Purpose This study examines the influence of patient social context on physicians’
adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Method Expert emergency medicine (EM) …

The evidence based medicine movement has championed the need for objective and
transparent methods of clinical guideline development. The Grades of Recommendation, …

Purpose Physicians are often asked to integrate clinical decision rules (CDRs) with their
own cognitive processes to reach a diagnosis. Clinicians, researchers, and educators must …

Something important is happening in applied, interdisciplinary research, particularly in the
field of applied health research. The vast array of papers in this edition are evidence of a …

Aims To characterize patient radiation doses from nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI)
and the use of radiation-optimizing ‘best practices’ worldwide, and to evaluate the …

This paper examines the sources of practice variations and definitions of unwarranted variation,
as derived from the literature. The literature suggests variables/factors related to patient …

Objectives : We sought to determine whether radial artery access is associated with increased
radiation exposure during cardiac catheterization and whether this relationship differs …

Objectives The aim of this study was to report burnout time trends and describe the psychological
effects of working as a Canadian emergency physician during the first weeks of the …

ObjectivesDelays in transfer of admitted patients boarded in the emergency department (ED)
to an inpatient bed is a major driver of ED overcrowding. We sought to identify explanatory …

Problem As patient volumes increase, it is becoming increasingly important to find novel
ways to teach junior medical learners about the intricacies of managing multiple patients …