Mortality control charts improve monitoring of surgical performance [Full text]

	Interactive case report elicits varied perspectives [Full text]

	Ethnicity needs to be considered when planning clinical exams [Full text]

	Counselling on exercise in general practice increases quality of life [Full text]

	IL-2 receptor antibodies halve risk of renal transplantation rejection [Full text]

	Malaria can worsen after initial good presentation [Full text]

Editorials

	Fighting "terrorism" with torture
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  2003;326:773-774, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.773 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images of war and medical ethics
	Jerome A Singh, Tania L DePellegrin
	BMJ  2003;326:774-775, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.774 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency contraception
	Anne M C Webb
	BMJ  2003;326:775-776, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.775 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Workplace bullying
	Brian R McAvoy, John Murtagh
	BMJ  2003;326:776-777, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.776 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital mortality league tables
	Bobbie Jacobson, Jenny Mindell, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2003;326:777-778, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.777 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

News

	Baghdad's hospitals struggle to cope with war wounded
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:779, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.779 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:780, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.780 [Full text] [PDF]

	Amnesty condemns allies' use of cluster bombs
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2003;326:780, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.780/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Advice on withholding food and water breaks the law, group claims
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;326:780, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.780/b [Full text] [PDF]

	China joins global effort over pneumonia virus
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;326:781, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.781 [Full text] [PDF]

	Commission warns against selling genetic tests direct to the public
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:781, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.781/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Privy Council says GMC procedure on restoration to register is flawed
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:783, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.783/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Treatment slows moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.784 [Full text] [PDF]

	Portrait of Isaac Marks unveiled
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;326:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.784/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Court awards damages to disabled child for having been born
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;326:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.784/b [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Environmental hazards kill five million children a year
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:782, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.782 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Genetic factors may underlie link between breast density and cancer risk
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:782, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.782/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Couple wins right to select embryo
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:782, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.782/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Welsh Labour party promises free prescriptions and free school breakfasts
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:782, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.782/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US government issues guidelines on conflicts of interest in research
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;326:782, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.782/d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMA says non-therapeutic circumcision needs consent of both parents
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:782, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.782/e [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Heavy drinking among US students correlates with density of alcohol outlets
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:783, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.783 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	CDC reports first case of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:783, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.783/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Fear of SARS thwarts medical education in Toronto
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.784/c [Full text]

	More information needed about experience of dying, report says
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;326:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.784/d [Full text]

Papers

	Mortality control charts for comparing performance of surgical units: validation study using hospital mortality data
	Paris P Tekkis, Peter McCulloch, Adrian C Steger, Irving S Benjamin, Jan D Poloniecki
	BMJ  2003;326:786-788, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.786 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interleukin-2 receptor monoclonal antibodies in renal transplantation: meta-analysis of randomised trials
	Dwomoa Adu, Paul Cockwell, Natalie J Ives, Jonathan Shaw, Keith Wheatley
	BMJ  2003;326:789, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.789 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research pointers: Risk of subsequent thromboembolism for patients with pre-eclampsia
	Carl van Walraven, Muhammad Mamdani, Adam Cohn, Yasir Katib, Mark Walker, Marc A Rodger
	BMJ  2003;326:791-792, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.791 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: More information]

BMJ family highlights

	BMJ family highlights
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2003;326:785, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.785 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Effectiveness of counselling patients on physical activity in general practice: cluster randomised controlled trial
	C Raina Elley, Ngaire Kerse, Bruce Arroll, Elizabeth Robinson
	BMJ  2003;326:793, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.793 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care in the United States: Innovations in primary care in the United States • Commentary: What can primary care in the United States learn from the United Kingdom?
	Thomas Bodenheimer, Azeem Majeed, Andrew B Bindman
	BMJ  2003;326:796-799, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.796 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List]

Learning in practice

	Effect of ethnicity on performance in a final objective structured clinical examination: qualitative and quantitative study
	Val Wass, Celia Roberts, Ron Hoogenboom, Roger Jones, Cees Van der Vleuten
	BMJ  2003;326:800-803, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.800 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Transcripts extracts]

