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  • How do parents and providers trade-off between disability and survival? Preferences in the treatment of medulloblastoma

    Patient Pref Adherence

    October 10, 2018

    Cancer
    Health Spending & Priority Setting
    Patient Preferences

    Khakban A, Mohammadi T, Lynd LD, Mabbott DJ, Bouffet E, Gastonguay L, Zafari Z, Malkin D, Taylor MD, Marra CA

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  • Family doctors providing primary care to patients with mental illness in a tertiary care facility

    Can Fam Physician

    October 1, 2018

    Mental Health & Wellbeing
    Primary Care

    McCracken RK, Fung L, Stratis AK, Coptic KR, Dobson S

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  • Levin A: adverse events in pts w/ PKD and advanced CKD

    June 8, 2018

    de Chickera S, Akbari A, Levin A, Tang M, Brown P, Djurdev O, Biyani M, Clark EG, Sood MM. The Risk of Adverse Events in Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease With Advanced Chronic Kidney DiseaseCan J Kidney Health Dis. 2018 Jun 8;5:2054358118774537.

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  • The spectrum of chronic kidney disease in China: A national study based on hospitalized patients from 2010 to 2015

    Huang Y-M, Xu D, Long J, Shi Y, Zhang L, Wang H, Levin A, Zhao M-H

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  • The effect of multimorbidity on changes in health-related quality of life following hip and knee arthroplasty

    Bone Joint J

    August 31, 2018

    Orthopaedics
    Quality of Life

    Zhang L, Lix LM, Ayilara O, Sawatzky R, Bohm ER

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  • Frankish J: homeless people coping with dental care

    February 15, 2018

    Mago A, MacEntee MI, Brondani M, Frankish J. Anxiety and anger of homeless people coping with dental care. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2018 Jun;46(3):225-230. Epub 2018 Feb 15.

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  • Biomarkers of dementia in obstructive sleep apnea

    Sleep Med Rev

    August 13, 2018

    Mental Health & Wellbeing
    Sleep & Health

    Baril A-A, Carrier J, Lafrenière A, Warby S, Poirier J, Osorio RS, Ayas NT, Dubé M-P, Petit D, Gosselin N

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  • Ayas NT: accuracy of model for detecting OSA in chronic tetraplegia

    May 7, 2018

    Graco M, Schembri R, Cross S, Thiyagarajan C, Shafazand S, Ayas NT, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of a two-stage model for detecting obstructive sleep apnoea in chronic tetraplegia. Thorax. 2018 Sep;73(9):864-871. Epub 2018 May 7.

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  • Positive mental health and supportive school environments: A population-level longitudinal study of dispositional optimism and school relationships in early adolescence

    Oberle E, Guhn M, Gadermann AM, Thomson K, Schonert-Reichl KA

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  • Primary membranous nephropathy presenting with crescentic glomerulonephritis 25 years after initial presentation: A case report

    Clin Nephrol

    September 25, 2018

    Nephrology

    Massicotte-Azarniouch  D, Barbour S, Blanco P, Clark EG

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  • Referral Patterns for Dual-Energy Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management of Gout: Ten-Year Experience at a Canadian Institution

    Can Assoc Radiol J

    September 21, 2018

    Rheumatology

    Gong B, Shojania K, Khosa F, Nicolaou S

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  • “I Haven’t Given Up and I’m Not Gonna”: A Phenomenographic Exploration of Resilience Among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

    Qual Health Res

    September 26, 2018

    Housing & Homelessness
    Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Shankar S, Gogosis E, Palepu AGadermann AM, Hwang SW

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