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CMAJ Open has a new Editor-in-Chief

Erin Russell has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief for CMAJ Open, Canada's open-access online medical journal. Erin is an experienced medical editor who brings a wealth of knowledge from her work at CMAJ and CMAJ Open as an editor and through graduate studies in epidemiology and community medicine. She takes over from founding Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Diane Kelsall, who has helped grow CMAJ Open into an important venue for health and medical research research.

CMAJ Open publishes high-quality research from all medical and health disciplines, including the effects of climate change, gender and racism, Indigenous health issues, patient-oriented research and COVID-19. Founded in 2013, the journal has been committed to 4 founding principles: Open access; Open to research in all medical disciplines; Open to all types of research studies; and Open peer review. It is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed Central. CMAJ Open values the involvement of patients who can be peer reviewers for the patient-oriented research collection.

Erin looks forward to collaborating with you — authors, reviewers, readers and others — on bringing knowledge from high-quality health research to clinicians, policy makers and the public in Canada and beyond.

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    Costs with age, multimorbidity and dementia
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    Health utility values for Canadians
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    COVID-19 in GTA South Asian community
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    Pandemic effect on ED visits in those with dementia
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    Family presence in PICUs during pandemic
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Latest Articles

  • Age, multimorbidity and dementia with health care costs in older people in Alberta: a population-based retrospective cohort study
    Multimorbidity, older age and dementia were associated with higher use of long-term care and health care costs but some costs among those with dementia dropped at older ages, showing the complexity of projecting economic consequences of population aging.
  • Estimation of a Canadian preference-based scoring algorithm for the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey: a population survey using a discrete-choice experiment
    This study used a discrete-choice experiment in an online survey completed by 3380 Canadian respondents to derive health utility values from Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey. These values reflect the preferences of the Canadian population.
  • Seropositivity and risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in a South Asian community in Ontario: a cross-sectional analysis of a prospective cohort study
    By the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, 23.6% of a sample of South Asian individuals in the GTA had seropositivity. Nearly one-third of participants were essential workers and about 20% lived in a multigenerational household.
  • Visits to the emergency department by community-dwelling people with dementia during the first 2 waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario: a repeated cross-sectional analysis
    There were large drops in emergency department visits overall and for urgent and nonurgent problems during the first 2 COVID-19 pandemic waves in community-dwelling people with dementia in Ontario, which did not return to previous levels by end of wave 2.
  • Family presence in Canadian PICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods environmental scan of policy and practice
    This mixed-methods environmental scan showed that policies and practices related to family presence in all 19 Canadian pediatric intensive care units varied substantially across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Physicians’ perspectives on processes for emergency mental health transfers from university health clinics to hospitals in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative analysis
  • Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from unvaccinated asymptomatic and symptomatic household members with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: an antibody-surveillance study
  • Medications and dosages used in medical assistance in dying: a cross-sectional study
  • Regional health care services and rates of lower extremity amputation related to diabetes and peripheral artery disease: an ecological study
  • Infertility treatment and postpartum mental illness: a population-based cohort study
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