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  • Gamification of dementia education in hospitals: a knowledge translation project

    Hung L, Mann J, Battersby L, Parappilly B, Butcher C, Vicic A

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  • Sex and Gender Bias as a Mechanistic Determinant of Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes

    Can J Cardiol

    September 15, 2022

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease
    Sex & Gender

    Kim I, Field TS, Wan D, Humphries K, Sedlak T

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  • Using novel methodology to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders in British Columbia, Canada

    Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

    September 16, 2022

    Epidemiology
    Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Kaoser R, Jones W, Dove N, Tallon C, Small W, Vigo D, Samji H

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  • Identifying candidate quality indicators of tools that support the practice of knowledge translation: a scoping review protocol

    JBI Evid Synth

    September 19, 2022

    Knowledge Translation & Implementation Science

    Bhuiya AR, Makarski J, Hayden L, Perrier L, Munce S, Lewis I, Graham ID, Holroyd-Leduc J, Straus SE, Stelfox HT, Strifler L, Lokker C, Li LC, Leung FH, Dobbins M, Ritchie LMP, Squires J, Rac V, Fahim C, Kastner M

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  • Preferences and Insights for Participation in a Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Prevention Trial: A Mixed-Methods Study

    ACR Open Rheumatol

    September 16, 2022

    Arthritis
    Chronic Conditions
    Decision Science
    Rheumatology

    Fleischer CL, Bemis EA, Feser ML, Kormendi VA, Zhang A, Ketcham K, White SD, Striebich CC, Deane KD, Harrison M

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  • Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Neutralizing Antibody Titers with Anti-Spike Antibodies and ACE-2 Inhibition among Vaccinated Individuals

    Microbiol Spectr

    September 19, 2022

    COVID-19
    Vaccines

    Grunau B, Prusinkiewicz M, Asamoah-Boaheng M, Golding L, Lavoie PM, Petric M, Levett PN, Haig S, Barakauskas V, Karim ME, Jassem AN, Drews SJ, Sediqi S, Goldfarb DM

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  • Primary care for individuals with serious mental illness (PriSMI): protocol for a convergent mixed methods study

    Grudniewicz A, Peckham A, Rudoler D, Lavergne MR, Ashcroft R, Corace K, Kaluzienski M, Kaoser R, Langford L, McCracken R, Norris WC, O’Riordan A, Patrick K, Peterson S, Randall E, Rayner J, Schütz CG, Sunderji N, Thai H, Kurdyak P

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  • Implementation of increased physical therapy intensity for improving walking after stroke: Walk ‘n Watch protocol for a multi-site stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial

    Peters S, Lim S, Bayley MT, Best K, Connell L, Corriveau H, Donkers S, Dukelow SP, Klassen TD, Milot MH, Sakakibara B, Sheehy L, Wong H, Yao J, Eng JJ

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  • Abdominal sacrohysteropexy for large iatrogenic early postpartum vesicouterine fistula

    Urol Case Rep

    September 11, 2022

    Editorial
    Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    Surgery & Procedures

    Geoffrion R, Badowski S

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  • Direct medical costs of young-onset colorectal cancer: a worldwide systematic review

    Garg R, Cheng V, Ellis U, Verma V, McTaggart-Cowan H, Peacock S, Loree JM, Sadatsafavi M, De Vera MA

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  • Control of Line Complications with KiteLock (CLiCK) in the critical care unit: study protocol for a multi-center, cluster-randomized, double-blinded, crossover trial investigating the effect of a novel locking fluid on central line complications in the critical care population

    Ornowska M, Wong H, Ouyang Y, Mitra A, White A, Willems S, Wittmann J, Reynolds S

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  • Clinical severity of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant relative to Delta in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective analysis of whole genome sequenced cases

    Harrigan SP, Wilton J, Chong M, Abdia Y, Garcia HV, Rose C, Taylor M, Mishra S, Sander B, Hoang L, Tyson J, Krajden M, Prystajecky N, Janjua NZ, Sbihi H

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