely asking women about domestic violence. 327:1345 

(L) 

Fleck F 

— Drugs could still be costly under World Trade Organization 

deal. 327:639 (N) 

— Iraq health minister seeks more funds for future health 

system. 327:889 (N) 

— Report predicts 20 million AIDS orphans in Africa by 2010: 


— Smallpox bioterrorism conference highlights divisions over 

vaccines. 327:948 (N) 

— South Korean WHO veteran has tough act to follow. 327:468 

(N) 

— UK and Italy have low MMR uptake. 327:1124 (N) 

— WHO: outbreak of SARS is over, but ®ght should go on. 


— WHO approves combination pills for HIV/AIDS. 327:1067 

(N) 

— WHO issues global alert after grim report on HIV/AIDS. 


— WHO and MSF appeal for funds for new meningitis vaccine. 


— WHO relaunches polio campaign. 327:466 (N) 

— World Trade Organization ®nally agrees cheap drugs deal. 


Fleming PR, see McManus IC. 327:139 

Fleminger S, Managing agitation and aggression after head 

injury. 327:4 (E) 

Fletcher AE, see Smeeth L. 327:1027 

Fletcher AK, Concordance errors with drugs because of packaging 


Fletcher C, A Way of Life That Does Not Exist (Books). 327:455 

(R) 

Fletcher R, From cardiac anaesthetist to humanist o$ciant. 

327:748, 1169 (L) 

exible training, (R Sundaram) BMJ Careers 327:s61 (23 August 

2003) 

exible working, in NHS (R MacDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s59 

(23 August 2003) 

Flight IHK, see Lord JM. 327:951 

oods, Sudan, bring threat of disease (P Moszynski). 327:357 

(N) 

Flower R, What are all the things that aspirin does? 327:572 (E) 

Fluoxetine, Better than Prozac (Barondes) (Books). 327:875 (R) 

Flynn S, et al, Bullying and harassment at work BMJ Careers 


Foliaki S 

— et al, Changing pattern of ill health for indigenous people. 


— et al, Prevention and control of diabetes in Paci®c people. 


folic acid, cardiovascular diseases, polypill. 327:807 (L), 808 (L), 

809 (L) 

follow up studies, angina prognosis with and without a diagnosis: 

Whitehall II cohort study (H Hemingway, et al). 327:895 

(P) 

food industry, US, healthy eating message obfuscated (C 

Marwick). 327:121 (N) 

food safety, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism 

(Nestle) (Books). 327:567 (R) 

food supplements, unsubstantiated health claims: EU ban (R 


food supply, hungry rising by 5m PA (J Burgermeister). 327:1303 

(N) 

football 

— brain injuries from heading (PR McCrory). 327:351 (E), 

1168 (L) 

— position and atopy: both subject to birth order e#ect? (MR 

Perkin) (This sporting life). 327:1473 

For and against, Doctors should not discuss resuscitation with 

terminally ill patients (C Manistry, et al). 327:614 (ED) 

Forbes, John Alexander, Obituary (L Forbes). 327:566 

Ford T, see Goodman R. 327:472 

Forgacs I, Football position and atopy—both subject to the birth 

order e#ect? (This sporting life). Referee’s half-time analysis. 


Formica M, see McAlindon T. 327:484 

Forrest, Sandy, interview with (G Watts). 327:1070 (N) 

Forrester, Robert Michael ("Sam"), Obituary (I Forrester). 


Forsythe JLR, see Oniscu GC. 327:1261 

foundation hospitals see also hospitals; National Health Service 

— freedoms do not go far enough (C Shannon). 327:1008 (N) 

— government ®ghts opposition (O Dyer). 327:1187 (N) 

— introduced into NHS despite opposition (O Dyer). 327:1248 

(N) 

— Labour leaders defeated (O Dyer). 327:828 (N) 

— plan defeated in Lords (K Burke). 327:1126 (N) 

— Reid accused of breach of promise (O Dyer). 327:1306 (N) 

— where next? 327:291 (L) 

— “will pressure regulator to allow change to licence” (Z 

Kmietowicz). 327:581 (N) 

Fowler AW, Patients need comfort and control in beds and chairs. 


Fox C, et al, Intensive education for lifestyle change in diabetes. 


Fox KAA, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

fractures 

— elderly, prevention (AD Woolf, et al). 327:89 (C) (correction, 

663) 

— neck of femur, mortality: English study 1968-98 (SE Roberts, 


fragile X syndrome, screening, pilot schemes to be considered (A 

Iles). 327:581 (N) 

France see also Europe 

— euthanasia 

——doctor faces murder charge (J Burgermeister). 327:1068 

(N) 

——doctors’ opinions (P Peretti-Watel, et al). 327:595 (P) 

— heat wave 

——Chirac announces investigation (A Dorozynski). 327:465 

(N) 

——death rates rise (A Dorozynski). 327:411 (N) 

——media survey (L Boyer, et al) (The Press). 327:876 (R) 

——new care plans announced (B Spurgeon). 327:1127 (N) 

— mountain rescue (C Scrimgeour) BMJ Careers 327:s17 (19 

July 2003) 

— wife who commands. Endpiece (JH Baron). 327:157 

France E, see Iredale R. 327:930 

Frank J, A career in nuclear medicine BMJ Careers 327:s137 (1 


Frankel AH, Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and 


Franklin A, see D’Sa AA. 327:680 

Freeman GK, see Haggerty JL. 327:1219 

Freemantle N, see Cooper H. 327:394 

French, David Douglas, Obituary (R French). 327:168 

French R, Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the 

Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Books). 327:935 (R) 

Frieden TR, see Sterling TR. 327:164 

Frisch LE, see Ellner A. 327:303 

Frith P 

— see Abernethy AP. 327:523 

— see Currow DC. 327:1288 

Frizelle FA, et al, Surgeon is only one in uence on outcome. 


Frf-lich JC, see Wrenger E. 327:147 

Frost C, see Toroyan T. 327:906 

Frost J, see Murphy DJ. 327:1132 

Fruchon S, see Coppin H. 327:132 

fruit, WHO initiative (L Eaton). 327:1125 (N) 

Fry-Smith A, see Pitches D. 327:1436 

Frye J, see Frizelle FA. 327:564 

Fryers PT, et al, Co-proxamol and suicide. 327:287 (L) 

Fuchs D, see Ledochowski M. 327:106 

Fuller G, see Merrison AFA. 327:1360 

funerals, from cardiac anaesthetist to humanist o$ciant (R 

Fletcher). 327:748, 1169 (L) 

Furedi F, Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain 

Age (Books). 327:1293 (R) 

Furness P, Consent to using human tissue. 327:759 (E) 

Furness S, et al, Car colour and risk of car crash injury: population 

based case control study (Hazardous journeys). 


Furniss D, see De Souza BA. 327:1289 

G 

Gabriel R, Two memorable physicians. 327:479 

Gada S, How to be child friendly (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


Gadmer NM, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

Galatius S, see Svensson M. 327:1141 

Gale CP, see Gale RP. 327:1456 

Gale RP, et al, Depiction of elderly and disabled people on road 

tra$c signs: international comparison (Hazardous journeys). 


Galgut D, The Good Doctor (Books). 327:994 (R) 

Galinier A, see Peretti-Watel P. 327:595 

Gallagher F, et al, Respiratory hazards of “nail sculpture". 


Galland RB, see Shiralkar S. 327:371 

Gallefoss F, see Quist-Paulsen P. 327:1254 

gallstones, in custard (B Witcombe). 327:1270 

Galobart A, see Bertomeu A. 327:591 

gamma linolenic acid, atopic eczema, e$cacy and tolerability in 

adults and children (A Takwale, et al). 327:1385 (PC) 

Ganado, Tony Leone, Obituary (J Psaila). 327:993 

Ganstal AI, What is a good death? 327:1048 (L) 

Garattini L, see Garattini S. 327:1404 

Garattini S, et al, Drug sales in four European countries still differ. 


García-Vidal O, see Bertomeu A. 327:591 

Gardner G, Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland. 


Garland CF, More on preventing skin cancer. 327:1228 (L) 

Garner P, et al, Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis. 


Gask L, see Finch TL. 327:1205 

gastro-oesophageal cancers, surgery, mortality and morbidity 

(PM McCulloch, et al). 327:1192 (P) 

gastrointestinal cancers, identifying and managing low risk 

patients in general practice (MR Thompson, et al). 327:263 

(PC), 871 (L) 

gastrointestinal diseases, diagnosis and management of ischaemic 

disorders. 327:396 (L) 

Gatrad AR 

— et al, Our waste—their lifeline BMJ Careers 327:s12 (12 July 

2003) 

— et al, Palliative care needs of minorities. 327:176 (E), 1049 (L) 

— see Rostill J BMJ Careers 327:s12 (12 July 2003) 

Gaubert D, see Gallagher F. 327:1050 

Gavin A, see Murray L. 327:534 

Gazzard B, see Stebbing J. 327:497 

Gedde-Dahl A, see Waage IM. 327:1384 

Geddes JR, see Rendell JM. 327:395 

Geller RJ, Communicating risk. 327:1403 (L) 

General Medical Council 

— The Doctors’ Tale: Professionalism and Public Trust (Irvine) 


— failings left Shipman’s patients unprotected (C Dyer). 


— medical students with disabilities (P Rubin) BMJ Careers 


— radical registration changes proposed (R MacDonald). 


— reforms, still seen as “doctors’ club” (C White). 327:639 (N) 

general practice see also primary care trusts; primary health care 

— alcohol drinking, brief intervention trials targeting excessive 

drinkers (A Beich, et al) 327:536 (PC) (correction, 328:96) 

— asthma in children, proactive care (NJ Glasgow, et al). 


— BMJ Learning launch (K Walsh, et al). 327:1064 (E) 

— Building on the Best (K Burke). 327:1363 (N) 

— change management: qualitative case studies in primary care 

trusts (MN Marshall, et al). 327:599 (PC) 

— contract, BMA negotiations review (O Dyer). 327:412 (N) 

— depression, screening with two verbally asked questions (B 

Arroll, et al). 327:1144 (PC) 

— education 

——evaluation of extended training in Northern Ireland: qualitative 

study (CH Sibbett, et al). 327:971 (LP) 

——higher professional education scheme (S Lasker) (Have 

you heard about...) BMJ Careers 327:s118 (11 October 

2003) 

— gastrointestinal cancers, identifying and managing low risk 

patients (MR Thompson, et al). 327:263 (PC), 871 (L) 

— David Haslam 

——(G Easton) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s46 (9 August 

2003) 

——interview (G Easton) BMJ Careers 327:s41 (9 August 

2003) 

— Jewish “village” practice (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


— lipid lowering drugs, e#ectiveness in reducing serum cholesterol 

concentration. 327:50 (L), 51 (L) 

— neck pain, cost e#ectiveness comparison of physiotherapy, 

manual therapy and GP care. 327:395 (L) 

— Netherlands, requests for euthanasia: trend analysis (RL 

Marquet, et al). 327:201 (PC) 

— New Zealand, medical decisions at end of life made by GPs 

(K Mitchell, et al). 327:202 (PC) 

— patient advisers for surgeries (L Eaton). 327:885 (N) 

— pigmented skin lesions, diagnostic aid evaluation (DR 

English, et al). 327:375 (PC), 1167 (L) 

— registrars, useful experience for hospital work (J Goulding) 

(The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s174 (29 November 

2003) 

— retention (A Thornett, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s145 (8 


— Scotland (B Reith) BMJ Careers 327:s147 (8 November 

2003) 

— screening, how many conditions can a GP screen for? (C Del 

Mar, et al). 327:1117 (E) 

— sexual dysfunction cross sectional study (I Nazareth, et al). 

327:423 (PC), 1109 (L), 1110 (L) 

— special interest in mental health (L Pogue) BMJ Careers 


— Sweet Medicine ITV1 (T Greenhalgh) (TV). 327:627 (R) 

— US, training (M Punukollu) BMJ Careers 327:s150 (8 


— what it’s really like at the coalface (J Stokes) (Personal view). 


general practitioners see also doctors 

— genetics and (F Kavalier, et al). 327:2 (E) 

— occupational health professionals and (J Beach, et al). 


— performance, protest at publicity plans (O Dyer). 327:830 

(N) 

— special clinical interests (R Rosen, et al). 327:460 (E), 933 (L) 

genetic testing 

— better evaluation of pharmacogenetic tests (R Moynihan). 


— Germany, teacher was refused job because relatives have 

Huntington’s disease (J Burgermeister). 327:827 (N) 

genetics, medical 

— breast and ovarian cancer genetic link in non-inherited cases 

(S Mayor). 327:1247 (N) 

— colon cancers, test can show whether drugs will work (D 

Spurgeon). 327:183 (N) 

— databank: ethics framework (K Godfrey). 327:700 (N) 

— GPs and (F Kavalier, et al). 327:2 (E) 

genomic imprinting, cause of disease (J Clayton-Smith). 


George C, The Doctors’ Tale (Books). 327:814 (R) 

Geraghty M, see Fryers PT. 327:287 

Gerarduzzi T, see Barbi E. 327:681 

Germany see also Europe 

— baby food company under manslaughter investigation (J 

Burgermeister). 327:1186 (N) 

— cancer vaccine paper withdrawn (A Tu#s). 327:637 (N) 

— drugs, head of medicines body likens HRT to thalidomide (J 


— education, training shortened (A Tu#s). 327:1127 (N) 

— euthanasia, doctor investigated for killing 76 patients (A 

Tu#s). 327:830 (N) 

— genetics, teacher refused job because relatives have Huntington’s 

disease (J Burgermeister). 327:827 (N) 

— health services 

——controversial deal (J Burgermeister). 327:250 (N) 

——EU ruling means will need more doctors (A Tu#s). 


——visit charge (A Tu#s). 327:1307 (N) 

— sta$ng, doctors shun eastern states (A Tu#s). 327:949 (N) 

— tobacco, anti-smoking ads attacked (A Tu#s). 327:360 (N) 

— working abroad (S Bull) BMJ Careers 327:s75 (6 September 

2003) 

Getz L, et al, Is opportunistic disease prevention in the consultation 

ethically justi®able? 327:498 (ED), 989 (L) 

Ghilbert P, see Unger J-P. 327:450 

Gibb DM, et al, Decline in mortality, AIDS, and hospital admissions 

in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in the United 

Kingdom and Ireland. 327:1019 (P) 

Gibbons AJ, et al, Audit for doctors: how to do it BMJ Careers 


Gibbons, Andrew Robert, Obituary (C Bamford). 327:453 

Gibbons, Leslie Alfred, Obituary (G Gibbons). 327:1231 

Gibbs, Trevor, (D Cohen) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s70 (30 

August 2003) 

Gigerenzer G, et al, Simple tools for understanding risks: from 

innumeracy to insight. 327:741 (ED), 1403 (L) 

Gilbert C, et al, Blindness in children. 327:760 (E) 

Giles LG, Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents. 


Gil®llan IS, Ranking heart surgeons has pitfalls. 327:107 (L) 

Gilg JA, see Owen CG. 327:1189 

Gill S, see Etminan M. 327:128 

Gillett GR, In search of a good death. 327:225 (L) 

Gilmore A 

— Tobacco companies start price war in Poland to o#set tax 

rises. 327:948 (N) 

10 FIN-GIL July−December 2003

— see McKee M. 327:811 

GiViTI group (Gruppo italiano per la Valutazione degli 

interventi in Terapia Intensiva), see Simini B. 327:79 

Gladwin J, see Clarke A. 327:221 

Glare P, et al, A systematic review of physicians’ survival predictions 

in terminally ill cancer patients. 327:195 (P), 1048 (L) 

Glaser JH, Passive smoking. 327:502 (L) 

Glasgow coma scale, di#erent versions in British hospitals: 

telephone survey (MF Wiese). 327:782 (P) 

Glasgow NJ, et al, Proactive asthma care in childhood: general 

practice based randomised controlled trial. 327:659 (PC), 

1229 (L) 

Glasziou P 

— see Del Mar C. 327:1117 

— see Pirozzo S. 327:967 

GlaxoSmithKline, new drugs plans (O Dyer). 327:1366 (N) 

Gledhill J, see Goodman R. 327:472 

global health see also developing countries; World Health Organization 

— awareness, Trevor Gibbs (D Cohen) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


— hunger increase (J Burgermeister). 327:1303 (N) 

— Mahmood Adil (R MacDonald) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


— mortality amenable to health care analysis (E Nolte, et al). 


— number of published systematic reviews and global burden of 

disease (GH Swingler, et al). 327:1083 (P) 

— partnership of universities of richer world with developing 

countries: New Year’s resolution (DJ Weatherall, et al). 


Glucksman, Ed, (C Hughes) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s158 (15 


glycaemic control, insulin induced lipohypertrophy and (TA 

Chowdhury, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:383 (C) 

Godfrey K, Genetic databank launches ethics framework. 


Godolphin W, The role of risk communication in shared decision 

making. 327:692 (E), 1403 (L), 1404 (L) 

Goebel F, see Haake M. 327:75 

Goenka N, et al, Tremor causing pseudoventricular tachycardia 


Gogi N, see Anwar R BMJ Careers 327:s153 (15 November 2003) 

Gold M, see Devlin N. 327:1061 

Goldacre MJ 

— et al, Case fatality rates for meningococcal disease in an English 

population, 1963-98: database study. 327:596 (P) 

— see Roberts SE. 327:771 

Golding I, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Goldrich MS, Images of war: patients’ best interests are 

paramount. 327:562 (L) 

Gompels MM, see Johnston SL. 327:227 

Gonzalez R, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1346 (L) 

Good Hope Hospital, franchising facts. 327:680 (L) 

Goodman CG, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Goodman R 

— et al, Child psychiatric disorder and relative age within school 

year: cross sectional survey of large population sample. 


— see Chalder T. 327:654 

Goody R, Caring for Uganda (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s29 (26 

July 2003) 

Goodyear-Smith F, see Arroll B. 327:1361 

Google, glossary (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:688 (L) 

Gordon M-M, see MacGregor MS. 327:1349 

Gore M, “I was too well brought up to say it". 327:1208 

Gorse SJ, Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising radiation. 


Gossage JA, et al, Pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurism 


Gotch F, see Stebbing J. 327:497 

Gottlieb S 

— Antiretroviral therapy increases risk of heart attack. 327:1186 

(N) 

— blockers and calcium antagonists equally e#ective for 

hypertension. 327:1305 (N) 

— Cardioprotective e#ects of aspirin compromised by other 

NSAIDs. 327:520 (N) 

— Exercise can cut risk of breast cancer. 327:640 (N) 

— Experts regret early cessation of anticancer drug trial. 


— Half of US doctors want national health insurance 

programme. 327:1187 (N) 

— HRT may increase risk of ovarian cancer. 327:767 (N) 

— Injury to bile duct during cholecystectomy nearly triples risk 

of death. 327:946 (N) 

— More frequent screening would improve detection of colon 

cancer. 327:70 (N) 

— Murderer can be forced to take medication to become sane 

enough to be executed. 327:889 (N) 

— New angiotensin receptor blocker is as e#ective as ACE 

inhibitor. 327:1123 (N) 

— Nitric oxide helps neonates with respiratory disorder. 


— Number of uninsured in the United States increases by 2.4m. 


— One in three US doctors don’t tell patients about services 

they can’t have. 327:123 (N) 

— Parathyroid hormone alone is as e#ective as combination in 

treating osteoporosis. 327:700 (N) (correction, 1165) 

— Rate of recall after breast cancer screening in the US is twice 

that in the UK. 327:948 (N) 

— Study shows poor reliability of prostate cancer test. 327:249 

(N), 750 (L) 

— US army investigates unrelated pneumonia cases in troops in 

Iraq. 327:358 (N) 

— US medical students opt for better life not better pay. 327:578 

(N) 

— US paediatricians call for checks for childhood obesity. 


Gould M 

— Group calls for agency to boost UK bioscience industry. 


— Moving to the moral high ground. 327:72 (N) 

— NHS launches English recruitment website. 327:1367 (N) 

— NHS star rating system is misleading, statisticians say. 


— NHS too target driven. 327:1127 (N) 

— Swifter action on suspensions could save £14m. 327:1065 

(N) 

Goulding J, The bene®ts of being a general practitioner (for a 

while) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s174 (29 


gout 


— colchicine (I Morris, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:1275 (C) 

— lifestyle? (Anonymous). 327:1433 

Gower-Thomas K, see Shiralkar S. 327:371 

Gowman N, see Dash P. 327:1339 

Grace C, see Chowdhury TA. 327:1059 

Graham, Ronald David, Obituary (A Graham, et al). 327:1231 

Granger, Allan Frederic ("Tommy"), Obituary (D Granger). 


Grant I, see Ramsden A BMJ Careers 327:s43 (9 August 2003) 

Grant P, My First MRCP Book (Books). 327:294 (R) 

grants, tips for research grants (N Petrie) BMJ Careers 327:s115 


Graske J, Improving the mental health of doctors BMJ Careers 


Gray NJ, et al, Cultural safety and the health of adolescents (Personal 

view). 327:457 (R) (correction, 556) 

Grayson AD, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Graz B, A case of “Alpine armailli’s apple hands syndrome". 


Greaves M, see Murray ET. 327:5 

Grech ED 

— ABC of interventional cardiology. Non-coronary percutaneous 

intervention. 327:97 (C) 

— see Gunn J. 327:150 

— see Philipp R. 327:43 

Green L, see El-Nimr G. 327:224 

Green PJ, Teaching materials should enhance the spoken word. 


Green S, see Assendelft W. 327:329 

Greenhalgh T 

— Carnival (Soundings). 327:349 (R) 

— Duty doctor (Soundings). 327:757 (R) 

— Evidence based vets (Soundings). 327:1175 (R) 

— Sweet Medicine (TV). 327:627 (R) 

Greening AP, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

Greenwell RM, Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in 

school year. 327:1286 (L) 

Greenwood DC, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Grein T, et al, Mortality among displaced former UNITA members 

and their families in Angola: a retrospective cluster 

survey. 327:650 (P) 

Gri$th M, A memorable patient. Cold comfort. 327:1225 

Gri$ths, Brian Rowland, Obituary (W Lewis). 327:1350 

Gri$ths F, Taking hormone replacement therapy. 327:820 (E) 

Gri$ths J, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Gri$ths M 

— Business travel abroad (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s38 (2 

August 2003) 

— Communicating risk. 327:1404 (L) 

— Creating time for yourself (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s86 

(13 September 2003) 

— Keeping fresh and motivated (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


— Raising your pro®le at work (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s108 


— Supporting your colleagues (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s14 

(12 July 2003) 

— Telephone skills (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s27 (26 July 

2003) 

Gri$ths PG, Dying for drugs. 327:343 (L) 

Grimshaw J, see McAuley LM. 327:106 

grommets, in water (M Clark). 327:46 

Groom L, see Coupland C. 327:593 

Gross, Al, inventor of pagers (F Smith). 327:719 

Grotte GJ, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Grove ML 

— Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising radiation. 


— Terminology for our times. 327:166 (L) 

Guerry S, Online learning (Tips on ...) BMJ Careers 327:s174 (29 


Guest CS, see Kelman CW. 327:1072 

guidelines 

— cardiovascular disease, European Society of Cardiology (S 


— diabetes treatment, NICE (A Iles). 327:520 (N) 


— socioeconomic evidence (R Aldrich, et al). 327:1283 (ED) 

Guinan, John Stanislaus, Obituary (MJ Guinan). 327:1171 

Guindon E, see Shibuya K. 327:154 

Gulf war see also war 

— trauma life support in con ict (J Clasper, et al). 327:1178 (E) 

Gulf war syndrome 

— amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in veterans (O Dyer). 327:766 

(N) 

— better, worse, or same cohort study (M Hotopf, et al). 


— cancer incidence among UK veterans: cohort study (GJ Macfarlane, 


— health consequences (D Clauw). 327:1357 (E) 

Gulland A 

— Consultants are closer to pay deal after winning concessions. 


— New patients’ forums are no substitute for community health 

councils, MPs say. 327:121 (N) 

— NHS sta# cheat to hit government targets, MPs say. 327:179 

(N), 680 (L) 

Gunn J, et al, ABC of interventional cardiology. New developments 

in percutaneous coronary intervention. 327:150 (C) 

Gupta R, et al, Increasing hospital admissions for systematic 

allergic disorders in England: analysis of national 

admissions data. 327:1142 (P) 

Gussekloo J, see de Craen AJM. 327:131 

Gustafsson F, see Svensson M. 327:1141 

Gutenstein M, A mixture of medication. 327:549 

Guyton, Arthur Clifton, Obituary (F Al-Daour). 327:625 

gynaecology, education, use of teaching associates for medical 

students (S Pickard, et al). 327:1389 (LP) 

gynaecomastia, tamoxifen treatment (HN Khan, et al). 327:301 

(E), 1050 (L) 

H 

Haahtela T, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

Haake M, et al, Extracorporeal shock wave therapy for plantar 

fasciitis: randomised controlled multicentre trial. 327:75 

(P), 870 (L) 

Habib AG, see Tambyah PA. 327:620 

Habiyambere V, see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

Hackshaw A, Passive smoking. 327:501 (L) 

Haddon M, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 


Hadjikoutis S 

— et al, Drug points. Weight loss associated with levetiracetam. 


— see Pickersgill T BMJ Careers 327:s107 (4 October 2003) 

Hadley, Lorraine, frozen embryos case lost (C Dyer). 327:831 

(N) 

haemochromatosis, longevity and carrying C282Y mutation for 

haemochromatosis on the HFE gene (H Coppin, et al). 


haemorrhoids, management: concordance (PJ Nisar, et al). 


Haggerty JL, et al, Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review. 


Haines A, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Hajek P, see McRobbie H. 327:811 

Hale AS, Pharmacological heterogeneity limits antidepressant 

study. 327:289 (L) 

Hale M, see Gallagher F. 327:1050 

Hall A, see Sedgwick P. 327:694 

Hall C, see Fryers PT. 327:287 

Hall G, et al, Health bene®ts of swimming pools in remote Aboriginal 

communities. 327:407 (E) 

Hall WD, et al, Antidepressant prescribing and suicide. 327:289 

(L) (correction, 586) 

Hallas J, see Lassen A. 327:603 

Halligan, Aidan, (R MacDonald) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s94 


haloperidol, rapid tranquillisation for agitated emergency 

patients: comparison with midazolam (TREC Collaborative 

Group). 327:708 (P) 

Halvorson GC, et al, Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and 

More Accountable Health Care (Books). 327:109 (R) 

Ham C 

— et al, Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS, Kaiser Permanente, 

and the US Medicare programme: analysis of routine data. 


— see Berwick D. 327:1421 

— see McLeod H. 327:1147 

Hamilton A, A paper that changed my practice. Asking the right 

question. 327:378 

Hamilton-Fairley D, et al, ABC of subfertility. Anovulation. 


Hammond C, see Bridson J. 327:1159 

Hanciles S, see Smeeth L. 327:1027 

hand washing, soap usage by primary care team (A Stone) (Ward 

round). 327:1453 

Handan D, see Tam CC. 327:1347 

handicapped see under disabled people 

Handley AJ, see Liddle R. 327:1216 

hands, “Alpine armailli’s apple hands syndrome” (B Graz). 


Hands AH, see Atapattu PCD. 327:1338 

handwriting, legibly (C Hughes) BMJ Careers 327:s67 (30 

August 2003) 

Hanley JA, et al, How long did their hearts go on? A Titanic study 

(Hazardous journeys). 327:1457 

harassment see bullying 

Harding P, A memorable patient. Cyril. 327:609 

Hardman, Eric William, Obituary (A Hardman). 327:625 

Hardy J, see Rees E. 327:198 

HARLOT plc, see Sackett DL. 327:1442 

Harms C, see Kindler CH. 327:931 

Harnden A, see Sharma R. 327:668, 720, 916 

Harper J, see Witham M BMJ Careers 327:s172 (29 November 

2003) 

Harries M, ABC of resuscitation. Near drowning. 327:1336 (C) 

Harries R, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

Harris E, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Harris, John, (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s36 (2 August 2003) 

Harris R, see Corrie P. 327:320 

Harrison R, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Harrison, Sir Donald, Obituary (C Richmond). 327:228 

Hart R, ABC of subfertility. Unexplained infertility, endometriosis, 

and ®broids. 327:721 (C) 

Hartmanns solution, cryoprecipitate leakage causes clot (S 

Eason, et al) (Minerva). 327:758 (R) 

Harvey JE, see Rossdale M. 327:393 

Harvey, Malcolm Smith, Obituary (R Harvey). 327:754 

Harwood M, see McPherson KM. 327:443 

Haslam, David 

— (G Easton) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s46 (9 August 2003) 

— interview (G Easton) BMJ Careers 327:s41 (9 August 2003) 

Hassim, Abu Mustapha, Obituary (C Lucas). 327:1350 

Hat®eld, Frank Edward Sta#ord, Obituary (E Hat®eld). 


Hauri AM, see Hutin YJF. 327:1075 

Hausdorf J, see Haake M. 327:75 

Havranek EP, see Curtis JP. 327:1322 

Hawkes S, et al, Partner noti®cation for the control of sexually 

transmitted infections. 327:633 (E) 

Hawthorne G 

— et al, Outcome of pregnancy in diabetic women in northeast 

En gland and in Norway, 1994-7: 321:730 (P) (RETRAC- 

TION, 327:905). 929 (L) 

— et al, Retraction of paper on maternal diabetes. 327:929 (L) 


Hawton K, et al, Helping people bereaved by suicide. 327:177 (E) 

Hay A, see Wong J. 327:392 

Hay P 


Putting the research into practice. 327:381 (C) 

— see Oakeshott P. 327:910 

Hayden D, Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis 


Hayes P, see Weiler D. 327:1328 

hayfever, enzyme potentiated desensitisation (MJ Radcli#e, et al). 

327:251 (P) (correction, 649), 1229 (L) 

Hayman GR, et al, Knowledge about using auto-injectable 

adrenaline: review of patients’ case notes and interviews 

with general practitioners. 327:1328 (PC) 

He K, et al, Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke in male US 

healthcare professionals: 14 year prospective cohort study. 


head injuries, managing agitation and aggression after (S 

Fleminger). 327:4 (E) 

Head J, see Kivamäki M. 327:364 

Head S, Smoke free hospitals. 327:104 (L), 811 (L) 

headache, Reducing the burden of Headache (Walling) (Books). 


heading, brain injuries in soccer (PR McCrory). 327:351 (E), 

1168 (L) 

health, sickness absence as global measure of health: mortality 

evidence from Whitehall II prospective cohort (M 

Kivimäki, et al). 327:364 (P) 

GIV-HEA 11

health authorities, cannot force doctors to act against conscience 

(C Dyer). 327:1187 (N) 

health funding, UK, increasing faster than other public spending 

(A Iles). 327:769 (N) 

health inequalities see inequalities in health 

health information, Africa, Ptolemy project: scalable model (M 

Beveridge, et al). 327:790 (IP) (correction, 1016) 

health services 

— indigenous peoples (M Durie). 327:408 (E), 988 (L) 

— research 

——overview (J Lomas). 327:1301 (E) 

——increasing impact (P Dash, et al). 327:1339 (ED) 

health services accessibility, renal transplantation in Scotland 

(GC Oniscu, et al). 327:1261 (P) 

health services for the elderly see also elderly; long-term care 

— cautionary tale (P Hettiaratchy) (Personal view). 327:1175 (R) 

— diabetes wards for Struldbruggs (D Kerr) (Ward round). 


health sta$ng, London, hospitals must use city’s appeal to tackle 

workforce shortages (D Singh). 327:70 (N) 

health status see also inequalities in health 

— indigenous peoples (I Ring, et al). 327:404 (E), 989 (L) 

Healy D, The Hour of Our Death (Books). 327:230 (R) 

hearing disorders 

— thrifty phenotype hypothesis and (M-L Barrenäs, et al) 

(Research pointers). 327:1199 (P) 

— whispered voice test: systematic review (S Pirozzo, et al). 


Hearn BJ, Involving children is important. 327:451 (L) 

heart arrest 

— automated external de®brillator use by ®rst responders (AP 

van Alem, et al). 327:1312 (P) 

— cost e#ectiveness of public place de®brillators in improving 

survival (A Walker, et al). 327:1316 (P) 

heart diseases 

— children, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:508 (R) 

— hormone replacement therapy, does not prevent (JH Tanne). 


— vitamin supplements, no reduction (D Josefson). 327:70 (N) 

heart failure 

— NICE guidelines (S Mayor). 327:179 (N), 932 (L) 

— polypharmacy and comorbidity (FA Masoudi, et al). 327:513 

(E) 

— prognosis 

——with preserved left ventricular systolic function (PA Mac- 

Carthy, et al). 327:78 (P) 

——UK South Asian and white patients newly admitted to 

hospital (HM Blackledge, et al). 327:526 (P), 1405 (L), 

1406 (L) 

heart pacemakers, US manufacturer faces UK lawsuit (O Dyer). 


heat wave see also climate 

— France 

——death rates rise (A Dorozynski). 327:411 (N) 

——media survey (L Boyer, et al) (The Press). 327:876 (R) 

——new care plans announced (B Spurgeon). 327:1127 (N) 

— mortality (WR Keatinge). 327:512 (E), 1228 (L) 

— stroke risk (JH Tanne). 327:887 (N) 

Heath I 

— A wolf in sheep’s clothing: a critical look at the ethics of drug 

taking. 327:856 (ED) 

— see Nilsson B. 327:1057 

— see Thompson MR. 327:263, 871 

Hebert K 

— Desert marathon madness (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s69 (30 

August 2003) 

— Working for a winning team (Pro®le) BMJ Career 327:s13 (12 

July 2003) 

Hedley AJ, et al, Passive smoking. 327:502 (L) 

Heidegger T, et al, Consistency in anaesthetic care. 327:931 (L) 

Heintz APM 

— see Roovers J-PWR. 327:774 

— see Swarte NB. 327:189 

Helicobacter pylori 

— dyspepsia and, test and treat v. omeprazole treatment. 


— eradication, antisecretory drugs (A Lassen, et al). 327:603 

(PC) 


Heller RF 

— et al, Communicating risks at the population level: application 

of population impact numbers 327:1162 (ED) (correction, 

328:35) 

— see Lyratzopoulos G. 327:1406 

helminthic infections, (S Awasthi, et al). 327:431 (C) 

Helsby, William George ("Bill"), Obituary (M Fryer). 327:993 

Hemingway H, et al, Prognosis of angina with and without a 

diagnosis: 11 year follow up in the Whitehall II prospective 

cohort study. 327:895 (P) 

Hemminki E, see Wu Z. 327:1319 

Henderson J, see Clarke MP. 327:1251 

Henderson L, see Suvarna R. 327:1454 

Henderson M, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Hendrick V, Treatment of postnatal depression. 327:1003 (E) 

Hendriks VM, see van den Brink W. 327:310 

Hense H-W, Risk factor scoring for coronary heart disease. 


hepatitis C, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:688 (L) 

hepatotoxicity, nimesulide and other non-steroidal antiin 

ammatory drugs (G Traversa, et al). 327:18 (P) 

Hepburn K, Endpiece. It’s never the time. 327:860 

herbal medicine see also alternative medicine 

— context (E Ernst). 327:881 (E) 

Herbert K, Working for a winning team (Pro®le) BMJ Career 


Herbert RD, see Pengel LHM. 327:323 

hernia, congenital diaphragmatic hernia in 5 year old boy (A 

Morjaria, et al) (Minerva). 327:1236 (R) (correction, 1381) 

heroin see also drug abuse; methadone 

— loss of tolerance and overdose mortality after inpatient opiate 

detoxi®cation. 327:393 (L) 

— prescriptions, value is uncertain (S Mayor). 327:638 (N) 

heroin dependence, medical prescription to treatment resistant 

addicts (W van den Brink, et al). 327:310 (P) (correction, 

724) 

Herold M, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Herring A, Three minute life BMJ Careers 327:s198 (20-27 


Hesketh K, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Hetlevik I, see Getz L. 327:498 

Hettiaratchy P, Caring for the elderly: a cautionary tale (Personal 


Hewertson J, see Rayment R. 327:331 

Hey E, Suspected child abuse: the potential for justice to 

miscarry. 327:299 (E), 1109 (L) 

Hey K, see Yudkin P. 327:28 

Heymann T, see Yoong KKY. 327:680 

Hickey, Robert Patrick, Obituary (AV Fisher). 327:506 

Higgins JPT, et al, Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses. 


