Establishing primary care physician commitment in Canadian long-term care homes: a protocol for a modified e-Delphi study by Andrew P Costa, Aaron Jones, Darly Dash, Paula Rochon, Patrick Quail, Rachel D Savage, Henry Yu-Hin Siu, Lisa M McCarthy, Nathan Stall, Dee Tripp, Maya Potter, Paul Katz, Samantha Peck

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Are we offering palliative care and employing shared decision making in the neonatal intensive care unit? A 10-year retrospective chart review by Sawyer Karabelas-Pittman, Helen Coo, Hannah Lee, Christine C. Moon, Gillian MacLean

“…Shared decision making (SDM) is the gold standard approach in PPC. The objectives of this study were to describe the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) team's involvement in PPC and the extent of SDM at an academic hospital in southeastern Ontario, and the frequency with which PPC was offered, accepted and received for live births. …”
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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

“…For instance, the American Thoracic Society has issued an official statement on palliative care for patients with respiratory diseases, affirming that the prevention, relief, reduction and soothing of symptoms “without affecting a cure” must become an integral component of standard care. A recent Medline search located 1015 articles related to palliative or end-of-life care for people with COPD published between 2001 and 2008, compared with only 336 articles published before 2001. …”
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Noninvasive release of tendons using MRI guided focused ultrasound: a hybrid therapy using long-pulse focused ultrasound followed by thermal ablation by William Chu Kwan, Imogen den Otter-Moore, Ari Partanen, Karolina Piorkowska, Unni Narayanan, Adam C. Waspe, James M. Drake

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Gross and applied anatomy pedagogical approaches in occupational therapy education: protocol for a scoping review by Emily S Ho, Anne Agur, Andrea Duncan, Erica Dove, Kelly Hennessy, Athena Kirou-Mauro, Lorna Aitkens

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Optimizing Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Practical Issues: A Canadian Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline by Darcy D Marciniuk, Dina Brooks, Scott Butcher, Richard Debigare, Gail Dechman, Gordon Ford, Veronique Pepin, Darlene Reid, Andrew W Sheel, Micheal K Stickland, David C Todd, Shannon L Walker, Shawn D Aaron, Meyer Balter, Jean Bourbeau, Paul Hernandez, Francois Maltais, Denis E O’Donnell, Donna Bleakney, Brian Carlin, Roger Goldstein, Stella K Muthuri

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The Great Lakes Winter Grab: Limnological data from a multi‐institutional winter sampling campaign on the Laurentian Great Lakes by Ge Pu, Kirill Shchapov, Nolan J. T. Pearce, Kelly Bowen, Andrew Bramburger, Andrew Camilleri, Hunter Carrick, Justin D. Chaffin, William Cody, Maureen L. Coleman, Warren J. S. Currie, David C. Depew, Jonathan P. Doubek, Rachel Eveleth, Mark Fitzpatrick, Paul W. Glyshaw, Casey M. Godwin, R. Michael McKay, Mohiuddin Munawar, Heather Niblock, Maci Quintanilla, Michael Rennie, Matthew W. Sand, Kimberly J. Schraitle, Michael R. Twiss, Donald G. Uzarski, Henry A. Vanderploeg, Trista J. Vick‐Majors, Judy A. Westrick, Bridget A. Wheelock, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Arthur Zastepa, Ted Ozersky

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Risks and Benefits of Helicobacter pylori Eradication: Current Status by Richard H Hunt, Carlo Fallone, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Phil Sherman, Fiona Smaill, Alan BR Thomson, the Canadian Helicobacter Study Group

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Conceptualising cultural safety at an Indigenous-focused midwifery practice in Toronto, Canada: qualitative interviews with Indigenous and non-Indigenous clients by Michelle Firestone, Sara H Wolfe, Cheryllee Bourgeois, Janet K Smylie, Mackenzie E Churchill, Helle Moeller

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National Surveillance of Occupational Exposure to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Maura Ricketts, Linda Deschamps, Kimberly Elmslie, Michael O’Shaughnessy

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Low-dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (LOW-TMP): protocol for a phase III randomised, placebo-controlled, dose-comparison tri... by Andrea Benedetti, Cecilia T Costiniuk, Kosar Khwaja, Andrew Johnson, Barret Rush, Darrell Tan, Ranjani Somayaji, Salman Qureshi, Michaeline McGuinty, Nicole Ezer, Sara Belga, Emily G. McDonald, Zahra N. Sohani, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Andrew Aw, Alex Carignan, Matthew P. Cheng, Bryan Coburn, Dan Gregson, Alexander Lawandi, Victor Leung, Sylvain Lother, Derek MacFadden, Leighanne Parkes, Valerie Roy, Ilan Schwartz, Miranda So, Emilie Trinh, Todd C. Lee

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Findings from the Tushirikiane-4-MH (supporting each other for mental health) mobile health–supported virtual reality randomized controlled trial among urban refugee youth in Kampa... by Carmen H. Logie, Moses Okumu, Zerihun Admassu, Frannie MacKenzie, Lesley Gittings, Jean-Luc Kortenaar, Naimul Khan, Robert Hakiza, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Aidah Nakitende, Brenda Katisi, Peter Kyambadde, Richard Lester, Lawrence Mbuagbaw

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From Bench to Bedside to Bug: An Update of Clinically Relevant Advances in the Care of Persons with Helicobacter pylori Associated Diseases by N Chiba, ABR Thomson, P Sinclair

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Induction Versus Noninduction Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus in Patients with Congenital Coagulation Disorders: A Canadian Multicentre Trial by A Chatterjee, MG Swain, SS Lee, VG Bain, K Peltekian, K Croitoru, PC Adams, K Kaita, J Teitel, EJ Heathcote

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Spirometry in Primary Care: An Analysis of Spirometry Test Quality in a Regional Primary Care Asthma Program by Christopher J Licskai, Todd W Sands, Lisa Paolatto, Ivan Nicoletti, Madonna Ferrone

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A pilot randomized controlled trial of the iPeer2Peer program in adolescents with sickle cell disease: A mixed method study by Lauren Kelenc, Brittany Wiles, Fareha Nishat, Chitra Lalloo, Anya Nair, Craig Eling, Melanie Kirby-Allen, Ewurabena Simpson, Roona Sinha, Richard Ward, William T. Zempsky, Sara Ahola Kohut, Jennifer N. Stinson

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Outcomes of Asthma Education: Results of a Multisite Evaluation by Wilma M Hopman, Nancy Garvey, Jennifer Olajos-Clow, Andrea White-Markham, M Diane Lougheed

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Canadian Thoracic Society: Presenting a New Process for Clinical Practice Guideline Production by Samir Gupta, Onil K Bhattacharyya, Melissa C Brouwers, Elizabeth A Estey, Margaret B Harrison, Paul Hernandez, Valerie A Palda, Louis-Philippe Boulet

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Therapeutic drug monitoring for triazoles: A needs assessment review and recommendations from a Canadian perspective by Michel Laverdiere, Eric J Bow, Coleman Rotstein, Julie Autmizguine, Raewyn Broady, Gary Garber, Shariq Haider, Trana Hussaini, Shahid Husain, Philippe Ovetchkine, Jack T Seki, Yves Théorêt

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Development and Characterization of an F-labeled Ghrelin Peptidomimetic for Imaging the Cardiac Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor by Ahmed Abbas MSc, Lihai Yu PhD, Tyler Lalonde BSc, Derek Wu BSc, Jonathan D. Thiessen PhD, Leonard G. Luyt PhD, Savita Dhanvantari PhD

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