Index to volume 327 - BMJ Group

— 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
view). 327:1354 (R)
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).
327:1141 (P)
Spitzer J, Caring for Jewish Patients (Books). 327:169 (R)
Spitzer, Joseph, (P Cross) (Pro®le) BMJ Careers 327:s101 (27
September 2003)
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).
327:1125 (N)
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".
327:1306 (N)
— Canadian doctors question marijuana for medicinal use.
327:122 (N)
— 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.
327:521 (N)
squamous cell carcinomas, palliative radiotherapy (F Momm, et
al) (Minerva). 327:1356 (R)
Squire IB
— et al, Prognosis for South Asian and white patients with heart
failure in the United Kingdom. 327:1406 (L)
— see Blackledge HM. 327:526
Sreenarasimhaiah J, Management of acute mesenteric ischaemia.
327:396 (L)
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).
327:168
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.
327:497
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
al). 327:274 (C)
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
Mayor). 327:1066 (N)
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
Careers 327:s49 (16 August 2003)
Stokes C, see Grein T. 327:650
Stokes J, What it’s really like at the coalface (Personal view).
327:59 (R)
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.
327:989 (L)
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
al). 327:1023 (P)
students, medical
— disabled, and GMC (P Rubin) BMJ Careers 327:s123 (18
October 2003)
— 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
al). 327:799 (C)
——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). 327:721 (C)
Sudan see also Africa
— female genital mutilation law tightened (P Moszynski).
327:580 (N)
— 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
self-poisonings. 327:287 (L)
— helping people bereaved by suicide (K Hawton, et al).
327:177 (E)
— risk
——Danish twins: 51 year follow up (C Tomassini, et al).
327:373 (P), 1168 (L), 1169 (L)
——prevention programme in US Air Force (KL Knox, et al).
327:1376 (P)
— spouse’s psychiatric illness or suicide and (E Agerbo, et al).
327:1025 (P)
— 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
327:s61 (23 August 2003)
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
Careers 327:s83 (13 September 2003)
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
(4 October 2003)
— 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).
327:1032 (C)
surgery, plastic, US drama outrages surgeons (JH Tanne) (TV).
327:295 (R)
survival analysis
— critical care, e#ect of outreach team on patient survival to
discharge from hospital and readmission (C Ball, et al).
327:1014 (P)
— 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).
327:936 (R)
Swift PGF, see Wills CJ. 327:260
swimming pools
— Australia, bene®ts in Aboriginal communities (D Lehmann,
et al). 327:415 (P) (correction, 663)
— bene®ts in remote Aboriginal communities (G Hall, et al).
327:407 (E)
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)
(Books). 327:1173 (R)
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
(Minerva). 327:690 (R)
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.
327:620 (L)
Tambyraja AL, Management of acute mesenteric ischaemia.
327:396 (L)
Tamimi RM, et al, Energy intake in pregnant women carrying
boys or girls. 327:622 (L)
tamoxifen, gynaecomastia, endocrine treatment (HN Khan, et
al). 327:301 (E), 1050 (L)
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.
327:47 (ED)
Tandeter H, Systolic blood pressure lowers after itraconazole
(Minerva). 327:1116 (R)
Tanne JH
— Air pollution during warm weather increases risk of stroke.
327:887 (N)
— 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.
327:1307 (N)
— 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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