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  • Qualitative Exploration of Emergency Department Care Experiences Among People With Opioid Use Disorder

    Ann Emerg Med.

    March 26, 2023

    Emergency Medicine
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Galarneau LR, Scheuermeyer FX, Hilburt J, O’Neill ZR, Barbic S, Moe J, Buxton JA, Orkin AM, Kaczorowski J, Dong K, Tobin D, Miles I, Bath M, Grier S, Garrod E, Kestler A.

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  • Declining Comprehensiveness of Services Delivered by Canadian Family Physicians Is Not Driven by Early-Career Physicians

    Ann Fam Medicine

    Primary Care

    Lavergne MR, Rudoler D, Peterson S, Stock D, Taylor C, Wilton AS, Wong ST, Scott I, McGrail KM, McCracken R, Marshall EG, MacKenzie A, Katz A, Jamieson M, Hedden L, Grudniewicz A, Goldsmith LJ, Glazier RH, Burge F, Blackie D.

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  • Health Care Costs Attributable to Prostate Cancer in British Columbia, Canada: A Population-Based Cohort Study

    Curr Oncol.

    March 8, 2023

    Cancer
    Health Economics
    Screening & Testing

    Zhang W, Guh DP, Mohammadi T, Pataky RE, Tam ACT, Lynd LD, Conklin AI.

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  • Effects of canagliflozin on cardiovascular and kidney events in patients with chronic kidney disease with and without peripheral arterial disease: integrated analysis from the CANVAS Program and CREDENCE trial

    Diabetes Obes Metabolism.

    March 27, 2023

    Clinical Trials
    Nephrology

    Yi TW, Wong MMY, Neuen BL, Arnott C, Poirier P, Seufert J, Slee A, Rapattoni W, Ang FG, Wheeler DC, Mahaffey KW, Perkovic V, Levin A.

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  • Reproductive Health Outcomes among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Oveisi N, Cheng V, Ellis U, Peacock S, McTaggart-Cowan H, Brotto LA, Loree J, Hanley GE, Gill S, Rayar M, Srikanthan A, De Vera MA

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  • The Cascade of Care for Hepatitis C Treatment in Rwanda: A Retrospective Cohort Study of the 2017–2019 Mass Screening and Treatment Campaign

    Nisingizwe MP, Makuza JD, Janjua NZ, Bansback N, Hedt-Gauthier B, Serumondo J, Remera E, Law MR.

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  • Frameworks for Health Technology Assessment at an Early Stage of Product Development: A Review and Roadmap to Guide Applications

    Value Health.

    March 27, 2023

    Health Economics

    Llorian ER, Waliji LA, Dragojlovic N, Michaux KD, Nagase F, Lynd LD.

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  • Validation of an Adapted Version of the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) for Older Adults Living in Long-term Care Homes

    Wilson R, Cuthbertson L, Sasaki A, Russell L, Kazis LE, Sawatzky R

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  • An update on corticosteroid treatment for IgA nephropathy

    Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens

    March 3, 2023

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Nephrology

    Ghaddar M, Barratt J, Barbour SJ

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  • Unmet needs in clinical trials in CKD: questions we have not answered and answers we have not questioned

    Clin Kidney J

    October 15, 2022

    Clinical Trials
    Nephrology
    Patient-Centred Care

    Levin A, Borkum M

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  • Advancing socioecological mental health promotion intervention: A mixed methods exploration of Phase 1 Agenda Gap findings

    Jenkins E, Daly Z, McAuliffe C, McGuinness L, Richardson C, Hill TG, Goodyear T, Lind C, Barbic S, Rivers R, Haines-Saah R

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  • Definitions, rates and associated mortality of ICU-acquired pneumonia: A multicenter cohort study

    J Crit Care

    March 3, 2023

    Epidemiology
    Intensive Care

    Johnstone J, Muscedere J, Dionne J, Duan E, Rochwerg B, Centofanti J, Oczkowski S, Lauzier F, Marshall J, Heels-Ansdell D, Daneman N, Mehta S, Arabi Y, Zytaruk N, Dodek P, Adhikari NK, Karachi T, Charbonney E, Stelfox HT, Kristof AS, Ball I, Hand L, Fowler R, Zarychanski R, Arnaud CS, Takaoka A, Kutsogiannis J, Khwaja K, Sligl W, Loubani O, Tsang J, Lamarche D, Bowdish D, Surette M, Cook D; for the Prevention of Severe Pneumonia and Endotracheal Colonization Trial (PROSPECT) Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

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