Canadian Medical Association Journal15h
Outcomes for people experiencing homelessness with COVID-19 presenting to emergency departments in Canada, compared with housed patients
Background: Whether people experiencing homelessness (PEH) have different COVID-19 outcomes than housed patients in Canada remains unclear. We sought to ascertain whether rates of in-hospital ...
Canadian Medical Association Journal15h
Nonceliac gluten sensitivities: encouraging patients through epistemic humility
Empowering patients to understand and manage their medical issues is particularly challenging when they have a condition for which medical understanding is poor and misinformation abounds. Gluten ...
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Clinical Images: Lupus vulgaris in a 58-year-old man ...
CMAJ15d
Trust during a prolonged journey with trigeminal neuralgia
I am 23 years old and have been living with a vengeful fifth cranial nerve for three years. At the beginning, I had knife-like, paroxysmal pain in my forehead and the left side of my face, and my ...
Canadian Medical Association Journal7d
An afternoon on the hospice piano
As a composer, I have channelled emotions into art for as long as I can remember. When death was still only an abstract concept to me, I approached it with tentative curiosity. I allowed myself to ...
CMAJ15d
Petechial periflexural exanthem associated with parvovirus B19 infection in an 18-year-old
Emilio Berna-Rico, Carlos Azcarraga-Llobet and Javier Pérez-Bootello ...
CMAJ15d
Bispecific antibody toxicities
Patients present with fever, hypotension, hypoxia, and, in rare cases, multiorgan failure. The syndrome can be difficult to distinguish from sepsis. Its incidence varies by bispecific antibodies and ...
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Sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and risk of chronic kidney disease–mineral and bone disorders in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage 1–3 chronic kidney disease ...
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Interoperability of health data: the importance of including physicians
In a recent article published in CMAJ , El Sabawy and colleagues highlight the critical importance of health data interoperability and the positive influence that Bill C-72 may have toward that goal.[ ...
CMAJ29d
Postviral olfactory dysfunction
Upper respiratory tract infections are commonly associated with olfactory dysfunction.2 SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a frequent causative pathogen; the incidence of olfactory dysfunction at 6 months after ...
CMAJ29d
Preventing harms from first prescriptions of opioids
Prevention of harms from opioids prescribed by physicians is complicated by the need to ameliorate patients’ suffering from acute pain. Opioid-naive patients pose a particular challenge, as they may ...