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  • Barbour, Gill, Levin: BC GN access and cost of immunosuppressive treatments

    March 20, 2018

    Barbour S, Lo C, Espino-Hernandez G, Gill J, Levin A. The BC Glomerulonephritis Network: Improving Access and Reducing the Cost of Immunosuppressive Treatments for Glomerular Diseases.  Can J Kidney Health Dis. 2018 Jan 1;5:1-6. Epub 2018 Mar 20.

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  • Rose, Gill, Gill: application of kidney donor risk index

    March 19, 2018

    Rose C, Sun Y, Ferre E, Gill JS, Landsberg D, Gill J. An Examination of the Application of the Kidney Donor Risk Index in British Columbia. Can J Kidney Health Dis. Epub 2018 Mar 19.

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  • Lynd LD: use of parental reports for estimating health care utilization

    March 30, 2018

    Dragojlovic N, Kim E, Elliott AM, CAUSES Study, Friedman JM, Lynd LD. Evaluating the use of parental reports to estimate health care resource utilization in children with suspected genetic disorders. J Eval Clin Pract. 2018 Mar 30;24(2):416-422.

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  • Koehoorn M: MJH return to work post MSD

    April 3, 2018

    Maas ET, Koehoorn M, McLeod CB. Return-to-work for multiple jobholders with a work-related musculoskeletal disorder: A population-based, matched cohort in British Columbia. PLoS ONE. 2018 Apr 3;13(4):e0193618.

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  • Anis, Khan, Humphries: SAVE BC

    April 10, 2018

    Brunham LR, Lynch K, English A, Sutherland R, Weng J… Anis AH, Khan NA, Humphries KH, et al. The Design and Rationale of SAVE BC: The Study to Avoid Vascular Events in British Columbia. Clin Cardiol. 2018 Apr 10. 

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  • Grunau B: trends in care process and survival following prehospital resuscitation

    February 3, 2018

    Grunau B, Kawano T, Dick W, Straight R, Connolley H, Schlamp R, Scheuermeyer F, Fordyce CB, Barbic D, Tallon J, Christenson J. Trends in care processes and survival following prehospital resuscitation improvement initiatives for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in British Columbia, 2006-2016Resuscitation. 2018 Feb 3 epub ahead of print.

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  • Ayas NT: intermittent hypoxia and kidney damage in mouse model of obstructive sleep apnea

    February 1, 2018

    Abuyassin B, Badran M, Ayas NT, Laher I. Intermittent hypoxia causes histological kidney damage and increases growth factor expression in a mouse model of obstructive sleep apnea. PLoS ONE. 2018 Feb 1;13(2):e0192084.

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  • Levin A: women and kidney disease

    February 6, 2018

    Piccoli GB, Alrukhaimi M, Liu Z-H, Zakharova E, Levin A, World Kidney Day Steering Committee. Women and kidney disease: reflections on World Kidney Day 2018. Kidney Int. 2018 Feb;93(2):278-283.

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  • Ayas NT: knowledge gaps in OSA, OHA management workshop report

    February 1, 2018

    Ayas NT, Laratta CR, Coleman JM, Doufas AG, Eikermann M, et al. Knowledge Gaps in the Perioperative Management of Adults with Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 Feb 1;15(2):117-126.

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  • Levin A: women and kidney disease-italian

    February 6, 2018

    Piccoli GB, Alrukhaimi M, Liu Z-H, Zakharova E, Levin A, World Kidney Day Steering Committee. [Questions unanswered and Answers unquestioned: what we do and do not know about women and kidney diseases. Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Women’s Day]. G Ital Nefrol. 2018 Feb;35(1).

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  • Levin A: women and kidney disease

    March 1, 2018

    Piccoli GB, Alrukhaimi M, Liu ZH, Zakharova E, Levin A; World Kidney Day Steering Committee. Women and Kidney Disease: Reflections on World Kidney Day 2018. J Hypertens. 2018 Mar;36(3):705-708.

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  • Shojania KG: systematic review of interventions to follow-up test results pending at discharge

    January 19, 2018

    Darragh PJ, Bodley T, Orchanian-Cheff A, Shojania KG, Kwan JL, Cram P. A Systematic Review of Interventions to Follow-Up Test Results Pending at DischargeJournal of general internal medicine. 2018 Jan epub ahead of print.

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