Scottish Medical Journal

Original Articles

April 2001

Police Officers' knowledge of, and attitudes towards,mental illness in southwest Scotland.
S.J. Carey

Sudden unexpected infant deaths in Dundee, 1882-1891: Overlying or SIDS?
F.L.R. Williams, G.S. Long, D.T. Mage

Separating elective and emergency surgical care (The emergency team).
P.D.R. Addison, A. Getgood, S. Paterson-Brown

June 2001

Myocardial infarction in men and women under 65 years of age: No evidence of gender bias.
A. Bannerman, K. Hamilton, C. Isles, H. Barrington, B. Donaldson, L. Lockhart, K. McMeeken, J. Mark, J. Norrie

Reputation and the legibility of doctors' handwriting in situ.
G.A. Cheeseman, N. Boon

Playing the waiting game . . . The asymptomatic patient with recurrent ovarian cancer detected only by rising Ca125 levels.
L.W. Fleming

August 2001

Rollerblading Injuries In Children Attending An Accident & Emergency Department:
Should The Use Of Wrist Splints Be Compulsory?

S. H. Boyce, M. A. Quigley

Consultants Workload Due To Alcohol Related Conditions In Acute Medical Receiving Gastroenterology And Endocrinology
S. R. Butler, W. S. Hislop, B. M. Fisher, J. R. McPeake

The Utilisation Of A Day?Surgery Unit For Direct-Current (DC) Cardioversion Of Atrial Fibrillation
J. Moncrieff, F. G. Dunn, K. J. Hogg

The Scottish Heart And Arterial Risk Prevention (Sharp) Survey Of Cardiovascular Risk: Regional Differences
S. R. McEwan, F. Daly, C. D. Forbes, J. J. F. Belch

Discrepancies In The Detection And Management Of Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Eight Years After Publication Of Guidelines
R. S. Jutley, R. Mason, J. S. Cockburn

October 2001

Frequency of continuing mucosal inflammation in clinically inactive Crohn's disease.
I.D.R. Arnott, H.E. Drummond, S. Ghosh

Opinions of patients and the public regarding NHS priorities.
A.D.L. Baker, A Bassran, S. Paterson-Brown

The role of dihydrocodeine in causing death among drug users in the west of Scotland.
A. Seymour, M. Black, J. Jay, J.S. Oliver

December 2001

Preferences for different high-energy foods In elderly medical in-patients
J.R. Harper, S. McAlpine, M.M. Hetherington, C. Bolton-Smith, M.E.T. McMurdo

Experience of a small british pacing centre between 1994 and 2000: some answers to the problem of low uk implantation rates.
R. D'Souza, F. Dawson, F. Kerr

Diving accidents in sports divers in orkney waters
A.J. Trevett, R. Forbes, C.K. Rae, C. Sheehan, J. Ross, S.J. Watt, R. Stephenson

Relationship of volume of lesion to length of hospital stay and outcome at one year in stroke patients
J.M. Maddox, R.S. MacWalter, A.D. McMahon