Canadian Medical Association Journal / Journal de l'Association médicale canadienne

May 1, 1996 / Le 1er mai 1996

Contents / Table des matières

1315 - Letters / Correspondance [Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants]

• New physicians, unlike new mechanics, find pay and location restricted, P. MacDonald; G. Brock, V. Gurekas
• Diagnosing the ills of our health care system, E.M.S. Frew; M.M. Rachlis
• Turf not the issue in PEI reform of mental health care, G. Neilson, B. Hicken
• Error in dosage for Colace docusate sodium in 1996 CPS, R.E. Lim
• Don't call us . . ., C. Keenan; J.W. Crosby
• Ideas for antismoking messages, G.J. Mack; F. Bass
• Issues concerning malaria vaccine scientific, not based on racism, S. Houston
• A second look at new excimer-laser eye surgery, G.F. Roseborough
• Recent trends in pediatric Haemophilus influenzae type b infections in Canada [correction], Immunization Monitoring Program, Active (IMPACT) of the Canadian Paediatric Society and the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control

Prescribing Practices / Pratiques d'ordonnance
1325 - Developing a Canadian prescribing practices network, A.M. Holbrook, S.M. MacLeod, P. Fisher, M.A.H. Levine, for the Network Development Committee of the Canadian Prescribing Practices Network Project [full text / résumé]

Original Research / Nouveautés en recherche

• 1335 - Factors determining compliance with screening mammography, M.-D. Beaulieu, F. Béland, D. Roy, M. Falardeau, G. Hébert [full text / résumé]
• 1345 - Use of the emergency department for nonurgent care during regular business hours, M.G. Burnett, S.A. Grover [abstract / résumé]

Editorial / Éditorial
1353 - How should we interpret noncompliance with screening mammography?, H. Bryant [full text / résumé]

Platform / Tribune
1357 - The practitioner, the patient and resistance to change: recent ideas on compliance, C. Butler, S. Rollnick, N. Stott [abstract / résumé]

From the CCDR / Du RMTC

• 1365 - National consensus on guidelines for establishment of a post-exposure notification protocol for emergency responders
• 1373 - Lignes directrices nationales concertées pour l'établissement d'un protocole de notification post-exposition à l'intention des intervenants d'urgence

1383 - At a Glance / Aperçu

• New Brunswick MDs doing 5% of work for free
• All Quebecers will pay premiums to fund new drug plan
• Ottawa MD seeks meeting with Dingwall over portability issue
• Scholarships, bursaries awarded to aboriginal students
• Patel, MMA help sell road safety
• Grants available for SIDS research
• Soldiers better at coping with heart disease
• Grants to support teaching about medicine's spiritual dimensions
• Canada's tuberculosis standards updated
• Bermuda shorts, golf clubs, scalpel . . .

Case File / Dossier juridique
1385 - Prevention should be the preferred insurance program for all physicians, K. Capen [full text / en bref]

Trends / Tendances
1389 - Cochrane Collaboration helping unravel tangled web woven by international research, P. Huston [in brief / en bref]

Viewpoint / Point de vue
1395 - A system worth saving, M. Gordon [in brief / en bref]

History / Promenade dans le passé
1397 - On the trail of Dr. Fifer, G. Asche [in brief / en bref]

Issues and Innovations / Dossiers chauds et innovations
1401 - Major merger gives London Canada's second-largest teaching hospital, M. OReilly [in brief / en bref]

Association News / À l'écoute de l'AMC
1403 - Physicians must cast off grief over change if they're to move forward, anthropologist advises, J. Rafuse [full text / en bref]

Vista / Panorama
1405 - The noncomformists among us, D. Waugh

Legislation / Législation
1406 - Data from May 14 census will play valuable health care role, J. Rafuse [in brief / en bref]

Medical Practice / Pratique médicale
1407 - Family-friendly HIV and AIDS care the goal at Vancouver's Oak Tree Clinic, H. Kent [in brief / en bref]

1410 - People / Les gens

Regulations / Réglementation
1412 - Successive Ontario governments forced to grapple with problem of health care fraud, A. Shu [full text / en bref]

1321 - Conferences / Conférences

1415 - Therapeutic Index / Index thérapeutique

1439 - Classified Advertising / Annonces classées

1456 - Advertisers' Index / Index des annonceurs