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  • Designing centralized waiting lists for attachment to a primary care provider: Considerations from a logic analysis

    Eval Program Plann

    May 29, 2021

    Health Services & Outcomes
    Primary Care
    Wait Times

    Breton M, Smithman MA, Kreindler SA, Jbilou J, Wong ST, Marshall EG, Sasseville M, Sutherland JM, Crooks VA, Shaw J, Contandriopoulos D, Brousselle A, Green M

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  • Home blood pressure monitoring in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Tran K, Padwal R, Khan N, Wright MD, Chan WS

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  • Patient preferences to value health outcomes in rheumatology clinical trials: Report from the OMERACT special interest group

    Thomas M, Fraenkel L, Boonen A, Bansback N, Buchbinder R, Marshall D, Proulx L, Voshaar M, Richards P, Richards DP, Hiligsmann M, Guillemin F, Shea B, Tugwell P, Hazlewood G

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  • Delayed Gadolinium Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cartilage (dGEMRIC) Values are Lower in Hips with Bone Marrow Lesions

    Arthritis Care Res

    June 16, 2021

    Arthritis
    Screening & Testing

    Jones CE, Cibere J, Qian H, Zhang H, Guo Y, Russell D, Forster BB, Wong H, Esdaile JM, Wilson DR

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  • Primacy in Kidney Allocation: Does It Alleviate the Barriers to Transplantation?

    J Am Soc Nephrol

    June 30, 2021

    Editorial
    Nephrology
    Organ Transplant

    Gill JS, Butler CR, Powe NR

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  • Clarifying Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Training Requirement Recommendations for Physicians Currently in Practice

    Asgar AW, Ouzounian M, Adams C, Afilalo J, Fremes S, Lauck S, Leipsic J, Piazza N, Rodes-Cabau J, Welsh R, Wijeysundera HC, Webb JG, on behalf of the2019 CCS TAVI Position Statement Committee

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  • Dawn of a new day for mental health systems

    Int J Ment Health Syst

    May 26, 2021

    Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Vigo D

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  • Is eating a mixed diet better for health and survival?: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies

    Mozaffari H, Hosseini Z, Lafrenière J, Conklin AI

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  • A taxonomy of risk-associated alternative health practices: A Delphi study

    Health Soc Care Community

    May 26, 2021

    Modelling & Risk Prediction
    Patient & Public Safety

    Garrett B, Caulfield T, Murdoch B, Brignall M, Kapur AK, Murphy S, Nelson E, Reardon J, Harrison M, Hislop J, Wilson-Keates BJ, Anthony J, Loewen PS, Musoke RM, Braun J

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  • Epidemiology of cardiac implantable electronic device infections: incidence and risk factors

    Han HC, Hawkins NM, Pearman CM, Birnie DH, Krahn AD

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  • Coding practice in national and regional kidney biopsy registries

    BMC Nephrol

    May 24, 2021

    Data Linkage
    Nephrology

    Dendooven A, Peetermans H, Helbert M, Nguyen TQ, Marcussen N, Nagata M, Gesualdo L, Perkowska-Ptasinska A, Capusa C, López-Gómez JM, Geddes C, Abdul-Hamid MA, Segelmark M, Yahya R, Garau M, Villanueva R, Dorman A, Barbour S, Cornet R, Hopfer H, Amann K, Leh S, On behalf of the Kidney Biopsy Codes for Pathologists project (www.kibico.org)

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  • Implementing Silent Disco Headphones in a Hospital Unit: A Qualitative Study of Feasibility, Acceptance, and Experience Among Patients and Staff

    Hung L, Dahl K, Peake G, Poljak L, Wong L, Mann J, Wilkins-Ho M, Chaudhury H

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