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  • Cycles of instability: Proximal and distal influences on residential instability among people with histories of homelessness in three Canadian cities

    J Community Psychol

    March 23, 2022

    Housing & Homelessness

    Czechowski K, Sylvestre J, Gogosis E, Agha A, Kerman N, Polillo A, Palepu A, Hwang SW

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  • Same-Day Discharge Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Multicenter PROTECT TAVR Study

    Barker M, Sathananthan J, Perdoncin E, Devireddy C, Keegan P, Grubb K, Pop AM, Depta JP, Rai D, Abtahian F, Spence MS, Mailey J, Muir DF, Russo MJ, Pineda-Salazar J, Okoh A, Smith M, Dahle TG, Rana M, Alfadhel M, Meier D, Chatfield A, Akodad M, Chuang A, Samuel R, Nestelberger T, McAlister C, Lauck S, Webb JG, Wood DA

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  • The influence of early-life residential exposure to different vegetation types and paved surfaces on early childhood development: A population-based birth cohort study

    Jarvis I, Sbihi H, Davis Z, Brauer M, Czekajlo A, Davies HW, Gergel SE, Guhn M, Jerrett M, Koehoorn M, Nesbitt L, Oberlander TF, Su J, van den Bosch M

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  • A portrait of obstructive sleep apnea risk factors in 27,210 middle-aged and older adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

    Thompson C, Legault J, Moullec G, Baltzan M, Cross N, Dang-Vu TT, Martineau-Dussault MÈ, Hanly P, Ayas N, Lorrain D, Einstein G, Carrier J, Gosselin N

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  • Optimizing the Nursing Role in Abortion Care: Considerations for Health Equity

    Carson A, Paynter M, Norman WV, Munro S, Roussel J, Dunn S, Bryant-Lukosius D, Begun S, Martin-Misener R

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  • Same Day Discharge during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Highly Selected Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Patients

    Pop AM, Barker M, Hickman L, Barrow F, Sathananthan J, Stansfield W, Nikolov M, Mohamed E, Lauck S, Wang J, Webb JG, Wood DA

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  • Government policies targeting primary care physician practice from 1998-2018 in three Canadian provinces: A jurisdictional scan

    Health Policy

    March 17, 2022

    Health Policy
    Primary Care

    McKay M, Lavergne MR, Lea AP, Le M, Grudniewicz A, Blackie D, Goldsmith LJ, Marshall EG, Mathews M, McCracken R, McGrail K, Wong S, Rudoler D

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  • Humoral immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination in people living with HIV receiving suppressive antiretroviral therapy

    NPJ Vaccines

    February 28, 2022

    COVID-19
    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Vaccines

    Brumme ZL, Mwimanzi F, Lapointe HR, Cheung PK, Sang Y, Duncan MC, Yaseen F, Agafitei O, Ennis S, Ng K, Basra S, Lim LY, Kalikawe R, Speckmaier S, Moran-Garcia N, Young L, Ali H, Ganase B, Umviligihozo G, Omondi FH, Atkinson K, Sudderuddin H, Toy J, Sereda P, Burns L, Costiniuk CT, Cooper C, Anis AH, Leung V, Holmes D, DeMarco ML, Simons J, Hedgcock M, Romney MG, Barrios R, Guillemi S, Brumme CJ, Pantophlet R, Montaner JSG, Niikura M, Harris M, Hull M, Brockman MA

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  • Development and validation of health system performance measures for opioid use disorder in British Columbia, Canada

    Nosyk B, Min JE, Pearce LA, Zhou H, Homayra F, Wang L, Piske M, McCarty D, Gardner G, O’Briain W, Wood E, Daly P, Walsh T, Henry B

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  • Differences in mRNA-1273 (Moderna) and BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) SARS-CoV-2 vaccine immunogenicity among patients undergoing dialysis

    CMAJ

    February 28, 2022

    COVID-19
    Nephrology
    Vaccines

    Yau K, Chan CT, Abe KT, Jiang Y, Atiquzzaman M, Mullin SI, Shadowitz E, Liu L, Kostadinovic E, Sukovic T, Gonzalez A, McGrath-Chong ME, Oliver MJ, Perl J, Leis JA, Bolotin S, Tran V, Levin A, Blake PG, Colwill K, Gingras AC, Hladunewich MA

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  • The worldwide impact of telemedicine during COVID-19: current evidence and recommendations for the future

    Omboni S, Padwal RS, Alessa T, Benczúr B, Green BB, Hubbard I, Kario K, Khan NA, Konradi A, Logan AG, Lu Y, Mars M, McManus RJ, Melville S, Neumann CL, Parati G, Renna NF, Ryvlin P, Saner H, Schutte AE, Wang J

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  • Bayesian analysis of amiodarone or lidocaine versus placebo for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

    Lane DJ, Grunau B, Kudenchuk P, Dorian P, Wang HE, Daya MR, Lupton J, Vaillancourt C, Okubo M, Davis D, Rea T, Yannopoulos D, Christenson J, Scheuermeyer F

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