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Management of opioid use disorder: 2024 update to the national …
Nov 12, 2024 · Background In an evolving landscape of practices and policies, reviewing and incorporating the latest scientific evidence is necessary to ensure optimal clinical management for people with opioid use disorder. We provide a synopsis of the 2024 update of the 2018 National Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder, from the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters.
Submission guidelines | CMAJ
Shortcuts to Research, Practice, Guidelines, Analysis, Commentary, Review, Humanities. All manuscripts must be submitted on ScholarOne, our online submission system.. To submit a letter, see Submitting a Letter to the Editor.. To submit an obituary, please contact [email protected].(In Memoriam page)Scientific articles should conform to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ...
Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline | CMAJ
Aug 4, 2020 · Decreased food intake and increased physical activity lead to a negative energy balance and trigger a cascade of metabolic and neurohormonal adaptive mechanisms.25, 26 Therapies that target these alterations in neurohormonal mechanisms can become effective tools in the long-term management of obesity.27 Novel approaches to diagnose and assess obesity in clinical practice have been proposed.11 ...
Projected estimates of cancer in Canada in 2024 | CMAJ
May 13, 2024 · Background: Cancer surveillance data are essential to help understand where gaps exist and progress is being made in cancer control. We sought to summarize the expected impact of cancer in Canada in 2024, with projections of new cancer cases and deaths from cancer by sex and province or territory for all ages combined. Methods: We obtained data on new cancer cases (i.e., incidence, 1984–2019 ...
Guidelines | CMAJ - Canadian Medical Association Journal
Oct 16, 2023 · Igor Yakovenko, Yvette Mukaneza, Katuschia Germé, Jacob Belliveau, Ross Fraleigh, Paxton Bach, Ginette Poulin, Peter Selby, Marie-Ève Goyer, Thomas D. Brothers, Jürgen Rehm, David C. Hodgins, Sherry H. Stewart, Evan Wood and Julie Bruneau; on behalf of the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters guideline development team
Clinical practice guideline for management of osteoporosis and …
Oct 10, 2023 · Background: In Canada, more than 2 million people live with osteoporosis, a disease that increases the risk for fractures, which result in excess mortality and morbidity, decreased quality of life and loss of autonomy. This guideline update is intended to assist Canadian health care professionals in the delivery of care to optimize skeletal health and prevent fractures in postmenopausal ...
A pragmatic approach to the management of menopause - CMAJ
May 15, 2023 · What is the prevalence and impact of menopausal symptoms? The median age of menopause is 51 years, which has remained consistent over the last century, despite a trend toward an earlier age of menarche.1, 2 “Symptoms of menopause often start during the perimenopausal period, even as early as 10 years before the last menstrual period.1, 3 Globally, 1.0%–3.7% of women experience premature ...
Canadian guideline for the clinical management of high-risk
Oct 16, 2023 · Background: In Canada, low awareness of evidence-based interventions for the clinical management of alcohol use disorder exists among health care providers and people who could benefit from care. To address this gap, the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse convened a national committee to develop a guideline for the clinical management of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder.
Diagnosis and acute management of migraine - CMAJ
Jan 30, 2023 · Box 1: Evidence used in this review. We conducted a targeted search of Google Scholar and PubMed to identify original research, review articles and clinical practice guidelines published through November of 2021, using search terms that included, but were not limited to, “migraine acute treatment,” “migraine preventive treatment,” “migraine CGRP monoclonal antibodies,” “migraine ...