Research

Association of delay of urgent or emergency surgery with mortality and use of health care resources: a propensity score–matched observational cohort study
Daniel I. McIsaac, Karim Abdulla, Homer Yang, Sudhir Sundaresan, Paula Doering, Sandeep Green Vaswani, Kednapa Thavorn, and Alan J. Forster
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E905-E912
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Commentary

Delivering timely surgery in Canadian hospitals
David R. Urbach
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E903-E904
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Practice

Five Things to Know About ...: Postpartum hypertension
Kristina Powles and Shital Gandhi
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E913
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Clinical Images: Stairlike fracture of the sternum
Recep Sade and Yener Aydin
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E914
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Humanities

Encounters: Spoon versus knife
Han Yan and Wai P. Ng
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E915-E916
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Coda

Pulling together
Monica Kidd
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E924
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News

Half of Canadians can expect cancer diagnosis during lifetime
Roger Collier
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E920
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Canadian women opting for less effective birth control
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E921-E922
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Family physicians support Open Pharma
Wendy Glauser
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E923
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Letters

Using thermography responsibly
Joseph R. Lawson
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E917
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Underlying maternal infection likely cause of study findings
Chelsea Elwood and Deborah Money
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E918
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The authors respond to "Underlying maternal infection likely cause of study findings"
Anick Bérard, Flory T. Muanda, and Odile Sheehy
CMAJ July 10, 2017 189:E919
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