Update on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Where Will Respiratory Health Research Fit in? by Malcolm King

“…The centre of attention has, of course, been the soon-to-be-established Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and our Society's efforts to establish a position for respiratory research withing this new organization.…”
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Strategic Plan of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes by Philip M Sherman, Mary-Jo Makarchuk, Paul Belanger, Eve A Roberts

“…The present document provides the new and updated strategic plan for the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes (INMD) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This plan provides an overarching map for the strategic activities of the INMD during the five years from 2010 to 2014. …”
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Correction: Co-creating and hosting PxP: a conference about patient engagement in research for and by patient partners by Dawn P. Richards, Hetty Mulhall, Joletta Belton, Savia de Souza, Trudy Flynn, Alex Haagaard, Linda Hunter, Amy Price, Sara Riggare, Janice Tufte, Rosie Twomey, Karim M. Khan

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Evaluation of Funding Gastroenterology Research in Canada Illustrates the Beneficial Role of Partnerships by Philip M Sherman, Kimberly Banks Hart, Keeley Rose, Kwadwo Bosompra, Christopher Manuel, Paul Belanger, Sandra Daniels, Paul Sinclair, Stephen Vanner, André G Buret

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Co-creating and hosting PxP: a conference about patient engagement in research for and by patient partners by Dawn P. Richards, Hetty Mulhall, Joletta Belton, Savia de Souza, Trudy Flynn, Alex Haagaard, Linda Hunter, Amy Price, Sara Riggare, Janice Tufte, Rosie Twomey, Karim M. Khan

“…PxP was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis. …”
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Tracking Trends in Canadian Gastroenterology Research by Diane Finegood, Paul C Adams

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CAG Research Committee Report: Another Stellar Year for Canadian GI Research by Derek M McKay

“…The goal of the Research Committee is to build, in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) partners, Canadian capacity and expertise in the discipline of gastroenterology and nutrition, and to promote excellence in research. …”
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Meeting Report: Research Topics in Gastrointestinal Disease IX by Nicola Jones, Ken Croitoru, Stephen Vanner, George Tolomiczenko, Paul Belanger, Louise Hope

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Clinical Trials: New Developments by Louis-Philippe Boulet

“…This is a wonderful opportunity to put forward such an initiative, in the context of the new Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), where this type of collaborative activity fits quite well with the goals of this new institution.…”
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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

“…Hepatitis C virus (HCV) affects at least 268,000 Canadians and causes greater disease burden than any other infectious disease in the country. 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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Research Funding for Pain in Canada by Mary E Lynch, Donald Schopflocher, Paul Taenzer, Caitlin Sinclair

“…This is less than 1% of the total funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and 0.25% of the total funding for health research.…”
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Training Highly Qualified Health Research Personnel: The Pain in Child Health Consortium by Carl L von Baeyer, Bonnie J Stevens, Christine T Chambers, Kenneth D Craig, G Allen Finley, Ruth E Grunau, C Celeste Johnston, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Jennifer N Stinson, Justine Dol, Marsha Campbell-Yeo, Patrick J McGrath

“…PICH has been funded since 2002 as a Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, with contributions from other funding partners and the founding participation of five Canadian universities. …”
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A Canadian Working Group Report on Fecal Microbial Therapy: Microbial Ecosystems Therapeutics by Emma Allen-Vercoe, Gregor Reid, Norman Viner, Gregory B Gloor, Susy Hota, Peter Kim, Christine Lee, Kieran C O’Doherty, Stephen J Vanner, J Scott Weese, Elaine O Petrof

“…A working group from across Canada comprised of clinician and basic scientists, epidemiologists, ethicists, Health Canada regulatory authorities and representatives of major funding agencies (Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada) met to review the current experience with fecal microbial therapy and to identify the key areas of study required to move this field forward. …”
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Introducing the Canadian Thoracic Society Framework for Guideline Dissemination and Implementation, with Concurrent Evaluation by Samir Gupta, Christopher Licskai, Anne Van Dam, Louis-Philippe Boulet

