Efficacy and safety of long fusion versus short fusion in degenerative scoliosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Bin Zheng, Qiang Zhou, Xuanwen Liu, Zhe Qiang

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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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Bacterial Infections Complicating Tongue Piercing by Catherine HY Yu, Brian J Minnema, Wayne L Gold

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The Potential for a GPU-Like Overlay Architecture for FPGAs by Jeffrey Kingyens, J. Gregory Steffan

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Intake of Nutritional Supplements among People Exercising in Gyms in Beirut City by D. El Khoury, S. Antoine-Jonville

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Maternal Cardiac Arrest: A Practical and Comprehensive Review by Farida M. Jeejeebhoy, Laurie J. Morrison

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Community-based culturally tailored education programmes for black adults with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension and stroke: a systematic review protocol of primary em... by Hardeep Singh, Michelle LA Nelson, Joseph IV Fulton, Oya Pakkal, Elizabeth M Uleryk

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Assessing the Benefit of a Digital Pain Alert System in a Community Hospital by Grosman-Rimon L, Jorgoni L, Casey J, Tory S, Kumbhare D, Solanki J, Collins BE, Wegier P

“…Liza Grosman-Rimon,1 Linda Jorgoni,1 Jane Casey,2 Susan Tory,1 Dinesh Kumbhare,3 Jhanvi Solanki,1 Barbara E Collins,1 Pete Wegier1,4 1Humber River Health, Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; 2Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA; 3Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; 4University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaCorrespondence: Liza Grosman-Rimon, Humber River Health, 235 Wilson Ave, North York, Toronto, ON, M3M 0B2, Canada, Tel +1416-242-82109, Email l.grosman@hrh.caIntroduction: In the last decade, clinical alert systems were developed for clinical use, including patient deterioration and other urgent clinical situations. …”
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Exploring Health-Seeking Behaviors Among Healthcare Workers and the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Quantitative Study by Gabriela Castañeda-Millán, Alexia M. Haritos, Edris Formuli, Maryna Mazur, Kishana Balakrishnar, Bao-Zhu Stephanie Long, Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia

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Altered spontaneous brain activity in children with deprivation amblyopia: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study by Yadong Li, Guangying Zheng, Baohong Wen, Xiaopan Zhang

“…Compared to healthy controls, children with monocular deprivation amblyopia presented increased fALFF values in the right lingual gyrus, right superior frontal gyrus, right middle frontal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus, triangular part of the left inferior frontal gyrus and bilateral middle temporal gyrus, and decreased fALFF values in the right precuneus. …”
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