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Table of Contents

November 06, 2012; Volume 184,Issue 16

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1759;

Editorial

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    Protecting our most vulnerable elders from abuse
    Barbara Sibbald and Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1763; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.121472

Commentary

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    Real-time access to prescription drug monitoring databases
    Barth Wilsey and Hannah Prasad
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1767-1768; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.121495

News

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    Medically necessary: Who should decide?
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1770-1771; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4307
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    Medically necessary: How to decide?
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1771-1772; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4316
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    Needling toward essential health benefits
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1773; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4300
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    Briefly
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E824-E826; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4311
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    Helsinki doctrine under review
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E827-E828; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4295
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    Europe proposes laxer regulation of clinical trials
    Tiago Villanueva Gutierrez Arruda Marques
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E829-E830; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4302
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    African traditional medicine struggles to find its place within health care
    Bernard Appiah
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E831-E832; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4277
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    Playing in the big leagues
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E833-E834; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4309
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    Organ donation’s “silver bullet”?
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E835-E836; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4308
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    British docs urge elective ventilation
    Michael Monette
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E837-E838; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4259
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    The ever-muddled Canadian waters and elective ventilation
    Michael Monette
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E839-E840; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4260
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    The ethics of elective ventilation
    Michael Monette
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E841-E842; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4261
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    Broke and broken in America? No way, experts say
    Michael Monette
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E843-E844; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4297
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    The MD express lane
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E845-E846; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4301
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    For the record
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E847-E851; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4312

Research

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    Pregnancy complications among women born preterm
    Ariane Boivin, Zhong-Cheng Luo, François Audibert, Benoit Mâsse, Francine Lefebvre, Réjean Tessier and Anne Monique Nuyt
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1777-1784; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120143
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    Effect of a centralized prescription network on inappropriate prescriptions for opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines
    Colin R. Dormuth, Tarita A. Miller, Anjie Huang, Muhammad M. Mamdani and David N. Juurlink
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E852-E856; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120465
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    Alcohol consumption and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation among people with cardiovascular disease
    Yan Liang, Andrew Mente, Salim Yusuf, Peggy Gao, Peter Sleight, Jun Zhu, Robert Fagard, Eva Lonn and Koon K. Teo; for the ONTARGET and TRANSCEND Investigators
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E857-E866; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120412
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    Accuracy of the Canadian C-spine rule and NEXUS to screen for clinically important cervical spine injury in patients following blunt trauma: a systematic review
    Zoe A. Michaleff, Chris G. Maher, Arianne P. Verhagen, Trudy Rebbeck and Chung-Wei Christine Lin
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E867-E876; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120675

Review

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    Diagnosing borderline personality disorder
    Robert S. Biskin and Joel Paris
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1789-1794; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090618

Practice

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    Primer: Applying the 2011 Canadian guidelines for breast cancer screening in practice
    Ellen Warner, Ruth Heisey and June C. Carroll
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1803-1807; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120392
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    Cases: Ileocecal ulceration and granulomatous ileitis as an unusual presentation of typhoid fever
    Christopher Cheung, Hayley Merkeley, Jocelyn A. Srigley, Baljinder Salh, Douglas Webber and Stephane Voyer
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1808-1810; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120714
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    Measles: Measles
    Shalini Desai, Amanda Shane and Rosamund Lewis
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1811; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111574
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    Clinical Images: Pituitary apoplexy masquerading as bacterial meningitis
    Angela N. Paisley and Akheel A. Syed
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1812; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120174
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    Five things to know about...: Breast screening with magnetic resonance imaging
    Anabel Scaranelo
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E877; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110008
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    Clinical Images: Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis with progressive massive fibrosis
    Justin Cheng-Ta Yang and Kao-Lang Liu
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E878; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111586

Letters

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    When and how to die
    J. Donald Boudreau
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1814; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2075
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    When and how to die
    Kenneth R. Stevens
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1814; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2076
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    When and how to die
    Doris Barwich
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1814-1815; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2077
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    When and how to die
    François Primeau
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1815; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2078
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    Are doctors all-powerful?
    Tony Carr
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1815; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.118-2079

Correction

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    Recommendations on screening for type 2 diabetes in adults
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1815; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2080

Humanities

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    Essay: Finding stillness within the shaken brain
    Daphne L. Anderson
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1816-1817; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120074
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    Poetry: A lesson at the bedside
    Emily Swinkin
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1818; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120816
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    Books: “I am a doctor, and I write poems.”
    Vincent Hanlon
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1818; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120299
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    Arts: Comic relief
    Desmond Cole
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E879-E880; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.121413
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    Poetry: Vanishing point
    Wynne Morrison
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) E881; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120583

Salon

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    A solution to inappropriate self-citation via peer review
    Brett D. Thombs and Ilya Razykov
    CMAJ November 06, 2012 184 (16) 1864; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120597
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