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  • Variation in Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Between Emergency Medical Services Agencies

    JAMA Cardiol

    September 26, 2018

    Emergency Medicine
    Resuscitation

    Okubo M, Schmicker RH, Wallace DJ, Idris AH, Nichol G … Grunau B, Scheuermeyer FX, et al.

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  • Should Sex Be Considered an Effect Modifier in the Evaluation of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness?

    Open Forum Infect Dis

    September 4, 2018

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Public Health
    Sex & Gender
    Vaccines

    Chambers C, Skowronski DM, Rose C, Serres GD, Winter A-L, et al.

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  • Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy: The Need for Higher Awareness. A Pragmatic Review Focused on What Could Be Improved in the Prevention and Care of Pregnancy-Related AKI, in the Year Dedicated to Women and Kidney Diseases

    Piccoli GB, Zakharova E, Attini R, Ibarra Hernandez M … Levin A, et al.

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  • Minimalist Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: The Right Pathway Forward?

    Interv Cardiol Clin

    October 1, 2018

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease
    Surgery & Procedures

    Sathananthan J, Lauck S, Webb JG, Wood DA

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  • Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Migrants With CKD: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis

    Campbell JR, Johnston JC, Ronald LA, Sadatsafavi M, Balshaw RF, Cook VJ, Levin A, Marra F

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  • Attitudes toward prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities: A focus group study

    Munro S, Sou J, Zhang W, Mohammadi T, Trenaman L, Langlois S, Anis AH

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  • Quadriceps Weakness and the Risk of Knee Cartilage Loss Seen on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Population-based Cohort with Knee Pain

    J Rheumatol

    October 1, 2018

    Arthritis
    Exercise Science & Physical Activity

    Chin C, Sayre EC, Guermazi A, Nicolaou S, Esdaile JM, Kopec J, Thorne A, Singer J, Wong H, Cibere J

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  • Operationalizing Neuroimaging for Disorders of Consciousness in the Canadian Context

    Can J Neurol Sci

    September 25, 2018

    Diagnostics
    Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Kaal KJ, Harrison M, Whitehurst DGT, Townson A, Dance D, Stoessl AJ, Illes J

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  • Implementing personalized medicine in diabetic kidney disease: Stakeholders’ perspectives

    de Vries JK, Levin A, Loud F, Adler A, Mayer G, Pena MJ

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  • Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery As Day Surgery: A single center experience in 500 patients

    Colorectal Dis

    July 10, 2018

    Surgery & Procedures

    Brown CJ, Gentles JQ, Phang PT, Karimuddin AA, Raval MJ

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  • Gill JS, Grunau B: extracorporeal CPR barriers and opportunities

    May 7, 2018

    Brooks SC, Shemie SD, Torrance S, Hornby L, Gillrie C, Grunau B, Nagpal AD, Baker A, Christenson J, Gill JS, Morrison L. Barriers and opportunities related to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada: A report from the first meeting of the Canadian ECPR Research Working Group. CJEM. 2018 Jul;20(4):507-517. Epub 2018 May 7.

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  • Mortality effects of timing alternatives for hip fracture surgery

    Sobolev B, Guy P, Sheehan KJ, Kuramoto L, Sutherland JM, et al; Canadian Collaborative Study of Hip Fractures

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