Editorial

Editorial: Blood biomarker measurement as disease target: the case for generic treatment of high natriuretic peptide levels without a diagnosis of heart failure
AL Clark

Editorial: Aberrant clinical coding: an underappreciated entity for NHS Trusts, clinicians and coders
AR Medford

Clinical

• Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in acute medical wards
  SA Hassan, RA Rahman, N Huda, WM Wan Bebakar, YY Lee
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• Improving the use of sputum cultures in lower respiratory tract infection
  OL Moncayo-Nieto, P Reid, IF Laurenson, AJ Simpson
  

The differential diagnosis of suspected stroke: a systematic review
LM Gibson, W Whiteley

• Supplemental information
  
• Table

Case of the quarter:
An unusual but reversible cause of ventricular fibrillation
I Merinopoulos, V Vassiliou, JN Porter, S Acton, DR Braganza

Reversible acute kidney injury requiring haemodialysis five days after starting dronedarone in a stable 71-year-old man at risk of cardiovascular polypharmacy
C Young, M Maruthappu, RP Wayne, L Leaver

IgG4-related disease: a novel, important but easily missed condition
JS Lees, N Church, B Langdale-Brown, C Bellamy, P Gibson, S Watson

Clinical opinion:
Familial risk of early and late onset cancer
S Hodgson

Autonomy, patients’ preferences, and leaving decisions to doctors
KM Boyd

Education

• Current controversies:
  Is there still a role for mediastinoscopy as the first mediastinal staging procedure in lung cancer?
  D Waller, KM Skwarski

• CME:
  Cystic fibrosis
  AE Leitch, HC Rodgers

• Cardiology symposium review:
  Novel oral anticoagulants for the prevention of thromboembolism in patients with atrial fibrillation
  NN Lang, DT Connelly

  Cardiology symposium report:
  Cardiology Symposium
  NN Lang

History

• Computer-based diagnosis of illness in historical persons
  TJ Peters, P Garrard

• The extraordinary undergraduate career of Oliver St John Gogarty: has the modern medical student anything to learn from him?
  S O’Mahony

  The role of scurvy in Scott’s return from the South Pole
  AR Butler

• Ex libris: Robert Whytt on the control of movement
  Robert Whytt on the control of movement: inside front cover
  IML Donaldson

• Exhibition: Aviation medicine
  E Dukan, I Milne

• Notable fellow: Dr RF Robertson (1920–1991)
  I MacLaren

Other

• Letters to the Editor

• Editorial commentary

Online only

• Respiratory Medicine Symposium
  A Jones

• Struggling Trainees symposium report
  R Lee

• Diabetes Symposium 2011
  JT George