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Table of Contents

July 23, 2002; Volume 167,Issue 2

Highlights of this issue

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    Highlights of this issue
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 117;

Editorial

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    The errors of our ways
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 113;

Commentary

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    It's time to consider Medical Savings Accounts
    David Gratzer
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 151-152;
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    Medical Savings Accounts will not advance Canadian health care objectives
    Jeremiah Hurley
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 152-153;
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    Clinical practice guidelines for the care and treatment of breast cancer: Mastectomy or lumpectomy? The choice of operation for clinical stages I and II breast cancer (summary of the 2002 update)
    Hugh Scarth, Jacques Cantin, Mark Levine and The Steering Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 154-155;
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    Whose health? Who cares?
    Tim Wynne-Jones
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 156-157;

News

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    Move to close low-volume surgical sites gaining speed
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 177;
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    US health workers losing their health insurance
    Milan Korcok
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 177-177-a;
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    CMA proposes health charter, medicare “auditor general”
    Steven Wharry
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 178;
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    Last proposed charter helped launch medicare
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 178-178-a;
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    Some British MDs balk at providing care for asylum seekers
    Mary Helen Spooner
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 179;
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    Federal health research spending to hit $1 billion, but when?
    Alex Robinson
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 179-179-a;
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    Whiplash rates turning heads in BC
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 179-179-b;
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    STD clinic worried after accuracy of rapid HIV test challenged
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 180;
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    Kyoto ratification appears unstoppable despite holdouts
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 180-180-a;
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    Down's syndrome focus of new BC facility
    Anne Tempelman-Kluit
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 180-180-b;
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    Twenty-site study to assess adverse events in Canadian hospitals
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 181;
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    Weapons in any context bad for people's health, MDs told
    Susan Pinker
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 181-181-a;
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    Radiologists warned their turf being invaded in ER
    Patrick Sullivan
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 182;
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    What paperless office?
    Shelley Martin
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 182-182-a;

Research

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    Adverse events associated with pyrazinamide and levofloxacin in the treatment of latent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
    Tina Papastavros, Lisa R. Dolovich, Anne Holbrook, Lori Whitehead and Mark Loeb
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 131-136;
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    Trends in mortality and graft failure for renal transplant patients
    Douglas E. Schaubel, John R. Jeffery, Yang Mao, Robert Semenciw, Karen Yeates and Stanley S.A. Fenton
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 137-142;
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    Medical Savings Accounts: Will they reduce costs?
    Evelyn L. Forget, Raisa Deber and Leslie L. Roos
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 143-147;

Review

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    Medical Savings Accounts in publicly funded health care systems: enthusiasm versus evidence
    Samuel E.D. Shortt
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 159-162;
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    The US health care system: On a road to nowhere?
    Jonathan Oberlander
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 163-168;

Practice

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    Heat wave: first, protect the vulnerable
    Erica Weir
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 169;
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    Failure of rapid HIV tests
    Eric Wooltorton
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 170;
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    What does the public want in an annual check-up?
    John Hoey
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 171;
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    The Mercedes-Benz sign
    J. Donald Longley
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 172;

Letters

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    Problems with the Fast-Check HIV rapid test kits
    Michael L. Rekart, Mel Krajden, Darrel Cook, Gail McNabb, Tony Rees, Judy Isaac-Renton, Marianne Harris and Julio Montaner
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 119;
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    Variations in mortality rates among Canadian NICUs —and anonymous reporting
    Antoni Basinski
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 120;
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    Variations in mortality rates among Canadian NICUs —and anonymous reporting
    Shoo K. Lee, Koravangattu Sankaran, Li-Yin Chien, Robin Walker, Mary Seshia and Arne Ohlsson
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 120-121;
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    Variations in mortality rates among Canadian NICUs —and anonymous reporting
    Jonathan Lomas and Morris Barer
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 121-122;
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    Variations in mortality rates among Canadian NICUs —and anonymous reporting
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 122;
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    Mercury in seafood
    John Sehmer
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 122-124;
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    Cesarean trends
    Gabriel M. Leung, Tai-Hing Lam, Lai-Ming Ho and Thuan Q. Thach
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 124;
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    Cesarean trends
    Scott A. Farrell
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 124-126;
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    La reconstruction de l'Afghanistan
    Valéry Ridde
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 126;
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    Reference drug pricing
    Sebastian Schneeweiss, Stephen B. Soumerai and Malcolm Maclure
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 126-127;
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    Reference drug pricing
    Aslam H. Anis
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 127-128;
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    Revisiting 9/11
    Doug Alton
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 128;
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    Fracture healing using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound
    M. McGavan McAlinden
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 128-128-a;
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    Fracture healing using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound
    Jason W. Busse, Mohit Bhandari and Abhaya V. Kulkarni
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 128-128-b;
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    Correction
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 128-128-c;

The Left Atrium

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    On policy and cherries
    Irfan Dhalla
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 173-174;
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    Alone
    Basil Porter
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 174-175;
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    Escape artist
    Vivian Tors
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 175-176;

Deaths

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    Deaths
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 219;

Éditorial

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    Les erreurs de nos façons de faire
    CMAJ July 23, 2002 167 (2) 115;
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