Faster ambulance response would cut deaths from cardiac arrest [Full text]

	Deprivation increases deaths from diabetes [Full text]

	Sending standardised letters helps people stop smoking [Full text]

	A new method can validate primary care electronic notes [Full text]

	Most doctors place defibrillator panels incorrectly [Full text]

Editorials

	Diabetes black spots and death by postcode
	Gareth Williams
	BMJ  2001;322:1375-1376, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1375 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Euthanasia: where the Netherlands leads will the world follow?
	Ezekiel J Emanuel
	BMJ  2001;322:1376-1377, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1376 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research with children
	Rosalind L Smyth
	BMJ  2001;322:1377-1378, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1377 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The new NHS information technology strategy
	Jeremy C Wyatt, Justin Keen
	BMJ  2001;322:1378-1379, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1378 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatment for obesity
	Jean-Pierre Després
	BMJ  2001;322:1379-1380, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1379 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Most GPs would consider resigning from NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;322:1381, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1381 [Full text] [PDF]

	Senior hospital doctors issue warning to new government
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2001;322:1381, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1381/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:1382, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1382 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK senior scientists support animal genetic modification
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2001;322:1382, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1382/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Sleeping sickness re-emerges in Africa after years of civil war
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;322:1382, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1382/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch doctors change policy on treating preterm babies
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;322:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1383 [Full text] [PDF]

	Few incompetent doctors are reported to US national data bank
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:1383, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1383/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco companies exploit women, says WHO
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2001;322:1384, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1384 [Full text] [PDF]

	Limiting operations to high volume teams has wide implications
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;322:1384, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1384/a [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Genetic variant increases risk of schizophrenia
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;322:1384, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1384/b [Full text]

	Failures in genetic programming may cause death and defects in cloned animals
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:1384, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1384/c [Full text]

Papers

	Effect of reducing ambulance response times on deaths from out of hospital cardiac arrest: cohort study
	Jill P Pell, Jane M Sirel, Andrew K Marsden, Ian Ford, Stuart M Cobbe
	BMJ  2001;322:1385-1388, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1385 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Excess mortality in a population with diabetes and the impact of material deprivation: longitudinal, population based study
	Nick A Roper, Rudy W Bilous, William F Kelly, Nigel C Unwin, Vincent M Connolly
	BMJ  2001;322:1389-1393, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1389 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do doctors position defibrillation paddles correctly? Observational study
	Richard M Heames, Daniel Sado, Charles D Deakin
	BMJ  2001;322:1393-1394, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1393 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in therapeutic consequences of exercise testing between a rural and an urban Danish county: population based study
	Troels Niemann, Torsten Toftegaard Nielsen, Niels Thorsgaard, Jørgen Lous
	BMJ  2001;322:1394-1395, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1394 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

Primary care

	Cost effectiveness of computer tailored and non-tailored smoking cessation letters in general practice: randomised controlled trial
	A Scott Lennox, Liesl M Osman, Ehud Reiter, Roma Robertson, James Friend, Ian McCann, Diane Skatun, Peter T Donnan
	BMJ  2001;322:1396, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1396 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Information in practice

	A survey of validity and utility of electronic patient records in a general practice
	Alan Hassey, David Gerrett, Ali Wilson
	BMJ  2001;322:1401-1405, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1401 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

Clinical review

	Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Obesity
	David Arterburn, Polly Hitchcock Noël
	BMJ  2001;322:1406-1409, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1406 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of AIDS: Antiretroviral drugs
	Ian V D Weller, I G Williams
	BMJ  2001;322:1410-1412, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1410 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Epiphany
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2001;322:1433, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1433/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A tale of seven surgeons
	Pauline Prior
	BMJ  2001;322:1433, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1433 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Implementing clinical governance: turning vision into reality
	Aidan Halligan, Liam Donaldson
	BMJ  2001;322:1413-1417, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1413 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details]

	Measuring quality of life: Who should measure quality of life?
	Julia Addington-Hall, Lalit Kalra
	BMJ  2001;322:1417-1420, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1417 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Medical errors
	M H Gough, Paul Buss, Tim Wilson, Charles Turton, John Nottingham, Greg Rubin, Richard Horton, Nicola J Maran, Ronnie J Glavin, Richard A Grünewald, Carina J Mack, Tim Root, Angela Stefanou, Jim Siderov, Mario de Lemos, N J Langford, U Martin, M J Kendall, R E Ferner, Natalie Smith, Nick Burns-Cox, Lemke Solomon, Simon Holmes
	BMJ  2001;322:1421, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1421 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse events in British hospitals
	Tuan V Nguyen, Ken M Hillman, Michael D Buist, S Chakraverty, J Wright, Rosalind Plowman, Jennifer A Roberts, Nicholas Graves, Mark A S Griffin, Barry Cookson, Lynda Taylor, Brian T Collopy, I G McDonald, David Griffith, Paul Diggory, Anand Mehta, Charles Vincent, Graham Neale, Maria Woloshynowych, R E Ferner, J K Aronson, Stephen Bezruchka
	BMJ  2001;322:1425, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1425 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycle injury trends: helmets are most likely explanation
	Adrian Cook, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2001;322:1427, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1427 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computer assisted learning aids management of course information
	Paul Whatling, W Angus Wallace, Andrew Lamb
	BMJ  2001;322:1428, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1428 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients with depression can be taught how to improve recovery
	Giovanni A Fava, Chiara Ruini, Lara Mangelli
	BMJ  2001;322:1428, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1428/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in children in Birmingham
	Sarah Ehtisham, Jeremy Kirk, Adele McEvilly, Nick Shaw, Sharon Jones, Stephen Rose, Krys Matyka, Tom Lee, Steve Bennett Britton, Timothy Barrett
	BMJ  2001;322:1428, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1428/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conclusions about type 1 diabetes and hygiene hypothesis are premature
	Wendy J A Anderson, Lorna Watson
	BMJ  2001;322:1429, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1429 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What author really said about malaria and climate change
	Andy Haines
	BMJ  2001;322:1429, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1429/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	William Greig Fettes Adams • Margaret Hilary Birch • Leonard Crome • Maurice Henry Handoll • Crawford John Thurston
	A Wilson Robertson, Ros King, Jo Boxer, Michael Leach, Myfanwy Thomas, Peter Crome, C A Rushmer, Alastair Donald
	BMJ  2001;322:1430, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1430 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:1434, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1434 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Insights on the internet
	Sarah J Bridges
	BMJ  2001;322:1388, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1388 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A change of heart
	Ruth Hubbard
	BMJ  2001;322:1400, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1400 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: My room
	Elizabeth H Hare
	BMJ  2001;322:1405, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1405 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Revitalised
	Perry Board
	BMJ  2001;322:1409, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1409 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The drink question in Russia
	BMJ  2001;322:1410, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1410/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An urgent fax
	Robert Chaplin
	BMJ  2001;322:1420, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1420 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review
	BMJ  2001;322:1395 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:1395 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two more medical schools to open
	BMJ  2001;322:1395 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The General Practice Jigsaw: The Future of Education, Training and Professional Development
	Domhnall Macauley
	BMJ  2001;322:1431, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1431 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: How Scientists Explain Disease
	Julia Lowe
	BMJ  2001;322:1431, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1431/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Difficult Diabetes
	Kevin Baynes
	BMJ  2001;322:1432, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1432 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	What to do next?
	BMJ  2001;322, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	What to do next?
	BMJ  2001;322, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

	Bestsellers
	BMJ  2001;322:1432, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1432/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Diabetes
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2001;322:1432, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7299.1432/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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