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  • Primary and Secondary Cardiovascular and Kidney Prevention With Canagliflozin: Insights From the CANVAS Program and CREDENCE Trial.

    Sharma A, Razaghizad A, Joury A, Levin A, Bajaj HS, Mancini GBJ, Wong NC, Slee A, Ang FG, Rapattoni W, Neuen BL, Arnott C, Perkovic V, Mahaffey KW.

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  • Management of Heat-Related Illness and Injury in the Intensive Care Unit: A Concise Definitive Review.

    Crit Care Med.

    January 19, 2024

    Barletta JF, Palmieri TL, Toomey SA, Harrod CG, Murthy S, Bailey H.

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  • Participatory Research with Persons who Experience Mental Illness in Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review.

    Can J Occup Ther

    January 19, 2024

    Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Javadizadeh E, Oudshoorn A, Letts L, Barbic S, Shanoff C, Marshall CA.

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  • A platform for connecting social media data to domain-specific topics using large language models: an application to student mental health.

    JAMIA Open

    January 18, 2024

    Innovation & Technology
    Machine Learning & AI

    Ruocco L, Zhuang Y, Ng R, Munthali RJ, Hudec KL, Wang AY, Vereschagin M, Vigo DV.

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  • Outcomes for clinical trials involving adults with chronic kidney disease: a multinational Delphi survey involving patients, caregivers, and health professionals.

    Nephrol Dial Transplant.

    January 17, 2024.

    Clinical Trials
    Nephrology

    Gonzalez AM, Evangelidis N, Howell M, Jaure A, Sautenet B, Madero M, Ashuntantang G, Anumudu S, Bernier-Jean A, Dunn L, Cho Y, Sanabria LC, de Boer IH, Fung S, Gallego D, Guha C, Levey AS, Levin A, Lorca E, Okpechi IG, Rossignol P, Scholes-Robertson N, Sola L, Teixeira-Pinto A, Usherwood T, Viecelli AK, Wheeler DC, Widders K, Wilkie M, Craig JC.

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  • Teaching by texting to promote positive health behaviours in pregnancy: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial of SmartMom.

    Janssen P, Lecke S, Renner R, Zhang W, Vedam S, Norman WV, Bayrampour H, Tough S, Murray J, Muhajarine N, Dennis CL.

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  • Navigating Living Kidney Donation and Transplantation Among South Asian Canadians: The ACTION Project.

    Am J Kidney Dis.

    January 17, 2024

    Culture & Ethnicity
    Nephrology
    Organ Transplant

    Kaur R, Schick-Makaroff K, Dang P, Sasaki A, Neves P, Mucsi I, Gill J.

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  • Treatment of HCV with direct-acting antivirals on reducing mortality related to extrahepatic manifestations: a large population-based study in British Columbia, Canada.

    Lancet Reg Heal – Am

    January, 2024

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs

    Jeong D, Wong S, Karim ME, Manges AR, Makuza JD, Bartlett SR, García HAV, Luster D, Adu PA, Binka M, Yu A, Krajden M, Janjua NZ.

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  • Frailty: Implications for Neuroanesthesia.

    J Neurosurg Anesthesiol.

    January 17, 2024

    Ageing & Related Conditions
    Neurology
    Surgery & Procedures

    Mitchell A, Flexman AM.

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  • External validation of the Post-Concussion Symptoms (PoCS) Rule for predicting mild traumatic brain injury outcome.

    J Neurotrauma.

    January 16, 2024

    Neurology

    Mikolic A, Brasher PM, Brubacher J, Panenka WJ, Scheuermeyer FX, Archambault P, Khazei A, Silverberg ND.

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  • Preparing for colorectal surgery: a feasibility study of a novel web-based multimodal prehabilitation programme in Western Canada.

    Colorectal Dis.

    January 16, 2024.

    Cancer
    Remote Care & Digital Tools
    Surgery & Procedures

    Ip N, Zhang K, Karimuddin AA, Brown CJ, Campbell KL, Puyat JH, Sutherland JM, Conklin AI.

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  • A Machine Learning-Driven Virtual Biopsy System For Kidney Transplant Patients.

    Yoo D, Divard G, Raynaud M, Cohen A, Mone TD, Rosenthal JT, Bentall AJ, Stegall MD, Naesens M, Zhang H, Wang C, Gueguen J, Kamar N, Bouquegneau A, Batal I, Coley SM, Gill JS, Oppenheimer F, Sousa-Amorim ED, Kuypers DRJ, Durrbach A, Seron D, Rabant M, Huyen JPDV, Campbell P, Shojai S, Mengel M, Bestard O, Basic-Jukic N, Jurić I, Boor P, Cornell LD, Alexander MP, Coates PT, Legendre C, Reese PP, Lefaucheur C, Aubert O, Loupy A.

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