Higginson IJ 

— et al, Children and young people who die from cancer: epidemiology 

and place of death in England (1995-9). 327:478 (P) 

— see Manistry C. 327:614 

Higgs AG, Adherence to advance directives. 327:1406 (L) 

Higgs R, et al, Telephone consultation requires appropriate training. 


high density lipoprotein cholesterol, liver damage protective 

e#ects (JT Salonen) (Research pointers). 327:1082 (P) 

high heeled shoes, ruled out as risk factor in knee osteoarthritis 

(R Dobson). 327:768 (N) 

Hildebrandt PR, see Svensson M. 327:1141 

Hilmi, Ghazi, Obituary (B Al-Shihabi). 327:625 

Hind D, et al, Ultrasonic locating devices for central venous cannulation: 

meta-analysis. 327:361 (P) 

Hinman RS, et al, E$cacy of knee tape in the management of 

osteoarthritis of the knee: blinded randomised controlled 

trial. 327:135 (PC) 

Hintzen RQ, see Buljevac D. 327:646 

Hippisley-Cox J 

— Electronic patient records in primary care. 327:622 (L) 

— et al,E#ectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice. 


— et al, The electronic patient record in primary care— 

regression or progression? A cross sectional study 326:1439 

(IP) (correction, 327:483) 

— see Coupland C. 327:593 

Hirsh A, ABC of subfertility. Male subfertility. 327:669 (C) 


Hirst R, Life as a doctor with diabetes BMJ Careers 327:s181 (6 


history of medicine 

— fortunes of war. A memorable patient (BG Jones, et al). 


— Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle 

Ages to the Enlightenment (French) (Books). 327:935 (R) 

— What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern Medicine (T 

Jackson) (TV). 327:1056 (R) 

history taking, lesson (C Rundle). 327:545 (correction, 1043) 

HIV see also acquired immunode®ciency syndrome 

— mortality, decline in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in 

UK and Ireland (DM Gibb, et al). 327:1019 (P) 

— prevention. 327:563 (L) 

— testing, refugee access (D Singh). 327:124 (N) 

HIV infections 

— management, tackling in resource poor countries (JS 

Mukherjee, et al). 327:1104 (ED) 

— oral hairy leukoplakia (M Kingston, et al) (Minerva). 


— reframing HIV and AIDS (L Stabinski, et al). 327:1101 (ED) 

— UK, 50 000 adults (S Pincock). 327:1245 (N) 

Ho L-M, see Leung GM. 327:1090 

Hobbins SM, see Qureshi SA BMJ Careers 327:s3 (5 July 2003) 

Hodson J, et al, Predictors of postmenopausal osteoporosis. 


Hoes AW, see Zwart S. 327:1324 

Hoey A, see Ellner A. 327:303 

Hofberg K, et al, His and hers: the story of a consultant job share 

(The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s142 (1 November 

2003) 

Holbrook J, The criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes. 


Holder W, see Beveridge M. 327:790 

Holgate ST 

— see Bjermer L. 327:891 

— see Radcli#e MJ.327:251 

holistic health, bakery (E Ernst). 327:1285 

Holm NV, see Tomassini C. 327:373 

Holm S, see Ashcroft B. 327:584 

Holman CDJ, see Kelman CW. 327:1072 

home birth, Commons committee calls for more choice (U 

Tayal). 327:249 (N) 

Home Evaluation of Stroke Induced Aid Study Group, see Boter 

H. 327:284 

homeless persons 

— Denmark, mortality among hostel users in Copenhagen (M 

Nordentoft, et al). 327:81 (PC) 

— on internet (U Tayal) (Website of the week). 327:110 (R) 

— working with (B Brewer) BMJ Careers 327:s187 (13 December 

2003) 

Hong Kong see also Asia 

— WHO spotlight after u outbreak (J Parry). 327:308 (N) 

Hood K 

— see Butler CC. 327:1088 

— see Edwards A. 327:703 

Hop WCJ, see Buljevac D. 327:646 

Hope-Simpson, Robert Edgar, Obituary (DP Gray). 327:1111 

Horgan K, see Dodwell D. 327:1062 

Horlick-Jones T, see Alaszewski A. 327:728 

hormone replacement therapy 

— breast cancers and 

——German head likens to thalidomide (J Burgermeister). 


——increases risk (S Mayor). 327:359 (N) 

——media survey (J Clark). 327:400 (R) 

— changes after report from Women’s Health Initiative (B Lawton, 

et al). 327:845 PC) 

— heart diseases, HRT does not prevent (JH Tanne). 327:359 

(N) 

— long term use of combined HRT doubles cancer risk (D 

Spurgeon). 327:9 (N) 

— osteoporosis, no longer ®rst choice (D Singh). 327:1364 (N) 

— ovarian cancer risk (S Gottlieb). 327:767 (N) 

— patient cooperation (F Gri$ths). 327:820 (E) 

— prediction test (S Mayor). 327:1068 (N) 

— specialists clarify when bene®ts outweigh risks (S Mayor). 


— US, FDA advice (D Josefson). 327:641 (N) 

Hornett, John Edward, Obituary (GL Kennedy). 327:754 

Horniman, Euan, Obituary (W Jory). 327:293 

Horrobin, David, Obituary (C Richmond) 326:885 (apology, 


Horta BL, see Victora CG. 327:901 

Horton, Denys ("Peter"), Obituary (R Horton). 327:453 

Horton, Ian Alfred, Obituary (GDP Wallen). 327:1171 

Horton R 

— Passive smoking. 327:503 (L) 


Medicine (Books). 327:399 (R) 

hospitals see also National Health Service 

— CHI ratings rise (Z Kmietowicz). 327:119 (N) 

— “disa#fection” room (RD Price, et al). 327:1464 

— smoke free hospitals. 327:104 (L), 811 (L) 

hospitals, psychiatric, e#ective for acute day care? (M Marshall). 


Hotchkiss K, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

Hotopf M 

— et al, Gulf war illness—better, worse, or just the same? A 


— et al, Why do children have chronic abdominal pain, and what 

happens to them when they grow up? Population based 

cohort study 316:1196 (P) (correction, 327:500) 


— see Macfarlane GJ. 327:1373 

Houghton A, Getting that all important job: part 3 BMJ Careers 


Houghton, Arnold Cecil, Obituary (G Houghton). 327:1053 

Houghton C, see Borrill Z. 327:1136 

Houghton T, et al, ABC of interventional cardiology. Implantable 

devices for treating tachyarrhythmias. 327:333 (C) 

house o$cers, Germany (S Bull) BMJ Careers 327:s75 (6 


Houston H, see Butler CC. 327:1088 

Houston M, Ireland leads the way for Europe in banning smoking 

in the workplace. 327:522 (N) 

Houston N, see Taylor F BMJ Careers 327:s116 (11 October 

2003) 

Howard A, see Beveridge M. 327:790 

Howard, Jackie, implementation of EU Working Time Directive 

(R MacDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s9 (12 July 2003) 

Howe A, et al, Involving patients in medical education. 327:326 

(LP), 1110 (L) 

Howe JG, Black report remains helpful to government. 327:752 

(L) 

Howe, Wilfred, Obituary (D McKinlay, et al). 327:874 

Howell A, see Baum M. 327:1050 

Høyer CCS, see Christensen EF. 327:533 

Hrisos S, see Clarke MP. 327:1251 

Hsieh C-C, see Tamimi RM. 327:622 

Hubbard R, see Jackson H. 327:653 

Hudson M, see Glare P. 327:195 

Hughes C 

— Sailing into a new specialty (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s158 


— Thou shalt write legibly BMJ Careers 327:s67 (30 August 

2003) 

— et al, Health needs of women who have sex with women. 


Hughes D, see Keeling P. 327:27 

Hughes FA, see Gray NJ. 327:457 

Hull L, see Hotopf M. 327:1370 

Hull R, see Butler W. 327:344 

human body, festive tree decoration (A Ferriman). 327:1305 (N) 

human experimentation, The Abuse of Man: An Illustrated History 

of Dubious Medical Experimentation (Weyers) (Books). 


Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority see also in vitro 

fertilisation 

— “egg giving” review (O Dyer). 327:250 (N), 872 (L) 

— sex selection ban (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1123 (N) 

human milk, still best. 327:683 (L) 

human papillomavirus virus, cervical screening, comparison with 

conventional cervical smear, monolayer cytology and HPV 

DNA testing. 327:161 (L), 162 (L) 

human rights see also ethics 

— Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (R Chew) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s173 


— Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on 

the Poor (Farmer) (Books). 327:1232 (R) 

— unjusti®ed seclusion of psychiatric patients (C Dyer). 


human tissue 

— informed consent (P Furness). 327:759 (E) 

— UK bill will regulate retention (C Dyer). 327:1304 (N) 

Humana, German baby food company under manslaughter 

investigation (J Burgermeister). 327:1186 (N) 

Humanism, funeral o$ciant (R Fletcher). 327:748, 1169 (L) 

humanitarian aid 

— hospital equipment (AR Gatrad, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s12 

(12 July 2003) 

— Liberia, agency warning (P Moszynski). 327:245 (N) 

— organising international humanitarian and health work (R 

McDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s121 (18 October 2003) 

humour, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:1293 (R) 

Humzah MD, Diagnosing pigmented skin lesions in general 


Hunt K, see Townsend A. 327:837 

Hunt S, et al, Self reports in research with non-English speakers. 


Hunter DJ, The Wanless report and public health. 327:573 (E) 

Hunter R, Emergency medicine in a cancer hospital. 327:103 

Huntington’s disease, Germany, teacher refused job because 

relatives have it (J Burgermeister). 327:827 (N) 

Hurley R, Fear of imminent death. 327:200 

Hurst SA, et al, Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland. 


Husemann Y, see Heidegger T. 327:931 

Hutin YJF, et al, Use of injections in healthcare settings 

worldwide, 2000: literature review and regional estimates. 


Hyder AA, Third world brain drain. 327:929 (L) 

hydralazine, severe hypertension in pregnancy treatment: 

meta-analysis (LA Magee, et al). 327:955 (P) 

hyperglycaemia, spurious hyperglycaemia and icodextrin in peritoneal 

dialysis uid (SG Riley, et al) (Lesson of the week). 


hyperkalaemia, spironolactone for congestive heart failure: retrospective 

study (M Svensson, et al). 327:1141 (P) 

hyperparathyroidism, parathyroid surgery and (P Vestergaard, et 


hypertension see also blood pressure 

— Africa, management (S Mayor). 327:1305 (N) 

— blockers v. calcium antagonists (S Gottlieb). 327:1305 (N) 

— blood glucose increase during antihypertensive treatment as 

predictor of myocardial infarction. 327:290 (L) 

— elderly, prevalence (AJM de Craen, et al). 327:131 (P) 

— pregnancy, hydralazine in treatment: meta-analysis (LA 

Magee, et al). 327:955 (P) 

— thiazides could achieve major cost savings (S Mayor). 


— US, increasing (JH Tanne). 327:120 (N) 

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hyponatraemia, uid overconsumption by athletes (TD Noakes). 


Hyppönen E, et al, E#ects of grandmothers’ smoking in 

pregnancy on birth weight: intergenerational cohort study. 


hysterectomy 

— menorrhagia treatments (A Lethaby). 327:1243 (E) 

— sexual wellbeing and (J-PWR Roovers, et al). 327:774 (P) 

Hysterectomy Vaginal versus Abdominal study group, see 

Roovers J-PWR. 327:774 

I 

ibuprofen 

— myocardial infarction 


——combination with aspirin mortality cohort study (JP Curtis, 


ice hockey, brain injuries (D Spurgeon). 327:249 (N) 

Ichikawa M, see Shinji N. 327:1093 

Ig Nobel prizes, study of London taxi drivers wins prize (J Lenzer). 


Iles A 

— Animal (Theatre). 327:687 (R) 

— A cigarette by any other name kills just as well. 327:701 (N) 

— The Good Doctor (Books). 327:994 (R) 

— NICE issues guidance on diabetes treatments. 327:520 (N) 

— Pilot schemes to screen for fragile X syndrome to be considered. 


— Population (Website of the week). 327:628 (R) 

— Spending on UK health care is increasing faster than other 

public spending. 327:769 (N) 

Ili#e S,et al, Communicating risk. 327:1403 (L) 

imaging, VOMIT (victims of modern imaging technology). 


immunomodulatory drugs see also drugs 

— psoriasis (W-H Boehncke). 327:634 (E) 

immunonutrition, bene®cial e#ects in surgical patients (PC Calder). 

327:117 (E), 682 (L), 683 (L) 

Imperial Tobacco, smoking and lung cancer link denial planned 


Improving Working Lives, Eric Waters (R MacDonald) (Pro®le) 


in vitro fertilisation see also Human Fertilisation and Embryology 

Authority 

— Ian Craft, accuses BBC of unethical journalism (O Dyer). 


— further advances: ABC of subfertility (S Pickering, et al). 


— general principles: ABC of subfertility (P Rowell, et al). 


— genomic imprinting as cause of disease (J Clayton-Smith). 


— and intracytoplasmic sperm injection: ABC of subfertility (P 

Braude, et al). 327:852 (C) 

— local purchasers’ decisions not NICE (RE Ashcroft). 327:511 

(E), 1226 (L) 

— problems: ABC of subfertility (P Braude, et al). 327:920 (C) 

— sperm banks, behavioural psychology of users (A Pacey) (Personal 


— sperm removal from dead men: Israel (J Siegel-Itzkovich). 


— UK law: ABC of subfertility (P Braude, et al). 327:978 (C) 

— women lose legal ®ght to use frozen embryos (C Dyer). 


incontinence, faecal see faecal incontinence 

Ind T, Cervical cancer screening. 327:161 (L) 

India see also Asia 

— AIDS 

——HIV cases rising sharply (S Kumar). 327:245 (N) 

——lessons from Africa. 327:562 (L), 563 (L) 

— asbestos poisoning cover up by doctors (G Mudur). 327:248 

(N) 

— doctors prescribe unapproved fertility drug (G Mudur). 


— fetal development and adult adiposity: India (AM Prentice). 


— impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on 

early infant mortality (L Rahmathullah, et al). 327:254 (P) 

— indigenous peoples. 327:988 (L) 

— infant mortality, sex balance (R Khanna, et al). 327:126 (P), 

1169 (L) 

— infertility drugs (G Mudur). 327:768 (N) 

— neonatal deaths hamper targets (G Mudur). 327:1249 (N) 

— sex selection, ratio of girls to boys declines (S Kumar). 


indigenous peoples see also ethnic groups; racial discrimination 


——overview: changing pattern of ill health (S Foliaki, et al). 


——overview: de®nition, experience, or world view (C 

Cunningham, et al). 327:403 (E) 

——overview: health status (I Ring, et al). 327:404 (E), 989 (L) 

——Aboriginal children’s hearing loss (M Sweet). 327:413 (N) 

——Australia 

——sustaining better diabetes care in remote communities (R 

McDermott, et al). 327:428 (Q) 

——Mark Wenitong interview (M Sweet). 327:414 (N) 

——Canada, research on Aborigines’ health needs (TK 

Young). 327:419 (P) 

——cultural safety and adolescent health (NJ Gray, et al). 

327:457 (R) (correction, 556) 

——diabetes prevention and control in Paci®c people (S Foliaki, 

et al). 327:437 (ED) 

——health bene®ts of swimming pools in remote Aboriginal 

communities (G Hall, et al). 327:407 (E) 

——health research and indigenous health (C Cunningham, et 


——on internet (U Tayal) (Website of the week). 327:456 (R) 

——New Zealand 

——ethnicity, equity, and quality (KM McPherson, et al). 


——tribal health policy (T Turia) (Personal view). 327:456 (R) 

——providing health services (M Durie). 327:408 (E), 988 (L) 

——UN policy fails to tackle (U Tayal). 327:413 (N) 

——A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the 

Extinguishment of the Innu (Samson) (Books). 327:455 (R) 

——Whale Rider (U Tayal) (Film). 327:455 (R) 

induction courses, EU doctors (Y-L Ong, et al) BMJ Careers 


inequalities in health see also health status 

— Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches (Davey Smith, ed) 



— New Zealand, ethnicity, equity, and quality (KM McPherson, 


infant food 

— Germany, company under manslaughter investigation (J 


— saving expressed milk. Q&A (PCD Atapattu, et al). 327:1338 

infant milk formulas see also breast feeding 

— SMA Nutrition ®ned for advertising direct to consumers (C 

Laurent). 327:307 (N) 

infant mortality 

— Bangladesh, David Sack interview (G Watts). 327:1308 (N) 

— China, rural perinatal mortality retrospective cohort study (Z 

Wu, et al). 327:1319 (P) 

— India 

——impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A 

(L Rahmathullah, et al). 327:254 (P) 

——neonatal deaths hamper targets (G Mudur). 327:1249 (N) 

——sex balance (R Khanna, et al). 327:126 (P), 1169 (L) 

infant, premature 

— interpregnancy interval and (GCS Smith, et al). 327:313 (P) 


— survival tables for prediction. 327:872 (L) 

infection control, Lords committee warns of gaps in measures (L 

Eaton). 327:120 (N) 

infertility 

— India, doctors prescribe unapproved drug (G Mudur). 


— intractable: ABC of subfertility (A Bagshawe, et al). 327:1098 

(C) 

— UK college warns against “unsound tests” (D Singh). 


infertility, male see also Viagra 

— ABC of subfertility (A Hirsh). 327:669 (C) (correction, 1165) 

influenza 

— Hong Kong, WHO spotlight after outbreak (J Parry). 327:308 

(N) 

— Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist’s Search for a Killer Virus 

(Duncan) (Books). 327:687 (R) 

— prevention and treatment, neuraminidase inhibitors. 327:105 

(L) 

influenza vaccine, children have been neglected (O Dyer). 


information systems see also computers 

— South Africa, hard lessons still to be learnt. 327:164 (L), 165 

(L) 

informed consent see also ethics, medical 

— AIDS, inquiry into HIV test without consent (P Sidley). 


— clinical trials, ethics from a bayesian and decision analytic 

perspective. 327:105 (L) 

— in uence of law on risk and (DJ Mazur). 327:731 (ED) 

— making patient centred (J Bridson, et al). 327:1159 (ED) 

— modi®ed procedure: consent to postponed information (H 

Boter, et al). 327:284 (ED) 

— new form designed for release of medical records (C Dyer). 


— novel process for research in dying patients unable to give 

consent (E Rees, et al). 327:198 (P) 

— postmortems, obtaining consent (MB McDermott). 327:804 

(ED) 



— strategies to help patients understand risks (J Paling). 327:745 

(ED) 

— UK Biobank, ethics framework (K Godfrey). 327:700 (N) 

— using human tissue (P Furness). 327:759 (E) 

— war images. 327:562 (L) 

Ingold, Sylvia Ray, Obituary (L Ivermee). 327:1291 

injections 

— on internet (I Vlad) (Website of the week). 327:1114 (R) 

— use in healthcare settings worldwide (YSF Hutin, et al). 


Innes M, et al, Sharing patient information electronically 

throughout NHS. 327:623 (L) 

inpatients 

— drug abuse in psychiatric inpatients (B Barnaby, et al). 


— Scotland, private ®nance initiative and downsizing of acute 

in-patient beds. 327:395 (L) 

— waiting times, shift to outpatient procedures (S Mayor). 


Inskip H, Football position and atopy—both subject to the birth 

order e#ect? (This sporting life). Referee’s commentary: it’s 

all over. 327:1474 

Institute of Medicine, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an 

Environment that promotes responsible conduct (Books). 


insulin resistance, depression and: British women’s heart and 

health study (DA Lawlor, et al). 327:1383 (P) 

intelligence, on internet (U Tayal) (Website of the week). 327:170 

(R) 

intensive care 

— prophylactic antibiotics (T Sheldon). 327:770 (N) 


Interactive case report, A 2 year old child with rash and fever (R 

Sharma, et al). 327:668 (C), 720 (C), 798, 851, 916 (C) 

international health see global health 

international normalised ratios 

— point of care testing, overview (ET Murray, et al). 327:5 (E) 

— reliability (L Poller, et al). 327:30 (PC) 

internet see also email; Netlines 

— conducting clinical trials over internet: feasibility (T McAlindon, 

et al). 327:484 (IP) 

— health fraud (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:688 (L) 

— online learning (S Guerry) (Tips on ...) BMJ Careers 327:s174 


— risk information: making sense (S Woloshin, et al). 327:695 

(E) 

— virtual committee virtues (DE Morris) BMJ Careers 327:s157 


interventional cardiology 

— ABC of interventional cardiology 

——Implantable devices for treating tachyarrhythmias (T 

Houghton, et al). 327:333 (C) 

——Interventional paediatric cardiology (KP Walsh). 327:385 

(C) 

——Interventional pharmacotherapy (R Philipp, et al). 327:43 

(C) 

——New developments in percutaneous coronary intervention 

(J Gunn, et al). 327:150 (C) 

——Non-coronary percutaneous intervention (ED Grech). 


——Percutaneous interventional electrophysiology (GC 

Kaye). 327:280 (C) 

interviews 

— ethnic panel mix (HV Williams). 327:322 

— getting that all important job: part 3 (A Houghton) BMJ 


— (P Karkos) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s92 (20 September 

2003) 

intractable infertility, ABC of subfertility (A Bagshawe, et al). 


intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and in vitro fertilisation: ABC 

of subfertility (P Braude, et al). 327:852 (C) 

Ioannidis JPA, see Swingler GH. 327:1083 

Iraq see also Asia 

— deadly radiation ignored (P Moszynski). 327:11 (N) 

— Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (R Chew) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s173 


— health minister seeks more funds for future health system (F 

Fleck). 327:889 (N) 

— Médecins Sans Frontières’ sta# are put at risk by 

“humanitarian” US army (J Burgermeister). 327:1248 (N) 

— overseas doctors asked to go back home and help (I Vlad). 


— reconstruction, gerbera daisies in Basra (C Du#) (Personal 


— war, pneumonia cases in US troops (S Gottlieb). 327:358 (N) 

Iredale JP, Science,medicine,and the future. Cirrhosis: new research 

provides a basis for rational and targeted treatments. 


Iredale R, et al, Breast cancer in men. 327:930 (L) 

Ireland see also Europe 

— tobacco, workplace ban (M Houston). 327:522 (N) 

Ireland PD, see English DR. 327:375 

Irgens LM, see Hawthorne G. 327:929 

Irvine D, The Doctors’ Tale: Professionalism and Public Trust 


Irvine JM, Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the 

United States (Books). 327:627 (R) 

ischaemic colitis, diagnosis and management. 327:396 (L) 

Ismail Y, Working in a developing country is a positive experience 

(The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s14 (12 July 2003) 

Israel see also Asia; West Bank and Gaza Strip 

— boycott, more transparency in review called for. 327:989 (L) 

— occupation of Palestinian territories has damaged health (O 


— sperm removal from dead men at wives’ request (J 

Siegel-Itzkovich). 327:1187 (N) 

Israeli Medical Association, World Medical Association and. 

327:561 (L), 1107 (L), 1108 (L) 

Italy see also Europe 

— measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, low uptake (F Fleck). 


Iversen L, Comparing cannabis with tobacco. 327:165 (L) 

Iwanowska HM, Responding to unexpected events. 327:1049 (L) 

J 

Jack AL 

— et al, Why surgical patients do not donate tissue for commercial 

research: review of records. 327:262 (P) 

— see Womack C. 327:781 

Jacklin PB, et al, Virtual outreach: economic evaluation of joint 

teleconsultations for patients referred by their general practitioner 

for a specialist opinion. 327:84 (IP) 

Jackson B, Royal Medical Benevolent Fund’s Christmas appeal. 


Jackson H, et al, Detecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 

using peak ow rate: cross sectional survey. 327:653 (P) 

Jackson M, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Jackson R, see Furness S. 327:1455 

Jackson T 

— Living organ donation (Website of the week). 327:1294 (R) 

— News skews health priorities, study claims (The Press). 


— Now let’s have evidence based politics (TV). 327:58 (R) 

— Pharmakon (Art). 327:1055 (R) 

— What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern 

Medicine (TV). 327:1056 (R) 

— see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Jacob ST, see Stabinski L. 327:1101 

Jacobs A, On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings. 327:345 

(L), 1289 (L) 

Jacobs SC, see Prigerson HG. 327:222 

Jacobsen N, Dare to defer? BMJ Careers 327:s140 (1 November 

2003) 

Jadad AR 

— et al, From electronic gadgets to better health: where is the 

knowledge? 327:300 (E) 

— see Davis D. 327:33 

Jadresic LP, Management of urinary tract infections in children. 


Jain A 

— Extracts from “Best Treatments” . Treating nicotine addiction. 


— NICE recommends faster, easier access to care for MS 

patients. 327:1247 (N) 

James D, see Draper ES. 327:872 

James, David Llywelyn, Obituary (D Pickworth). 327:813 

Janata K, Managing pulmonary embolism 326:1341 (E) (correction, 


Janssen, Paul, Obituary (R Watson). 327:1290 

Janssens ACJW, see Buljevac D. 327:646 

Japanese encephalitis, Bill Gates’ bequest (A Elliot). 327:1366 

(N) 

Jarman PR, et al, Diabetes may be independent risk factor for 

hyperkalaemia. 327:812 (L) 

Jawad M, see De Souza BA. 327:1289 

Jayasekera A, see Witham M BMJ Careers 327:s172 (29 November 

2003) 

Jefferson T 

— et al, Balancing bene®ts and harms in health care. 327:750 (L) 

— et al, Get Peered! (Snakes, ladders, and spin). 327:1439 

Jefferys, David, research fraud inquiry remains secret (C White). 


Jenkins AJ, Might money spent on statins be better spent? 


Jenkins, David, Obituary (J Cantor). 327:168 

Jennings BA, see Willis G. 327:990 

Jervell J, see Hawthorne G. 327:929 

Jespersen J, see Poller L. 327:30 

Jessopp L, see Higgs R. 327:53 

Jiwa M, et al, Telephone consultations are routinely used. 


job applications see also career advice 

— BMJ Careers archive (J Connor, et al). 327:826 (E) 

HYP-JOB 13

— getting that all important job: part 3 (A Houghton) BMJ 


— NHS recruitment website for England (M Gould). 327:1367 

(N) 

job sharing, consultants’ story (K Hofberg, et al) (The way I see 

it) BMJ Careers 327:s142 (1 November 2003) 

Joce, Rachel, Obituary (A Iversen). 327:55 

Joffe M, Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders. 327:870 

(L) 

John R, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Johnson AM, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

Johnson, Jim, interview with (M Gould). 327:72 (N) 

Johnson MRD 

— et al, Everyone has own spirituality. 327:1049 (L) 

— et al, Representation of South Asian people in randomised 

trials. 327:394 (L) 

Johnson R, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Johnson RJ, see Oniscu GC. 327:1261 

Johnston A, see Wilson S. 327:619 

Johnston B, see Murray L. 327:534 

Johnston JM, see Leung GM. 327:1090 

Johnston SL, et al, Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic 

reactions. 327:227 (L) 

Johnston SRD, see Ross JR. 327:469 

Johnstone A, Paws for thought. 327:1392 

Johnstone R, Factors involved in deciding to start preventive 

treatment: qualitative study of clinicians’ and lay people’s 

attitudes. Commentary: A small study, but the results ring 

true. 327:844 (PC) 

Jones BG, et al, A memorable patient. Fortunes of war. 327:1341 

Jones G 

— Help the medicine go down (Website of the week). 327:876 (R) 

— Prescribing and taking medicines. 327:819 (E) 

Jones J, et al, In search of a good death. 327:224 (L) 

Jones K, see Johnson MRD. 327:1049 

Jones M 

— see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

— see Glare P. 327:195 

Jones MC, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Jones PS, Adherence to advance directives. 327:1407 (L) 

Jones R, see Rosen R. 327:460 

Jones, Richard He®n Trefor, Obituary (P Edwards, et al). 


Jones W, When ignorance is not bliss (Personal view). 327:877 (R) 

Jordan J, see Arbyn M. 327:289 

Jordan R, see Wald NJ. 327:809 

Jose J, et al, Lesson of the week. Life threatening complications after 

partially treated mastoiditis. 327:41 (C) 

Josefson D 

— Breaks from antiretroviral treatment are not the answer for 

HIV patients. 327:520 (N) 

— Company plans to sell snu# as “smokeless tobacco". 327:247 

(N) 

— FDA issues advice to women taking HRT. 327:641 (N) 

— Fishy diet could help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. 327:248 

(N) 

— Statins may reduce risk of depression. 327:467 (N) 

— Unsafe sexual practices are common, says US studies. 327:10 

(N) 

— US mental health care needs revamp. 327:248 (N) 

— Vitamin supplements do not reduce incidence of cancer or 

heart disease. 327:70 (N) 

Josse SE, Spoofs by any other name. 327:1289 (L) 

journalism 

— BBC, unethical journalism accusation (O Dyer). 327:67 (N) 

— freelance ethics (C White) (The Press). 327:348 (R) 

— reporting risk—that’s entertainment (G Easton) (Personal 


journals see also publishing 

— reporters and wolves. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:1375 

— scienti®c editors self-regulation initiative (C White). 


— whistleblowers, have editors got priorities right? (A Ferriman) 

(Journals). 327:1113 (R) 

Judaism 

— Caring for Jewish Patients (Spitzer) (Books). 327:169 (R) 

— general practice, Joseph Spitzer (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ 


Juel K 

— see Christensen K. 327:1169 

— see Tomassini C. 327:373 

junior doctors see also doctors 

— fewer night emergency operations (S Mayor). 327:1183 (N) 

— Germany (S Bull) BMJ Careers 327:s75 (6 September 2003) 

— hours 

——implementation of EU Working Time Directive (R 

MacDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s9 (12 July 2003) 

——improving compliance with requirements (HD Cass, et al). 

327:270 (Q) (correction, 586) 

— house o$cer fatigue diagnosis (G Dunea) (Soundings). 


— non-training positions, what becomes of them? 327:619 (L) 

jurisprudence see also legislation, medical; malpractice 

— abortion, curate challenges cleft palate decision (R Dobson). 


— Sally Clark 

——group to review expert evidence on babies’ deaths (C 


——media backlash against Sir Roy Meadow (N Marks) (The 


——potential for justice to miscarry (E Hey). 327:299 (E), 

1109 (L) 

— expert witness: fall from grace (N Marks) (The Press). 327:110 

(R) 

— frozen embryos, women lose legal ®ght (C Dyer). 327:831 

(N) 

— heart pacemakers, US manufacturer faces UK lawsuit (O 


— judges (K Barraclough) (Soundings). 327:997 (R) 

— long-term care, Wake®eld Council ordered to pay (O Dyer). 


— Feda Mulhem 

——manslaughter trial halted (C Dyer). 327:123 (N) 

——sentence (C Dyer). 327:697 (N) 

K 

Kabbara K, see McAlindon T. 327:484 

Kabir H, see Anwar R BMJ Careers 327:s153 (15 November 

2003) 

Kaiser Permanente 

— bed occupancy: comparison with NHS and Medicare (C 

Ham, et al). 327:1257 (P) 

— health services research (J Lomas). 327:1301 (E) 

— lessons for NHS (J Shapiro, et al). 327:1241 (E) 

— non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs exposure during pregnancy 

and miscarriage risk (D-K Li, et al). 327:368 (P) 

Kalbag RM, In search of a good death. 327:226 (L) 

Kamaraj C, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Kamiya A, see Sawa A. 327:632 

Kamm MA 

— Constipation and its management. 327:459 (E) 

— Faecal incontinence. 327:1299 (E) 

Kandula, Dhanamjaya Rao, Obituary (P Rao). 327:293 

Kane, Robert, interview with (R Smith). 327:12 (N) 

Kanka D, see Kroese M. 327:1051 

Karim QA, see MacQueen KM. 327:340 

Karkos P, Job interviews: time to stop playing games (The way I 

see it) BMJ Careers 327:s92 (20 September 2003) 

Karthikeyan G, see Bhargava B. 327:274 

Karunakara U, see Grein T. 327:650 

Kasl SV, see Prigerson HG. 327:222 

Katz J, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Kavalier F, et al, Genetics and the general practitioner. 327:2 (E) 

Kaye GC 

— ABC of interventional cardiology. Percutaneous interventional 

electrophysiology. 327:280 (C) 

— see Houghton T. 327:333 

Kearney MT, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

Keatinge WR, Death in heat waves. 327:512 (E), 1228 (L) 

Keck PE, The management of acute mania. 327:1002 (E) 

Keeling A, see McManus IC. 327:139 

Keeling P, et al, Safety and feasibility of prehospital thrombolysis 

carried out by paramedics. 327:27 (P) 

Keenan DJM, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Keep, Philip James, Obituary (M Keep). 327:1291 

Kelly F, It’s always worth trying. 327:679 

Kelly SP, et al, Age related macular degeneration 326:1458 (L) 


Kelman CW, et al, Deep vein thrombosis and air travel: record 

linkage study. 327:1072 (P) 

Kemp L, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Kemp, Simon, rugby team doctor (K Herbert) (Pro®le) BMJ 

Career 327:s13 (12 July 2003) 

Kemple T, Proactive asthma care does not suit everyone. 


Kendrick D, see Coupland C. 327:593 

Kenealy T, see Arroll B. 327:1361 

Kennedy JG, What information do patients need about 

medicines? “Doc, tell me what I need to know"—a doctor’s 

perspective. 327:862 (ED) 

Kenrick PA, Altitude sickness. 327:106 (L) 

Kent A, see Kavalier F. 327:2 

Kenya see also Africa 

— cancers, experience of dying: comparison with developing 


Keown M, see Poller L. 327:30 

keratoconjunctivitis, after streptococcal cross-infection by 

patient’s sputum (M Punekar, et al) (Minerva). 327:1058 

(L) 

Kerr D, Of Struldbruggs, sugar, and gatekeepers: a tale of our 

times (Ward round). 327:1451 

Kerrison S 

— et al, United Kingdom research governance strategy. 327:553 

(ED) 

— see McNally N. 327:550 

Kerse N, see Arroll B. 327:1144, 1361 

Kersley SE 

— Can you let go of being perfect? BMJ Careers 327:s76 (6 September 

2003) 

— Prescription for change BMJ Careers 327:s139 (1 November 

2003) 

Kevany, John, Obituary (M Houston). 327:934 

Khalaf Y, ABC of subfertility. Tubal subfertility. 327:610 (C) 

Khan, Hamid Kamal, Obituary (K Raza). 327:1351 

Khan HN, et al, Endocrine treatment of physiological 

gynaecomastia. 327:301 (E), 1050 (L) 

Khan Y, see Meyer AD. 327:1040 

Khanna R, et al, Community based retrospective study of sex in 

infant mortality in India. 327:126 (P), 1169 (L) 

Khin N, see Arroll B. 327:1144 

kidney, emphysematous pyelonephritis (K Roberts, et al) 


kidney transplantation 

— equity of access to waiting list and renal transplantation in 

Scotland (GC Oniscu, et al). 327:1261 (P) 

— on internet (T Jackson) (Website of the week). 327:1294 (R) 

— tra$cking is “big business” (C Kovac). 327:249 (N) 

Kikule E 

— A good death in Uganda: survey of needs for palliative care 

for terminally ill people in urban areas. 327:192 (P) 

— see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

Kilpatrick ES, High result in prostate speci®c antigen test. 


