Highlights

Highlights
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:991
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Editorial

Doing the right thing for our patients with disabilities
Diane Kelsall
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:993
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Commentary

Predicting individual lung-function trajectories: An opportunity for prevention?
Milo A. Puhan
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:997-998
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Improving patient-centred care for rheumatoid arthritis
Nick Bansback, Kam Shojania, and Diane Lacaille
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:999-1000
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Should assisted dying for psychiatric disorders be legalized in Canada?
Scott Y.H. Kim and Trudo Lemmens
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E337-E339
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Protecting the plain packaging consultation from tobacco industry interference
Julia Smith and Kelley Lee
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E340-E341
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News

Birth control often not covered by Canadian insurers
Alison Motluk
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1001-1002
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Larger claims push CMPA fees up
Steve Mertl
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1002
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Doctors need education on prescribing opioids
Steve Mertl
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1003
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Medicare challenge heads to trial
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E331-E332
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Public health care challenged in BC court
Steve Mertl
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E333-E334
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A first for health care education
Zoe Chong
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E335
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Researchers oppose data-sharing proposal
Terry Murray
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E336
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Research

Individualized prediction of lung-function decline in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Zafar Zafari, Don D. Sin, Dirkje S. Postma, Claes-Göran Löfdahl, Judith Vonk, Stirling Bryan, Stephen Lam, C. Martin Tammemagi, Rahman Khakban, S.F. Paul Man, Donald Tashkin, Robert A. Wise, John E. Connett, Bruce McManus, Raymond Ng, Zsuszanna Hollander, and Mohsen Sadatsafavi
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1004-1011
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Effectiveness of the influenza vaccine in preventing admission to hospital and death in people with type 2 diabetes
Eszter P. Vamos, Utz J. Pape, Vasa Curcin, Matthew J. Harris, Jonathan Valabhji, Azeem Majeed, and Christopher Millett
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E342-E351
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Predictors of persistent pain after breast cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Li Wang, Gordon H. Guyatt, Sean A. Kennedy, Beatriz Romerosa, Henry Y. Kwon, Alka Kaushal, Yaping Chang, Samantha Craigie, Carlos P.B. de Almeida, Rachel J. Couban, Shawn R. Parascandalo, Zain Izhar, Susan Reid, James S. Khan, Michael McGillion, and Jason W. Busse
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E352-E361
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Research in CMAJ Open

Highlights
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1014
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Analysis

Optimizing the language and format of guidelines to improve guideline uptake
Samir Gupta, Navjot Rai, Onil Bhattacharrya, Alice Y.Y. Cheng, Kim A. Connelly, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Alan Kaplan, Melissa C. Brouwers, and Monika Kastner
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:E362-E368
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Review

Managing mercury exposure in northern Canadian communities
Catherine McLean Pirkle, Gina Muckle, and Melanie Lemire
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1015-1023
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Practice

Decisions: CD4 measurement in a 54-year-old man with sustained HIV-1 viral suppression
Allan Yan, Jerome A. Leis, and Wayne L. Gold
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1028-1029
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Cases: Intractable seizures in a toddler after application of an over-the-counter local anesthetic cream
Syed Hoda, Jennifer O’Brien, and Jonathan Gamble
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1030-1032
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Five things to know about …: Myotonic dystrophy type 1
Cam-Tu Emilie Nguyen and Craig Campbell
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1033
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Clinical images: Multilesional cutaneous leishmaniasis
Yuval Ramot and Abraham Zlotogorski
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1034
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Letters

Effect of HPV on cervical cancer screening in Alberta
Marc Brisson, Mélanie Drolet, Élodie Bénard, and Aimée R. Kreimer
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1035
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Functional impairment, not FASD
Benjamin J. Klein
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1035-1036
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Incentive payments: the correct lesson
Lee A. Green
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1036
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Assisted dying for patients with psychiatric disorders
Justine Dembo and Derryck Smith
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1036
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Humanities

Medicine and society: The intractable problem of chronic disease
George Weisz
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1037-1038
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Encounters: Time enough for tears?
Stephen Workman
CMAJ October 4, 2016 188:1039-1040
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