Clinical review

	Interactive case report: A 66 year old woman with a rash: case outcome • Commentary: Patient's perspective • Commentary: Vascular surgeon • Commentary: Dermatology • Commentary: View from primary care • Commentary: Learning from interactive case reports
	J Bligh, R Farrow, Ruth, Richard Farrow, Linda Hands, Natasha Kapur, Malcolm H A Rustin, John Benson, Ed Peile
	BMJ  2003;326:804-807, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.804 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Assessing the severity of malaria
	David A J Moore, Richard M Jennings, Tom F Doherty, Diana N Lockwood, Peter L Chiodini, Stephen G Wright, Christopher J M Whitty
	BMJ  2003;326:808-809, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.808 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching: Educational environment
	Linda Hutchinson
	BMJ  2003;326:810-812, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.810 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Orthopaedic surgeons and flaccid liberals
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2003;326:829, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.829/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	How 9/11 thinking can impair doctors' clinical judgment
	Ralph Crawshaw
	BMJ  2003;326:829, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.829 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Time to abandon testing for microscopic haematuria in adults?
	Per-Uno Malmström
	BMJ  2003;326:813-815, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.813 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the quality of health care: Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care
	S M Campbell, J Braspenning, A Hutchinson, M N Marshall
	BMJ  2003;326:816-819, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.816 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further references]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	How political should a general medical journal be?
	Guillermo A Herrera Taracena, Pennie Marchetti, Ian G Roberts, Colin D Butler, Pandora Pound, Adam Jacobs, Morris Doublet-Stewart
	BMJ  2003;326:820, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.820 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	B Ronan O'Driscoll, K S Babu, A J Chauhan
	BMJ  2003;326:821, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.821 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parametric survival models may be more accurate than Kaplan-Meier estimates
	Margaret May, Jonathan Sterne, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  2003;326:822, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.822 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opiate withdrawal and botulism: stigma delayed treatment
	Karl Marlowe
	BMJ  2003;326:822, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.822/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shapely centrefolds
	Petra M Boynton, Daniel McQueen
	BMJ  2003;326:823, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.823 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A curriculum can be latent and informal
	Carol P Herbert
	BMJ  2003;326:823, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.823/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dataset on deaths related to taking ecstasy looks incomplete
	A R W Forrest
	BMJ  2003;326:823, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.823/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prisons, too, are institutions for psychiatric care
	Jay E Smith
	BMJ  2003;326:824, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.824 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Faxing helps deaf people access health services in Spain
	Manuel J Castillo-Garzon, Francisco J Gomez, J Alberto Raya, Carmen Martin
	BMJ  2003;326:824, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.824/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peer review should not be anonymous
	Harry Morrow Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:824, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.824/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Carlo Urbani
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825 [Full text]

	Walter Martin Browne
	Hugh Saxton
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/a [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hilary Barbara Joy Cooke (née Rose)
	Roger Cooke, Paul Cooke, Matthew Cooke
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/b [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Elizabeth Stuart Gronbach (née Ross)
	J M Watson
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/c [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Colin Francis Herridge
	Anu Sayal-Bennett
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/d [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ian Alexander McClure
	J Douglas Brown
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/e [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Margaret Wylie Martin (née Thomas)
	R Martin
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/f [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Gerald Bernard Winter
	J J Murray, Jane R Goodman
	BMJ  2003;326:825, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.825/g [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:830, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.830 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: No reliable test or exam finding for acute cholecystitis
	BMJ  2003;326, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.0/g [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	He died "peacefully" at home
	David Veale
	BMJ  2003;326:792, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.792 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A medical president
	BMJ  2003;326:796, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.796/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My most unfortunate mistake: The heights of folly
	Jonathan C R Bowling, Andrew John Lee
	BMJ  2003;326:803, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.803 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Where worlds meet
	Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2003;326:809, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.809 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.813/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Physician
	Barbara Jean Graham
	BMJ  2003;326:819, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.819 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

ART

	Art: DNA 50 Four Plus: Writing DNA
	Irina Haivas
	BMJ  2003;326:827, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.827 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: In this World
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2003;326:827, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.827/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Journalists debate the limits of horror
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2003;326:828, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.828 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The moral questions of war
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;326, doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7393.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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