Test ordering for preventive health care among family medicine residents.

Objective: To determine which screening tests family medicine residents order as part of preventive health care.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Alberta and Ontario.

Effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome: a pilot project.

Context: Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been recognized as a management option for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), although limited research exists to substantiate its effectiveness.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of OMT in the management of CTS.

Methods: This single-blinded quasi-controlled trial was conducted at an academic institution.

Systematic review of the effects of family meal frequency on psychosocial outcomes in youth.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the effects of frequent family meals on psychosocial outcomes in children and adolescents, and to examine whether there are differences in outcomes between males and females.

Data Sources: Studies were identified through a search of MEDLINE (1948 to fifth week of June 2011) and PsycINFO (1806 to first week of July 2011) using the Ovid interface. The MeSH terms and key words used both alone and in combination were family, meal, food intake, nutrition, diets, body weight, adolescent attitudes, eating behaviour, feeding behaviour, and eating disorders.

Contributors to primary care guidelines: What are their professions and how many of them have conflicts of interest?

Objective: To determine the professions of those who contribute to guidelines, guideline variables associated with differing contributor participation, and whether conflict of interest statements are provided in primary care guidelines.

Design: Retrospective analysis of the primary care guidelines from the Canadian Medical Association website. Two independent data extractors reviewed the guidelines and extracted relevant data.

Induced abortion and contraception use: among immigrant and Canadian-born women in Calgary, Alta.

Objective: To determine what proportion of women seeking induced abortion in the Calgary census metropolitan area were immigrants.

Design: For 2 months, eligible women were asked to complete a questionnaire. Women who refused were asked to provide their country of birth (COB) to assess for selection bias.

Say what you mean: rethinking disability language in Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly (APAQ) currently mandates that authors use person-first language in their publications. In this viewpoint article, we argue that although this policy is well intentioned, it betrays a very particular cultural and disciplinary approach to disability: one that is inappropriate given the international and multidisciplinary mandate of the journal. Further, we contend that APAQ's current language policy may serve to delimit the range of high-quality articles submitted and to encourage both theoretical inconsistency and the erasure of the ways in which research participants self-identify.

Gauging the quality of qualitative research in adapted physical activity.

Qualitative inquiry is increasingly being used in adapted physical activity research, which raises questions about how to best evaluate its quality. This article aims to clarify the distinction between quality criteria (the what) and strategies (the how) in qualitative inquiry. An electronic keyword search was used to identify articles pertaining to quality evaluation published between 1995 and 2012 (n=204).

Tobacco use disorder treatment in primary care: implementing a clinical system pathway in Alberta.

Objective: To test a team-based, site-specific, multicomponent clinical system pathway designed for enhancing tobacco use disorder treatment by primary care physicians.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: Sixty primary care sites in Alberta.

Approach to patients with unexplained multimorbidity with sensitivities.

Objective: To explore the underlying causation of unexplained multimorbidity with sensitivities and to discuss the management of patients who present with this perplexing condition.

Sources Of Information: Medical and scientific literature was used from MEDLINE (PubMed), several books, toxicology and allergy journals, conference proceedings, government publications, and environmental health periodicals.

Main Message: Multimorbidity with sensitivities has become an increasingly common and confusing primary care dilemma.