Contributors

Akshay Bagai, MD

Division of Cardiology

St Michael's Hospital

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cardiac arrhythmia; Hearing impairment

Yeran Bao, MD

Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Falls, Older Adults

Allan N. Barkun, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health

McGill University

Montreal General Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Splenomegaly

Mary B. Barton, MD

Scientific Director, US Preventive Services Task Force

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Washington, DC, USA

Breast cancer

Lori A. Bastian, MD, MPH

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, Newington, Connecticut, USA

Early pregnancy; Ectopic pregnancy

David Bates, MD

Professor of Medicine

Harvard University

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Knee ligaments and menisci

Sophiya Benjamin, MD

Grand River Hospital

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Generalized Anxiety

Stephen Bent, MD

Assistant Adjunct Professor

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center

San Francisco, California, USA

Septic arthritis; Urinary tract infection, women

Peter Bentzer, MD, PhD

Department of Clinical Sciences Lund

Anesthesiology, and Intensive Care

Helsingborg Hospital

Helsingborg and Lund University

Lund, Sweden

Centre for Heart Lung Innovation

St. Paul's Hospital

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Fluid Responsiveness in Unstable Patients

Molly Curtin Berkoff, MD, MPH

Division of General Pediatrics

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Sexual abuse

Christopher M. Booth, MD, FRCPC

Department of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Death; Migraine

Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD

Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care

Department of Medicine

Division of General Internal Medicine

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Center for Aging and Human Development

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Compliance and medication adherence; Health literacy

Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH

Department of Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Dementia

John Boyd, MD

Centre for Heart Lung Innovation

St. Paul's Hospital

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Division of Critical Care Medicine

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Division of Critical Care Medicine

Department of Medicine

St. Paul's Hospital

Vancouver, Canada

Fluid Responsiveness in Unstable Patients

M. Alan Brookhart, PhD

Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Cardiac tamponade

David G. Bundy, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatrics

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Appendicitis, child

Sonia Butalia, MD

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

and

Department of Medicine

St Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Diabetes, foot ulcer

Julie S. Byerley, MD

Department of Pediatrics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Appendicitis, child

Marlene Call, RN, MPH

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,

College of Public Health,

University of Georgia, Atlanta

At time of publication, a PhD candidate at Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta

David Cescon, MD

Resident in Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Murmur, diastolic; Murmur, systolic

Jennifer Chianese, MD, MSc

Department of Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Monique V. Chireau, MD, MPH

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Ectopic pregnancy

Roger Chou, MD

Departments of Medicine and Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology

Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, Oregon, USA

Low back pain, disabling

Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD

Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics

Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiac tamponade

Sanjeev D. Chunilal, MB, ChB

North Shore Hospital

Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand

Pulmonary embolus

Bryan Coburn, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bacteremia

Cathleen Cólon-Emeric, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Osteoporosis

Paul B. Cornia, MD

Primary and Specialty Medical Care Service

Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System

Department of Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

Seattle, WA, USA

Pertussis, adult or adolescent

John R. Crochet, MD

Center of Reproductive Medicine, Webster, Texas, USA

Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Ectopic pregnancy

Philipp Dahm, MD, MHSc

Department of Urology

University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville

Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Gainesville, Florida

Bladder Outlet Obstruction

Frank D'Amico, PhD

Department of Mathematics

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD

Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

and

Department of Medicine

Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bacteremia; Diabetes, foot ulcer; Hearing impairment

Michael E. Detsky, BSc

Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Michael E. Detsky, MD, MSHP

Department of Medicine,

Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and

Department of Medicine,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Difficult intubation

Janie Deveau, MD

Department of Psychiatry

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Dementia

Richard A. Deyo, MD

Professor of Medicine

University of Washington, Seattle

Harborview Medical Center

Seattle, Washington, USA

Low back pain

Paul Dorian, MD

Division of Cardiology

St Michael's Hospital

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cardiac arrhythmia

Karen A. D'Silva, MD, MS

Department of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Division of Geriatrics

St Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bladder Outlet Obstruction

Joshua S. Easter, MD, MSc

Department of Emergency Medicine,

Richmond Emergency Physicians,

Bon Secours St Mary's Hospital,

Richmond, Virginia

Department of Emergency Medicine,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Head Trauma

Mark H. Ebell, MD, MS

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,

College of Public Health,

University of Georgia, Atlanta

Jonathan A. Edlow, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Erythema migrans; Head Trauma

Edward Etchells, MD

Associate Professor

University of Toronto

Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Murmur, diastolic; Murmur, systolic

Edward E. Etchells, MD, MSc

Department of Medicine

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cardiac syncope

C. Scott Evans, MD

Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco,

South San Francisco, California

Snake Envenomation

Alexander C. Fanaroff, MD

Division of Cardiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Acute Coronary Syndrome

M. Brian Fennerty, MD

Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, OR, USA

Dyspepsia

Deborah A. Fisher, MD, MHS

Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Upper gastrointestinal bleed

J. Mark FitzGerald, MB, FRCPC

Respirology Division, Department of Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Vancouver, Canada

Liver disease and cirrhosis

Alexander C. Ford, MD, MRCP

Gastroenterology Division

McMaster University Medical Centre

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Irritable bowel

Jan O. Friedrich, MD, MSc, DPhil

Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and

Department of Medicine,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine,

St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute,

St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Difficult intubation

David A. Ganz, MD, MPH

Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System and University of California, Los Angeles Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Falls, older adults

Jack Gardner, MPH

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,

College of Public Health,

University of Georgia, Atlanta

Charles J. Gerardo, MD, MHS

Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Upper gastrointestinal bleed

Division of Emergency Medicine,

Duke University School of Medicine,

Durham, North Carolina

Snake Envenomation

Jeff Ginsberg, MD

Professor of Medicine

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Pulmonary embolus

L. Elizabeth Goldman, MD

Department of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California, USA

Opiates and abdominal pain

Sarah A. Goldstein, MD

Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH

Divisions of Clinical Epidemiology and General Internal Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, USA

Pertussis, adult or adolescent

Carolyn J. Green, PhD

Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, Canada

Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

James Grichnik, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Melanoma

Donald E. Griesdale, MD, MPH

Department of Anesthesiology,

Pharmacology, and Therapeutics,

University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, Canada

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation

Vancouver Coastal Health

Vancouver, Canada

Division of Critical Care Medicine

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Program in Critical Care Medicine

Vancouver General Hospital

Vancouver, Canada

Fluid Responsiveness in Unstable Patients

Raz Gross, MD, MPH

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

School of Public Health

Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Gertner Institute for Health Policy and Epidemiology

Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Steven A. Grover, MD, MPA

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics

McGill University

Montreal General Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Splenomegaly

Rose Hatala, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Meningitis, adult

Jason S. Haukoos, MD, MSc

Department of Emergency Medicine,

Denver Health, University of Colorado, Denver

Department of Epidemiology,

Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora

Head Trauma

Nathaniel R. Herr, PhD

Department of Psychology

American University, Washington, DC

Generalized Anxiety

Adam L. Hersh, MD

Divisions of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and General Pediatrics

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, USA

Pertussis, adult or adolescent

Alejandro Hoberman, MD

Department of Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Hussein Hollands, MD, MSc (Epid)

Department of Ophthalmology

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Simon Hollands, BSc

Department of Ophthalmology

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

James F. Holmes, MD, MPH

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of California Davis School of Medicine

Sacramento, California, USA

Blunt intra-abdominal injury

Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, MD, FRCPC

Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Delirium; Paracentesis; Pleural effusion; Lumbar puncture; Urinary incontinence

Tracey Holsinger, MD

Department of Psychiatry

Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Dementia

Aatif M. Husain, MD

Department of Neurology

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Neuroscience Medicine

Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina

Neurodiagnostic Center

Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Cardiac syncope

Dereck L. Hunt, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Department of Medicine

McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Jeffrey L. Jackson, MD, MPH

Division of General Internal Medicine

Zablocki VA Medical Center and the Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Medical Decision-Making Capacity

