Background: Patient-level surveillance of antimicrobial use (AMU) in Canadian hospitals
empowers the reduction of inappropriate AMU and was piloted in 2017 among 14 hospitals in …

Objectives Six months following the implementation of handshake stewardship rounds in
our intensive care unit, we performed a cross-sectional survey of critical care physicians to …

… Shaqil Peermohamed MD MPH, Siddharth Kogilwaimath MD, Stephen Sanche MD …
Correspondence to: Shaqil Peermohamed, shaqil.peermohamed@saskhealthauthority.ca …

Background Cutaneous draining sinus tracts of dental origin are a diagnostic challenge
because they can often mimic basal cell carcinomas, pyogenic granulomas, cysts, or foreign …

Legionella species are Gram-negative bacilli that are relatively rare causes of community-acquired
pneumonia but can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality if …

Interrupted time series (ITS) design is a quasi-experimental approach for evaluating the
impact of an intervention in public health research using segmented linear regression (SLR) …

CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of Moraxella bovis bacteremia and polyarticular
septic arthritis in a 37-year-old pregnant woman with HIV who injects drugs. Two sets of …

A 34-year-old otherwise healthy Vietnamese man, living in Canada for four years, attended
the emergency department with a three-week history of abdominal pain and fever. He had a …

Background: Frequently used drugs in our unit are only available through Health Canada’s
Special Access Programme (SAP) or a compounding pharmacy. A tracking system was …

Background Up to 50% of antimicrobial use in hospitals has been shown to be inappropriate
and is associated with the development of antimicrobial resistance, prolonged hospital stay, …