A 26-year-old woman presented to a dermatologist’s office for psoriasis, reporting discomfort due to itching and scaling. During the consultation, we incidentally noticed a smooth, yellow–white, ...
Canada revised its medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation to extend eligibility to individuals without a reasonably foreseeable natural death (Track 2). We sought to describe the clinical ...
An 83-year-old man presented to the emergency department with fatigue and proximal upper- and lower-limb weakness, 10 days after a diarrheal illness. His medical history included type 2 diabetes ...
KEY POINTS Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening emergency, accounting for 1/2000 presentations of acute chest or back pain to the emergency department. [1] [1] It is a clinical spectrum ...
Background: Low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) is used for lung cancer screening, but can also detect coronary artery disease as coronary artery calcium. We sought to determine the prevalence and ...
Clinicians may be concerned about the potential of electronic patient portals to disrupt the therapeutic relationship, deliver medicolegal burdens or harm patients, but these fears are largely ...
Recent changes to Canadian legislation effectively created 2 pathways for medical assistance in dying (MAiD), where death is or is not reasonably foreseeable, with implications for frail older adults.
An important flaw in the funding approach used by Canada’s public drug plans is highlighted by the findings of 2 articles related to the clinical value of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), published ...
Large inequities in virtually every measure of health and wellness exist between First Nations and their non-Indigenous counterparts. Efforts to improve First Nations’ health have been impeded by ...
Wernicke encephalopathy is a medical emergency with substantial morbidity and mortality A historical case series reported mortality in 17% of patients with acute Wernicke encephalopathy. 2 Of the ...
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Background: The relation between emergency department opioid prescribing and subsequent harm is complex and poorly studied. We sought to quantify adverse outcomes, incremental risk, and rates of ...
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