Canadian Medical Association Journal

Highlights of this issue

Highlights of this issue

CMAJ 2001 165: 393 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Harm reduction: closing the distance:

CMAJ 2001 165: 389 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Commentary • Commentaire

Safe injection facilities in Canada: Is it time?

Thomas Kerr and Anita Palepu
CMAJ 2001 165: 436-437 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Informed and shared decision-making: the crux of patient-centred care

W. Wayne Weston
CMAJ 2001 165: 438-439 [Full Text] [PDF]  

No mere theory: Olli Miettinen's "The modern scientific physician"

John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill
CMAJ 2001 165: 439-440 [Full Text] [PDF]  

The modern scientific physician: 1. Can practice be science?

Olli S. Miettinen
CMAJ 2001 165: 441-442 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Science misapplied: mandatory addiction screening and treatment for welfare recipients in Ontario

Philip B. Berger
CMAJ 2001 165: 443-444 [Full Text] [PDF]  

News • Nouvelles

McGill students combine poetry, prose in remembering "their cadavers"

Susan Pinker
CMAJ 2001 165: 461 [Full Text] [PDF]  

New triage system cuts prisoner visits to ERs, reduces threats against staff

CMAJ 2001 165: 461 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads getting bolder

Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2001 165: 462 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Drug advisory: famotidine (Pepcid)

CMAJ 2001 165: 462 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chile bans asbestos, others to follow?

Barbara Sibbald
CMAJ 2001 165: 463 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Quebec clears way for use of aerial pesticides to combat West Nile virus

Barbara Sibbald
CMAJ 2001 165: 463 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Asthma research claims life of test participant

Barbara Sibbald
CMAJ 2001 165: 464 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Putting patient safety on the health care agenda

Rob Robson
CMAJ 2001 165: 464 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Internet a prime venue for snake-oil sales of "health products"

Patrick Sullivan
CMAJ 2001 165: 465 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Universities becoming a breeding ground for businesses

Ann Silversides
CMAJ 2001 165: 466 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Accidental falls from heights

Erica Weir
CMAJ 2001 165: 468 [Full Text] [PDF]  

       Pulse

Almost 1 in 2 Canadians says health system needs major surgery

         Shelley Martin
         CMAJ 2001 165: 465 [Full Text] [PDF]  

       On the Net

Dissecting on the Internet

         Michael OReilly
         CMAJ 2001 165: 466 [Full Text] [PDF]  

       Clinical Update • Apercu clinique

Economy-class syndrome?

         Benjamin H. Chen
         CMAJ 2001 165: 467 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research • Recherche

Unsafe injection practices in a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver: Could safer injecting rooms help?

Evan Wood, Mark W. Tyndall, Patricia M. Spittal, Kathy Li, Thomas Kerr, Robert S. Hogg, Julio S.G. Montaner, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy, and Martin T. Schechter
CMAJ 2001 165: 405-410 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hospital utilization and costs in a cohort of injection drug users

Anita Palepu, Mark W. Tyndall, Hector Leon, Jennifer Muller, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy, Martin T. Schechter, and Aslam H. Anis
CMAJ 2001 165: 415-420 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A snapshot of waiting times for cancer surgery provided by surgeons affiliated with regional cancer centres in Ontario

Marko Simunovic, Anna Gagliardi, David McCready, Angela Coates, Mark Levine, and Denny DePetrillo
CMAJ 2001 165: 421-425 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Impact of waiting time on the quality of life of patients awaiting coronary artery bypass grafting

John Sampalis, Stella Boukas, Moishe Liberman, Tracey Reid, and Gilles Dupuis
CMAJ 2001 165: 429-433 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

       Research Letter • Exposé de recherche

Challenges in family practice related to informed and shared decision-making: a survey of preceptors of medical students

         William Godolphin, Angela Towle, and Rachael McKendry
         CMAJ 2001 165: 434-435 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review • Synthèse

Transmission and postexposure management of bloodborne virus infections in the health care setting: Where are we now?

Brent W. Moloughney
CMAJ 2001 165: 445-451 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters • Correspondance

Total hip replacement: need far exceeds supply

Duncan Hunter and David Robertson
CMAJ 2001 165: 395 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cisapride and the Vanessa Young inquest

Wendy Arnott
CMAJ 2001 165: 395 [Full Text] [PDF]  

The accidental cell phone user

Emile-J. Therien
CMAJ 2001 165: 397 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corticosteroids and avascular necrosis of the femoral head

Allan Knight
CMAJ 2001 165: 397 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corticosteroids and avascular necrosis of the femoral head

Michael D. McKee, James P. Waddell, Patricia A. Kudo, Emil H. Schemitsch, and Robin R. Richards
CMAJ 2001 165: 397-399 [Full Text]  

The ethics of anonymous chart reviews

Janusz Kaczorowski and John Sellors
CMAJ 2001 165: 399 [Full Text] [PDF]  

The ethics of anonymous chart reviews

Jacques Lemelin, William Hogg, Bruce Baskerville, and Raphael Saginur
CMAJ 2001 165: 399-401 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

CMAJ 2001 165: 401 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

CMAJ 2001 165: 401 [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Left Atrium • Côté Coeur

Almost as good as it gets

Adrian M. Viens
CMAJ 2001 165: 454-455 [Full Text] [PDF]  

The loss of a friend

Andrew Healey
CMAJ 2001 165: 455-456 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immortal jade

Sherri Telenko
CMAJ 2001 165: 456-457 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Specialists

Samir Gupta
CMAJ 2001 165: 457 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deaths • Nécrologie

Deaths

CMAJ 2001 165: 511 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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