Andreas Laupacis
Deputy Editor at Canadian Medical Association Journal
Retired MD (GIM/palliative care); living in Arthur Ontario; Deputy Editor CMAJ focusing on Practice; all views my own
Articles
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May 21, 2024 |
cmaj.ca | Andrew S. Boozary |Catherine Varner |Andreas Laupacis
In this issue of CMAJ, Alston and colleagues describe the urgent and complex problem of homelessness among older adults,1 a growing population nationwide.2 The latest report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) revealed that, in 2023, 30 000 people experiencing homelessness were admitted to hospitals in Canada, and these admissions lasted twice as long and were more than double the cost than admissions for people who were not unhoused.3 Both the CMAJ analysis and the CIHI...
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May 6, 2024 |
cmaj.ca | Catherine Varner |Andrew S. Boozary |Andreas Laupacis
In research published in this issue of CMAJ, Mah and colleagues summarize clinicians’ experiences of providing care for patients whose presenting illness is not acute and for whom admission to hospital is not warranted, and yet complex health needs and a background of inadequate social supports mean they cannot safely be discharged.1 The article’s authors use the term “social admissions.” Yet, the pervasive, pejorative term often used is “failure to cope,” which implicitly blames the person...
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Dec 18, 2023 |
cmaj.ca | Andreas Laupacis |Kirsten Patrick
This issue of CMAJ includes the first of a new article type on the topic of trust in health care, developed in collaboration with CMAJ’s patient advisory panel. Why focus on trust? Some physicians on CMAJ’s practice advisory panel raised the issue in a meeting in 2022, saying that they had been finding it increasingly difficult to establish and maintain trust with some of their patients, and expressing a desire to understand why this was happening and how to re-establish trust.
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Nov 14, 2023 |
cmaj.ca | Andreas Laupacis |Victoria Saigle
See related articles at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.230544, www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.230665 and www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.231476In this issue of CMAJ, we launch a new Practice series — Five Ways to Support — which will give clinician readers strategies to better support people who require care. Each article will have at least 1 author who is a patient or caregiver with direct experience of the particular health care issue being discussed.
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Nov 13, 2023 |
cmaj.ca | Andreas Laupacis
One night, I decided to meet up with someone and I was assaulted. I went to the emergency department of my own volition. At the front desk, I immediately informed them why I was there and that I identify as a trans man. I told them that some of the information on my health card did not match my identity, what name I preferred and my pronouns.
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Thanks to Robin for sharing her experience with having surgery while breastfeeding https://t.co/TeS7UifANZ Provides a patient perspective on a Five Things to Know article on the topic https://t.co/nUYyWkPvUr @CMAJ @EliseGrahamMD #breastfeedingsupport
One of the many things I like about @jamesmaskalyk is his on-the-ground realism about what ails our health care system (there's lots!) coupled with a glass-half-full enthusiasm about making it better. That comes through in this G&M article https://t.co/CSOBwUseoa @CMAJ
Polio virus detected in wastewater in Canada. This 300 word article in @CMAJ provides useful information about polio for clinicians https://t.co/bo3u13mDPC
Very important that we are all up-to-date on routine vaccinations: "On 23 Dec 2022, the Canada IHR National Focal Point reported a detection of a vaccine derived polio virus type 2 (VDPV2) in 2 wastewater samples collected in August 2022 from Canada." https://t.co/YACEVhBChV https://t.co/5EMk0awjPk