Central Venous Catheter-Associated Blood Stream Infections Occurring in Canadian Intensive Care Units: A Six-Month Cohort Study by Donna Holton, Shirley Paton, John Conly, Joanne Embree, Geoffrey Taylor, William Thompson, Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

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Laboratory Diagnosis for Giardia Lamblia Infection: A Comparison of Microscopy, Coprodiagnosis and Serology by Marcel A Behr, Evelyne Kokoskin, Theresa W Gyorkos, Lyne Cédilotte, Gaetan M Faubert, J Dick MacLean

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Depression Augments Activity-Related Pain in Women but not in Men with Chronic Musculoskeletal Conditions by Heather Adams, Pascal Thibault, Nicole Davidson, Maureen Simmonds, Ana Velly, Michael JL Sullivan

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Health Care Costs Associated with Hepatitis C: A Longitudinal Cohort Study by Mel Krajden, Margot Kuo, Brandon Zagorski, Maria Alvarez, Amanda Yu, Murray Krahn

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The Stretta Procedure Versus Proton Pump Inhibitors and Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication in the Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis by Dan Comay, Viviane Adam, Eduardo B da Silveira, Wendy Kennedy, Serge Mayrand, Alan N Barkun

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Red Blood Cell Transfusions and Iron Therapy for Patients Presenting with Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Survey of Canadian Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists by Kyle J. Fortinsky, Myriam Martel, Roshan Razik, Gillian Spiegle, Zane R. Gallinger, Samir C. Grover, Katerina Pavenski, Adam V. Weizman, Lukasz Kwapisz, Sangeeta Mehta, Sarah Gray, Alan N. Barkun

“…A web-based survey was sent to 500 gastroenterologists and hepatologists across Canada. The survey included clinical vignettes where physicians were asked to choose transfusion thresholds. …”
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Highlights of the Fourth Canadian Symposium on Hepatitis C: Moving towards a National Action Plan by Selena M. Sagan, Benoit Dupont, Jason Grebely, Mel Krajden, Sonya A. MacParland, Jennifer F. Raven, Sahar Saeed, Jordan J. Feld, D. Lorne Tyrrell, Joyce A. Wilson

“…The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) have identified HCV-related liver disease as a priority. …”
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Moving away from metal: Step toward the future with bioresorbable vascular scaffolds and novel antiproliferative agents by Blair E. Warren, MD, MSCS, Kong-Teng Tan, MD, Dheeraj K. Rajan, MD, Miranda Witheford, MD, PhD, Sean Crawford, MD, MSc, Arash Jaberi, MD, MEd, Sebastian Mafeld, MBBS

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Forms and correlates of child maltreatment among autistic children involved in child protection services by Jacinthe Dion, Jacinthe Dion, Geneviève Paquette, Geneviève Paquette, Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin, Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin, Malena Argumedes, Alexa Martin-Storey, Alexa Martin-Storey, Marie-Louise Bolduc, Sonia Hélie, Ève-Line Bussières

“…This study aimed to compare child maltreatment and child protection services experienced by autistic children to those of non-autistic children.MethodDrawing from a representative selection of verified cases of child abuse investigated by child protection services in Quebec, Canada, a sample of 1,805 substantiated child maltreatment cases were analyzed.ResultsOverall, 4.0% (n = 73) of children had child protection services-reported autism diagnoses. …”
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Optimal Use of Raltegravir (Isentress®) in the Treatment of HIV-Infected Adults – Canadian Consensus Guidelines by Anita Rachlis, Jonathan B Angel, Marianne Harris, Stephen D Shafran, Rachel Therrien, Cécile Tremblay, Mark A Wainberg

“…Their goal was to develop guidance for Canadian HIV-treating physicians on the appropriate use of raltegravir (MK-0518, Isentress®, Merck Frosst Canada Inc) in HIV-infected adults.…”
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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

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CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network Coinfection and Concurrent Diseases Core: Canadian Guidelines for Management and Treatment of HIV/Hepatitis C Coinfection in Adults by Mark Hull, Marina Klein, Stephen Shafran, Alice Tseng, Pierre Giguère, Pierre Côté, Marc Poliquin, Curtis Cooper, on behalf of The CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network HIV/Hepatitis C Management and Treatment Guidelines Working Group

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Infectious Disease Management: Lessons from Cuba by Noni E Macdonald, Beth Halperin, Enrique Beldarrain Chaple, Jeff Scott, John M Kirk

“…Over the past decade in Canada, infectious disease outbreaks have repeatedly been in the public spotlight. …”
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Torn ACL: A New Bioengineered Substitute Brought from the Laboratory to the Knee Joint by Francine Goulet, Denis Rancourt, Réjean Cloutier, Pierrot Tremblay, Anne-Marie Belzil, Jean Lamontagne, Marc Bouchard, Julie Tremblay, Louis-Mathieu Stevens, Julie Labrosse, Eve Langelier, Marc D. McKee

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Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Invasive Candidiasis in Adults by Eric J Bow, Gerald Evans, Jeff Fuller, Michel Laverdière, Coleman Rotstein, Robert Rennie, Stephen D Shafran, Don Sheppard, Sylvie Carle, Peter Phillips, Donald C Vinh

“…The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada developed evidence-based guidelines for the approach to the diagnosis and management of these infections in the ever-increasing population of at-risk adult patients in the health care system. …”
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Retrospective Study Looking at Cinacalcet in the Management of Hyperparathyroidism after Kidney Transplantation by Habib Mawad, Hugues Bouchard, Duy Tran, Denis Ouimet, Jean-Philippe Lafrance, Robert Zoël Bell, Sarah Bezzaoucha, Anne Boucher, Suzon Collette, Vincent Pichette, Lynne Senécal, Michel Vallée

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Alternative Funding Plans and Alternative Relationship Plans: Saviours of Academic Medicine or Just the Last Gasp? by Ron Bridges, Des Leddin, William Paterson, Hugh O’Brodovich, Jon Meddings, Stephen Vanner

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Surgical Treatment of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension by Fraser Rubens, Phil Wells, Steven Bencze, Michael Bourke

“…BACKGROUND: There are only limited treatment options for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in Canada.…”
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Critical Care Trainees’ Career Goals and Needs: A Canadian Survey by Maude St-Onge, Keren Mandelzweig, John C Marshall, Damon C Scales, John Granton

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An Unusual Case of Abdominal Pain by S Vaughan, M Sadler, S Jayakumar, B Missaghi, W Chan, DL Church

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