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  • The perspectives of people who use drugs regarding short term involuntary substance use care for severe substance use disorders

    Chau LW, Erickson M, Vigo D, Lou H, Pakhomova T, Winston ML, MacPherson D, Thomson E, Small W

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  • May Measurement Month 2019: results of blood pressure screening from 47 countries

    Eur Heart J Suppl

    May 20, 2021

    Global Health
    Hypertension

    Poulter NR, Borghi C, Damasceno A, Jafar TH, Khan N, Kokubo Y, Nilsson PM, Prabhakaran D, Schlaich MP, Schutte AE, Stergiou GS, Unger T, Beaney T

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  • Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake among a community-recruited sample of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in the three largest cities in Canada from 2017 to 2019

    Grewal R, Deeks SL, Hart TA, Cox J, De Pokomandy A, Grennan T, Lambert G, Moore D, Brisson M, Coutlée F, Gaspar M, George C, Grace D, Jollimore J, Lachowsky NJ, Nisenbaum R, Ogilvie G, Sauvageau C, Tan DHS, Yeung A, Burchell AN

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  • Association of Opioid Agonist Treatment With All-Cause Mortality and Specific Causes of Death Among People With Opioid Dependence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.0976

    June 2, 2021

    Modelling & Risk Prediction
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Santo Jr T, Clark B, Hickman M, Grebely J, Campbell G, Sordo L, Chen A, Tran LT, Bharat C, Padmanathan P, Cousins G, Dupouy J, Kelty E, Muga R, Nosyk B, Min J, Pavarin R, Farrell M, Degenhardt L

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  • Choice and Trade-offs: Parent Decision Making for Neurotechnologies for Pediatric Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

    Hrincu V, McDonald PJ, Connolly MB, Harrison MJ, Ibrahim GM, Naftel RP, Chiong W, Alam A, Ribary U, Illes J

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  • The association between diet and mental health and wellbeing in young adults within a biopsychosocial framework

    Rossa-Roccor V, Richardson CG, Murphy RA, Gadermann AM

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  • Out-of-pocket and private pay in clinical genetic testing: a scoping review

    Grant P, Langlois S, Lynd LD, Austin GSJC, Elliott AM

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  • Individualized prescribing portraits to reduce inappropriate initiation of opioid analgesics to opioid naïve patients in primary care: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    Klimas J, Hamilton MA, Carney G, Cooper IR, Croteau NS, Dong H, Dormuth C, Maclure M, Socías ME, Ti L, Wood E, McCracken R

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  • Testing the Feasibility of Sensor-Based Home Health Monitoring (TEC4Home) to Support the Convalescence of Patients With Heart Failure: Pre–Post Study

    Ho K, Lauscher HN, Cordeiro J, Hawkins N, Scheuermeyer F, Mitton C, Wong H, McGavin C, Ross D, Apantaku G, Karim ME, Bhullar A, Abu-Laban R, Nixon S, Smith T

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  • Long COVID-19: A Primer for Cardiovascular Health Professionals, On Behalf of the CCS Rapid Response Team

    Paterson I, Ramanathan K, Aurora R, Bewick D, Chow CM, Clarke B, Cowan S, Ducharme A, Gin K, Graham M, Gupta A, Jassal DS, Kazmi M, Krahn A, Lamarche Y, Marelli A, Roifman I, Ruel M, Singh G, Sterns L, Turgeon R, Virani S, Wong KK, Zieroth S

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  • Characterizing opioid agonist treatment discontinuation trends in British Columbia, Canada, 2012-2018

    Krebs E, Homayra F, Min JE, MacDonald S, Gold L, Carter C, Nosyk B

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  • Rationale, development and implementation of the ReACanROC registry for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in France and Canada

    Heidet M, Hubert H, Grunau BE, Cheskes S, Baert V, Fraticelli L, Freyssange J, Lecarpentier E, Stitt A, Tallon JM, Tazarourte K, Truong C, Vaillancourt C, Vilhelm C, Wysocki K, Christenson J, Khoury CE, r-ReAC and CanROC investigators

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