Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Utility in Prediction of 30-Day Readmission Rate in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by Shengchuan Dai, Manoucher Manoucheri, Junhong Gui, Xiang Zhu, Divyanshu Malhotra, Shenjing Li, Jason D’souza, Fnu Virkram, Aditya Chada, Haibing Jiang

“…We designed this prospective study to evaluate whether Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) score is associated with 30-day readmission in patients hospitalized with decompensated HF. …”
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Photodegradation process for the removal of acid orange 10 using titanium dioxide and bismuth vanadate from aqueous solution by B. Rahimi, A. Ebrahimi, N. Mansouri, N. Hosseini

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Grazing-Induced Habitat Degradation: Challenges to Giant Panda Survival Resulting from Declining Bamboo and Soil Quality by Huawei Tian, Ying Zeng, Zejun Zhang, Ming Lu, Wei Wei

Subjects: “…giant panda (<i>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</i>)…”
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Edukacinio 3D virtualiosios realybės vaizdo metodo įtaka ruošiant žarnyną kolonoskopijai: pirmieji rezultatai by Edvinas Kildušis, Gintautas Brimas

Subjects: “…3D virtualiosios realybės vaizdas…”
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Construction of the Giant Panda National Park corridor and restoration of edible bamboo: A case study of from the Chengdu area region by Xing Wang, Yu-Ting Yang, Yan Wu, Yu Xie, Pei Tu, Mei-Ling Liu, Mei-Jiao Zhang, Tao Lu

Subjects: “…Giant Panda National Park…”
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“I would like to use it more effectively…” nursing student’s experiences with NANDA-I nursing terminology: a qualitative descriptive study by Turgay Yalcinkaya, Erkan Ünsal, Ayşegül Dönmez, Sebnem Cinar Yucel

Subjects: “…NANDA-I…”
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Impact of patient–family physician language concordance on healthcare utilisation and mortality: a retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada by Claire Kendall, Sharon Johnston, Michael Reaume, Peter Tanuseputro, Michael Pugliese, Douglas Manuel, Denis Prud'homme, Manish Sood, Ricardo Batista, Ewa Sucha, Rhiannon Roberts, Emily Rhodes, Emily Seale, Lise Bjerre, Louise Bouchard

“…We sought to examine whether patient–family physician language concordance in a primary care setting is associated with lower rates of hospital-based healthcare utilisation and mortality.Methods We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of 497 227 home care recipients living in Ontario, Canada. Patient language was obtained from home care assessments while physician language was obtained from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. …”
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Estimates of critical loads and exceedances of acidity and nutrient nitrogen for mineral soils in Canada for 2014–2016 average annual sulfur and nitrogen atmospheric deposition by H. Cathcart, J. Aherne, M. D. Moran, M. D. Moran, V. Savic-Jovcic, P. A. Makar, A. Cole

“…Results show that under a conservative estimate (5 % protection level), 10 % of Canada's protected and conserved areas in the study area experienced exceedance of some level of the soil critical load of acidity, while 70 % experienced exceedance of the soil critical load of nutrient nitrogen.…”
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Engaging primary care physicians in system change – an interpretive qualitative study in a remote and rural health region in Northern British Columbia, Canada by David Snadden, Trish Reay, Neil Hanlon, Martha MacLeod

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Characterization of Serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis from Invasive Meningococcal Disease Cases in Canada Between 1979 and 2006: Epidemiological Links to Returning Travellers by Angela M Sloan, Averil M Henderson, Raymond SW Tsang

“…The present study is the first detailed study of serogroup A bacteria isolated in Canada.…”
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Health promotion for dementia risk reduction in Indigenous populations of Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, United States of America, and Australia: Scoping review protocol. by Kathryn Meldrum, Yvonne Hornby-Turner, Valda Wallace, Sarah G Russell, Rachel Quigley, Edward Strivens

