Canadian Medical Association Journal: 186 (2)

February 04, 2014; Volume 186,Issue 2

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CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 87;

Editorial

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Canada owes refugees adequate health coverage
Matthew B. Stanbrook

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 91; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131861

Commentary

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Placing Aboriginal kidney disease in context
Stephen P. McDonald

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 93-94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131605
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Improving the process of deceased organ and tissue donation: a role for donation physicians as specialists
Sam D. Shemie and Shavaun MacDonald

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 95-96; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130050

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Calls intensify for national dementia plan
Kierra Jones

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 97; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4690
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Only five doctors in Canada can assess mental status for US Customs and Border Protection
Laura Eggertson

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 98; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4685
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Analytics-driven health care growing in Ontario
Paul Christopher Webster

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 99; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4693
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Gym exclusively for overweight people comes to Canada
Catherine Cross

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 101; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4682
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Health course helps Inuit interpreters tackle tough jobs
Laura Eggertson

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4677
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Canadians balk at longer brand-name drug patents
Lauren Vogel

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E69; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4679
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Feds stick with decision not to fund refugee health care
Wendy Glauser

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E70; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4689
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Privacy commissioner wants new criteria for entering health information in police database
Laura Eggertson

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E71-E72; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4681
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Obamacare accelerating into prime time
Cal Woodward

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E73-E74; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4680
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First prosecution under Assisted Human Reproduction Act ends in conviction
Alison Motluk

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E75-E76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4687
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Amended decision by gynecology board good for male patients and cancer research
Wendy Glauser

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E77-E78; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4683
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10 health stories that mattered: Dec. 9–13
Lauren Vogel and Roger Collier

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4684
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EMR alert cuts sepsis deaths
Lauren Vogel

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4686
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New Brunswick prescription drug plan hopes to avoid pitfalls of other provinces
Brian Owens

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E81-E82; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4688
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Made-in-Canada accreditation coming for medical schools
Barbara Sibbald

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E83; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4692
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Sweden leads EU in developing new antibiotics
Paul Christopher Webster

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E84; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4694
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10 health stories that mattered: Dec. 16–20
CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E85; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4691

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Differential mortality and the excess burden of end-stage renal disease among First Nations people with diabetes mellitus: a competing-risks analysis
Ying Jiang, Nathaniel Osgood, Hyun-Ja Lim, Mary Rose Stang and Roland Dyck

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 103-109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130721
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Association between First Nations ethnicity and progression to kidney failure by presence and severity of albuminuria
Susan M. Samuel, Luz Palacios-Derflingher, Marcello Tonelli, Braden Manns, Lynden Crowshoe, Sofia B. Ahmed, Min Jun, Nathalie Saad and Brenda R. Hemmelgarn; for the Alberta Kidney Disease Network

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E86-E94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130776
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Association between frailty and short- and long-term outcomes among critically ill patients: a multicentre prospective cohort study
Sean M. Bagshaw, H. Thomas Stelfox, Robert C. McDermid, Darryl B. Rolfson, Ross T. Tsuyuki, Nadia Baig, Barbara Artiuch, Quazi Ibrahim, Daniel E. Stollery, Ella Rokosh and Sumit R. Majumdar

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E95-E102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130639

Guidelines

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Canadian Society of Nephrology 2014 clinical practice guideline for timing the initiation of chronic dialysis
Gihad E. Nesrallah, Reem A. Mustafa, William F. Clark, Adam Bass, Lianne Barnieh, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Scott Klarenbach, Robert R. Quinn, Swapnil Hiremath, Pietro Ravani, Manish M. Sood and Louise M. Moist

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 112-117; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130363

Review

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Medical interventions to reduce motor vehicle collisions
Donald A. Redelmeier and Homer C. Tien

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 118-124; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.122001

Practice

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Decisions: Hypertension in a woman planning pregnancy
Michael P. Carson and Kenneth K. Chen

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 129-130; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130433
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Cases: Tick-borne relapsing fever in pregnancy
Haseena Hussein, Adrienne Showler and Darrell H.S. Tan

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 131-134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.122053
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Five things to know about...: Intrapartum care of the HIV-positive woman
Kelsey E. Mills and Mark H. Yudin

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 135; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131062
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Clinical Images: Persistent dry cough: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
Stephanie Tatzel and Alp Sener

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 136; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130355

Letters

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Peripartum outcomes: non-adjuvanted v. adjuvanted H1N1 vaccination
Joel G. Ray, Allison J. McGeer, Jennifer M. Blake, Gerald Lebovic, Graeme N. Smith and Mark H. Yudin

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 137; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0006
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Regulating e-cigarettes as drugs is not the best solution
Melodie L. Tilson

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 137-138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0007
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Expanding scope of pharmacists
Sergio T. Fanella and Ashley Walus

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0008
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Patient advocacy
John C. Clifford

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0009

Humanities

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Essay: The illness experience
Mark Langer

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131304
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Poetry: After the flood
Christine Gibson

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131246
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Books: Patient safety and “medical error”
Ward Flemons

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 141; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130962

Salon

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The hidden curriculum
Margaret Cocks

CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 152; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131455

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