Kilpatrick T, see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Kilvert A, see Fox C. 327:1120 

Kim JY, see Mukherjee JS. 327:1104 

Kimmel SE, et al, Giving aspirin and ibuprofen after myocardial 

infarction. 327:1298 (E) 

Kimpen JLL, see van Woensel JBM. 327:36 

Kindler CH, et al, Consistency in anaesthetic care. 327:931 (L) 

King M, see Nazareth I. 327:423, 1110 

King’s College, London, The Art of Dying (U Tayal). 327:235 

(R) 

King’s Fund 

— Government and the NHS (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1008 (N) 

— In Capital Health? (D Singh). 327:70 (N) 

— London’s State of Mind (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1184 (N) 

Kingston M, et al, Oral hairy leukoplakia in HIV positive male 


Kinnersley P, see Butler CC. 327:1088 

Kinsella A, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

Kinshuck DJ, Care and outcomes in young adults with type 1 

diabetes. 327:871 (L) 

Kipping R, see McLeod H. 327:1147 

Kirby J, see Mallam KM. 327:592 

Kirkby M, see Ball C. 327:1014 

Kirkpatrick A, Dealing with amorous advances from patients 


Kirkup B, Listen to the patient (Personal view). 327:401 (R) 

Kirwan CC, et al, Prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism during 

treatment for cancer: questionnaire survey. 327:597 (P) 

Kittel M, What is a good death? 327:1048 (L) 

Kivimäki M, et al, Sickness absence as a global measure of health: 

evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective 

cohort. 327:364 (P) 

Klein JD, see Gray NJ. 327:457 

Klimov AN, see Plavinski SL. 327:751 

Kmietowicz Z 

— Adolescents are building up health problems for the future. 


— Africans are dying of AIDS without pain relief. 327:1069 (N) 

— Bullying and harassment rife in Manchester unit, report says. 


— Concerted action is needed to ®ght obesity, says chief medical 

o$cer. 327:69 (N) 

— Consultants vote in favour of revised contract. 327:945 (N) 

— Doctors test drug to prevent cancer in high risk women. 


— Elderly women denied treatments for breast cancer. 327:1069 

(N) 

— England is in a sexual health crisis, MPs say 326:1281 (N) 


— Extracts from “Best Treatments” . Treating nicotine addiction. 

Information for patients: Getting professional Help. 327:1396 

(C) 

— Face transplants should not be done without more research. 


— Fertilisation authority recommends a ban on sex selection. 


— Foundation trusts “will pressure regulator to allow change to 

licence". 327:581 (N) 

— Gap between classes in life expectancy is widening. 327:68 

(N), 752 (L) 

— Global e#orts to control AIDS are “entirely inadequate". 


— Governments failing to invest in education and health. 


— Half of UK doctors experience violence or abuse from 

patients. 327:889 (N) 

— Hospital ratings rise, but ambulance ratings fall. 327:119 (N) 

— Implementation of clinical governance is patchy, report says. 


— Journal apologises for publishing author’s work without 

permission. 327:947 (N) 

— King’s Fund calls for new relationship between NHS and 

government. 327:1008 (N) 

— London is more likely to detain people with mental problems. 


— NHS aims to increase number of ethnic minority sta# in 

management. 327:889 (N) 

— NICE is told to break its close links with drug industry. 


— Poorly performing doctors are to be dealt with more fairly. 

327:69 (N) (correction, 422) 

— Pressure mounts to ban smoking in public places. 327:69 (N) 

— Star rating system fails to reduce variation. 327:184 (N) 

knee 

— osteoarthritis 

——high heels as risk factor (R Dobson). 327:768 (N) 

——tape e$cacy in management (RS Hinman, et al). 327:135 

(PC) 

— pain killers improve surgical outcomes (JH Tanne). 327:1185 

(N) 

Knight DJW, Immunonutrition. 327:682 (L) 

knowledge translation, shortening journey from evidence to 

e#ect (D Davis, et al). 327:33 (LP) 

Knowles S, In search of a good death. 327:224 (L) 

Knox GW, Adherence to advance directives. 327:1407 (L) 

Knox KL, et al, Risk of suicide and related adverse outcomes after 

exposure to a suicide prevention programme in the US Air 

Force: cohort study. 327:1376 (P) 

Koch J, see O’Driscoll BR. 327:451 

Koeter MWJ, see van den Brink W. 327:310 

Koh TH, et al, Cri du chat syndrome child of non-consanguinous 

parents (Minerva). 327:570 (R) 

Kohner EM, Aspirin for diabetic retinopathy. 327:1060 (E) 

Konings A, see Taylor S. 327:807 

Kopelman PG, see Chowdhury TA. 327:1059 

Kortt MA, see Kelman CW. 327:1072 

Koster RW, see van Alem AP. 327:1312 

Kothandaraman E, Maternity rights (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


Kovac C, Kidney tra$cking is “big business, ” says Council of 

Europe. 327:249 (N) 

Kraml P, see Drlicek M. 327:1048 

Krebs B, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Kroese M, et al, Costs and e#ectiveness of prehospital 

thrombolysis need to be clear. 327:1051 (L) 

Krosnar K 

— Chaos and corruption: an everyday tale of health care in 

Macedonia (Personal view). 327:1235 (R) 

— Mentally ill patients in central Europe being kept in 

padlocked, caged beds. 327:1249 (N) 

— Slovak patients use health services less since charges were 

imposed. 327:769 (N) 

Krumholz HM 

— see Curtis JP. 327:1322 

— see Masoudi FA. 327:513 

— see Rathmore SS. 327:763 

Kulkarni R, see Lewis PM. 327:1108 

Kumana CR, see Cheung BMY. 327:51 

Kumar A, see Khanna R. 327:126 

Kumar S 

— Health of indigenous people. 327:988 (L) 

— HIV cases rising sharply in India. 327:245 (N) 

— Ratio of girls to boys in India continues to decline. 327:1007 

(N) 

— Representation of South Asian people in randomised trials. 


Kunkler IH 

— Non-commercial randomised clinical trials need money for 

meetings and travel expenses. 327:1349 (L) 

— Time has come for a medical minister of health. 327:291 (L) 

Kypri K, see Langley JD. 327:1023 

L 

labour see also caesarean section; pregnancy 

— women’s views on impact of operative delivery in second 

stage (DJ Murphy, et al). 327:1132 (P) 

Ladner J, et al, Evaluating computerised health information systems. 


Ladoyanni E, et al, Norwegian scabies in elderly man (Minerva). 


Lagiou P, see Tamimi RM. 327:622 

Laguna JC, see Bertomeu A. 327:591 

Laing G, see Toroyan T. 327:906 

Laippala P, see Viljanen M. 327:475 

Lakoma M, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

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Lalani, Akbar, (K Hebert) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s69 (30 

August 2003) 

Lam T-H, see Leung GM. 327:1090 

Lam WWT 

— see Fielding R. 327:1404 

— see Leung GM. 327:1090 

Lambert HJ, see Coulthard MG. 327:656, 1346 

Lambert N, see Bowling AP. 327:450 

Lampe F, see Brindle P. 327:1267 

Lancet 

— AstraZeneca accused of sponsoring biased research (O Dyer). 


— digital archive launch (A Ferriman). 327:888 (N) 

— tobacco should be made illegal (A Ferriman). 327:1364 (N) 

Landsborough D, A mistake that might have been my last. 


Lane R, et al, Rhabdomyolysis. 327:115 (E) (correction, 500) 

Lane T, et al, Behavioural approaches are helpful in overactive 

bladder. 327:291 (L) 

Lange JH, Stages of a man’s life. 327:683 (L) 

Langewitz W, see Kindler CH. 327:931 

Langgartner E, see Drlicek M. 327:1048 

Langley JD, et al, Secondhand e#ects of alcohol use among university 

students: computerised survey. 327:1023 (P) 

Langley-Evans A, see Langley-Evans S. 327:622 

Langley-Evans S, et al, Energy intake in pregnant women 

carrying boys or girls. 327:622 (L) 

Langton A, Sharing patient information electronically throughout 

NHS. 327:622 (L) 

language see also communication 

— fart. “I was too well brought up to say it” (M Gore). 327:1208 

— shocking (A Rule). 327:422 

Lannigan F, see Lehmann D. 327:415 

Lapiana JM, see Peretti-Watel P. 327:595 

Lapsley PM 

— Industry funding of patients’ support groups. 327:344 (L) 

— Speaking up. 327:1109 

Lapum JL, In search of a good death. 327:224 (L) 

Large S, see Lim E. 327:1309 

Larkin C, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

Larsson S, A career in oncology BMJ Careers 327:s169 (29 


Lasagna, Louis, Obituary (JH Tanne). 327:565 

Lasker S, The higher professional education scheme for new GPs 

(Have you heard about...) BMJ Careers 327:s118 (11 


Lassa fever, epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences 

(JK Richmond, et al) 327:1271 (C) (correction, 

328:96) 

Lassen A, et al, Eradication of Helicobacter pylori and use of 

antisecretory drugs: population based cohort study. 


Latif AS, Third world brain drain. 327:930 (L) 

Laurent C, Baby milk company ®ned for advertising direct to 

consumers. 327:307 (N) 

Lauterbur, Paul C, Nobel prize for medicine 2003 (S Mayor). 


LaValley M, see McAlindon T. 327:484 

Laverey C, see Mehta AT. 327:462 

Lavis V, see Taket A. 327:673 

Law, Alistair, Obituary (M Lewis). 327:55 

Law M, see Wald NJ. 327:809 

Lawlor B, see O’Connell H. 327:664 

Lawlor DA 

— et al, Association between falls in elderly women and chronic 

diseases and drug use: cross sectional study. 327:712 (PC), 

1288 (L) 

— et al, Association of insulin resistance with depression: cross 

sectional ®ndings from the British women’s heart and health 


Lawrenson G, et al, Security duties in Northern Ireland and the 

mental health of soldiers: prospective study. 327:1382 (P) 

Lawton B, et al, Changes in use of hormone replacement therapy 

after the report from the Women’s Health Initiative: cross 

sectional survey of users. 327:845 PC) 

Laylee, Alec, Obituary (D Cove). 327:229 

Leach A, see Bridson J. 327:1159 

league tables see also performance 

— hospitals 

——CHI ratings rise (Z Kmietowicz). 327:119 (N) 

——star rating system fails to reduce variation (Z Kmietowicz). 


— NHS sta# cheat to hit government targets (A Gulland). 


— strategies to optimise data for corrupt managers and incompetent 

clinicians (D Pitches, et al) (Snakes, ladders, and spin). 


Leaning J, see Stabinski L. 327:1101 

Lear JT, see Wong CSM. 327:794 

learning see also education, medical 

— EBM clinical decision support tools (GM Leung, et al). 

327:1090 (LP) 

— online (S Guerry) (Tips on ...) BMJ Careers 327:s174 (29 


— teaching materials should enhance the spoken word. 327:166 

(L) 

Leatherman and Sutherland, The Quest for Quality in the NHS (R 

Smith). 327:1239 (E) 

Ledochowski M, et al, Altitude sickness. 327:106 (L) 

Lee AJ, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

Lee, Jong-Wook, interview with (F Fleck). 327:468 (N) 

Leff JA, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

Lfegaré F, see O’Connor AM. 327:736 

Legge JS, see Currie GP BMJ Careers 327:s105 (4 October 2003) 

legislation, medical see also jurisprudence 

— Health and Social Care Bill: end of Bevan’s vision? (AM 

Pollock, et al). 327:982 (ED) 

— human tissue retention regulation bill (C Dyer). 327:1304 

(N) 

— in uence on risk and informed consent (DJ Mazur). 327:731 

(ED) 

— mental health bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny (R 


— in vitro fertilisation: ABC of subfertility (P Braude, et al). 


Legros D, see Grein T. 327:650 

Lehmann D, et al, Bene®ts of swimming pools in two remote 

Aboriginal communities in Western Australia: intervention 

study. 327:415 (P) (correction, 663) 

Lehmann HP, see Sterling TR. 327:164 

Lehmer M, see McAlindon T. 327:484 

Lemkin, Joan (née Casserley), Obituary (D Eyre-Walker). 


Lenzer J 


— Claim that smallpox vaccine protects against HIV is 

premature, say critics. 327:699 (N) (correction, 987) 

— ER blamed for nursing shortage (TV). 327:1294 (R) 

— Proposed US stroke centres under ®re for planned use of 

alteplase. 327:247 (N), 812 (L) 

— Study of London taxi drivers wins Ig Nobel prize. 327:831 

(N) 

Leontiadis GI, et al, Helicobacter pylori in gastro-oesophageal 

re ux disease needs comparator 326:1460 (L) (correction, 


lesbians 

— health on internet (J Clark) (Website of the week). 327:995 (R) 

— health needs (C Hughes, et al). 327:939 (E) 

Lesson of the week 

— Celecoxib, rofecoxib, and acute temporary visual impairment 

(DM Coulter, et al). 327:1214 (C) 

— Colchicine in acute gout (I Morris, et al). 327:1275 (C) 

— Interaction of spironolactone with ACE inhibitors or 

angiotensin receptor blockers: analysis of 44 cases (E 

Wrenger, et al). 327:147 (C), 812 (L) 

— Life threatening complications after partially treated 

mastoiditis (J Jose, et al). 327:41 (C) 

— Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (R Rayment, et al). 


— Poor glycaemic control caused by insulin induced lipohypertrophy 

(TA Chowdhury, et al). 327:383 (C) 

— Spurious hyperglycaemia and icodextrin in peritoneal dialysis 

uid (SG Riley, et al). 327:608 (C) 

— Wegener’s granulomatosis presenting as a pleural e#usion 

(AG Blundell, et al). 327:95 (C) 

Lester H, see Cooper H. 327:394 

Lester N, Madness Explained (Books). 327:1055 (R) 

Lethaby A, et al, Treatments for heavy menstrual bleeding. 


letrozole, drug trial early cessation (S Gottlieb). 327:885 (N) 

letters 

— ’copying letters to patients is coming to a clinic near you’. 

327:450 (L), 451 (L), 991 (L), 1349 (L) 

— dictating clinic letters (F Mohammed) (Tips on...) BMJ 


Leung GM, et al, Randomised controlled trial of clinical decision 

support tools to improve learning of evidence based 

medicine in medical students. 327:1090 (LP) 

levetiracetam, weight loss (S Hadjikoutis, et al) (Drug points). 


Levy LF, The ®rst world’s role in the third world brain drain 

(Personal view). 327:170 (R), 929 (L) (correction, 1016), 

930 (L) 

Levy, Mark Lionel, Obituary (HS Levy, et al). 327:1291 

Lewis B, Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and the 

state of the World Medical Association. 327:1108 (L) 

Lewis DA, see Tong CYW. 327:290 

Lewis DK, et al, Factors involved in deciding to start preventive 

treatment: qualitative study of clinicians’ and lay people’s 

attitudes. 327:841 (PC) 

Lewis HE, see Price RD. 327:1464 

Lewis L, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Lewis MH, see Shiralkar S. 327:371 

Lewis PM, et al, Risk assessors need to be assessed. 327:1108 (L) 

Lewis S, see Mehta AT. 327:462 

Lewis W, Medical humanities BMJ Careers 327:s65 (30 August 

2003) 

Lewith GT, see Radcli#e MJ.327:251 

Li ACY, et al, Longevity and C282Y mutation for haemochromatosis. 


Li D-K, et al, Exposure to non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs 

during pregnancy and risk of miscarriage: population based 


Li L, et al, Breast feeding and obesity in childhood: cross sectional 


Li Z, see Kelman CW. 327:1072 

Liberia see also Africa 

— humanitarian catastrophe, aid agency warning (P Moszynski). 


Lichterman BL, Pathologies of Power (Books). 327:1232 (R) 

Liddle R, et al, ABC of resuscitation. The automated external de®brillator. 


Lie RT, see Hawthorne G. 327:929 

Lieberman BA, see Brison DR. 327:872 

Liebling RE, see Murphy DJ. 327:1132 

Liebschutz JM, et al, eds, Violence Against Women: A Physician’s 

Guide to Identification and Management (Books). 327:686 (R) 

life change 

— multiple sclerosis exacerbations and (D Buljevac, et al). 


— prescription for change (SE Kersley) BMJ Careers 327:s139 


life expectancy see also mortality 

— gap between classes is widening (Z Kmietowicz). 327:68 (N), 

752 (L) 

— global, amenable to health care analysis (E Nolte, et al). 


— measuring health of nations, analysis of mortality amenable 

to health care (E Nolte, et al). 327:1129 (P) 

— social class gap is widening (Z Kmietowicz). 327:68 (N) 

— Titanic survivors (JA Hanley, et al) (Hazardous journeys). 


life support see intensive care 

lifestyle 

— diabetes, intensive education (C Fox, et al). 327:1120 (E) 

— indigenous peoples, overview: changing pattern of ill health 

(S Foliaki, et al). 327:406 (E) 

lifts, privacy of patients’ information (SN Vigod, et al). 327:1024 

(P) 

Lilford RJ, Reply to letters on ethics of trials from bayesian perspective. 


Lilly RZ, Extracts from “Best Treatments” . Bulimia nervosa. 


Lim E, et al, Indirect comparison meta-analysis of aspirin therapy 

after coronary surgery 327:1309 (P) (correction, 328:147) 

Lima RC, see Victora CG. 327:901 

Lind, James, scurvy clinical trial (C Currie). 327:1418 (E) 

Linnasne SJ, see Berrill JW. 327:1288 

lipids, e#ectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in reducing serum 

cholesterol concentration. 327:50 (L), 51 (L) 

lipohypertrophy, poor glycaemic control and insulin induced 

lipohypertrophy (TA Chowdhury, et al) (Lesson of the week). 


listening, skills (S Manallack) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s29 

(26 July 2003) 

lithium, elderly, prescription comparison with valproic acid. 


Little P, Penicillin for acute sore throat in children: randomised, 

double blind trial. Commentary: More valid criteria may be 

needed. 327:1327 (PC) 

Little R, Deborah Colville (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s110 (4 


Litts DA, see Knox KL. 327:1376 

Liu L, see Li D-K. 327:368 

liver 

— hepatotoxicity associated with nimesulide and other nonsteroidal 

anti-in ammatory drugs (G Traversa, et al). 327:18 

(P) 

— high density lipoprotein cholesterol protective e#ects (JT 

Salonen) (Research pointers). 327:1082 (P) 

liver cirrhosis, treatment, rational and targeted (JP Iredale). 


liver transplantation, role of living liver donation in UK (J 

Neuberger, et al). 327:676 (ED) (correction, 987), 1287 (L) 

Livingstone CA, see Wang TWM. 327:50 

Lloyd-Williams M 

— ed, Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care (Books). 327:234 (R) 

— et al, In search of a good death. 327:221 (L) 

— et al, Is asking patients in palliative care, “Are you depressed?” 

appropriate? Prospective study. 327:372 (P) 

Lo B, et al, Establishing ethical trials for treatment and 

prevention of AIDS in developing countries. 327:337 (ED) 

Lo SS, Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising radiation. 


Lock K, see Chalmers I. 327:1017 

Lock S, Britain prefers talk to action. 327:940 (E) 

Lockett, Harry Ian, Obituary (T Phelps, et al). 327:934 

Lockey A, Emergency medicine BMJ Careers 327:s155 (15 


Lockwood GM, In vitro fertilisation for all? 327:1226 (L) 

locum doctors see also doctors 

— appraisal preparation (EB Turya) BMJ Careers 327:s97 (27 


— returning to work in UK as locum consultant (A Papagiannis) 


— sabbaticals (R MacDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s124 (18 October 

2003) 

Loe er I 

— Bioterrorism (Soundings). 327:817 (R) 

— Environmentally friendly disposal of the dead (Soundings). 


— Eternal youth (Soundings). 327:1235 (R) 

Logan R, see Bloom®eld A. 327:439 

Logan RFA, see Delaney BC. 327:811 

Lomas J, Health services research. 327:1301 (E) 

London 

— hospitals must use its appeal to tackle workforce shortages (D 

Singh). 327:70 (N) 

— mentally ill: London’s State of Mind (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1184 

(N) 

— pulmonary tuberculosis diagnostic delays: 1998-2000: 


Long A, see Thomson A BMJ Careers 327:s44 (9 August 2003) 

Long JM, see Stabinski L. 327:1101 

long-term care see also elderly; health services for the elderly; residential 

homes 

— free personal care (K Burke). 327:770 (N) 

— Wake®eld Council ordered to pay for care (O Dyer). 327:521 

(N) 

Longano BA, Evaluating computerised health information 

systems. 327:163 (L) 

longevity, Kylemore nuns. 327:970 

Loong T-W, Understanding sensitivity and speci®city with the 

right side of the brain. 327:716 (C) (correction, 1043) 

Lopman BA, see Tam CC. 327:1347 

Lord JM, et al, Metformin in polycystic ovary syndrome: systematic 

review and meta-analysis. 327:951 (P) 

Loren ML, Treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis. 327:1229 (L) 

Love TE, All that glisters is not gold. 327:1315 

Loveland P, et al, Non-standard grade (trust grade) doctors: the 

Department of Health’s view BMJ Careers 327:s132 (25 


low back pain 

— acute (J Car, et al) (10 minute consultation). 327:541 (PC) 

— chronic. 327:107 (L) 

— prognosis, systematic review (LHM Pengel, et al). 327:323 

(PC) 

low tar cigarettes, Cancer Research UK campaign (A Iles). 


Lowe J, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Lowe M, see Cheng AC. 327:1280 

Lowenthal MN, Endpiece. Fire and ice. 327:1335 

lower respiratory tract infections, viral, in infants and young children 

(JBM van Woensel, et al). 327:36 (C) 

lung cancers 

— lobectomy in-hospital mortality, useful surgical quality standard? 

(T Treasure, et al). 327:73 (P) 

— passive smoking and mortality: California. 327:501 (L), 502 

(L), 503 (L), 504 (L), 505 (L) 

— smoking and, Imperial Tobacco plan denial (O Dyer). 


Lusty PJ, see Tsiridis E. 327:1167 

Lwanda J, Portfolio career BMJ Careers 327:s118 (11 October 

2003) 

Lynge E, see Arbyn M. 327:289 

Lyons, Arnold Richard, Obituary (T Lyons). 327:993 

Lyratzopoulos G 

— Stand and deliver BMJ Careers 327:s35 (2 August 2003) 



— see Heller RF. 327:1162 

lysosomal storage disorders, treatment (AT Mehta, et al). 


M 

“M”, CJD experimental treatment (C Dyer). 327:886 (N) 

Mabey D, see Hawkes S. 327:633 

McAlindon T, et al, Conducting clinical trials over the internet: 

feasibility. 327:484 (IP) 

McArdle’s syndrome, history taking, lesson (C Rundle). 327:545 


McAuley LM, et al, Scope of EPOC is clari®ed. 327:106 (L) 

McAullay D, see Lehmann D. 327:415 

McBride M, see McKee W. 327:104 

MacCarthy PA, et al, Prognosis in heart failure with preserved left 

ventricular systolic function: prospective cohort study. 


McCloud A, see Barnaby B. 327:783 

McClure I 

LAL-MCC 15

— The Essential Di#erence (Books). 327:57 (R) 

— A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (Books). 327:568 (R) 

— The Human Mind (TV). 327:995 (R) 

— Stories from the wards (Radio). 327:1410 (R) 

McCollum CN, see Kirwan CC. 327:597 

McConnachie, James Stewart ("Monty"), Obituary (RF Rintoul). 


McConnell J, see Hinman RS. 327:135 

McConvey R, Theme issue for patients. 327:449 (L) 

McCorkle L, see Mukherjee JS. 327:1104 

McCrory PR, Brain injury and heading in soccer. 327:351 (E), 

1168 (L) 

McCulloch P, et al, Mortality and morbidity in gastrooesophageal 

cancer surgery: initial results of ASCOT multicentre 

prospective cohort study. 327:1192 (P) 

McDermott MB, Obtaining consent for autopsy. 327:804 (ED) 

McDermott R, et al, Sustaining better diabetes care in remote 

indigenous Australian communities. 327:428 (Q) 

Macdonald, Alasdair Cameron, Obituary (AJ Macdonald). 


MacDonald R 

— The charm of the Irish (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s94 (20 


— Flexible and family friendly working in the NHS BMJ Careers 


— GMC proposes radical changes to registration. 327:123 (N) 

— How to have a happier working life: part 2 (Tips on...) BMJ 


— Implementing the European working time directive BMJ 


— The IWL champion (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s141 (1 


— Organising international humanitarian and health work BMJ 


— Providing the world with clean water. 327:1416 (E) 

— Sabbatical locum work BMJ Careers 327:s124 (18 October 

2003) 

— Think lateral and international (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


— Update on Modernising Medical Careers BMJ Careers 327:s89 


— see Connor J. 327:826 

— see Dosani S. 327:961 

— see Mercer S. 327:882 

Macdowall W, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

Macedonia see also Europe 

— chaos and corruption (K Krosnar) (Personal view). 327:1235 

(R) 

McEldu# P, see Heller RF. 327:1162 

McFadden G, see Ong Y-L BMJ Careers 327:s99 (27 September 

2003) 

Macfarlane GJ, et al, Incidence of cancer among UK Gulf war 

veterans: cohort study. 327:1373 (P) 

Macfarlane PW 

— see de Craen AJM. 327:131 

— see Hemingway H. 327:895 

McGill K, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

McGouran R, The Kylemore nuns. 327:970 

MacGregor G, see Quartermaine DM. 327:395 

MacGregor MS, et al, Illiteracy is not just a historical 

phenomenon. 327:1349 (L) 

McGuinness B, Writing a short story (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


McGuire R, Successful time management BMJ Careers 327:s117 


McHarg, James Fleming, Obituary (P Aungle). 327:229 

Machin D, see Tan S-B. 327:47 

McHugh A, see Abernethy AP. 327:523 

Maciá MA, see Carvajal A. 327:1051 

McILwain JC, Is testing everyone for HIV logical? 327:563 

McKechnie, Elspeth Mavor, Obituary (T Bullamore). 327:873 

McKee M 


— et al, Smoke free hospital. 327:811 (L) 

— see Nolte E. 327:1129 

McKee W, et al, Smoke free hospitals. 327:104 (L), 811 (L) 

Mackenbach JP, Dead body with mourners: medical re ections 

on the entombment of Christ. 327:215 (ED) 

McKendry R, see Haggerty JL. 327:1219 

Mackenzie G, Essence of being a doctor. 327:396 (L) 

Mackie ADR, see Wills CJ. 327:260 

Macklin R, Dignity is a useless concept. 327:1419 (E) 

McKnight A, see Sibbett CH. 327:971 

McLean-Tooke APC, et al, Adrenaline in the treatment of 

anaphylaxis: what is the evidence? 327:1332 (C) 

McLeod D, see Lawton B. 327:845 

McLeod H, et al, Booking patients for hospital admissions: evaluation 

of a pilot programme for day cases. 327:1147 (Q) 

McManus IC, et al, A levels and intelligence as predictors of 

medical careers in UK doctors: 20 year prospective study. 

327:139 (LP), 810 (L) 

McManus S, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

McMichael T, Primary Mother Care and Population (Books). 


McMurdo, Lydia, Obituary (A Sippert). 327:685 

McNally N 

— et al, Reforming clinical research and development in 

England. 327:550 (ED) 

— see Kerrison S. 327:553 

McNaughton HK, see McPherson KM. 327:443 

McNeill GP, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Maconochie N, see Macfarlane GJ. 327:1373 

McPherson KM, et al, Ethnicity, equity, and quality: lessons from 

New Zealand. 327:443 (ED) 

MacQueen KM, et al, Ethics guidance for HIV prevention trials. 


MacRae SK, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

McRobbie H, et al, Smoke free hospital. 327:811 (L) 

macular degeneration, age-related, NICE recommends photodynamic 

therapy (S Mayor). 327:698 (N) 

MacWalter R, see Witham M BMJ Careers 327:s172 (29 November 

2003) 

McWilliams R, see Hind D. 327:361 

Madhavan KS, No more free lunches. 327:342 (L) 

Magee LA, et al, Hydralazine for treatment of severe 

hypertension in pregnancy: meta-analysis. 327:955 (P) 

magnetic resonance imaging, Nobel prize in medicine awarded to 

pioneers (S Mayor). 327:827 (N) 

Magno, Jose®na Bautista, Obituary (L Newman). 327:753 

Mahadevan S, et al, “Prayer” sign complication of diabetes mellitus 

type 1 (Minerva). 327:402 (R) 

Maher CG, see Pengel LHM. 327:323 

Maher D, et al, Treatment of tuberculosis. 327:822 (E) 

Mailer CM, Smoke free hospitals. 327:104 (L) 

Main, Robert Allardyce, Obituary (MI White). 327:55 

Mainie IML, see Murray L. 327:534 

Mair FS, see Finch TL. 327:1205 

Mak YYW, et al, Patients’ voices are needed in debates on euthanasia. 

327:213 (ED) (correction, 556) 

Makenbach JP, Health Inequalities (Books). 327:1352 (R) 

malaria 

— chemoprophylaxis in non-immune travellers to sub-Saharan 

Africa (P Schlagenhauf, et al). 327:1078 (P) 

— global fund buying “useless drug” (G Yamey). 327:1188 (N) 

— The Miraculous Fever Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that 

Changed the World (Rocco) (Books). 327:169 (R) 

Malawi see also Africa 

— caesarean section, early maternal and perinatal mortality (PM 

Fenton, et al). 327:587 (P) 

— John Lwanda: portfolio career (J Lwanda) BMJ Careers 


Malik R, Sally Bennett (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s6 (5 July 

2003) 

Mallam KM, et al, Contribution of timetabled physical education 

to total physical activity in primary school children: cross 

sectional study. 327:592 (P) 

Malmivaara A, see Viljanen M. 327:475 

malpractice see also jurisprudence; mistakes 

— criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes (J Holbrook). 


— John Eastgate 

——cleared of encouraging “false memories” (O Dyer). 


——psychiatrist faces GMC hearing (O Dyer). 327:517 (N) 

— formal and informal suspensions and NCAA (P Colbrook) 


— Ahmed Abdelsalam Moneeb, suspended for lying to cover up 

negligence (O Dyer). 327:888 (N) 

— NHS sta# should inform patients of negligent acts (C Dyer). 


— Colin Paterson, “woeful” evidence (O Dyer). 327:1124 (N) 

— pathologist who failed to notice infant’s injuries investigation 


— suspensions, swifter action could save £14m (M Gould). 


mammography see also screening 

— women need better information about routine mammography 

(H Thornton, et al). 327:101 (ED), 868 (L), 869 (L) 

managed clinical consortium see under National Health Service 

managers, career check (S Peskett, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s179 (6 


Manallack S 

— Improving your body language (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


— Improving your listening skills (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


Manaszewicz R, Theme issue for patients. 327:448 (L) 

mania, Electroboy: a Memoir of Mania (Behrman) (Books). 


Manistry C, et al, For and against. Doctors should not discuss 

resuscitation with terminally ill patients. 327:614 (ED) 

Manktelow B, see Draper ES. 327:872 

Mann R, see Al-Ubaydli M BMJ Careers 327:s81 (13 September 

2003) 

Mannion R, see Marshall MN. 327:599 

Mansell P, see Wills CJ. 327:260 

Mans®eld, Peter, Nobel prize for medicine 2003 (S Mayor). 


Mant A, see Hall WD. 327:289 

Manthorpe J, see Ili#e S.327:1403 

marathons, Akbar Lalani (K Hebert) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


Marchant, Mary Kathleen, Obituary (MS Marchant). 327:685 

Marchetti F, see Barbi E. 327:681 

Marks D, et al, Cost e#ectiveness analysis of di#erent approaches 

of screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia 324:1303 

(P) (correction, 327:160) 

Marks N 

— An expert witness falls from grace (The Press). 327:110 (R) 

— Getting animated about medicine (TV). 327:1234 (R) 

Marmot MG 

— Self esteem and health. 327:574 (E) 


— see Kivamäki M. 327:364 

Marples IL, Co-proxamol and suicide. 327:287 (L) 

Marquet RL, et al, Twenty ®ve years of requests for euthanasia 

and physician assisted suicide in Dutch general practice: 

trend analysis. 327:201 (PC) 

Marquis F, see Ladner J. 327:163 

Marret MJ, The good of small things (Personal view). 327:234 (R) 

marriage, suicide and spouse’s psychiatric illness or suicide 

(E Agerbo, et al). 327:1025 (P) 

Marsden AK, see Walker A. 327:1316 

Marsh J, see Hodson J. 327:392 

Marshall M, Acute psychiatric day hospitals. 327:116 (E) 

Marshall MN, et al, Managing change in the culture of general 

practice: qualitative case studies in primary care trusts. 

327:599 (PC) (correction, 328:209) 

Marshall TP 

— Coronary heart disease prevention: insights from modelling 

incremental cost e#ectiveness. 327:1264 (PC) 

— Women need better information on routine mammography. 


Martin C, Cradle to Grave (Art). 327:1233 (R) 

Martyn C 

— Anti-in ammatory drugs and Alzheimer’s disease. 327:353 

(E) 

— A Short History of Nearly Everything (Books). 327:994 (R) 

Marwick C 

— Food industry obfuscates healthy eating message. 327:121 

(N) 

— NIH needs to change, says report. 327:306 (N) 

Marzo-Castillejo M, see Alonso-Coello. 327:1051 

Mason, Adair Stuart, Obituary (D Worsfold). 327:1230 

Masoudi FA 

— et al, Polypharmacy and comorbidity in heart failure. 327:513 

(E) 


mass media 

— disseminating science (A Williamson) (The Press). 327:1174 

(R) 

— “Hitting the Headlines” is useful resource. 327:291 (L) 

— news skews health priorities (T Jackson) (The Press). 327:688 

(R) 

— public health doctors “hopeless” (A Ferriman) (The Press). 


— war images and informed consent. 327:562 (L) 

Masters J, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

mastoiditis, life threatening complications after partial treatment 

(J Jose, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:41 (C) 

Masud T, see Sims RJA. 327:462 

maternal health care see also obstetrics 

— risk attributable to sta# deployment and training for 

midwives (B Ashcroft, et al). 327:584 (P) 

— Uganda, criteria based audit (AD Weeks, et al). 327:1329 (Q) 

maternal mortality see also mortality 

— Malawi, caesarean section, early maternal and perinatal mortality 

(PM Fenton, et al). 327:587 (P) 

maternity rights, (E Kothandaraman) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


Mather HM, see Jarman PR. 327:812 

Mathers N, see Jiwa M. 327:345 

Mathews JD, see Kelman CW. 327:1072 

Mathur R, In vitro fertilisation for all? 327:1226 (L) 

Matthews JNS, see Coulthard MG. 327:656 

Mattingly P, see Morris I. 327:1275 

Mattock ES, Health of indigenous people. 327:989 (L) 

Maurer BT, A tight squeeze (Personal view). 327:817 (R) 

Mauron A, see Hurst. 327:52 

May CR, see Finch TL. 327:1205 

Mayaud P, see Hawkes S. 327:633 

Mayer EK, Toxoplasmosis and HIV (Minerva). 327:818 (R) 

Mayon-White R, Safe Food (Books). 327:567 (R) 

Mayor S 

— Apparent increase in autism in children has stopped. 327:248 

(N) 

— Doctors told how to manage hypertension in sub-Saharan 

Africa. 327:1305 (N) 

— Drug users in China tested for HIV without consent. 327:579 

(N) 

— European society issues guidelines on cardiovascular disease. 


— Fewer night emergency operations are performed by juniors. 


— Hormone treatment increases breast cancer risk, study shows. 


— Infusing hormone fragment reduces appetite. 327:578 (N) 

— Medical injuries in US hospitals cause more than 30 000 

deaths each year. 327:887 (N) 

— Nature group extends rules on disclosure to review authors. 


— NHS cervical screening programme to introduce liquid based 

cytology. 327:948 (N) 

— NICE announces guidelines for use of rituximab. 327:766 

(N) 

— NICE guidance recommends fewer but earlier antenatal 

check ups. 327:1009 (N) 

— NICE issues new guidelines for patients with heart failure. 


— NICE recommends photodynamic therapy for certain 

patients with macular degeneration. 327:698 (N) 

— NIH announces new strategy for research. 327:765 (N) 

— Nobel prize in medicine awarded to MRI pioneers. 327:827 

(N) 

— Privately run surgery centres for NHS patients proposed. 


— Reach for the moon. 327:1067 (N) 

— Researcher from study alleging link between MMR and 

autism warns of measles epidemic. 327:1069 (N) 

— Scientists ®nd gene linking inherited breast and ovarian cancer 

to non-inherited cases. 327:1247 (N) 

— Shift to outpatient procedures has cut inpatient waiting times. 


