The respiratory tract
November 2012 Vol 41 (11) 833-912
This month's articles include respiratory problems, towards an endgame for tobacco, recreational activity risk, bronchiectasis, chronic hepatitis B, newly diagnosed early breast cancer and MRI of the knee.
Focus
Joan Henderson, Christopher Harrison, Graeme Miller
A guide for primary care
Graeme Maguire
Melvin LW Lim, Danny J Brazzale, Christine F McDonald
Occupational and environmental exposures
Ryan F Hoy
Matthew J Peters
Up front
Carolyn O’Shea
Focusing on acute respiratory infections in primary care
Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou, John B Lowe, Mieke L van Driel, Tammy Hoffmann, Elaine Beller
Clinical
Sarah Skinner
An update on pre-operative assessment and staging
Meagan Brennan, Nehmat Houssami
Under-diagnosed late respiratory complications
Tajalli Saghaie, Sarah Turner, Simon Kang, Lucy Morgan
Management and treatment options
Janine Arnold, Nicholas McLeod, Ruban Thani-Gasalam, Prem Rashid
A case study
Jacinto Orgaz-Molina, Maria Salazar-Nievas, Maria Carmen Orgaz-Molina, Salvador Arias-Santiago
Xian Zhang Eric Yong, Tom Sutherland
Jonathan Ramachenderan, James Muir
Research
The role of the GP
Jack Wallace, Behzad Hajarizadeh, Jacqueline Richmond, Stephen McNally, Marian Pitts
A qualitative study of referral pathways and continuing care
Mark F Harris, Shane Pascoe, Lisa Crossland, Justin Beilby, Craig Veitch, Allan Spigelman, David Weller
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Adeline Lee, Jan Coles, Stuart J Lee, Jayashri Kulkarni
Professional
Improving access to primary care in a remote community
Scott Lewis
The power of silence
Sanne Kreijkamp-Kaspers, Paul Glasziou
Back pages
Sophie Samuel