Ideals - Quality, QALYs and the interpretation of dreams (links 1-21)

Web-based references relating to the number under the disk sign, listed by page header



Ideals
1 Standard drawing of Orion constellation [Link]; page 2

2 Lancet. 1999 Oct 16;354(9187):1320 Lancet. 1999 Oct 16;354(9187):1331 Modification of attitudes to influence survival from breast cancer. Tucker J [Link]; page 2


Asking questions
3 Open and closed questions. H Goodare [Link]; page 4


What is the mechanism? Finding narrative answers
4 Medicine, the arts, and the humanities--lancet 3003 362 93--G Bolton [Link]; page 5


Death: Diagnosis and management
No links


Facing death
5 D Payne 2000 BMJ ii 658; page 7

6 R Smith 2000 A good death--An important aim for health services and for us all--The art of living well and dying well are one--Epicurus; [Link]; page 7

7 BMJ; page 2003;327:1011 Adherence to advance directives in critical care decision making: vignette study--Trevor Thompson [Link]; page 7


Prescribing drugs
No links


Prevention
8 Health Expect. 2001 Jun;4(2):92-8. Information about screening - is it to achieve high uptake or to ensure informed choice?--Raffle AE [Link]; page 9

9 BMJ; page 2003;327:703-709 Effects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane systematic review--Edwards A [Link]; page 9


Is this new drug any good?
10 1994 BMJ ii 597; page 10

11 M Moher 2000 BMJ i 537 & 1997 NEJM 337 536; page 10

12 BMJ 2003;327:1005. Cochrane plans to allay fears over industry influence--Ray Moynihan [Link]; page 10


Surviving house jobs
No links


Quality, QALYs and the interpretation of dreams
13 J Tudor Hart 2000 BMJ 18 & 1971 Lancet i 405; page 12

13 Trends in Hurricane Impacts in the United States. Roger A. Pielke [Link]; page 12

14 Milly Song CHINA, NATIONAL, BEIJING, NEWS: Murder On Bus 726? [Link]; page 12

15 A line Cherry trees in France, along a busy road, was set to be axed as drivers predictably drove into their trunks--but on appeal the trees won, on the grounds of beauty. [No link]; page 12

16 J Pell 2000 BMJ i 15; page 12

17 WHO comments on Nice methodologies--2003 [Link]; page 12

18 Health Technol Assess. 2003;7(3):1 Systematic review and economic evaluation of the effectiveness of infliximab for the treatment of Crohn's disease. Clark W [Link]; page 12

18 See S Deventer Gastroenterology 1999 117 761 [@10500056] and M Kamm 2000 Prescriber 11 38 [Link]; page 12

19 Cost Analysis of Primary Total Hip Replacement--O'Shea Kieran [Link]; page 12

20 Drug offers hope to Alzheimer; page 12

21 Gerontology -- example of a relative's comments about going on Memantine [Link]; page 12