Delan Jinapriya, MD, FRCSC

Department of Ophthalmology

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Naheed Jivraj, MBBS, MSc

Institute for Health Policy,

Management and Evaluation,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Anesthesia,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Difficult intubation

Davin Johnson, MD

Department of Ophthalmology

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan J. Juliano, MD, MSPH

Division of Infectious Diseases

School of Medicine

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Leonid Kalichman, PT, PhD

New England Baptist Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

and

Department of Physical Therapy

Faculty of Health Sciences

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Beer Sheva, Israel

Low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis

Catherine P. Kaminetzky, MD, MPH

Associate in Medicine

Duke University

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Shoulder instability

Jamil N. Kanji, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Medicine

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MS

Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy

Departments of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Knee ligaments and menisci; Low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis

Jessica Katznelson, MD

Department of Pediatrics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Appendicitis, child

Shannon Kehle-Forbes, PhD

Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Minneapolis, Minnesota

University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Sheri A. Keitz, MD, PhD

Chief, General Internal Medicine

Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Medicine

UMass-Memorial Medical Center/University of Mass Medical School

Worcester, Massachusetts

The Rational Clinical Examination Education Guides

Thomas Kerr, PhD

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Early HIV infection

Nadia A. Khan, MD, MSc

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peripheral arterial disease

Clarence Khoo, MD

Division of Cardiology

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cardiac arrhythmia

Jan Klimas, PhD, MSc

British Columbia Centre on Substance Use,

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver

Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

Michael Klompas, MD

Research Fellow in Medicine

Harvard University

Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Thoracic aortic dissection

Jeffrey Kohlwes, MD, MPH

Prime Program, Department of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco and Department of Medicine

San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center

San Francisco, CA, USA

Septic arthritis

P. Todd Korthuis, MD, MPH

Department of Medicine

Oregon Health and Science University, Portland

Department of Public Health-Preventive Medicine

Oregon Health and Science University, Portland

Early HIV infection

Julio Lanfranco, MD

New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center

Stroke, hemorrhagic

Eric J. Lavonas, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine and Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center,

Denver Health, Denver, Colorado

Department of Emergency Medicine,

University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora

Snake Envenomation

Frank A. Lederle, MD

Professor of Medicine

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Abdominal aortic aneurysm

E. Allen Liles, MD

Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Appendicitis, child

Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD

Primary and Specialty Medical Care Service

Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System

Department of Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

Seattle, WA, USA

Pertussis, adult or adolescent

John Lopez, MD

Department of Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Catherine R. Lucey, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Congestive heart failure

Kelly MacLean, MD

Department of Radiology

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Fluid Responsiveness in Unstable Patients

Edwin Mak, BASc

Pacific Parkinson Research Centre, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Liver disease and cirrhosis

Kathi L. Makoroff, MD

Center for Safe and Healthy Children

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Sexual abuse

Mary E. Margaretten, MD

Division of Rheumatology

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, USA

Septic arthritis

Monica C. Mann-Wrobel, PhD

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Department of Mental Health

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Douglas C. McCrory, MD, MHSc

Department of Medicine

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC, USA

Devon R. McDonald, BSc

Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Jennifer McDuffie, PhD

Durham Veterans Affairs Evidence-based Synthesis Program (ESP) Center

Durham, North Carolina

Duke University Department of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina

Generalized Anxiety

Mark McLean, MD, FRCPC

British Columbia Centre on Substance Use,

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, Canada

Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

Steven R. Meshnick, MD, PhD

Department of Epidemiology

Gillings School of Global Public Health

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

William P. Meehan, MD

The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention,

Waltham, Massachusetts

Brain Injury Center,

Boston Children's Hospital,

Boston, Massachusetts

Head Trauma

Melissa A. Minor, MD

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Cardiac tamponade

Paul Moayyedi, MD

Department of Medicine

McMaster University

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Irritable bowel; Dyspepsia

Malcolm E. Molyneux, MD, FRCP

Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme

College of Medicine

Blantyre, Malawi

and

School of Tropical Medicine

University of Liverpool

Liverpool, England, UK

Julio S. G. Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Early HIV infection

