Background:Whether sedative prescriptions after hospital admissions are associated with poor patient outcomes is unknown. We ...

Lisa D. Burry, Louise Rose, Ruxandra Pinto, David R. Williamson, Andrea Hill, Damon Scales, Susan E. Bronskill, Robert Fowler, Lisa Dolovich, Longdi Fu, Chaim M. Bell ...

Tzankova, V., & Becker Werner, J., & Chan Tommy, L.(2023). Diagnostic et traitement à action immédiate de la migraine. CMAJ, 195 (14) , E524-E530. Accessed July 08 ...

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Recommendation The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends against instrument-based depression screening using a questionnaire with cut-off score to distinguish “screen positive” and ...

We used national guidelines from the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases to identify ...

Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are the most commonly reported sexually transmitted bacterial infections in Canada and can cause complications including pelvic inflammatory disease, ...

Diagnosis of hyperemesis gravidarum can be made in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy when a person has nausea and vomiting, at least 1 of which is severe, impairing sufficient intake and affecting tasks ...

Lorente C, Serazin C, Salines G et al. Étude des facteurs de risque de décès des personnes âgées résidant en établissement durant la vague de chaleur d’août 2003. Paris and Saint-Maurice (France): ...

Chronic spontaneous urticaria affects 1% to 3% of people It is not an allergy and carries no risk of anaphylaxis, but is a chronic type 2 inflammatory disease driven by autoimmune mast cell activation ...

A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with painful necrotic leg ulcers (Figure 1). He exhibited narcotic-seeking behaviour, such as requesting narcotics daily, refusing non-narcotic analgesia and ...

Background: Avoidable disparities in health outcomes persist in Canada despite substantial investments in a publicly funded health care system that includes preventive services. Our objective was to ...