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Table of Contents

December 09, 2014; Volume 186,Issue 18

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1343;

Editorial

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    Cruel and usual punishment: solitary confinement in Canadian prisons
    Diane Kelsall
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1345; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141419

Commentary

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    Adding the head-tilt–chin-lift technique to adult compression-only CPR by untrained bystanders
    Anthony M.-H. Ho, Song Wan and David C. Chung
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1347-1348; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131847

News

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    Continued high use of PPIs despite C. difficile risk
    Carolyn Brown
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1350; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4927
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    Canada tackles antimicrobial resistance
    Terry Murray
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1351; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4937
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    Addressing bias in industry-funded CME
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1352; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4918
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    Medical technology: the good and the bad
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1353; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4931
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    Lyme law uses “junk science” says expert
    Carolyn Brown
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1354; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4936
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    Medical education needs digital boost
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E658; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4932
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    US data on industry payments to doctors
    Paul Webster
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E659-E660; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4926
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    10 health stories that mattered: Oct.18–24
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E661; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4930
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    All provinces can now sue big tobacco
    Donalee Moulton
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E662; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4929
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    Huge reorg of Nova Scotia’s health system
    Donalee Moulton
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E663; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4928
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    10 health stories that mattered this week: Oct. 27–31
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E664; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4933
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    Suicide rate lower among boys in Iqaluit
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E665-E666; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4935
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    Gairdner presents cutting-edge cancer research
    Miriam Shuchman
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E667-E668; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4939
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    Call for Ebola medics falls on deaf ears: MSF
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E669; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4934
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    CME accreditation: separating education from promotion
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E670; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4920
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    10 health stories that mattered: Nov. 1–7
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E671; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4938

Research

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    Oral administration of morphine versus ibuprofen to manage postfracture pain in children: a randomized trial
    Naveen Poonai, Gina Bhullar, Kangrui Lin, Adam Papini, David Mainprize, Jocelyn Howard, John Teefy, Michelle Bale, Cindy Langford, Rodrick Lim, Larry Stitt, Michael J. Rieder and Samina Ali
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1358-1363; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.140907
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    Time trends in symptoms of mental illness in children and adolescents in Canada
    Seanna E. McMartin, Mila Kingsbury, Jennifer Dykxhoorn and Ian Colman
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E672-E678; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.140064
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    What really matters in end-of-life discussions? Perspectives of patients in hospital with serious illness and their families
    John J. You, Peter Dodek, Francois Lamontagne, James Downar, Tasnim Sinuff, Xuran Jiang, Andrew G. Day and Daren K. Heyland; for the ACCEPT Study Team and the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network (CARENET)
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E679-E687; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.140673

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    Highlights: Highlights
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1368; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141440

Review

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    Deprescribing for older patients
    Christopher Frank and Erica Weir
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1369-1376; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131873
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    Assessment and management of resistant hypertension
    Raj S. Padwal, Simon Rabkin and Nadia Khan
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E689-E697; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130764

Analysis

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    Regulatory decisions pertaining to aprotinin may be putting patients at risk
    Paul C. Hébert, Dean A. Fergusson, Brian Hutton, C. David Mazer, Stephen Fremes, Morris Blajchman, Charles MacAdams, George Wells, Jim Robblee, Jean Bussières and Kevin Teoh; for the BART Investigators
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1379-1386; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131582

Practice

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    Decisions: Imaging in a 35-year-old woman with progressive headache
    Santanu Chakraborty and William D. Miller
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1391-1393; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141220
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    Five things to know about …: Screening with the Pap test
    David Ponka and James Dickinson
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1394; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141199
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    Clinical Images: Brown-Séquard syndrome from herniation of a thoracic disc
    Christopher D. Witiw and Mohammed F. Shamji
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1395; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.140117
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    Clinical Images: Lichen nitidus
    Jackson Chu and Joseph M. Lam
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E688; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.140434

Letters

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    Atypical diabetes: clarifying the muddy waters
    Elizabeth Sellers, Seth Marks, Celia Rodd, Randy Wicklow and Heather Dean
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1397; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1140088
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    Atypical diabetes: clarifying the muddy waters
    Devin Steenkamp, Sara Alexanian and Elliot Sternthal
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1397-1398; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1140089
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    Beyond resuscitate and do-not-resuscitate
    Jessica Simon, Eric Wasylenko and Doris Barwich
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1398; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0092
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    Beyond resuscitate and do-not-resuscitate
    Philip C. Hébert and Debbie Selby
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1398; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0093
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    About bloody time
    Edward S. Weiss
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1398; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1140090

Holiday Reading

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    Department of Advice: LimitationsAn experiment in open peer review
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1400-1401; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141263
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    Unsubstantiated Theory: Evidence-based dating: the Johnson–Purdy nomogram
    Eve Purdy and Heather Johnson
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1402-1403; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141249
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    Unsubstantiated Theory: Diving into the ice bucket challenge
    Anil Adisesh, Sarah Melville, Thomas Pulinilkunnil, Sohrab Lutchmedial and Keith R. Brunt
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1404-1405; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141241
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    In other words: TYPE-Os
    Dominick Amato
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) 1406; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141153
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    Reflections: A Christmas–Hanukkah gift
    Ronald Ruskin
    CMAJ December 09, 2014 186 (18) E698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.141310

Digestif

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    Digestif
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