Canadian Medical Association Journal

Article	Citations
Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline	595
The impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	480
Development of the Instrument to assess the Credibility of Effect Modification Analyses (ICEMAN) in randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses	276
Shifts in office and virtual primary care during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada	247
Probable congenital SARS-CoV-2 infection in a neonate born to a woman with active SARS-CoV-2 infection	245
Evaluation of the relative virulence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants: a retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada	199
Impact of climate and public health interventions on the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study	168
COVID-19 and people experiencing homelessness: challenges and mitigation strategies	157
For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths	153
Efficacy and safety of corticosteroids in COVID-19 based on evidence for COVID-19, other coronavirus infections, influenza, community-acquired pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome: a syst	142
Projected estimates of cancer in Canada in 2022	122
Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma: What’s important to know about SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern?	114
Digital contact tracing for COVID-19	111
Addressing the indirect effects of COVID-19 on the health of children and young people	107
Clearing the surgical backlog caused by COVID-19 in Ontario: a time series modelling study	101
Remdesivir for the treatment of patients in hospital with COVID-19 in Canada: a randomized controlled trial	100
Baseline characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care units in Vancouver, Canada: a case series	93
COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Ontario and British Columbia	91
Health care practitioners’ responsibility to address intimate partner violence related to the COVID-19 pandemic	82
Anosmia and dysgeusia associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an age-matched case–control study	79
Medical experimentation and the roots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Indigenous Peoples in Canada	74
Estimation of COVID-19–induced depletion of hospital resources in Ontario, Canada	69
Symptoms associated with a positive result for a swab for SARS-CoV-2 infection among children in Alberta	64
COVID-19 in patients undergoing long-term dialysis in Ontario	63
Characteristics and outcomes of hospital admissions for COVID-19 and influenza in the Toronto area	62

Implementing machine learning in medicine	60
Efficacy and safety of convalescent plasma for severe COVID-19 based on evidence in other severe respiratory viral infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis	60
Time to dismantle systemic anti-Black racism in medicine in Canada	59
Temporal estimates of case-fatality rate for COVID-19 outbreaks in Canada and the United States	58
Coagulopathy associated with COVID-19	56
Advancing gender equity in medicine	56
Individual and social determinants of SARS-CoV-2 testing and positivity in Ontario, Canada: a population-wide study	55
Efficacy and safety of antiviral treatment for COVID-19 from evidence in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and other acute viral infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) serology: implications for clinical practice, laboratory medicine and public health	54
A safer drug supply: a pragmatic and ethical response to the overdose crisis	52
The efficacy and safety of sunscreen use for the prevention of skin cancer	51
The influence of sex and gender domains on COVID-19 cases and mortality	50
The case for relaxing no-visitor policies in hospitals during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic	50
Holder pasteurization of donated human milk is effective in inactivating SARS-CoV-2	50
Canadian best practice recommendations for the management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	46
Death, discharge and arrhythmias among patients with COVID-19 and cardiac injury	45
Diagnosis-wide analysis of COVID-19 complications: an exposure-crossover study	43
Infectivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in children compared with adults	43
Short-term antibody response after 1 dose of BNT162b2 vaccine in patients receiving hemodialysis	42
Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine	41
COVID-19 and the decolonization of Indigenous public health	40
Effect of moist heat reprocessing of N95 respirators on SARS-CoV-2 inactivation and respirator function	40
Characteristics of children admitted to hospital with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada in 2020	40
Supporting children with autism spectrum disorder in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Continuing care and COVID-19: a Canadian tragedy that must not be allowed to happen again	39
Preterm birth and stillbirth rates during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based cohort study	39
Anticipating and managing coagulopathy and thrombotic manifestations of severe COVID-19	38
Prone positioning for patients with hypoxic respiratory failure related to COVID-19	38
Understanding heterogeneity to inform the public health response to COVID-19 in Canada	38
Supervised consumption services for acute care hospital patients	38
Antiviral drug treatment for nonsevere COVID-19: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	37
Canada’s response to the initial 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison with peer countries	37
Toxicology and prescribed medication histories among people experiencing fatal illicit drug overdose in British Columbia, Canada	36
Diagnosis and management of endometriosis	33
Confronting the COVID-19 surgery crisis: time for transformational change	33
