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  • The impact of SVR from direct-acting antiviral- and interferon-based treatments for HCV on hepatocellular carcinoma risk

    J Viral Hepat

    April17, 2020

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Oncology

    Janjua NZ, Wong S, Darvishian M, Butt ZA, Yu A, Binka M, Alvarez M, Woods R, Yoshida EM, Ramji A, Feld J, Krajden M.

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  • Trends in the epidemiology of young-onset colorectal cancer: a worldwide systematic review

    BMC Cancer

    April 6, 2020

    Epidemiology
    Oncology

    Din KSE, Loree JM, Sayre EC, Gill S, Brown CJ, Dau H, Vera MAD

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  • Single-stage repair of contaminated hernias using a novel antibiotic-impregnated biologic porcine submucosa tissue matrix

    BMC Surg

    March 30, 2020

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs

    Minor S, Brown CJ, Rooney PS, Hodde JP, Julien L, Scott TM, Karimuddin AA, Raval MJ, Phang PT.

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  • Ranolazine for Symptomatic Management of Microvascular Angina

    Rayner-Hartley E, Parvand M, Humphries KH, Starovoytov A, Park JE, Sedlak T.

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  • A research agenda to improve patients’ experience of knee replacement surgery: a patient-oriented modified Delphi study of patients of South Asian origin in British Columbia

    CMAJ Open

    March 27, 2020

    Culture & Ethnicity
    Surgery & Procedures

    Bryan S, Goldsmith LJ, Suryaprakash N, Sawatzky R, Mulldoon M, Mercier ML, Moorthy D, Gandhi R, Bains SK, Li LC, Doyle-Waters M, Brown S

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  • Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Cognitive and/or Behavioral Therapies (CBT) for Tinnitus

    Otol Neurotol .

    May 10, 2025

    Statistics & Methodology

    Landry EC, Sandoval XCR, Simeone CN, Tidball G, Lea J, Westerberg BD.

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  • The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Rectal Cancer Project: Protocol for a Pan-Canadian, Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative to Optimize the Quality of Rectal Cancer Care

    JMIR Research Protocols

    January 19, 2020

    Oncology
    Quality Improvement & Practice Change

    Pooni A, Schmocker S, Brown C, MacLean A, Williams L, Baxter NN, Simunovic M, Liberman AS, Drolet S, Neumann K, Jhaveri K, Kirsch R, Kennedy ED.

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  • Using the Scope in the Treatment of Flatfoot? Are You Kidding?

    Tech Foot Ankle Surg

    December 15, 2019

    Surgery & Procedures
    Younger A, Symes M, Veljkovic A.
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  • Pharmacist-led therapeutic carbohydrate restriction as a treatment strategy for type 2 diabetes: the Pharm-TCR randomized controlled trial protocol

    Durrer C, McKelvey S, Singer J, Batterham AM, Johnson JD, Wortman J, Little JP.

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  • The prognostic value and pathophysiologic significance of three-dimensional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3D-FLAIR) magnetic resonance imaging in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Clin Otolaryngol

    November 3, 2019

    Statistics & Methodology

    Lammers MJW, Young E, Fenton D, Lea J, Westerberg BD.

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  • Rectal cancer DFP dedicated issue: abdominal radiology

    Abdom Radiol (NY)

    November 10, 2019

    Oncology

    Phang PT.

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  • Status of care for end stage kidney disease in countries and regions worldwide: international cross sectional survey

    October 31, 2019

    COVID-19

    Bello AK, Levin A, Lunney M, Osman MA, Ye F, 6 GEA, Bellorin-Font E, Gharbi MB, Davison SN, Ghnaimat M, Harden P, Htay H, Jha V, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Kerr PG, Klarenbach S, Kovesdy CP, Luyckx VA, Neuen BL, O’Donoghue D, Ossareh S, Perl J, Rashid HU, Rondeau E, See E, Saad S, Sola L, Tchokhonelidze I, Tesar V, Tungsanga K, Kazancioglu RT, Wang AY-M, Wiebe N, Yang C-W, Zemchenkov A, Zhao M-H, Jager KJ, Caskey F, Perkovic V, Jindal KK, Okpechi IG, Tonelli M, Feehally J, Harris DC, Johnson DW.

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