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  • Nutritional Status, Nutritional Phenotypes, and Oral Nutritional Supplement Prescription Patterns Among Patients With Non-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease in British Columbia

    J Ren Nutr

    December 17, 2021

    Eating Disorders & Nutrition
    Nephrology

    Wong MMY, Renouf D, Zheng Y, Sheriff Z, Levin A

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  • Adverse Events Associated With Electrical Cardioversion in Patients With Acute Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter

    Stiell IG, Eagles D, Nemnom MJ, Brown E, Taljaard M, on behalf of theRAFF Investigators, Archambault PM, Birnie D, Borgundvaag B, Clark G, Davis P, Godin D, Hohl CM, Mathieu B, McRae AD, Mercier E, Morris J, Parkash R, Perry JJ, Rowe BH, Thiruganasambandamoorthy V, Scheuermeyer F, Sivilotti MLA, Vadeboncoeur A

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  • Shifting North American drug markets and challenges for the system of care

    Krausz RM, Westenberg JN, Mathew N, Budd G, Wong JSH, Tsang VWL, Vogel M, King C, Seethapathy V, Jang K, Choi F

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  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intensive care unit workers: a nationwide survey

    Mehta S, Yarnell C, Shah S, Dodek P, Parsons-Leigh J, Maunder R, Kayitesi J, Eta-Ndu C, Priestap F, LeBlanc D, Chen J, Honarmand K, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

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  • The Paradoxical Relationship Between Health Promotion and the Social Media Industry

    Zenone M, Kenworthy N, Barbic S

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  • A Core Outcome Set for Trials in Glomerular Disease: A Report of the Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology-Glomerular Disease (SONG-GD) Stakeholder Workshops

    Carter SA, Lightstone L, Cattran D, Tong A, Bagga A, Barbour SJ, Barratt J, Boletis J, Caster DJ, Coppo R, Fervenza FC, Floege J, Hladunewich MA, Hogan JJ, Kitching AR, Lafayette RA, Malvar A, Radhakrishnan J, Rovin BH, Scholes-Robertson N, Trimarchi H, Zhang H, Anumudu S, Cho Y, Gutman T, O’Lone E, Viecelli AK, Au E, Azukaitis K, Baumgart A, Bernier-Jean A, Dunn L, Howell M, Ju A, Logeman C, Nataatmadja M, Sautenet B, Sharma A, Craig JC; on behalf of the SONG-GD Workshop Investigators

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  • Gender Differences in the Role of Social Support for Hypertension Prevention in Canada: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Cohort

    Hosseini Z, Safari A, Khan NA, Veenstra G, Conklin AI

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  • Trans-ethnic Mendelian-randomization study reveals causal relationships between cardiometabolic factors and chronic kidney disease

    Zheng J, Zhang Y, Rasheed H, Walker V, Sugawara Y, Li J, Leng Y, Elsworth B, Wootton RE, Fang S, Yang Q, Burgess S, Haycock PC, Borges MC, Cho Y, Carnegie R, Howell A, Robinson J, Thomas LF, Brumpton BM, Hveem K, Hallan S, Franceschini N, Morris AP, Köttgen A, Pattaro C, Wuttke M, Yamamoto M, Kashihara N, Akiyama M, Kanai M, Matsuda K, Kamatani Y, Okada Y, Walters R, Millwood IY, Chen Z, Smith GD, Barbour S, Yu C, Åsvold BO, Zhang H, Gaunt TR

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  • The Random Effects Warfarin Days’ Supply (REWarDS) model: Development and validation of a novel method to estimate exposure to warfarin using administrative data

    Salmasi S, Högg T, Safari A, De Vera MA, Lynd LD, Koehoorn M, Barry AR, Andrade JG, Loewen P

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  • Photovoice Exploration of Frontline Nurses’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Can J Nurs Res

    December 22, 2021

    COVID-19
    Nursing

    Rana R, Kozak N, Black A

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  • Assessment of an Interactive Digital Health-Based Self-management Program to Reduce Hospitalizations Among Patients With Multiple Chronic Diseases: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Lear SA, Norena M, Banner D, Whitehurst DGT, Gill S, Burns J, Kandola DK, Johnston S, Horvat D, Vincent K, Levin A, Kaan A, Spall HGCV, Singer J

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  • The Prospective Randomized Trial of the Optimal Evaluation of Cardiac Symptoms and Revascularization: Rationale and Design of the PRECISE Trial

    Am Heart J

    December 22, 2021

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease
    Diagnostics

    Nanna MG, Vemulapalli S, Fordyce CB, Mark DB, Patel MR, Al-Khalidi HR, Kelsey M, Martinez B, Yow E, Mullen S, Stone GW, Ben-Yehuda O, Udelson JE, Rogers C, Douglas PS

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