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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2024

"Social admissions" to hospital are not personal failures but policy ones.

Catherine Varner, Andrew Boozary, Andreas Laupacis

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. A call for upstream solutions to the unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia, Canada: Locked up or locked out.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Catherine VarnerDeputy editor, CMAJ (Varner); Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Boozary), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; executive director, Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Health and Social Policy (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ( Boozary), Boston, Mass.; Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (Varner); Department of Emergency Medicine, Sinai Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine (Varner), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; senior deputy editor, CMAJ (Laupacis).
Andrew BoozaryDeputy editor, CMAJ (Varner); Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Boozary), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; executive director, Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Health and Social Policy (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ( Boozary), Boston, Mass.; Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (Varner); Department of Emergency Medicine, Sinai Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine (Varner), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; senior deputy editor, CMAJ (Laupacis).
Andreas LaupacisDeputy editor, CMAJ (Varner); Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Boozary), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; executive director, Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Health and Social Policy (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ( Boozary), Boston, Mass.; Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (Varner); Department of Emergency Medicine, Sinai Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine (Varner), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; senior deputy editor, CMAJ (Laupacis).

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Health PolicyCanadaHospitalizationHumansPatient Admission

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PMID38719224
PMCPMC11073831

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