— Small improvement seen in teenager with vCJD. 327:765 (N) 

— Specialists clarify when the bene®ts of HRT outweigh the 

risks. 327:888 (N) 

— Study shows that oral steroids are no more e#ective than placebo 

for viral wheeze in children. 327:1066 (N) 

— Test can predict which patients will bene®t from hormonal 

treatments. 327:1068 (N) 

— Thiazides could achieve major cost savings in uncomplicated 

hypertension. 327:521 (N) 

— UK introduces measures to reduce errors with methotrexate. 


— UN report predicts shortfall in AIDS funding in developing 

countries. 327:10 (N) 

— Value of prescribing heroin is uncertain. 327:638 (N) 

Mazur DJ 

— In uence of the law on risk and informed consent. 327:731 

(ED) 

— The New Medical Conversation: Media, Patients, Doctors, and the 

Ethics of Scientific Communication (Books). 327:755 (R) 

Meadow, Roy, group to review babies’ deaths (C Dyer). 327:10 

(N) 

measles, mumps and rubella vaccine 

— autism and, researcher warns of measles epidemic (S Mayor). 


— Hear the Silence (M Fitzpatrick, et al) (TV). 327:1411 (R) 

— legal aid withdrawn (C Dyer). 327:640 (N) 

— risk communication, understanding UK parents’ attitude (P 

Bellaby). 327:725 (ED), 1403 (L) 

— The Third Degree. MMR: Can You Decide? BBC3 (Berger) 

(TV). 327:628 (R) 

— UK and Italy have low uptake (F Fleck). 327:1124 (N) 

meat, animal fats, breast cancer risk (JH Tanne). 327:181 (N) 

Mfedecins Sans Frontières 

— disease in developing world (G Mudur). 327:11 (N) 

— meningitis vaccine appeal (F Fleck). 327:769 (N) 

— sta# are put at risk by US military’s description of itself as 

“humanitarian” (J Burgermeister). 327:1248 (N) 

Medford ARL, et al, In praise of medical secretaries. 327:991 (L) 

medical audit 

— how to do it (AJ Gibbons, et al) BMJ Careers 327: s1 (5 July 

2003) 

— maternal health services, Uganda (AD Weeks, et al). 327:1329 

(Q) 

— soap usage by primary care team (A Stone) (Ward round). 


Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health, Recommended 

Standards for NHS HIV Services (D Singh). 327:830 (N) 

medical humanities, rationale (W Lewis) BMJ Careers 327:s65 

(30 August 2003) 

medical informatics see also computers; telemedicine 

— BMJ ehealth special issue (AR Jadad, et al). 327:300 (E) 

— progress (M Al-Ubaydli, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s81 (13 September 

2003) 

medical records see also electronic medical records 

— new consent form designed for release (C Dyer). 327:122 (N) 

Medical Research Council see also research 

— Blakemore asks for increased budget (G Watts). 327:1363 

(N) 

— Blakemore interview (G Watts). 327:582 (N) 

16 MCC-MED July−December 2003

— Clinical Trials for Tomorrow 

——overview (C Warlow). 327:240 (E) 

——summary (O Dyer). 327:182 (N) 

medical secretaries, in praise of. 327:991 (L) 

medicalisation, Die Krankheitserfinder [Disease mongers] (Blech) 


medicine, paradigm shift (K Barraclough) (Soundings). 327:569 

(R) 

Medicines Control Agency, slated by Commons committee (D 


Mehran R, see Bhargava B. 327:274 

Mehta AT, et al, Treatment of lysosomal storage disorders. 


Meigs JB, The metabolic syndrome. 327:61 (E) 

Melia J, Silent Scourge (Books). 327:568 (R) 

melioidosis, treatment, ethical problems in evaluation (AC 

Cheng, et al). 327:1280 (ED) 

Mellanby A, see Bothamley GH. 327:243 

Mellor D, Recruiting doctors from poor countries: the great brain 

robbery? Commentary: Recruitment is ethical. 327:928 

(ED) 

Mellor S, Treatment of tennis elbow: the evidence. 327:330 (C) 

Meltzer H, see Chalder T. 327:654 

men, breast cancers (GH Perkins, et al). 327:239 (E), 930 (L) 

Men T, et al, Russian mortality trends for 1991-2001: analysis by 

cause and region. 327:964 (P) 

Menessy, Andrea, Obituary (A Ho#mann). 327:398 

meningitis, WHO and MSF appeal for funds for new vaccine (F 

Fleck). 327:769 (N) 

meningococcal infections, case fatality rates: England 1963-98 

(MJ Goldacre, et al). 327:596 (P) 

Menniti-Ippolito F, see Traversa G. 327:18 

Menon N, see Devadasan N. 327:988 

Menon S, see Devadasan N. 327:988 

menopause, osteoarthritis, treatment in postmenopause (A 

Crannery). 327:355 (E), 1051 (L) 

menorrhagia, treatments (A Lethaby). 327:1243 (E) 

mental disorders see also commitment of mentally ill 

— Frank Bruno, media survey (R Persaud) (The Press). 327:816 

(R) 

— children, relative age within school year (R Goodman, et al). 


— drug abuse in psychiatric inpatients (B Barnaby, et al). 


— parents, impact on children (P Ramchandani, et al). 327:242 

(E) 

— patient concordance (M Shooter). 327:825 (E) 



mental health see also commitment of mentally ill 

— doctors, improving (J Graske) BMJ Careers 327:s188 (13 


— GP with special interest in (L Pogue) BMJ Careers 327:s33 (2 

August 2003) 

— images go on show (L Eaton). 327:1008 (N) 

— prisons, in uence of environmental factors (J Nurse, et al). 


— refugee children (M Fazel, et al). 327:134 (P) 

— soldiers, Northern Ireland security duties (G Lawrenson, et 




mental health services 

— Europe, patients kept in caged beds (K Krosnar). 327:1249 

(N) 

— Homerton Hospital exhibition (A Ferriman). 327:580 (N) 

— Manchester unit bullying and harassment (Z Kmietowicz). 


— UK bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny (R Dobson). 


— US, needs revamp (D Josefson). 327:248 (N) 

Menten J, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

Mercer CH, et al, Sexual function problems and help seeking 

behaviour in Britain: national probability sample survey. 

327:426 (PC) (correction, 649) 

Mercer S, et al, Equality for people with disabilities in medicine. 


Mercer, Stewart, on Professor Paul Dieppe (P Cross) (The doctor 

who in uenced me most) BMJ Careers 327:s123 (18 


Merchant A, see He K. 327:777 

Merriman, Anne, (R Goody) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s29 (26 

July 2003) 

Merrison AFA, et al, Treatment options for trigeminal neuralgia. 


Merritt, John Keith, Obituary (JV Howard). 327:168 

messes 

— “disa#ection” room (RD Price, et al). 327:1464 

— unsung resource (J Raw) (Personal view). 327:689 (R) 

Messori A, et al, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 


meta-analysis see also systematic reviews 

— measuring inconsistency (JPT Higgins, et al). 327:557 (ED) 

metabolic syndrome, prevention of type 2 diabetes and 

cardiovascular disease (JB Meigs). 327:61 (E) 

metastatic cancers, bisphosphonates and skeletal morbidity (JR 

Ross, et al). 327:469 (P) 

Metcalf BS, see Mallam KM. 327:592 

metformin, polycystic ovary syndrome, systematic review and 

meta-analysis (JM Lord, et al). 327:951 (P) 

methadone see also heroin 

— heroin medical prescription to treatment resistant addicts (W 

van den Brink, et al). 327:310 (P) (correction, 724) 

— prescriptions, e#ect of national guidelines: England 1990- 

2001 (J Strang, et al). 327:321 (P) 

methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, control (G Duckworth). 


methotrexate, adverse events, UK introduces measures to reduce 

errors (S Mayor). 327:70 (N) 

methylxanthines, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, metaanalysis 

of randomised trials (RG Barr, et al). 327:643 (P) 


Metsu, Gabriel, The Doctor’s Visit (P O’Donnell). 327:340 

Meyer AD, et al, Sweet dreams and sour awakenings. 327:1040 

Meyers AF, Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and 


Michelson J, Study of plantar fasciitis treatment is awed. 


Micksche M, see Arbyn M. 327:289 

midazolam, rapid tranquillisation for agitated emergency 

patients: comparison with haloperidol plus promethazine 

(TREC Collaborative Group). 327:708 (P) 

middle age, multiple morbidity management: attitudes to drug 

use (A Townsend, et al). 327:837 (P) 


Middleton B, Interests of charities. 327:344 (L) 

Middleton LP, see Perkins GH. 327:239 

Midgley A, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

Midgley AK, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:808 

(L) 

midwifery 

— education, risk attributable to sta# deployment and training 

(B Ashcroft, et al). 327:584 (P) 

— Ethel Burnside: coincidence and hypothesis (D Barker) (It’s 

good to talk). 327:1428 

Migone M, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

milk, human, saving expressed milk. Q&A (PCD Atapattu, et al). 


Millard, Frederick William, Obituary (T Harbottle). 327:56 

Miller P, Non-standard grade (trust grade) doctors: the BMA 

seniors’ view BMJ Careers 327:s130 (25 October 2003) 

Miller, Robert Stanley, Obituary (J Sinclair, et al). 327:625 

Millner R, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Milne E, Passive smoking. 327:502 (L) 

Milne, Malcolm Davenport, Two memorable physicians (R 

Gabriel). 327:479 

Milroy CM, et al, Reforming the coroner’s service. 327:175 (E) 

Milton, Catherine Maureen, Obituary (G Venn, et al). 327:1351 

Milton R, All stitched up. 327:1476 

mind, The Human Mind (I McClure) (TV). 327:995 (R) 

minister of health, time has come for a medical minister. 327:291 

(L) 

miracles, medical thaumaturgy (G Dunea) (Soundings). 327:401 

(R) 

Mirembe FM, see Weeks AD. 327:1329 

miscarriage see also abortion, induced 

— non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs exposure during pregnancy 

and (D-K Li, et al). 327:368 (P) 

missing persons 

— how we should deal with John Doe (P Desikan) (Personal 


— on internet (U Tayal) (Website of the week). 327:348 (R) 

mistakes see also malpractice 

— “The call we all dread...” (NK Sabharwal). 327:663 

— criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes (J Holbrook). 


— drug packaging (AK Fletcher) (Minerva). 327:878 (R) 

— drugs in egg cups (M Gutenstein). 327:549 

— good medical practice (R Anwar). 327:1213 

— on internet (I Vlad) (Website of the week). 327:1174 (R) 

— methotrexate, UK reduction measures (S Mayor). 327:70 (N) 

— surgical errors in theatre (SK Sarker) BMJ Careers 327:s109 


Mitchell AM, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

Mitchell K, et al, National survey of medical decisions at end of 

life made by New Zealand general practitioners. 327:202 

(PC) 

Mitchell PB, see Hall WD. 327:289 

Moatti JP, see Peretti-Watel P. 327:595 

Moayyedi P, see Delaney BC. 327:811 

mobile phones see also telephones; text messages 

— picture of jaw (J Carter). 327:1458 

— text message appointment reminders. 327:564 (L) 

Modernising Medical Careers, update (R MacDonald) BMJ 


Moe N, see Hawthorne G. 327:929 

Moens V, et al, Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia. 327:290 

(L) 

Moesenthin M, see Wrenger E. 327:147 

Mohammed F 

— Dictating clinic letters (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s148 (8 


— Speaking to patients’ relatives (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


Mohan J, see Pollock AM. 327:982 

Mokete M, et al, 10-minute consultation. High result in prostate 

speci®c antigen test. 327:379 (PC), 1227 (L) 

Mola G, et al, eds, Primary Mother Care and Population (Books). 


Momm F, et al, Palliative radiotherapy treatment of large 

squamous cell carcinoma (Minerva). 327:1356 (R) 

Moncrie# J, Antidepressant prescribing and suicide. 327:288 (L) 


Moneeb, Ahmed Abdelsalam, suspended for lying to cover up 

negligence (O Dyer). 327:888 (N) 

monolayer cytology, cervical screening, comparison with conventional 

cervical smear and human papillomavirus DNA testing. 


montelukast, asthma exacerbation in adults: trial (L Bjermer, et 


Montgomery, Desmond Alan Dill, Obituary (R Clarke, et al). 


Montgomery H, et al, My First MRCP Book (Books). 327:294 (R) 

Montgomery, James Nelson, Obituary (M Inman). 327:108 

Moore CF, Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists 

Disagree (Books). 327:568 (R) 

Moore H, et al, Improving management of obesity in primary 

care: cluster randomised trial. 327:1085 (PC) 

Moorthy K, et al, Objective assessment of technical skills in surgery. 


Morjaria A, et al, Congenital diaphragmatic hernia in 5 year old 

boy (Minerva). 327:1236 (R) (correction, 1381) 

morphine, sustained release morphine for management of refractory 

dyspnoea (AP Abernethy, et al). 327:523 (P), 1288 (L) 

Morrell P, Medicine before Science (Books). 327:935 (R) 

Morris DE, Virtues of the virtual committee BMJ Careers 


Morris I, et al, Lesson of the week. Colchicine in acute gout. 


Morris J, A perfect death? (Personal view). 327:236 (R) 

Morris JK, see Wald NJ. 327:616, 809 

Morris, Peter Edward, Obituary (P Palfrey, et al). 327:1351 

Morris S, et al, ABC of resuscitation. Resuscitation in pregnancy. 


Morrison B, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Books). 


Morrison CL, Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality with 

detoxi®cation. 327:393 (L) 

Morrison L, Curiouser and curiouser. 327:1146 

Morse GR, Loss of tolerance and overdose mortality with detoxi- 

®cation. 327:393 (L) 

Mort M, see Finch TL. 327:1205 

mortality see also death; life expectancy; maternal mortality; postoperative 

mortality 

— angina, prognosis with and without a diagnosis: Whitehall II 

prospective cohort study (H Hemingway, et al). 327:895 (P) 

— Angola, displaced former UNITA members and their families 

(T Grein, et al). 327:650 (P) 

— cannabis, tobacco comparison (S Sidney). 327:635 (E) 

— fractured neck of femur: English study 1968-98 (SE Roberts, 


— global, amenable to health care analysis (E Nolte, et al). 


— homeless people using hostels in Copenhagen (M Nordentoft, 


— Russia 

——social factors and 1990s increase. 327:751 (L) 

——trends 1991-2001: cause and region (T Men, et al). 


— sick leave as global measure of health: Whitehall II study evidence 

(M Kivimäki, et al). 327:364 (P) 

— social class gap is widening (Z Kmietowicz). 327:68 (N), 752 

(L) 

— surgeon speci®c mortality in adult cardiac surgery (B Bridgewater, 


— tobacco and: California. 327:501 (L), 502 (L), 503 (L), 504 

(L), 505 (L) 

Mosconi P, Industry funding of patients’ support groups. 


Mosekilde L, see Vestergaard P. 327:530 

Mosleh-Uddin, Khondker ("Salim"), Obituary (I Lone). 327:293 

Moszynski P 

— Charities say southern Sudan faces a health crisis and record 

malnutrition. 327:948 (N) 

— Deadly radiation ignored in Iraq. 327:11 (N) 

— Liberia faces a humanitarian catastrophe, warn aid agencies. 


— Sudan oods bring threat of disease. 327:357 (N) 

— Sudan to tighten law on female genital mutilation. 327:580 

(N) 

Moumjid N, et al, In uence of the law on risk and informed consent. 

Commentary: informed consent and risk communication 

in France. 327:734 (ED) 

Mowbray, Peter John, Obituary (D Mowbray). 327:625 

Moy R, see Blackburn C. 327:257 

Moynihan R 

— Another US healthcare giant is hit by scandal. 327:1128 (N) 

— Claims by charity exaggerate dangers of osteoporosis. 


— Cochrane at crossroads over drug company sponsorship. 


— Cochrane launches global consultation on drug company 

sponsorship. 327:1068 (N) 

— Cochrane plans to allay fears over industry in uence. 


— Report calls for better evaluation of pharmacogenetic tests. 


— Safety concerns about breast implants persist. 327:947 (N) 

— US politicians want federal funding to discover cost e#ectiveness 

of new drugs. 327:642 (N) 

Mucci LA, see Tamimi RM. 327:622 

Mudanga B, see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

Mudur G 

— Aid agency to tackle disease in the developing world. 327:11 

(N) 

— Asbestos poisoning was covered up by doctors, claims health 

team. 327:248 (N) 

— Doctors in India prescribe unapproved fertility drug. 327:768 

(N) 

— Neonatal deaths hamper India’s infant mortality targets. 


— No eradication of polio without inactivated vaccine, says 

expert. 327:769 (N) 

Mueller H-H, see Haake M. 327:75 

Mueller I, see Haake M. 327:75 

Mugford M, see Toroyan T. 327:906 

Muhammed S, see Braude P. 327:978 

Mukherjee JS, et al, Tackling HIV in resource poor countries. 


Mukhtar O, The Miraculous Fever Tree (Books). 327:169 (R) 

Mulhem, Feda 

— manslaughter trial after vincristine error 

——halted (C Dyer). 327:123 (N) 


——criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes (J Holbrook). 


Müller R, see Wrenger E. 327:147 

Mulley GP, see Gale RP. 327:1456 

Mulley K, see Taket A. 327:673 

multiple myeloma, treatment (S Singhal). 327:575 (E) 

multiple sclerosis 

— cannabis and, trial shows no clear bene®t (O Dyer). 327:1128 

(N) 

— NICE easier access recommendation (A Jain). 327:1247 (N) 

— stressful life events and exacerbations (D Buljevac, et al). 


— sun exposure, skin phenotype, and (IAF van der Mei, et al). 


Munns A, Cabbage leaves. 327:451 (L) 

Munz Y, see Moorthy K. 327:1032 

Murdoch AP, In vitro fertilisation for all? 327:1226 (L) 

Murphy CK, Do patients need to read research? 327:564 (L) 

Murphy DJ, et al, Women’s views on the impact of operative 

delivery in the second stage of labour: qualitative interview 


Murphy M, see Yudkin P. 327:28 

Murphy MF, see Rayment R. 327:331 

Murphy, Patrick Joseph, Obituary (J Heathcote). 327:625 

Murphy S, Prognosis of entanglement could be serious. 327:343 

(L) 

Murray CJL, see Shibuya K. 327:154 

Murray ET, et al, INRs and point of care testing. 327:5 (E) 

Murray J, A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (Books). 


Murray L, et al, Risk of adenocarcinoma in Barrett’s oesophagus: 

population based study. 327:534 (P) 

Murray, Richard William Cordiner, Obituary (M Stewart). 


Murti SS, What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

Mutungi A, see Weeks AD. 327:1329 

myalgic encephalitis, epidemiology in 5-15 year olds (T Chalder, 


mycobacterium tuberculosis, in infant boy (RA Cathcart, et al) 


myeloma, bortezomib and relapsed myeloma (JH Tanne). 327:7 

(N) 

Myerson N, Do school exams predict doctors’ success? 327:810 

(L) 

Myhill P, Through the looking glass. 327:1323 

myocardial infarction see also cardiovascular diseases 

— antiretroviral drugs risk (S Gottlieb). 327:1186 (N) 

— aspirin combination with ibuprofen 


MED-MYO 17

——mortality cohort study (JP Curtis, et al). 327:1322 (P) 

— blood glucose increase during antihypertensive treatment as 

predictor of. 327:290 (L) 

— patient concordance, factors involved in deciding to start preventive 

treatment (DK Lewis, et al). 327:841 (PC) 

— preclinical coronary atherosclerosis (A Bertomeu, et al). 


— prehospital thrombolysis 

——overview (BD Prendergast). 327:1 (E) 

——cohort study (DK Pedley, et al). 327:22 (P), 1051 (L) 

——safety and feasibility carried out by paramedics (P Keeling, 


Myr R, No more free lunches. 327:342 (L) 

N 

Naik PC, see Evans R. 327:621 

Nair K, see Attia J. 327:345 

Nanchahal K, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

Naqvi N, see Qureshi SA BMJ Careers 327:s3 (5 July 2003) 

Nardell EA, Impact of DOTS and DOTS-plus on multidrug 

resistant TB. 327:164 (L) 

Nardi AE, Social anxiety disorder has social and economic 

burden. 327:1287 (L) 

Narvani AA, see Tsiridis E. 327:1167 

Nath E, see Kirwan CC. 327:597 

Nathanson V, Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, 

and the state of the World Medical Association. 327:561 

(L), 1107 (L), 1108 (L) 

National Association of Non-Principals, (R Fieldhouse, et al) 


National Audit O$ce, Achieving Improvements through Clinical 

Governance (Z Kmietowicz). 327:641 (N) 

National Clinical Assessment Authority 

— formal and informal suspensions (P Colbrook) BMJ Careers 


— poorly performing doctors to be dealt with more fairly (Z 

Kmietowicz). 327:69 (N) (correction, 422) 

National Con®dential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths, Who 

Operates When? (S Mayor). 327:1183 (N) 

National Electronic Library for Health, “Hitting the Headlines” 

is useful resource. 327:291 (L) 

National Health Service see also clinical governance; hospitals; 

private ®nance initiative; trusts 

— bed occupancy, comparison with Kaiser Permanente and 

Medicare (C Ham, et al). 327:1257 (P) 

— contrast with private sector (L Cardozo) (Personal view). 

327:509 (R), 680 (L) 

— electronic medical records: sharing information (N Booth). 


— getting better or worse? (R Smith). 327:1239 (E) 

— Government and the NHS (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1008 (N) 

— Health and Social Care Bill: end of Bevan’s vision? (AM Pollock, 


— identi®able leader needed? email conversation (D Berwick, et 

al) (It’s good to talk). 327:1421 

— Kaiser Permanente 

——health services research (J Lomas). 327:1301 (E) 

——lessons (J Shapiro, et al). 327:1241 (E) 

— managed clinical networks (C Douglas) (Soundings). 327:111 

(R) 

— medical minister of health: time has come. 327:291 (L) 

— overseas treatment court ruling (C Dyer). 327:831 (N) 

— performance, star rating system is misleading (M Gould). 


— Quest for Quality in the NHS (A Ferriman). 327:1250 (N) 

— sta$ng 

——English recruitment website (M Gould). 327:1367 (N) 

——ethnic minority managers increase planned (Z Kmietowicz). 


——swifter action on suspensions could save £14m (M 

Gould). 327:1065 (N) 

— too target driven (M Gould). 327:1127 (N) 

National Institute for Clinical Excellence 

— age-related macular degeneration: photodynamic therapy (S 


— antenatal care (S Mayor). 327:1009 (N) 

— diabetes treatment guidance (A Iles). 327:520 (N) 

— drug industry links, told to break (Z Kmietowicz). 327:637 

(N) 

— evaluation by WHO (N Devlin, et al). 327:1061 (E) 

— funding, money must be made available: NICE annual 

conference (C Shannon). 327:1368 (N) 

— heart failure guidelines (S Mayor). 327:179 (N), 932 (L) 

— multiple sclerosis, faster access recommended (A Jain). 


— rituximab guidelines announced (S Mayor). 327:766 (N) 

— submission tips for sponsoring organisations (A Burls, et al) 

(Snakes, ladders, and spin). 327:1446 

— in vitro fertilisation: local purchasers’ decisions (RE 

Ashcroft). 327:511 (E), 1226 (L) 

— WHO evaluation (N Devlin, et al). 327:1061 (E) 

National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (NSHPC) 

see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Nature, disclosure rules extended (S Mayor). 327:829 (N) 

Naunheim RS, et al, Cumulative e#ects of soccer heading are not 

fully known. 327:1168 (L) 

nausea, postoperative, treatment (MR Tramèr). 327:762 (E) 

Nazareth I, et al, Problems with sexual function in people attending 

London general practitioners: cross sectional study. 


Ncomanzi D, Third world brain drain. 327:930 (L) 

near drowning, ABC of resuscitation (M Harries). 327:1336 (C) 

Nease DE, et al, DSM depression and anxiety criteria and severity 

of symptoms in primary care: cross sectional study. 


neck pain 

— cost e#ectiveness, comparison of physiotherapy, manual 

therapy and GP care. 327:395 (L) 

— treatment, comparison of dynamic muscle training, relaxation 

training, or ordinary activity (M Viljanen, et al). 327:475 (P) 

Needham, Charles Douglas, Obituary (PF Jones). 327:229 

negligence see malpractice 

Nehaul, Balbir Ball Greene, Obituary (A Noone). 327:1350 

Nelson E, see Marshall MN. 327:599 

Nelson RL, Treatment for anal ®ssure. 327:354 (E) 

neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, (R Rayment, et al)(Lesson 

of the week). 327:331 (C) 

Nepal see also Asia 

— monkey tricks (C Bowles) BMJ Careers 327:s193 (20-27 


Nestle M, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism 


Netherlands see also Europe 

— boxing, banned unless rules are tightened? (T Sheldon). 


— drug industry, employee who queried trial wins appeal (T 


— euthanasia 

——e#ect on bereaved family and friends (NB Swarte, et al). 


——requests in general practice: trend analysis (RL Marquet, 


——“terminal sedation” de®nition (T Sheldon). 327:465 (N) 


— health services, spending cuts (T Sheldon). 327:641 (N) 

— heroin medical prescription to methadone resistant addicts 

(W van den Brink, et al). 327:310 (P) (correction, 724) 

— sexually transmitted infections, rise points to unsafe sex (T 


— sore throat, penicillin for acute sore throat in children (S 

Zwart, et al). 327:1324 (PC) 

Netlines see also internet 

— (H Brown). 327:508 (R), 688 (L), 996 (R), 1293 (L) 

Neuberger J 

— A healthy view of dying. 327:207 (ED) (correction, 422) 

— et al, Role of living liver donation in the United Kingdom. 

327:676 (ED) (correction, 987), 1287 (L) 

Neumann KH, see Wrenger E. 327:147 

neuralgia, treatment options (AFA Merrison, et al). 327:1360 (E) 

neuraminidase inhibitors, e#ect in treatment and prevention of 

in uenza. 327:105 (L) 

New Zealand see also Oceania 

— alcohol drinking, secondhand e#ects in university students 

(JD Langley, et al). 327:1023 (P) 

— education, decline in teaching autopsy (G O’Grady). 327:802 

(ED) 

— ethnicity, equity, and quality (KM McPherson, et al). 327:443 

(ED) 

— medical decisions at end of life made by GPs (K Mitchell, et 

al). 327:202 (PC) 

— quality improvement perspective and healthcare funding 

decisions (A Bloom®eld, et al). 327:439 (ED) (correction, 

987) 

— rugby, v. Australia: emotional meta-analysis (J Silberberg, et 

al) (This sporting life). 327:1475 

— tribal health policy (T Turia) (Personal view). 327:456 (R) 

— Whale Rider (U Tayal) (Film). 327:455 (R) 

Newman C, see Beaune L. 327:222 

Newman TB, The power of stories over statistics (It’s good to 

talk). 327:1424 

Newton J 

— see Blackledge HM. 327:526 

— see Squire IB. 327:1406 

Ngoma T, see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

NHS Direct see also patient information 

— demand exceeds capacity (R Dobson). 327:1126 (N) 

nicotine see also tobacco 

— abstinence from smoking after participation in patch trial (P 

Yudkin, et al). 327:28 (P) 

— addiction (A Jain) (Extracts from “Best Treatments” ). 327:1394 

(C) 

Nikalaou V, see Hotopf M. 327:1370 

Nilsson B, et al, Patients, doctors, and sickness bene®t (Personal 


nimesulide, hepatotoxicity (G Traversa, et al). 327:18 (P), 1050 

(L) 

Nisar PJ, et al, Managing haemorrhoids. 327:847 (C) 

nitric oxide, neonatal respiratory disorders (S Gottlieb). 


Niyizonkiza D, see Mukherjee JS. 327:1104 

Noakes TD, Overconsumption of uids by athletes. 327:113 (E) 

Nobel prize for medicine, 2003, awarded to MRI pioneers (S 


Nolan J, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

Nolte E, et al, Measuring the health of nations: analysis of 

mortality amenable to health care. 327:1129 (P) 

non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, rituximab, NICE guidelines 

announced (S Mayor). 327:766 (N) 

non-principal GPs, National Association of Non-Principals (R 

Fieldhouse, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s149 (8 November 

2003) 

non-standard grade doctors see also doctors 

— overview (N Cooper, et al). 327:943 (E) 

— BMA juniors’ view (S Eccles) BMJ Careers 327:s131 (25 


— BMA seniors’ view (P Miller) BMJ Careers 327:s130 (25 


— Department of Health’s view (P Loveland, et al) BMJ Careers 


— human resource view (S Storey) BMJ Careers 327:s129 (25 


— postgraduate dean’s view (W Burr) BMJ Careers 327:s133 


— recruitment in NHS: job advertisment analysis (S Dosani, et 


— wall of silence (P Cross) BMJ Careers 327:s134 (25 October 

2003) 

non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs see also drugs 

— Alzheimer’s disease and 

——(C Martyn). 327:353 (E) 

——(M Etminan, et al). 327:128 (P), 751 (L), 752 (L) 

— aspirin cardioprotective e#ects compromised by (S Gottlieb). 


— hepatotoxicity (G Traversa, et al). 327:18 (P), 1050 (L) 

— pregnancy exposure and miscarriage risk (D-K Li, et al). 


Nordentoft M, et al, 10 year follow up study of mortality among 

users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen. 327:81 

(PC) 

Norman RJ, see Lord RJ. 327:951 

Norris, Richard Lindley, Obituary (M Hawkins). 327:566 

North West Quality Improvement Programme in Cardiac 

Interventions, see Bridgewater B. 327:13 

Northern Ireland see also Europe 

— security duties and mental health of soldiers (G Lawrenson, et 


Norton R, see Furness S. 327:1455 

Norway see also Europe 

— pregnancy outcome in diabetic women in northeast England 

and 321:730 (P) (RETRACTION, 327:905). 929 (L) 

Norwegian scabies, in elderly man (E Ladoyanni, et al) 


Nothdurft HD, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Notta H, see Gatrad AR. 327:176 

Nottingham J, Women need better information on routine mammography. 


Novelli V, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Novotny T, see McKee M. 327:811 

nuclear medicine, career advice (J Frank) BMJ Careers 327:s137 


Nuebling M, see Heidegger T. 327:931 

Nuf®eld Council, Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues (D Singh). 


Nuf®eld Trust, Quest for Quality in the NHS (A Ferriman). 


Nundy S, see Bhutta Z. 327:941 

Nurse J 

— et al, In uence of environmental factors on metal health 

within prisons: focus group study. 327:480 (PC), 989 (L) 

— see Taket A. 327:673 

nurse prescribing, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:508 (R) 

nursing 

— One hundred years ago. 327:1150 

— urinary tract infections in children: nurse led education and 

direct access service (MG Coulthard, et al). 327:656 (PC), 

1346 (L) 

— US, shortage and ER depiction (J Lenzer) (TV). 327:1294 

(R) 

nutrition, bene®cial e#ects of immunonutrition in surgical 

patients (PC Calder). 327:117 (E), 682 (L), 683 (L) 

O 

Oakeshott P 

— Interactive case report. A 2 year old child with rash and fever. 

Commentary: how can general practitioners aid prompt 

referral? 327:918 (C) 

— et al, 10-minute consultation. Cervical Chlamydia trachomatis 

infection. 327:910 (PC) 

Oakley A, see Toroyan T. 327:906 

obesity 

— breast feeding duration and 

——overview (TJ Cli#ord). 327:879 (E) 

——18 year old Brazilian men (CG Victora, et al). 327:901 (P) 

— cancers and (C White). 327:700 (N) 

— fetal development and adult adiposity: India (AM Prentice). 


— management, improvement in primary care (H Moore, et al). 


— UK 

——concerted action needed (Z Kmietowicz). 327:69 (N) 

——Government faces pressure to tackle (A Elliott). 327:1125 

(N) 

— US 

——child checks (S Gottlieb). 327:518 (N) 

——food industry ensures that consumers are not told to eat 

less (A Elliot). 327:1067 (N) 

obituaries, changing art (T Bullamore) (The Press). 327:232 (R) 

O’Brien D, see McKee W. 327:104 

O’Brien, Declan John, Obituary (P Downey). 327:1231 

observerships, specialist registrar training (E Dick) BMJ Careers 

327: s73 (6 September 2003) 

obstetrics see also maternal health care 

— recent developments (AH Shennan). 327:604 (C) 

Obstetrics and Gynecology, apology for publishing author’s work 

without permission (Z Kmietowicz). 327:947 (N) 

O’Callaghan E, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

occupational health see also work 

— GPs and occupational health professionals (J Beach, et al). 


— managing sick employees (R Philipp, et al) (Tips on...) BMJ 


Oceania see also Australia; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea 

— diabetes, prevention and control in Paci®c people (S Foliaki, 


Ochan B, Uganda to launch door to door anonymous testing for 

HIV. 327:1186 (N) 

O’Connell H, et al, Alcohol use disorders in elderly 

people—rede®ning an age old problem in old age. 327:664 

(C) 

O’Connor AM, et al, Risk communication in practice: the contribution 

of decision aids. 327:736 (ED) 

O’Connor R, et al, Rehabilitation medicine BMJ Careers 


O’Connor S, et al, A death photographed: one patient’s story 

(The Press). 327:233 (R) 

O’Donnell C, et al, Compliance therapy: a randomised controlled 

trial in schizophrenia. 327:834 (P) 

O’Donnell P, Images of the good doctor in Western medicine: the 

doctor-patient relationship (part 2). 327:340 

O’Donnell R, et al, SARS: understanding the coronavirus. 


Odouli R, see Li D-K. 327:368 

O’Driscoll BR, et al, Copying letters to patients. 327:451 (L), 991 

(L) 

oesophageal cancers, surgery, mortality and morbidity (PM 

McCulloch, et al). 327:1192 (P) 

O’Flynn KJ, see Mokete M. 327:379 

Ogden J 

— What do symptoms mean? 327:409 (E) 

— see Lawrenson G. 327:1382 

O’Grady G, Death of the teaching autopsy. 327:802 (ED) 

O’Hehir RE, see Douglass JA. 327:226 

Ohlsson A, see Magee LA. 327:955 

Okkenhaug K, Integrity in Scientific Research (Books). 327:935 (R) 

olanzapine, pulmonary embolism and (IM Waage, et al) (Drug 

points). 327:1384 

Olaofe G, see De Souza BA. 327:1289 

Olayokun, Elizabeth, refugee doctors requalifying in UK (U 

Tayal) BMJ Careers 327:s93 (20 September 2003) 

Old®eld PD, Sharing patient information electronically throughout 

NHS. 327:623 (L) 

O’Leary MJ, Surgeon speci®c mortality in adult cardiac surgery. 


Olesen J, et al, ed, Reducing the Burden of Headache (Books). 


Oliver M, Neuraminidase inhibitors for in uenza A and B. 


Olshansky B, et al, Retroactive prayer: a preposterous hypothesis? 

(History and mystery). 327:1465 

omeprazole, dyspepsia, test and treat v. omeprazole treatment. 


Omu N, see Barnaby B. 327:783 

oncology see also cancers 

— career advice (S Larsson) BMJ Careers 327:s169 (29 November 

2003) 

Ong E, So you want to be a paediatric surgeon? BMJ Careers 


18 MYR-ONG July−December 2003

Ong Y-L, et al, Inducting doctors from the European Union into 

the NHS BMJ Careers 327:s99 (27 September 2003) 

Oniscu GC, et al, Equity of access to renal transplant waiting list 

and renal transplantation in Scotland: cohort study. 


Online Firsts, BMJ (J Smith). 327:1302 (E) 

Ononge S, see Weeks AD. 327:1329 

opera, brava at Fountains Abbey (JO Drife) (Soundings). 327:689 

(R) 

opiate detoxi®cation, loss of tolerance and overdose mortality 

after. 327:393 (L) 

organ transplantation see also tissue donors 

— China, city outlaws sale (J Parry). 327:520 (N) 

— European Union parliament tries to stamp out tra$cking (R 


— non-heart beating donors (A Pittard) (Personal view). 


