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British medical journal: BMJ

Journal Volume: 337
Journal Issue:
Journal Year: 2008
Articles in SafetyLit: 37

Alcohol consumption and alcohol counselling behaviour among US medical students: cohort study

Apology sought for Australian doctor accused of involvement in UK bomb attacks

Cluster approach improves provision of disaster aid, says WHO

Comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in young female footballers: cluster randomised controlled trial

Deaths from drug poisoning in English and Welsh men reach five year peak

Diagnosing child abuse

Doctors must do more to identify child abuse, Dutch association says

Doctors protest against surgeon held for six years at Guantanamo

Doctors' complicity with torture

Does a functional activity programme improve function, quality of life, and falls for residents in long term care? Cluster randomised controlled trial

Falls in older people

Festive medical myths

German paediatricians want law changed to make it easier to report child abuse

Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: Head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass

Hospital admissions for self harm after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care: cohort study

Inability to get up after falling, subsequent time on floor, and summoning help: prospective cohort study in people over 90

Injury and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Intimate partner violence. Honesty is needed when assuring confidentiality

Mortality on Mount Everest, 1921-2006: descriptive study

New Orleans hospitals better prepared for hurricane than three years ago

Patterns of skeletal fractures in child abuse. "Unexplained" fractures

Patterns of skeletal fractures in child abuse: systematic review

Penetrating injuries cost NHS more than 3 million pounds a year

Police violence and sexual risk among female and transvestite sex workers in Serbia: qualitative study

Poverty, murder, and respect: unlikely to be linked in UK

Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted

Risk of suicide after suicide attempt according to coexisting psychiatric disorder: Swedish cohort study with long term follow-up

Simple measures could halve global deaths from unintentional injury, report says

State violence towards sex workers

Suicide risk after a suicide attempt

Tackling knife violence

Teenage rape victim is stoned to death as violence sweeps Somalia

US company designs gun for people with arthritic hands

Violence and overcrowding characterise many mental health wards in England

Violence between intimate partners knows no age limit

Violence between intimate partners: working with the whole family

Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis