Table of Contents

July 10, 2017; Volume 189,Issue 27

Research

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Association of delay of urgent or emergency surgery with mortality and use of health care resources: a propensity score–matched observational cohort study
Daniel I. McIsaac, Karim Abdulla, Homer Yang, Sudhir Sundaresan, Paula Doering, Sandeep Green Vaswani, Kednapa Thavorn and Alan J. Forster

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E905-E912; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160576

Commentary

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Delivering timely surgery in Canadian hospitals
David R. Urbach

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E903-E904; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170172

Practice

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Five Things to Know About ...: Postpartum hypertension
Kristina Powles and Shital Gandhi

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E913; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160785
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Clinical Images: Stairlike fracture of the sternum
Recep Sade and Yener Aydin

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E914; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161344

Humanities

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Encounters: Spoon versus knife
Han Yan and Wai P. Ng

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E915-E916; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161268

Coda

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Pulling together
Monica Kidd

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E924; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170678

News

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Half of Canadians can expect cancer diagnosis during lifetime
Roger Collier

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E920; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1095447
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Canadian women opting for less effective birth control
Lauren Vogel

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E921-E922; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1095446
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Family physicians support Open Pharma
Wendy Glauser

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E923; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1095448

Letters

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Using thermography responsibly
Joseph R. Lawson

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E917; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.733213
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Underlying maternal infection likely cause of study findings
Chelsea Elwood and Deborah Money

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E918; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.733199
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The authors respond to “Underlying maternal infection likely cause of study findings”
Anick Bérard, Flory T. Muanda and Odile Sheehy

CMAJ July 10, 2017 189 (27) E919; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.733254