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  • Implementation of pharmaceutical alternatives to a toxic drug supply in British Columbia: A mixed methods study.

    Subst Use Addict Treat.

    March 13, 2024

    Substance Use & Addictions

    Pauly B, Kurz M, Dale LM, Macevicius C, Kalicum J, Pérez DG, McCall J, Urbanoski K, Barker B, Slaunwhite A, Lindsay M, Nosyk B. J

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  • Strategies to promote implementation of core outcomes for medication adherence trials in rheumatology: A report from the OMERACT-Adherence Group.

    Semin Arthritis Rheum.

    March 13, 2024

    Arthritis
    Rheumatology

    Kordkheili AM, Bekker C, Hoens AM, Voshaar M, Campbell W, Carmona L, de Wit M, March L, Nielsen SM, Shea BJ, Toupin-April K, Tugwell P, Tymms K, Kelly A.

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  • Health-related quality of life in the year following road trauma: Longitudinal analysis using piecewise latent curve modeling.

    J Affect Disord.

    March 13, 2024

    Quality of Life

    Momenyan S, Chan H, Erdelyi S, Pei LX, Shum LK, Jae L, Taylor J, Staples J, Brubacher JR.

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  • An ecological study of the correlation between COVID-19 support payments and overdose events in British Columbia, Canada.

    Int J Drug Polic.

    March 13, 2024

    COVID-19
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Richardson L, Geddes C, Palis H, Buxton J, Slaunwhite A.

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  • Twelve-month recovery following road trauma: Results from an inception cohort in Vancouver, Canada.

    Ann Phys Rehabilitation Med.

    March 12, 2024

    Emergency Medicine
    Quality of Life

    Pei LX, Chan H, Staples JA, Taylor JA, Harris DR, Jae L, Brubacher JR.

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  • Facilitators and barriers to codesigning social robots with older adults with dementia: a scoping review protocol.

    Hung L, Chen I, Wong KLY, Jackson L, Lou VWQ.

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  • Changes in UK price disparities between healthy and less healthy foods over 10 years: An updated analysis with insights in the context of inflationary increases in the cost-of-living from 2021.

    Hoenink JC, Garrott K, Jones NRV, Conklin AI, Monsivais P, Adams J.

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  • Direct oral anticoagulants: The new standard of care for cancer associated thrombosis.

    Eur J Intern Med.

    March 8, 2024

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Haematology
    Oncology

    Nisio MD, Lee AY.

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  • Pilot Study of a Digital Behavioral Therapy for Overactive Bladder in Women.

    Sooknarine C, Farrell S, Sarma S, Salameh F, Burke N, Staunton B, Carr E, Sexton K, Agnew G, Downey A, D’Arcy F, Cundiff GW.

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  • Enhancing Kidney Transplantation and the Role of Xenografts: Report of a Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation.

    Am J Kidney Dis.

    March 5, 2024

    Nephrology
    Organ Transplant
    Surgery & Procedures

    Adams AB, Blumberg EA, Gill JS, Katz E, Kawai T, Schold JD, Sykes M, Tector A, Sachs DH.

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  • Impact of surgical lung biopsy on lung function and survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in a multi-centre registry cohort.

    Respirology

    March 4, 2024

    Chronic Conditions
    Screening & Testing

    Marcoux V, Lok SD, Mondal P, Assayag D, Fisher JH, Shapera S, Morisset J, Manganas H, Fell CD, Hambly N, Cox PG, Kolb M, Gershon AS, To T, Sadatsafavi M, Khalil N, Wong AW, Wilcox PG, Ryerson CJ, Vu T, Johannson KA.

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  • Systemic delivery of proteins using novel peptides via the sublingual route.

    J Control Release

    March 4, 2024

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

    Wu J, Jones N, Hohenwarter L, Zhao F, Chan V, Tan Z, Carlaw T, Morin T, Li J, Kaur T, Andrew LJ, Ross CJD, Hedtrich S, Li S-D.

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