Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1223
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Editorial

Choosing when and how to die: Are we ready to perform therapeutic homicide?
Ken Flegel and John Fletcher
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1227
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Commentary

Prognosis in people with back pain
Rachelle Buchbinder and Martin Underwood
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1229-1230;
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Why should the rich care about the health of the poor?
Michael Marmot
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1231-1232
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News

Professionalism: the historical contract
Roger Collier
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1233-1234
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Professionalism: Can it be taught?
Roger Collier
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1234-1236
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The heartburn of meaningful use
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E562-E564
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Farmyard drug use a US battlefield and a Canadian wasteland
Paul Christopher Webster
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E565
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Uncertainties shroud medical isotope supply
Tim Lougheed
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E567-E568
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“This ain’t my daddy’s AMA”
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E569-E570
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Private practice on life support in America
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E571-E572
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Medicare woes prompt AMA brouhaha
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E573-E574
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Plan proposed to make organ donation less “ad hoc”
Wayne Kondro
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E575-E576
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Vaccinating children against anthrax
Cal Woodward
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E577-E578
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UK unveils patient-centred electronic health strategy
Paul Christopher Webster
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E579-E580
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Flush and run
Michael Monette
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E581-E582
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High court sanctions law edging US toward universal health coverage
Cal Woodward
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E583-E584
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Nodding disease confounds clinicians
Jocelyn Edwards
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E585-E586
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Professionalism: social media outreach
Roger Collier
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E587-E588
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Health assessments urged for federal laws and regulations
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E589-E590
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For the record
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E591-E596
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Briefly
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E597-E601
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Research

Secular trends in acute dialysis after elective major surgery — 1995 to 2009
Nausheen F. Siddiqui, Steven G. Coca, Philip J. Devereaux, Arsh K. Jain, Lihua Li, Jin Luo, Chirag R. Parikh, Michael Paterson, Heather Thiessen Philbrook, Ron Wald, Michael Walsh, Richard Whitlock, and Amit X. Garg
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1237-1245
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Effect of iron supplementation on fatigue in nonanemic menstruating women with low ferritin: a randomized controlled trial
Paul Vaucher, Pierre-Louis Druais, Sophie Waldvogel, and Bernard Favrat
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1247-1254
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Effects of assessing the productivity of faculty in academic medical centres: a systematic review
Elie A. Akl, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Dany Raad, Giulia Piaggio, Manlio Mattioni, Marco G. Paggi, Aymone Gurtner, Stefano Mattarocci, Rizwan Tahir, Paola Muti, and Holger J. Schünemann
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E602-E612
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The prognosis of acute and persistent low-back pain: a meta-analysis
Luciola da C. Menezes Costa, Christopher G. Maher, Mark J. Hancock, James H. McAuley, Robert D. Herbert, and Leonardo O.P. Costa
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:E613-E624
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Review

Predicting outcome after childhood brain injury
Rob Forsyth and Fenella Kirkham
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1257-1264
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Anaylysis

Missing covariate data in clinical research: when and when not to use the missing-indicator method for analysis
Rolf H.H. Groenwold, Ian R. White, A. Rogier T. Donders, James R. Carpenter, Douglas G. Altman, and Karel G.M. Moons
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1265-1269
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Practice

Cases: The lost sponge: patient safety in the operating room
Amanda Grant-Orser, Paul Davies, and Sukhbir Sony Singh
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1275-1278
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Five Things to Know About...: Esotropia
Sean A. Kennedy, Jason Noble, and Agnes M.F. Wong
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1279
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Clinical Images: Bleomycin-induced-flagellate dermatitis
Diana Yu Diao and John Goodall
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1280
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Clinical shorts
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1281
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Letters

Access to journals through peer reviewers
Richard G. McGee, Bronwyn Hemsley, and Peter J. Gill
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1283
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Children with enuresis
Edward S. Weiss
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1283
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Correction

Incorrect reference
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1283
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Humanities

Encounters: Just terrific
Eric Cadesky and Medical director
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1284-1285
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Salon

Unnecessary uncertainty is unacceptable
Cornelia J. Baines
CMAJ August 7, 2012 184:1328
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