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2012
Medicare is a popular program in Canada that offers universal access to medically-necessary healthcare services for all Canadians through a public insurance plan in each province. In spite of its popularity, healthcare privatization has been debated, often over concerns about wait times for...
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A Comparison Study of the Reliability Coefficients from Five Approaches to Reliability Estimation
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In order to estimate reliability by a single administration of one test form, various approaches and corresponding reliability coefficients have been proposed so far. Currently, the five most influential approaches are: internal consistency, lower bound, principal components analysis (PCA),...
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A descriptive analysis of oral health systematic reviews published, 1991–2012: Cross sectional study.
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Objectives To identify all systematic reviews (SRs) published in the domain of oral health research and describe them in terms of their epidemiological and descriptive characteristics. Design Cross sectional, descriptive study. Methods An electronic search of seven databases was performed...
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2012
Thomson, D., Chisholm, A., Hartling, L., Dryden, D. M.
Background: Overviews of systematic reviews compile data from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) and are a new method of evidence synthesis. Objectives: To describe the methodological approaches in overviews of interventions. Design: Descriptive study. Methods: We searched 4 databases from 2000 to...
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A protocol for a systematic review of the use of process evaluations in knowledge translation research
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Hartling, Lisa, Scott, Shannon D., Rotter, Thomas, Banner-Martin, Katherine, Chambers, Thane
Background Experimental designs for evaluating knowledge translation (KT) interventions for professional behavior change can provide strong estimates of intervention effectiveness but offer limited insight how the intervention worked or not. Furthermore, trials provide little insight into the...
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2012
Mendelsohn, M., Lischka, A.R., Overend, T., Forbes, D.
Early detection of dementia is essential to guide front-line health care practitioners in further clinical evaluations and treatments. There is a paucity of literature assessing the effectiveness of screening tools to predict the development of dementia, thus we conducted a systematic review to...
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2014
Hamm, M. P., Shulhan, J., Milne, A., Williams, G., Scott, S. D., Hartling, L.
Background: Social media use is highly prevalent among children, youth, and their caregivers, and its use in healthcare is being explored. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review to determine: 1) for what purposes social media is being used in child health and its...
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1981
A technique is described for meausuring increases in bone length during defined periods before slaughter in cattle. It consists of jugular infusions of oxytetracycline at specified time intervals. Oxytetracycline identifies the sites of ossification in growing bones at the time of infusion by...
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Accuracy and reliability of CBCT imaging for adenoid hypertrophy screening among a sample of oral maxillofacial radiologists and orthodontists and by an automated commercial imaging software
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Objectives. This thesis project aimed to investigate the diagnostic performance of different dental specialists and a modern dental imaging software to evaluate adenoidal hypertrophy compared with the current reference standard diagnosis by an Otorhinolaryngologist – Head and Neck Surgeon (OHNS)...