Physicians are notorious for poor hand hygiene (HH) compliance. We wondered if lower
performance by physicians compared with other health professionals might reflect differences in …

Background: Reliable reports on hand hygiene performance throughout the COVID-19
pandemic are lacking as most hospitals continue to rely on direct observation to measure this …

Background Hand hygiene (HH) is an important patient safety measure linked to the prevention
of health care-associated infection, yet how outbreaks affect HH performance has not …

The dogma of stroke recovery has dramatically changed over the last several decades. It
was long believed that neurons were the sole mediator of functional decline and recovery …

UWOMJ 85: 1| Spring 2016 Page 24 has the potential to be cost-saving. 4, 7 However,
these estimates are derived from computer simulations which simplify real interactions in the …

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. There is an increasing
number of Canadians studying medicine outside of Canada, with a large cohort studying in …

The word “altruism” is commonly ascribed to those who pursue a career in healthcare. However,
looking at medicine through the lens of altruism shuts our eyes to the inherent humanity …

METHODS 1. While I understand that some of the Methods details may have been described
in previous papers from the same group, some details may be very relevant to the reader of …

A 39-year-old man who used intravenous fentanyl presented to the emergency department
with a 1-month history of a painful, progressively enlarging pulsatile mass in his right …

The debate around supervised injection facilities (SIF) rages on more than a decade after the
opening of Insite, Canada’s first supervised injection site in Vancouver. Recently, an article …