— retention lessons we can learn (G Derrick) (Personal view). 


O’Riordan MM, Identifying patients at low risk of bowel cancer. 


Ormerod TE, Caught on the wrong foot (Personal view). 327:937 

(R) 

Ormsby J, see Nurse J. 327:480 

Orr, Charles Warden, Obituary (J Shores). 327:56 

Orzalesi M, see Cuttini M. 327:222 

oseltamivir, in uenza treatment and prevention. 327:105 (L) 

Ostacher MJ, see Rendell JM. 327:395 

osteoarthritis 

— Australia, charity claims exaggerate dangers (R Moynihan). 


— cabbage leaves for relief? 327:451 (L) 

— high heels, ruled out as risk factor (R Dobson). 327:768 (N) 

— knee tape e$cacy (RS Hinman, et al). 327:135 (PC) 

— postmenopausal, treatment (A Crannery). 327:355 (E), 1051 

(L) 

osteoporosis 

— HRT no longer ®rst choice (D Singh). 327:1364 (N) 

— parathyroid hormone e#ectiveness (S Gottlieb). 327:700 (N) 


— quantitative ultrasound and risk factor enquiry as predictors 

of postmenopausal osteoporosis. 327:392 (L) 

Osterhaus, Albert, interview with (T Sheldon). 327:950 (N) 

otitis externa, treatment, clinical e$cacy of three common treatments 

in primary care (FAM van Balen, et al). 327:1201 

(PC) 

Otolorin EO, see Weeks AD. 327:1329 

ovarian cancers 

— genetic link to breast cancers in non-inherited cases (S 


— HRT risk (S Gottlieb). 327:767 (N) 

overactive bladder, anticholinergic drugs: comparison with 

placebo. 327:291 (L) 

overseas doctors see also doctors 

— Iraq, asked to go back home and help (I Vlad). 327:1306 (N) 

— recruiting doctors from developing countries: great brain 

robbery? (V Patel). 327:926 (ED) 

ovulation 

— anovulation: ABC of subfertility (D Hamilton-Fairley, et al). 


— periodicity (O Dyer). 327:124 (N) 

Owen CG, et al,E#ect of breast feeding in infancy on blood pressure 

in later life: systematic review and meta-analysis. 


Owen, William Jones, Obituary (I McColl). 327:1171 

Owens N, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

Owens RG, see Mitchell K. 327:202 

Oxford Eye Hospital, new treatment centre is threat to NHS (O 


Oxman AD, see Sackett DL. 327:1442 

P 

Pacey A, Sperm you can bank on (Personal view). 327:1354 (R) 

Paci®c, diabetes, prevention and control in Paci®c people (S 

Foliaki, et al). 327:437 (ED) 

paediatric surgery, career advice (E Ong) BMJ Careers 327:s25 

(26 July 2003) 

paediatrics 

— cardiology: career advice (SA Qureshi, et al) BMJ Careers 


— humility not diagnostic pride (BT Maurer) (Personal view). 


Page M, see Hemingway H. 327:895 

pagers, inventor’s story (F Smith). 327:719 

Pai SA, Compassion’s Way (Books). 327:1292 (R) 

pain see also analgesia 

— children often undertreated (JH Tanne). 327:1185 (N) 

— chronic pain management in children and adolescents. 


— depression treatment improves pain in elderly (JH Tanne). 


Paisley S, see Hind D. 327:361 

Pakistan see also Asia 

— smoking in adults: in uences. 327:165 (L) 

Palestine, Israeli occupation of territories has damaged health (O 


Paling J, Strategies to help patients understand risks. 327:745 

(ED) 

palliative care see also death 

— Africa, quality care at end of life (C Sepulveda, et al). 327:209 

(ED) 

— depression, is “Are you depressed?” an appropriate question? 

(M Lloyd-Williams, et al). 327:372 (P) 

— developing countries, Dingle Spence (G Yamey) (Pro®le) 

BMJ Careers 327:s30 (26 July 2003) 

— doctors’ opinions: France (P Peretti-Watel, et al). 327:595 (P) 

— doctors should not discuss resuscitation (C Manistry, et al) 

(For and against). 327:614 (ED) 

— doctors’ survival predictions in cancer patients (P Glare, et 

al). 327:195 (P), 1048 (L) 

— ethnic groups (AR Gatrad, et al). 327:176 (E), 1049 (L) 

— healthy view of dying (J Neuberger). 327:207 (ED) 


— last hours or days of life. 327:221 (L), 222 (L), 223 (L), 224 

(L), 225 (L) 

— lesson of young woman. A memorable patient (M Gri$ths). 


— minority needs (AR Gatrad, et al). 327:176 (E), 1049 (L) 

— planning for good death: responding to unexpected events (Y 

Saunders, et al). 327:204 (ED), 1049 (L) 

— Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care (Lloyd-Williams, ed) 



— Uganda, needs survey (E Kikule). 327:192 (P) 

Palmer AR, see Mokete M. 327:379 

Palmroos P, see Viljanen M. 327:475 

Panchagula U, et al, Consistency in anaesthetic care. 327:931 (L) 

pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurysm, in man (JA Gossage, et al) 


Panja A, Failures can be the pillars of success (Personal view). 


Papagiannis A, Returning to work in the United Kingdom as a 

locum consultant BMJ Careers 327:s171 (29 November 

2003) 

Papinczak T, see Pirozzo S. 327:967 

Papua New Guinea see also Oceania 

— diabetes, sustaining better care in indigenous communities (R 

McDermott, et al). 327:428 (Q) 

paracetamol 

— exposure during pregnancy and miscarriage risk (D-K Li, et 


— suicide and, national mortality statistics and local non-fatal 

self-poisonings. 327:287 (L) 

parachutes, death prevention and major trauma related to gravitational 

challenge (GCS Smith, et al) (Hazardous journeys). 


parathyroid surgery, multiple outcomes in primary hyperparathyroidism 

(P Vestergaard, et al). 327:530 (P) 

parent-child relations, risk communication, understanding UK 

parents’ attitudes to MMR vaccination (P Bellaby). 327:725 

(ED), 1403 (L) 

Parker, Edwin James Essex, Obituary (PJ Ward). 327:108 

Parker S, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Parkin D, see Devlin N. 327:1061 

Parmar MS, Two groups were di#erent in cardiovascular risk 

study. 327:290 (L) 

Parr, Evan John ("Jack"), Obituary (A Bryan). 327:108 

Parry J 

— Chinese city outlaws sale of human organs. 327:520 (N) 

— Hong Kong under WHO spotlight after u outbreak. 327:308 

(N) 

— WHO issues guidelines to manage any future SARS 

outbreak. 327:411 (N) 

Parson TJ, see Li L. 327:904 

partner noti®cation, control of sexually transmitted infections (S 

Hawkes, et al). 327:633 (E) 

Partridge P, see McManus IC. 327:139 

Paschalides C, see O’Driscoll BR. 327:451 

Pasquina P, et al, Prophylactic respiratory physiotherapy after 

cardiac surgery: systematic review. 327:1379 (P) 

passive smoking see also smoking 

— infant exposure reduction strategies (C Blackburn, et al). 


— mortality and: California. 327:501 (L), 502 (L), 503 (L), 504 

(L), 505 (L) 

Patel R, see Lawlor DA. 327:712, 1288 

Patel S, see Ross JR. 327:469 

Patel, Suli ("Pat"), Obituary (A Anderson). 327:229 

Patel V, Recruiting doctors from poor countries: the great brain 

robbery? 327:926 (ED) 

Paterson, Colin, GMC hearing: “woeful” evidence (O Dyer). 


Pathak-Ray V, et al, Cataract “couched” after blow to eye (Minerva). 


pathogens, The Discovery of the Germ (Waller) (Books). 327:57 (R) 

patient admission see also bed occupancy 

— allergy: analysis of national admissions data (R Gupta, et al). 


— day case pilot programme evaluation (H McLeod, et al). 


patient care, doctors’ emotional reactions to recent death of 

patient (EM Redinbaugh, et al). 327:185 (P) 

patient concordance 


——“Ask about medicines” consortium (A Ferriman). 327:831 

(N) 

——challenge of concordance (A Fadiman) 327:867 (correction, 

328:35) 

——children’s use of medicines (EJ Sanz). 327:858 (ED) 

——death, where is thy sting? (L Farrell) (Soundings). 327:877 

(R) 

——directly observed treatment for tuberculosis (P Garner, et 


——“doing prescribing": how doctors can be more e#ective (G 

Elwyn, et al). 327:864 (ED) 

——drug taking ethics: wolf in sheep’s clothing (I Heath). 


——errors with drugs because of packaging (AK Fletcher) 


——heart attack preventive treatment decisions: attitudes 

survey (DK Lewis, et al). 327:841 (PC) 

——hormone replacement therapy 

——overview (F Gri$ths). 327:820 (E) 

——changes after report from Women’s Health Initiative (B 

Lawton, et al). 327:845 PC) 

——on internet (G Jones) (Website of the week). 327:876 (R) 

——managing haemorrhoids (PJ Nisar, et al). 327:847 (C) 

——middle age multiple morbidity management: attitudes to 

drug use (A Townsend, et al). 327:837 (P) 

——patient’s perspective on medicines in mental illness (M 

Shooter). 327:825 (E) 

——prescribing and taking medicines (G Jones). 327:819 (E) 

——primrose path to health? (RE Ferner). 327:821 (E) 

——schizophrenia randomised trial (C O’Donnell, et al). 


——tuberculosis treatment (D Maher, et al). 327:822 (E) 

——what information do patients need about medicines? (D 

Dickinson, et al). 327:861 (ED) 

——when ignorance is not bliss (W Jones) (Personal views). 


patient discharge, residential homes’ shortage blamed for delays. 


patient education, diabetes, intensive education for lifestyle 

change (C Fox, et al). 327:1120 (E) 

patient groups, relationships between the pharmaceutical industry 

and patients’ organisations. 327:343 (L), 344 (L) 

patient information see also NHS Direct 

— breast cancer screening, women need better information 

about routine mammography (H Thornton, et al). 327:101 

(ED), 868 (L), 869 (L) 

— expert patients programme recognises value of patients. 


— what information do patients need? (D Dickinson, et al). 


patient participation see also decision making; doctor-patient 

relations 

— advisers for GP surgeries (K Eaton). 327:885 (N) 

— colon cancer. A memorable patient (MR Cahill). 327:1089 

— euthanasia, voices are needed (YYW Mak, et al). 327:213 

(ED) (correction, 556) 

— importance of patient preferences in treatment decisions: 

challenges for doctors (RE Say, et al). 327:542 (C) 

— informed consent, making patient centred (J Bridson, et al). 


— in medical education (A Howe, et al). 327:326 (LP), 1110 (L) 

— new patients’ forums are no substitute for community health 

councils: Commons’ report (A Gulland). 327:121 (N) 

— prescriptions, how doctors can be more e#ective (G Elwyn, et 


— rate limiting factors in recruitment of patients in cancer 

research (P Corrie, et al). 327:320 (P) 

— risk understanding (H Thornton). 327:693 (E), 1403 (L) 

— role in risk communication (W Godolphin). 327:692 (E), 

1403 (L), 1404 (L) 

— strategies to help patients understand risks (J Paling). 327:745 

(ED) 

patient rights, abortion, EU test case may threaten (C Dyer). 


patient safety, Improving Patient Safety: Insights from American, 

Australian and British Healthcare (Emslie, et al, eds) (Books). 


patients 

— BMJ theme issue. 327:448 (L), 449 (L) 

— experts in own ®eld. 327:450 (L) 

— focus is on patients’ clinical needs and distress. 327:451 (L) 

— hospital, not fully informed about drugs (L Eaton). 327:180 

(N) 

— need to read research? 327:564 (L) 

— patient-centred death (J Clark). 327:174 (E) 

Patnick J, Women need better information on routine mammography. 


Paton A, The Visit of the Royal Physician (Books). 327:508 (R) 

Pauleau A, Death in heat waves. 327:1228 (L) 

Payne S, see O’Connor S. 327:233 

peak ow monitoring, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 

detection (H Jackson, et al). 327:653 (P) 

Pearce N, see Foliaki S. 327:406, 437 

Pearson R, see Stock N BMJ Careers 327s:49 (16 August 2003) 

Peckham CS, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Pedley DK, et al, Prospective observational cohort study of time 

saved by prehospital thrombolysis for ST elevation myocardial 

infarction delivered by paramedics. 327:22 (P), 1051 

(L) 

peer review 

— Get Peered! game (T Je#erson, et al) (Snakes, ladders, and 

spin). 327:1439 

— more transparency called for. 327:989 (L) 

— Science, “ecstasy” article retraction (S Pincock). 327:579 (N) 

Pegliasco H, see Peretti-Watel P. 327:595 

Pegum, Joseph, Obituary (H Baker). 327:56 

Peile E, Interactive case report. A 2 year old child with rash and 

fever. Commentary: learning to stay vigilant about 

conditions that are rare but important. 327:919 (C) 

Pell JP 

— see Smith GCS. 327:313, 1459 

— see Walker A. 327:1316 

Pelley K, see Stabinski L. 327:1101 

Pemberton, Anthony, Obituary (D Ker). 327:506 

Pemberton J, The Turnstone (Books). 327:1353 (R) 

Pengel LHM, et al, Acute low back pain: systematic review of its 

prognosis. 327:323 (PC) 

penicillin, acute sore throat in children: randomised, double blind 

trial (S Zwart, et al). 327:1324 (PC) 

Pepe PE, Shock in polytrauma. 327:1119 (E) 

percutaneous coronary intervention 

— ABC of interventional cardiology (GC Kaye). 327:280 (C) 

— new developments: ABC of interventional cardiology (J Gunn, 


— non-coronary: ABC of interventional cardiology (ED Grech). 


— pharmacotherapy: ABC of interventional cardiology (R Philipp, 


Peretti-Watel P, et al, Doctors’ opinions on euthanasia, end of life 

care, and doctor-patient communication: telephone survey 

in France. 327:595 (P) 

perfectionism, tips (SE Kersley) BMJ Careers 327:s76 (6 


performance see also league tables 

— coronary bypass surgery, rating heart surgeons’ success. 


— doctors 

——Alastair Scotland interview (G Watts). 327:702 (N) 

——dealt with more fairly (Z Kmietowicz). 327:69 (N) 


— gold standard: all that glisters is not gold (TE Love). 


— royal colleges’ role (J Wilkinson, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s91 


— strategies to optimise data for corrupt managers and incompetent 

clinicians (D Pitches, et al) (Snakes, ladders, and spin). 


— surgery 

——objective assessment of technical skills (K Moorthy, et al). 


——outcome determinants. 327:564 (L) 

performance indicators, NHS, star rating system is misleading 

(M Gould). 327:1008 (N) 

peritoneal dialysis uid, spurious hyperglycaemia and icodextrin 

in (SG Riley, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:608 (C) 

Perkin MR, Football position and atopy—both subject to the 

birth order e#ect? (This sporting life). 327:1473 

Perkins GH, et al, Breast cancer in men. 327:239 (E), 930 (L) 

Perrier L, see Davis D. 327:33 

Perry, John Gilbert, Obituary (M Perry). 327:754 

Persaud R 

— Knocking Bruno when he is down (The Press). 327:816 (R) 

— Therapy Culture (Books). 327:1293 (R) 

persistent vegetative state 

— new guidance on diagnosis (C Dyer). 327:67 (N) 

— US, Florida governor orders reinsertion of feeding tube (F 

Charatan). 327:1010 (N) 

Personal view 

— Are HIV positive asylum seekers an unfair burden on the 

NHS? (DR Chadwick). 327:171 (R) 

— Caring for the elderly: a cautionary tale (P Hettiaratchy). 


— Caught on the wrong foot (TE Ormerod). 327:937 (R) 

— Chaos and corruption: an everyday tale of health care in 

Macedonia (K Krosnar). 327:1235 (R) 

— Contrasts (L Cardozo). 327:509 (R), 680 (L) 

ONG-PER 19

— Cultural safety and the health of adolescents (NJ Gray, et al). 

327:457 (R) (correction, 556) 

— Die and let live (A Pittard). 327:1355 (R) 

— The doctors’ mess: the unsung resource (J Raw). 327:689 (R) 

— Failure (CA Pierach). 327:569 (R) 

— Failures can be the pillars of success (A Panja). 327:1115 (R) 

— The ®rst world’s role in the third world brain drain (LF 

Levy). 327:170 (R), 929 (L) (correction, 1016), 930 (L) 

— Freddie (S Stephenson). 327:236 (R) 

— Freedom from pain goes a long way to a “good death” (J 

Riley). 327:235 (R) 

— The good of small things (MJ Marret). 327:234 (R) 

— Has the President’s Council on Bioethics missed the boat? (L 

Turner). 327:629 (R) 

— How we should deal with John Doe (P Desikan). 327:349 (R) 

— I dread not death but dying (B Allt). 327:237 (R) 

— Lessons we can learn from organ retention (G Derrick). 


— Listen to the patient (B Kirkup). 327:401 (R) 

— Patients, doctors, and sickness bene®t (B Nilsson, et al). 


— A perfect death? (J Morris). 327:236 (R) 

— Poppies in Kosovo, gerbera daisies in Basra (C Du#). 327:297 

(R) 

— Reporting risk—that’s entertainment (G Easton). 327:756 

(R), 1404 (L) 

— Risk, statistics, and the individual (G Shelford). 327:757 (R) 

— Should elderly patients be made to sit in chairs? (M Bliss). 


— Sperm you can bank on (A Pacey). 327:1354 (R) 

— A tight squeeze (BT Maurer). 327:817 (R) 

— A time to ask what you want of WHO (K Baverstock). 


— Tribal health policy in New Zealand (T Turia). 327:456 (R) 

— What it’s really like at the coalface (J Stokes). 327:59 (R) 

— When ignorance is not bliss (W Jones). 327:877 (R) 

— Who should take care of children with epilepsy? (RN 

Chinthapalli). 327:1413 (R) 

— Who’d be a reformer? (J Shepherd). 327:1295 (R) 

Peskett S, et al, A career check for medical managers BMJ Careers 


Peters L, see Marquet RL. 327:201 

Peters M, see Higgs R. 327:53 

Petrie N, Dosh for dummies BMJ Careers 327:s115 (11 October 

2003) 

Pfe#er NH, Time to clarify e#ect of socioeconomic class on subfertility. 


pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues (D Singh). 


pharmacology, career advice (D Smethhurst) BMJ Careers 


Philipp R 

— et al, ABC of interventional cardiology. Interventional pharmacotherapy. 


— et al, Managing sick employees (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


Phillips M, see Lane R. 327:115 

photodynamic therapy, macular degeneration: NICE recommendation 

(S Mayor). 327:698 (N) 

physiotherapy 

— cost e#ectiveness, comparison with manual therapy and GP 

care for neck pain. 327:395 (L) 

— respiratory, after cardiac surgery: systematic review (P 

Pasquina, et al). 327:1379 (P) 

Picado C, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

Pickard S, et al, Can gynaecology teaching associates provide high 

quality e#ective training for medical students in the United 

Kingdom? Comparative study. 327:1389 (LP) 

Pickering S, et al, ABC of subfertility. Further advances and uses of 

assisted conception technology. 327:1156 (C) 

Pickering WG, Systematic clinical accountability is required. 


Pickersgill TP 

— et al, Specialist registrars acting up as consultants BMJ 


— see Hadjikoutis S. 327:905 

Pierach CA, Failure (Personal view). 327:569 (R) 

pigmented skin lesions, diagnostic aid evaluation in general practice 

(DR English, et al). 327:375 (PC), 1167 (L) 

Pik N, What is a good death? 327:1048 (L) 

Pincock S 

— Nearly 50 000 adults in the United Kingdom now have HIV. 


— Patients put their relationship with their doctors as second 

only to that with their families. 327:581 (N) 

— Plan launched to tackle hospital infections. 327:1366 (N) 

— Schistosomiasis initiative extended to ®ve more countries. 


— Science forced to retract article on “ecstasy". 327:579 (N) 

— WHO tries to tackle problem of counterfeit medicines in 

Asia. 327:1126 (N) 

Piper J, see Pickard S. 327:1389 

Pirmohamed M 

— et al, Monitoring drug treatment. 327:1179 (E) 

— see Suvarna R. 327:1454 

Pirozzo S, et al, Whispered voice test for screening for hearing 

impairment in adults and children: systematic review. 


Pitches D, et al, How to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear—a 

comprehensive review of strategies to optimise data for corrupt 

managers and incompetent clinicians (Snakes, ladders, 

and spin). 327:1436 

Pittard A, Die and let live (Personal view). 327:1355 (R) 

place of death, children and young people with cancer in England 

(IJ Higginson, et al). 327:478 (P) 

plague 

— mistake that might have been my last (D Landsborough). 


— US expert indicted on missing bacteria charges (JH Tanne). 


— US expert trial conviction (JH Tanne). 327:1307 (N) 

plantar fasciitis, extracorporeal shock wave therapy: randomised 

trial (M Haake, et al). 327:75 (P), 870 (L) 

plastic surgery, eternal youth (I Loe er) (Soundings). 327:1235 

(R) 

Platt JC, see Atapattu PCD. 327:1338 

Plavinskaya SI, see Plavinski SL. 327:751 

Plavinski SL, et al, Increase in mortality in Russia in the 1990s. 


Plummer, Norman Swift, Two memorable physicians (R 

Gabriel). 327:479 

pneumonia, US troops in Iraq (S Gottlieb). 327:358 (N) 

pneumonia vaccine, Wyeth pushes for all children under 2 (L 

Tite). 327:1249 (N) 

POEM* see also evidence based medicine 

— Anti-in ammatories don’t slow cognitive decline in 

Alzheimer’s. 327 (13 September 2003) 

— Antibiotics are no better than placebo for symptoms of 

sinusitis. 327 (8 November 2003) 

— Aspirin protects women at risk of pre-eclampsia without 

causing bleeding. 327 (15 November 2003) 

— Consider turning breech presentations at 34-36 weeks. 327 


— Continuous use of combined contraceptive pill minimises 

vaginal bleeding. 327 (26 July 2003) 

— Diuretics should be ®rst line treatment for hypertension. 327 

(30 August 2003) 

— Ginkgo biloba may help tinnitus, but needs further investigation. 

327 (20 September 2003) 

— Glucosamine improves joint mobility for 1 in 5 patients with 

osteoarthritis. 327 (6 December 2003) 

— Herbal tea helps reduce the pain of acute pharyngitis. 327 (27 


— Hip protectors are ine#ective for preventing hip and pelvic 

fractures. 327 (2 August 2003) 

— Impermeable bed covers don’t help allergic rhinitis. 327 (18 


— Lifetime risk of mole transforming to melanoma is very low. 

327 (5 July 2003) 

— New antipsychotic drugs are slightly better than older ones. 

327 (23 August 2003) 

— Only a third of people with chronic fatigue have chronic 

fatigue syndrome. 327 (29 November 2003) 

— Oral clindamycin for aymptomatic bacterial vaginosis in early 

pregnancy reduces premature births. 327 (19 July 2003) 

— Oxybutynin is preferred to tolterodine for overactive bladder. 

327 (1 November 2003) 

— Paroxetine may help with hot ushes. 327 (4 October 2003) 

— Red clover is no better than placebo for hot ushes. 327 (25 


— Routine use of magnetic resonance scans for back pain 

increases costs without improving pain or function. 327 (11 


— Soy-derived iso avones don’t help hot ushes. 327 (9 August 

2003) 

— Tap water is as good as sterile saline to irrigate simple lacerations. 

327 (16 August 2003) 

— treatment of type 2 diabetes review article survey (AF 

Shaughnessy, et al). 327:266 (IP), 811 (L) 

— Type of antidepressant is not linked to suicide rates. 327 (12 

July 2003) 

— Warming diphtheria-tetanus vaccines doesn’t reduce pain. 

327 (6 September 2003) 

— When DNA test for HPV is negative, patients are unlikely to 

have cervical cancer. 327 (22 November 2003) 

Pogue L, Working as a GP with a special interest in mental health 

BMJ Careers 327:s33 (2 August 2003) 

point of care testing 

— overview (ET Murray, et al). 327:5 (E) 

— reliability of international normalised ratios (L Poller, et al). 


poisoning, self, co-proxamol and, national mortality statistics and 

local non-fatal self-poisonings. 327:287 (L) 

Poland see also Europe 

— tobacco industry, price war to o#set tax rises (A Gilmore). 


polio 

— inactivated vaccine (G Mudur). 327:769 (N) 

— WHO campaign relaunch (F Fleck). 327:466 (N) 

Poller L, et al, Reliability of international normalised ratios from 

two point of care test systems: comparison with 

conventional methods. 327:30 (PC) 

Pollock AM 

— et al, New deal from the World Trade Organization. 327:571 

(E) 

— et al, NHS and the Health and Social Care Bill: end of 

Bevan’s vision? 327:982 (ED) 

— see Kerrison S. 327:553 

— see McNally N. 327:550 

Polo J, see Rivas P. 327:711 

Poloniecki JD, see Tekkis PP. 327:1196 

Polos PG, see Bjermer L. 327:891 

polycystic ovary syndrome, metformin and, systematic review 

and meta-analysis (JM Lord, et al). 327:951 (P) 

polypill see under cardiovascular diseases 

polytrauma, shock (PE Pepe). 327:1119 (E) 

Ponsonby A-L 

— see Glasgow NJ. 327:659 

— see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Pope C, see Murphy DJ. 327:1132 

population 

— on internet (A Iles) (Website of the week). 327:628 (R) 

— Primary Mother Care and Population (Mola, et al, eds) (Books). 


Porter C, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

portfolio careers, John Lwanda (J Lwanda) BMJ Careers 


Portnay EL, see Curtis JP. 327:1322 

postmenopause, osteoarthritis treatment (A Crannery). 327:355 

(E), 1051 (L) 

postmortems 

— death of teaching autopsy (G O’Grady). 327:802 (ED) 

— family attitudes to research using samples from (C Womack, 


— obtaining consent (MB McDermott). 327:804 (ED) 

postnatal depression see depression, postnatal 

postoperative complications see also surgery, operative 

— nausea and vomiting, treatment (MR Tramèr). 327:762 (E) 

— Scotland, steady fall (B Christie). 327:1367 (N) 

postoperative mortality see also mortality 

— colorectal cancers, prospective national study (PP Tekkis, et 


— gastro-oesophageal cancers (PM McCulloch, et al). 327:1192 

(P) 

— lobectomy, useful surgical quality standard? (T Treasure, et 


— NCEPOD report: Who Operates When? (S Mayor). 327:1183 

(N) 

Potts R, Role of living liver donation. 327:1287 (L) 

poverty see also socioeconomic factors 

— Edinburgh 1840. Endpiece (JH Baron). 327:1225 

— e#ectiveness of out-of-home day care for disadvantaged families 

(T Toroyan, et al). 327:906 (PC) 

Powell J, see Li ACY. 327:990 

Powell, John Christopher, Obituary (RM Simpson). 327:685 

Power C 

— see Hyppönen E. 327:898 

— see Li L. 327:904 

Power, Roy, sabbatical locum work interview (R MacDonald) 


Powers M, In uence of the law on risk and informed consent. 

Commentary: communicating risk in the United Kingdom. 


Powlson M, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:807 

(L) 

practice guidelines see guidelines 

Prakash K, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Pravinkumar E, Rate and rhythm are important in critically ill 

patients. 327:931 (L) 

prayer, retroactive prayer: preposterous hypothesis? (B 

Olshansky, et al) (History and mystery). 327:1465 

pregnancy see also birth weight; depression, postnatal; labour 

— ABC of resuscitation (S Morris, et al). 327:1277 (C) 

— average energy intake among women: boy/girl comparison. 


— diabetes, outcome in northeast England and in Norway (C 

Hawthorne, et al) 321:730 (P) (RETRACTION, 327:905, 

correction 1016). 929 (L) 

— interpregnancy interval and preterm birth and neonatal death 

risk (GCS Smith, et al). 327:313 (P) (correction, 851) 

— non-steroidal anti-in ammatory drugs exposure and miscarriage 

risk (D-K Li, et al). 327:368 (P) 

— outcome of changing partner between ®rst two births and (LJ 

Vatten, et al). 327:1138 (P) 

— rights (E Kothandaraman) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s60 

(23 August 2003) 

prehospital care, tracheal intubation in severely injured patients: 

Denmark (EF Christensen, et al). 327:533 (P) 

prenatal care, NICE guidance (S Mayor). 327:1009 (N) 

Prendergast BD, Prehospital thrombolysis. 327:1 (E) 

Prentice AM, Intrauterine factors, adiposity, and hyperinsulinaemia. 


preregistration house o$cers see also doctors 

— growing algorithms from seed (C Douglas) (Soundings). 


Prescott P, see Radcli#e MJ.327:251 

Prescott RJ, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

prescriptions, drug see also drug industry; drugs 

— antidepressants and suicide: Australia 1991-2000: 327:288 

(L) (correction, 586), 289 (L) (correction, 586) 

— concordance not yet practised (G Jones). 327:819 (E) 

— delayed prescriptions (B Arroll, et al). 327:1361 (E) 

— dyspepsia, test and treat v. omeprazole. 327:811 (L) 

— ethics: wolf in sheep’s clothing (I Heath). 327:856 (ED) 

— heroin, value is uncertain (S Mayor). 327:638 (N) 

— how doctors can be more e#ective (G Elwyn, et al). 327:864 

(ED) 

— methadone, e#ect of national guidelines: England 1990-2001 

(J Strang, et al). 327:321 (P) 

— US, rethinking prescribing (A Ellner). 327:1397 (ED) 

Preston, Frank Samuel, Obituary (WM Dixon). 327:813 

Preston, George Mason, Obituary (RHS Mindham). 327:993 

preventive medicine 

— Dr Dan (N Marks) (TV). 327:1234 (R) 

— how to be healthy without doctors. One hundred years ago. 


Price D 

— E#ect of NSAIDs on risk of Alzheimer’s disease. 327:752 (L) 

— see Neuberger J. 327:676 

— see Pollock AM. 327:571, 982 

Price JM, On abandoning ties and avoiding nose rings. 327:345 

(L) 

Price L, see Keeling P. 327:27 

Price RD, et al, Room for improvement. 327:1464 

Priddy, Ebun Willie Robert Gorham, Obituary (E Luke, et al). 


Prigerson HG, et al, In search of a good death. 327:222 (L) 

primary care trusts see also general practice 

— change management: qualitative case studies (MN Marshall, 


primary health care see also general practice 

— acute low back pain, prognosis: systematic review (LHM 

Pengel, et al). 327:323 (PC) 

— coronary disease prevention, insights from modelling 

incremental cost e#ectiveness (TP Marshall). 327:1264 (PC) 

(correction, 328:209) 

— depression, criteria and severity of symptoms (DE Nease, et 


— electronic medical records, regression or progression? 


— obesity management, improvement (H Moore, et al). 


— otitis externa treatment (FAM van Balen, et al). 327:1201 (PC) 

— pulmonary embolism diagnosis. 327:393 (L) 

— soap usage audit (A Stone) (Ward round). 327:1453 

— Tony Copperfield’s Primary Care Scream (Copper®eld) (Books). 


— vision disorders, screening older people (L Smeeth, et al). 


primary school children, physical education in total physical 

activity (KM Mallam, et al). 327:592 (P) 

Pringle M, see Hippisley-Cox J. 327:51 

Pringle SD, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

Pringle TH, see Pedley DK. 327:22 

priority setting, New Zealand, quality improvement perspective 

and healthcare funding decisions (A Bloom®eld, et al). 

327:439 (ED) (correction, 987) 

prisons 

— mental health, in uence of environmental factors (J Nurse, et 

al). 327:480 (PC), 989 (L) 

— smoking cessation dilemmas (JA Colclough). 327:29 

— suicide, women prisoners, record high (O Dyer). 327:122 (N) 

private ®nance initiative see also National Health Service 

— looking on bright side (C Douglas) (Soundings). 327:1355 (R) 

— Scotland, downsizing of acute in-patient beds. 327:395 (L) 

private practice, surgery centres for NHS patients proposal (S 


probability, risk comprehension tools (G Gigerenzer, et al). 

327:741 (ED), 1403 (L) 

Procopio M, More on preventing skin cancer. 327:1227 (L) 

prognosis, heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic 

function (PA MacCarthy, et al). 327:78 (P) 

Prosser DC, “Author pays” publishing model. 327:53 

prostate cancers 

— epidemiology, large increases (A Ferriman). 327:1306 (N) 

— prevention, ®nasteride (JH Tanne). 327:9 (N) 

— randomised controlled trials, design and conduct improvement. 


— testing 

——high result in prostate speci®c antigen test (M Mokete, et 

al) (10-minute consultation). 327:379 (PC), 1227 (L) 

——poor reliability (S Gottlieb). 327:249 (N), 750 (L) 

20 PES-PRO July−December 2003

Protheroe J, Communicating risk. 327:1404 (L) 

Prout H, see Butler CC. 327:1088 

Prozac see Fluoxetine 

pseudoventricular tachycardia, caused by tremor (N Goenka, et 

al) (Minerva). 327:938 (R) 

psoriasis, immunomodulatory drugs (W-H Boehncke). 327:634 

(E) 

psychiatry 

— Michael Shooter (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s182 (6 


— time out (S Dinniss) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 327:s22 

(19 July 2003) 

psychopharmacology, new developments (E Shorter, et al). 

327:158 (ED), 869 (L), 870 (L) 

psychoses, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature (Bentall) 


psychotherapy, Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an 

Uncertain Age (Furedi) (Books). 327:1293 (R) 

Ptolemy project, scalable model for delivering health information 

in Africa (M Beveridge, et al). 327:790 (IP) (correction, 

1016) 

public health 

— doctors “hopeless” at PR (A Ferriman) (The Press). 327:1056 

(R) 

— Securing our Future Health (DJ Hunter). 327:573 (E) 

publishing see also electronic publishing; journals; writing 

— author charges: open sesame? 327:53 (L), 54 (L) 

— An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (K 

Burke). 327:828 (N) 

— Get Peered! game (T Je#erson, et al) (Snakes, ladders, and 

spin). 327:1439 

— how to become a publisher: part 3 (M Al-Ubaydli) BMJ 


— how to become a publisher: part 4 (M Al-Ubaydli) BMJ 


— journal apologises for publishing author’s work without 

permission (Z Kmietowicz). 327:947 (N) 

— scienti®c editors self-regulation initiative (C White). 


Puffer S, et al, Evidence for risk of bias in cluster randomised 

trials: review of recent trials published in three general 

medical journals. 327:785 (PC) 

Puliyel JM, see Khanna R. 327:126 

pulmonary embolism 

— diagnosis in primary care. 327:393 (L) 

— olanzapine and (IM Waage, et al) (Drug points). 327:1384 

pulmonary oedema, unilateral re-expansion after pleural e#usion 

drainage (L Sundararajan, et al) (Minerva). 327:1176 (R) 

Punekar M, et al, Keratoconjunctivitis in doctor after streptococcal 

cross-infection by patient’s sputum (Minerva). 327:1058 

Punukollu M, Training to be a general practitioner in the United 

States BMJ Careers 327:s150 (8 November 2003) 

Puri P, et al, Disc and retinal haemorrhage after water slide ride 


Purves, George Fraser, Obituary (PG Purves). 327:1409 

Puvanachandra N, et al, Orbital air after toilet straining 


Q 

qualitative research, randomised controlled trials, design and 

conduct improvement. 327:105 (L) 

quality of health care 

— cancer health services: new solutions needed (K Sikora, et al). 


— lung cancer surgery and in-hospital mortality (T Treasure, et 


— NHS, getting better or worse? (R Smith). 327:1239 (E) 

— Quest for Quality in the NHS (A Ferriman). 327:1250 (N) 

— using research to inform quality programmes: Improving the 

quality of healthcare. 327:106 (L) 

quality improvement 

— Australia, Aboriginal diabetes care (R McDermott, et al). 


