Highlights of this issue

   Highlights of this issue

CMAJ 2008 178: 1393. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Dans ce numéro

   Dans ce numéro

CMAJ 2008 178: 1393. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Editorial

   Tasers in medicine: an irreverent call for proposals

Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1401-1402. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Éditorial

   Les tasers en médecine : une demande de propositions irrévérencieuse

Matthew B. Stanbrook, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1403-1404. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News

   Activity-based hospital funding: boon or boondoggle?

Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 178: 1407-1408. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   European complaint mechanisms vary widely

Ira Allen
CMAJ 2008 178: 1409-1411. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Foreign-trained doctors dominate pilot project

Benjamin Magnus
CMAJ 2008 178: 1411. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   For the record

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1412-1413. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Also in the news

Wayne Kondro
CMAJ 2008 178: 1413-1414. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Bird flu spreading in Asia

Sanjit Bagchi, MBBS
CMAJ 2008 178: 1415. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Annual residency scramble near completion

Roger Collier
CMAJ 2008 178: 1415-1416. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Dispatch from the medical front: More casualties in Vietnam

Karim Mukhida, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1416. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Practice

   Review: Toward a more effective approach to stroke: Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care

Patrice Lindsay, RN PhD, Mark Bayley, MD, Alison McDonald, BScPT, Ian D. Graham, PhD, Grace Warner, PhD, and Stephen Phillips, MBBS
CMAJ 2008 178: 1418-1425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

   What is your call?: Fever and skin redness in a 10-year-old boy

Sergio T. Fenella, MD and Fred Y. Aoki, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1427-1428. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Research

   Prevalence and incidence of hypertension from 1995 to 2005: a population-based study

Karen Tu, MD MSc, Zhongliang Chen, MD MSc, Lorraine L. Lipscombe, MD MSc for the Canadian Hypertension Education Program Outcomes Research Taskforce
CMAJ 2008 178: 1429-1435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

   Mortality among patients with hypertension from 1995 to 2005: a population-based study

Karen Tu, MD MSc, Zhongliang Chen, MD MSc, Lorraine L. Lipscombe, MD MSc for the Canadian Hypertension Education Program Outcomes Research Taskforce
CMAJ 2008 178: 1436-1440. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

   Results of the Ontario Survey on the Prevalence and Control of Hypertension

Frans H.H. Leenen, MD PhD, Jean Dumais, MSc, Natalie H. McInnis, MSc, Penelope Turton, BSc, Lori Stratychuk, MA, Kathleen Nemeth, MSc, Margaret Moy Lum-Kwong, MBA, and George Fodor, MD PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1441-1449. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé] [Online Appendices]  

Review

   Mechanisms and innovations: Cardiac stimulation with high voltage discharge from stun guns

Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar, MD, Stephane Massé, PEng MASc, Karthikeyan Umapathy, PhD, Paul Dorian, MD, Elias Sevaptsidis, and Menashe Waxman, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1451-1457. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only] [Résumé]  

Commentary

   Research: Hypertension management in Canada: good news, but important challenges remain

Sailesh Mohan, MD MPH and Norm R.C. Campbell, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1458-1460. [Full Text] [PDF] [Texte Intégral]  

   Medicine and society: The medical student elective in Africa: advice from the field

Ellen M. Einterz, MD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1461-1463. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Letters

   Rates of colorectal cancer screening

Ryan Zarychanski, MD and Dhali Dhaliwal, MD MB ChB
CMAJ 2008 178: 1465. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   The need for more children's mental health services

T.C.R. Wilkes, MB ChB and D. Cawthorpe, PhD
CMAJ 2008 178: 1465-1466. [Full Text] [PDF]  

   Error in the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, 2008 edition

Carol Repchinsky BSP
CMAJ 2008 178: 1466. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Correction

   Correction

CMAJ 2008 178: 1466. [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Left Atrium

   Lifeworks: The private and public nature of disease: art as a transformative medium

J. Lynn Fraser, BA(d) MES
CMAJ 2008 178: 1467-1469. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

   Book review: The cost of war

Patrick Sullivan, BA
CMAJ 2008 178: 1470. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

Deaths

   Deaths

CMAJ 2008 178: 1511. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Salon

   Picture this: a new way of seeing risk

Stephen Strauss, BA
CMAJ 2008 178: 1512. [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures Only]  

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