The Equivalence of Two Open Therapeutic Regimens of Cimetidine in the Treatment of Acute Duodenal Ulcer Disease: A Canadian Multicentre Trial by H Navert, AP Archambault, IGM Cleator, NB Hershfield, EJ Prokipchuk, ABR Thomson

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Physical functioning outcome measures in the lumbar spinal surgery population and measurement properties of the physical outcome measures: protocol for a systematic review by Alison B Rushton, Jai Mistry, Michael J Lukacs, Katie L Kowalski, Maren Goodman

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Engagement of students in care delivery for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through interprofessional education by Jane Jomy, Hillary Chan, Stuart McKinlay, Sebat Mohamed, Ben Caplan, Rachel Cohen, Leigh Caplan, Lily Cohen, Jessica Lynch, Shelby Olesovsky, Brock Reissner

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Viral Response to Specifically Targeted Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C and the Implications for Treatment Success by Curtis L Cooper

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A Note on Confidence Interval for the Power of the One Sample 𝑡 Test by A. Wong

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Infants Born Large for Gestational Age and Developmental Attainment in Early Childhood by Cairina E. Frank, Kathy N. Speechley, Jennifer J. Macnab, M. Karen Campbell

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Taxonomic Blind Spots: A Limitation of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding‐Based Detection for Canadian Freshwater Fishes by Kevin C. Morey, Erika Myler, Robert Hanner, Gerald Tetreault

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Real-World Treatment Patterns, Survival, and Costs for Ovarian Cancer in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Provincial Administrative Data by Manjusha Hurry, Shazia Hassan, Soo Jin Seung, Ryan N. Walton, Ashlie Elnoursi, Jacob D. McGee

“…This study sought to determine patient characteristics and costs to the health system for OC in Ontario, Canada. **Methods:** Women diagnosed with OC in Ontario between 2010 and 2017 were identified. …”
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A high offset stem design does not increase stem migration under full weight bearing in cementless total hip arthroplasty: a model-based RSA study by Tobias Reiner, Robert Sonntag, Jan Philippe Kretzer, Michael Clarius, Eike Jakubowitz, Stefan Weiss, Stefan Kinkel, Tilman Walker, Tobias Gotterbarm, Timo Albert Nees

“…This study aimed to evaluate the primary and secondary stability of a cementless high-offset femoral component under full weight-bearing conditions using model-based RSA, comparing it with a standard offset stem in patients undergoing THA. Methods In this prospective, observational, single-center study, 42 patients with end-stage hip osteoarthritis underwent cementless primary THA using either a standard (SL-PLUS Standard) or a high-offset (SL-PLUS Lateral) cementless stem. …”
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Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in HIV — Investigate or Just Treat? by Steven Kesten

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Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Consensus Guidelines on Safety and Quality Indicators in Endoscopy by David Armstrong, Alan Barkun, Ron Bridges, Rose Carter, Chris de Gara, Catherine Dubé, Robert Enns, Roger Hollingworth, Donald MacIntosh, Mark Borgaonkar, Sylviane Forget, Grigorios Leontiadis, Jonathan Meddings, Peter Cotton, Ernst J Kuipers, Roland Valori, on behalf of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Safety and Quality Indicators in Endoscopy Consensus Group

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Defining Quality Indicators for Best-Practice Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Canada by Geoffrey C Nguyen, Shane M Devlin, Waqqas Afif, Brian Bressler, Steven E Gruchy, Gilaad G Kaplan, Liliana Oliveira, Sophie Plamondon, Cynthia H Seow, Chadwick Williams, Karen Wong, Brian M Yan, Jennifer Jones

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Health Canada's use of its priority review process for new drugs: a cohort study by Joel Lexchin

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Waiting for Treatment for Chronic Pain – a Survey of Existing Benchmarks: Toward Establishing Evidence-Based Benchmarks for Medically Acceptable Waiting Times by Mary E Lynch, Fiona A Campbell, Alexander J Clark, Michael J Dunbar, David Goldstein, Philip Peng, Jennifer Stinson, Helen Tupper, the Canadian Pain Society Wait Times Task Force

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Otolaryngology exposure in a longitudinal integrated clerkship setting by Grace Margaret Scott, Corliss Ann Elizabeth Best, Damian Christopher Micomonaco

“…During the longitudinal integrated clerkship at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), students are assigned to one of 14 sites, and not all have access to an otolaryngologist. …”
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Comparison of conventional versus robotic-assisted total hip arthroplasty using the Mako system: An Italian retrospective study by Roberta Banchetti, Silvia Dari, Maria Elisabetta Ricciarini, Domenico Lup, Francesco Carpinteri, Fabio Catani, Patrizio Caldora

“…Introduction: Our research aimed to evaluate differences in terms of length of hospital stay and clinical outcomes between robotic-arm assisted using MAKO system and standard manual implantation in a group of patients who underwent primary total hip arthroplasty (THA). …”
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Development of a core measurement set for research in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a study protocol (AO Spine RECODE-DCM CMS) by Robert Chen, Angus G K McNair, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Julio C Furlan, Benjamin M Davies, Oliver D Mowforth, Iwan Sadler, Bizhan Aarabi, Brian K Kwon, Michael G Fehlings, James S Harrop, Armin Curt, Ellen Sarewitz, Carl Moritz Zipser, Timothy F Boerger, Mark R N Kotter, James Milligan, Lindsay Tetreault, Danyal Khan, Keng Siang Lee, Alvaro Yanez Touzet, Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto, James D Guest, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, Shirley Widdop

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The Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests for Sexually Transmitted Infections by Max A Chernesky

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An Update on the Management of Chronic Hepatitis C: 2015 Consensus Guidelines from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver by Robert P Myers, Hemant Shah, Kelly W Burak, Curtis Cooper, Jordan J Feld

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Bacterial Infections Complicating Tongue Piercing by Catherine HY Yu, Brian J Minnema, Wayne L Gold

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