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Sepsis, one of CMAJ’s four new areas of focus

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By Diane Kelsall, MD MEd, Niranjan Kissoon
| Canadian Medical Association Journal Verified
Sometimes readers and authors ask what CMAJ is especially interested in. Which trends in health care concern us? What emerging issues do we worry about? As a general medical journal, CMAJ covers a wide range of medical topics for a broad readership in Canada and internationally. And with our far-reaching vision to champion knowledge that matters for the health of Canadians and the rest of the world, perhaps it can be difficult to tell what keeps us up at night.
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Renewal for CMAJ

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By Diane Kelsall, MD MEd, Ken Flegel, MDCM MSc
| Canadian Medical Association Journal Verified
In March of last year, CMAJ’s editors and many of its stakeholders feared for the journal’s future. The editor-in-chief had been fired, the Journal Oversight Committee disbanded and a task force struck by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and Joule (the subsidiary that owns CMAJ) to re-examine CMAJ’s mission.1 Some commenters questioned the 105-year-old journal’s editorial independence and even its viability. What has happened instead is remarkable.
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No standards: medicolegal investigation of deaths

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By Diane Kelsall, MD MEd
| Canadian Medical Association Journal Verified
Each year, about 230 000 residents of Canada die.1 In unexplained, unexpected or violent deaths, coroners or medical examiners are charged with determining why and how the person died.2 However, concerns have been raised about the quality of medicolegal investigation of deaths and the overall integrity of mortality statistics in Canada.1–3 Accurate classification of deaths and quality of reporting have important legal implications and widespread public health implications.
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