— New Zealand, perspective and healthcare funding decisions 

(A Bloom®eld, et al). 327:439 (ED) (correction, 987) 

Quartermaine DM, et al, Manual therapy is component of 

physiotherapy. 327:395 (L) 

Quigley I, Caldera BMJ Careers 327:s196 (20-27 December 

2003) 

Quinn M, see Ra%e AE. 327:50 

Quist-Paulsen P, et al, Randomised controlled trial of smoking 

cessation intervention after admission for coronary heart 

disease. 327:1254 (P) 

Qureshi SA, et al, A career in paediatric cardiology BMJ Careers 


R 

Raban-Williams, Adrian, Obituary (R Raban-Williams). 327:453 

racial discrimination see also ethnic groups; indigenous peoples 

— South Asians, representation in randomised controlled trials. 


racism, Aneez Esmail and Sam Everington (P Cross, et al) (Pro- 

®le) BMJ Careers 327:s52 (16 August 2003) 

Radcli#e MJ, et al, Enzyme potentiated desensitisation in 

treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis: double blind 

randomised controlled study. 327:251 (P) (correction, 

649), 1229 (L) 

Radecki T, Child psychiatric disorder and relative age in school 

year. 327:1286 (L) 

Rader T, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Books). 


radiation exposure 

— doctors’ knowledge: questionnaire study (S Shiralkar, et al). 


— Iraq, ignored (P Moszynski). 327:11 (N) 

radiography, results are still not routinely reported. 327:1407 (L) 

Rafferty J, Champion of deaf people (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


Raf e AE, et al, Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: analysis 

of cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and 

modelling of cases and deaths vented 326:901 (P) (correction, 

327:325), 327:50 (L) 

Rahmathullah L, et al, Impact of supplementing newborn infants 

with vitamin A on early infant mortality: community based 

randomised trial in southern India. 327:254 (P) 

Rainer, Ernest Herman, Obituary (N Ashford). 327:229 

Ramchandani P, et al, The impact of parental psychiatric disorder 

on children. 327:242 (E) 

ramipril, conundrum of HOPE study. 327:681 (L), 682 (L) 


Ramnarayan P, Sharing patient information electronically 

throughout NHS. 327:623 (L) 

Ramnarine I, What becomes of junior doctors in non-training 

positions? 327:619 (L) 

Ramos F, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:808 (L) 

Ramsay, Colin Andrew, Obituary (P Meisner, et al). 327:685 

Ramsden A, et al, Doctors in Antartica BMJ Careers 327:s43 (9 

August 2003) 

Ramsden, Irihapeti, Obituary (L Ellison-Loschmann). 327:453 

randomised controlled trials see also clinical trials 

— descriptive survey of UK trials 1980-2002 (I Chalmers, et al). 


— design and conduct improvement. 327:105 (L) 

— evidence for risk of bias in cluster trials (S Pu#er, et al). 


— representation of South Asians. 327:394 (L) 

— strategy for rare cancers (S-B Tan, et al). 327:47 (ED) 

Rao JN, High result in prostate speci®c antigen test. 327:1227 (L) 

Rao R, Intensive Scares (TV). 327:454 (R) 

Rappolt S, see Davis D. 327:33 

rare cancers 

— on internet (A Ellis) (Website of the week). 327:58 (R) 

— randomised clinical trials strategy (S-B Tan, et al). 327:47 

(ED) 

rare diseases, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:996 (R) 

rashes, 2 year old child with rash and fever: Interactive case report 

(R Sharma, et al). 327:668 (C), 720 (C), 798 (C), 798, 851, 

916 (C) 

Rashid A 

— et al, In search of a good death. 327:223 (L) 

— et al, Training in the United States BMJ Careers 327:s19 (19 

July 2003) 

Rath D, see Davis D. 327:33 

Rathmore SS, et al, Race, ethnic group, and clinical research. 


Raviglione M, see Maher D. 327:822 

Ravnskov U, Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke. 327:1348 (L) 

Raw J, The doctors’ mess: the unsung resource (Personal view). 


Raw, Theodore Robert Foster, Obituary (JRF Raw). 327:1291 

Rawle, Peter Royston, Obituary (M Rawle). 327:168 

Rawlins JM, Is there an identi®able doctor on board? 327:933 (L) 

Rayment R, et al, Lesson of the week. Neonatal alloimmune 

thrombocytopenia. 327:331 (C) 

Raynor DKT, see Dickinson D. 327:861 

Reading J, see Cunningham C. 327:445 

Recent developments, lactamases and extended spectrum 

lactamases (JM Samaha-Kfoury, et al). 327:1209 (C) 

Redinbaugh EM, et al, Doctors’ emotional reactions to recent 

death of a patient: cross sectional study of hospital doctors. 


Reedeker W, see Buljevac D. 327:646 

Rees E, et al, Novel consent process for research in dying patients 

unable to give consent. 327:198 (P) 

Reeves, Alfred, Obituary (JC Gallagher). 327:874 

referrals see also consultations 

— evaluation of teleconsultation for specialist opinion (PB Jacklin, 

et al). 327:84 (IP) 

refractory dyspnoea, sustained release morphine in management 

of (AP Abernethy, et al). 327:523 (P), 1288 (L) 

Refshauge KM, see Pengel LHM. 327:323 

refugees 

— AIDS 

——testing should not be used to restrict access to UK (D 


——unfair burden on NHS? (DR Chadwick) (Personal view). 


— doctors, requalifying in UK (U Tayal) BMJ Careers 327:s93 


— mental health of children (M Fazel, et al). 327:134 (P) 

— research, unaccompanied children seeking asylum (S 

Thomas, et al). 327:1400 (ED) 

— UK, work hurdles for doctors (G Easton) BMJ Careers 


Regier DA, see First MB. 327:869 

regulation see accreditation 

rehabilitation, career advice (R O’Connor, et al) BMJ Careers 


Reibstein J, Staying Alive: A Family Memoir (Books). 327:508 (R) 

Reid, John, interview with (L Eaton). 327:890 (N) 

Reid, John Mark, Obituary (DM Brown). 327:685 

Reid RJ, see Haggerty JL. 327:1219 

Reilly PG, see Jose J. 327:41 

Reith B, A Scottish perspective on general practice BMJ Careers 


relationships, supporting your colleagues (M Gri$ths) (Tips 

on...) BMJ Careers 327:s14 (12 July 2003) 

relatives see family relations 

religion and medicine, prayer. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:928 

Relton HL, Electroconvulsive therapy. 327:621 (L) 

renal diseases, incidence, increasing number of older patients 

(RJA Sims, et al). 327:462 (E) 

Rendell JM, et al, Older patients are eligible for trial of lithium 

and valproate. 327:395 (L) 

Rennie A, see Shiralkar S. 327:371 

reproduction, developing countries, health of older women (C 

Elias, et al). 327:64 (E) 

research see also academic medicine; clinical trials; Medical 

Research Council 

— army, wrong foot (TE Ormerod) (Personal view). 327:937 (R) 

— cancers, red tape (O Dyer). 327:640 (N) 

— career choice (J Adams) (The way I see it) BMJ Careers 


— developing countries, partnership of universities of richer 

world: New Year’s resolution (DJ Weatherall, et al). 327:1415 

(E) 

— drug industry sponsorship: Cochrane Library at crossroads 

(R Moynihan). 327:924 (ED) 



— e#ect of interpretive bias on. 327:752 (L) 

— ethnic groups, representation (SS Rathmore, et al). 327:763 

(E) 

— EU governments lobbied over trials legislation (R Watson). 


— European Research Council (R Watson). 327:768 (N) 

— family attitudes to research using samples taken at coroner’s 

postmortem examinations (C Womack, et al). 327:781 (P) 

— grants, tips (N Petrie) BMJ Careers 327:s115 (11 October 

2003) 


——overview (J Lomas). 327:1301 (E) 

——increasing impact (P Dash, et al). 327:1339 (ED) 

— improvement (PM Stewart). 327:999 (E) 

— indigenous peoples’ health (C Cunningham, et al). 327:445 

(ED) 

— industry sponsorship, positive conclusions about costs (R 


— informed consent, novel consent process for research in dying 

patients unable to give consent (E Rees, et al). 327:198 (P) 

— Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment that 

promotes responsible conduct (Institute of Medicine) (Books). 


— patients: need to read research? 327:564 (L) 

— reform in England (N McNally, et al). 327:550 (ED) 

— resuscitating clinical research in UK (J Bell). 327:1041 (ED) 

— self reports in research with non-English speakers (S Hunt, et 


— UK governance strategy (S Kerrison, et al). 327:553 (ED) 

— unaccompanied children seeking asylum (S Thomas, et al). 


— US 

——NIH announces new strategy (S Mayor). 327:765 (N) 

——NIH “hit list” furore (J Clark). 327:1065 (N) 

— using research to inform quality programmes: Improving the 

quality of healthcare. 327:106 (L) 

— Wales, new health research centre (R Dobson). 327:1366 (N) 

— why surgical patients do not donate tissue for commercial 

research (AL Jack, et al). 327:262 (P) 

research fraud 

— Britain prefers talk to action (S Lock). 327:940 (E) 

— cancers vaccine research paper withdrawn by German scientists 

(A Tu#s). 327:637 (N) 

— David Je#erys, inquiry remains secret (C White). 327:519 

(N) 

— journals editors, right priorities? (A Ferriman) (Journals). 


Research pointers 

— Liver damage and protective e#ect of high density lipoprotein 

cholesterol (JT Salonen). 327:1082 (P) 

— The thrifty phenotype hypothesis and hearing problems 

(M-L Barrenäs, et al). 327:1199 (P) 

residential homes see also long-term care 

— shortage blamed for elderly discharge delays. 327:223 (L) 

respiratory disorders, “nail sculpture” hazards. 327:1050 (L) 

respiratory medicine, career advice (GP Currie, et al) BMJ 


respiratory physiotherapy, after cardiac surgery: systematic 

review (P Pasquina, et al). 327:1379 (P) 

respiratory tract infections 

— children, clinical course (CC Butler, et al). 327:1088 (PC) 

— delayed prescriptions (B Arroll, et al). 327:1361 (E) 

— in infants and young children (JBM van Woensel, et al). 


— nitric oxide for neonates (S Gottlieb). 327:1249 (N) 

— oral steroids are no more e#ective than placebo for viral 

wheeze in children (S Mayor). 327:1066 (N) 

— retrospective analysis of evidence base (Z Borrill, et al). 


restenosis see under stenosis 

resuscitation 

— ABC of resuscitation 

——The automated external de®brillator (R Liddle, et al). 


——Near drowning (M Harries). 327:1336 (C) 

——Resuscitation in pregnancy (S Morris, et al). 327:1277 (C) 

— doctors’ discussion with terminally ill patients (C Manistry, et 

al) (For and against). 327:614 (ED) 

— head injuries, managing agitation and aggression after (S 


retinal haemorrhage, after water slide ride (P Puri, et al) 


retirement 

— should not be compulsory (J Allen) (The way I see it) BMJ 


— shy and retiring (BM Southcott). 327:279 

retraction of publication 

— overview (R Smith). 327:883 (E) 

— Outcome of pregnancy in diabetic women in northeast England 

and in Norway, 1994-7 (G Hawthorne, et al) 321:730 

(P) (RETRACTION, 327:905). 929 (L) 

reunions 

— now we are quite old (C Douglas) (Soundings). 327:937 (R) 

— Welsh National (D Crosby). 327:987 

revalidation 

— appraisal makes for e#ective revalidation (o$cial). 327:161 

(L) 

— Sandy Forrest interview (G Watts). 327:1070 (N) 

Rew D, see Clasper J. 327:1178 

Reynolds F, see Fenton PM. 327:587 

rhabdomyolysis, causes (R Lane, et al). 327:115 (E) (correction, 

500) 

rheumatic fever, acute, treatment (A Cilliers). 327:631 (E) 

rheumatology, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:996 (R) 

Richards T 

— see Smallwood N. 327:10 

— see Wass V. 327:1362 

Richardson SR, see Clarke MP. 327:1251 

Richmond JK, et al, Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, 

and social consequences 327:1271 (C) (correction, 328:96) 

Rickett, Ruth Pauline (née Armstrong). 327:1112 

Rickham, Peter Paul, Obituary (L Spitz). 327:1408 

Rietveld RP, et al, Diagnostic impact of signs and symptoms in 

acute infectious conjunctivitis: systematic literature search. 


Rigotti NA, Extracts from “Best Treatments” . Treating nicotine 

addiction. Commentary: Putting the research into practice. 


Riley H, see Cooper H. 327:394 

Riley J 

— Freedom from pain goes a long way to a “good death” 


— see Saunders Y. 327:204 

Riley SG, et al, Lesson of the week. Spurious hyperglycaemia and 

icodextrin in peritoneal dialysis uid. 327:608 (C) 

Rimm EB, see He K. 327:777 

Ring I, et al, Health status of indigenous peoples and others. 


Rinkel GJE, see Boter H. 327:284 

Rinne M, see Viljanen M. 327:475 

Riordan A, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

risk assessors, need to be assessed. 327:1108 (L) 

risk factors 

— adenocarcinoma, Barrett’s oesophagus (L Murray, et al). 




— breast cancers 

PRO-RIS 21

——animal fats and painkillers (JH Tanne). 327:181 (N) 

——combined hormone replacement therapy (D Spurgeon). 


——hormone replacement therapy increases risk (S Mayor). 


— communication see under communication 

— coronary disease, predictive accuracy of Framingham coronary 

risk score in British men (P Brindle, et al). 327:1267 (PC) 

— coronary diseases, scoring (H-W Hense). 327:1238 (E) 

— depression, statins in risk reduction (D Josefson). 327:467 

(N) 

— gastrointestinal cancers, identifying and managing low risk 

patients in general practice (MR Thompson, et al). 327:263 

(PC), 871 (L) 

— multiple sclerosis, sun exposure and skin phenotype (IAF van 

der Mei, et al). 327:316 (P) 

— stroke, warm weather risk (JH Tanne). 327:887 (N) 

— suicide, spouse’s psychiatric illness or suicide (E Agerbo, et 


rituximab, NICE guidelines announced (S Mayor). 327:766 (N) 

Rivas P, et al, Drug points. Fatal lactic acidosis associated with 

tenofovir. 327:711 

Rivers DS, Communicating risk. 327:1403 (L) 

Rivett AG, What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

Rivlin, Mona Viviette, Obituary (JJ Rivlin). 327:874 

road tra$c accidents see also travel 

— car colour and risk of (S Furness, et al) (Hazardous journeys). 


— depiction of elderly on road tra$c signs: international 

comparison (RP Gale, et al) (Hazardous journeys). 327:1456 

— severe injuries to children, Trent, 1992-7 (C Coupland, et al). 


Roberts DJ, see Rayment R. 327:331 

Roberts I, see Toroyan T. 327:906 

Roberts JA, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Roberts K, et al, Emphysematous pyelonephritis of the kidney 


Roberts P, see Lewis PM. 327:1108 

Roberts RJ, Tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination. 327:932 

(L) 

Roberts S, see Yudkin P. 327:28 

Roberts SE 

— et al, Time trends and demography of mortality after 

fractured neck of femur in an English population, 1968-98: 

database study. 327:771 (P) 

— see Goldacre MJ. 327:596 

Robertson M, E#ect of NSAIDs on risk of Alzheimer’s disease. 


Robertson R, Comparing cannabis with tobacco. 327:165 (L) 

Robinson E, see Furness S. 327:1455 

Robinson J, see Lewis DK. 327:841 

Robinson, Roger James, Obituary (H Marcovitch, et al). 327:992 

Robitail S, see Boyer L. 327:876 

Robling M, see Butler CC. 327:1088 

Robson J 

— What happened to evidence in NICE guidance on heart failure? 


— see Wilson S. 327:619 

Rocco F, The Miraculous Fever Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the 

Cure that Changed the World (Books). 327:169 (R) 

Rodström K, et al, Pre-existing risk factor pro®les in users and 

non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective 

cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden 319:890 (GP) 


Roe MFE, see O’Donnell R. 327:620 

Roe S, see Blundell. 327:95 

rofecoxib, visual impairment and (DM Coulter, et al) (Lesson of 

the week). 327:1214 (C) 

Rollnick S 

— see Beich A. 327:536 

— see Butler CC. 327:1088 

Ronellen®tsch U, Increase in mortality in Russia in the 1990s. 


Roovers J-PWR, et al, Hysterectomy and sexual wellbeing: 

prospective observational study of vaginal hysterectomy, 

subtotal abdominal hysterectomy, and total abdominal hysterectomy. 


Roper TA, see Gale RP. 327:1456 

Ros E, see Bertomeu A. 327:591 

Rose S, see Lawton B. 327:845 

Rosen R, et al, General practitioners with special clinical 

interests. 327:460 (E), 933 (L) 

Rosner BA, see He K. 327:777 

Ross JR 

— et al, Systematic review of role of bisphosphonates on skeletal 

morbidity in metastatic cancer. 327:469 (P) 

— see Saunders Y. 327:204 

Rossdale M, et al, Diagnosing pulmonary embolism in primary 

care. 327:393 (L) 

Rossiter A, see Flynn S BMJ Careers 327:s164 (22 November 

2003) 

Rostill JK, see Gatrad AR BMJ Careers 327:s12 (12 July 2003) 

Roth MP, see Coppin H. 327:132, 991 

Rounding C, see Chalmers I. 327:1017 

Roussel, Osmond Nicholas, Obituary (P Roussel). 327:566 

Routledge T, see Lim E. 327:1309 

Rovers MM, see Zwart S. 327:1324 

Rowe BH, see Barr RG. 327:643 

Rowe G, see Bowling AP. 327:450 

Rowell P 

— et al, ABC of subfertility. Assisted conception. I—General 

principles. 327:799 (C) 

— see Braude P. 327:852, 920 

Roy D, Copying letters to patients. 327:450 (L) 

Roy, Douglas, Obituary (G Parks, et al). 327:1170 

Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Immunological 

Testing and Interventions for Reproductive Failure (D Singh). 


Royal College of Physicians, The Vegetative State (C Dyer). 327:67 

(N) 

Royal College of Surgeons, Facial Transplantation (Z Kmietowicz). 


Royal Commission on Environmental Protection, Chemicals in 

Products (N Smallwood, et al). 327:10 (N) 

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, Christmas appeal. 327:1110 

(L) 

Royston, Nigel Joseph Walter, Obituary (M Smith). 327:1231 

Rubin G, see Wallace A. 327:788 

Rubin P 

— Equality for people with disabilities in medicine. 327:1051 

(L) 

— The General Medical Council and medical students with disabilities 


Rudnicka A, see Wald NJ. 327:809 

Rudolphy S, No more free lunches. 327:341 (L) 

rugby 

— Australia v. New Zealand: emotional meta-analysis (J Silberberg, 

et al) (This sporting life). 327:1475 

— Simon Kemp (Pro®le) BMJ Career 327:s13 (12 July 2003) 

Rule A, Shocking language. 327:422 

Rundle C, A history lesson. 327:545 (correction, 1043) 

running, orthopaedic stress to man (P Arnold) (This sporting 


Rushforth B 

— John Harris (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s36 (2 August 2003) 

— Part time training for undergraduates (The way I see it) BMJ 


— see Cross P BMJ Careers 327:s52 (16 August 2003) 

Russell J, Con®dentiality of patients’ information must be 

guaranteed. 327:812 (L) 

Russell TG, et al, Medicine in Egypt at the time of Napoleon 

Bonaparte (Hazardous journeys). 327:1461 

Russell TM, see Russell TG. 327:1461 

Russia see also Europe 

— mortality 

——social factors and 1990s increase. 327:751 (L) 

——trends 1991-2001: cause and region (T Men, et al). 


— prisoners, communicable diseases (J Burgermeister). 


Ryan D, see Davis D. 327:33 

Rymer J, see Pickard S. 327:1389 

S 

sabbaticals 

— locum work (R MacDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s124 (18 


— working abroad (A Thomson, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s44 (9 

August 2003) 

Sabharwal NK, “The call we all dread...". 327:663 

Sack, David, “humanitarian science” interview (G Watts). 


Sack GD, Risk of suicide in twins. 327:1168 (L) 

Sackett DL, et al, HARLOT plc: an amalgamation of the world’s 

two oldest professions (Snakes, ladders, and spin). 


Sadanand AV, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Safar, Peter Josef, Obituary (J Lenzer). 327:624 

sailing 

— Ed Glucksman (C Hughes) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s158 


— training deferred (N Jacobsen) BMJ Careers 327:s140 (1 


St Hill, Charles Arthur, Obituary (R Finn). 327:1408 

St Leger S, see Heller RF. 327:1162 

Salib E, see El-Nimr G. 327:224 

Salonen JT, Research pointers. Liver damage and protective e#ect 

of high density lipoprotein cholesterol. 327:1082 (P) 

Samaha-Kfoury JN, et al, Recent developments in lactamases 

and extended spectrum lactamases. 327:1209 (C) 

Samanta A, see Samanta J. 327:225 

Samanta J, et al, In search of a good death. 327:225 (L) 

Samaritan doctors, identity crisis (L Farrell) (Soundings). 


Samii A, see Etminan M. 327:128 

Samson C, A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the 

Extinguishment of the Innu (Books). 327:455 (R) 

San, Khin Khin, Obituary (N Chalabi). 327:993 

Sanai L 

— Hospital Infection (Books). 327:1410 (R) 

— Screenwriter doctor (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s54 (16 

August 2003) 

Sandell A, Management of urinary tract infections in children. 


Sandercock J, see Burls A. 327:1446 

Sanders DS, Coeliac disease and subfertility: association is often 

neglected. 327:1226 (L) 

Sandifer, Sydney Charles, Obituary (J Sandifer, et al). 327:293 

Sankar V, Big brother is watching (your CPD). 327:855 

Santa Claus, three stages of man’s life. 327:683 (L) 

Santarlasci B, see Messori A. 327:808 

Sanz EJ, Concordance and children’s use of medicines. 327:858 

(ED) 

Saracci R, see Cuttini M. 327:222 

Sarker SK 

— Courses, cadavers, and counsellors: reducing errors in the 

operating theatre BMJ Careers 327:s109 (4 October 2003) 

— see Moorthy K. 327:1032 

Sasieni PD, Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer. 327:50 (L) 

Saunders Y 

— et al, Planning for a good death: responding to unexpected 

events. 327:204 (ED), 1049 (L) 

— see Ross JR. 327:469 

Savage RL, see Coulter DM. 327:1214 

Savelyich B, see Coupland C. 327:593 

Savioli L, see Awasthi S. 327:431 

Sawa A, et al, Elucidating the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. 


Saxena S, et al, Socioeconomic and ethnic group di#erences in 

self reported health status and use of health services by children 

and young people in England: cross sectional study 

325:520 (P) (correction, 327:325) 

Say RE, et al, The importance of patient preferences in treatment 

decisions—challenges for doctors. 327:542 (C) 

Schade-Brittinger C, see Haake M. 327:75 

Schalkwijk AAH, see Oniscu GC. 327:1261 

Schatzberger P, see O’Connor S. 327:233 

schistosomiasis, initiative extended to ®ve more countries (S Pincock). 


schizophrenia 

— compliance randomised trial (C O’Donnell, et al). 327:834 

(P) 

— pathogenesis (A Sawa, et al). 327:632 (E) 



Schlagenhauf P, et al, Tolerability of malaria chemoprophylaxis in 

non-immune travellers to sub-Saharan Africa: multicentre, 

randomised, double blind, four arm study. 327:1078 (P) 

Schmidt B, see McDermott R. 327:428 

Schneier FR, Social anxiety disorder. 327:515 (E), 1287 (L) 

Schoellner C, see Haake M. 327:75 

Schole®eld JH, see Nisar PJ. 327:847 

schoolchildren, wage-earning. One hundred years ago. 327:535 

schools, medical see also education, medical 

— reunions 

——now we are quite old (C Douglas) (Soundings). 327:937 

(R) 

——Welsh National (D Crosby). 327:987 

— selection of students 

——A levels and intelligence as predictors of medical careers in 

UK doctors (IC McManus, et al). 327:139 (LP), 810 (L) 

——equality for people with disabilities in medicine (S Mercer, 

et al). 327:882 (E), 1051 (L) 

— thoughts for new students at new school (R Smith) (It’s good 

to talk). 327:1430 

Schroter S, see Dosani S. 327:961 

Schulte H, see Assmann G. 327:619, 808 

Schwartz E, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Schwartz LM, see Woloshin S. 327:695 

Schwartzenberg, Léon, Obituary (T Bullamore). 327:1052 

Science, “ecstasy” article retraction (S Pincock). 327:579 (N) 

science, A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson) (Books). 


Science, medicine, and the future, Cirrhosis: new research provides 

a basis for rational and targeted treatments (JP Iredale). 


scienti®c misconduct see research fraud 

Scotland see also Europe 

— alcohol, drinking law reforms (B Christie). 327:467 (N) 

— general practice (B Reith) BMJ Careers 327:s147 (8 November 

2003) 

— postoperative complications: steady fall (B Christie). 


— private ®nance initiative, downsizing of acute in-patient beds. 


— renal transplantation, equity of access to waiting lists (GC 

Oniscu, et al). 327:1261 (P) 

— Scotland’s Health and Health Services (Woods, et al, eds) 


Scotland, Alastair, interview (G Watts). 327:702 (N) 

Scott A, see Wills CJ. 327:260 

Scott, Liz, implementation of EU Working Time Directive (R 

MacDonald) BMJ Careers 327:s9 (12 July 2003) 

Scott, William Je#rey, Obituary (K Scott). 327:56 

screening see also mammography 

— alcohol drinking, brief intervention trials targeting excessive 

drinkers in general practice 327:536 (PC) (correction, 

328:96) 

— amblyopia, should we be screening and treating? (GN 

Dutton, et al). 327:1242 (E) 

— breast cancers, women need better information about routine 

mammography (H Thornton, et al). 327:101 (ED), 868 (L), 

869 (L) 

— cancers, cumulative incidence of cervical abnormality and 

modelling of cases and deaths prevented. 327:50 (L) 

— Chlamydia, community based contraceptive service for young 

people. 327:290 (L) 

— colon cancers, more frequent screening would improve 

detection (S Gottlieb). 327:70 (N) 

— coronary disease, comparison of methods to identify 

individuals. 327:619 (L) 

— depression, two verbally asked questions in general practice 

(B Arroll, et al). 327:1144 (PC) 

— domestic violence, routinely asking women in health settings 

(A Taket, et al). 327:673 (ED), 1345 (L) 

— drug abuse, psychiatric inpatients (B Barnaby, et al). 327:783 

(P) 

— e#ects of communicating individual risks in programmes: 

Cochrane systematic review (A Edwards, et al). 327:703 (P) 

— fragile X syndrome, pilot schemes to be considered (A Iles). 


— general practice, how many conditions can a GP screen for? 

(C Del Mar, et al). 327:1117 (E) 

— hearing disorders, whispered voice test: systematic review (S 

Pirozzo, et al). 327:967 (PC) 

— impaired vision, older people in primary care (L Smeeth, et 


— opportunistic disease prevention during consultations: 

ethically justi®able? (L Getz, et al). 327:498 (ED), 989 (L) 

— prostate cancers, high result in prostate speci®c antigen test 

(M Mokete, et al) (10-minute consultation). 327:379 (PC), 

1227 (L) 

Scribner, Belding, Obituary (J Lenzer). 327:167 

Scrimgeour C, Mountain rescue medicine in France BMJ Careers 


scurvy, Lind’s ®rst clinical trial (C Currie). 327:1418 (E) 

seasonal allergic rhinitis see hayfever 

Sedgwick P, et al, Teaching medical students and doctors how to 

communicate risk. 327:694 (E) 

Segall JJ, Digestive and nutritional factors may explain lower 

prevalence of coronary disease in indigenous peoples. 


Sehmi KS, Representation of South Asian people in randomised 

trials. 327:394 (L) 

Seidler R, Terminology for our times. 327:166 (L) 

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, depression, comparison 

with tricyclic antidepressants in primary care. 327:288 (L) 

(correction, 586), 289 (L) (correction, 586) 

self esteem, health and (MG Marmot). 327:574 (E) 

Seligmann H, More transparency in reviewing is called for. 


Seltzer D, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

Selvarajah D, Pump it up. 327:1468 

Semm, Kurt, Obituary (A Tu#s). 327:397 (correction, 851) 

Sen A, Missing women—revisited. 327:1297 (E) 

sensorineural hearing loss, thrifty phenotype hypothesis and 

(M-L Barrenäs, et al) (Research pointers). 327:1199 (P) 

septal defect closure, ABC of interventional cardiology (ED 

Grech). 327:97 (C) 

Sepulveda C, et al, Quality care at the end of life in Africa. 


Sestini P, see Borrill Z. 327:1136 

severe acute respiratory syndrome 

— Canada, ethical lessons from Toronto (PA Singer, et al). 


— haematological manifestations: retrospective analysis. 


— Albert Osterhaus interview (T Sheldon). 327:950 (N) 

— WHO guidelines for future SARS outbreak (J Parry). 327:411 

(N) 

— WHO says outbreak contained (F Fleck). 327:70 (N) 

sex behaviour, hysterectomy and wellbeing (J-PWR Roovers, et 


sex education, Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the 

United States (Irvine) (Books). 327:627 (R) 

sex selection 

— Asia, abortion (A Sen). 327:1297 (E) 

— doctors support embryo selection to help ill siblings (L Beecham). 


22 RIT-SEX July−December 2003

— India 

——ratio of girls to boys declines (S Kumar). 327:1007 (N) 

——sex balance (R Khanna, et al). 327:126 (P), 1169 (L) 

— UK ban recommended (Z Kmietowicz). 327:1123 (N) 

sexual abuse, right question. A paper that changed my practice (A 

Hamilton). 327:378 

sexual dysfunction 

— general practice, cross sectional study (I Nazareth, et al). 


— problems and help seeking behaviour in Britain: national 

probability sample survey (CH Mercer, et al). 327:426 (PC) 


— what do symptoms mean? (J Ogden). 327:409 (E) 

sexual health 

— career advice (A Bigrigg) BMJ Careers 327:s113 (11 October 

2003) 

— developing countries, older women (C Elias, et al). 327:64 (E) 

— health needs of women who have sex with women (C Hughes, 

et al). 327:939 (E) 

— House of Commons Select Commmittee report: shambles 

(M Adler). 327:62 (E) (correction, 500) 

sexually transmitted infections 

— Netherlands, rise in infection rates points to unsafe sex (T 


— partner noti®cation (S Hawkes, et al). 327:633 (E) 

Shah AM, see MacCarthy PA. 327:78 

Shah Z, Endpiece. The requirements for a surgeon. 327:1263 

Shakespeare J, see Taket A. 327:673 

Shanks OE, Adherence to advance directives. 327:1407 (L) 

Shannon C 

— Better communication is key to recruiting patients to trials: 

NICE annual conference. 327:1368 (N) 

— Freedoms of foundation hospitals do not go far enough. 


— Money must be made available for NICE guidance, minister 

says: NICE annual conference. 327:1368 (N) 

Shapiro J, et al, Lessons for the NHS from Kaiser Permanente. 


shared decision making see decision making 

Sharkey L, see O’Donnell C. 327:834 

Sharland M, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Sharma R 

— Endpiece. Wise words. 327:917 

— Interactive case report, A 2 year old child with rash and fever. 

327:668 (C), 720 (C), 798 (C), 916 (C) 

Sharp N 

— Episode 31: Bring your own balaclava (Soap Opera) BMJ 


— Episode 32: After midnight (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 33: David confesses (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 34: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (Soap 

opera) BMJ Careers 327:s31 (26 July 2003) 

— Episode 35: Unwanted visitors (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 36: Christopher’s day out (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 37: An early start (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 327:s55 

(16 August 2003) 

— Episode 38: A second honeymoon (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 39: What James Fatterley wants (Soap opera) BMJ 


— Episode 40: Examination results (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 41: Penelope returns to work (Soap opera) BMJ 


— Episode 42: A perfectly harmless addiction (Soap opera) 


— Episode 43: Leaving (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 327:s103 (27 


— Episode 44: Rise and shine (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 45: Interruptions (Soap opera) BMJ Career 327:s119 


— Episode 46: Douglas disappears again (Soap opera) BMJ 


— Episode 47: A change of plan (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 48: Trick or treat (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 49: Going with a bang (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 50: Afterwards (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 327:s159 


— Episode 51: Miss Millstone saves the day (Soap opera) BMJ 


— Episode 52: A visit to the police station (Soap opera) BMJ 


— Episode 53: Sex or shopping (Soap opera) BMJ Careers 


— Episode 54: The impossible decision (Soap opera) BMJ 

Careers 327:s191 (13 December 2003) 

— Christmas with the Millstones (Soap opera) (Misplaced 

Trust). 327:1434 

Shaughnessy AF, et al, What happened to the valid POEMs? A 

survey of review articles on the treatment of type 2 diabetes. 

327:266 (IP), 811 (L) 

Shaul RZ, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

Shaw J, see Corrie P. 327:320 

Shaw NT, Electronic patient records in primary care. 327:622 

(L) 

Shaw R, see Ham C. 327:1257 

Shaw S, see Keeling P. 327:27 

Shay SD, Energy intake in pregnant women carrying boys or 

girls. 327:621 (L) 

Sheikh A 

— see Car J. 327:541, 1204 

— see Gatrad AR BMJ Careers 327:s12 (12 July 2003). 176 

— see Gupta R. 327:1142 

Sheldon T 

— Boxing should be banned unless rules are tightened, advises 

Dutch body. 327:1186 (N) 

— Doctors fear that rise in infection rates points to a return to 

unsafe sex. 327:10 (N) 

— Drug company employee who queried trial wins appeal. 


— Dutch government introduces swingeing cuts to health 

spending. 327:641 (N) 

— Intensive care patients should be given prophylactic antibiotics. 


— “Terminal sedation” di#erent from euthanasia, Dutch ministers 

agree. 327:465 (N) (correction, 649) 


— The virus hunter. 327:950 (N) 

Shelford G, Risk, statistics, and the individual (Personal view). 


Shennan AH, Recent developments in obstetrics. 327:604 (C) 

Shepherd J, Who’d be a reformer? (Personal view). 327:1295 (R) 

Shepherd, Mary Patricia, Obituary (W Fountain). 327:1351 

Sheppard, David, (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s126 (18 


Sheridan J, see Strang J. 327:321 

Sherris J, see Elias C. 327:64 

Shiach C, see Poller L. 327:30 

Shibuya K, et al, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco 

Control: development of an evidence based global public 

health treaty. 327:154 (ED) 

Shiers, David, interview (P Cross, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s51 (16 

August 2003) 

Shingadia D, see Bothamley GH. 327:243 

Shinji N, et al, Smoking on exhibition. 327:1093 

Shipley MJ 


— see Kivamäki M. 327:364 

Shipman, Harold 

— GMC admits failings left patients unprotected (C Dyer). 


— inquiry report, investigators should be trained to “think 

dirty” about cause of death (C Dyer). 327:123 (N) 

Shiralkar S, et al, Doctors’ knowledge of radiation exposure: 

questionnaire study. 327:371 (P), 1166 (L), 1167 (L) 

shock, polytrauma (PE Pepe). 327:1119 (E) 

shoes, high heeled shoes as risk factor in knee osteoarthritis (R 


Shooter M, A patient’s perspective on medicines in mental 

illness. 327:825 (E) 

Shooter, Mike 

— interview on depression. 327:682 (L) 

— (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s182 (6 December 2003) 

Short, Alastair Douglas, Obituary (D Blair, et al). 327:293 

Shorter E 

— et al, Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: blind 

alley in psychopharmacology and classi®cation of disease. 

