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James McCormack
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 113
Citations - 2320
James McCormack is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 107 publications receiving 2065 citations. Previous affiliations of James McCormack include St. Paul's Hospital.
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What patients want to know about their medications. Focus group study of patient and clinician perspectives.
Kalpana Nair,Lisa Dolovich,Alan Cassels,James McCormack,Mitch Levine,Jean Gray,Karen Mann,Sheri Burns +7 more
TL;DR: Patients and clinicians each appear to have a different understanding of what and how much information patients should receive about medications, and feedback from patients can be used to develop patient-oriented treatment information.
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Drugs in the news: an analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of new prescription drugs.
TL;DR: Concerns are raised about the completeness and quality of media reporting about new medications in Canada of 5 prescription drugs launched in Canada between 1996 and 2001 that received a high degree of media attention.
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A critical reevaluation of the "therapeutic range" of aminoglycosides.
TL;DR: It was concluded that the evidence was insufficient to support the presently accepted normal therapeutic range and recommendations for the monitoring of aminoglycoside therapy were drawn up.
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Seeing what you want to see in randomised controlled trials: versions and perversions of UKPDS data
TL;DR: This article argues that there is one stage in the conduct of a randomised controlled trial—the interpretation and dissemination of results—that is open to several biases that can seriously distort the conclusions.
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Simplified guideline for prescribing medical cannabinoids in primary care
G. Michael Allan,Jamil Ramji,Danielle Perry,Joey Ton,Nathan P Beahm,Nicole Crisp,Beverly Dockrill,Ruth Dubin,Ted Findlay,Jessica Kirkwood,Michael Fleming,Ken Makus,Xiaofu Zhu,Christina Korownyk,Michael R. Kolber,James McCormack,Sharon Nickel,Guillermina Noël,Adrienne J. Lindblad +18 more
TL;DR: This simplified medical cannabinoid prescribing guideline provides practical recommendations for the use of medical cannabinoids in primary care and is intended to assist with, not dictate, decision making in conjunction with patients.