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  • Characteristics of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men with multiple diagnoses of infectious syphilis in British Columbia, Canada, 2005 to 2014

    Sex Transm Dis

    March 11, 2019

    Epidemiology
    Infectious Disease & STBBIs

    Konrad S, Mak DB, Grennan T, Zakher B, Brownrigg B, Ogilvie GS, Morshed M, Tyndall M, Krajden M, Wong J

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  • Could Adjunctive Pharmacology Mitigate Cardiovascular Consequences of OSA?

    Ayas NT, Foster GE, Shah N, Floras J, Laher I

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  • Trends in Providing Out-of-Office, Urgent After-Hours, and On-Call Care in British Columbia

    Ann Fam Med

    March 13, 2019

    Primary Care

    Hedden L, Lavergne MR, McGrail KM, Law MR, Bourgeault IL, McCracken R, Barer ML

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  • The Relationship Between Heart-Failure Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients Receiving Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Nazzari H, Hawkins NM, Ezekowitz J, Lauck S, Ding L, Polderman J, Yu M, Boone RH, Cheung A, Ye J, Wood D, Webb J, Toma M

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  • Prevalence of Hypertension, Treatment, and Blood Pressure Targets in Canada Associated With the 2017 American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines

    JAMA Netw Open

    May 30, 2019

    Epidemiology
    Hypertension

    Garies S, Hao S, McBrien K, Williamson T, Peng M, Khan NA, Padwal RS, Quan H, Leung AA; Hypertension Canada’s Research and Evaluation Committee

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  • The Vancouver 3M (Multidisciplinary, Multimodality, But Minimalist) Clinical Pathway Facilitates Safe Next-Day Discharge Home at Low-, Medium-, and High-Volume Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Centers: The 3M TAVR Study

    JACC Cardiovasc Interv

    March 11, 2019

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease
    Surgery & Procedures

    Wood DA, Lauck SB, Cairns JA, Humphries KH, Cook R, et al.

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  • A Systematic Review of Decision-Analytic Models for Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness of Asthma Interventions

    Value Health

    May 30, 2019

    Chronic Conditions
    Health Economics

    Ehteshami-Afshar S, Zafari Z, Hamidi N, FitzGerald JM, Lynd L, Sadatsafavi M

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  • Urinary tract infection prevention after midurethral slings in pelvic floor reconstructive surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Sanaee MS, Hutcheon JA, Larouche M, Brown HL, Lee T, Geoffrion R

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  • Obesity prevention in corticosteroid-treated patients: Use and effectiveness of strategies for weight management

    Conklin AI, Hong J

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  • Validation of a novel diabetic retinopathy utility index using discrete choice experiments

    Fenwick EK, Bansback N, Gan ATL, Ratcliffe J, Burgess L, Wong TY, Lamoureux EL

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  • Minimal effect of walking before dinner on glycemic responses in type 2 diabetes: outcomes from the multi-site E-PAraDiGM study

    Rees JL, Chang CR, François ME, Marcotte-Chénard A, Fontvieille A,…Lee T, Singer J, Boulé NG, Little JP

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  • Relationship between early prescription dispensing patterns and work disability in a cohort of low back pain workers’ compensation claimants: A historical cohort study

    Occup Environ Med

    May 15, 2019

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Work & Productivity

    Carnide N, Hogg-Johnson S, Koehoorn M, Furlan AD, Côté P

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