The editors thank Dr Pakes for his letter and comments. Electronic publication of an article in Canadian Family Physician (CFP) does not reflect any lesser status of the published work. All Web Exclusive publications in CFP are fully indexed and searchable in PubMed and PubMed Central.
There is limited print space in medical journals owing to declines in pharmaceutical advertising, which has been a large source of revenue for medical journals. Our response to this has been to publish more research in the online version of CFP as Web Exclusive articles. In so doing we have been able to publish more research per issue.
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