INDEX TO VOLUME 329 - BMJ Group

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Bach FW, see Svendsen KB 329:253
Bache J, see Williams P BMJ Careers 329:s58
back pain see also low back pain
— childhood exposure to smoke and (R Dobson) 329:250 (N)
— exercise and manipulation randomised trial
——cost effectiveness (UK BEAM Trial Team) 329:1381 (PC)
——effectiveness in primary care (UK BEAM Trial Team)
329:1377 (PC)
— physiotherapy and (D MacAuley) 329:694 (E)
bad news see also communication
— arm reattachment: forlorn hope. A memorable patient (J Kuruvatti)
329:786
Badgett R, see Straus SE 329:1029
Bagatella P, see Prandoni P 329:484
Bahamas see also Central America and the West Indies
— career advice (SI Ibrahim) (Advice zone) BMJ Careers
329:s72
Bailey A, see Keogh B 329:450
Bailey AE, “Epileptic” experiences BMJ Careers 329:s144
Bailey JA, The three paradoxes of private medicine 329:919 (L)
Bailey S, see Banks E 329:477
Bajwa TA, see Rehman HU 329:1271
Baker E, I will be starting medical school this year at the age of
34, and I am worried that my age will affect my future career
prospects. Should I be worried? (Advice zone) BMJ Careers
329:s72
Baker MG
— et al, Governance of academic medicine should be with public
trustees 329:798 (L)
— et al, The journey: Parkinson’s disease 329:611 (C)
Baker-Henningham H, see Powell C 329:89
Bal R, et al, Democratisation of scientific advice 329:1339 (ED)
Balasubramanian BA, see Demissie K 329:24
baldness, quackery and. One hundred years ago 329:565
Baldwin R, see Chew-Graham C 329:181
Ball JE, et al, Quality improvement programme to achieve acceptable
colonoscopy completion rates: prospective before
and after study 329:665 (Q), 329:1287 (L), 329:1288 (L)
Bamford B, see Jones B 329:280
Bamji AN, Low back pain 329:232 (L)
Banerjee A, The irony of it all BMJ Careers 329:s49
Bangladesh see also Asia
— community health workers trained (G Watts) 329:1124 (N)
— disease concerns after floods (P Moszynski) 329:247 (N) (correction,
499)
— People’s Health movement: demystifying health care (K Ahmad)
329:1127 (N)
Banks E, Influence of personal characteristics of individual
women on sensitivity and specificity of mammography in
the Million Women Study: cohort study 329:477 (P)
Bannister, Roger, (P Cross) (Profile) BMJ Careers 329:s100
Bansal S, et al, Tilted optic discs (Minerva) 329:1054 (R)
Bardhan KD, see Sanders DS 329:917
Baris E, et al, Should interventions to reduce respirable pollutants
be linked to tuberculosis control programmes?
329:1090 (ED)
barium enema, Barbara’s bowel (B Witcombe) 329:568
Barker RM, et al, Star wars, NHS style 329:107 (ED)
Barley K, see Aylin P 329:291
Barman S, Medical images (What’s on the web) BMJ Careers
329:s70
Barnes GR, see Fisher AE 329:1492
Barnett J, see Little P 329:111
Baron JH
— Endpiece
——Improvement of the practice of medicine 329:285
——Quackery 329:728
——Superiority 329:78
——Teaching medicine, 1816: 329:424
——Women 329:729
——Women and halfe witted men 329:219
Baron S, I am a final year medical student who is very interested
in a career in dermatology. Which jobs will be beneficial for
my future career? (Advice zone) BMJ Careers 329:s92
Barraclough K
— A passing age (Soundings) 329:1111 (R)
— Stolen Innocence (Books) 329:177 (R)
— Under the Tuscan sun (Soundings) 329:579 (R)
— Unsung heroes (Soundings) 329:239 (R)
— Why doctors don’t read research papers (Soundings)
329:1411 (R)
Barragan ME, see Smalligan R 329:1129
Barratt N, see Banks E 329:477
Barret JP, ABC of burns. Burns reconstruction 329:274 (C)
Barrett A, et al, Use of decision aids to support informed choices