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in premature and avoidable mortality in Canada, 1991–2016	33
What’s important to know about the new COVID-19 variants?	33
Virtual care is here to stay, but major challenges remain	32
Reasons for cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation: a qualitative study	31
Investigation and management of erythrocytosis	30
Geographic concentration of SARS-CoV-2 cases by social determinants of health in metropolitan areas in Canada: a cross-sectional study	29
Active testing of groups at increased risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 in Canada: costs and human resource needs	28
Virtual care for patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias during the COVID-19 era and beyond	28
Diagnosis and management of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome	28
Life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in people with inflammatory bowel disease	28
Projected effects of nonpharmaceutical public health interventions to prevent resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Canada	27
Acute pancreatitis in a 61-year-old man with COVID-19	27
Increasing SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates among Black people in Canada	27
Clinical outcomes and health care costs among people entering a safer opioid supply program in Ontario	27
Population-based evaluation of the effectiveness of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for reducing hospital admissions and mortality from COVID-19	26

Effectiveness of intrapartum fetal surveillance to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	26
Serial cross-sectional estimation of vaccine-and infection-induced SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in British Columbia, Canada	26
Trends in prevalence of chronic disease and multimorbidity in Ontario, Canada	25
Postpartum mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based, repeated cross-sectional study	25
Impact of population mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated subpopulations on infectious disease dynamics: implications for SARS-CoV-2 transmission	25
Managing conflicts of interest in the development of health guidelines	25
Reporting of financial conflicts of interest by Canadian clinical practice guideline producers: a descriptive study	25
Association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and COVID-19 severity: a prospective cohort study	25
Postoperative outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in Canada: a systematic review	25
Problems in the deployment of machine-learned models in health care	24
Differences in mRNA-1273 (Moderna) and BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) SARS-CoV-2 vaccine immunogenicity among patients undergoing dialysis	24
Mortality among patients with frequent emergency department use for alcohol-related reasons in Ontario: a population-based cohort study	24
Maternal and neonatal trauma following operative vaginal delivery	23
Key populations for early COVID-19 immunization: preliminary guidance for policy	23
A population-based analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on common abdominal and gynecological emergency department visits	23
Total knee replacement after high tibial osteotomy: time-to-event analysis and predictors	22
Integrating research into clinical practice: challenges and solutions for Canada	22
Postpartum exacerbation of antenatal COVID-19 pneumonia in 3 women	22
Diagnosis and management of acute respiratory distress syndrome	22
Bradycardia associated with remdesivir therapy for COVID-19 in a 59-year-old man	22
Beau lines associated with COVID-19	22
The use and impact of monoclonal antibody biologics during pregnancy	22
Making sense of monkeypox death rates	22
The challenges of managing diabetes while homeless: a qualitative study using photovoice methodology	22
COVID-19 and changes to postgraduate medical education in Canada	21
Virtual overdose monitoring services: a novel adjunctive harm reduction approach for addressing the overdose crisis	21
Potential resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus in Canada	21
Observed versus expected rates of myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: a population-based cohort study	21
Sex differences in mortality: results from a population-based study of 12 longitudinal cohorts	21
Post-acute health care burden after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study	21
A case of human monkeypox in Canada	21
Evaluation of machine learning solutions in medicine	21
Recent cannabis use and myocardial infarction in young adults: a cross-sectional study	20
Rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic people as a public health tool to combat COVID-19	20
Predictors of severe illness in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a multicentre cohort study	20
Intrauterine exposure to diabetes and risk of cardiovascular disease in adolescence and early adulthood: a population-based birth cohort study	20
Diagnosing acute aortic syndrome: a Canadian clinical practice guideline	19
Risk factors for outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 infection at retirement homes in Ontario, Canada: a population-level cohort study	19
XE, XD & XF: what to know about the Omicron hybrid variants	19
First Nations status and emergency department triage scores in Alberta: a retrospective cohort study	19
Systemic capillary leak syndrome after ChAdOx1 nCOV-19 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) vaccination	19
The case for a Canadian standard for 2SLGBTQIA+ medical education	19
Pregnancy, breastfeeding and the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: an ethics-based framework for shared decision-making	18
Lung transplantation for acute COVID-19: the Toronto Lung Transplant Program experience	18
Immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer immunotherapy	18
