The Use of Guidelines for the Empiric Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia by Michael S Miletin, Charles K Chan

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Usefulness of Previous Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening Results in Guiding Empirical Therapy for S Aureus Bacteremia by Anthony D Bai, Lisa Burry, Adrienne Showler, Marilyn Steinberg, Daniel Ricciuto, Tania Fernandes, Anna Chiu, Sumit Raybardhan, George A Tomlinson, Chaim M Bell, Andrew M Morris

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Empirical evidence for a process-based model of health-related quality of life using network analysis by Nicolette Stogios, Nicolette Stogios, Troy Francis, Troy Francis, Rachel G. Peiris, Aleksandra Stanimirovic, Aleksandra Stanimirovic, Valeria Rac, Valeria Rac, Robert P. Nolan, Robert P. Nolan

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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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Impact of interventions on mpox transmission during the 2022 outbreak in Canada: a mathematical modeling study of three different cities by Fanyu Xiu, Carla M. Doyle, Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Jesse Knight, Linwei Wang, Joseph Cox, Daniel Grace, Trevor A. Hart, Terri Zhang, Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, Milada Dvorakova, Rita Shahin, Herveen Sachdeva, Nathan Lachowsky, Hind Sbihi, Darrell H.S. Tan, Michael A. Irvine, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

“…Methods: We estimated changes in sexual behaviors during the outbreak using 2022 data from the Engage Cohort Study, which recruited self-identified GBM in Montréal, Toronto, and Vancouver (n = 1,445). We developed a transmission dynamic model to estimate the fraction of new infections averted due to the three interventions in each city. …”
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Results from 10 Years of a CBT Pain Self-Management Outpatient Program for Complex Chronic Conditions by Kathryn A. Boschen, Edward Robinson, Kent A. Campbell, Sarah Muir, Elvina Oey, Kristen Janes, Samantha R. Fashler, Joel Katz

“…Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and physical exercise (PE) are empirically supported treatments that can reduce pain and improve quality of life. …”
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Influence of Sex and Disease on Illness-Related Concerns in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by R Maunder, B Toner, E de Rooy, D Moskovitz

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Uropathogen Antibiotic Resistance in Adult Women Presenting to Family Physicians with Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis by Warren J McIsaac, Tony Mazzulli, Rahim Moineddin, Janet Raboud, Susan Ross

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Breakthrough Filamentous Fungal Infections in Pediatric Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplant and Oncology Patients Receiving Caspofungin by Shaun K Morris, Upton D Allen, Sumit Gupta, Susan E Richardson

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A Prospective Open-Label Multicentre Trial on the Use of 1 G, Once Daily Ceftriaxone in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections by Donald E Low, Lionel A Mandell

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Community-Acquired Antibiotic Resistance in Urinary Isolates from Adult Women in Canada by Warren J McIsaac, Tony Mazzulli, Joanne Permaul, Rahim Moineddin, Donald E Low

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The Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in Respiratory Pathogens in Canada: What are the Clinical Consequences? by Donald E Low

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Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in HIV — Investigate or Just Treat? by Steven Kesten

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Canadian Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance: Overview of Current Trends Related to Hospital Pathogens by Tony Mazzulli

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Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization: A Higher-Order Factor Underlying Pain-Related Anxiety, Pain Catastrophizing and Anxiety Sensitivity among Patients Scheduled for Major Surgery by Valery Kleiman, Hance Clarke, Joel Katz

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History of Pain Research and Management in Canada by Harold Merskey

“…Partly because of this early start with prominent figures and partly because of its social system in the organization of medicine, Canada became a centre for a number of aspects of pain research and management, ranging from pain clinics in Halifax, Kingston and Saskatoon - which were among the earliest to advance treatment of pain - to studying the effects of implanted electrodes for neurosurgery. Work in Toronto by Moldofsky and Smythe was probably responsible for turning ideas about fibromyalgia from the quaint concept of 'psychogenic rheumatism' into the more fruitful avenue of empirical exploration of brain function, muscle tender points and clinical definition of disease. …”
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Mortality in a Heterogeneous Population of Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenic Patients Treated Initially with Cefazolin and Tobramycin by Francesca Le Piane, Sandra AN Walker, Scott E Walker, Nina Lathia, Carlo De Angelis, Andrew Simor

“…BACKGROUND: At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, the recommended empiric regimen for febrile neutropenia has been cefazolin and tobramycin for at least 25 years. …”
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Sum of Bernoulli Mixtures: Beyond Conditional Independence by Taehan Bae, Ian Iscoe

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Testing Homogeneity in a Semiparametric Two-Sample Problem by Yukun Liu, Pengfei Li, Yuejiao Fu

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Ten pressure points in primary care during COVID-19: findings from an international narrative review by Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Anne Parkinson, Michael Wright, William C. W. Wong, Jane Desborough, Lauren Ball, Elizabeth Sturgiss, Garang M. Dut, Katelyn Barnes, Danielle Butler, Steph Davis, Kirsty Douglas, Candan Kendir, Danielle Martin, Robert Marten, Katherine Rouleau, Shannon Barkley, Lucas de Toca, Michael Kidd

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