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  • Harrison MJ: Variation in healthcare services for specialist genetic testing and implications for planning genetic services: The example of inherited retinal dystrophy in the English NHS.

    February 17, 2015

    Harrison MJ, Birch S, Eden M, Ramsden S, Farragher T, Payne K, Hall G, Black GCM. Variation in healthcare services for specialist genetic testing and implications for planning genetic services: The example of inherited retinal dystrophy in the English NHS. Journal of Community Genetics. 2015 Jan.

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  • Bansback N: Testing a discrete choice experiment including duration to value health states for large descriptive systems: Addressing design and sampling issues.

    February 17, 2015

    Bansback N, Hole AR, Mulhern B, Tsuchiya A. Testing a discrete choice experiment including duration to value health states for large descriptive systems: Addressing design and sampling issues. Soc Sci Med. 2014 Aug; 114:38–48. Epub 2014 May 20.

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  • Bansback N, Li LC, Lynd L: Exploiting order effects to improve the quality of decisions.

    February 17, 2015

    Bansback N, Li LC, Lynd L, Bryan S. Exploiting order effects to improve the quality of decisions. Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Aug; 96(2):197–203. Epub 2014 Jun 9. PMID: 24961445.

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  • Li LC—Employment and arthritis: Making it work

    February 17, 2015

    Carruthers EC, Rogers P, Backman CL, Goldsmith CH, Gignac MA, Marra C, Village J, Li LC, Esdaile JM, Lacaille D. “Employment and arthritis: Making it work” – A randomized controlled trial evaluating an online program to help people with inflammatory arthritis maintain employment (study protocol). BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2014 Jul 21; 14(1):59. Epub ahead of print.

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  • Westerberg BD: Management of Bell palsy

    February 17, 2015

    de Almeida JR, Guyatt GH, Sud S, Dorion J, Hill MD, Kolber MR, Lea J, Loong S, Somogyi BK, Westerberg BD, White C, Chen JM; Bell Palsy Working Group; Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery; Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation. Management of Bell palsy: Clinical practice guideline. CMAJ. 2014 Jun 16. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 24934895.

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  • Singer J, Wong H: Effect of physician assistants in a pediatric ED

    February 17, 2015

    Doan Q, Hall W, Shechter S, Kissoon N, Sheps S, Singer J, Wong H, Johnson D. Forecasting the effect of physician assistants in a pediatric ED. JAAPA. 2014 Aug; 27(80): 35–41. PMID: 25054792.

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  • Lynd LD: Crowdfunding drug development

    February 17, 2015

    Dragojlovic N, Lynd LD. Crowdfunding drug development: The state of play in oncology and rare diseases. Drug Discov Today. 2014 Jun 25. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 24973645.

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  • Gill JS, Gill J: Population income and longitudinal trends in living kidney donation on the United States

    February 17, 2015

    Gill J, Dong J, Gill J. Population income and longitudinal trends in living kidney donation on the United States. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 Jul 17. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 25035519.

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  • Hunte G: Public bicycle share programs and head injuries

    February 17, 2015

    Graves JM, Pless B, Moore L, Nathens AB, Hunte G, Rivara FP. Public bicycle share programs and head injuries. Am J Public Health. 2014 Aug; 104(8):e106–11. Epub 2014 Jun 12. PMID: 24922150.

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  • Dodek PM, Ayas NT: Impact of work schedules on sleep duration of critical care nurses

    February 17, 2015

    Hirsch Allen AJ, Park JE, Adhami N, Sirounis D, Tholin H, Dodek P, Rogers AE, Ayas N. Impact of work schedules on sleep duration of critical care nurses. Am J Crit Care. 2014 Jul; 23(4):290–5. PMID: 24986169.

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  • Levin A: High-performance information search filters for CKD content

    February 17, 2015

    Iansavichus AV, Hildebrand AM, Haynes RB, Wilczynski NL, Levin A, Hemmelgarn BR, Tu K, Nesrallah GE, Nash DM, Garg AX. High-performance information search filters for CKD content in PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and EMBASE. Am J Kidney Dis. 2014 Jul 21. pii: S0272-6386(14)00964-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 25059221.

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  • Westerberg BD: In vitro efficacy of N-acetylcysteine on bacteria associated with chronic suppurative otitis media

    February 17, 2015

    Lea J, Conlin AE, Sekirov I, Restelli V, Ayakar KG, Turnbull L, Doyle P, Noble M, Rennie R, Schreiber WE, Westerberg BD. In vitro efficacy of N-acetylcysteine on bacteria associated with chronic suppurative otitis media. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2014 Jul 7; 43(1):20. PMID: 25001062

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