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  The economic burden of cancer care in Canada: a population-based cost study

  Claire de Oliveira, Sharada Weir, Jagadish Rangrej, Murray D. Krahn, Nicole Mittmann, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Kelvin K.W. Chan and Stuart Peacock

  January 04, 2018 6 (1) E1-E10; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170144
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  Real-world treatment of hepatitis C with second-generation direct-acting antivirals: initial results from a multicentre Canadian retrospective cohort of diverse patients

  Alex I. Aspinall, Abdel A. Shaheen, Golasa S. Kochaksaraei, Breean Haslam, Samuel S. Lee, Gisela Macphail, Jeff Kapler, Oscar E. Larios, Kelly W. Burak, Mark G. Swain, Meredith A. Borman and Carla S. Coffin

  January 05, 2018 6 (1) E12-E18; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170059
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  Adverse effects of caffeinated energy drinks among youth and young adults in Canada: a Web-based survey

  David Hammond, Jessica L. Reid and Sara Zukowski

  January 15, 2018 6 (1) E19-E25; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20160154
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  Health care professionals' neckties as a source of transmission of bacteria to patients: a systematic review

  Pia Pace-Asciak, Sanjiv K. Bhimrao, Frederick K. Kozak and Brian D. Westerberg

  January 16, 2018 6 (1) E26-E30; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170126
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  Most medical practices are not parachutes: a citation analysis of practices felt by biomedical authors to be analogous to parachutes

  Michael J. Hayes, Victoria Kaestner, Sham Mailankody and Vinay Prasad

  January 17, 2018 6 (1) E31-E38; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170088
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  Burns from illegal cannabis oil manufacturing: a case series

  Sarthak Sinha, Kyle Ricord, Patricia Harasym, Jeff A. Biernaskie, Duncan Nickerson and Vincent A. Gabriel

  January 23, 2018 6 (1) E39-E43; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170105
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  The Canadian Preterm Birth Network: a study protocol for improving outcomes for preterm infants and their families

  Prakesh S. Shah, Sarah D. McDonald, Jon Barrett, Anne Synnes, Kate Robson, Jonathan Foster, Jean-Charles Pasquier, K.S. Joseph, Bruno Piedboeuf, Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil, Karel O'Brien, Sandesh Shivananda, Nils Chaillet, Petros Pechlivanoglou and for the Canadian Preterm Birth Network Investigators

  January 18, 2018 6 (1) E44-E49; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170128
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  Cannabis use among middle and high school students in Ontario: a school-based cross-sectional study

  Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga, Hayley A. Hamilton, Allana G. LeBlanc and Jean-Philippe Chaput

  January 24, 2018 6 (1) E50-E56; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170159
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  The relation between publication rate and financial conflict of interest among physician authors of high-impact oncology publications: an observational study

  Victoria Kaestner, Jonathan B. Edmiston and Vinay Prasad

  January 30, 2018 6 (1) E57-E62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170095
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  The consequences of patient charges for prescription drugs in Canada: a cross-sectional survey

  Michael R. Law, Lucy Cheng, Ashra Kolhatkar, Laurie J. Goldsmith, Steven G. Morgan, Anne M. Holbrook and Irfan A. Dhalla

  February 13, 2018 6 (1) E63-E70; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180008
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  Landscape of antimicrobial stewardship programs in Ontario: a survey of hospitals

  Valerie Leung, Julie Hui-Chih Wu, Bradley J. Langford and Gary Garber

  February 02, 2018 6 (1) E71-E76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170111
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  Cost-effectiveness of mammography from a publicly funded health care system perspective

  Nicole Mittmann, Natasha K. Stout, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Amy Trentham-Dietz, Oguzhan Alagoz and Martin J. Yaffe

  February 09, 2018 6 (1) E77-E86; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170106
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  A pilot study of a Medication Rationalization (MERA) intervention

  Rachel Whitty, Sandra Porter, Kiran Battu, Pranjal Bhatt, Ellen Koo, Csilla Kalocsai, Peter E. Wu, Kendra Delicaet, Isaac I. Bogoch, Robert Wu and James Downar

  February 21, 2018 6 (1) E87-E94; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170134
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  Secondary stroke prevention services in Canada: a cross-sectional survey and geospatial analysis of resources, capacity and geographic access

  Lauren Jewett, Adil Harroud, Michael D. Hill, Robert Côté, Theodore Wein, Eric E. Smith, Gord Gubitz, Andrew M. Demchuk, Demetrios J. Sahlas, David J. Gladstone and M. Patrice Lindsay

  February 22, 2018 6 (1) E95-E102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170130
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  Immersive and interactive virtual reality to improve learning and retention of neuroanatomy in medical students: a randomized controlled study

  Chelsea Ekstrand, Ali Jamal, Ron Nguyen, Annalise Kudryk, Jennifer Mann and Ivar Mendez

  March 06, 2018 6 (1) E103-E109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170110
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  Opioid prescribing and adverse events in opioid-naive patients treated by emergency physicians versus family physicians: a population-based cohort study

  Bjug Borgundvaag, Shelley McLeod, Wayne Khuu, Catherine Varner, Mina Tadrous and Tara Gomes

  March 05, 2018 6 (1) E110-E117; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170151
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  Association between salt substitutes/enhancers and changes in sodium levels in fast-food restaurants: a cross-sectional analysis

  Mary J. Scourboutakos, Sarah A. Murphy and Mary R. L'Abbé

  March 07, 2018 6 (1) E118-E125; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170137
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  Geographic variation in the provider of screening colonoscopy in Canada: a population-based cohort study

  Aristithes G. Doumouras, Sama Anvari, Margherita Cadeddu, Mehran Anvari and Dennis Hong

  March 13, 2018 6 (1) E126-E131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170131
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  Catastrophic drug coverage: utilization insights from the Ontario Trillium Drug Program

  Mina Tadrous, Simon Greaves, Diana Martins, Muhammad M. Mamdani, David N. Juurlink and Tara Gomes

  March 26, 2018 6 (1) E132-E138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170132
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  Clinical presentation of Lyme disease in the higher-risk region of Quebec: a retrospective descriptive study

  Audrey Charbonneau, Louis-Philippe Charette, Geneviève Rouleau, Mélissa Savary, Alexandra Wilson, Emily Heer, Karine Bériault and Alexandra de Pokomandy

  March 27, 2018 6 (1) E139-E145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170084
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  Development of a provisional essential medicines list for children in Canada: consensus process

  Hannah Woods, Efosa Oronsaye, Anjli Bali, Yathavan Rajakulasingam, Taehoon Lee, Norman Umali, Eyal Cohen, Yaron Finkelstein, Martin Offringa and Nav Persaud

  March 28, 2018 6 (1) E146-E150; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170129