Canadian experts seek pediatric formulary

Should pediatric hospitalists seek formal subspecialty status?

Is it time for pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) to become a full-fl edged subspecialty? Yes! The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) defi nes a subspecialty as “That which provides advanced GME in a narrow fi eld of study within a medical specialty, eg, geriatric medicine within the fi eld of internal medicine.” In addition, many authorities feel that a robust research...

Health care ethics experts in Canadian courts.

Sitting in my office one afternoon, I received a telephone call from a lawyer many miles away. W ould I consider acting as an ethics expert witness in a civil case raising questions about the ethics of a particular physician’s conduct? The question certainly caught me off guard. I had known several individuals who had acted as ethics experts in litigation and had wondered in passing about the n...

An Analysis of Pediatric Vaccine Formulary Selection Problems

Vaccination against infectious disease is hailed as one of the great achievements in public health. However, the United States Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule is becoming increasingly complex as it is expanded to cover additional diseases. Moreover, biotechnology advances have allowed vaccine manufacturers to create combination vaccines that immunize against several diseases in a si...

International experts laud Canadian child and maternal health plan.

Pediatric pharmacokinetics of vancomycin: a canadian perspective.

cardiovascular death, so it would have been more appropriate to refer to a reduction in the incidence of myocardial infarction, as opposed to cardiovascular events. Our third issue of concern relates to the data for myocardial infarction, which was 1 of 3 outcomes measured in the study. The authors reported a 0.6% reduction in this outcome among patients assigned to receive double-dose clopidog...