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Table of Contents

December 06, 2016; Volume 188,Issue 17-18

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1202;

Editorial

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    Innovation and the new health accord
    Matthew B. Stanbrook
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1207; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161208

Commentary

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    An urgent call to increase access to evidence-based opioid agonist therapy for prescription opioid use disorders
    M. Eugenia Socías and Keith Ahamad
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1208-1209; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160554
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    Addressing the limitations of the CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain
    Jason W. Busse, David Juurlink and Gordon H. Guyatt
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1210-1211; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161023
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    Requiring physicians to dispense mifepristone: an unnecessary limit on safety and access to medical abortion
    Wendy V. Norman and Judith A. Soon
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E429-E430; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160581
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    Seeking safe stool: Canada needs a universal donor model
    Carolyn Edelstein, Jamie R. Daw and Zain Kassam
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E431-E432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150672
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    Pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation in endurance athletes: an overview of recent findings
    Fabian Sanchis-Gomar and Alejandro Lucia
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E433-E435; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160416
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    Evaluating the “family veto” of consent for organ donation
    Maeghan Toews and Timothy Caulfield
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E436-E437; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160752

News

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    Physician suicide still shrouded in secrecy
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1213; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5337
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    MAiD in the Netherlands led by physicians
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1214-1215; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5342
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    Most contributors to major US cancer guidelines have financial conflicts
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1215; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5334
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    Provincial economic crisis concerns Newfoundland and Labrador doctors
    Donalee Moulton
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1216; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5335
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    UN inaction emboldens attacks on health care
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E415-E416; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5340
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    Uncertainty over MAiD likely to continue
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E417-E418; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5343
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    Mouth and throat cancers from HPV on rise in men
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E419-E420; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5347
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    Assisted-dying demand concentrated in four provinces
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E421-E422; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5345
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    Doctors call to phase out coal-fired electricity
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E423-E424; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5348
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    Switched before birth
    Alison Motluk
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E425; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5346
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    Landmark Halifax decision heads to appeal court
    donalee Moulton
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E426; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5344
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    One in 18 patients harmed in hospital
    Lauren Vogel
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E427; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5351
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    NHS England aims to increase transparency
    Roger Collier
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-5341

Research

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    In-hospital mortality after hip fracture by treatment setting
    Katie J. Sheehan, Boris Sobolev, Pierre Guy, Lisa Kuramoto, Suzanne N. Morin, Jason M. Sutherland, Lauren Beaupre, Donald Griesdale, Michael Dunbar, Eric Bohm and Edward Harvey; for The Canadian Collaborative Study of Hip Fractures
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1219-1225; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160522
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    Association of maternal chronic disease with risk of congenital heart disease in offspring
    Hsin-Hsu Chou, Meng-Jiun Chiou, Fu-Wen Liang, Lea-Hua Chen, Tsung-Hsueh Lu and Chung-Yi Li
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E438-E446; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160061
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    Job insecurity and risk of diabetes: a meta-analysis of individual participant data
    Jane E. Ferrie, Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, Ida E.H. Madsen, Katriina Heikkilä, Lars Alfredsson, G. David Batty, Jakob B. Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Nico Dragano, Marko Elovainio, Eleonor I. Fransson, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Aki Koskinen, Anne Kouvonen, Meena Kumari, Martin L. Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Krista Pahkin, Jan H. Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Paula Salo, Martin J. Shipley, Sakari B. Suominen, Adam Tabák, Töres Theorell, Ari Väänänen, Jussi Vahtera, Peter J.M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Reiner Rugulies, Solja T. Nyberg and Mika Kivimäki; for the IPD-Work Consortium
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E447-E455; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150942
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    Maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes among women in rural versus urban areas
    Sarka Lisonkova, Matthew D. Haslam, Leanne Dahlgren, Innie Chen, Anne R. Synnes and Kenneth I. Lim
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E456-E465; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151382

Research in CMAJ Open

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    Highlights
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1229; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161338

Review

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    Caring for patients with opioid use disorder in the hospital
    Joseph H. Donroe, Stephen R. Holt and Jeanette M. Tetrault
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1232-1239; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160290
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    Diagnosis and management of supraventricular tachycardias
    Lior Bibas, Michael Levi and Vidal Essebag
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E466-E473; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160079
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    Taking action on the social determinants of health in clinical practice: a framework for health professionals
    Anne Andermann; for the CLEAR Collaboration
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E474-E483; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160177
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    Managing smoking cessation
    Robert D. Reid, Gillian Pritchard, Kathryn Walker, Debbie Aitken, Kerri-Anne Mullen and Andrew L. Pipe
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E484-E492; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151510

Analysis

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    Effective Canadian policy to reduce harms from prescription opioids: learning from past failures
    Benedikt Fischer, Jürgen Rehm and Mark Tyndall
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1240-1244; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160356
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    Palliative care for chronic illness: driving change
    Graeme Rocker, James Downar and R. Sean Morrison
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E493-E498; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151454
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    The case for an essential medicines list for Canada
    Gina Eom, Paul Grootendorst and Jacalyn Duffin
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E499-E503; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160134

