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  • Improving health equity and ending the HIV epidemic in the USA: a distributional cost-effectiveness analysis in six cities

    Quan AML, Mah C, Krebs E, Zang X, Chen S, Althoff K, Armstrong W, Behrends CN, Dombrowski JC, Enns E, Feaster DJ, Gebo KA, Goedel WC, Golden M, Marshall BDL, Mehta SH, Pandya A, Shackman BR, Strathdee SA, Sullivan P, Tookes H, Nosyk B, on behalf of the Localized HIV Economic Modeling Study Group

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  • British Columbia CARMA-CHIWOS Collaboration (BCC3): protocol for a community-collaborative cohort study examining healthy ageing with and for women living with HIV

    Swann SA, Kaida A, Nicholson V, Brophy J, Campbell AR, Carter A, Elwood C, Gebremedhen T, Gormley R, King EM, Lee M, Lee V, Maan EJ, Magagula P, Nyman S, Pang D, Pick N, Povshedna T, Prior JC, Singer J, Tognazzini S, Murray MCM, Cote HCF

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  • Perceived helpfulness of treatment for generalized anxiety disorder: a World Mental Health Surveys report

    Stein DJ, Kazdin AE, Ruscio AM, Chiu WT, Sampson NA, Ziobrowski HN, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Altwaijri Y, Bruffaerts R, Bunting B, Girolamo G de, Jonge P de, Degenhardt L, Gureje O, Haro JM, Harris MG, Karam A, Karam EG, Kovess-Masfety V, Lee S, Medina-Mora ME, Moskalewicz J, Navarro-Mateu F, Nishi D, Posada-Villa J, Scott KM, Viana MC, Vigo DV, Xavier M, Zarkov Z, Kessler RC, on behalf of the WHO World Mental Health Survey collaborators

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  • The BC ADPKD Network: A Comprehensive Provincial Approach to Support Specialized and Locally Delivered Multidisciplinary ADPKD Care

    Can J Kidney Health Dis

    July 29, 2021

    Nephrology

    Bevilacqua M, Gradin S, Williams J, Romann A, Lo C, Djurdjev O, Levin A

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  • Lowering Nighttime Blood Pressure With Bedtime Dosing of Antihypertensive Medications: Controversies in Hypertension – Con Side of the Argument

    Hypertension

    August 11, 2021

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Hypertension

    Turgeon RD, Althouse AD, Cohen JB, Enache B, Hogenesch JB, Johansen ME, Mehta R, Meyerowitz-Katz G, Ziaeian B, Hiremath S

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  • 2021 CAEP Acute Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter Best Practices Checklist

    Stiell IG, de Wit K, Scheuermeyer FX, Vadeboncoeur A, Angaran P, Eagles D, Graham ID, Atzema CL, Archambault PM, Tebbenham T, McRae AD, Cheung WJ, Parkash R, Deyell MW, Baril G, Mann R, Sahsi R, Upadhye S, Brown E, Brinkhurst J, Chabot C, Skanes A

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  • Grunau B, Bashir J, Cheung A, Boone R, McDonald K, Scheuermeyer F, Singer J, Jenneson S, Straight R, Twaites B, Harris L, Haig S, Harris D, Vandegriend R, Kanji H, Christenson J

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  • Impact of Perioperative Complications on Living Kidney Donor Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study

    Can J Kidney Health Dis

    August 11, 2021

    Mental Health & Wellbeing
    Nephrology
    Organ Transplant
    Quality of Life

    Garcia-Ochoa C, Feldman LS, Nguan C, Monroy-Caudros M, Arnold JB, Barnieh L, Boudville N, Cuerden MS, Dipchand C, Gill JS, Karpinski M, Klarenbach S, Knoll G, Lok CE, Miller M, Prasad GVR, Sontrop JM, Storsley L, Gargand AX; For the Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network

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  • Harmonizing Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease Definition and Classification: report of a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference

    Lameire N, Levin A, Kellum JA, Cheung M, Jadoul M, Winkelmayer WC, Stevens PE, for Conference Participants

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  • Managing Cardiac Patients: Dentists’ Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices

    Int Dent J

    July 10, 2021

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease

    Al-Mohaissen MA, Al-Mehisen R, Lee T, Al-Madi EM

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  • Risk of tuberculosis associated with chronic kidney disease: a population-based analysis

    Nephrol Dial Transplant

    July 14, 2021

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Nephrology

    Yan M, Puyat JH, Shulha HP, Clark EG, Levin A, Johnston JC

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  • Influence of chronic hepatitis C infection on the monocyte-to-platelet ratio: data analysis from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009-2016)

    BMC Public Health

    July 13, 2021

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Screening & Testing

    Nikiforuk AM, Karim ME, Patrick DM, Jassem AN

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