Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:503
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Editorial

What's next for CMAJ?
John Fletcher CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:507
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Commentary

Telemonitoring for patients with heart failure
Martin R. Cowie and Andres Acosta Lobos
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:509-510
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Toilet training children: when to start and how to train
Darcie A. Kiddo
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:511
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News

Press that button again, please
Erin Walkinshaw
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E242-E243
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Taking the pulse of pulse oximetry in Africa
Jocelyn Edwards
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E244-E245
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Waiting for medicine’s black swans
Sabrina Doyle
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E246-E247
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Bridging the dementia gap
Sabrina Doyle
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E248-E249
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Provinces weighing HPV vaccination of boys
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E250-E251
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The art of necessary compromise
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E252-E253
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Briefly
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E254-E255
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For the record
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E256-E259
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Systemic health reform and physician wage freeze urged for Ontario
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:515-516
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Tentative steps toward transparency and accountability
Sabrina Doyle
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:517
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Prohibition against off-label drug promotion challenged
Cal Woodward
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:518-519
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Research

Diagnostic and prognostic utility of early measurement with high-sensitivity troponin T assay in patients presenting with chest pain
Sally J. Aldous, Mark Richards, Louise Cullen, Richard Troughton, and Martin Than
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E260-E268
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Change in appropriate referrals to nephrologists after the introduction of automatic reporting of the estimated glomerular filtration rate
Ayub Akbari, Jeremy Grimshaw, Dawn Stacey, William Hogg, Tim Ramsay, Marcella Cheng-Fitzpatrick, Peter Magner, Robert Bell, and Jolanta Karpinski
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E269-E276
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Factors influencing patient choice of dialysis versus conservative care to treat end-stage kidney disease
Rachael L. Morton, Paul Snelling, Angela C. Webster, John Rose, Rosemary Masterson, David W. Johnson, and Kirsten Howard
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:E277-E283
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Factors predicting coroners’ decisions to hold discretionary inquests
Simon J. Walter, Lyndal Bugeja, Matthew J. Spittal, and David M. Studdert
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:521-528
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Review

Informed consent for clinical treatment
Daniel E. Hall, Allan V. Prochazka, and Aaron S. Fink
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:533-540
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Analysis

Canada’s laws on pharmaceutical intellectual property: the case for fundamental reform
Paul Grootendorst, Ron Bouchard, and Aidan Hollis
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:543-549
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Practice

Decisions: Does a patient with a thunderclap headache need a lumbar puncture?
Ben Fine, Navneet Singh, Richard Aviv, and R. Loch Macdonald
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:555-556
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Cases: “Safety” technology: a hidden cause of diabetic ketoacidosis
Catherine H.Y. Yu
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:557-558
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Five Things to Know About...: Management of community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department
Jerome A. Leis and Wayne L. Gold
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:559
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Clinical Images: Community-acquired pneumonia
Nicola Mumoli and MarcCei
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:560
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Clinical shorts
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:561
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Letters

Tattoos and sarcoidosis
Karan Madan
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:563
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Tattoos and sarcoidosis
Joel Post and Peter Hull
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:563
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Medication regimens
Jonathan Fuller, C. Shawn Tracy, and Ross E.G. Upshur
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:563
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Humanities

The pink room
Caloren Johnstone
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:565
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Books: Biography of a complicated, visionary humanitarian
Andrew Howard
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:566
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Books: A glimpse into the training of the next generation of physicians
Lara Hazelton
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:567
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Salon

The adverse effects of brand-name drug prescribing
Ken Flegel
CMAJ March 20, 2012 184:616
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