Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Edmonton, Alberta: An Emergency Department-Based Study by Thomas J Marrie, Jane Q Huang

“…Patients aged 17 years and older who presented to seven emergency departments in Edmonton, Alberta over a two-year period with community-acquired pneumonia (n=8144) were studied. …”
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Patient and Parent Satisfaction with a Dietitian-and Nurse-Led Celiac Disease Clinic for Children at the Stollery Children’S Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta by Seema Rajani, Jessica Sawyer-Bennett, Leanne Shirton, Gail DeHaan, Cheryl Kluthe, Rabindranath Persad, Hien Q Huynh, Justine Turner

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Feasibility and Field Performance of a Simultaneous Syphilis and HIV Point-of-Care Test Based Screening Strategy in at Risk Populations in Edmonton, Canada by Joshua Bergman, Jennifer Gratrix, Sabrina Plitt, Jayne Fenton, Chris Archibald, Tom Wong, Ameeta E. Singh

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Development and internal validation of the Edmonton Obesity Staging System-2 Risk screening Tool (EOSS-2 Risk Tool) for weight-related health complications: a case-control study in a representative sample of Australian adults with overweight and obesity by Evan Atlantis, P Fahey, Kathryn Williams, Paul Dugdale, James Rufus John, SL Hocking, Kath Peters

“…We aimed to develop and validate a brief screening tool for determining the presence of unknown clinically significant weight-related health complications for potential application in general practice.Design We considered 14 self-reported candidate predictors of clinically significant weight-related health complications according to the Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS score of ≥2) and developed models using multivariate logistic regression across training and test data sets. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Are Frequently Nonadherent to Scheduled Induction and Maintenance Infliximab Therapy: A Canadian Cohort Study by Christopher Ma, Chad J Evaschesen, Grenvil Gracias, Vivian W Huang, Darryl K Fedorak, Karen I Kroeker, Levinus A Dieleman, Brendan P Halloran, Richard N Fedorak

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What are the respiratory health research priorities in Alberta, Canada? A stakeholder consultation by Michael K Stickland, Sachin R Pendharkar, Jananee Rasiah, Joanna E MacLean, Heather Sharpe, Lisa Cerato, Darlene Derech, Lisa Guirguis, Kathleen Hayward, Tara Lohmann, Elizabeth Manafo, Janice Paskey, Mark Rimkus, Syeda Kinza Rizvi, Gerry Robinson, Brent Seefried, Zeeyaan Somani, Mindy Tindall, Harissios Vliagoftis, Kathy Hayward

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Does the Level of Reproductive Knowledge Specific to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Predict Childlessness among Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease? by Vivian W Huang, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Karen I Kroeker, Karen J Goodman, Kathleen M Hegadoren, Levinus A Dieleman, Richard N Fedorak

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Cost Effectiveness of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration by Jennifer A Crocket, Eric YL Wong, Dale C Lien, Khanh Gia Nguyen, Michelle R Chaput, Ciaran McNamee

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Acetylsalicylic Acid Use in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Peptic Ulcer Bleeding by Justin Cheung, Jennifer Rajala, Daniel Moroz, Qiaohao Zhu, Michael Stamm, Gurpal Singh Sandha

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Predictors of Medication Adherence in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients at the Stollery Children’s Hospital by L Kitney, JM Turner, D Spady, B Malik, W El-Matary, R Persad, HQ Huynh

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Activation of the periaqueductal gray controls respiratory output through a distributed brain network by Mitchell Prostebby, Jashan Saini, Vivian Biancardi, Vivian Biancardi, Vivian Biancardi, Clayton T. Dickson, Clayton T. Dickson, Clayton T. Dickson, Clayton T. Dickson, Silvia Pagliardini, Silvia Pagliardini, Silvia Pagliardini

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Containing Cefoxitin Costs through a Program to Curtail Use in Surgical Prophylaxis by Geoffrey Taylor, Edith Blondel-Hill, Pamela Kibsey, Erwin Friesen, Ronald Tisdell, Wendy Vaudry

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Serological Evidence of Increased Coccidioides immitis Infections in Western Canada in 1996 by Errol Prasad, Patricia Diediw, Donna Fernandes, Lorreen Hodge, Katherine Ower, Robert Rennie

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Marked Disparity in the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis among Aboriginal Peoples on the Canadian Prairies: the Challenges and Opportunities by Richard Long, Vernon Hoeppner, Pamela Orr, Martha Ainslie, Malcolm King, Sylvia Abonyi, Maria Mayan, Dennis Kunimoto, Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Courtney Heffernan, Angela Lau, Dick Menzies

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The Impact of Health Care Restructuring on Nosocomially Acquired Blood Stream Infections by Geoffrey D Taylor, Margare McKenzie, Teresa Kirkland, Maureen Buchanan-Chell, Rhoda Wiens

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Characterizing the impacts of seismic lines on the water budget of a Boreal Watershed in Alberta (Western Canada) by Daniels Kononovs, Christine Rivard, Dani Degenhardt, Katherine N. Snihur, Daniela Gutierrez-Rueda, Cody N. Lazowski, Kelly J. Rozanitis, Baptiste Coutret, Kurt O. Konhauser, Daniel S. Alessi

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Decoding methane concentration in Alberta oil sands: A machine learning exploration by Liubov Sysoeva, Ilhem Bouderbala, Miles H. Kent, Esha Saha, B.A. Zambrano-Luna, Russell Milne, Hao Wang

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The Frequency of Clinic Visits Was Not Associated with Medication Adherence or Outcome in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by Cheryl Kluthe, Jenkin Tsui, Donald Spady, Matthew Carroll, Eytan Wine, Hien Quoc Huynh

“…A retrospective chart review of patients attending the Edmonton Pediatric IBD Clinic (EPIC) at the Stollery Children’s Hospital from January 2012 to December 2013 was completed. …”
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Equitable transportation and resilience hubs: Analysis of underserved population needs, usage, and travel behaviour by Thayanne G.M. Ciriaco, Syeda Narmeen Zehra, Veronica Wambura, Stephen D. Wong

“…Despite potential benefits for underserved populations, research and practice have yet to consider how different demographic groups will use or travel to/from these hubs.To address these gaps, we conducted an empirical study using survey data from 950 respondents in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region in Alberta, Canada. Of these respondents, we focused on several underserved groups. …”
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