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  • What are the Revealed and Stated Population Preferences for Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare? A Scoping Review

    PharmacoEconomics

    19-March-2025

    Health Economics

    Desterbecq C, Harrison M, Tubeuf S

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  • Models and key elements of integrated perinatal mental health care: A scoping review

    Carter M, Russolillo A, Ou C, Zusman EZ, Hall WA, Cheung IW, Jenkins E

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  • Disordered Eating Behaviours, Self-compassion, and Psychological Distress in Canadian General Surgery Residents

    McLellan N, Lie JJ, Geller J, Stuart H

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  • Unsupervised clustering for sepsis identification in large-scale patient data: a model development and validation study

    Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

    20-March-2025

    Modelling & Risk Prediction

    Li N, Riazi K, Pan J, Thavorn K, Ziegler J, Rochwerg B, Quan H, Prescott HC, Dodek PM, Li B, Gervais A, Garland A

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  • Creating safe, inclusive spaces for hospital-based health care staff and people who use drugs: an exploratory qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada

    Harm Reduction Journal

    20-March-2025

    Clinician Health & Wellbeing
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Bailey A, Bishop E, Black AT, Dogherty E, Sedore G, Humchitt M, Onland J, Milina J, Bangar V, Mackie H, Varley H, Byrd T, Black S, Auigbelle K, Nilsson C

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  • Changing primary care capacity in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial mixed methods study

    BMJ Open

    30-March-2025

    Primary Care

    Lavergne MR, Easley J, Grudniewicz A, Hedden L, McDonald T, Rudoler D, Sauré A, Correia RH, Dufour É, Gallant F, Hakim J, Johnson C, Jose C, Katz A, MacKenzie A, Martin-Misener R, McCracken R, Nethery E, Piccinini-Vallis H, Peterson S, Scott I, Shiplett H, Simkin S, Spencer S, Thelen R, Welton S, Wilson E

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  • People Living with Chronic Pain Experience a High Prevalence of Decision Regret in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Online Survey

    Medical Decision Making

    2-March-2025

    Chronic Conditions
    Shared Decision-Making

    Naye F, Tousignant-Laflamme Y, Sasseville M, Cachinho C, Gérard T, Toupin-April K, Dubois O, Paquette JS, LeBlanc A, Gaboury I, Poitras MÈ, Li LC, Hoens AM, Poirier MD, Légaré F, Décary S

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  • Opioid-associated cardiac arrest: A systematic review of intra-arrest naloxone and other opioid-specific advanced life-support therapies

    Resuscitation Plus

    14-February-2025

    Substance Use & Addictions

    Grunau B, O’Neil BJ, Giustini D, Drennan IR, Lavonas EJ

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  • Ethical considerations in implementing virtual reality programs in long-term care settings: Case studies from in Canada and the Czech Republic.

    Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

    20-March-2025

    Innovation & Technology
    Long-term Care

    Hung L, Suchomelová V, Diallo K, Wong JOY, Ren LH

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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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