Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in HIV — Investigate or Just Treat? by Steven Kesten

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

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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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Mucosal SARS-CoV-2 S1 adenovirus-based vaccine elicits robust systemic and mucosal immunity and protects against disease in animals by Najwa D. Aljehani, Levi Tamming, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Rwaa H. Abdulal, Mohamed A. Alfaleh, Aishah Ghazwani, Asalah Helal, Reem M. Alsulaiman, Mohammad A. Sanki, Khalid Alluhaybi, Farah Ayman Sukareh, Rahaf H. Alharbi, Faris H. Alyami, M-Zaki ElAssouli, Salima Shebbo, Wesam H. Abdulaal, Abdullah Algaissi, Ahmad Bakur Mahmoud, Mohammad Basabrain, Diana Duque, Jegarubee Bavananthasivam, Wangxue Chen, Lisheng Wang, Simon Sauve, Turki S. Abujamel, Tarfa Altorki, Rowa Alhabbab, Anh Tran, Xuguang Li, Anwar M. Hashem

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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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Interpretation and classification of FBN1 variants associated with Marfan syndrome: consensus recommendations from the Clinical Genome Resource’s FBN1 variant curation expert panel... by A. Drackley, C. Somerville, P. Arnaud, L. M. Baudhuin, N. Hanna, M. L. Kluge, K. Kotzer, C. Boileau, L. Bronicki, B. Callewaert, A. Cecchi, H. Dietz, D. Guo, S. Harris, O. Jarinova, M. Lindsay, L. Little, B. Loeys, G. MacCarrick, J. Meester, D. Milewicz, T. Morisaki, H. Morisaki, D. Murdock, M. Renard, J. Richer, L. Robert, M. Ouzounian, L. Van Laer, J. De Backer, L. Muiño-Mosquera

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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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An Update on the Management of Chronic Hepatitis C: Consensus Guidelines from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver by Robert P Myers, Alnoor Ramji, Marc Bilodeau, Stephen Wong, 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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Approach to shoulder instability: a randomized, controlled trial by Julien Caron, MD FRCSC, Kellen Walsh, MD FRCSC, Tinghua Zhang, MSc, Rashed AlAhmed, MBChB MSc FRCSC, Peter B. MacDonald, MD FRCSC, Cristina Bassi, MD, J Whitcomb Pollock, MD FRCSC MSc, Katie McIlquham, BSc, Peter Lapner, MD FRCSC

“…Those scoring ISI score ≦3 points underwent an arthroscopic Bankart repair. Patients randomized to the CTA group underwent a Latarjet procedure if the glenoid bone loss was > 25%. …”
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Toward Enteral Nutrition in the Treatment of Pediatric Crohn Disease in Canada: A Workshop to Identify Barriers and Enablers by Johan Van Limbergen, Jennifer Haskett, Anne M Griffiths, Jeff Critch, Hien Huynh, Najma Ahmed, Jennifer C deBruyn, Robert Issenman, Wael El-Matary, Thomas D Walters, Cheryl Kluthe, Marie-Eve Roy, Elizabeth Sheppard, Wallace V Crandall, Stan Cohen, Frank M Ruemmele, Arie Levine, Anthony R Otley

“…Conversely, key enablers mentioned included: standardization and sharing of protocols for use of enteral nutrition; ensuring sufficient dietetic resources; and reducing the cost of EEN to the family (including advocacy for reimbursement by provincial ministries of health and private insurance companies). …”
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Minimizing Hemodialysis Catheter Dysfunction: An Ounce of Prevention by Timmy Lee, Charmaine Lok, Miguel Vazquez, Louise Moist, Ivan Maya, Michele Mokrzycki

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Dead Reckoning Using Play Patterns in a Simple 2D Multiplayer Online Game by Wei Shi, Jean-Pierre Corriveau, Jacob Agar

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The efficacy of conservative management of micro-traumatic posterior shoulder instability by Lyn Watson, Prof DocBAppSci(Physio) GradDip, Simon Balster, BPhty(Hon), BSc (Hon), Sarah Warby, PhDB Physio (Hon), Ross Lenssen, BHSc(Physiotherapy), Gregory Hoy, MBBS, FRACS, FAOrthA, FACSP, Shane Barwood, MBBS, FRACS, Jacqui French, BPhysio, Bonnie Kerr, BHth ScMSports Physio, Sam Lawrence, DPT, BAppSc, PGCert, Charlotte Ganderton, PhDB Physio (Hon), Katherine Davis, BHuman Movt (ExSci), MPhysio, Tania Pizzari, PhDB Physio (Hon)

“…Results: After 24 weeks of the WIP-p, participants had significant improvements at 12 (effect size or standardized mean difference (SMD): 1.1, P < .001) and 24 weeks (SMD: 1.8, P < .001) on the Western Ontario Shoulder Instability Index and significant improvements at 6 (SMD; 0.74, P = .036), 12 (SMD: 0.41, P = .007) and 24 weeks (SMD: 1.7, P < .001) on the Melbourne Instability Shoulder Score. …”
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Helicobacter pylori: From Bench to Bedside by N Chiba, A Matisko, P Sinclair, ABR Thomson

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How I do it: lateral canthal web revision—single Z-plasty technique by James Fowler, Corey C. Moore

“…Currently, there is no standard approach for addressing this complication. …”
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