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- The Canadian health care system: Is our present your future?
Despite their common objective—adequate health care for all—differences in history and perspective make it unlikely that Canada and the United States will ever approach health care delivery in the same way.
- The electrocardiogram in remote myocardial infarction: reassessment of criteria
Specificity and positive predictive accuracy are more important than sensitivity in clinical electrocardiographic diagnosis.
- Diphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis
Etidronate disodium has been shown to increase bone density and decrease fracture rates, but it may have more important applications in the prevention of bone loss.
- Deprenyl and Parkinson’s disease: new use for an old drug
Parkinson’s patients treated with deprenyl note modest but consistent clinical improvement.
- Clinical history and visual assessment of diagnostic tests in radiology
The radiologist needs access to the clinical history in order to provide maximum interpretive accuracy.