Perspectives that Influence Action Plans for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by S Costi, D Brooks, RS Goldstein

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Development of a core measurement set for research in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a study protocol (AO Spine RECODE-DCM CMS) by Robert Chen, Angus G K McNair, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Julio C Furlan, Benjamin M Davies, Oliver D Mowforth, Iwan Sadler, Bizhan Aarabi, Brian K Kwon, Michael G Fehlings, James S Harrop, Armin Curt, Ellen Sarewitz, Carl Moritz Zipser, Timothy F Boerger, Mark R N Kotter, James Milligan, Lindsay Tetreault, Danyal Khan, Keng Siang Lee, Alvaro Yanez Touzet, Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto, James D Guest, Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan, Shirley Widdop

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Acceptance and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in Canada by Suraya Bondy, Elisabeth McClymont, Gal Av-Gay, Arianne Albert, Janice Andrade, Sandra Blitz, Ianna Folkes, Lucia Forward, Erin Fraser, Sela Grays, Jon Barrett, Julie Bettinger, Tali Bogler, Isabelle Boucoiran, Eliana Castillo, Rohan D’Souza, Darine El-Chaâr, Shaza Fadel, Verena Kuret, Gina S. Ogilvie, Vanessa Poliquin, Manish Sadarangani, Heather Scott, John W. Snelgrove, Modupe Tunde-Byass, Deborah Money

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Practical Approach to Issues in Virology by Mel Krajden

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Hepatitis C: The Juggernaut Rolls on Unchecked by Morris Sherman

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Ileoanal Pouches - Is Mucosectomy Unecessary? by Zane Cohen

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Hepatitis B Vaccination Strategies by Morris Sherman

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Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children: A Multidisciplinary Consensus Review by Donald E Low, James D Kellner, Upton Allen, Francois D Boucher, Thomas Kovesi, John Riesman, Ross Davidson, Joanne M Langley

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Challenges of Diabetes Self-Management in Adults Affected by Food Insecurity in a Large Urban Centre of Ontario, Canada by Justine Chan, Margaret DeMelo, Jacqui Gingras, Enza Gucciardi

“…Participants were recruited from the local community, three community health centres, and a community-based diabetes education centre servicing a low-income population in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Participants. Twenty-one English-speaking adults with a diagnosis of diabetes and having experienced food insecurity in the past year (based on three screening questions). …”
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Rapid Response Teams and End-of-Life Care by James Downar

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Perspectives on which health settings geriatricians should staff: a qualitative study of patients, care providers and health administrators by Eric Kai-Chung Wong, Andrea C. Tricco, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, David M. J. Naimark, Sharon E. Straus, Joanna E. M. Sale

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Toronto, Canada. The theoretical domains framework and consolidated framework for implementation research informed the interview guide development. …”
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Understanding and measuring workplace violence in healthcare: a Canadian systematic framework to address a global healthcare phenomenon by Christian Schulz-Quach, Brendan Lyver, Charlene Reynolds, Trevor Hanagan, Jennifer Haines, John Shannon, Laura Danielle Pozzobon, Yasemin Sarraf, Sam Sabbah, Sahand Ensafi, Natasha Bloomberg, Jaswanth Gorla, Brendan Singh, Lucas B. Chartier, Marnie Escaf, Diana Elder, Marc Toppings, Brian Hodges, Rickinder Sethi

“…At the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada, WPV incidents in EDs jumped 169% from 0.43 to 1.15 events per 1000 visits (p < 0.0001). …”
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Bioterrorism in 2001: How Ready Are We? by B Lynn Johnston, John M Conly

“…In the same week, a similar hoax forced the evacuation of an Ontario provincial government building in Toronto (1).…”
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In Vitro Activity of Cefepime against Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli, Viridans Group Streptococci and Streptococcus pneumoniae from a Cross-Canada Surveillance Study by Donald E Low, Joyce de Azavedo, Canadian Bacterial Surveillance Network, Ross Davidson

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The Addition of Salmeterol 50 µg Bid to Anticholinergenic Treatment in Patients with COPD: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial by Kenneth R Chapman, Peter Arvidsson, AG Chuchalin, DP Dhillon, Peter Faurschou, Roger S Goldstein, AF Kuipers

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An Open-Label, Multicentre Pilot Study of Bosentan in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Related to Congenital Heart Disease by Reda Ibrahim, John T Granton, Sanjay Mehta

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The Canadian Optimal Therapy of COPD Trial: Design, Organization and Patient Recruitment by Shawn D Aaron, Katherine Vandemheen, Dean Fergusson, Mark FitzGerald, Francois Maltais, Jean Bourbeau, Roger Goldstein, Andrew McIvor, Meyer Balter, Denis O'Donnell

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Improvements in Pain Outcomes in a Canadian Pediatric Teaching Hospital Following Implementation of a Multifaceted, Knowledge Translation Initiative by Lisa M Zhu, Jennifer Stinson, Lori Palozzi, Kevin Weingarten, Mary-Ellen Hogan, Silvia Duong, Ricardo Carbajal, Fiona A Campbell, Anna Taddio

“…BACKGROUND: A previous audit performed at a tertiary/quaternary pediatric hospital in Toronto, Ontario, demonstrated suboptimal assessment and treatment of children’s pain. …”
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Economic Issues in the Use of Office Spirometry for Lung Health Assessment by Murray Krahn, Kenneth R Chapman

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Seroprevalence of Immunoglobulin G Antibody to Parvovirus B19 in Ontario by Samia Wasfy, John Nishikawa, Martin Petric

“…In an effort to examine age-specific prevalence in this population, a second group of sera from 210 pediatric patients at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario and from Red Cross blood donors was tested for the presence of B19-specific IgG, and of these, 31.4% of the samples were positive. …”
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