Limb ischemia and pulmonary artery thrombosis after the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) vaccine: a case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia	18
Keeping the front door open: ensuring access to primary care for all in Canada	18
Burden of noninfluenza respiratory viral infections in adults admitted to hospital: analysis of a multiyear Canadian surveillance cohort from 2 centres	18
Association between antihypertensive medications and risk of skin cancer in people older than 65 years: a population-based study	18
Genome sequencing as a diagnostic test	18
Assessing the process and outcome of the development of practice guidelines and recommendations: PANELVIEW instrument development	17
COVID-19 and long-term care facilities: Does ownership matter?	17
Not neutral: reimagining antiracism as a professional competence	17
Prenatal antibiotic exposure and risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based cohort study	17
Suicidality among sexual minority and transgender adolescents: a nationally representative population-based study of youth in Canada	17
Pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19: a spectrum of diseases with many names	17
Long-term social distancing during COVID-19: A social isolation crisis among seniors?	17
A low-barrier, flexible safe supply program to prevent deaths from overdose	16
Development of a framework for critical care resource allocation for the COVID-19 pandemic in Saskatchewan	16
Inappropriate use of clinical practices in Canada: a systematic review	16
Principles for clinical care of patients with COVID-19 on medical units	16
Achieving and sustaining herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2	16
Implementing social interventions in primary care	16
Recognizing and addressing implicit gender bias in medicine	15
The inconvenience of motherhood during a medical career	15
How should we move for health? The case for the 24-hour movement paradigm	15
Patient–physician language concordance and quality and safety outcomes among frail home care recipients admitted to hospital in Ontario, Canada	15
Canada needs a national strategy for anesthesia services in rural and remote regions	15
Physician choices in pulmonary embolism testing	15
Excess mortality, COVID-19 and health care systems in Canada	15
The war in Ukraine and refugee health care: considerations for health care providers in Canada	15
Prenatal hepatitis B screening, and hepatitis B burden among children, in Ontario: a descriptive study	15
Caring for people who inject drugs when they are admitted to hospital	14
Managing postoperative pain in adult outpatients: a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing codeine with NSAIDs	14
Managing the modern infodemic	14
Mandatory vaccination for health care workers: an analysis of law and policy	14
Implementing digital passports for SARS-CoV-2 immunization in Canada	14
Severity of COVID-19 among solid organ transplant recipients in Canada, 2020–2021: a prospective, multicentre cohort study	14
Transforming race-based health research in Canada	14
Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir for COVID-19	14

Investigation of a severe SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a long-term care home early in the pandemic	13
Long-distance travel for birthing among Indigenous and non-Indigenous pregnant people in Canada	13
Incidence and mortality rates of keratinocyte carcinoma from 1998–2017: a population-based study of sex differences in Ontario, Canada	13
Is Canada ready for the second wave of COVID-19?	13
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer diagnoses, stage and survival in Alberta	13
Experiences of First Nations adolescents living with type 2 diabetes: a focus group study	13
The mobility gap: estimating mobility thresholds required to control SARS-CoV-2 in Canada	13
Oral lichen planus	13
Impact of cancer surgery slowdowns on patient survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: a microsimulation modelling study	13
Outcomes in patients with and without disability admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study	13
What to know about Omicron XBB.1.5	12
The past, present and future of race and colonialism in medicine	12
Prioritizing specialized children’s surgery in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Guillain–Barré syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in a patient with previous vaccine-associated Guillain–Barré syndrome	12
Changes in ischemic stroke presentations, management and outcomes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta: a population study	12
Migrant workers falling through cracks in health care coverage	12
Gender-based differences in physician payments within the fee-for-service system in Ontario: a retrospective, cross-sectional study	12
Who is Black? The urgency of accurately defining the Black population when conducting health research in Canada	12
Rates of rebleeding, thrombosis and mortality associated with resumption of anticoagulant therapy after anticoagulant-related bleeding	12
Bodychecking experience and rates of injury among ice hockey players aged 15–17 years	11
Birth outcomes following cesarean delivery on maternal request: a population-based cohort study	11
Uncovering SARS-COV-2 vaccine uptake and COVID-19 impacts among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples living in Toronto and London, Ontario	11
Prescribing cascades in older adults	11
Illuminating and mitigating the evolving impacts of COVID-19 on ethnocultural communities: a participatory action mixed-methods study	11
Diversity among health care leaders in Canada: a cross-sectional study of perceived gender and race	11
Fat acceptance as social justice	11
Managing drug shortages during a pandemic: tocilizumab and COVID-19	11
Recommendation on instrument-based screening for depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period	11
