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• • ·REVIEW

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    Anna Donald, Muir Gray

    
• • ·Cochrane reviews – what and why

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• • ·Authors of systematic reviews' concluding that passive smoking was not harmful had a significantly higher rate of affiliation with the tobacco industry

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    Godfrey Fowler

    
• • ·Exposure to pre-conception radiation in male and female radiation workers is not a cause of childhood cancer

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    Dr JA Muir Gray

    
• • ·The introduction of antiretroviral combination therapies has led to a reduction in the disease progression of AIDS and mortality

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    Dr Alison Walker

    
• • ·Abstinence and safer-sex intervention can reduce HIV risk behaviours in African American adolescents

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    Dr Connie Smith

    
• • ·Levels of air pollution in Sydney are associated with mortality

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    Dr J Gray

    
• • ·Simple, inexpensive signs increased the use of stairs instead of escalators

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    Nick Wareham

    
• • ·Health promotion changed diet and cardiovascular risk factors

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    Elaine Fullard

    
• • ·A comprehensive tobacco control programme had dramatic impact on tobacco consumption and smoking prevalence

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    Tim Lancaster

    
• • ·Removing the second cataract produced major additional benefits

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    Dr Bernard Crump

    
• • ·Does point-of-care testing alter patient management and clinical outcome in an accident and emergency department?

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    Dr James Falconer Smith

    
• • ·Childhood diabetes can be well managed with less use of hospital resources

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    Charles Fox

    
• • ·Outcome data for hospitals provided useful evidence for choosing priority topics for quality improvement

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    Alison Kitson

    
• • ·Involving medical opinion leaders increases adherence to guidelines

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    Peter Littlejohns

    
• • ·How effective is advice in primary care about child safety, especially for low-income families?

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    Dr Ian Roberts

    
• • ·Is the administration of albumin to critically ill patients justified?

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    Dr Anna Donal

    
• • ·Patients had better clinical outcome when their physicians spoke the same language

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    Albert Mulley

    
• • ·Women physicians use hormone replacement therapy significantly more than the general population

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    Professor John Guillebaud

    
• • ·Health decisions of famous people influence patients

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    Albert Mulley

    
• • ·No single approach is effective in curbing spending on long-stay care

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    Helen Bartlett

    
• • ·Cancer patients overestimate their survival probabilities, which influences their preferences for treatment

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    Phil Wiffen

    
• • ·The introduction of a law to delay abortion until counselling decreased the overall abortion rate but increased the percentage of late abortions

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    Professor John Guillebaud

    
• • ·BOOK REVIEWS

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    J.A.Muir Gray