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  • Attitudes towards people who use substances: a survey of mental health clinicians from an urban hospital in British Columbia

    Russolillo A, Guan M, Dogherty EJ, Kolar M, Du J, Brynjarsdóttir E, Carter M

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  • Differences in Preoperative Health-Related Quality of Life between Women Receiving Mastectomy or Breast Conserving Surgery in a Prospectively Recruited Cohort of Breast Cancer Patients

    McKevitt E, Saleeb M, Liu G, Warburton R, Pao J-S, Dingee C, Bazzarelli A, Tang K, Crump T, Sutherland JM

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  • Health Policy – the best evidence for better policies

    Health Policy

    January 14, 2023

    Editorial
    Health Policy
    Health Services & Outcomes

    Quentin W, Achstetter K, Barros PP, Blankart CR, Fattore G, Jeurissen P, Kwon S, Laba T, Or Z, Papanicolas I, Polin K, Shuftan N, Sutherland J, Vogt V, Vrangbaek K, Wendt C

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  • Personalized medicine in rheumatoid arthritis: Combining biomarkers and patient preferences to guide therapeutic decisions

    Thomas J, Bansback N, Barber C, Wells G, Hazlewood G

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  • “I feel I’m leading the charge.” Experiences of a virtual physiotherapist-guided knee health program for persons at-risk of osteoarthritis after a sport-related knee injury

    Osteoarthr Cartil Open

    January 6, 2023

    Arthritis
    Remote Care & Digital Tools

    Truong LK, Mosewich AD, Miciak M, Pajkic A, Silvester-Lee T, Li LC, Whittaker JL

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  • Clostridioides difficile infection in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: A nested cohort study

    Dionne JC, Johnstone J, Heels-Ansdell D, Duan E, Lauzier F, Arabi YM, Adhikari NKJ, Sligl W, Dodek P, Rochwerg B, Marshall JC, Niven DJ, Williamson DR, Reynolds S, Zytaruk N, Cook D

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  • A multi-center, randomized, 12-month, parallel-group, feasibility study to assess the acceptability and preliminary impact of family navigation plus usual care versus usual care on attrition in managing pediatric obesity: a study protocol

    Pilot Feasibility Stud

    January 23, 2023

    Clinical Trials
    Overweight & Obesity
    Paediatrics

    Ball GDC, O’Neill MG, Noor R, Alberga A, Azar R, Buchholz A, Enright M, Geller J, Ho J, Holt NL, Lebel T, Rosychuk RJ, Tarride J-E, Zenlea I

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  • Voluntary activation of the diaphragm after inspiratory pressure threshold loading

    Physiol Rep

    January 25, 2023

    Sex & Gender
    Surgery & Procedures

    Ramsook AH, Schaeffer MR, Mitchell RA, Dhillon SS, Milne KM, Ferguson ON, Puyat JH, Koehle MS, Sheel AW, Guenette JA

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  • Anesthesiologists Are Integral to Value-Based Surgical Care Reform

    JAMA Surg

    January 25, 2023

    Anaesthesiology
    Editorial
    Surgery & Procedures

    Flexman AM, Ke JXC

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  • Acute hypoxia elicits lasting reductions in the sympathetic action potential transduction of arterial blood pressure in males

    J Physiol

    December 21, 2022

    Shafer BM, Nardone M, Incognito AV, Vermeulen TD, Teixeira AL, Millar PJ, Sheel AW, West C, Ayas N, Foster GE

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  • Labor and delivery outcomes by delivery method in term deliveries in occiput posterior position: a population-based retrospective cohort study

    AJOG Glob Rep

    August 30, 2022

    Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    Surgery & Procedures

    Foggin HH, Albert AY, Minielly NC, Lisonkova S, Koenig NA, Jacobs EN, Cundiff GW

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  • An Elastic Net Regression Model for Identifying Long COVID Patients Using Health Administrative Data: A Population-Based Study

    Open Forum Infect Dis

    November 24, 2022

    COVID-19
    Diagnostics

    Binka M, Klaver B, Cua G, Wong AW, Fibke C, García HAV, Adu P, Levin A, Mishra S, Sander B, Sbihi H, Janjua NZ

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