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  • Evaluating fatigue in patients recovering from COVID-19: validation of the fatigue severity scale and single item screening questions

    Health Qual Life Outcomes

    December 27, 2022

    COVID-19
    Measurement
    Quality of Life
    Screening & Testing

    Naik H, Shao S, Tran KC, Wong AW, Russell JA, Khor E, Nacul L, McKay RJ, Carlsten C, Ryerson CJ, Levin A

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  • Influence of previous experience with and beliefs regarding anal cancer screening on willingness to be screened among men living with HIV

    BMC Public Health

    December 28, 2022

    Cancer
    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Screening & Testing

    Gillis JL, Grennan T, Grewal R, Ogilvie G, Gaspar M, Grace D, Lofters A, Raboud JM, Saarela O, MacPherson P, Rosenes R, Salit IE, Burchell AN; for the OHTN Cohort Study Team

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  • Findings of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitor Kidney Outcome Trials Applied to a Canadian Chronic Kidney Disease Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study

    Can J Kidney Health Dis

    December 20, 2022

    Clinical Trials
    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Nephrology

    Yi TW, Atiquzzaman M, Zheng Y, Smyth B, Jardine M, Levin A

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  • Sleep and Rest-Activity Rhythms in Recovering Patients with Severe Concurrent Mental and Substance Use Disorder: A Pilot Study

    Juda M, Pater J, Mistlberger RE, Schütz CG

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  • Preparation for interfacility transport of the critically ill patient

    Cournoyer A, Londei-Leduc L, Grunau B, Daoust R, Heidet M, Christian MD, Greene A, Scarborough F, Cavayas YA

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  • Derivation and validation of a clinical decision rule to risk-stratify COVID-19 patients discharged from the emergency department: The CCEDRRN COVID discharge score

    J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open

    December 22, 2022

    COVID-19
    Decision Science
    Emergency Medicine
    Modelling & Risk Prediction

    Brooks SC, Rosychuk RJ, Perry JJ, Morrison LJ, Wiemer H, Fok P, Rowe BH, Daoust R, Vatanpour S, Turner J, Landes M, Ohle R, Hayward J, Scheuermeyer F, Welsford M, Hohl C; the Canadian COVID-19 Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) for the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers (NCER) and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG)

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  • Home-based and community-based activities that can improve mental wellness: a protocol for an umbrella review

    BMJ Open

    December 30, 2022

    Mental Health & Wellbeing
    Public Health

    Puyat JH, Mohebbian M, Gupta A, Ellis U, Ranote H, Almeida A, Ridgway L, Vila-Rodriguez F, Kazanjian A

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  • Contribution of Obstructive Sleep Apnea to Disrupted Sleep in a Large Clinical Cohort of Patients with Suspected OSA

    Sleep

    January 2, 2023

    Sleep & Health

    Younes M, Gerardy B, Giannouli E, Raneri J, Ayas NT, Skomro R, Kimoff RJ, Series F, Hanly PJ, Beaudin A

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  • Impact of an online, individualised, patient reported outcome measures based patient decision aid on patient expectations, decisional regret, satisfaction, and health-related quality-of-life for patients considering total knee arthroplasty: Results from a randomised controlled trial

    Marshall DA, Trenaman L, MacDonald KV, Johnson JA, Stacey D, Hawker G, Smith C, Durand D, Bansback N

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  • Moral Distress in Canadian Intensivists: A Complex Interplay of Contextual and Relational Factors

    Piquette D, Burns KE, Carnevale F, Sarti AJ, Hamilton M, Dodek PM

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  • Measuring the preferences of injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) clients: Development of a person-centered scale (best-worst scaling)

    Dobischok S, Metcalfe R, Matzinger E, Palis H, Marchand K, Harrison S, MacDonald S, Byres D, Schechter M, Bansback N, Oviedo-Joekes E

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  • “The system always undermined what I was trying to do as an individual”: identifying opportunities to improve the delivery of opioid use services for youth from the perspective of service providers in four communities across British Columbia, Canada

    Marchand K, Turuba R, Katan C, Fogarty O, Fairbank J, Tallon C, Mathias S, Barbic S

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