327:158 (ED), 869 (L), 870 (L) 

— see Tyrer P. 327:870 

Shorvon, Simon, replaced as lead scientist while GMC 

investigates research 326:1416 (N) (correction, 327:483) 

Sibbald G, see Davis D. 327:33 

Sibbett CH, et al, Evaluation of extended training for general 

practice in Northern Ireland: qualitative study. 327:971 

(LP) 

sick doctors 

— alcoholic doctor’s experiences (Anonymous) (The way I see 

it) BMJ Careers 327:s78 (6 September 2003) 

— managing sick employees (R Philipp, et al) (Tips on...) BMJ 


— mental health, improving (J Graske) BMJ Careers 327:s188 


— NHS criticised over suicide of mentally ill doctor (D Singh). 


sick leave 

— global measure of health: mortality evidence from Whitehall 

II prospective cohort (M Kivimäki, et al). 327:364 (P) 

— patients, doctors, and (B Nilsson, et al) (Personal view). 


sickle cell disease, management (S Claster, et al). 327:1151 (C) 

Sidley P 

— Cabinet rules that South Africans must be given antiretrovirals. 


— Competition body rules that drug companies “abused” their 

position. 327:946 (N) 

— Regulatory body will inquire into decision to test patient for 

HIV without consent. 327:949 (N) 

— South Africa introduces world’s largest AIDS treatment plan. 


— South African government to withdraw antiretrovirals for 

pregnant mothers. 327:306 (N) 

Sidney S, Comparing cannabis with tobacco—again. 327:635 (E) 

Siegel-Itzkovich J, Israel allows removal of sperm from dead men 

at wives’ request. 327:1187 (N) 

Sigurdsson JA, see Getz L. 327:498 

Sikora K, et al, Cancer care in the United Kingdom: new 

solutions are needed. 327:1044 (ED) 

Silberberg J, et al, Australia versus New Zealand: an emotional 

meta-analysis of rugby (This sporting life). 327:1475 

Sildena®l see Viagra 

Silva DT, see Lehmann D. 327:415 

Simes J, see Glare P. 327:195 

Simini B, et al, Should same anaesthetist do preoperative anaesthetic 

visit and give subsequent anaesthetic? Questionnaire 

survey of anaesthetists. 327:79 (P), 931 (L) 

Simkin S, see Hawton K. 327:177 

Simmons R, see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Simms, Jonathan 

— CJD experimental treatment (C Dyer). 327:886 (N) 

— CJD small improvement (S Mayor). 327:765 (N) 

Simpson RJ, Task imposed on prisons is impossible. 327:989 (L) 

Simpson S, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Sims RJA, et al, The increasing number of older patients with 

renal disease. 327:462 (E) 

simvastatin, morning v. evening administration (A Wallace, et al). 


Singer PA 

— et al, “The best places to die". 327:173 (E) 

— et al, Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto. 327:1342 (ED) 

Singh D 

— Ethical issues of pharmacogenetics must be addressed, says 

Nu$eld Council. 327:701 (N) 

— GPs should encourage more HIV testing, says AIDS foundation. 


— HIV testing should not be used to restrict access to UK, 

report says. 327:124 (N) 

— Hospitals must use London’s appeal to tackle workforce 

shortages. 327:70 (N) 

— HRT no longer ®rst choice for preventing osteoporosis. 


— Medicines Control Agency slated by Commons committee. 


— NHS criticised over suicide of mentally ill doctor. 327:1008 

(N) 

— Royal college warns against “unsound tests” for infertility. 


Singh KS, see Tambyah PA. 327:620 

Singh S, Health of indigenous people. 327:988 (L) 

Singhal S, Treatment of multiple myeloma. 327:575 (E) 

Singleton, Clarke, medication to become sane for execution (S 


Sinha A, see McDermott R. 327:428 

Sirel JM, see Walker A. 327:1316 

skiing, mountain rescue, in France (C Scrimgeour) BMJ Careers 


skin 

— multiple sclerosis and (IAF van der Mei, et al). 327:316 (P) 

— wrinkly. Q&A (D Weiler, et al). 327:1328 

skin cancers 

— epidemiology, large increases (A Ferriman). 327:1306 (N) 

— prevention. 327:1227 (L), 1228 (L) 

skin diseases 

— evaluation of aid to diagnosis of pigmented lesions in general 

practice (DR English, et al). 327:375 (PC), 1167 (L) 


Skjærven R, see Vatten LJ. 327:1138 

Skone, John Francis, Obituary (A Macara, et al). 327:1053 

Skytthe A, see Tomassini C. 327:373 

Slawson DC, see Shaughnessy AF. 327:266, 811 

Sleigh, Beatrice Elizabeth, Obituary (J Mitchell). 327:293 

Sloan J, see Murray L. 327:534 

Slonin V, see Baird G. 327:488 

Slovakia see also Europe 

— health services, charges (K Krosnar). 327:769 (N) 

smallpox, British biological warfare (JH Baron). 327:261 

smallpox vaccination 

— bioterrorism conference highlights divisions (F Fleck). 


— HIV protection claims are premature (J Lenzer). 327:699 (N) 


Smallwood N, et al, Health e#ects of chemicals need closer scrutiny. 


Smeeth L, et al, Screening older people for impaired vision in primary 

care: cluster randomised trial. 327:1027 (PC) 

Smethhurst D, Pharmaceutical medicine: making the leap BMJ 


Smiddy, Francis Geo#rey, Obituary (J MacFie). 327:108 

Smidt N, see Assendelft W. 327:329 

Smit WM, see van Balen FAM. 327:1201 

Smith F, Who invented that bleeping thing? 327:719 

Smith GCS 

——et al Interpregnancy interval and risk of preterm birth and 

neonatal death: retrospective cohort study. 327:313 (P) 


——et al Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma 

related to gravitational challenge: a systematic review of 

randomised controlled trials (Hazardous journeys). 


Smith I, see Cass HD. 327:270 

Smith, Ian, Obituary (MA Smith). 327:56 

Smith J, Online Firsts. 327:1302 (E) 

Smith K, see Taket A. 327:673 

Smith PEM 

— see Hadjikoutis S. 327:905 

— see Pickersgill T BMJ Careers 327:s107 (4 October 2003) 

Smith, Philip Charles ("Charlie"), Obituary (B Howarth). 


Smith R 

— Improving the management of chronic disease. 327:12 (N) 

— Is the NHS getting better or worse? 327:1239 (E) 


— Thoughts for new medical students at a new medical school 

(It’s good to talk). 327:1430 

— When to retract? 327:883 (E) 

— see Berwick D. 327:1421 

— see Clark J. 327:1001 

— see Delamothe T. 327:241 

Smith S, see Shapiro J. 327:1241 

Smithers E, see McManus IC. 327:139 

smoking see also passive smoking; tobacco 

— Bangladeshi and Pakistani adults: in uences. 327:165 (L) 

— birth weight, e#ects of grandmothers’ smoking in pregnancy 

(E Hyppönen, et al). 327:898 (P) 

— on exhibition (N Shinji, et al). 327:1093 

— lung cancer and, Imperial Tobacco plan denial (O Dyer). 


— prevalence of hardcore smoking in England, and associated 

attitudes and beliefs: cross sectional study. 327:104 (L), 811 

(L) 

— public, ban pressure mounts (Z Kmietowicz). 327:69 (N) 

— smoke free areas, hospitals. 327:104 (L), 811 (L) 

smoking cessation 

— abstinence eight years after participation in nicotine patch 

RCT (P Yudkin, et al). 327:28 (P) 

— intervention after admission for coronary heart disease (P 

Quist-Paulsen, et al). 327:1254 (P) 

— prison dilemmas (JA Colclough). 327:29 

Smullen, Simon, Obituary (C Stone). 327:398 

Snell, Peter, Obituary (R Axon). 327:1351 

Snow M, see Shiralkar S. 327:371 

soccer see football 

socioeconomic factors see also poverty 

— clinical practice guidelines (R Aldrich, et al). 327:1283 (ED) 

— mortality, social class gap is widening (Z Kmietowicz). 327:68 

(N), 752 (L) 

— Russia, 1990s mortality increase. 327:751 (L) 

Solomon B, see Sepulveda C. 327:209 

sore throat, penicillin for acute sore throat in children (S Zwart, 


South Africa see also Africa 

— AIDS 

——antiretrovirals withdrawn for pregnant mothers (P Sidley). 


——Cabinet insists on antiretrovirals (P Sidley). 327:357 (N) 

——inquiry into HIV test without consent (P Sidley). 327:949 

(N) 

——introduces world’s largest AIDS treatment plan (P Sidley). 


— computerised information systems, hard lessons still to be 

learnt. 327:164 (L), 165 (L) 

— drug industry, companies “abused” position (P Sidley). 


South Asians see also ethnic groups 

— diabetes prevention (TA Chowdhury, et al). 327:1059 

— heart failure, prognostic comparison with white patients 

newly admitted to hospital (HM Blackledge, et al). 327:526 

(P), 1405 (L), 1406 (L) 

— representation in randomised controlled trials. 327:394 (L) 

Southall E, General practitioners with special clinical interests. 


Southcott BM, Shy and retiring. 327:279 

specialist registrars 

— acting up as consultants (T Pickersgill, et al) BMJ Careers 


SEX-SPE 23

— observerships (E Dick) BMJ Careers 327: s73 (6 September 

2003) 

Spence, Dingle, (G Yamey) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s30 (26 

July 2003) 

Spence SA, Electroboy (Books). 327:875 (R) 

Spencer J, Endpiece. Angry. 327:427 

Spencer N, see Blackburn C. 327:257 

sperm banks, behavioural psychology of users (A Pacey) (Personal 


Spickett GP, see McLean-Tooke APC. 327:1332 

spinal lymphoma, teenager in love (A Ward). 327:981 

spironolactone, congestive heart failure and (M Svensson, et al). 


Spitzer J, Caring for Jewish Patients (Books). 327:169 (R) 

Spitzer, Joseph, (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s101 (27 


sports 

— brain injuries from ice hockey (D Spurgeon). 327:249 (N) 

— duty doctor (T Greenhalgh) (Soundings). 327:757 (R) 

— expert defends “chocolate for equipment” scheme (A Elliott). 


sports medicine 

— diving, medical o$cer (D Wheeler) BMJ Careers 327:s21 (19 

July 2003) 

— uid overconsumption by athletes (TD Noakes). 327:113 (E) 

— rugby, Simon Kemp (Pro®le) BMJ Career 327:s13 (12 July 

2003) 

— skiing, in France (C Scrimgeour) BMJ Careers 327:s17 (19 

July 2003) 

Spreeuwenberg P, see Marquet RL. 327:201 

Spurgeon B, French government announces new plans for elderly 

care. 327:1127 (N) 

Spurgeon D 

— Canada funds agency criticised as an “AIDS denier". 


— Canadian doctors question marijuana for medicinal use. 


— Chemotherapy before surgery improves survival from bladder 

cancer. 327:520 (N) 

— Genetic test can show whether drugs to treat colon cancer 

will work. 327:183 (N) 

— Ice hockey can lead to brain injury, experts warn. 327:249 

(N) 

— Illinois is to estimate savings from letting its employees 

import cheap drugs. 327:700 (N) 

— Long term use of combined HRT doubles cancer risk. 327:9 

(N) 

— Traces of Agent Orange are found in food in Vietnam. 


squamous cell carcinomas, palliative radiotherapy (F Momm, et 

al) (Minerva). 327:1356 (R) 

Squire IB 



— see Blackledge HM. 327:526 

Sreenarasimhaiah J, Management of acute mesenteric ischaemia. 


Sreenivas V, see Khanna R. 327:126 

Stabinski L, et al, Reframing HIV and AIDS. 327:1101 (ED) 

Stacey D, see O’Connor AM. 327:736 

Stacey M, see Morris S. 327:1277 

Stagnaro S, What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

Stamatakis JD, see Tekkis PP. 327:1196 

Stampfer MJ, see He K. 327:777 

Standen S, see Medford ARL. 327:991 

Standeven J, see Naunheim RS. 327:1168 

Stanley FJ 

— see Cunningham C. 327:403 

— see Lehmann D. 327:415 

Star®eld BH, see Haggerty JL. 327:1219 

Stark C, The New Medical Conversation (Books). 327:755 (R) 

Starling C, see Cass HD. 327:270 

Stather-Dunn, Michael Taylor, Obituary (L Stather-Dunn). 


statins 

— cardiovascular diseases: polypill. 327:807 (L), 808 (L), 809 

(L) 

— cardiovascular events cut in people with diabetes. 327:752 (L) 

— depression, risk reduction (D Josefson). 327:467 (N) 

— might money be better spent? 327:933 (L) 

— rhabdomyolysis (R Lane, et al). 327:115 (E) (correction, 500) 

statistics see also bias 

— death, population level data (PA Singer, et al). 327:173 (E) 

— power of stories over statistics (TB Newman) (It’s good to 

talk). 327:1424 

— risk comprehension tools (G Gigerenzer, et al). 327:741 

(ED), 1403 (L) 

— risk and the individual (G Shelford) (Personal view). 327:757 

(R) 

Stebbing J, et al, A memorable patient. Bella and the blood sample. 


Steel E, see Ramnarayan P. 327:623 

Ste#en R, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Stein A 

— see Fazel M. 327:134 

— see Ramchandani P. 327:242 

stem cell transplantation 

— Australia, drugs to be labelled (B Burton). 327:700 (N) 

— breast cancers, not helpful (JH Tanne). 327:68 (N) 

— European Commission, research using human embryos 

approved (R Watson). 327:1248 (N) 

— use eggs, not embryos, to derive stem cells. 327:872 (L) 

stenosis, new approaches to preventing restenosis (B Bhargava, et 


Stephens DP 

— see Cheng AC. 327:1280 

— see Democratis J BMJ Careers 327:s57 (23 August 2003) 

Stephenson S, Freddie (Personal view). 327:236 (R) 

Stephenson SCR, see Langley JD. 327:1023 

sterilisation, sexual, Australia, doctor must pay child raising costs 

(C Zinn). 327:183 (N) 

Sterling TR, et al, Impact of DOTS and DOTS-plus on 

multidrug resistant TB. 327:164 (L) 

steroids 

— acute rheumatic fever, treatment (A Cilliers). 327:631 (E) 

— atopic dermatitis (DJ Atherton). 327:942 (E) 

— no more e#ective than placebo for viral wheeze in children (S 


Stevens A, see McKee W. 327:104 

Stevens R, see Rosen R. 327:460 

Stevens S, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

Stevenson, Howard Morris, Obituary (R Clarke, et al). 327:993 

Stevenson, Simon, (L Sanai) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s54 (16 

August 2003) 

Stevenson W, Terminology for our times. 327:166 (L) 

Stewart PM, Improving clinical research. 327:999 (E) 

Stiekema, Koos, drug company employee who queried trial wins 

appeal (T Sheldon). 327:307 (N) 

stillbirth, interpregnancy interval and (GCS Smith, et al). 

327:313 (P) (correction, 851) 

Stirling, Leader Dominic, Obituary (KC Rankin). 327:56 

Stock N, et al, Marrow: making a di#erence on both sides BMJ 


Stokes C, see Grein T. 327:650 

Stokes J, What it’s really like at the coalface (Personal view). 


Stone A, Audit of soap usage by a primary care team (Ward 

round). 327:1453 

Storey S, Non-standard grade (trust grade) doctors: the human 

resource view BMJ Careers 327:s129 (25 October 2003) 

Stott NC, Feasibility of opportunistic disease prevention. 


Strachan D, see Gupta R. 327:1142 

Strachan J, BMA secretary responds to news story. 327:227 (L) 

Strachan, Jeremy, BMA secretary threatens to sue ARM 

representatives (A Ferriman). 327:71 (N), 227 (L) 

Strang J, et al, E#ect of national guidelines on prescription of 

methadone: analysis of NHS prescription data, England 

1990-2001: 327:321 (P) 

Strange RC, see Wong CSM. 327:794 

Straus S, see Davis D. 327:33 

stress, multiple sclerosis, stressful life events and exacerbations 

(D Buljevac, et al). 327:646 (P) 

stroke see also cardiovascular diseases 

— air pollution and, warm weather risk (JH Tanne). 327:887 (N) 

— dietary fat and, in male US healthcare professionals (K He, et 

al). 327:777 (P), 1348 (L) 

— prevention, INR level in patients with atrial ®brillation (JH 

Tanne). 327:638 (N) 

— US, centres planned use of alteplase (J Lenzer). 327:247 (N), 

812 (L) 

Strom BL, see Kimmel SE. 327:1298 

Struijs P, see Assendelft W. 327:329 

students, alcohol drinking, secondhand e#ects (JD Langley, et 


students, medical 

— disabled, and GMC (P Rubin) BMJ Careers 327:s123 (18 


— evidence based medicine, clinical decision support tools to 

improve learning (GM Leung, et al). 327:1090 (LP) 

— US, better life not pay (S Gottlieb). 327:578 (N) 

Sturchio JL, see Bonaccorso S. 327:863 

sub-Saharan Africa, malaria chemoprophylaxis in non-immune 

travellers (P Schlagenhauf, et al). 327:1078 (P) 

Suber P, “Author pays” publishing model. 327:54 (L) 

subfertility 

— ABC of subfertility 

——Anovulation (D Hamilton-Fairley, et al). 327:546 (C) 

——Assisted conception. I—General principles (P Rowell, et 


——Assisted conception. II—In vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic 

sperm injection (P Braude, et al). 327:852 (C) 

——Assisted conception. III—Problems with assisted conception 


——Assisted conception and the law in the United Kingdom 


——Counselling (A Bagshawe, et al). 327:1038 (C) 

——Extent of the problem (A Taylor). 327:434 (C), 872 (L), 

1226 (L) 

——Further advances and uses of assisted conception technology 

(S Pickering, et al). 327:1156 (C) 

——Intractable infertility (A Bagshawe, et al). 327:1098 (C) 

——Making a diagnosis (A Taylor). 327:494 (C) 

——Male subfertility (A Hirsh). 327:669 (C) (correction, 

1165) 

——Tubal subfertility (Y Khalaf). 327:610 (C) 

——Unexplained infertility, endometriosis, and ®broids (R 

Hart). 327:721 (C) 

Sudan see also Africa 

— female genital mutilation law tightened (P Moszynski). 


— oods bring threat of disease (P Moszynski). 327:357 (N) 

— health crisis and record malnutrition (P Moszynski). 327:948 

(N) 

sudden death, MEPs lead demand for recognition as syndrome 

(R Watson). 327:886 (N) 

Sugarman J, see MacQueen KM. 327:340 

suicide 

— antidepressants and: Australia 1991-2000: 327:288 (L) (correction, 

586), 289 (L) (correction, 586) 

— co-proxamol and, national mortality statistics and local nonfatal 


— helping people bereaved by suicide (K Hawton, et al). 


— risk 

——Danish twins: 51 year follow up (C Tomassini, et al). 


——prevention programme in US Air Force (KL Knox, et al). 


— spouse’s psychiatric illness or suicide and (E Agerbo, et al). 


— women prisoners, record high (O Dyer). 327:122 (N) 

suicide, assisted see also ethics, medical; euthanasia 

— Netherlands, requests in general practice: trend analysis (RL 

Marquet, et al). 327:201 (PC) 

— Switzerland, allowing role for non-physicians. 327:51 (L), 52 

(L), 226 (L) 

— UK, Parliament to look again at issue (O Dyer). 327:1186 (N) 

— US, Florida governor intervenes (F Charatan). 327:949 (N), 

1010 (N) 

Sullivan AM, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

Sullivan PJ, see Borrill Z. 327:1136 

Summerbell CD, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Summer®eld D, Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, 

and the state of the World Medical Association. 327:561 

(L), 1107 (L), 1108 (L) 

Sundaram R, An insider’s guide to exible training BMJ Careers 


Sundararajan L, et al, Unilateral re-expansion pulmonary 

oedema after pleural e#usion drainage (Minerva). 327:1176 

(R) 

sunlight, multiple sclerosis and (IAF van der Mei, et al). 327:316 

(P) 

Suresh K, et al, How to set up and run an MSc course BMJ 


Sureshkumar R, Conducting successful ward rounds (Tips on...) 

BMJ Careers 327:s180 (6 December 2003) 

surgery 

— Deborah Colville (R Little) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s110 


— fees. One hundred years ago. 327:1143 

— outcome determinants. 327:564 (L) 

— requirements. Endpiece (Z Shah). 327:1263 

— who cleans the clogs? (JO Drife) (Soundings). 327:1115 (R) 

— women, Christine Evans (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s37 (2 

August 2003) 

surgery, operative see also postoperative complications 

— errors (SK Sarker) BMJ Careers 327:s109 (4 October 2003) 

— “failed back surgery syndrome” (L Talbot). 327:985 (ED) 

— objective assessment of technical skills (K Moorthy, et al). 


surgery, plastic, US drama outrages surgeons (JH Tanne) (TV). 


survival analysis 

— critical care, e#ect of outreach team on patient survival to 

discharge from hospital and readmission (C Ball, et al). 


— physicians’ predictions in terminally ill cancer patients (P 

Glare, et al). 327:195 (P), 1048 (L) 

— tables for preterm birth prediction. 327:872 (L) 

suspensions see under malpractice 

Sutch S, see Ham C. 327:1257 

Suvarna R, et al, Drug point. Possible interaction between warfarin 

and cranberry juice. 327:1454 

Svensson M, et al, Hyperkalaemia and impaired renal function in 

patients taking spironolactone for congestive heart failure: 

retrospective study. 327:1141 (P) 

Swan, John Horatio, Obituary (A Sargent, et al). 327:168 

Swarbrick ET, see Thompson MR. 327:263 

Swarte NB, et al,E#ects of euthanasia on the bereaved family and 

friends: a cross sectional study. 327:189 (P) 

Sweet M 

— Aboriginal study prompts push for action on children’s hearing 

loss. 327:413 (N) 

— Carrying a heavy burden. 327:414 (N) 

— Website launched to expose “tricks” of drug ads (Websites). 


Swift PGF, see Wills CJ. 327:260 

swimming pools 

— Australia, bene®ts in Aboriginal communities (D Lehmann, 


— bene®ts in remote Aboriginal communities (G Hall, et al). 


Swingler GH, et al, Number of published systematic reviews and 

global burden of disease: database analysis. 327:1083 (P) 

Switzerland see also Europe 

— assisted suicide, allowing role for non-physicians. 327:51 (L), 

52 (L), 226 (L) 

Syed AA, What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

Syed, Altaf Hussain, Obituary (TA Mahmood). 327:1171 

symptoms 

— sexual dysfunction cross sectional study in general practice (I 

Nazareth, et al). 327:423 (PC), 1109 (L), 1110 (L) 

— what do they mean? (J Ogden). 327:409 (E) 

syphilis 

— Netherlands, rise points to unsafe sex (T Sheldon). 327:10 

(N) 

— Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis (Hayden) 


systematic reviews see also meta-analysis 

— number published and global burden of disease (GH 

Swingler, et al). 327:1083 (P) 

Szasz T, The psychiatric protection order for the “battered mental 

patient” (Ward round). 327:1449 

Szczepura A, see Johnson MRD. 327:394 

T 

Taccetti G, et al, Pneumothorax in cystic ®brosis patient 


tachyarrhythmias, implantable devices for treating: ABC of interventional 

cardiology (T Houghton, et al). 327:333 (C) 

Tadros G, see Dale J. 327:450 

Taket A, et al, Routinely asking women about domestic violence 

in health settings. 327:673 (ED), 1345 (L) 

Takwale A, et al, E$cacy and tolerability of borage oil in adults 

and children with atopic eczema: randomised, double blind, 

placebo controlled, parallel group trial. 327:1385 (PC) 

Talbot L, “Failed back surgery syndrome". 327:985 (ED) 

Talbot-Smith A, see Pollock AM. 327:982 

Talcott GW, see Knox KL. 327:1376 

Tam CC, et al, Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

Tambyah PA, et al, SARS: understanding the coronavirus. 


Tambyraja AL, Management of acute mesenteric ischaemia. 


Tamimi RM, et al, Energy intake in pregnant women carrying 

boys or girls. 327:622 (L) 

tamoxifen, gynaecomastia, endocrine treatment (HN Khan, et 


Tamrat A, see Grein T. 327:650 

Tan E, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

Tan S-B, et al, Strategy for randomised clinical trials in rare cancers. 


Tandeter H, Systolic blood pressure lowers after itraconazole 


Tanne JH 

— Air pollution during warm weather increases risk of stroke. 


— Angels in America (Film). 327:1412 (R) 

— Children are often undertreated for pain. 327:1185 (N) 

— Diets high in animal fats increase risk of breast cancer, while 

painkillers lower risk, studies say. 327:181 (N) 

— Drug helps patients with relapsed myeloma. 327:7 (N) 

— FDA chief wants other rich countries to share drug development 

costs. 327:830 (N) 

— HRT does not prevent heart disease. 327:359 (N) 

— Hypertension is increasing in United States. 327:120 (N) 

— Infectious disease expert is indicted on 69 charges. 327:699 

(N) 

— Infectious diseases expert convicted over missing plague bacteria. 


— Local governments in US buy cheaper prescription drugs 

from Canada. 327:1126 (N) 

— New US drama outrages plastic surgeons (TV). 327:295 (R) 

— Painkillers before knee surgery improve outcomes. 327:1185 

(N) 

— Prostate cancer drug may be useful for prevention. 327:9 (N) 

— Stem cell transplants are not helpful in breast cancer, studies 

say. 327:68 (N) 

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— Study shows what INR level is best for preventing stroke in 

patients with atrial ®brillation. 327:638 (N) 

— Treatment for depression improves pain in elderly patients. 


— US ban on “partial birth” abortions could outlaw other forms 

as well. 327:1009 (N) 

— US clinics fear violence after execution of antiabortion murderer. 


Tasker RC, see O’Donnell R. 327:620 

tattoos 

— car paint pigments (R Watson). 327:182 (N) 

— skin grafts change words. All stitched up (R Milton). 


Tayal U 

— The Art of Dying. 327:235 (R) 

— Children’s book at centre of row over drug advertising 

campaign. 327:412 (N) 

— Commons committee calls for more choice over home births. 


— Homelessness and health (Website of the week). 327:110 (R) 

— How viewers get facts from ®ction (TV). 327:347 (R) 

— Indigenous health (Wesite of the week). 327:456 (R) 

— Intelligence (Website of the week). 327:170 (R) 

— Missing and unidenti®ed persons (Website of the week). 


— No place to call home BMJ Careers 327:s93 (20 September 

2003) 

— Report shows health disparities in American Indians and 

Alaska Natives. 327:305 (N), 449 (L) 

— UN policy fails to tackle health needs of indigenous people. 


— Whale Rider (Film). 327:455 (R) 

Taylor A 

— ABC of subfertility. Extent of the problem. 327:434 (C), 872 

(L), 1226 (L) 

— ABC of subfertility. Making a diagnosis. 327:494 (C) 

— see Bagshawe A. 327:1038, 1098 

— see Hamilton-Fairley D. 327:546 

Taylor BV, see van der Mei IAF. 327:316 

Taylor D, see Conradi P. 327:752 

Taylor F 

— et al, How healthy is your career BMJ Careers 327:s116 (11 


— see Lloyd-Williams M. 327:372 

Taylor, Malcolm Peter, Obituary (C Read). 327:874 

Taylor R, Conundrum of the HOPE study. 327:681 (L) 

Taylor, Rodney Geo#rey George, Obituary (D Young). 327:1112 

Taylor S, et al, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:807 

(L) 

teaching see also education, medical 

— gynaecology teaching associates (S Pickard, et al). 327:1389 

(LP) 

Teixeira P, see Mukherjee JS. 327:1104 

Tekkis PP 

— et al, Operative mortality in colorectal cancer: prospective 

national study. 327:1196 (P) 

— see McCulloch P. 327:1192 

telemedicine see also medical informatics 

— evaluation of teleconsultation for specialist opinion referrals 

(PB Jacklin, et al). 327:84 (IP) 

— mobile phone picture of jaw (J Carter). 327:1458 

— service development integration: ethnographic study (TL 

Finch, et al). 327:1205 (IP) 

— Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health (Wootton, et al, eds) 


teleoanalysis, combining data from di#erent types of study (NJ 

Wald, et al). 327:616 (ED) 

telephones see also mobile phones 

— communication (M Gri$ths) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


— consultations. 327:53 (L), 345 (L) 

— pagers, inventor’s story (F Smith). 327:719 

television, viewers get facts from ®ction (U Tayal) (TV). 327:347 

(R) 

Teltsch D, see Hanley JA. 327:1457 

10-minute consultation 

— Acute low back pain (J Car, et al). 327:541 (PC) 

— Cervical Chlamydia trachomatis infection (P Oakeshott, et al). 


— High result in prostate speci®c antigen test (M Mokete, et al). 


— Recurrent urinary tract infection in women (J Car, et al). 


Teng YKO, see de Craen AJM. 327:131 

Tennant MT, see Lehmann D. 327:415 

tennis elbow, (W Assendelft, et al) (Extracts from Concise Clinical 

Evidence). 327:329 (C) 

tenofovir, fatal lactic acidosis and (P Rivas, et al) (Drug points). 


ter Riet G, see Rietveld RP. 327:789 

terminal care see palliative care 

text messages see also mobile phones 

— appointment reminders. 327:564 (L) 

thiazides, major cost savings in uncomplicated hypertension (S 


third molar, who’d be a reformer? (J Shepherd) (Personal view). 


Thistlethwaite J, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 


Thomas J, et al, Tackling India’s HIV epidemic. 327:563 (L) 

Thomas K, et al, In search of a good death. 327:223 (L) 

Thomas S 

— et al, Research with unaccompanied children seeking asylum. 


— see Hind D. 327:361 

Thompson JR, see Takwale A. 327:1385 

Thompson M, see Higginson IJ. 327:478 

Thompson MR 

— et al, Identifying and managing patients at low risk of bowel 

cancer in general practice. 327:263 (PC), 871 (L) 

— see Tekkis PP. 327:1196 

Thompson SG 

— see Higgins JPT. 327:557 

— see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Thompson T, et al, Adherence to advance directives in critical 

care decision making: vignette study. 327:1011 (P), 1406 

(L), 1407 (L) 

Thompson WT, see Sibbett CH. 327:971 

Thomson A, et al, Organising sabbaticals abroad BMJ Careers 


Thomson R, see Say RE. 327:542 

Thornett A, et al, Keeping doctors in general practice BMJ 


Thornton H 


— Patients’ understanding of risk. 327:693 (E), 1403 (L) 

— et al, Women need better information about routine 

mammography. 327:101 (ED), 868 (L), 869 (L) 

Thorpe C, A Christmas visit. 327:1472 

Thorsen T, see Beich A. 327:536 

thrifty phenotype hypothesis, hearing problems and (M-L 

Barrenäs, et al) (Research pointers). 327:1199 (P) 

thrombocytopenia, neonatal alloimmune (R Rayment, et al)(Lesson 

of the week). 327:331 (C) 

thrombolysis 

— myocardial infarction and prehospital thrombolysis 

——overview (BD Prendergast). 327:1 (E) 

——cohort study (DK Pedley, et al). 327:22 (P), 1051 (L) 

——safety and feasibility carried out by paramedics (P Keeling, 


thrombosis, deep vein thrombosis and air travel: record linkage 

study (CW Kelman, et al). 327:1072 (P) 

Thulasiraj RD, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Thun MJ, Passive smoking. 327:502 (L) 

thyroid dysfunction, elderly, prevalence (AJM de Craen, et al). 


Tielsch JM, see Rahmathullah L. 327:254 

Tijssen JGP, see van Alem AP. 327:1312 

time factors, simvastatin, morning v. evening administration (A 

Wallace, et al). 327:788 (PC) 

time management 

— creating time for yourself (M Gri$ths) (Tips on...) BMJ 


— success tips (R McGuire) BMJ Careers 327:s117 (11 October 

2003) 

— three minute life (A Herring) BMJ Careers 327:s198 (20-27 


time out see career break 

Tin KYK, see Leung GM. 327:1090 

Tindall A, see D’Sa AA. 327:680 

tissue donors see also organ transplantation 

— informed consent (P Furness). 327:759 (E) 

— why surgical patients do not donate tissue for commercial 

research (AL Jack, et al). 327:262 (P) 

Titanic, life expectancy of survivors (JA Hanley, et al) (Hazardous 


Tite L, Drug company pushes for all children under 2 to be vaccinated 

against pneumonia. 327:1249 (N) 

tobacco see also nicotine; smoking 

— ban, Lancet calls for (A Ferriman). 327:1364 (N) 

— cannabis comparison. 327:165 (L) 

——again (S Sidney). 327:635 (E) 

— Ireland, workplace ban (M Houston). 327:522 (N) 

— low tar, Cancer Research UK campaign (A Iles). 327:701 (N) 

— prolongation of life. One hundred years ago. 327:133 

— treating nicotine addiction (A Jain) (Extracts from “Best Treatments” 

). 327:1394 (C) 

— US, company plans to sell snu# as “smokeless tobacco” (D 

Josefson). 327:247 (N) 

— WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development 

of evidence based global public health treaty (K 

Shibuya, et al). 327:154 (ED) 

tobacco industry 

— Germany, anti-smoking ads attacked (A Tu#s). 327:360 (N) 

— Poland, price war to o#set tax rises (A Gilmore). 327:948 (N) 

— US, gay ads come out of closet (G Yamey) (Ads). 327:296 (R) 

Tobiansky R, see Cole C. 327:621 

Tobias GJ, In vitro fertilisation for all? 327:1226 (L) 

Toh CH, et al, Disseminated intravascular coagulation: old 

disease, new hope. 327:975 (C) 

Tomassini C 

— et al, Risk of suicide in twins: 51 year follow up study. 327:373 

(P), 1168 (L), 1169 (L) 

— see Christensen K. 327:1169 

Tomlinson RJ, Reminding patients by text message. 327:564 (L) 

tomography, computed, missing parietal and temporal lobes 

revealed (L Yuen, et al) (Minerva). 327:998 (R) 

Tong CYW, et al, Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia. 


Tonks A 


Information for patients: What happens during cognitive 

behaviour therapy for bulimia. 327:382 (C) 


tonsils, how my tonsils were saved (D Crosby). 327:960 

Tookey PA, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Torgerson DJ 

— Randomise foundation trusts. 327:291 (L) 

— see Pu#er S. 327:785 

Toroyan T, et al,E#ectiveness of out-of-home day care for disadvantaged 

families: randomised controlled trial. 327:906 

(PC) 

Tovey P, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Townsend A, et al, Managing multiple morbidity in mid-life: a 

qualitative study of attitudes to drug use. 327:837 (P) 

toxoplasmosis, HIV and (Mayer, et al) (Minerva). 327:818 (R) 

tracheal intubation, severely injured patients: prehospital (EF 

Christensen, et al). 327:533 (P) 

Tramèr MR 

— Treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting. 327:762 (E) 

— see Pasquina P. 327:1379 

travel see also accidents, tra$c 

— business travel abroad (M Gri$ths) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 


— malaria chemoprophylaxis in non-immune travellers to 

sub-Saharan Africa (P Schlagenhauf, et al). 327:1078 (P) 

— radiotherapy, driven to distraction (H Cole). 327:1203 

Traversa G, et al, Cohort study of hepatotoxicity associated with 

nimesulide and other non-steroidal anti-in ammatory 

drugs. 327:18 (P), 1050 (L) 

Traynor M, see Dash P. 327:1339 

Treasure T, et al, Assessment of whether in-hospital mortality for 

lobectomy is a useful standard for the quality of lung cancer 

surgery: retrospective study. 327:73 (P) 

treatment outcome 

— determinants of surgery. 327:564 (L) 

— hyperparathyroidism surgery (P Vestergaard, et al). 327:530 

(P) 

TREC Collaborative Group, Rapid tranquillisation for agitated 

patients in emergency psychiatric rooms: a randomised trial 

of midazolam versus haloperidol plus promethazine. 


Trewby C, see Trewby P. 327:807 

Trewby P, et al, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:807 

(L) 

Trichopoulos D, see Tamimi RM. 327:622 

tricyclic antidepressants see also antidepressants 

— depression, comparison with selective serotonin reuptake 

inhibitors in primary care. 327:288 (L) (correction, 586), 289 

(L) (correction, 586) 

— suicide and, national mortality statistics and local non-fatal 


trigeminal neuralgia, treatment options (AFA Merrison, et al). 


