Bedbugs

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman, McDougall), St. Michael's Hospital; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman), University of Toronto; Department of Family Medicine (Freedman), Baycrest Health Sciences; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (McDougall), University of Toronto; Penny Lamy, Community housing advocate, Toronto, Ont. amy.freedman@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman, McDougall), St. Michael's Hospital; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman), University of Toronto; Department of Family Medicine (Freedman), Baycrest Health Sciences; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (McDougall), University of Toronto; Penny Lamy, Community housing advocate, Toronto, Ont.

Comment

Amy Freedman et al. CMAJ. 2023.

. 2023 May 23;195(20):E709.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.221454.

¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman, McDougall), St. Michael's Hospital; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman), University of Toronto; Department of Family Medicine (Freedman), Baycrest Health Sciences; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (McDougall), University of Toronto; Penny Lamy, Community housing advocate, Toronto, Ont. amy.freedman@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman, McDougall), St. Michael's Hospital; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Freedman), University of Toronto; Department of Family Medicine (Freedman), Baycrest Health Sciences; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (McDougall), University of Toronto; Penny Lamy, Community housing advocate, Toronto, Ont.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

How health care teams can help people with bedbugs: a patient's perspective.
Lamy P. Lamy P. CMAJ. 2023 May 23;195(20):E717. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.230526. CMAJ. 2023. PMID: 37220930 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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