Annals ofClinical Medicine

Volume: 2 - Number: 51 - August 19, 2002

Outstanding

ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions affecting the right side of the heart

Was it a heart attack?

New score is needed to predict risk of coronary heart disease

Selection of medical students

Articles

Improving teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception: cluster randomised controlled trial of a teacher led intervention

Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review

Increasing use of the emergency department in a Swiss hospital: observational study based on measures of the severity of cases

Prescribing incentive schemes in two NHS regions: cross sectional survey Commentary: Prescribing incentive schemes more evidence is needed of how they work

Retrospective study of mortality after a water pollution incident at Lowermoor in north Cornwall

Debate and Education

Private finance and "value for money" in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

Education and debate: Consent, confidentiality, and the threat to public health surveillance Commentary: Don't waive consent lightly involve the public

Letters and Perspective

Discomfort of patient power

Medical emergency teams and cardiac arrests in hospital

Was it a heart attack?

New score is needed to predict risk of coronary heart disease

Using real patients in professional medical exams

Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

Misdiagnosis of epilepsy

10-minute consultation: Rhinitis

Experience based treatment of head lice

Medical Profession

Old age psychiatry

Working with Alcoholics Anonymous

Perspectives and Editorial

Selection of medical students

Twenty thousand conversations

Reviews and Trials

Impaired glucose tolerance: qualitative and quantitative study of general practitioners' knowledge and perceptions

Myopia

Lesson of the week: Cat scratch disease

ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Conditions affecting the right side of the heart