“…The authors describe the new CTS Framework for Guideline Dissemination and Implementation, with Concurrent Evaluation, which has three spheres of action: guideline production, implementation infrastructure and knowledge translation (KT) methodological support. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research ‘Knowledge-to-Action’ process was adopted as the model of choice for conceptualizing KT interventions. …”
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The 5th Canadian Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus: We Are Not Done Yet—Remaining Challenges in Hepatitis C by Nicholas van Buuren, Lorraine Fradette, Jason Grebely, Alexandra King, Mel Krajden, Sonya A. MacParland, Alison Marshall, Sahar Saeed, Joyce Wilson, Marina B. Klein, Selena M. Sagan

“…Both the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) have identified HCV-related liver disease as a priority and supported the establishment of a National Hepatitis C Research Network. …”
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The Second Canadian Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus: A Call to Action by Jason Grebely, Marc Bilodeau, Jordan J Feld, Julie Bruneau, Benedikt Fischer, Jennifer F Raven, Eve Roberts, Norma Choucha, Rob P Myers, Selena M Sagan, Joyce A Wilson, Frank Bialystok, D Lorne Tyrrell, Michael Houghton, Mel Krajden, on behalf of the National CIHR Research Training Program in Hepatitis C

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End-Of-Life Care for Persons with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Report of a National Interdisciplinary Consensus Meeting by DM Goodridge, DD Marciniuk, D Brooks, A van Dam, S Hutchinson, P Bailey, S Baxter, P Dorasamy, S Dumont, S Hassan, P Hernandez, A Kerigan, G Rocker, D Wilson, J Young

“…To address the needs of Canadian patients, an interdisciplinary consensus meeting, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and supported by the Canadian Thoracic Society, the Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals and the Canadian Lung Association was convened in Toronto, Ontario, on November 22, 2008, to begin examining the quality of end-of-life care for individuals with COPD in Canada. …”
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Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation in Pregnancy on Preeclampsia: The Folic Acid Clinical Trial Study by Shi Wu Wen, Josee Champagne, Ruth Rennicks White, Doug Coyle, William Fraser, Graeme Smith, Dean Fergusson, Mark C. Walker

“…The FACT study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2009, and regulatory approval from Health Canada was obtained in 2010. …”
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Steroids In caRdiac Surgery (SIRS) trial: acute kidney injury substudy protocol of an international randomised controlled trial by Michael Walsh, Salim Yusuf, Chirag Parikh, Jessica Vincent, P J Devereaux, Francois Lamontagne, Matthew T V Chan, Richard Whitlock, Meaghan Cuerden, Amit X Garg, Andre Lamy, Daniel I Sessler, Kevin Teoh, Ainslie Hildebrand, Yunxia Zuo, Pallav Shah, Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi, Mackenzie Quantz, Jean-Pierre Yared, Nicolas Noiseux, Georgios Tagarakis, Antoine Rochon, Janice Pogue, Abbas Salehiomran

“…In these trial subpopulations, the authors will consider the outcome of AKI defined in alternate ways, and the outcome of a 6-month change in kidney function from the preoperative value.Ethics and dissemination The authors were competitively awarded a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for this SIRS AKI substudy. …”
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Identifying biomarker-driven subphenotypes of cardiogenic shock: analysis of prospective cohorts and randomized controlled trialsResearch in context by Sabri Soussi, Tuukka Tarvasmäki, Antoine Kimmoun, Mojtaba Ahmadiankalati, Feriel Azibani, Claudia C. dos Santos, Kevin Duarte, Etienne Gayat, Jacob C. Jentzer, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Benjamin Hibbert, Christian Jung, Lassus Johan, Bruno Levy, Zihang Lu, Patrick R. Lawler, John C. Marshall, Janine Pöss, Malha Sadoune, Alexis Nguyen, Alexandre Raynor, Katell Peoc'h, Holger Thiele, Rebecca Mathew, Alexandre Mebazaa

“…Funding: Dr Sabri Soussi was awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA) and the Merit Awards Program (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada) for the current study.…”
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