Highlights of this issue

   Highlights of this issue

CMAJ 2008 178: 1517. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

CMAJ 2008 178: 1517. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Editorial

   Canada's pathology

Kathy Chorneyko, MD and Jagdish Butany, MBBS MS
CMAJ 2008 178: 1523-1524. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Éditorial

   La pathologie au Canada

Kathy Chorneyko, MD and Jagdish Butany, MBBS MS
CMAJ 2008 178: 1525-1526. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News

   Finding a balance in the treatment and prevention of obstetric fistula

Wendy Glauser
CMAJ 2008 178: 1527-1529. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Medical whistle-blower protection lacking

Miriam Shuchman, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1529. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Bringing health care to a contested corner of India

Barbara Sibbald
CMAJ 2008 178: 1530-1532. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Online Appendix]  

   Dispatch from the medical front: Risks unavoidable and worth taking

Aaron Saguil, MD and Ed Farnel, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1533. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   For the record

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1534. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Whatever happened to Jordan's principle?

Dan Lett
CMAJ 2008 178: 1534-1535. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Ontario and Manitoba to reimburse expenses for living organ donors

Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 178: 1535. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Infection prevention measures may limit liability

Louise Gagnon
CMAJ 2008 178: 1536. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Also in the news

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1536. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Practice

   Public health: The burden and management of crystal meth use

Jane A. Buxton, MBBS MHSc and Naomi A. Dove, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1537-1539. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Innovations in care: Diagnosis of scabies with dermoscopy

Sven Neynaber, MD and Hans Wolff, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1540-1541. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   What is your call?: Tender nodules on the palms and soles after chemotherapy

Hsi-Hsun Lin, MD and Jiun-Nong Lin, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1543-1544. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Research

   Postdischarge thromboprophylaxis and mortality risk after hip-or knee-replacement surgery

Elham Rahme, PhD, Kaberi Dasgupta, MD MSc, Mark Burman, MD, Hongjun Yin, PhD, Sasha Bernatsky, MD PhD, Greg Berry, MD, Hacene Nedjar, MSc, and Susan R. Kahn, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 178: 1545-1554. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

   Impact of patient communication problems on the risk of preventable adverse events in acute care settings

Gillian Bartlett, PhD, Régis Blais, PhD, Robyn Tamblyn, PhD, Richard J. Clermont, MD, and Brenda MacGibbon, PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1555-1562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

   Incidence, severity and preventability of medication-related visits to the emergency department: a prospective study

Peter J. Zed, PharmD, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD MHSc, Robert M. Balen, PharmD, Peter S. Loewen, PharmD, Corinne M. Hohl, MD, Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD MSc, Kerry Wilbur, PharmD, Matthew O. Wiens, BSc(Pharm), Leslie J. Samoy, BSc(Pharm), Katie Lacaria, BSc(Pharm), and Roy A. Purssell, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1563-1569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Commentary

   Research: Outpatient thromboprophylaxis after hip or knee surgery: discrepancies and concerns

William D. Fisher, MD and Alexander G.G. Turpie, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1571-1572. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Research: Health literacy and harm: Who is at risk? What is the fix?

Allan Frankel, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1573-1574. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

   Funding for continuing medical education

Douglas Sinclair, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1575. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Stefanie Falz, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1575. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Susan King, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1575-1576. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Bernard A. Marlow, MD, Isabelle Mongeau, BBA, Sol Stern, MD, and Suzanne Murray, BComm
CMAJ 2008 178: 1576. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Allan B. Becker, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1576. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Bernard A. Marlow, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1576-1577. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Michael Allen, MD, Shawn Bugden, BSc(Pharm), Anne Nguyen, PharmD, Debbie Bunka, BSc(Pharm), Loren Regier, BSc(Pharm), Tupper Bean, MHSc, and Margaret Jin, PharmD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1577. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Craig Campbell, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1577-1578. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Lynda Cranston
CMAJ 2008 178: 1578. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Funding for continuing medical education

Paul C. Hébert, MD MHSc
CMAJ 2008 178: 1578. [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Left Atrium

   Book review: Looking for Mr. Gray

Alan King, BA
CMAJ 2008 178: 1579-1580. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Room for a view: ABCs of medicine

Paul Rousseau, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1580-1581. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Poem: Infection: 1882

Geoffrey Ursell, MA PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1581. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Book review: The nature of the profession

Dorian Deshauer, MD MSc
CMAJ 2008 178: 1582. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Notes: Snapshot

Paul McIntyre, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1582. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deaths

   Deaths

CMAJ 2008 178: 1623. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Salon

   The queering of medicine

Derek Puddester, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1624. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

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