Shoulder injury related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine administration	10
Advances in the management of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	10
Firearm-related injuries and deaths in Ontario, Canada, 2002–2016: a population-based study	10
Catheter-directed thrombolysis compared with systemic thrombolysis and anticoagulation in patients with intermediate- or high-risk pulmonary embolism: systematic review and network meta-analysis	10
Update on fertility preservation for younger women with breast cancer	10
Innovations in genomics for undiagnosed diseases: vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic (VEXAS) syndrome	10
Management of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a guide for primary care practitioners	10
Unpacking “long COVID”	10
Maternal cardiovascular disease after twin pregnancies complicated by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a population-based cohort study	10
International variation in dialysis discontinuation in patients with advanced kidney disease	10
Aligning continuing professional development with quality improvement	10
Recommendations for equitable COVID-19 pandemic recovery in Canada	10
Drug-induced liver injury	10
COVID-19 and the prevalence of drug shortages in Canada: a cross-sectional time-series analysis from April 2017 to April 2022	10
Neurosyphilis	9
Pregnancy in transgender men	9
Housing conditions and respiratory morbidity in Indigenous children in remote communities in Northwestern Ontario, Canada	9
Why are Indigenous communities seeing so few cases of COVID-19?	9
Factors associated with consent for organ donation: a retrospective population-based study	9
CMAJ’s new guidance on the reporting of race and ethnicity in research articles	9
Regional collaborative home-based palliative care and health care outcomes among adults with heart failure	9
Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy	9
Fatal Lyme carditis presenting as fluctuating high-grade atrioventricular block	9
Establishing irremediable psychiatric suffering in the context of medical assistance in dying in the Netherlands: a qualitative study	9
Safer opioid supply via a biometric dispensing machine: a qualitative study of barriers, facilitators and associated outcomes	9
Predicting death in home care users: derivation and validation of the Risk Evaluation for Support: Predictions for Elder-Life in the Community Tool (RESPECT)	9
COVID-19 and patient engagement in health research: What have we learned?	9
Working in a bubble: How can businesses reopen while limiting the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks?	9
Prepregnancy renal function and risk of preterm birth and related outcomes	9
Optimizing care for critically ill older adults	9
Thyroid function testing and management during and after pregnancy among women without thyroid disease before pregnancy	9
Pressurized metered-dose inhalers and their impact on climate change	9
Endometrial cancer	9
Characteristics of patients with mental illness and persistent high-cost status: a population-based analysis	9
Clinical practice guideline for management of osteoporosis and fracture prevention in Canada: 2023 update	9
National survey highlights worsening primary care access	9
Spinal cord stimulation: a nonopioid alternative for chronic pain management	9
Aggressively find, test, trace and isolate to beat COVID-19	9
Possible association between rhabdomyolysis and mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in a patient with RYR1 gene mutation	8
Derivation and validation of a clinical model to predict death or cardiac hospitalizations while on the cardiac surgery waitlist	8
Canadian federal–provincial/territorial funding of universal health care: fraught history, uncertain future	8
Transitioning to outpatient arthroplasty during COVID-19: time to pivot	8
Cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomic-guided treatment for major depression	8
Changes over time in means of suicide in Canada: an analysis of mortality data from 1981 to 2018	8
Effect of influenza vaccination in patients with asthma	8
Recognizing, managing and reporting vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia	8
How Indigenous people are coping with COVID-19	8
Booster vaccination with inactivated whole-virus or mRNA vaccines and COVID-19–related deaths among people with multimorbidity: a cohort study	8
Improving the regulation of medical cannabis in Canada to better serve pediatric patients	8
The risk of death or unplanned readmission after discharge from a COVID-19 hospitalization in Alberta and Ontario	8
Statin initiation and risk of incident kidney disease in patients with diabetes	8
Critical race theory in medicine	8
Overworked health workers are “past the point of exhaustion”	8
Public health experts are learning from Canada’s anti-mask protests	8
The trauma-informed genital and gynecologic examination	8
Recommendation on screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care for individuals not known to be at high risk	8
Emergency departments are in crisis now and for the foreseeable future	8
Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2	8
Psychological support for health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Rupioid psoriasis on the hands	8
SARS-CoV-2-related chilblains	7
Monitoring, treatment and control of blood glucose and lipids in Ontario First Nations people with diabetes	7
Canadian guideline for the clinical management of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder	7
Changes over time in patient visits and continuity of care among graduating cohorts of family physicians in 4 Canadian provinces	7
Cost–utility analysis of apixaban compared with usual care for primary thromboprophylaxis in ambulatory patients with cancer	7
Venlafaxine overdose treated with extracorporeal life support	7
Primary care is facing a capacity crisis — can pandemic lessons help chart a path forward?	7