Canadian Medical Association Journal: 167 (2)

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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