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Clinical Medicine: Vol. 15, Issue 4 (August 2015)

Editorials

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    Choosing wisely – choosing tactics
    Humphrey Hodgson
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-315
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    Recruitment to non-procedural specialties
    Harriet Gordon
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-317

Professional issues

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    Deciding when physicians are unfit to practise: an analysis of responsibilities, policy and practice in 11 European Union member states
    Verena Struckmann, Dimitra Panteli, Helena Legido-Quigley, Isabelle Risso-Gill, Martin McKee and Reinhard Busse
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-319

Original research

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    The influence of a simple blood transfusion policy on overtransfusion in acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage 
    Adam Stokes, Clare Thompson, Andrew Clegg and Jonathon Snook
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-325
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    The direct cost of intravenous insulin infusions to the NHS in England and Wales
    Rajesh Rajendran, Anne Scott and Gerry Rayman
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-330

Review

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    Physical restraint and the protection of the human rights of immigration detainees in hospitals
    Hilary Pickles, Emma Norton, Emma Ginn and Theresa Schleicher
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-334
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    Systematic review on the prevalence of lack of capacity in medical and psychiatric settings
    Peter Lepping, Thushara Stanly and Jim Turner
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-337
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    Integrated care for chronic migraine patients: epidemiology, burden, diagnosis and treatment options
    Hans-Christoph Diener, Kasja Solbach, Dagny Holle and Charly Gaul
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-344

Drug therapies in…

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    Drug treatment of pruritus in liver diseases
    Vinod S Hegade, Stuart FW Kendrick and David EJ Jones
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-351

International

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    Working on the front line
    Geraldine O'Hara
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-358

Concise guidance

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    The acute management of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction 
    Serena F Carville, Robert Henderson and Huon Gray
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-362

Conference reports

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    The up-to-date management of venous thromboembolism 
    Anob M Chakrabarti
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-368

Errata

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    Quantifying bile acid malabsorption helps predict response and tailor sequestrant therapy
    Oluwafikunayo Orekoya, John McLaughlin, Eugenia Leitao, Wendy Johns, Simon Lal and Peter Paine
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-371
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    Clinical and scientific letters: Survey on the attitudes of hospital doctors towards the terms ‘acopia’ and ‘social admission’ in clinical practice
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-371a

CME Acute medicine

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    Acute presentation of the pregnant patient
    Francesca Neuberger and Catherine Nelson-Piercy
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-372
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    Frailty at the front door
    Zoe Wyrko
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-377
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    Radiotherapy in the acute medical setting
    Sean Brown, Peter Kirkbride and Ernie Marshall
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-382
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    Critical care admission for acute medical patients
    Victoria Packham and Peter Hampshire
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-388
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    CME Acute medicine SAQs (95277): Self-assessment questionnaire
    Frank Joseph, Abigail Moore and Tahseen Chowdhury
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-392

Lesson of the month

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    Lesson of the month 1: Seeing snowflakes
    Anand Patel, Arif Aslam, Gavin Orr and William Perkins
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-394
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    Lesson of the month 2: IgG4-related renal mass with spontaneous resolution
    Vijaya BP Ramasamy, Rhiannon Trefor, Kaushik Rajamani, Divya Santosh, David Griffiths and Kieron Donovan
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-396

Image of the month

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    A hidden bomb behind hypertension
    Yen-Ting Yeh and Wenpo Chuang
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-399

Book review

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    Book review
    Martin Marshall
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-401

Letters to the editor

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    Vitamin B12 deficiency – A 21st century perspective
    Thein H Oo
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-402
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    Response
    Jecko Thachil
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-402a

Clinical and scientific letters

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    Point-of-care cardiac ultrasound in acute internal medicine: how can it be delivered?
    John B Chambers, Ronak Rajani, Nadia Short, Kelly Victor and Kevin O'kane
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-403
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    Educating clinician leaders: can the NHS benefit from the US MD/MBA experience?
    Nick Cork and Christopher A Devine
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-404
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    Letter to the Royal College of Physicians regarding the suitability of the National Early Warning Score in the assessment of the unwell spinal cord injury patient
    Klint Asafu-Adjaye and Angela Gall
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-406
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    Osteoporotic vertebral fractures in older patients
    Olugbenro Akintade
    Clin Med August 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-4-407
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