Canadian Medical Association Journal

Invisible threat on ice: 4 youth hockey teams’ exposure to carbon monoxide

The source of CO was found to be a blocked heater exhaust in the hockey team’s dressing room. The arena did not have CO ...
Canadian Medical Association Journal

Emergency department referral and short-term death after outpatient hyperkalemia: a population-based study

Background:Hyperkalemia can be deadly, yet clinical decision-making for outpatient management is unclear. We sought to ...
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Regulatory oversight of indoor air quality in ice arenas is needed in Canada

Fuel-burning ice resurfacers, edgers, radiant heaters, and other equipment in ice arenas can emit carbon monoxide (CO) and ...
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Postpartum hypertension

Postpartum hypertension can be treated safely during breastfeeding Although there are limited studies assessing neonatal effects of maternal antihypertensive treatment during breastfeeding, ...
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The commercialization of patient data in Canada: ethics, privacy and policy

In Canada, commercial data brokers collect deidentified patient data from pharmacies, private drug insurers, the federal government and medical clinics without patient consent. Although pharmaceutical ...
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Does my dizzy patient have a stroke? A systematic review of bedside diagnosis in acute vestibular syndrome

Details of the search strategy appear in Appendix 1. In brief, we searched MEDLINE to identify English-language observational studies on the clinical features, diagnostic evaluation and differential ...
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Scurvy in a 65-year-old woman with severely limited function and social supports

Li T Fafard St-Germain A-A Tarasuk V. Household food insecurity in Canada, 2022. Toronto: Research to identify policy options to reduce food insecurity (PROOF); 2023: ...
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Vaccination in adults with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Vaccination status should be assessed at diagnosis and periodic examinations in patients with rheumatic diseases Patients with rheumatic disease have 1.4–2.0 times the risk of infection as the general ...
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Ebola virus disease

People with suspected infection should instigate stringent infection prevention and control (IPAC) practices 4, 5 A fit-tested N95 respirator, face shield, gloves, and fluid-impermeable gear (gown, ...
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Development of the Instrument to assess the Credibility of Effect Modification Analyses (ICEMAN) in randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses

BACKGROUND: Most randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses of RCTs examine effect modification (also called a subgroup effect or interaction), in which the effect of an intervention varies ...
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Intracranial hemorrhage after head injury among older patients on anticoagulation seen in the emergency department: a population-based cohort study

Background:Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) after head injury is a concern among older adult patients on anticoagulation. We evaluated the risk of ICH after an emergency department visit for head injury ...
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Canadian best practice recommendations for the management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Management of patients living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) requires specialized multidisciplinary holistic care. Disease-modifying pharmacologic therapies to treat ALS include riluzole and ...