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.
Latest Articles
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.