The Big Four Bulletin is produced by Suzanne Toft (Assistant Librarian) and Richard Clint (Library Assistant) at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Library and Knowledge Service.
The Bulletin is produced weekly and aims to alert clinicians to major trials, original articles and reviews published in the big four journals - BMJ, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.
The bulletin can be downloaded in PDF format by opening the attachments at the bottom of this page.
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Readers may also be interested in the Journal Junkie website, where they can download or podcast audio content from JAMA, The Lancet, NEJM and more. Those who prefer their journal reviews light hearted and/or interspersed with poetry and plant rearing tips are sure to find something of use at Dr. Richard Lehman's Journal Watch site. Note that the coverage at each of these sites varies slightly from that of the Big Four Bulletin.
Big Four Bulletin Number 281
BMJ (12th May 2012)
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Risk of cardiovascular serious adverse events associated with varenicline use for tobacco cessation: systematic review and meta-analysis
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Effects of multidisciplinary team working on breast cancer survival: retrospective, comparative, interventional cohort study of 13 722 women
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Derivation and validation of a risk adjustment model for predicting seven day mortality in emergency medical admissions: mixed prospective and retrospective cohort study
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Health, employment, and economic change, 1973-2009: repeated cross sectional study
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The modern management of incisional hernias
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (16th May 2012)
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Effect of a Multifaceted Intervention on Use of Evidence-Based Therapies in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes in Brazil -: Title and subTitle BreakThe BRIDGE-ACS Randomized TrialEvidence-Based Therapies in Acute Coronary Syndromes
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Effects of Prenatal Micronutrient and Early Food Supplementation on Maternal Hemoglobin, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality Among Children in Bangladesh -: Title and subTitle BreakThe MINIMat Randomized TrialPrenatal Micronutrient and Early Food Supplementation
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HIV Development Assistance and Adult Mortality in AfricaHIV Aid and Adult Mortality in Africa
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The Lancet (12th May 2012)
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Reduced-intensity chemotherapy and PET-guided radiotherapy in patients with advanced stage Hodgkin's lymphoma (HD15 trial): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 non-inferiority trial
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Cervical pessary in pregnant women with a short cervix (PECEP): an open-label randomised controlled trial
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Cancer mortality in India: a nationally representative survey
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Complications of first-trimester abortion by vacuum aspiration after cervical preparation with and without misoprostol: a multicentre randomised trial
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The New England Journal of Medicine (10th May 2012)
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Continuous Lenalidomide Treatment for Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma
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Lenalidomide after Stem-Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma
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Lenalidomide Maintenance after Stem-Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma
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Outcomes of PCI at Hospitals with or without On-Site Cardiac Surgery
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Reproductive Technologies and the Risk of Birth Defects
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