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Research Article

• Health service "input" and mortality "output" in developed countries. 1968 [historical article] (1 August, 1997)

  A L Cochrane, A S St Leger, F Moore
• Seasonal variation in the prevalence of Down syndrome at birth: a review. (1 August, 1997)

  A M Stolwijk, P H Jongbloet, G A Zielhuis, F J Gabreëls
• Putting trials on trial--the costs and consequences of small trials in depression: a systematic review of methodology. (1 August, 1997)

  M Hotopf, G Lewis, C Normand
• How should interventions to reduce inequalities in health be evaluated? (1 August, 1997)

  J P Mackenbach, L J Gunning-Schepers
• Validation in London of a physical activity questionnaire for use in a study of postmenopausal osteopaenia. (1 August, 1997)

  S Suleiman, M Nelson
• Why do women doctors in the UK take hormone replacement therapy? (1 August, 1997)

  A J Isaacs, A R Britton, K McPherson
• Enthusiasm or uncertainty: small area variations in the use of mammography services in Ontario, Canada. (1 August, 1997)

  V Goel, K Iron, J I Williams
• The changing relationship between prescribing and unemployment at family health service authority level in England, 1983-92. (1 August, 1997)

  D C Lloyd, G Scrivener
• A confidential enquiry into emergency hospital admissions on the Isle of Wight, UK. (1 August, 1997)

  M Denman-Johnson, P Bingham, S George
• Iodine, milk, and the elimination of endemic goitre in Britain: the story of an accidental public health triumph. (1 August, 1997)

  D I Phillips
• Central obesity, insulin resistance, syndrome X, lipoprotein(a), and cardiovascular risk in Indians, Malays, and Chinese in Singapore. (1 August, 1997)

  K Hughes, T C Aw, P Kuperan, M Choo
• Lipid profile and socioeconomic status in healthy middle aged women in Sweden. (1 August, 1997)

  S P Wamala, A Wolk, K Schenck-Gustafsson, K Orth-Gomér
• Asthma mortality in Australia 1920-94: age, period, and cohort effects. (1 August, 1997)

  R Taylor, E Comino, A Bauman
• Time trend and age-period-cohort effects on gastric cancer incidence in Zaragoza and Navarre, Spain. (1 August, 1997)

  N Aragonés, M Pollán, G López-Abente, M Ruiz, A Vergara, C Moreno, P Moreo, E Ardanaz
• Cancer survival in Estonian migrants to Sweden. (1 August, 1997)

  B Nilsson, E Gustavson-Kadaka, T Hakulinen, T Aareleid, M Rahu, T Dyba, S Rotstein
• Secular trends in proximal femoral fracture, Oxford record linkage study area and England 1968-86. (1 August, 1997)

  J G Evans, V Seagroatt, M J Goldacre
• Suicide in the 12 months after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care, Scotland 1968-92. (1 August, 1997)

  J R Geddes, E Juszczak, F O'Brien, S Kendrick
• Fatal methadone and heroin overdoses: time trends in England and Wales. (1 August, 1997)

  J Neeleman, M Farrell
• Audit of ascertainment of deaths to children born in Cumbria, UK, 1950-89 through the NHS central register. (1 August, 1997)

  H O Dickinson, L Parker, D Harris, B Botting, A Lawson
• Poliomyelitis trends in Pondicherry, south India, 1989-91. (1 August, 1997)

  D K Srinivasa, A Sahai, S B Rotti, M B Soudarssanane, M Danabalan, R N Sahoo, K A Narayan, G Ramalingam, S Srinivasan, S Mahadevan, B V Bhat, P Nalini
• Risk factors for seromucinous benign ovarian cysts in northern Italy. (1 August, 1997)

  F Parazzini, S Moroni, E Negri, C La Vecchia, R Mezzopane, P G Crosignani
• Results of a pilot study of endoscopic screening of first degree relatives of colorectal cancer patients in Italy. (1 August, 1997)

  L Colombo, G Corti, F Magrì, A Marocchi, P Brambilla, C Crespi, L Manieri, S Ghezzi, D Giannone, L Merlino, P Mocarelli
• Does GP fundholding affect the use of tertiary services in the UK? (1 August, 1997)

  N Black, S Langham
• Coffee consumption and coronary heart disease mortality in Scottish men: a 21 year follow up study. (1 August, 1997)

  C Hart, G D Smith
• Cost effectiveness of a prize draw on response to a postal questionnaire: results of a randomised trial among orthopaedic outpatients in Edinburgh. (1 August, 1997)

  A P Brown, H E Lawrie, A D Kennedy, J A Webb, D J Torgerson, A M Grant
• Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer. (1 August, 1997)

  M Blettner, J Chang-Claude, T Scheuchenpflug