Dan Moore, PhD

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, USA

Septic arthritis

Natalia E. Morone, MD, MSc

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Andrew M. Morris, MD, SM

Department of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Medicine

Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bacteremia

Ophyr Mourad, MD, MSc

Department of Medicine

St Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Diabetes, foot ulcer

Marko Mrkobrada, MD, FRCPC

Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

Sleep apnea

Kathryn A. Myers, MD, EdM, FRCPC

Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

Clubbing; Sleep apnea

L. Kristin Newby, MD, MHS

Division of Cardiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Thomas B. Newman, MD, MPH

Divisions of General Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA, USA

Pertussis, adult or adolescent

Mark I. Neuman, MD, MPH

Division of Emergency Medicine

Boston Children's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Division of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Childhood Pneumonia

Jason A. Nieuwsma, PhD

Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of California Davis School of Medicine

Sacramento, California, USA

Blunt intra-abdominal injury

Seonaid Nolan, MD, FRCPC

British Columbia Centre on Substance Use,

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver, Canada

Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

Victor Novack, MD, PhD

Clinical Research Center,

Soroka University Medical Center,

Beer-Sheva, Israel

Faculty of Health Sciences,

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Head Trauma

Daniel A. Ostrovsky, MD

Clinical Associate in Pediatrics

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Pneumonia, infant and child

Valerie A. Palda, MD, MSc

Department of Medicine

St Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

and

Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Diabetes, foot ulcer

Akbar Panju, MB, ChB, FRCPC

Department of Medicine

McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatrics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Appendicitis, child

Peter Phillips, MD, FRCPC, FCCP

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Early HIV infection

Joanne T. Piscitelli, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Vaginitis

Ruxandra Pinto, PhD

Department of Critical Care Medicine,

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Difficult intubation

Benjamin J. Powers, MD, MHS

Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care

Department of Medicine

Division of General Internal Medicine

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Health literacy

Sherali A. Rahim, MD

Department of Medicine

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Peripheral arterial disease

James Rainville, MD

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Harvard Medical School

New England Baptist Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Low back pain, disabling; Low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis

Sumant R. Ranji, MD

Department of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California, USA

Opiates and abdominal pain

Goutham Rao, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Parkinsonism

Robert J. Redelmeier

Department of Medicine

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cardiac syncope

Drummond Rennie, MD

JAMA

Chicago, Illinois

Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California, USA

Editor, The Rational Clinical Examination

Henry E. Rice, MD

Department of Surgery

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Appendicitis, child

Russell Rothman, MD

Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Otitis media, child

Greg Rowell, MSc, MISt

Clinical Policy Office

Fraser Health Authority

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Early HIV infection

Christopher L. Roy, MD

Divisions of General Medicine and Primary Care

Hospitalist Service

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Cardiac tamponade

Laurence Z. Rubenstein, MD, MPH

Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System

and

University of California, Los Angeles Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Falls, Older Adults

Desmond K. Runyan, MD, DrPH

Division of General Pediatrics

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Sexual abuse

Jennifer A. Rymer, MD, MBA

Division of Cardiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Shilpa Sangvai, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatrics

Ohio State University School of Medicine

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Robert J. Sargeant, MD, MSc, PhD

Department of Medicine

St Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Diabetes, foot ulcer

Jonathan L. Schaffer, MD, MBA

Advanced Operative Technology Group

Orthopaedic Research Center

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Knee ligaments and menisci

Katalin Scherer, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Myasthenia gravis

Damon C. Scales, MD, PhD

Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and

Department of Medicine,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Institute for Health Policy,

Management and Evaluation,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Critical Care Medicine,

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Difficult intubation

Michael Schulzer, MD, PhD

Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Vancouver, Canada

Liver disease and cirrhosis

Laura L. Sessums, JD, MD

Section of General Internal Medicine

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Washington, DC, USA

Medical Decision-Making Capacity

Steven Shadowitz, MD, MSc

Department of Medicine

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cardiac syncope

Sonal N. Shah, MD, MPH

Division of Emergency Medicine

Boston Children's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Division of Emergency Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Childhood Pneumonia

