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  • People Living with Chronic Pain Experience a High Prevalence of Decision Regret in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Online Survey

    Medical Decision Making

    2-March-2025

    Chronic Conditions
    Shared Decision-Making

    Naye F, Tousignant-Laflamme Y, Sasseville M, Cachinho C, Gérard T, Toupin-April K, Dubois O, Paquette JS, LeBlanc A, Gaboury I, Poitras MÈ, Li LC, Hoens AM, Poirier MD, Légaré F, Décary S

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  • Opioid-associated cardiac arrest: A systematic review of intra-arrest naloxone and other opioid-specific advanced life-support therapies

    Resuscitation Plus

    14-February-2025

    Substance Use & Addictions

    Grunau B, O’Neil BJ, Giustini D, Drennan IR, Lavonas EJ

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  • Ethical considerations in implementing virtual reality programs in long-term care settings: Case studies from in Canada and the Czech Republic.

    Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

    20-March-2025

    Innovation & Technology
    Long-term Care

    Hung L, Suchomelová V, Diallo K, Wong JOY, Ren LH

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  • When Do Value-Based Contracts Add Value? Insights from Probabilistic Simulation

    Value in Health

    26-March-2025

    Metcalfe RK, Geary K, Trusheim M, Barlow JF, Vuong Q, Park JJH

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  • The mobilization of nurse-client therapeutic relationships in injectable opioid agonist treatment: Autonomy, advocacy and action

    Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

    August 29, 2023

    Nursing
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Blawatt S, Harrison S, Byres D, Foreman J, Amara S, Burdge W, MacDonald S, Schechter MT, Oviedo-Joekes E.

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  • The Impact of Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment (iOAT) on Involvement in Criminalized Activities: A Secondary Analysis from a Clinical Trial in Vancouver, BC

    Dobischok S, Guh D, Marchand K, MacDonald S, Lock K, Harrison S, Lajeunesse J, Schechter MT, Oviedo-Joekes E.

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  • The Problem of Pain in the United States: A Population-Based Characterization of Biopsychosocial Correlates of High Impact Chronic Pain Using the National Health Interview Survey

    Falasinnu T, Hossain MB, 2nd KAW, Helmick CG, Karim ME, Mackey S.

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  • The Perspective of Nurses and Healthcare Providers on the use of Television Videos with People with Moderate to Severe Dementia

    Hung L, Wong KLY, Mann J, Berndt A, Wong L, Wang C, Liao D, Pan D, Ren H.

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  • “As long as that place stays open, I’ll stay alive”: Accessing injectable opioid agonist treatment during dual public health crises

    Harm Reduction Journal

    April 14, 2023

    COVID-19
    Public Health

    Jaffe K, Blawatt S, Lehal E, Lock K, Easterbrook A, MacDonald S, Harrison S, Lajeunesse J, Byres D, Schechter M, Oviedo-Joekes E.

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  • Pediatric critical care capacity in Canada

    Paediatrics & Child Health

    June 7, 2024

    Paediatrics
    Ganesan SL, Garros D, Foster J, Genova TD, Fontela PS, Murthy S.
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  • Exploring individuals’ experiences with self-reported unmet need for genetic testing

    Eur J Hum Gene

    March 27, 2025

    Genetics & Genomics
    Screening & Testing

    Borle K, Lynd LD, Austin J. 

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  • Patient Perspectives on Emergency Department–initiated Buprenorphine/Naloxone: A Qualitative Study

    The Canadian Journal of Addiction

    March 4, 2025

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Emergency Medicine
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Liu Q, Badke K, Small SS, Pratt-Ahmad M, Lockington J, Gurney L, Kestler A, Moe J.

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