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Chart review of current end-of-life care needs and care practices in acute care hospitals: final report of an investigation
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A total of 1,018 charts of people who died from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009 were reviewed to describe and examine current end-of-life care needs and care practices provided in two acute care hospitals. The mean age of those who died was 72.5, the majority of decedents were elderly...
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2016-01-01
Potapov, Alex, Merrill, Evelyn, Pybus, Margo, Lewis, Mark A.
We develop a model of CWD management by nonselective deer harvest, currently the most feasible approach available for managing CWD in wild populations. We use the model to explore the effects of 6 common harvest strategies on disease prevalence and to identify potential optimal harvest policies...
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2021-01-01
Arezoo Haratian, Hadi Fazelinia, Zeinab Maleki, Pouria Ramazi, Hao Wang, Mark A. Lewis, Russell Greiner, David Wishart
This dataset provides information related to the outbreak of COVID-19 disease in the United States, including data from each of 3142 US counties from the beginning of the outbreak (January 2020) until June 2021. This data is collected from many public online databases and includes the...
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Developing an Index for the Orthodontic Treatment Need in Pediatric Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Communication Tool between Physicians and Orthodontists
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Purpose: To develop a physician screening index for the oral and facial assessment of the orthodontic treatment-need in pediatric patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) that may diminish the severity of their OSA symptoms. Methods: Based on the available literature and WHO guidelines for...
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Diabetes in Pregnancy among First Nations Women in Alberta: A Multiphase Mixed Methods Approach
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Background Diabetes in pregnancy is thought to be an important driver of the current epidemic of type 2 diabetes in First Nations populations. Purpose The purpose of this doctoral research was 1) to generate an epidemiological profile of First Nations diabetes in pregnancy in Alberta; and 2) to...
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Does the FamCHAT Tool Enhance the Ethno-Cultural Dimensions of Nursing Assessment at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH)?
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Forgeron, J., Callender, S., Ortiz, L., Richter, S., Young, S., Boyce, M., Higginbottom, G.M.A
The RAH is located in one of Edmonton’s most ethnoculturally diverse neighbourhoods. Their interpretive service responds to >800 requests annually for > 30 languages. RAH staff requested identification and evaluation of a culturally-sensitive assessment tool suitable for enhancing nursing...
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Ecology and management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (O. hemionus) of east-central Alberta in relation to chronic wasting disease
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal pathogen affecting white-tailed and mule deer in east-central Alberta, and I addressed two current limitations of CWD management. First, to improve precision and accuracy of density estimates obtained from aerial surveys, I evaluated alternative survey...
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Empirical estimation of R0 for unknown transmission functions: The case of chronic wasting disease in Alberta
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Potapov, Alex, Merrill, Evelyn, Pybus, Margo, Lewis, Mark A.
We consider the problem of estimating the basic reproduction number R0 from data on prevalence dynamics at the beginning of a disease outbreak. We derive discrete and continuous time models, some coefficients of which are to be fitted from data. We show that prevalence of the disease is...
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Epidemiological Characteristics and Ecological Investigation of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic
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Influenza pandemic occurs when a novel influenza virus subtype for which humans do not have sufficient immunity emerges and spreads quickly from person-to-person worldwide. Influenza pandemics result in serious consequences on human health and economy. In April 2009, the World Health Organization...
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Epidemiological Characteristics and Ecological Investigation of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic
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Influenza pandemic occurs when a novel influenza virus subtype for which humans do not have sufficient immunity emerges and spreads quickly from person-to-person worldwide. Influenza pandemics result in serious consequences on human health and economy. In April 2009, the World Health Organization...