“…Consequently, the aim of this scoping review is to identify and determine the quality and appropriateness of existing health promotion programs and resources aimed at dementia risk reduction developed or modified for Indigenous populations of Canada, the USA, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia that could be incorporated into the broader project. …”
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Safety and Performance Characteristics of Outpatient Medical Thoracoscopy and Indwelling Pleural Catheter Insertion for Evaluation and Diagnosis of Pleural Disease at a Tertiary Center in Canada by Robert Kyskan, Pen Li, Sunita Mulpuru, Carolina Souza, Kayvan Amjadi

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Social-structural barriers to primary care among sex workers: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2021) by Miriam T. H. Harris, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Haoxuan Zhou, Shira M. Goldenberg

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Domingo Figarola-Caneda, bibliógrafo, biógrafo, compilador y editor de la Condesa de Merlín y Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda by Beatriz Ferrús Antón

Subjects: “…Domingo Figarola-Caneda…”
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Helping land trusts prepare for a new climate: experiences of challenges and facilitators for translating knowledge about climate change adaptation in Ontario, Canada by Michael Drescher, Daria Koscinski, Jenna Quinn, Morgan Roblin

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Mental health in public safety personnel with workplace injuries requiring surgery: a longitudinal population-wide administrative data study in Manitoba, Canada by Tracie O Afifi, Jitender Sareen, Dan Chateau, Alyson Mahar, Jordan Nantais, James Bolton, Allen Kraut, Sarvesh Logsetty, Thomas Turgeon, Brenda Comaskey, Justin Gawaziuk, Rae Spiwak, Lauren Burton, Anthony Wightman, Jai Sareen, Natalie Mota

“…The objective of this study was to investigate whether PSP with traumatic physical workplace injuries requiring surgery with anaesthetic have higher post-injury rates of mental disorders compared with the general population with similar non-workplace injuries.Design Retrospective longitudinal cohort study.Setting Population-based study using linked anonymised administrative data for PSP and the general population in Manitoba, Canada.Participants This study compared two groups hospitalised for a traumatic physical injury requiring surgery with anaesthetic between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2018: (1) PSP (n=293) injured in the workplace and matched 1:5 on sex, age, geographical region and surgical procedure code with (2) individuals in the general population (GenPop) injured outside the workplace (no Workers Compensation Board claim) (n=1198).Primary and secondary outcomes and measures As planned in the study protocol, the prevalence of mental disorders including anxiety, depression and substance use was measured in the cohorts 2 years pre- and post-injury.Results This study found an elevated unadjusted risk of depression in PSP compared with the general population in the 2 years post-injury, adjusting for pre-injury mental health (rate ratio, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.02 to 2.17; p&lt;0.0001). …”
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Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Midori Matthew, Kieran Bonner, Andrew Stumpf

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Incidence and contributing factors of dementia among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada, from 2002 to 2016: a retrospective cohort study by Rolando Barrios, Julio S G Montaner, Silvia Guillemi, Ni Gusti Ayu Nanditha, Viviane D Lima, Thomas L Patterson, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, William G Honer, Jason Trigg, Hasan Nathani, Sara Shayegi-Nik, Weijia Yin, Alejandra Fonseca, Bronhilda T Takeh

“…We estimated the incidence and prevalence of dementia and identified its key risk factors in a cohort of PLWH in British Columbia, Canada.Methods This retrospective cohort study used data from the Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/AIDS study. …”
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El conflicto trabajo-familia como factor de riesgo y el apoyo social del supervisor como factor protector del agotamiento profesional by Abdelaziz Rhnima, Patrick Richard, Juan Francisco Núñez, Claudio Eduardo Pousa

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Preventing and addressing youth vaping in British Columbia, Canada: Evidence from triangulation of a scoping review of vaping policy and qualitative interviews with school-aged youth by Ramona H. Sharma, Sarah J. Dow-Fleisner, Laura L. Struik

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