Highlights

   Highlights

CMAJ 2008 179: 973. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

CMAJ 2008 179: 975. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Editorial

   Revalidation of physicians in Canada: Are we passing the test?

Wendy Levinson, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 979-980. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Éditorial

   La revalidation des médecins au Canada : Passons-nous le test?

Wendy Levinson, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 981-982. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Commentary

   Children are waiting for care and answers

Geoffrey K. Blair, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 983-984. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Addressing inequities in access to quality health care for indigenous people

David Peiris, MBBS MIPH, Alex Brown, BMed MPH, and Alan Cass, MBBS PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 985-986. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Strengthening primary care with better transfer of information

Robert J. Reid, MD PhD and Edward H. Wagner, MD MPH
CMAJ 2008 179: 987-988. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News

   Public–private partnerships, part 2: calculations of risk

Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2008 179: 991-994. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   CMA Secretary General resigns

Laura Eggertson
CMAJ 2008 179: 994. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Goudge: "systemic failings" in Ontario coroner's office

Laura Eggertson
CMAJ 2008 179: 995. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Morals, medicine and geography

Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 179: 996-997. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   For the record

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 179: 998. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Briefly

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 179: 998. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   DDT stalemate stymies malaria control initiative

Katie Lewis
CMAJ 2008 179: 999-1000. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Dispatch from the medical front: Hard work, harder numbers

Lindsay Tabah
CMAJ 2008 179: 1000. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Research

   Risk of incarceration of inguinal hernia among infants and young children awaiting elective surgery

Mohammed Zamakhshary, MD MEd, Teresa To, MSc PhD, Jun Guan, MSc, and Jacob C. Langer, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1001-1005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

   Access to health care among status Aboriginal people with chronic kidney disease

Song Gao, MSc, Braden J. Manns, MD MSc, Bruce F. Culleton, MD, Marcello Tonelli, MD SM, Hude Quan, PhD, Lynden Crowshoe, MD, William A. Ghali, MD MPH, Lawrence W. Svenson, BSc, Sofia Ahmed, MD MMSc, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, PhD MD for the Alberta Kidney Disease Network
CMAJ 2008 179: 1007-1012. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

   Information exchange among physicians caring for the same patient in the community

Carl van Walraven, MD MSc, Monica Taljaard, PhD, Chaim M. Bell, MD PhD, Edward Etchells, MD MSc, Kelly B. Zarnke, MD, Ian G. Stiell, MD MSc, and Alan J. Forster, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 179: 1013-1018. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Review

   Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 5. Nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy for mild to moderate dementia

David B. Hogan, MD, Peter Bailey, MD, Sandra Black, MD, Anne Carswell, MSc PhD, Howard Chertkow, MD, Barry Clarke, MD, Carole Cohen, BA MD, John D. Fisk, PhD, Dorothy Forbes, RN PhD, Malcolm Man-Son-Hing, MSc MD, Krista Lanctôt, PhD, Debra Morgan, RN PhD, and Lilian Thorpe, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1019-1026. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Analysis

   Wrongful birth litigation and prenatal screening

Mark Pioro, MA, Roxanne Mykitiuk, LLB LLM, and Jeff Nisker, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1027-1030. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Practice

   What is your call?: Postpartum thunderclap headache

Pranshu Sharma, MD, Alexandre Y. Poppe, MD, Muneer Eesa, MD, Nikolai Steffenhagen, MD, and Mayank Goyal, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1033-1035. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Letters

   Protecting children from lead in tap water

Heide B. Schneider, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1036. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Hospital standardized mortality ratios

Greg Webster, MSc and Eugene Wen MD DrPH
CMAJ 2008 179: 1036-1037. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Hospital standardized mortality ratios

Kaveh G. Shojania, MD and Alan J. Forster, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 179: 1037. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Smoking cessation trials

John R. Polito, JD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1037-1038. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Smoking cessation trials

Kristian B. Filion, MSc, Patrick Bélisle, MSc, Lawrence Joseph, PhD, Gilles Paradis, MD MSc, Stéphane Rinfret, MD MSc, and Mark J. Eisenberg, MD MPH
CMAJ 2008 179: 1038. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction

   Correction

CMAJ 2008 179: 1038. [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Left Atrium

   Lifeworks: The Future Triumph of Medical Science Over Cancer: a mural for oncology

Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1039-1040. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Book review: Age is only another number

Lara Hazelton, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1040-1041. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Book review: Evolution at the St. John Ambulance

Pat Sullivan, BA
CMAJ 2008 179: 1041. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Humour: The pediatric doctor mom blues

Debbi Andrews, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1042. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Clinical images

   Pneumopericardium

Fadi Braiteh, MD and Imrana Malik, MD
CMAJ 2008 179: 1087. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Salon

   Take Down syndrome out of the abortion debate

Renate Lindeman
CMAJ 2008 179: 1088. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

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