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  • Canada’s New Healthy Eating Strategy: Implications for Healthcare Professionals and a Call to Action

    Can J Diabetes

    March 10, 2019

    Eating Disorders & Nutrition
    Editorial

    Bacon SL, Campbell NRC, Raine KD, Tsuyuki R, Khan NA, Arango M, Kaczorowski J

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  • The antioxidant alpha lipoic acid attenuates intermittent hypoxia-related renal injury in a mouse model of sleep apnea

    Sleep

    March 18, 2019

    Nephrology
    Sleep & Health

    Abuyassin B, Badran M, Ayas NT, Laher I

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  • Is stage of change enough? Confidence as a predictor of outcome in inpatient treatment for eating disorders

    Int J Eat Disord

    February 7, 2019

    Eating Disorders & Nutrition
    Patient-Reported Outcomes

    Iyar MM, Cox DW, Kealy D, Srikameswaran S, Geller J

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  • Understanding the mental health and recovery needs of Canadian youth with mental health disorders: a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) collaboration protocol.

    Barbic SP, Leon A, Manion I, Irving S, Zivanovic R,…Mathias S, et al.

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  • Development of a national minimum data set to monitor deceased organ donation performance in Canada

    Can J Anaesth

    February 7, 2019

    Organ Transplant

    Hornby K, Shemie SD, Appleby A, Dodd N, Gill J, et al.

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  • Nurses “Seeing Forest for the Trees” in the Age of Machine Learning: Using Nursing Knowledge to Improve Relevance and Performance

    Comput Inform Nurs

    January 25, 2019

    Machine Learning & AI
    Nursing

    Kwon JY, Karim ME, Topaz M, Currie LM

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  • Emergency department patients with a prolonged corrected QT interval do not have increased thirty-day mortality

    Acad Emerg Med

    January 29, 2019

    Emergency Medicine
    Health Services & Outcomes

    Scheuermeyer F, Innes G, Grafstein E, Chard R, Vandenberg S, Cheyne J, Cheyne R, Christenson J, Grunau B, Barbic D, Smith S

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  • Association between symptom duration and patient-reported outcomes before and after hip replacement surgery

    Arthritis Care Res

    January 25, 2019

    Orthopaedics
    Patient-Reported Outcomes
    Surgery & Procedures

    Lau Y-S, Harrison M, Sutton M

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  • Management and treatment of glomerular diseases (part 1): conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference

    Kidney Int

    February 5, 2019

    Nephrology

    Floege J, Barbour SJ, Cattran DC, Hogan JJ, Nachman PH, et al.;, Conference Participants

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  • Assessing the Impact of a Social Marketing Campaign on Program Outcomes for Users of an Internet-Based Testing Service for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections: Observational Study

    J Med Internet Res

    January 21, 2019

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Remote Care & Digital Tools

    Gilbert M, Salway T, Haag D, Kwag M, Edward J,…Grennan T et al.

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  • Adhesion molecule gene variants and plasma protein levels in patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea

    PLoS ONE

    January 17, 2019

    Diagnostics
    Sleep & Health

    Sandford AJ, Ha A, Ngan DA, Akhabir L, Saferali A,…Ayas NT, et al.

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  • Association of Childhood Social-Emotional Functioning Profiles at School Entry With Early-Onset Mental Health Conditions

    Thomson KC, Richardson CG, Gadermann AM, Emerson SD, Shoveller J, Guhn M

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