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  • Lynd LD: Cost-effectiveness of ES for children with genetic disorders

    January 4, 2018

    Dragojlovic N, Elliott AM, Adam S, van Karnebeek C, Lehman A, Mwenifumbo JC, Nelson TN, Souich du C, Friedman JM, Lynd LD. The cost and diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for children with suspected genetic disorders: a benchmarking study. Genet Med. 2018 Jan 4 epub ahead of print.

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  • Levin A: women and kidney disease

    February 1, 2018

    Piccoli GB, Alrukhaimi M, Liu Z-H, Zakharova E, Levin A. Women and kidney disease: reflections on World Kidney Day 2018: Kidney Health and Women’s Health: a case for optimizing outcomes for present and future generations. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 2018 Feb 1;33(2):189-193.

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  • Gill JS, Rose C, Gill J: impact of pretransplantation dialysis exposure on allograft outcomes

    February 1, 2018

    Gill JS, Rose C, Joffres Y, Landsberg D, Gill J. Variation in Dialysis Exposure Prior to Nonpreemptive Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States and Its Association With Allograft Outcomes. Am J Kidney Dis. 2018 Feb 1 epub ahead of print.

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  • Lynd LD: Inappropriate use of beta agonists

    September 25, 2017

    FitzGerald JM, Tavakoli H, Lynd LD, Efraij Al K, Sadatsafavi M. The impact of inappropriate use of short acting beta agonists in asthma. Respir Med. 2017 Oct;131:135-40.

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  • Gill JS: scoping review of living kidney donation

    September 25, 2017

    Barnieh L, Collister D, Manns B, Lam NN, Shojai S, Lorenzetti D, Gill JS, Klarenbach S. A scoping review for strategies to increase living kidney donation. Clinical J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Sep 7; 12(9):1518-27. Epub 2017 Aug 7.

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  • Torchalla I, Strehlau V: work-related PTSD

    September 25, 2017

    Torchalla I, Strehlau V. The evidence base for interventions targeting individuals with work-related PTSD: A systematic review and recommendations. Behav Modif. 2017 Aug 1 epub ahead of print.

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  • Gill JS: Trace elements in hemodialysis patients

    September 25, 2017

    Tonelli M, Wiebe N, Bello A, Field CJ, Gill JS, Hemmelgarn BR, Holmes DT, Jindal K, Klarenbach SW, Manns BJ, Thadhani R, Kinniburgh D; Alberta Kidney Disease Network. Concentrations of trace elements in hemodialysis patients: A prospective cohort study. Am J Kidney Dis. 2017 Aug 22 epub ahead of print.

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  • Sawatzky R: Invariant items in test construction

    September 25, 2017

    Sawatzky R, Russell LB, Sajobi TT, Lix LM, Kopec J, Zumbo BD. The use of latent variable mixture models to identify invariant items in test construction. Qual Life Res. 2017 Aug 23 epub ahead of print.

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  • Dodek P: Association between strained capacity and mortality

    September 25, 2017

    Bagshaw SM, Wang X, Zygun DA, Zuege D, Dodek P, Garland A, Scales DC, Berthiaume L, Faris P, Chen G, Opgenorth D, Stelfox HT. Association between strained capacity and mortality among patients admitted to intensive care: A path-analysis modeling strategy. J Crit Care. 2017 Aug 24 epub ahead of print.

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  • Sawatzky R: latent variable mixture models

    September 25, 2017

    Wu X, Sawatzky R, Hopman W, Mayo N, Sajobi TT, Liu J, Prior J, Papaioannou A, Josse RG, Towheed T, Davison KS, Lix LM. Latent variable mixture models to test for differential item functioning: a population-based analysis. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2017 May 15;15(1):102.

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  • Sawatzky R: Palliative approach in nursing care delivery

    September 25, 2017

    Sawatzky R, Porterfield P, Roberts D, Lee J, Liang L, Reimer-Kirkham S, Pesut B, Schalkwyk T, Stajduhar K, Tayler C, Baumbusch J, Thorne S. Embedding a palliative approach in nursing care delivery: An integrated knowledge synthesis. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2017 Jul;40(3):261-77.

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  • Khan NA: CVD risk reduction therapy in South Asian and Chinese diabetics

    September 25, 2017

    Ke CH, Morgan S, Smolina K, Gasevic D, Qian H, Khan NA. Is cardiovascular risk reduction therapy effective in South Asian, Chinese and other patients with diabetes? A population-based cohort study from Canada. BMJ Open. 2017 Aug 31;7(8):e013808.

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