Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, ...
A 47-year-old man with discomfort in the upper chest, difficulty swallowing food and drinks, and weight loss of 10 kg over 2 months underwent computed tomography (CT), which excluded malignancy but ...
Background: Primary care physicians, who manage the care of most children with asthma, often do not optimally assess disease control, prescribe asthma controller medications, or provide family asthma ...
Key points A 20-year-old pediatric cancer survivor presented to her local oncology centre in southwestern Ontario with right supraclavicular adenopathy. She had a history of stage IIA Hodgkin lymphoma ...
Background: Pay inequality related to social identity has been observed among physicians, even after accounting for hours worked and specialty. Physician identity factors, such as gender and race, may ...
Key points A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of central chest pain and dyspnea. Her medical history included having had a myocardial infarction (MI) with n ...
A 76-year-old man on dabigatran for rate-controlled atrial fibrillation had follow-up transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) ...
A 3-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with limping. On the morning of the presentation, she had jumped off ...
Access to health care: A cluster randomized controlled trial of an electronic medical record–based pathway for pediatric asthma in primary care in Alberta ...
Family physician pay inequality: a qualitative study exploring how physician responses to perceived patient expectations may explain gender, race, and immigration status pay differences ...
Key points Canada’s health care systems are under strain, with 6.5 million people in Canada lacking a primary care provider,[1][1] which increases patient complexity and volumes and contributes to ...
Access to health care: Distance to primary care and its association with health care use and quality of care in Ontario: a cross-sectional study ...