CMAJ November 20, 2007; 177 (11). doi:10.1503/cmaj.070652.
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The effect of publication on Internet-based solicitation of personal-injury litigants
David N. Juurlink, MD PhD,
Laura Y. Park-Wyllie, PharmD MSc and
Moira K. Kapral, MD MSc
From the Department of Medicine and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Juurlink); the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital (Park-Wyllie); the Department of Medicine and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University Health Network (Kapral); and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Juurlink, Park-Wyllie, Kapral), Toronto, Ont.

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Figure 1: Average number of medicolegal Internet hits before and after publication of an article4 in the New England Journal of Medicine about the adverse events associated with gatifloxacin.
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