CMAJ/JAMC - August 22, 2000 / le 22 août 2000

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August 22, 2000 / le 22 août 2000

CMAJ 2000; 163(4)

Highlights of this issue

Cover:
Despite alarmist headlines claiming a crisis in health care in British Columbia, Samuel Sheps and colleagues report that changes in overall health care use by elderly people have been small in the last 2 decades (page 397). Noralou Roos discusses this and other gaps between media reports and the facts (page 411).
(Graphic courtesy of Hugh Malcolm)

Smoking during pregnancy

Editorial
Letters
Research
Commentary
Review

The Left Atrium
News and Analysis
Deaths
Heart & Soul

	Editorial • Éditorial
381	Of genes and stars [HTML / PDF]
383	Des gènes et des étoiles [HTML / PDF]

387 Letters • Correspondance [PDF]
Instructions to correspondents

Thermometer rising S.C. Arya; response: J.L. Sievenpiper, V. Vuksan
Reactions to alteplase in patients with acute thrombotic stroke W.B. Chodirker; response: M.D. Hill, et al
Treatment of primary insomnia J. Montplaisir; response: A. Holbrook, R. Labiris

Research • Recherche

393 Necrotizing fasciitis in children in eastern Ontario: a case-control study
T. Hsieh, L.M. Samson, M. Jabbour, M.H. Osmond
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397 Hospital downsizing and trends in health care use among elderly people in British Columbia
S.B. Sheps, R.J. Reid, M.L. Barer, H. Krueger, K.M. McGrail, B. Green, R.G. Evans, C. Hertzman
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403 When should hypertension be treated? The different perspectives of Canadian family physicians and patients
F.A. McAlister, A.M. O'Connor, G. Wells, S.A. Grover, A. Laupacis
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Commentary • Commentaire

411 The disconnect between the data and the headlines
N.P. Roos
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412 Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and the Quebec blood supply
M. Germain, F. Décary, J. Chiavetta, M. Goldman
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414 New guidelines for barbiturate-containing analgesics: Don't start, and help stop!
W. McLean
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Review • Synthèse

417 Rheumatology: 7. Basics of therapy
S.H.K. Huang
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425 Drug-resistant tuberculosis
R. Long
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429 Capturing zebras: what to do with a reportable case
S.M. Wright, C. Kouroukis
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The Left Atrium • De l'Oreille Gauche

The Left Atrium is on vacation

432 News and analysis • Nouvelles et analyses [PDF]

BMA gives thumbs down to regulatory body
A smoke signal from Florida
MD Management's rapid growth continues
Saving face: doctors lobby to protect hockey players
CMPA deal reached
Blue Jays show a little skin
Newfoundland seeks solution to MD turnover
Canada has its first chair in critical care medicine
Eat right, live longer?
On the Net: Any doctors hiding in the family tree
MDs promote self-sufficiency in ravaged Africa
Pulse: Lengthy hospital stays a thing of the past?
New federal priorities for health care spending coming next month?
Clinical Update:

Hypertension and a-adrenergic blockers: preliminary ALLHAT results
E-coli, antibiotics and hemolytic-uremic syndrome in children

Public Health: Ultra-endurance exercise and hyponatremia

483 Deaths • Nécrologie

Heart & Soul • Gens de cœur

484 East meets West in busy Edmonton practice
H. Kent
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