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Table of Contents

March 20, 2012; Volume 184,Issue 5

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 503;

Editorial

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    What’s next for CMAJ?
    John Fletcher
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 507; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120275

Commentary

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    Telemonitoring for patients with heart failure
    Martin R. Cowie and Andres Acosta Lobos
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 509-510; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.101456
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    Toilet training children: when to start and how to train
    Darcie A. Kiddoo
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 511; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110830

News

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    Press that button again, please
    Erin Walkinshaw
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E242-E243; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4112
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    Taking the pulse of pulse oximetry in Africa
    Jocelyn Edwards
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E244-E245; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4121
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    Waiting for medicine’s black swans
    Sabrina Doyle
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E246-E247; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4135
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    Bridging the dementia gap
    Sabrina Doyle
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E248-E249; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4139
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    Provinces weighing HPV vaccination of boys
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E250-E251; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4140
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    The art of necessary compromise
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E252-E253; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4131
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    Briefly
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E254-E255; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4136
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    For the record
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E256-E259; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4137
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    Systemic health reform and physician wage freeze urged for Ontario
    Wayne Kondro
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 515-516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4130
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    Tentative steps toward transparency and accountability
    Sabrina Doyle
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 517; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4132
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    Prohibition against off-label drug promotion challenged
    Cal Woodward
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 518-519; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4128

Research

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    Diagnostic and prognostic utility of early measurement with high-sensitivity troponin T assay in patients presenting with chest pain
    Sally J. Aldous, Mark Richards, Louise Cullen, Richard Troughton and Martin Than
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E260-E268; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110773
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    Change in appropriate referrals to nephrologists after the introduction of automatic reporting of the estimated glomerular filtration rate
    Ayub Akbari, Jeremy Grimshaw, Dawn Stacey, William Hogg, Tim Ramsay, Marcella Cheng-Fitzpatrick, Peter Magner, Robert Bell and Jolanta Karpinski
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E269-E276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110678
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    Factors influencing patient choice of dialysis versus conservative care to treat end-stage kidney disease
    Rachael L. Morton, Paul Snelling, Angela C. Webster, John Rose, Rosemary Masterson, David W. Johnson and Kirsten Howard
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) E277-E283; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111355
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    Factors predicting coroners’ decisions to hold discretionary inquests
    Simon J. Walter, Lyndal Bugeja, Matthew J. Spittal and David M. Studdert
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 521-528; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110865

Review

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    Informed consent for clinical treatment
    Daniel E. Hall, Allan V. Prochazka and Aaron S. Fink
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 533-540; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112120

Analysis

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    Canada’s laws on pharmaceutical intellectual property: the case for fundamental reform
    Paul Grootendorst, Ron Bouchard and Aidan Hollis
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 543-549; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110493

Practice

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    Decisions: Does a patient with a thunderclap headache need a lumbar puncture?
    Ben Fine, Navneet Singh, Richard Aviv and R. Loch Macdonald
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 555-556; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110517
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    Cases: “Safety” technology: a hidden cause of diabetic ketoacidosis
    Catherine H.Y. Yu
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 557-558; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111624
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    Five things to know about...: Management of community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department
    Jerome A. Leis and Wayne L. Gold
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 559; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111143
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    Clinical Images: Community-acquired pneumonia
    Nicola Mumoli and Marco Cei
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 560; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111256
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    Clinical shorts
    Diane Kelsall
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 561; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120327

Letters

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    Tattoos and sarcoidosis
    Karan Madan
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 563; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2029
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    Tattoos and sarcoidosis
    Joel Post and Peter Hull
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 563; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2030
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    Medication regimens
    Jonathan Fuller, C. Shawn Tracy and Ross E.G. Upshur
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 563; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112-2031

Humanities

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    The pink room
    Caloren Johnstone
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 565; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110753
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    Books: Biography of a complicated, visionary humanitarian
    Andrew Howard
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.111284
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    Books: A glimpse into the training of the next generation of physicians
    Lara Hazelton
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 567; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110825

Salon

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    The adverse effects of brand-name drug prescribing
    Ken Flegel
    CMAJ March 20, 2012 184 (5) 616; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.112160
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