{"id":217,"date":"2007-05-07T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T14:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/05\/07\/lancet-5-may-2007-vol-369\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T14:14:19","slug":"lancet-5-may-2007-vol-369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/05\/07\/lancet-5-may-2007-vol-369\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancet  5 May 2007  Vol 369"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trials of education and screening in primary care tend to be labour-intensive and end up with large drop-out rates and low yields. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673607607077\/abstract\">educational outreach and screening programme for tuberculosis<\/a> in Hackney was certainly labour-intensive, and in terms of case-finding, had a low yield:<!--more--> but by increasing the uptake of BCG vaccination sevenfold (!) it certainly achieved something. David Mant and Dick Mayon-White try to draw out the generalisable lessons on p.1493.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673607607089\/abstract\">Talc <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673607607089\/abstract\">poudrage<\/a> <\/em>conjures up visions of mincing French courtiers surrounding Benjamin Franklin with wonder and admiration after he appeared at Court wearing his own hair\u2013 so free! such a child of nature! Nowadays talc is not applied so much to aristocratic wigs and faces as to babies\u2019 bottoms, and to the pleural cavities of people with pleural effusions. Large-particle talc for pleurodesis in malignant pleural effusion can be remarkably effective and is safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673607607107\/abstract\">Developmental dysplasia of the hip<\/a> is a confusing subject, because we lack a clear knowledge of its natural history. What we do know about how to classify it, screen for it and treat it is explained at some length in this thorough review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trials of education and screening in primary care tend to be labour-intensive and end up with large drop-out rates and low yields. This educational outreach and screening programme for tuberculosis in Hackney was certainly labour-intensive, and in terms of case-finding, had a low yield: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/05\/07\/lancet-5-may-2007-vol-369\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}