about screening 329:507 (ED)
Barrett ECA, The other side of medicine 329:341
Barrett J, Personal services or dangerous liaisons: should we help
patients hire prostitutes? (Personal view) 329:985 (R),
329:1346 (L)
Barry S, see Dietrich AJ 329:602
Bartlett C, see Dieppe PA 329:31
Bartley R, Physiotherapy compared with advice for low back
pain 329:1402 (L)
Barton C
— et al, Bruising after contact with rodenticides (Minerva)
329:926
— see Maddison P 329:1325
basal cell carcinoma, skin, interventions: systematic review (F
Bath-Hextall, et al) 329:705 (P), 329:1239 (L)
Bashir N, et al, A precious case from Middle Earth (Taking a leaf
out of an old book) 329:1435
Basnett I, see Raine R 329:1247
Basnyat B, see Gertsch JH 329:172
Bassi Z, see Noglik A 329:683
Bastian H, Learning from evidence based mistakes (Personal
view) 329:1053 (R)
BAT Industries, formula one motor racing (J Carlyle, et al)
329:104 (ED), 329:352 (L)
Bateman, Shawn Cato, Obituary (J Mathewson) 329:115
Bates T, Adverse events reporting in English hospital statistics
329:856 (L)
Bath-Hextall F, et al, Interventions for basal cell carcinoma of the
skin: systematic review 329:705 (P), 329:1239 (L)
Batt J, Stolen Innocence:A Mother’s Fight for Justice—The Story of Sally
Clark (Books) 329:177 (R)
Battaglia M, see Pewsner D 329:209
Battersby MW, Learning from low income countries: mental
health. Commentary: Community models of mental care
warrant more governmental support 329:1140 (PC)
Batty GD, et al, Early life intelligence and adult health 329:585 (E)
July−December 2004
Baum M, An open letter to the Prince of Wales: with respect, your
highness, you’ve got it wrong (Personal view) 329:118 (R),
329:857 (L), 329:858 (L), 329:859 (L)
Bavdekar SB, A memorable patient. The sincerest form of flattery
329:1150
Baxendale S, Memories aren’t made of this: amnesia at the
movies (Images of health) 329:1480
Bayona J, see Sapag R 329:1186
Beales ILP, Helicobacter pylori and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
329:402 (L)
Beasley R, et al, The transition from medical student to junior
doctor: an A to Z guide BMJ Careers 329:s45
Bedford H
— et al, Misconceptions about the new combination vaccine
329:411 (E)
— see Elliman D 329:1049
beds, Hooper’s (C Crisci) 329:1426
Bee, David
— GMC inquiry over Shipman deaths
——admits failures (C Dyer) 329:757 (N)
——cleared of misconduct (C Dyer) 329:820 (N)
——review of acquittal (C Dyer) 329:874 (N)
Beeching NJ, Hepatitis B infections 329:1059 (E) (correction,
1270)
Bégaud B, et al, Did the US boycott of French products spread to
include scientific output? (Politics and health) 329:1430
Bell DS, see Straus SE 329:1029
Bellissant E, see Annane D 329:480
Bell’s palsy, recent developments (NJ Holland, et al) 329:553 (C),
329:1103 (L), 329:1104 (L)
Ben-Shlomo Y, et al, Using monoamine oxidase type B inhibitors
in Parkinson’s disease 329:581 (E)
Benamore RE, et al, Bone scanning in lung cancer 329:230 (L)
benefits and harms in health care see also risk factors
— BMJ special issue
——overview: bedside assessment (YK Loke) 329:7 (E)
——overview: collecting and sharing information about harms
(M Pirmohamed, et al) 329:6 (E), 329:457 (L)
——overview: drug treatments (JP Vandenbroucke) 329:2 (E)
——overview: new interventional procedures (T Dent, et al)
329:3 (E), 329:351 (L)
——overview: pharmacogenetics: expectations and reality (G
Tucker) 329:4 (E)
——overview: road to health care (LG Cuervo, et al) 329:1 (E),
329:457 (L)
——adverse drug reactions, detection, verification, and quantification
(BH Stricker, et al) 329:44 (ED), 329:457 (L)
——adverse drug reactions as cause of hospital admission (M
Pirmohamed, et al) 329:15 (P), 329:459 (L), 329:460 (L)
——Alzheimer’s disease drug of little benefit (D Singh) 329:9
(N)
——antidepressants and suicide (D Gunnell, et al) 329:34 (C),
329:461 (L)
——breast cancers (A Donald) (Personal view) 329:59 (R)
——conflict of interest criticisms of NIH (JH Tanne) 329:10 (N)
——decision making (T Greenhalgh, et al) 329:47 (ED), 329:458
(L)
——electronic incident reporting and professional monitoring
transforms culture 329:51 (L)
——knee pain in elderly woman: Interactive case report (P Tugwell,
et al) 329:38 (C)
——linguistics. When I use a word (JK Aronson) 329:30
——New Zealand, IMMP closure: open letter 329:51 (L),
329:460 (L)
——non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (PA Dieppe, et al)
329:31 (C), 329:457 (L), 329:458 (L)
——operative vaginal delivery and infant adverse outcomes (K
Demissie, et al) 329:24 (P) (correction, 547)
——public health programmes mandated by governments (GP
Oakley, et al) 329:41 (ED), 329:458 (L)
——St John’s wort, interaction with conventional drugs: systematic
review (E Mills, et al) 329:27 (PC), 329:459 (L)
——UK doctors mistrust reporting systems (C White) 329:12
(N)
——US drug industry advertising scrutiny (F Charatan) 329:10
(N)
——uterine rupture, incidence and consequences after caesarean
section (J-M Guise, et al) 329:19 (P), 329:403 (L)
Benger JR, Clinical examination has important role 329:404 (L)
benign parotid tumours, extra-capsular dissection (M McGurk)
329:1299 (E)
Benson T, Scientific articles have hardly changed in 50 years
329:352 (L)
Benveniste, Jacques, Obituary (G Watts) 329:1290
Beral V, see Banks E 329:477
Berelowitz M, Palestine: the assault on health and other crimes
329:1101 (L)
Berger A, Dispatches. MMR: What They Didn’t Tell You (TV)
329:1293 (R) (correction, 330:41)
Berger M, et al, Burns rehabilitation is more than skin deep
329:573 (L)
Berger VW, et al, The Decameron of poor research (Taking a leaf
out of an old book) 329:1436
Bernal W, see Hawton K 329:1076
Bernardi E, see Prandoni P 329:484
Berry G, see Kohls-Gatzoulis J 329:1328
Bertouch J, see Lu CY 329:415
“best of five” questions, bmjlearning.com (K Walsh) 329:1327
Bewes P, Learning from low income countries: what are the
lessons? 329:1184 (L)
Bexley S, see MacMahon E 329:551
Bhabra M, see Warburton MS 329:557
Bhandari M, see Montori VM 329:1093
Bhatia K, see Ben-Shlomo Y 329:582
Bhattacharya S, see Ahuja RB 329:447
Bhopal, lingering tragedy (P Desikan) (Personal view) 329:1410
(R)
Bhugra D, Indian “psycho” (Film) 329:1191 (R)
Bhui K, et al, Delivering mental health services for a diverse
society 329:363 (E)
Bhutta ZA
— Standards of care in research 329:1114 (E)
— et al, Reducing length of stay in hospital for very low birthweight
infants by involving mothers in a stepdown unit: an
experience from Karachi (Pakistan) 329:1151 (Q)
Biant LC, et al, Eradication of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus
by “ring fencing” of elective orthopaedic beds 329:149 (Q),
329:572 (L)
Bickle I, Colourful new use for a word 329:1454
bicycling
— erectile dysfunction (POEM*) 329 (9 October 2004)
— promotion as alternative to cars (D Ogilvie, et al) 329:763 (P),
329:1237 (L), 329:1238 (L)
big toes, Endpiece (D Sarll) 329:1311
Bigrigg A
— I am about to start a staff grade job in genitourinary
medicine—any suggestions as to which books I should read or
which courses I should attend?... (Advice zone) BMJ Careers
329:s136
— I am a first year senior house officer considering a career in
genitourinary medicine. Should I be following an obstetrics
and gynaecology career path or a medical path with MRCP?
(Advice zone) BMJ Careers 329:s176
Bihari D, Monitoring procalcitonin is of value in acute pancreatitis
329:232 (L)
Bijker WE, see Bal R 329:1339
biliary cirrhosis, benefits of cross channel flight. A memorable
patient (SJ Murphy) 329:503
Billett J, et al, Investigation into GPs with high patient mortality
329:350 (L)
Bindels PJE, see Rietveld RP 329:206
biomedical models of illness, good healthcare systems? (DT
Wade, et al) 329:1398 (ED)
bioterrorism see also anthrax
— Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity (L Eaton) 329:993 (N)
— compulsory vaccination (T Jefferson) 329:524 (E), 329:977
(L)
— (Netlines) (H Brown) 329:117 (R)
— US, Bush signs protection law (F Charatan) 329:250 (N)
Birch, Raymond George, Obituary (TP Finnegan) 329:576
Bircher M, see Gidwani S 329:99
Bird SM, Performance monitoring should take costs to heart
329:856 (L)
birth weight see also pregnancy
— maternal blood pressure, perinatal mortality and (PJ Steer, et
al) 329:1312 (P)
Bishop JP, et al, Retroactive prayer: lots of history, not much
mystery, and no science (The limits of medicine) 329:1444
Bishop MC, The negligence of medical experts (Personal view)
329:1353 (R)
Bjerkeset O, Stress, the Brain and Depression (Books) 329:983 (R)
Bjordal JM, et al, Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including
cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors, in osteoarthritic knee
pain: meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials
329:1317 (PC)
Black, Carol, women in medicine (I Heath) 329:412 (E), 329:742
(L), 329:743 (L)
Black J, et al, Role of poverty must be emphasised 329:352 (L)
blacks
— breast cancers, more aggressive than in white women (JH
Tanne) 329:13 (N)
— heart failure, old drugs halve deaths (S Gottlieb) 329:1123 (N)
Blackwell-Smyth P, et al, Learning from low income countries:
what are the lessons? 329:1184 (L)
bladder cancers, olfactory detection by dogs (CH Willis, et al)
329:712 (P), 329:1286 (L)
Bland JM, North-south divide in social inequalities in Great
Britain 329:52 (L)
Blanke O, Out of body experiences and their neural basis
329:1414 (E)
Blenkinsopp, Errington Miles, Obituary (WK Blenkinsopp)
329:1047
blindness, doctor’s experience (RE Stiff) BMJ Careers 329:s15
blood donors, Czech Republic offers free beer (K Krosnar)
329:819 (N)
blood glucose, type 2 diabetes, home monitoring (RM Reynolds,
et al) 329:754 (E)
blood pressure see also hypertension
— adolescence, cross sectional surveys in the Northern Ireland
Young Hearts project (D Watkins, et al) 329:139 (P)
— dietary advice for single high reading in primary care
329:111 (L)
— home monitoring: meta-analysis (FP Cappuccio, et al)
329:145 (PC) (correction, 499)
— perindopril and stroke: PROGRESS trial balanced effectiveness
report (R Wennberg, et al) 329:968 (ED), 329:1403 (L),
329:1404 (L)
— pregnancy, and birth weight and perinatal mortality (PJ Steer,
et al) 329:1312 (P)
— self monitoring at home (G Stergiou, et al) 329:870 (E)
— US, third of adults (S Gottlieb) 329:531 (N)
blood transfusion
— Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease transmission case (S Pincock)
329:251 (N)
— flow charts in primary total hip and knee replacement (U
Müller, et al) 328:934 (Q) (correction, 329:837)
— UK, warning on unnecessary transfusions (L Eaton) 329:308
(N), 329:515 (L)
Bloor K, see Maynard A 329:227, 329:929
Blott M, see Hawthorne G 329:903
blue limbs, importance of history and examination (O Predescu)
329:349
Blyton, Thomas Archer (“Archie”), Obituary (M Betts) 329:1106
BMA Medical Book Competition, 2004, winning books
329:1438 (opposite)
BMJ
— acting editor and acting chief executive appointed (A Ferriman)
329:128 (N)
— consent to publication of patient information (PA Singer, et
al) 329:566 (ED), 329:916 (L)
— editorial independence 329:350 (L), 329:351 (L), 329:624 (L)
— ethics committee experiences (E Wager) 329:510 (ED)
— online “hit counts” and subsequent citations (TV Perneger)
329:546 (P)
— polymeal design, Christmas competition 329 (18-25 December)
— publishing group director
——appointment (L Eaton) 329:190 (N)
——Michael Chamberlain interview (G Watts) 329:476 (N)
— reflections of retiring editor (R Smith) 329:242 (E)
— screening research papers by reading abstracts (T Groves, et
al) 329:470 (E), 329:801 (L)
— statistical errors 329:462 (L)
— Theme issues (2005) 329:1162
— trial protocols (G Jones, et al) 329:1360 (E)
BMJ Careers
— archive (R MacDonald) (Advice zone) BMJ Careers 329:s82
— feedback from competition winner 329:s254
BMJ Ethics Committee, see Singer PA 329:566
bmj.com, payment from 2005 (T Delamothe) 329:814 (E)
bmjlearning.com
— How common is common? (K Walsh) 329:397
— None of the above? (K Walsh) 329:273
— Occupational asthma (K Walsh) 329:558
— Screening for prostate cancer: should every man know his
PSA? (K Walsh) 329:667
Bobak M, et al, Life span and disability: a cross sectional comparison
of Russian and Swedish community based data
329:767 (P), 329:1288 (L)
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