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Table of Contents

February 04, 2014; Volume 186,Issue 2

Highlights

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    Highlights
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 87;

Editorial

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    Canada owes refugees adequate health coverage
    Matthew B. Stanbrook
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 91; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131861

Commentary

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    Placing Aboriginal kidney disease in context
    Stephen P. McDonald
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 93-94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131605
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    Improving the process of deceased organ and tissue donation: a role for donation physicians as specialists
    Sam D. Shemie and Shavaun MacDonald
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 95-96; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130050

News

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    Calls intensify for national dementia plan
    Kierra Jones
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 97; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4690
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    Only five doctors in Canada can assess mental status for US Customs and Border Protection
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 98; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4685
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    Analytics-driven health care growing in Ontario
    Paul Christopher Webster
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 99; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4693
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    Gym exclusively for overweight people comes to Canada
    Catherine Cross
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 101; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4682
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    Health course helps Inuit interpreters tackle tough jobs
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4677
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    Canadians balk at longer brand-name drug patents
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E69; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4679
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    Feds stick with decision not to fund refugee health care
    Wendy Glauser
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E70; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4689
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    Privacy commissioner wants new criteria for entering health information in police database
    Laura Eggertson
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E71-E72; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4681
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    Obamacare accelerating into prime time
    Cal Woodward
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E73-E74; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4680
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    First prosecution under Assisted Human Reproduction Act ends in conviction
    Alison Motluk
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E75-E76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4687
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    Amended decision by gynecology board good for male patients and cancer research
    Wendy Glauser
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E77-E78; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4683
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    10 health stories that mattered: Dec. 9–13
    Lauren Vogel and Roger Collier
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4684
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    EMR alert cuts sepsis deaths
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4686
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    New Brunswick prescription drug plan hopes to avoid pitfalls of other provinces
    Brian Owens
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E81-E82; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4688
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    Made-in-Canada accreditation coming for medical schools
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E83; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4692
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    Sweden leads EU in developing new antibiotics
    Paul Christopher Webster
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E84; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4694
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    10 health stories that mattered: Dec. 16–20
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E85; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-4691

Research

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    Differential mortality and the excess burden of end-stage renal disease among First Nations people with diabetes mellitus: a competing-risks analysis
    Ying Jiang, Nathaniel Osgood, Hyun-Ja Lim, Mary Rose Stang and Roland Dyck
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 103-109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130721
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    Association between First Nations ethnicity and progression to kidney failure by presence and severity of albuminuria
    Susan M. Samuel, Luz Palacios-Derflingher, Marcello Tonelli, Braden Manns, Lynden Crowshoe, Sofia B. Ahmed, Min Jun, Nathalie Saad and Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E86-E94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130776
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    Association between frailty and short- and long-term outcomes among critically ill patients: a multicentre prospective cohort study
    Sean M. Bagshaw, H. Thomas Stelfox, Robert C. McDermid, Darryl B. Rolfson, Ross T. Tsuyuki, Nadia Baig, Barbara Artiuch, Quazi Ibrahim, Daniel E. Stollery, Ella Rokosh and Sumit R. Majumdar
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) E95-E102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130639

Guidelines

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    Canadian Society of Nephrology 2014 clinical practice guideline for timing the initiation of chronic dialysis
    Gihad E. Nesrallah, Reem A. Mustafa, William F. Clark, Adam Bass, Lianne Barnieh, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Scott Klarenbach, Robert R. Quinn, Swapnil Hiremath, Pietro Ravani, Manish M. Sood and Louise M. Moist
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 112-117; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130363

Review

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    Medical interventions to reduce motor vehicle collisions
    Donald A. Redelmeier and Homer C. Tien
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 118-124; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.122001

Practice

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    Decisions: Hypertension in a woman planning pregnancy
    Michael P. Carson and Kenneth K. Chen
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 129-130; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130433
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    Cases: Tick-borne relapsing fever in pregnancy
    Haseena Hussein, Adrienne Showler and Darrell H.S. Tan
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 131-134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.122053
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    Five things to know about...: Intrapartum care of the HIV-positive woman
    Kelsey E. Mills and Mark H. Yudin
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 135; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131062
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    Clinical Images: Persistent dry cough: an unusual presentation of renal cell carcinoma
    Stephanie Tatzel and Alp Sener
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 136; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130355

Letters

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    Peripartum outcomes: non-adjuvanted v. adjuvanted H1N1 vaccination
    Joel G. Ray, Allison J. McGeer, Jennifer M. Blake, Gerald Lebovic, Graeme N. Smith and Mark H. Yudin
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 137; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0006
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    Regulating e-cigarettes as drugs is not the best solution
    Melodie L. Tilson
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 137-138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0007
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    Expanding scope of pharmacists
    Sergio T. Fanella and Ashley Walus
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0008
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    Patient advocacy
    John C. Clifford
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.114-0009

Humanities

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    Essay: The illness experience
    Mark Langer
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131304
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    Poetry: After the flood
    Christine Gibson
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131246
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    Books: Patient safety and “medical error”
    Ward Flemons
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 141; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.130962

Salon

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    The hidden curriculum
    Margaret Cocks
    CMAJ February 04, 2014 186 (2) 152; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.131455
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