Nader Shaikh, MD, MPH

Department of Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Urinary Tract Infection, Child

Robert A. Shapiro, MD

Center for Safe and Healthy Children

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Sexual abuse

Sanjay Sharma, MD, MBA, MSc

Department of Ophthalmology

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Paul G. Shekelle, MD, PhD

Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Los Angeles, California, USA

Falls, Older Adults; Low back pain, disabling

JoAnna Shinholser, MPH

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,

College of Public Health,

University of Georgia, Atlanta

Robert H. Shmerling, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Temporal arteritis

Kaveh G. Shojania, MD

Department of Medicine

University of Ottawa

and

Clinical Epidemiology Program

Ottawa Health Research Institute

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Cholecystitis; Opiates and abdominal pain

David L. Simel, MD, MHS

Chief, Medicine Service

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Professor of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Demetrios Sirounis, MD

Centre for Heart Lung Innovation

St. Paul's Hospital

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Department of Anesthesiology

Pharmacology, and Therapeutics

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Division of Critical Care Medicine

Department of Medicine

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Department of Anesthesiology

St. Paul's Hospital

Vancouver, Canada

Fluid Responsiveness in Unstable Patients

Editor, The Rational Clinical Examination

Abdominal bruits; Acute coronary syndrome; Acute mountain sickness; Appendicitis, child; Ascites; Bacteremia; Bladder outlet obstruction; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiac syncope; Cardiac tamponade; Carotid bruit; Carpal tunnel; Central venous pressure; Childhood pneumonia; Chronic obstructive airways disease; Chronic wound infection; Community-acquired pneumonia, adult; Deep vein thrombosis; Delirium; Dementia; Diabetes, foot ulcer; Diabetic peripheral neuropathy; Difficult intubation; Dyspepsia; Early HIV infection; Ectopic pregnancy; Erythema migrans; Falls; Family history of cancer; Floaters and flashes; Fluid Responsiveness in Unstable Patients; Generalized anxiety; Glaucoma; Goiter; Head Trauma; Health literacy; Hearing impairment; Hepatomegaly; Hypertension; Hypovolemia, adult; Influenza; Irritable bowel; Liver disease and cirrhosis; Low back pain, disabling; Low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis; Lumbar puncture; Malaria; Malnourishment, adult; Medical decision-making capacity; Melanoma; Migraine; Mononucleosis; Myocardial infarction; Opiates and abdominal pain; Otitis media, child; Paracentesis; Penicillin allergy; Peripheral arterial disease; Pertussis, adult or adolescent; Pleural effusion; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Primer on precision and accuracy; Problem alcohol drinking; Rotator cuff disease; Septic arthritis; Severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome; Sexual abuse, child; Sleep apnea; Sinusitis; Snake envenomation; Streptococcal pharyngitis; Stroke; Stroke, hemorrhagic; Upper gastrointestinal bleed; Urinary incontinence; Urinary Tract Infection, Child; Vaginitis; Ventilator-associated pneumonia; Vertigo

Gerald W. Smetana, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Temporal arteritis

Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Knee ligaments and menisci

Michele R. Spoont, PhD

US Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Minneapolis, Minnesota

University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Michael J. Steiner, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Hypovolemia, child

Ben Stern, MS, DPT

CEO and Director of Development

Integrated Golf Schools

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Low back pain

Sharon E. Straus, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Division of Geriatrics, and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute

St Michael's Hospital

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Delirium; Paracentesis; Pleural effusion; Lumbar puncture; Urinary incontinence

Pradeep Suri, MD

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Harvard Medical School

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and VA Boston Healthcare System

New England Baptist Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Low back pain, lumbar spinal stenosis

F. Douglas Srygley, MD

Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Upper gastrointestinal bleed

Nicholas J. Talley, MD, PhD

Center for Enteric Neurosciences and Translational Epidemiological Research

Rochester, MN, USA

Irritable bowel; Dyspepsia

Cara Tannenbaum, MD, MSc

Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Urinary incontinence

Steve M. Taylor, MD, MPH

Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA

and

Department of Epidemiology

Gillings School of Global Public Health

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA