28 September 2013(vol 347, issue 7926)

Editor's Choice

• Taming the monster

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5817 (Published 25 September 2013)

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News

• GMC drops cases against doctors who worked at Stafford Hospital

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5801 (Published 24 September 2013)

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• Study raises concerns over racial discrimination in MRCGP exam

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5792 (Published 26 September 2013)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5777 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Bowel screening has long term benefits, research shows

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5773 (Published 23 September 2013)

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• Shorter radiotherapy course just as effective for treating breast cancer, research finds

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5719 (Published 20 September 2013)

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• New breast screening leaflet still denies women the full picture, says critic

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5735 (Published 24 September 2013)

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• Morecambe Bay hospital trust is still not meeting its improvement targets, CQC says

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5716 (Published 19 September 2013)

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• Canadian doctor travelling to Gaza is detained in Egyptian prison

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5679 (Published 18 September 2013)

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• Lewisham appeal will decide which local commissioners can veto reconfigurations

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5754 (Published 20 September 2013)

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• “Super managers” to be sent into failing hospitals

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5727 (Published 20 September 2013)

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• Children will suffer most as climate change increases in coming decades, say scientists

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5799 (Published 24 September 2013)

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• Adding acupuncture or counselling to usual care hastens improvement in persistent depression

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5789 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• German court rules that liquid nicotine is not a medicine

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5739 (Published 20 September 2013)

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• Confidence of NHS finance directors to meet targets has plummeted

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5684 (Published 18 September 2013)

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• Doctors plan to relaunch smartphone app after being cleared of plagiarism

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5774 (Published 24 September 2013)

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Editorials

• Medical manslaughter

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5609 (Published 18 September 2013)

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• Female genital mutilation/cutting

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5603 (Published 24 September 2013)

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• Perioperative β blockade

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5640 (Published 19 September 2013)

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• Concussion and sport

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5748 (Published 25 September 2013)

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Research

• Effectiveness of general practice based, practice nurse led telephone coaching on glycaemic control of type 2 diabetes: the Patient Engagement And Coaching for Health (PEACH) pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5272 (Published 18 September 2013)

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• Effectiveness of interdisciplinary primary care approach to reduce disability in community dwelling frail older people: cluster randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5264 (Published 10 September 2013)

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• Feasibility and effectiveness of a low cost campaign on antibiotic prescribing in Italy: community level, controlled, non-randomised trial

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5391 (Published 12 September 2013)

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• “Hardly worth the effort”? Medical journals’ policies and their editors’ and publishers’ views on trial registration and publication bias: quantitative and qualitative study

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5248 (Published 06 September 2013)

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Feature

• Are you 45% more likely to die in a UK hospital rather than a US hospital?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5775 (Published 24 September 2013)

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Analysis

• Humanism in the time of metrics—an essay by David Loxterkamp

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5539 (Published 19 September 2013)

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Letters

• Kicking clinical commissioning groups into the long grass

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5690 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• People want to learn as much as possible from the PACE trial for chronic fatigue syndrome

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5731 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• What’s the problem with sharing research committee’s discussions?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5740 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• The case for licensing cytosine now for smoking cessation is overwhelming

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5736 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Do low grade thyroid cancers really require thyroidectomy?

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5734 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Misunderstanding the value of troponin testing

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5743 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Patients are not friends

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5744 (Published 25 September 2013)

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Observations

• Too much angioplasty

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5741 (Published 24 September 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• Military rather than civil aviation holds the answers for safer healthcare

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5570 (Published 19 September 2013)

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Obituaries

• David Innes Williams

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5182 (Published 28 August 2013)

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• Albert Victor Craig

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5371 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Nana Gruer

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5369 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Richard Claude Hamber

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5373 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• James Caldwell Houston

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5188 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• John Alan Mathews

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5380 (Published 25 September 2013)

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• Thomas Alfred Plumley

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5382 (Published 25 September 2013)

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Clinical Review

• Testicular germ cell tumours

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5526 (Published 24 September 2013)

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Practice

• Investigating stable chest pain of suspected cardiac origin

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f3940 (Published 22 July 2013)

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• High sensitivity cardiac troponin in patients with chest pain

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f4222 (Published 22 July 2013)

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Endgames

• Traumatic knee injury

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5303 (Published 23 September 2013)

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• Magnetic resonance imaging of the head

  BMJ 2013; 346 :f3665 (Published 11 June 2013)

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• Controlled trials

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5718 (Published 25 September 2013)

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Views & Reviews

• Bad medicine: monitoring patients’ drugs

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5779 (Published 24 September 2013)

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• How to get out of hospital

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5788 (Published 25 September 2013)

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Minerva

• Strangulation of an accessory digit

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5696 (Published 23 September 2013)

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• The importance of breakfast and other stories . . .

  BMJ 2013; 347 :f5720 (Published 23 September 2013)

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Filler

• Trainee recruitment 170 years ago

  BMJ 2012; 344 :e3004 (Published 22 May 2012)

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