Prescribing antidepressants in general practice
	Tony Kendrick
	BMJ  1996;313:829-830 [Full text]

	Hepatitis B and admission to medical school
	R J C Gilson
	BMJ  1996;313:830-831 [Full text]

	Chronic fatigue syndrome
	Stephen E Straus
	BMJ  1996;313:831-832 [Full text]

	Quality of care through the patient's eyes
	Thomas L Delbanco
	BMJ  1996;313:832-833 [Full text]

	Diagnosing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
	Robert Will, Martin Zeidler
	BMJ  1996;313:833-834 [Full text]

News

	Doctor aids first legal euthanasia act
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;313:835 [Full text]

	Tobacco firms face no-win, no-fee action
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:835 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:836 [Full text]

	New diagnostic tests for CJD
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:836 [Full text]

	Charity to continue links with Cambridge
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:836 [Full text]

	Whose sperm is it anyway?
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:837 [Full text]

	GPs' groups join to promote primary care led NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:837 [Full text]

	Labour would end wait for cancer surgery
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:838 [Full text]

	End to insurers using genetic data urged
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1996;313:838 [Full text]

	Myths dispelled about chronic fatigue syndrome
	Martin Mulube
	BMJ  1996;313:839 [Full text]

	South African health reform on the rails
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1996;313:839 [Full text]

	Shock treatment for French health insurance system
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:840 [Full text]

	Election war of words but no big idea
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:840 [Full text]

Papers

	Can different patient satisfaction survey methods yield consistent results? Comparison of three surveys
	Geoff Cohen, John Forbes, Michael Garraway
	BMJ  1996;313:841-844 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Value of thallium-201 imaging in detecting adverse cardiac events after myocardial infarction and thrombolysis: a follow up of 100 consecutive patients
	Sumit Basu, Roxy Senior, Caroline Dore, Avijit Lahiri
	BMJ  1996;313:844-848 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Differences in mortality and morbidity in African Caribbean and European people with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: results of 20 year follow up of a London cohort of a multinational study
	Nish Chaturvedi, John Jarrett, Nick Morrish, Harry Keen, John H Fuller
	BMJ  1996;313:848-852 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Sex differences in case fatality before and after admission to hospital after acute cardiac events: analysis of community based coronary heart disease register
	Gabe S Sonke, Robert Beaglehole, Alistair W Stewart, Rodney Jackson, Fiona M Stewart
	BMJ  1996;313:853-855 [Abstract] [Full text]

	What information is available on request from drug advertisers in India?
	R K Dikshit, N Dikshit
	BMJ  1996;313:855-856 [Full text]

	Hepatitis B and admission to medical school: an audit of British medical school policy
	Gordon Parker, Susan Jenkins
	BMJ  1996;313:856-857 [Full text]

General practice

	Lay people's attitudes to treatment of depression: results of opinion poll for Defeat Depression Campaign just before its launch
	Robert G Priest, Christine Vize, Ann Roberts, Megan Roberts, Andre Tylee
	BMJ  1996;313:858-859 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Antidepressant drug use in primary care: a record linkage study in Tayside, Scotland
	T M MacDonald, A D McMahon, I C Reid, G W Fenton, D G McDevitt
	BMJ  1996;313:860-861 [Full text]

	Cross sectional database analysis of antidepressant prescribing in general practice in the United Kingdom, 1993-5
	John Donoghue, Andre Tylee, Hiram Wildgust
	BMJ  1996;313:861-862 [Full text]

	Statistics notes: Interaction 3: How to examine heterogeneity
	John N S Matthews, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;313:862 [Full text] [PDF]

Soundings

	Textbook fantasies
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:887 [Full text]

	Naming of parts
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1996;313:887 [Full text]

Personal views

	Dear Doctor
	BMJ  1996;313:888 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	A Doctor's Dilemma: Stress and the Role of the Carer
	Andrew Wider
	BMJ  1996;313:889 [Full text]

	Critical Care: Standards and Ethics
	Jigeeshu Divatia, David Bihari
	BMJ  1996;313:889 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Cluster analysis and disease mapping--why, when, and how? A step by step guide
	Sjurdur F Olsen, Marco Martuzzi, Paul Elliott
	BMJ  1996;313:863-866 [Full text]

	Doctor in the lab: what is it like for a doctor to work with scientists?
	Christine M Jorm, Jonathan A Stamford, Leo Strunin
	BMJ  1996;313:867-869 [Full text]

	Caring for Older People: Community care and social services
	D Renwick
	BMJ  1996;313:869-872 [Full text]

