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2 Jan 2024
CMAJ Open has been closed and is no longer taking new submissions. Thank you to all the authors, peer reviewers, editors, statisticians, editorial board members, advisory panellists and readers for 11 years of great research.
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CMAJ Open has been closed and is no longer taking new submissions. Thank you to all the authors, peer reviewers, editors, statisticians, editorial board members, advisory panellists and readers for 11 years of great research.
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27 Dec 2023
The results suggest that people from more deprived neighbourhoods in Alberta were less likely to be treated with endovascular thrombectomy for ischemic stroke than those from less deprived neighbourhoods.
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27 Dec 2023
Trends in hospital coding for people experiencing homelessness in Canada, 2015–2020
The ICD-10-CA code Z59.0 presents a promising opportunity for standardized and routinely collected data to identify people experiencing homelessness.
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26 Dec 2023
Social determinants of access to timely elective surgery in Ontario, Canada
Social disadvantage had a small and inconsistent impact on receiving care within wait time targets.
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23 Dec 2023
Using data from the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information Pharmacy Network, the authors calculated the rates of defined daily dose and prescriptions per 1000 population per year for all included antibiotics.
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23 Dec 2023
Researchers analyzed data from adults in Ontario who died between 2010 and 2018 and found that female patients were slightly more likely than male patients to have received physician-delivered palliative care in their last year of life.
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22 Dec 2023
Ranitidine use, 1996 to 2019:
Before its recall, ranitidine was among the most used drugs to treat GERD. Using claims data from community pharmacies, the authors estimate the period prevalence of ranitidine use by province, age category and sex.
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22 Dec 2023
Lynch syndrome is a genetic condition predisposing to an increased risk of certain cancers. This study described the rate of Lynch syndrome in Nova Scotians with cancer of the uterus and identified gaps in access to genetic testing in eligible people.
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21 Dec 2023
18 resident physicians who had completed an internal medicine rotation at McMaster University were interviewed via Zoom.
Themes identified included patient death circumstances, immediate/delayed emotional impact, and preparedness and coping mechanisms.
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21 Dec 2023
The authors used antibiotics as an exemplar to validate a machine-learning approach for cleaning and coding medication data in a primary care EMR database. The algorithm showed high validity in classifying whether the medication was an antibiotic.
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19 Dec 2023
New: Study finds that social determinants of health and other #patient characteristics were associated w/ poorer access to some common elective surgeries, but not for all surgeries included. Future research is needed to improve inequities in access to care ices.on.ca/publications/jour…
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19 Dec 2023
🏥 New in @CMAJ_Open: mandates to record homelessness via ICD-10 code z59.0 worked to sharply increase recording in hospitals across Canada. Great news for anyone wanting to leverage admin data for research & evaluation #HealthcareData #homelessness
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The authors used antibiotics as an exemplar to validate a machine-learning approach for cleaning and coding medication data in a primary care EMR database. The algorithm showed high validity in classifying whether the medication was an antibiotic ➡️ cmajopen.ca/lookup/doi/10.97…
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7 Dec 2023
Quebec and Ontario implemented vaccine passports in 2021. Did these policies encourage people to get vaccinated? 11 weeks after vaccine passports were announced, vaccination coverage had increased by 5 percentage points in each province ➡️ cmajopen.ca/lookup/doi/10.97…
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6 Dec 2023
Study shows increased clinical acuity and involuntary admissions to inpatient psychiatric services during COVID-19 restrictions and the following year. Psychiatric hospitals will need to address the increased postpandemic burden ➡️ cmajopen.ca/lookup/doi/10.97…
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