Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1759
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Editorial

Protecting our most vulnerable elders from abuse
Barbara Sibbald and Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1763
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Commentary

Real-time access to prescription drug monitoring databases
Barth Wilsey and Hannah Prasad
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1767-1768
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News

Medically necessary: Who should decide?
Roger Collier
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1770-1771
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Medically necessary: How to decide?
Roger Collier
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1771-1772
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Needling toward essential health benefits
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1773
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Briefly
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E824-E826
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Helsinki doctrine under review
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E827-E828
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Europe proposes laxer regulation of clinical trials
Tiago Villanueva Gutierrez Arruda Marques
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E829-E830
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African traditional medicine struggles to find its place within health care
Bernard Appiah
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E831-E832
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Playing in the big leagues
Roger Collier
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E833-E834
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Organ donation’s “silver bullet”?
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E835-E836
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British docs urge elective ventilation
Michael Monette
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E837-E838
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The ever-muddled Canadian waters and elective ventilation
Michael Monette
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E839-E840
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The ethics of elective ventilation
Michael Monette
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E841-E842
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Broke and broken in America? No way, experts say
Michael Monette
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E843-E844
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The MD express lane
Roger Collier
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E845-E846
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For the record
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E847-E851
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Research

Pregnancy complications among women born preterm
Ariane Boivin, Zhong-Cheng Luo, François Audibert, Benoit Mâsse, Francine Lefebvre, Réjean Tessier, and Anne Monique Nuyt
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1777-1784
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Effect of a centralized prescription network on inappropriate prescriptions for opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines
Colin R. Dormuth, Tarita A. Miller, Anjie Huang, Muhammad M. Mamdani, and David N. Juurlink , for the Canadian Drug Safety and Effectiveness Research Network
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E852-E856
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Alcohol consumption and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation among people with cardiovascular disease
Yan Liang, Andrew Mente, Salim Yusuf, Peggy Gao, Peter Sleight, Jun Zhu, Robert Fagard, Eva Lonn, and Koon K. Teo , for the ONTARGET and TRANSCEND Investigators
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E857-E866
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Accuracy of the Canadian C-spine rule and NEXUS to screen for clinically important cervical spine injury in patients following blunt trauma: a systematic review
Zoe A. Michaleff, Chris G. Maher, Arianne P. Verhagen, Trudy Rebbeck, and Chung-Wei Christine Lin
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E867-E876
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Review

Diagnosing borderline personality disorder
Robert S. Biskin and Joel Paris
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1789-1794
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Practice

Primer: Applying the 2011 Canadian guidelines for breast cancer screening in practice
Ellen Warner, Ruth Heisey, and June C. Carroll
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1803-1807
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Cases: Ileocecal ulceration and granulomatous ileitis as an unusual presentation of typhoid fever
Christopher Cheung, Hayley Merkeley, Jocelyn A. Srigley, Baljinder Salh, Douglas Webber, and Stephane Voyer
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1808-1810
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Measles: Measles
Shalini Desai, Amanda Shane, and Rosamund Lewis
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1811
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Clinical Images: Pituitary apoplexy masquerading as bacterial meningitis
Angela N. Paisley and Akheel A. Syed
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1812
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Five Things to Know About...: Breast screening with magnetic resonance imaging
Anabel Scaranelo
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E877
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Clinical Images: Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis with progressive massive fibrosis
Justin Cheng-Ta Yang and Kao-Lang Liu
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E878
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Letters

When and how to die
J. Donald Boudreau
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1814
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When and how to die
Kenneth R. Stevens
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1814
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When and how to die
Doris Barwich
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1814-1815
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When and how to die
François Primeau
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1815
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Are doctors all-powerful?
Tony Carr
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1815
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Correction

Recommendations on screening for type 2 diabetes in adults
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1815
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Humanities

Essay: Finding stillness within the shaken brain
Daphne L. Anderson
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1816-1817
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Poetry: A lesson at the bedside
Emily Swinkin
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1818
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Books: “I am a doctor, and I write poems.”
Vincent Hanlon
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1818
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Arts: Comic relief
Desmond Cole
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E879-E880
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Poetry: Vanishing point
Wynne Morrison
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:E881
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Salon

A solution to inappropriate self-citation via peer review
Brett D. Thombs and Ilya Razykov
CMAJ November 6, 2012 184:1864
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