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Table of Contents

May 2008; Volume 58,Issue 550

May Focus

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    May Focus
    David Jewell
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 306.

Editorials

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    Making haste slowly: the response to the Shipman Inquiry?
    Richard Baker
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 307-308.
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    Recent advances in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration
    Ameenat Lola Solebo, Romesh I Angunawela, Samipa Dasgupta and John Marshall
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 309-310.

Original Papers

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    Routine mortality monitoring for detecting mass murder in UK general practice: test of effectiveness using modelling
    Bruce Guthrie, Tom Love, Rebecca Kaye, Margaret MacLeod and Jim Chalmers
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 311-317. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280164
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    Commentary: Monitoring mortality: a quality improvement perspective
    Tom Marshall and Mohammed A Mohammed
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280173
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    Age and sex interaction in reported help seeking in response to chest pain
    Joy Adamson, Jenny Donovan, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Nish Chaturvedi and Ann Bowling
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 318-323. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X279670
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    Successful GP intervention with frequent attenders in primary care: randomised controlled trial
    Juan Ángel Bellón, Antonina Rodríguez-Bayón, Juan de Dios Luna and Francisco Torres-González
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 324-330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280182
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    Accessing out-of-hours care following implementation of the GMS contract: an observational study
    Suzanne H Richards, Rachel Winder, David Seamark, Clare Seamark, Paul Ewings, Angela Barwick, James Gilbert, Sarah Avery, Sarah Human and John L Campbell
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 331-338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280191
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    Overall quality of diabetes care in a defined geographic region: different sides of the same story
    Rykel van Bruggen, Kees Gorter, Ronald Stolk, Peter Zuithoff, Rob Verhoeven and Guy Rutten
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 339-345. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280209
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    Factors associated with enablement in general practice: cross-sectional study using routinely-collected data
    Nicola Mead, Peter Bower and Martin Roland
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 346-352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280218

William Pickles Lecture

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    Education and the changing face of medical professionalism: from priest to mountain guide?
    Sean Hilton
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 353-361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280128

Letters

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    Complementary and alternative medicine
    Nick Manassiev
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 362. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280227
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    Re: Complementary and alternative medicine
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 362. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280236
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    Author's response
    Edzard Ernst
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 362-363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280245
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    Emergency Care Summary in Scotland
    Libby Morris, Stuart Scott and Ken Lawton
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280254
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    Author's response
    Gordon Baird
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 363-364. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280263
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    Summary Care Record
    Joyce Longwill
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 364. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280272
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    Otitis media: prevention instead of prescription
    Ryan Kerstein
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 364-365. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280281
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    How can we remove barriers to HIV testing outside of a GUM setting?
    Tristan J Barber, Anatole Menon-Johansson and Simon Barton
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 365. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280308
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    Benzodiazepine tolerance, dependency, and withdrawal syndromes and interactions with fluoroquinolone antimicrobials
    John Girvan McConnell
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 365-366. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280317

Correction

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    Correction
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 366. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280326

The Back Pages

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    Cascading bedpans and dodgy MOTs
    Mike Fitzpatrick
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 376. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X299173
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    On being a proper doctor
    Helen Lester
    British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X299191
  • Viewpoint

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      Caring for Homeless People: Can Doctors Make a Difference?
      Igor van Laere
      British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280335
  • Essay

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      General practice under the hammer
      Ashley Liston
      British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 368-369. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280344
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      Abortion in Turkey: women in rural areas and the law
      Fusun Artiran Igde, Rukiye Gul, Mahir Igde and Murat Yalcin
      British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 370-373. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280353
  • Serial

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      A patient's diary: episode 17 — Eyes on the blink
      John Salinsky
      British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 374-375. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280362
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      Top Tips in 2 minutes
      Ruth Bastable, Sarah Rann and Vinny Barker
      British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 376-377. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X299182
  • Digest

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      Ceci n'est pas un contrat
      British Journal of General Practice 2008; 58 (550): 375. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X280371
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