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BMJ Journals

Table of contents

December 2011 - Volume 16 - 6

Evidence Based Medicine: 16 (6)

Editorial

The intuitive appeal of case series thinking: a challenge for evidence-based teaching and practice (7 July, 2011)
Joshua J Fenton, Khalid S Khan

Methods

Qualitative research: A qualitative approach to Bayes' theorem (23 August, 2011) Free
Mitchell A Medow, Catherine R Lucey

Aetiology

Case control study: Older women who use bisphosphonate for longer than 5 years may have increased odds of a subtrochanteric or femoral shaft fracture, but absolute risk is low (25 October, 2011) Free
Bo Abrahamsen
Cohort study: People aged above 65 treated for latent tuberculosis are at increased risk of admission for a hepatic event compared with untreated controls (6 June, 2011)
Philip LoBue
Case control study: Exposure to diagnostic radiation and risk of childhood cancer: overstated risks raise unnecessary concern (11 May, 2011)
Kenneth Hodson, Jason Waugh, Catherine Nelson-Piercy

Diagnosis

Randomised controlled trial: Automated blood pressure readings in primary care demonstrate better correlation to the gold standard of ambulatory monitoring than manual assessment (4 August, 2011)
Mark Nelson
Randomised controlled trial: Two sputum samples at once for diagnosis of tuberculosis in Africa has equivalent sensitivity and specificity to the standard initial sample followed by a morning sample strategy (26 September, 2011)
Nauman Safdar, Kamran Siddiqi
Cohort study: A single Xpert MTB/RIF test of sputum for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance shows high sensitivity and specificity and reduces diagnosis and treatment delays (11 October, 2011)
Annelies Van Rie

Prognosis

Cross-sectional study: Physicians' calling patients on excess weight may provide reality check and increase desire to lose weight in overweight and obese individuals (18 August, 2011)
Arya M Sharma
Cohort study: Introduction of solids before 4 months is associated with obesity at 3 years among formula-fed infants but not among breast-fed infants (31 May, 2011)
Colin W Binns
Cohort study: School-aged children who were exposed to sodium valproate in utero have impaired language scores when compared with a population mean score (10 November, 2011)
Gus A Baker, Rebecca L Bromley

Therapeutics

Randomised controlled trial: Oral misoprostol reduces the risk of postpartum haemorrhage in home births assisted by trained traditional birth attendants in Pakistan (8 May, 2011)
G Justus Hofmeyr
Systematic review: Acute otitis media: antibiotics are moderately effective and mildly increase the risk of adverse effects; prevalence of different causative bacteria changed after introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (11 May, 2011)
Colin Sox
Systematic review: Continuous support in labour has beneficial effects for mother and baby (11 May, 2011)
Malin Bergström
Randomised controlled trial: In children and adolescents with mild persistent asthma, daily beclomethasone reduces treatment failure compared with rescue beclomethasone plus albuterol (11 May, 2011)
Tom Kovesi
Randomised controlled trial: Sustained reduction in body mass index and other cardiovascular risk markers a year after a 12-month intensive family-based lifestyle intervention for obese children; but follow-up of participants low (23 August, 2011)
Danielle Hollar
Randomised controlled trial: Intensive glucose lowering (HbA1c target<6.0%) for people with type 2 diabetes increases mortality (20 November, 2011)
Jonathan E Shaw
Randomised controlled trial: In people with atrial fibrillation unsuitable for warfarin, apixaban reduces the risk of stroke compared with aspirin, with no difference in major bleeding (29 July, 2011)
Renato D Lopes, David A Garcia
Systematic Review and meta-analysis: Tiotropium mist inhaler for COPD increases risk of mortality compared with placebo (21 September, 2011)
Felix S F Ram
Systematic review and meta-analysis: Episodic physical and sexual activity increase risk for acute cardiac events (4 July, 2011)
Viktor Čulić

Letters

Conflicts of interest (20 November, 2011)
Angelo Tomedi
Editor's reply to ‘conflicts of interest’ (20 November, 2011)
Richard Saitz

Electronic page

Purpose and procedure (20 November, 2011)

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