Affiliation: St. Michael's Hospital
- Bioethics for clinicians: 2. DisclosureE Etchells
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 155:387-91. 1996..Clinicians may also need to be sensitive to cultural and religious beliefs that can affect disclosure...
- Bioethics for clinicians: 3. CapacityE Etchells
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 155:657-61. 1996..If the assessment suggests that the patient is incapable, further assessment is generally recommended...
- Bioethics for clinicians: 4. VoluntarinessE Etchells
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto Hospital, Ont
CMAJ 155:1083-6. 1996....
- Does this patient have an abnormal systolic murmur?E Etchells
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Toronto, Ontario
JAMA 277:564-71. 1997..We conclude that the clinical examination by cardiologists is accurate for detecting various causes of abnormal systolic murmurs. Studies of the clinical examination by noncardiologists are needed...
- Economic analysis of low-dose heparin vs the low-molecular-weight heparin enoxaparin for prevention of venous thromboembolism after colorectal surgeryE Etchells
Department of Medicine, Toronto Hospital, Ontario, Canada
Arch Intern Med 159:1221-8. 1999..We conducted an economic analysis of low-dose heparin calcium compared with enoxaparin sodium, a low-molecular-weight heparin, for thromboembolism prophylaxis after colorectal surgery...
- Assessment of patient capacity to consent to treatmentE Etchells
Department of Medicine, The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada
J Gen Intern Med 14:27-34. 1999..Clinicians can use these practical, flexible, and evaluated measures as the initial step in the assessment of patient capacity to consent to treatment...
- A bedside clinical prediction rule for detecting moderate or severe aortic stenosisE Etchells
Department of Medicine, Toronto Hospital, Ont, Canada
J Gen Intern Med 13:699-704. 1998..8; 95% CI 0.93, 2.9). CONCLUSION: A clinical prediction rule, using simple bedside maneuvers, accurately ruled in and ruled out aortic stenosis...
- Clinical examination for the detection of protective sensation in the feet of diabetic patients. International Cooperative Group for Clinical Examination ResearchM Smieja
Department of Medicine, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Ont, Canada
J Gen Intern Med 14:418-24. 1999..The Semmes-Weinstein monofilament examination, a reproducible, valid, and generalizable test of foot sensation, is recommended as the screening procedure of choice for examining diabetic feet...
- Implementation and evaluation of an alpha-numeric paging system on a resident inpatient teaching serviceB M Wong
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Hosp Med 4:E34-40. 2009..Alphanumeric pagers can display both numbers and text, and may address some of these communication problems...
- Improving patient safety: just do it!E Etchells
Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University Health Network and Department of MEdicine, University of Toronto
Healthc Pap 2:59-65, discussion 86-9. 2001..It is strongly recommended that hospitals train, implement and support Patient Safety Consultation Teams...