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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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  • Promotive Factors and Mental Well-Being Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents: A Population-Based Study in British Columbia, Canada

    Alkawaja M, Molyneux TM, Guhn M, Gadermann A, Forer B, Kassam A, Konishi C, Oberle E

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    • Population-Based Matched Cohort Study of COVID-19 Healthcare Costs, Ontario, Canada

      Emerg Infect Dis

      April 1, 2025

      COVID-19
      Health Economics
      Public Health

      Sander B, Mishra S, Swayze S, Sahakyan Y, Duchen R, Quinn K, Janjua N, Sbihi H, Kwong J

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    • Quality of Non-Surgical and Non-Pharmacological Knee Osteoarthritis Care in the Maritimes

      Musculoskeletal Care

      March 23, 2025

      Budarick AR, Hubley-Kozey CL, Li LC, Theou O, Stanish WD, Moyer RF

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