Practice

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    Decisions: A 25-year-old woman with diabetes in custody
    Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian, Wendy Lai, Aaron Orkin and Barbora Pek
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1249-1250; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151232
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    What is your call?: An 82-year-old man with ataxia and dysarthria
    Lilian L.Y. Vivas, Wayne L. Gold, Daniel M. Mandell and Peter E. Wu
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1251-1254; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150573
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    Cases: Treatment of severe frostbite with iloprost in northern Canada
    Alexander Poole and Josianne Gauthier
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1255-1258; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151252
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    Five things to know about …: Thyroid nodules
    Sami P. Moubayed and Mark L. Urken
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1259; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160300
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    Clinical Images: Acute coral contact dermatitis
    Laura Miguel-Gomez and Pablo Fonda-Pascual
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1260; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151370
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    Cases: Persistent mild increase of human chorionic gonadotropin levels in a 31-year-old woman after spontaneous abortion
    Jianing Chen, Sheri-Lee Samson, James Bentley and Yu Chen
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E504-E508; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151481
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    Cases: Primary pulmonary artery angiosarcoma mimicking pulmonary embolism in a 66-year-old man with dyspnea
    Philippe Desmarais, Mikhael Laskine and Christine Caporuscio
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E509-E512; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151417
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    Cases: River otter bite in a 52-year-old woman: managing animal bites
    Matthew P. Cheng, Leighanne O. Parkes, Katryn Paquette, Cedric P. Yansouni and Todd C. Lee
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E513-E516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160032
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    Cases: Well-differentiated thyroid cancer: Thyroidectomy or lobectomy?
    Wouter P. Kluijfhout, Lorne E. Rotstein and Jesse D. Pasternak
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E517-E520; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160336
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    Cases: Lead toxicity from glazed ceramic cookware
    Michael Fralick, Aaron Thomspson and Ophyr Mourad
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E521-E524; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160182
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    Cases: Laparoscopic management of ruptured heterotopic pregnancy after intrauterine insemination
    Marie Hutchinson and Cynthia Chan
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E525-E527; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160110
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    Cases: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for the treatment of severe refractory hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome
    Han Yao and Emily G. McDonald
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E528-E530; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160397
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    Decisions: A young woman with acute one-sided facial paralysis
    Ildikó Gagyor, Vishnu Madhok and Frank Sullivan
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E531-E532; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160108
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    Decisions: A 32-year-old woman with headache
    William Jeptha Davenport and Tamara M. Pringsheim
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E533-E534; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160112
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    Five things to know about …: Diabetic foot osteomyelitis
    Mesut Mutluoglu and Benjamin A. Lipsky
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E535; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160228
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    Five things to know about …: Emergency contraception
    Diana Hsiang and Sheila Dunn
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E536; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160720
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    Five things to know about …: Flumazenil in benzodiazepine overdose
    Howard An and Jesse Godwin
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E537; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160357
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    Clinical Images: Mycobacterium chelonae bacteremia in a patient taking infliximab and prednisone
    Caitlin McCallum and Bijai Johnson
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E538; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.150978
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    Clinical Images: Mycosis fungoides mimicking tinea pedis
    Steven A. Hanna and Mark G. Kirchhof
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E539; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160038
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    Clinical Images: Infantile acne
    Michael Samycia and Joseph M. Lam
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E540; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160139

Letters

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    Maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes in rural versus urban areas
    Stefan Grzybowski and Jude Kornelsen
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1261; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1150130
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    Maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes in rural versus urban areas
    Sarah Lespérance, Katherine Miller, Rochelle Dworkin and Tom Smith-Windsor
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1261-1262; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1150131
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    The authors respond
    Sarka Lisonkova, Kenneth I. Lim and Anne R. Synnes
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1262; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1150132
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    Hippocrates and Targin
    Joel Lexchin
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1262; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1150133

Humanities

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    Medicine and society: Inexplicable patients: the case of Charles Martell and Ward 4 at the Massachusetts General Hospital
    Stephen Casper
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1263-1264; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160111
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    Encounters: Cutting through the shame
    Stephen P. Lewis
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1265-1266; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160119
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    Profile: A clearing for narrative practice
    Barbara Sibbald
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) 1267-1268; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160753
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    Profile: Guru of graphic medicine
    Paul Gessell
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E541-E542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160027
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    Encounters: Cathartic narratives for chaotic thinking
    Richard B. Hovey
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E543-E544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160831
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    Encounters: He was a boy with a name
    Nicholas Batley
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E545-E546; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160530
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    Encounters: Words, deeds and interpretations
    Mary V. Seeman
    CMAJ December 06, 2016 188 (17-18) E547-E548; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160498
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