Editorial Staff

Editor
Brian Haynes, MD, PhD

Deputy Editor
James Douketis, MD

Associate Editors
Eric Bates, MD
Edmond Chouinard, MD
Catherine Clase, MB, BChir
Deborah Cook, MD
Chris Del Mar, MB, BChir, MD
P.J. Devereaux, MD
Donna Fedorkow, MD
David Garcia, MD
Amit Garg, MD, PhD
John Geddes, MD
Hertzel Gerstein, MD
Paul Glasziou, MBBS, PhD
Gordon Guyatt, MD
Lawrence Hart, MD
Richard Hoffman, MD
Anne Holbrook, MD, PharmD
Dereck Hunt, MD
Roman Jaeschke, MD
Glenn Jones, MD
Mitchell Levine, MD
Mark Loeb, MD
Lorraine Macdonald, MD
Grant Macfarlane, MD
John Marshall, MD
Robin McLeod, MD
Maureen Meade, MD
Victor Montori, MD
David Morgan, MD
James Nishikawa, MD
Wieslaw Oczkowski, MD
Akbar Panju, MB, ChB
Alexandra Papaioannou, MD
Dominic Raco, MD
Bruno Salena, MD
Holger Schünemann, MD
John Sellors, MD
Paul Shekelle, MD, PhD
Joel Simon, MD
Fiona Smaill, MB, ChB
Matthew Stanbrook, MD, PhD
Martin Stockler, MBBS
Sharon Straus, MD
Robert Weiss, MD
Andrew Worster, MD

Research Associates
Jean Mackay, MA, MSc
Susan Marks, BA, BEd
Lorraine Weise-Kelly, PhD

Production Supervisor
Dawn Jedraszewski

Editorial Assistant
Nancy Bordignon

Editorial Office

Health Information Research Unit, 3H7
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences
1200 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5 Canada
905-525-9140, ext. 22255
FAX 905-546-0401
E-mail: bhaynes@mcmaster.ca

Editorial Board

Claire Bombardier, MD, Toronto
Norman Boyd, MD, Toronto
Robert Brook, MD, Los Angeles
John Cairns, MD, Vancouver
Clifton Cleaveland, MD, Chattanooga
Allan Detsky, MD, PhD, Toronto
Arthur Evans, MD, Chicago
Eric Larson, MD, Seattle
Andreas Laupacis MD, Ottawa
Valerie Lawrence, MD, San Antonio
Alexander Logan, MD, Toronto
Cynthia Mulrow, MD, San Antonio
Joseph Pater, MD, Kingston
David Ransohoff, MD, Chapel Hill
David Sackett, MD, Markdale
Brian Strom, MD, Philadelphia
Peter Tugwell, MD, Ottawa

Publishing Staff

Publisher
Robert Spanier

Associate Publisher, Business Development and Marketing
Thomas McCabe

Associate Publisher, Circulation, Licensing, and Permissions
Aileen McHugh

Manager, Editorial Production
Mary Boylan

Composition Production Coordinator
Wendy Smith

Director, Advertising Sales
Kevin A. Bolum

National Account Managers
Kenny Watkins

Advertising Production
John Carney

Recruitment Sales
Margaret Gardner

Maria Fitzgerald

Circulation Administrator
Ronald Langmacher

Publishing Office

American College of Physicians
190 N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1572 USA
800-523-1546
215-351-2400
FAX 215-351-2644

Web Site Technical Staff

Manager, ACP Online
Neil Kohl

Production Editor
Beth Jenkinson

Application Developer
Daniel Barron

Developer
Scott Thomas Hurd