	Lesson of the Week: Adrenal mass with virilisation: importance of endocrine investigation
	Joohi Nasir, Christopher Walton
	BMJ  1996;313:872-873 [Full text]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: ABSENCE FROM WORK
	Rob B Briner
	BMJ  1996;313:874-877 [Full text]

Letters

	Certification of cause of death in patients dying soon after proximal femoral fracture
	G N Rutty, C M Milroy, Christopher Dorries
	BMJ  1996;313:879 [Full text]

	Mortality inferred from death certificates reflects coroners' practice, not the true mortality
	Martyn Parker
	BMJ  1996;313:879 [Full text]

	Postmortem examination should always be carried out for deaths due to trauma
	Ian S D Roberts, Emyr W Benbow
	BMJ  1996;313:879 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	S J Calder, P J Gregg, G H Anderson
	BMJ  1996;313:879-880 [Full text]

	ABC series may be anachronistic in era of evidence based medicine
	C B Del Mar, Paul P Glasziou
	BMJ  1996;313:880 [Full text]

	Contraceptive implants
	N J A Cozens
	BMJ  1996;313:880 [Full text]

	Complete, understandable information is essential
	Anne M C Webb, Noreen S Khan, Andrea Butler
	BMJ  1996;313:880-881 [Full text]

	Use is declining and may peak again around 1999
	John J Ferguson, Martin G V Jenkins
	BMJ  1996;313:881 [Full text]

	Pharmaceutical representatives
	Richard Tiner
	BMJ  1996;313:881 [Full text]

	Doctors should decline to see them
	R E Ferner
	BMJ  1996;313:881 [Full text]

	Regulating complementary medicine
	Andrew Vickers
	BMJ  1996;313:881-882 [Full text]

	Statutory regulation is essential
	K D Phillips
	BMJ  1996;313:882 [Full text]

	Author's reply
	Julie Stone
	BMJ  1996;313:882 [Full text]

	Only 0.08% of funding for research in NHS goes to complementary medicine
	E Ernst
	BMJ  1996;313:882 [Full text]

	Complementary medicine must be based on sound science and well conducted research
	Roger A Fisken
	BMJ  1996;313:882 [Full text]

	Fundholding practice's draft policy on ethical use of resources
	Michael M Rivlin
	BMJ  1996;313:883 [Full text]

	Policy is mechanism by which decisions might be reached
	D De Takats
	BMJ  1996;313:883 [Full text]

	Advertisements in the BMJ
	Lars Breimer
	BMJ  1996;313:883 [Full text]

	BMJ should not carry advertisements for cars
	Douglas Salmon
	BMJ  1996;313:883 [Full text]

	Blood lead concentrations in United Kingdom have fallen substantially since 1984
	H T Delves, S J Diaper, S Oppert, P Prescott-Clarke, J Periam, W Dong, H Colhoun, D Gompertz
	BMJ  1996;313:883-884 [Full text]

	Predicting which psychiatric patients are at risk of suicide
	Simon Hatcher
	BMJ  1996;313:884 [Full text]

	Author's reply
	Louis Appleby
	BMJ  1996;313:884 [Full text]

	Care programme approach does not focus on need for services
	Emad Salib, Ann Joseph
	BMJ  1996;313:884 [Full text]

	Mental health teams should concentrate on psychiatric patients with greatest needs
	Tony Kendrick, Tom Burns
	BMJ  1996;313:884-885 [Full text]

	Presentations of pituitary insufficiency and Addison's disease in insulin dependent diabetes may be similar
	Kevin Hardy, John Scarpello
	BMJ  1996;313:885 [Full text]

	Government's expert group has reached consensus on prognosis of chronic fatigue syndrome
	Mansel Aylward
	BMJ  1996;313:885 [Full text]

	Magnetic resonance imaging is uncomfortable for patients
	Karen J Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:885 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:890 [Full text]

Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:852 [Full text]

	On being wrong
	A Marshall Barr
	BMJ  1996;313:857 [Full text]

	WHEN I USE A WORD..
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1996;313:873 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:866 [Full text]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:877 [Full text]

Career focus

	Working Overseas
	Charles Easmon
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text]

	Briefing: Do professions have a future? was the bold question posed ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;313 [Full text]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The politics of scientific reputation
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  1996;313:888 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Junior doctors oppose 48 hour limit for all • Junior doctors want guidelines on study leave • BMA warns Liberal Democrats about shortage of doctors • More specialties move into new grade • BMA NOTICES
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:886 [Full text]

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