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  • Total Ankle Arthroplasty Survival and Risk Factors for Failure

    Foot Ankle Int.

    September 7, 2019

    Surgery & Procedures

    Escudero MI, Le V, Barahona M, Symes M, Wing K, Younger A, Veljkovic A, Penner M.

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  • Practice patterns among early-career primary care (ECPC) physicians and workforce planning implications: protocol for a mixed methods study

    Lavergne MR, Goldsmith LJ, Grudniewicz A, Rudoler D, Marshall EG, Ahuja M, Blackie D, Burge F, Gibson RJ, Glazier RH, Hawrylyshyn S, Hedden L, Hernandez-Lee J, Horrey K, Joyce M, Kiran T, MacKenzie A, Mathews M, McCracken R, McGrail K, McKay M, McPherson C, Mitra G, Sampalli T, Scott I, Snadden D, Murphy GT, Wong ST.

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  • Relating response shift and cognitive appraisal to measurement validation

    Sawatzky R.

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  • Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of identifying atrial fibrillation using administrative data: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Clin Epidemiol

    August 23, 2019

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease

    Yao RJR, Andrade JG, Deyell MW, Jackson H, McAlister FA, Hawkins NM.

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  • Regulatory Interactions Between Neutrophils, Tumor Cells and T Cells

    Front Immunol

    July 18, 2019

    Oncology

    Oberg H-H, Wesch D, Kalyan S, Kabelitz D.

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  • Predicting the future in immunoglobin A nephropathy: a new international risk prediction tool

    September 24, 2019

    Nephrology

    Barbour SJ, Feehally J.

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  • Patterns and history of prescription drug use among opioid-related drug overdose cases in British Columbia, Canada, 2015-2016

    Drug Alcohol Depen

    January 1, 2019

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Smolina K, Crabtree A, Chong M, Zhao B, Park M, Mill C, Schütz CG

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  • What is killing people with hepatitis C virus infection? Analysis of a population-based cohort in Canada

    Int J Drug Polic

    June 20, 2019

    Epidemiology
    Infectious Disease & STBBIs

    Krajden M, Cook DA, Wong S, Yu A, Butt ZA, Rossi C, Darvishian M, Alvarez M, Buxton JA, Tyndall M, Janjua NZ.

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  • The BC Emergency Medicine Network: Evaluation approach and early findings

    Marsden J, Drebit S, Lindstrom RR, MacKinnon C, Archibald C, Abu-Laban RB, Eggers K, Ho K, Khazei A, Lund A, Martin E, Christenson J.

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  • Rationale and population-based prospective cohort protocol for the disadvantaged populations at risk of decline in eGFR (CO-DEGREE)

    BMJ Open

    April 4, 2018

    Nephrology

    Gonzalez-Quiroz M, Nitsch D, Hamilton S, Gordo CO, Saran R, Glaser J, Correa-Rotter R, Jakobsson K, Singh A, Gunawardena N, Levin A, Remuzzi G, Caplin B, Pearce N, Committee on behalf of the DSS.

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  • Outcomes of untreated frequent premature ventricular complexes with normal left ventricular function

    Lee AKY, Andrade J, Hawkins NM, Alexander G, Bennett MT, Chakrabarti S, Laksman ZW, Krahn A, Yeung-Lai-Wah JA, Deyell MW.

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  • Relationship Between Duration of Targeted Temperature Management, Ischemic Interval, and Good Functional Outcome From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    Sawyer KN, Humbert A, Leroux BG, Nichol G, Kudenchuk PJ, Daya MR, Grunau B, Wang HE, Ornato JP, Rittenberger JC, Aufderheide TP, Wittwer L, Colella MR, Austin M, Kawano T, Egan D, Richmond N, Vithalani VD, Scales D, Baker AJ, Morrison LJ, Vilke GM, Kurz MC, Consortium RO.

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