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  • Prescribing diabetes nutrition therapy: a qualitative study of dietitians’ experiences of carbohydrate restriction in Canada

    BMJ Nutr Prev Heal

    February 17, 2023

    Diabetes
    Eating Disorders & Nutrition

    Viljoen A, Yu K, Witchell E, Conklin AI

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  • How injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) care could be improved? service providers and stakeholders’ perspectives.

    Drugs: Educ, Prev Polic.

    February 7, 2023

    Decision Science
    Patient Preferences
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Magel T, Matzinger E, Blawatt S, Harrison S, MacDonald S, Amara S, Metcalfe R, Bansback N, Byres D, Schechter M, Oviedo-Joekes E.

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  • Development of a patient and clinician co-led education program to promote living well with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: Insights from a pilot project

    Forman J, Murtagh E, Cheung J, Chakrabarti S, Macleod S, MacEwing C, Owens S, Alley H, Bangma K, Villeneuve M, Lauck S

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  • The Use of Generic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Emergency Department Surveys: Discriminant Validity Evidence for the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey and the EQ-5D

    Kwon J-Y, Cuthbertson L, Sawatzky R

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  • Creating a provincial post COVID-19 interdisciplinary clinical care network as a learning health system during the pandemic: Integrating clinical care and research

    Levin A, Malbeuf M, Hoens AM, Carlsten C, Ryerson CJ, Cau A, Bryan S, Robinson J, Tarling T, Shum J, Lavallee DC. Creating a provincial post COVID-19 interdisciplinary clinical care network as a learning health system during the pandemic: Integrating clinical care and research. Learn Health Syst. Published online May 15, 2022:e10316. doi:10.1002/lrh2.10316

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  • How nurses’ and physicians’ emotions, psychosocial factors, and professional roles influence the end-of-life decision making process: An interpretive description study

    Intensive Crit Care Nurs

    April 21, 2022

    End-of-life Care

    Boer MD, Reimer-Kirkham S, Sawatzky R

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  • Feasibility of the SOAR (Stop OsteoARthritis) program

    Osteoarthr Cartil Open

    January 28, 2022

    Arthritis
    Chronic Conditions

    Whittaker JL, Truong LK, Silvester-Lee T, Losciale JM, Miciak M, Pajkic A, Le CY, Hoens AM, Mosewich AD, Hunt MA, Li LC, Roos EM

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  • Parental experiences with their child’s eating disorder treatment journey

    J Eat Disord

    July 27, 2021

    Eating Disorders & Nutrition

    Coelho JS, Suen J, Marshall S, Burns A, Lam P-Y, Geller J

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  • Patient-reported outcomes and the identification of subgroups of atrial fibrillation patients: a retrospective cohort study of linked clinical registry and administrative data

    Kwon J-Y, Sawatzky R, Baumbusch J, Ratner PA

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  • Critical examination of current response shift methods and proposal for advancing new methods

    Qual Life Res

    February 17, 2021

    Patient-Reported Outcomes
    Statistics & Methodology

    Sébille V, Lix LM, Ayilara OF, Sajobi TT, Janssens ACJW, Sawatzky R, Sprangers MAG

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  • Sleep Quality and Nocturnal Symptoms in a Community-Based COPD Cohort

    January 10, 2020

    Sleep & Health

    Shah A, Ayas N, Tan W-C, Malhotra A, Kimoff J, Kaminska M, Aaron SD, Jen R.

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  • Utility of MyHEARTSMAP for Universal Psychosocial Screening in the Emergency Department

    Doan Q, Wright B, Atwal A, Hankinson E, Virk P, Azizi H, Stenstrom R, Black T, Gokiert R, Newton AS.

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