Tripodi A, see Poller L. 327:30 

Trippoli S, see Messori A. 327:808 

trust grade doctors see under non-standard grade doctors 

trusts see also National Health Service 

— Achieving Improvements through Clinical Governance (Z 

Kmietowicz). 327:641 (N) 

— improvement initiative rolled out for acute trusts in England 

(C White). 327:768 (N) 

— risk assessors need to be assessed. 327:1108 (L) 

Tsapakis EM, see Tsiridis E. 327:1167 

Tschopp A, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Tsiridis E, et al, Doctors’ knowledge of exposure to ionising 


tubal subfertility, ABC of subfertility (Y Khalaf). 327:610 (C) 

tuberculosis 

— diagnostic delays: 1998-2000: 327:164 (L) 

— directly observed treatment 

——concordance (P Garner, et al). 327:823 (E) 

——impact of DOTS v. DOTS-plus on multidrug resistant 

tuberculosis and tuberculosis deaths: decision analysis. 


— open-air treatment. One hundred years ago. 327:560 

— Russia, prisoners (J Burgermeister). 327:1066 (N) 

— treatment concordance (D Maher, et al). 327:822 (E) 

— tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination (GH Bothamley, 

et al). 327:243 (E), 932 (L) 

Tubmen, Henry ("Harry"), Obituary (M Hickson). 327:685 

Tudor-Williams G, see Gibb DM. 327:1019 

Tuffs A 

— Die Krankheitserfinder [Disease mongers](Books). 327:1173 (R) 

— Doctors in Germany will have to charge patients €10 a visit. 


— European court ruling means Germany will need more doctors. 


— German doctor is investigated for killing 76 patients with 

morphine. 327:830 (N) 

— German doctors shun eastern states. 327:949 (N) 

— German government shortens medical training. 327:1127 

(N) 

— German government under attack for anti-smoking advertisements. 


— German scientists withdraw research paper on cancer 

vaccine. 327:637 (N) 

— Von Hagens faces investigation over use of bodies without 

consent. 327:1068 (N) 

Tulip F, see McDermott R. 327:428 

Tumwine, James, interview with (G Yamey). 327:832 (N) 

Tun PK, see O’Connor R BMJ Careers 327:s185 (13 December 

2003) 

Turia T, Tribal health policy in New Zealand (Personal view). 


Turner E, see Hanley JA. 327:1457 

Turner L, Has the President’s Council on Bioethics missed the 

boat? (Personal view). 327:629 (R) 

Turner RG, see Radcli#e MJ.327:251 

Turya EB, Preparing for appraisal: a guide for locum doctors 


twins, suicide risk: 51 year follow up (C Tomassini, et al). 327:373 

(P), 1168 (L), 1169 (L) 

Twisselmann B 

— Death as the dramatic climax to a staged life. 327:220 

— Death as part of a person’s history. 327:220 

— The Discovery of the Germ (Books). 327:57 (R) 

— Paying for bmj.com. 327:1347 (L) 

— Theme issue for patients. 327:449 (L) 

Twite M, see Rashid A BMJ Careers 327:s19 (19 July 2003) 

type 1 diabetes mellitus see diabetes mellitus, insulin-dependent 

type 2 diabetes mellitus see diabetes mellitus, non-insulindependent 

Tyrer P 

— et al, Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders. 327:870 

(L) 

— see Shorter E. 327:158 

U 

Uganda see also Africa 

— AIDS, door to door anonymous HIV testing (B Ochan). 


— hospices, Anne Merriman (R Goody) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


— maternal health services, criteria based audit (AD Weeks, et 

al). 327:1329 (Q) 

— palliative care survey of needs for terminally ill (E Kikule). 


Uitti J, see Viljanen M. 327:475 

UK Biobank, ethics framework (K Godfrey). 327:700 (N) 

ultrasonography 

— locating devices for central venous cannulation: meta-analysis 

(D Hind, et al). 327:361 (P) 

— locating devices for central venous cannulation (D Hind, et 


— osteoporosis, quantitative ultrasound and risk factor enquiry 

as predictors of postmenopausal osteoporosis. 327:392 (L) 

Underwood J, Death of the teaching autopsy. Commentary: 

Resuscitating the teaching autopsy. 327:802 (ED) 

Unger J-P, et al, Doctor-patient communication in developing 


Unigwe S, see Edwards A. 327:703 

United Nations 

— AIDS funding shortfall in developing countries (S Mayor). 


— indigenous people, UN policy fails to tackle (U Tayal). 


United Nations Population Fund, State of the World Population 

2003 (Z Kmietowicz). 327:829 (N) 

United States see also Canada 

— abortion 

——“partial birth” ban (JH Tanne). 327:1009 (N) 

——violence fear after Hill execution (JH Tanne). 327:577 (N) 

— AIDS, unsafe sexual practice (D Josefson). 327:10 (N) 

— assisted suicide 

——Florida governor intervention (F Charatan). 327:949 (N) 

——Florida governor orders feeding resumption (F Charatan). 


TAS-UNI 25

— breast implants, safety concerns persist (R Moynihan). 


— capital punishment, forced medication to become sane for 

executed (S Gottlieb). 327:889 (N) 

— drug industry 

——Canadian imports 

——allowed (F Charatan). 327:246 (N) (correction, 556) 

——Illinois research on savings (D Spurgeon). 327:700 (N) 

——local governments (JH Tanne). 327:1126 (N) 

——FDA wants other rich countries to share development 

costs (JH Tanne). 327:836 (N) 

——US politicians want federal funding to discover cost e#ectiveness 

(R Moynihan). 327:642 (N) 

— ethics, President’s Council on Bioethics (L Turner) (Personal 


— ethnic groups, health disparities in American Indians and 

Alaska Natives (U Tayal). 327:305 (N), 449 (L) 

— food industry 

——ensures that consumers are not told to eat less (A Elliot). 


——healthy eating message obfuscated (C Marwick). 327:121 

(N) 

— general practice, training (M Punukollu) BMJ Careers 



——bed occupancy: NHS, Kaiser Permanente and Medicare 

(C Ham, et al). 327:1257 (P) 

——Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American 

Dream (Elliott) (Books). 327:567 (R) 

——Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable 

Health Care (Halvorson, et al) (Books). 327:109 (R) 

— HealthSouth scandal (R Moynihan). 327:1128 (N) 

— hormone replacement therapy, FDA advice (D Josefson). 


— hypertension, increasing (JH Tanne). 327:120 (N) 

— insurance 

——doctors don’t tell patients about unavailable services (S 


——national programme: doctors’ opinions (S Gottlieb). 


——uninsured increase by 2.4m (S Gottlieb). 327:830 (N) 

— medical injuries in hospitals (S Mayor). 327:887 (N) 

— medical students, better life not pay (S Gottlieb). 327:578 

(N) 

— Medicare, thanksgiving gift (G Dunea) (Soundings). 327:1413 

(R) 

— mental health care needs revamp (D Josefson). 327:248 (N) 

— NIH needs to change, says report (C Marwick). 327:306 (N) 

— obesity, paediatricians call for checks (S Gottlieb). 327:518 

(N) 

— plague 

——expert indicted on missing bacteria charges (JH Tanne). 


——expert trial conviction (JH Tanne). 327:1307 (N) 

— plastic surgery, US drama outrages surgeons (JH Tanne) 

(TV). 327:295 (R) 

— pneumonia cases in Iraq troops (S Gottlieb). 327:358 (N) 

— prescriptions: rethinking (A Ellner). 327:1397 (ED) 

— research 

——NIH announces new strategy (S Mayor). 327:765 (N) 

——NIH “hit list” furore (J Clark). 327:1065 (N) 

— stroke centres planned use of alteplase (J Lenzer). 327:247 

(N), 812 (L) 

— suicide risk, Air Force prevention programme (KL Knox, et 


— tobacco 

——company plans to sell snu# as “smokeless tobacco” (D 

Josefson). 327:247 (N) 

——gay ads (G Yamey) (Ads). 327:296 (R) 

——passive smoking mortality: California. 327:501 (L), 502 

(L), 503 (L), 504 (L), 505 (L) 

— training for foreign doctors (A Rashid, et al) BMJ Careers 


— women doctors, Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating 

America’s Women Physicians (T Delamothe) (Art). 327:1054 

(R) 

— working abroad (A Rashid, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s19 (19 

July 2003) 

universities, developing countries partnership: New Year’s 

resolution (DJ Weatherall, et al). 327:1415 (E) 

Unsworth J, see Johnston SL. 327:227 

Unthank C, see Cass HD. 327:270 

Unwin C, see Hotopf M. 327:1370 

Uplekar M, see Maher D. 327:822 

upper respiratory tract infections, children, clinical course (CC 

Butler, et al). 327:1088 (PC) 

Upshur REG 

— Better than Well (Books). 327:567 (R) 

— see Singer PA. 327:1342 

urinary creatine, infant tobacco exposure reduction strategies (C 

Blackburn, et al). 327:257 (P) 

urinary tract infections 

— children, nurse led education and direct access service (MG 

Coulthard, et al). 327:656 (PC), 1346 (L) 

— recurrent infections in women (J Car, et al) (10-minute consultation). 


urology 

— career advice (J Bycroft, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s177 (6 


— Christine Evans (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s37 (2 August 

2003) 

— micturition secret revealed (L Farrell) (Soundings). 327:59 

(R) 

Utley M, see Treasure T. 327:73 

V 

Vaghela JF, see Khanna R. 327:126 

Vahtera J, see Kivamäki M. 327:364 

Vaiani M, see Messori A. 327:808 

Vaidya JS, Passive smoking. 327:501 (L) 

valproic acid, elderly, prescription comparison with lithium. 


valsartan, as e#ective as ACE inhibitors (S Gottlieb). 327:1123 

(N) 

valvuloplasty, ABC of interventional cardiology (ED Grech). 


van Aalderen WMC, see van Woensel JBM. 327:36 

van Alem AP, et al, Use of automated external de®brillator by ®rst 

responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest: prospective 

controlled trial. 327:1312 (P) 

van Balen FAM, et al, Clinical e$cacy of three common 

treatments in acute otitis externa in primary care: 

randomised controlled trial. 327:1201 (PC) 

van Delden JM, see Boter H. 327:284 

van den Besselaar AMHP, see Poller L. 327:30 

van den Bout J, see Swarte NB. 327:189 

van den Brink W, et al, Medical prescription of heroin to 

treatment resistant heroin addicts: two randomised controlled 

trials. 327:310 (P) (correction, 724) 

van der Bom JG 

— see Roovers J-PWR. 327:774 

— see Swarte NB. 327:189 

van der Lee ML, see Swarte NB. 327:189 

van der Meché FGA, see Buljevac D. 327:646 

van der Mei IAF, et al, Past exposure to sun, skin phenotype, and 

risk of multiple sclerosis: case-control study. 327:316 (P) 

van der Vaart CH, see Roovers J-PWR. 327:774 

van Doorn PA, see Buljevac D. 327:646 

VanOyenH,see Arbyn M. 327:289 

van Ree JM, see van den Brink W. 327:310 

van Weert HCPM, see Rietveld RP. 327:789 

van Woensel JBM, et al, Viral lower respiratory tract infection in 

infants and young children. 327:36 (C) 

van Zwieten BJ, see van den Brink W. 327:310 

Vandenbroucke JP, Balancing bene®ts and harms in health care. 


Vanderwarker C, see Mukherjee JS. 327:1104 

Vandor T, Essence of being a doctor. 327:396 (L) 

Varughese G, see Morris I. 327:1275 

Vasan RS, Diastolic heart failure. 327:1181 (E) 

vascular surgery, recent developments (J Crane, et al). 327:911 

(C) 

Vaseline, burns and. 327:1289 (L) 

Vatten LJ, et al, E#ects on pregnancy outcome of changing partner 

between ®rst two births: prospective population study. 


Vaughan, Sir Gerard, Obituary (T Bullamore). 327:452 

Vfazquez M, see Bertomeu A. 327:591 

vegetables, WHO initiative (L Eaton). 327:1125 (N) 

vegetarianism, warning. Endpiece (F Charatan). 327:477 

Veit O, see Schlagenhauf P. 327:1078 

Venegoni M, see Traversa G. 327:18 

venous thromboembolism, prophylaxis during treatment for cancer 

(CC Kirwan, et al). 327:597 (P) 

Verbeek JH, “Failed back surgery syndrome". Commentary: label 

is unhelpful. 327:986 (ED) 

Verberne TJ 

— Antidepressant prescribing and suicide. 327:288 (L) 

— Risk of suicide in twins. 327:1168 (L) 

Verheij TJM, see van Balen FAM. 327:1201 

Verhoef J, see Wu YP. 327:1405 

Vernon SJ, see Coulthard MG. 327:656, 1346 

Vestergaard P, et al, Cohort study on e#ects of parathyroid 

surgery on multiple outcomes in primary hyperparathyroidism. 


Veterans’ A#airs, health services research (J Lomas). 327:1301 

(E) 

veterinary medicine 

— evidence based medicine (T Greenhalgh) (Soundings). 


— lessons from dog’s diagnosis and treatment (A Johnstone). 


Viagra see also infertility, male 

— erectile dysfunction incidence and patient characteristics 

before and after UK introduction. 327:1109 (L), 1110 (L) 

Vichinsky EP, see Claster S. 327:1151 (C) 

Victora CG, et al, Anthropometry and body composition of 18 

year old men according to duration of breast feeding: birth 

cohort study from Brazil. 327:901 (P) 

Vietnam see also Asia 

— agent Orange found in food (D Spurgeon). 327:521 (N) 

Vigod SN, et al, Privacy of patients’ information in hospital lifts: 

observational study. 327:1024 (P) 

Viisainen K, see Wu Z. 327:1319 

Viljanen M, et al, E#ectiveness of dynamic muscle training, 

relaxation training, or ordinary activity for chronic neck 

pain: randomised controlled trial. 327:475 (P) 

Vincristine 

— Feda Mulhem 

——criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes (J Holbrook). 


——manslaughter trial halted (C Dyer). 327:123 (N) 


Viner RM, National survey of use of hospital beds by adolescents 

aged 12 to 19 in the United Kingdom 322:957 (correction, 


violence see also bullying; domestic violence 

— attacks on NHS sta# increasing (O Dyer). 327:182 (N) 

— head injuries, managing agitation and aggression after (S 


— NHS, attacks on sta# increasing (O Dyer). 327:182 (N) 

— rapid tranquillisation for agitated emergency patients: 

midazolam v. haloperidol plus promethazine (TREC 

Collaborative Group). 327:708 (P) 

— Violence at Work (Z Kmietowicz). 327:889 (N) 

viral lower respiratory tract infections, in infants and young children 

(JBM van Woensel, et al). 327:36 (C) 

Virik K, see Glare P. 327:195 

Virtual Outreach Project Group, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

vision disorders 

— celecoxib, rofecoxib, and (DM Coulter, et al) (Lesson of the 

week). 327:1214 (C) 

— screening, unilateral visual impairment treatment detected at 

preschool vision screening (MP Clarke, et al). 327:1251 (P) 

— screening older people in primary care (L Smeeth, et al). 


Visser GJ, see Marquet RL. 327:201 

vitamin A, impact of supplementing newborn infants with 

vitamin A on early infant mortality: southern India (L Rahmathullah, 


vitamin supplements, cancers or heart disease (D Josefson). 


Vlad I 

— Injections (Website of the week). 327:1114 (R) 

— Iraqi doctors overseas are asked to go back home and help. 


— Medical errors (Website of the week). 327:1174 (R) 

— A memorable patient. The importance of being understood. 


Vogel M, see Haake M. 327:75 

voice pathology, technological advances (P Carding). 327:514 

(E) 

Volmink J 

— see Garner P. 327:823 

— see Swingler GH. 327:1083 

vomiting, postoperative, treatment (MR Tramèr). 327:762 (E) 

von Dadelszen P, see Magee LA. 327:955 

Von Hagens, Gunther, investigation over consent (A Tu#s). 


Voracek M, Risk of suicide in twins. 327:1168 (L) 

Voss LD, see Mallam KM. 327:592 

Vrenken RH, see van Alem AP. 327:1312 

W 

Waage IM, et al, Drug points. Pulmonary embolism possibly 

associated with olanzapine treatment. 327:1384 

Waaijers LJM, “Author pays” publishing model. 327:54 (L) 

Wade W, see Wilkinson J BMJ Careers 327:s91 (20 September 

2003) 

Wagner, Richard, Tristan und Isolde: epic anticholinergic crisis (G 

Weitz) (History and mystery). 327:1469 

Wainwright P, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

waiting lists 

— breast cancers, elderly women denied treatment (Z Kmietowicz). 


— renal transplantation, waiting lists in Scotland (GC Oniscu, et 


waiting times 

— general practice, what it’s really like at coalface (J Stokes) 


— outpatient procedures shift has cut inpatient waiting times (S 


— Panorama “Fiddling The Figures” BBC1 (T Jackson) (TV). 


Wakai S, see Shinji N. 327:1093 

Wake®eld Council, ordered to pay for residential care after 11 

year delay (O Dyer). 327:521 (N) 

Wake®eld IR, Stages of a man’s life. 327:683 (L) 

Wakeford RE, Appraisal makes for e#ective revalidation 

(o$cial). 327:161 (L) 

Wald, Nicholas, (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s77 (6 September 

2003) 

Wald NJ 

— et al, “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:809 (L) 

— et al, A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 

80%. 326:1419 (correction, 327:586) 

— et al, Teleoanalysis: combining data from di#erent types of 

study. 327:616 (ED) 

Walder B, see Pasquina P. 327:1379 

Wales see also Europe 

— health research centre (R Dobson). 327:1366 (N) 

Walker A, et al, Cost e#ectiveness and cost utility model of public 

place de®brillators in improving survival after prehospital 

cardiopulmonary arrest. 327:1316 (P) 

Walker DR, Surgeon speci®c mortality in adult cardiac surgery. 


Walker, Leonard ("Johnnie"), Obituary (G Walker). 327:1291 

Walker M, see Brindle P. 327:1267 

Wallace A, et al, Taking simvastatin in the morning compared 

with in the evening: randomised controlled trial. 327:788 

(PC) 

Wallace P, see Jacklin PB. 327:84 

Waller J, The Discovery of the Germ (Books). 327:57 (R) 

Walling A, Reducing the Burden of Headache (Books). 327:815 (R) 

Walsh, Ewart Geo#rey, Obituary (RA Minns, et al). 327:346 

Walsh K, et al, Launching BMJ Learning. 327:1064 (E) 

Walsh KP, ABC of interventional cardiology. Interventional paediatric 

cardiology. 327:385 (C) 

Walter T, Historical and cultural variants on the good death. 


Walton R, see Yudkin P. 327:28 

Wandall-Holm N, see Nordentoft M. 327:81 

Wang TWM, et al,E#ectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general 


Wang Y 


— see Wu Z. 327:1319 

Wanless report, Securing our Future Health (DJ Hunter). 327:573 

(E) 

war see also armed forces; Gulf war 

— Angola, mortality among displaced former UNITA members 

and their families (T Grein, et al). 327:650 (P) 

— Cyril. A memorable patient (P Harding). 327:609 

— images of war and informed consent. 327:562 (L) 

— Iraq, pneumonia cases in US troops (S Gottlieb). 327:358 

(N) 

— Northern Ireland security duties and mental health of 

soldiers (G Lawrenson, et al). 327:1382 (P) 


Warburton RN, What do we gain from the sixth coronary heart 

disease drug? 327:1237 (E) 

Ward A, A teenager in love. 327:981 

Ward J, see McCulloch P. 327:1192 

Ward L, see Innes M. 327:623 

Ward M, see Hofberg K BMJ Careers 327:s142 (1 November 

2003) 

wards 

— conducting successful rounds (R Sureshkumar) (Tips on...) 

BMJ Careers 327:s180 (6 December 2003) 

— Stories from the Wards R4 (McClure) (Radio). 327:1410 (R) 

Warfa N, see Suresh K BMJ Careers 327:s83 (13 September 

2003) 

warfarin, interaction with cranberry juice (R Suvarna, et al) 

(Drug points). 327:1454 

Warlow C, Clinical trials for tomorrow funded by the MRC. 


Warner, James, Obituary (J Parsons). 327:108 

Wass V, et al, Monitoring the medical education revolution. 


Watchman, Isaac Godfry, Obituary (A Elliott). 327:1053 

water, overconsumption of uids by athletes (TD Noakes). 


water supply 

— Kyoto Forum 2003 (V Curtis, et al). 327:3 (E) 

— world, clean water provision (R MacDonald). 327:1416 (E) 

Waterman EJ, see Magee LA. 327:955 

Waters, Eric, Improving Working Lives (R MacDonald) (Pro®le) 


Watine JC 

— “Author pays” publishing model. 327:54 (L) 

— What is a good death? 327:1047 (L) 

Watkins, John Frederick, Obituary (JR Morgan, et al). 327:1171 

Watkins, Sid, Obituary (R Heuschkel). 327:56 

Watkinson, Margaret Carroll (née Smith), Obituary (DH 

Watkinson). 327:1409 

Watson J 

26 UNI-WAT July−December 2003

— see Pu#er S. 327:785 

— see Taket A. 327:673 

Watson P, see Murray L. 327:534 

Watson PJ, et al, Chronic low back pain. 327:107 (L) 

Watson R 

— Belgium to subsidise costs of contraception to teenagers. 


— EU to ban use of unsubstantiated health claims for food 

products. 327:182 (N) 

— European parliament tries to stamp out tra$cking in human 

organs. 327:1009 (N) 

— MEPs approve stem cell research using human embryos. 


— MEPs lead demand to get sudden unexplained deaths recognised 

as a syndrome. 327:886 (N) 

— Pressure grows for EU to set up a European Research Council. 


— Research bodies lobby EU governments over trials 

legislation. 327:1010 (N) 

— Tattooists use pigments designed for car paint. 327:182 (N) 

Watt D, see Beach J. 327:302 

Watts G 

— Blakemore asks for the MRC budget to be doubled. 327:1363 

(N) 

— Huge numbers must change lifestyle to prevent epidemic of 

diabetes. 327:1365 (N) 

— In pursuit of “humanitarian science". 327:1308 (N) 

— Mr Nice Guy. 327:1070 (N) 

— The quality enforcer. 327:702 (N) 

— The right man for the moment? 327:582 (N) 

— A scientist in the alternative camp (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 


Waxman J, see Manistry C. 327:614 

Weatherall DJ, A New Year’s resolution after a lost decade. 


Weaver GA, see Atapattu PCD. 327:1338 

weblogs, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:1293 (R) 

Webster, John Herbert Harker, Obituary (P Cook). 327:934 

Weeks AD, et al, Introducing criteria based audit into Ugandan 

maternity units. 327:1329 (Q) 

Weeks RL, Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders. 


Wegener’s granulomatosis, pleural e#usion presentation (AG 

Blundell, et al) (Lesson of the week). 327:95 (C) 

Wei R, see Wu YP. 327:1405 

weight loss, levetiracetam (S Hadjikoutis, et al) (Drug points). 


Weiler D, et al, Q&A. Wrinkly skin. 327:1328 

Weindling P, The Abuse of Man (Books). 327:1172 (R) 

Weintraub J, Cervical cancer screening. 327:162 (L) 

Weitz G, Love and death in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde—an epic 

anticholinergic crisis (History and mystery). 327:1469 

Welch E, It’s infectious (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s45 (9 August 

2003) 

Welch S, see Yudkin P. 327:28 

Wellcome Trust 



— gallery opens at British Museum (L Eaton). 327:1010 (N) 

Wellings K, see Mercer CH. 327:426 

Wells J, see Victora CG. 327:901 

Welte T, see Wrenger E. 327:147 

Wenitong, Mark, interview with (M Sweet). 327:414 (N) 

Wessely S 

— No more free lunches. 327:341 (L) 


— see Hotopf M. 327:1370 

West Bank and Gaza Strip see also Asia; Israel 

— Israeli occupation has damaged health (O Dyer). 327:1303 

(N) 

West JH, In vitro fertilisation for all? 327:1226 (L) 

West Nile virus, on internet (H Brown) (Netlines). 327:508 (R) 

West PA 

— “Egg giving” is trading, not one way process of giving. 


— More on copying letters to patients. 327:991 (L), 1349 (L) 

Westendorp RGJ, see de Craen AJM. 327:131 

Westenend PJ, Breast cancer in men. 327:930 (L) 

Weston, John Lawrence, Obituary (J Somervell). 327:993 

Weyers W, The Abuse of Man: An Illustrated History of Dubious 

Medical Experimentation (Books). 327:1172 (R) 

Whalley LJ, Younger People with Dementia (Books). 327:1292 (R) 

Wheeler D, Diving doctor BMJ Careers 327:s21 (19 July 2003) 

Whincup P, see Brindle P. 327:1267 

Whincup PH, see Owen CG. 327:1189 

whisky, One hundred years ago. 327:325 

whispered voice test, screening for hearing impairment in adults 

and children: systematic review (S Pirozzo, et al). 327:967 

(PC) 

whistleblowing, research fraud, have editors got priorities right? 

(A Ferriman) (Journals). 327:1113 (R) 

Whitby DJ, see Price RD. 327:1464 

White C 

— Cancer rates in Europe are linked to overweight, experts 

warn. 327:700 (N) 

— GMC still seen as “doctors’ club” despite reforms. 327:639 

(N) 

— Improvement initiative rolled out for acute trusts in England. 


— Initiative gets under way to help scienti®c editors regulate 

themselves. 327:1006 (N) 

— No more free lunches. 327:342 (L) 

— “Polypill” to ®ght cardiovascular disease. 327:809 (L) 

— Publish and be pampered (The Press). 327:348 (R) 

— Results of inquiry into allegations of research fraud remain 

secret. 327:519 (N) 

Whitehall II study 

— angina prognosis with and without a diagnosis: follow up (H 

Hemingway, et al). 327:895 (P) 

— sick leave as global measure of health: mortality evidence (M 

Kivimäki, et al). 327:364 (P) 

Whitehead M, see Doran T. 327:1388 

Whitley MW, Cervical cancer screening. 327:161 (L) 

Whitmore J, Problems with sexual function. 327:1109 (L) 

Whitney E, Doctors may need to go beyond medicine in mental 

illness. 327:682 (L) 


Whitty CJM, see Fenton PM. 327:587 

Whitwell HL, see Milroy CM. 327:175 

Whowell, William Brian, Obituary (T Hall, et al). 327:1351 

Wiese MF, British hospitals and di#erent versions of the Glasgow 

coma scale: telephone survey. 327:782 (P) 

Wilkin TJ, see Mallam KM. 327:592 

Wilkinson E, see Lewis DK. 327:841 

Wilkinson J, et al, Assessing the performance of doctors in training 


Willett WC, see He K. 327:777, 1348 

Williams, Alan, group to review babies’ deaths (C Dyer). 327:10 

(N) 

Williams B, see Iredale R. 327:930 

Williams, Ceri, Obituary (JJ Murphy). 327:1351 

Williams HC, Evening primrose oil for atopic dermatitis. 


Williams HV, Ethnic mix. 327:322 

Williams JD, see Riley SG. 327:608 

Williams JS, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Williams R, Role of living liver donation. 327:1287 (L) 

Williams, Robert Evan Owen, Obituary (D Innes Williams). 


Williams S, see Ball C. 327:1014 

Williamson A, Disseminating science (The Press). 327:1174 (R) 

Williamson, James Henderson, Obituary (I Brown). 327:506 

Willis D, see Jones J. 327:224 

Willis G, et al, Longevity and C282Y mutation for haemochromatosis. 


Willis J, Endpiece. Inside our dreams. 327:194 

Willis-Owen CA, A memorable patient. Don’t place all your trust 

in machines. 327:1084 

Wills CJ, et al, Retrospective review of care and outcomes in 

young adults with type 1 diabetes. 327:260 (P), 871 (L) 

Wilson A, see Aldrich R. 327:1283 

Wilson CR, see Doughty JC. 327:1050 

Wilson S 

— et al, Methods to identify increased risk of coronary disease in 

the general population. 327:619 (L) 

— see Cooper H. 327:394 

Wimperis JZ, see Willis G. 327:990 

Winkelman WJ, Evaluating computerised health information 

systems. 327:162 (L) 

Winston R, The Human Mind (I McClure) (TV). 327:995 (R) 

wisdom teeth, who’d be a reformer? (J Shepherd) (Personal view). 


Witcombe B, Gallstones in custard. 327:1270 

Witham M, et al, Organising a regional teaching programme for 

the MRCP (UK) examination BMJ Careers 327:s172 (29 


Wlodarczyk J, see Silberberg J. 327:1475 

Wolfe RM, Death in heat waves. 327:1228 (L) 

Wolford J, see Redinbaugh EM. 327:185 

Wolfson M, see Singer PA. 327:173 

Woloshin S, et al, Making sense of risk information on the web. 


Womack C 

— et al, Family attitudes to research using samples taken at 

coroner’s postmortem examinations: review of records. 


— see Jack AL. 327:262 

women see also doctors, women 

— health needs of women who have sex with women (C Hughes, 

et al). 327:939 (E) 

— hygienic reform of clothing. One hundred years ago. 327:1046 

— insulin resistance and depression: British women’s heart and 

health study (DA Lawlor, et al). 327:1383 (P) 

— mortality, sex selective abortion (A Sen). 327:1297 (E) 

— ovulation periodicity (O Dyer). 327:124 (N) 

— routine mammography, need better information (H Thornton, 

et al). 327:101 (ED), 868 (L), 869 (L) 

— urinary tract infections, recurrent (J Car, et al) (10-minute 


— views on impact of operative delivery in second stage of 

labour (DJ Murphy, et al). 327:1132 (P) 

Wong CSM, et al, Basal cell carcinoma. 327:794 (C) 

Wong IOL, see Leung GM. 327:1090 

Wong J, et al, Predictors of postmenopausal osteoporosis. 


Wong V, see Wong J. 327:392 

Wood, James Challoner, Obituary (J Redfern). 327:754 

Wood LF, see Thompson MR. 327:263 

Woodall, John, Obituary (R May). 327:168 

Woodcock P, see Nurse J. 327:480 

Woodman HM, Cabbage leaves. 327:451 (L) 

Woods D, Epidemic of Care (Books). 327:109 (R) 

Woods K, et al, eds, Scotland’s Health and Health Services (Books). 


Woolf AD, et al, Preventing fractures in elderly people. 327:89 

(C) (correction, 663) 

Woolgar S, see Moore H. 327:1085 

Wootton E, et al, eds, Telepsychiatry and e-Mental Health (Books). 


work see also occupational health 

— Improving Working Lives (R MacDonald) (Pro®le) BMJ 


— keeping fresh and motivated (M Gri$ths) (Tips on...) BMJ 


— letting go of being perfect? (SE Kersley) BMJ Careers 327:s76 


work experience, developing countries (Y Ismail) (The way I see 

it) BMJ Careers 327:s14 (12 July 2003) 

working abroad 

— Australia (J Democratis, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s57 (23 

August 2003) 

— organising sabbaticals (A Thomson, et al) BMJ Careers 


Workman SR, In search of a good death. 327:221 (L) 

World Health Organization see also global health 

— Africa, quality care at end of life (C Sepulveda, et al). 327:209 

(ED) 

— AIDS 

——combination pills approved (F Fleck). 327:1067 (N) 

——global alert (F Fleck). 327:698 (N) 

— drug industry, counterfeit medicines in Asia (S Pincock). 


— Hong Kong spotlight after u outbreak (J Parry). 327:308 

(N) 

— initiative to encourage eating fruit and vegetables (L Eaton). 


— Jong-Wook Lee, interview (F Fleck). 327:468 (N) 

— meningitis vaccine appeal (F Fleck). 327:769 (N) 

— NICE evaluation (N Devlin, et al). 327:1061 (E) 

— polio campaign relaunch (F Fleck). 327:466 (N) 

— SARS 

——future outbreak management guidelines (J Parry). 327:411 

(N) 

——outbreak contained (F Fleck). 327:70 (N) 

— time to ask what you want of WHO (K Baverstock) (Personal 


— tobacco, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: development 

of treaty (K Shibuya, et al). 327:154 (ED) 

— tuberculosis, impact of DOTS v. DOTS-plus on multidrug 

resistant tuberculosis. 327:164 (L) 

World Medical Association, Israeli Medical Association and. 

327:561 (L), 1107 (L), 1108 (L) 

World Trade Organization 

— drugs deal 

——agreement (F Fleck). 327:517 (N) 

——could still be costly (F Fleck). 327:639 (N) 

——new (AM Pollock, et al). 327:571 (E) 

Wormald R, see Smeeth L. 327:1027 

Wowk M, see Davis D. 327:33 

Wrenger E, et al, Lesson of the week. Interaction of spironolactone 

with ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers: 

analysis of 44 cases. 327:147 (C), 812 (L) 

Wright CM, see Clarke MP. 327:1251 

Wright L, see Singer PA. 327:1342 

Wright, Peter, Obituary (P Wright, et al). 327:398 

Wright PK, More on copying letters to patients. 327:991 (L) 

writing see also authors; communication; publishing 

— case reports (R Anwar, et al) BMJ Careers 327:s153 (15 


— legibly (C Hughes) BMJ Careers 327:s67 (30 August 2003) 

— screenplays, Simon Stevenson (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s54 

(16 August 2003) 

— short stories 

——(B McGuinness) (Tips on...) BMJ Careers 327:s102 (27 


——Caldera (I Quigley) BMJ Careers 327:s196 (20-27 December 

2003) 

——Monkey tricks (C Bowles) BMJ Careers 327:s193 (20-27 


——Three minute life (A Herring) BMJ Careers 327:s198 

(20-27 December 2003) 

— writers are like teeth (F Charatan). 327:1037 

Wu YP, et al, Real time assay of Aspergillus should be used in 

SARS patients receiving corticosteroids. 327:1405 (L) 

Wu Z, et al, Perinatal mortality in rural China: retrospective 


Wyeth, pneumonia vaccine, all children under 2 (L Tite). 


Wyke S, see Townsend A. 327:837 

Y 

Yamey G 

— Africa’s visionary editor. 327:832 (N) 

— Building hope (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s30 (26 July 2003) 

— Gay tobacco ads come out of the closet (Ads). 327:296 (R) 

— Malaria researchers say global fund is buying “useless drug". 


— Pox (Books). 327:1173 (R) 

Yardley MH, Adherence to advance directives. 327:1406 (L) 

Yarranton H, see Rayment R. 327:331 

Yates R, see Glasgow NJ. 327:659 

Yeates D, see Goldacre MJ. 327:596 

Yoong KKY, et al, Target centred medicine. 327:680 (L) 

York N, see Ham C. 327:1257 

young adults see also adolescence 

— cancers, epidemiology and place of death in England (IJ Higginson, 


Young, Ruth Eleanor, Obituary (P Young). 327:1053 

Young, Terence Willifer, Obituary (J Barrett, et al). 327:566 

Young TK, Review of research on Aboriginal populations in 

Canada: relevance to their health needs. 327:419 (P) 

Yudkin P, et al, Abstinence from smoking eight years after participation 

in randomised controlled trial of nicotine patch. 


Yuen L, et al, Computed tomography reveals missing parietal and 

temporal lobes (Minerva). 327:998 (R) 

Yusuf S, see Bosch J. 327:682 

Z 

Zaidi Q, British Heart Foundation speaks out in support of 

paper. 327:165 (L) 

Zamzow K, see Haake M. 327:75 

zanamivir, in uenza treatment and prevention. 327:105 (L) 

Zaridze D, see Men T. 327:964 

Zauli D, Adrenaline and non-life threatening allergic reactions. 


Zazove, Philip, (J Ra#erty) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s189 (13 


Zinn C 

— Australian doctors want a register of women buying the 

emergency pill. 327:581 (N) 

— Doctor who botched sterilisation has to pay cost of raising 

child. 327:183 (N) 

— New South Wales cracks down on commercial scanning 

326:1350 (N) (correction, 378) 

Zissman B, see Churchill D. 327:680 

zoos, Bella and blood sample. A memorable patient (J Stebbing, et 

al). 327:497 

Zuitho# NPA, see van Balen FAM. 327:1201 

Zwarenstein M 

— see Davis D. 327:33 

— see McAuley LM. 327:106 

Zwart S, et al, Penicillin for acute sore throat in children: 

randomised, double blind trial. 327:1324 (PC) 

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