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Clinical Medicine: Vol. 12, Issue 6 (December 2012)

Editorials

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    From the editor
    Humphrey Hodgson
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-499
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    NEWSDIG: The National Early Warning Score Development and Implementation Group
    Mike Jones
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-501

Erratum

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    Recognising acute kidney injury
    Mike Jones
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-503
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    Genomic medicine: challenges and opportunities for physicians
    H Burton, Cole T and AM Lucassen
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-504

Professional Issues

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    Prevalence of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by physicians in the UK: a systematic review of surveys
    Paul Posadzki, Amani Alotaibi and Edzard Ernst
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-505
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    Misguided presumptions: British Medical Association (BMA) and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on organ retrieval and ‘opt out’ or ‘presumed consent’
    Fiona Randall and Robin Downie
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-513
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    BMA and NICE guidance on organ retrieval: neither misguided nor presumptuous
    James Neuberger
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-517

Medical Education

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    Learning to make a difference: introducing quality improvement methods to core medical trainees
    Emma Vaux, Susan Went, Martin Norris and Jane Ingham
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-520
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    An MBPhD programme in the UK: the UCL experience
    Gordon W Stewart
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-526
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    The Cambridge Bachelor of Medicine (MB)/Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): graduate outcomes of the first MB/PhD programme in the UK
    Timothy M Cox, James Brimicombe, Diana F Wood and D Keith Peters
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-530

Acute Medical Care

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    A rare cause of acute pulmonary oedema
    Samir A Khwaja, Umasuthan Srirangalingam and William M Drake
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-535

Lecture

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    Community-acquired pneumonia
    Jeremy S Brown
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-538

Drug Therapies in …

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    Advances in the management of atrial fibrillation
    Anthony Li and Elijah R Behr
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-544

Diseases in Pregnancy

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    Cardiac disease in pregnancy
    Surabhi Nanda, Catherine Nelson-Piercy and Lucy Mackillop
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-553

Transitional Care

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    ‘Everybody's business’: transition and the role of adult physicians
    Helena Gleeson, Sara McCartney and Victoria Lidstone
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-561

Original Paper

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    Glycated albumin is a potential diagnostic tool for diabetes mellitus
    Chun Yang, Hanbin Li, Zhihai Wang, Wanying Zhang, Kun Zhou, Jianhua Meng, Ying Zhao, Jing Pan, Xiaofeng Lv, Hongyan Liang and Xiaofeng Jiang
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-568

CME Gastroenterology

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    Nutrition: tips for the general physician
    Marcus Harbord, Richard Jones, Simon Lal and Jon Shaffer
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-572
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    Gastrointestinal oncology – what you need to know
    Elizabeth Smyth and David Cunningham
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-575
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    Colonic polyps and an update on the bowel cancer screening programme
    Kinesh Patel, Sarah Marshall and Siwan Thomas-Gibson
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-580
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    Inpatient diarrhoea and Clostridium difficile
    Neerav M Joshi, Lucia Macken and David S Rampton
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-583
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    Managing acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the acute assessment unit
    Lotte Dinesen and Martin Benson
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-589

CME Gastroenterology SAQs (71574)

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    Self-assessment questionnaire: SAQs and answers are ONLINE for RCP fellows and collegiate members
    Nick Bosanko
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-593

Lesson of the Month (1)

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    Diagnostic dilemma and sudden death outcome: a case of amyloid cardiomyopathy
    SW Dubrey, G Rosser, MT Dahdal and JD Gillmore
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-596

Lesson of the Month (2)

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    The ataxic cirrhotic
    Tim Ambrose and Nishchay Chandra
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-598

Image of the Month

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    Acute oxalate nephropathy
    WT Hinchliffe, S Fenwick and K MacDougall
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-600

Literature and Medicine

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    The Death of Ivan Ilyich and the concept of ‘total pain’
    Viv Lucas
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-601

Book Reviews

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    The Tunnel at the End of the Light: My Endoscopic Journey in Six Decades
    Brian P Saunders
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-602

Letters to the Editor

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    Compliance with NICE guidance on the use of anti-TNF agents in ankylosing spondylitis
    Ayesha Madan
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-603
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    Austerity: a failed experiment on the people of Europe
    Walter W Holland
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-603a
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    Simultaneous myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke secondary to paradoxical emboli through a patent foramen ovale
    Chris Durkin
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-604
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    Inpatient care: should the general physician now take charge?
    Richard A Best
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-605
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    US-style hospitalists are unlikely to improve delivery of patient care in the NHS
    James J Glazier
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-605a
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    In order to encourage general internal medicine (GIM) as a specialty we must learn from our peers outside the UK
    Tom Wingfield
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-606
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    Economic crisis and primary healthcare in Greece: ‘disaster’ or ‘blessing’?
    Evangelos Fragkoulis
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-607
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    Risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) following the administration of iodinated contrast medium
    Derrick Martin and Alison Bradley
    Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-607a
  • Clinical and Scientific Letters

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      Respiratory specialty specific examinations in the south west
      Andrew RL Medford and Abiramy Jeyabalan
      Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-609
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      The virtual bronchoscopy simulator – a young physician's view
      Emily Heiden
      Clin Med December 2012, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.12-6-609a
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  • Misguided presumptions: British Medical Association (BMA) and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on organ retrieval and `opt out' or `presumed consent'
  • BMA and NICE guidance on organ retrieval: neither misguided nor presumptuous
  • NEWSDIG: The National Early Warning Score Development and Implementation Group
  • Cardiac disease in pregnancy

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  • CME Gastroenterology SAQs (71574)
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