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Disaster Medicine Education in Canadian Medical Schools before and after September 11, 2001.
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Della Corte, F., Cummings, G. E., Cummings, G. G.
OBJECTIVE: To describe disaster medicine (DM) education in 16 Canadian medical schools before and after September 11, 2001 (9/11). METHODS: Email invitations and reminders to complete an Internet-based survey were sent to 48 undergraduate and fellowship representatives. RESULTS: A total of 24...
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Enhancing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment among socioeconomically disadvantaged patients: Study protocol for a knowledge exchange intervention involving patients and physicians.
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Brown, T., Vandenberghe, C., Dong, K., Cummings, G. G., Salvalaggio, G., Taylor, M., Mramor, K., Kirkland, S., McKim, R., Wild, T. C.
Background Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT) is an effective approach for managing alcohol and other drug misuse in primary care; however, uptake into routine care has been limited. Uptake of SBIRT by healthcare providers may be particularly problematic for...
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Facility versus unit level reporting of quality indicators in nursing homes when performance monitoring is the goal.
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Teare, G. F., Poss, J., Murray, M., Norton, P., Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Doupe, M., Squires, J.
Objectives To demonstrate the benefit of defining operational management units in nursing homes and computing quality indicators on these units as well as on the whole facility. Design Calculation of adjusted Resident Assessment Instrument – Minimum Data Set 2.0 (RAI–MDS 2.0) quality indicators...
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2006
Predy, G., Cummings G. E., Francescutti, L., Cummings, G. G.
BACKGROUND: Health promotion and disease prevention have been increasingly recognized as activities that may be within the scope of emergency medicine. The purpose of this feasibility study was to identify health risks and offer immediate interventions to adult patients who have drug and/or...
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Insights into the impact and use of research results in a residential long-term care facility: A case study
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Cranley, L., Morgan, D.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Birdsell, J.
Background: Engaging end-users of research in the process of disseminating findings may increase the relevance of findings and their impact for users. We report findings from a case study that explored how involvement with the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) study influenced management...
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2012
Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Wagg, A., Bottorff, J. L., Lynch, S. L., Abel, S. L., Bissell, L., Norton, P. G., Robinson, C. A., Lee, J. S., Masaoud, E., Cummings, G. E., Rowe, B. H., Reid, R. C.
Background Changes in health status, triggered by events such as infections, falls, and geriatric syndromes, are common among nursing home (NH) residents and necessitate transitions between NHs and Emergency Departments (EDs). During transitions, residents frequently experience care that is...
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2014
Bradford, A., Tough, S., Young, D.C., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Kingston, D. A., Sword, W.A., Janssen, P. A., Heaman, M. I., Helewa, M. E., Hutton, E. K.
Background Utilization indices exist to measure quantity of prenatal care, but currently there is no published instrument to assess quality of prenatal care. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a new instrument, the Quality of Prenatal Care Questionnaire (QPCQ). Methods Data for...
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Strategies for incorporating patientreported outcomes in the care of people with chronic kidney disease (PRO kidney): a protocol for a realist synthesis
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Schick-Marakoff, Kara, Thummapol, Onouma, Thompson, Stephanie, Flynn, Rachel, Karimi-Dehkordi, Mehri, Klarenbach, Scott, Sawatzky, Richard, Greenhalgh, Joanne
Background: Patient-reported outcomes and experience measures (jointly referred to here as PROs) are internationally recognized as a means for patients to provide information about their quality of life, symptoms, and experiences with care. Although increasingly recognized as key to improving the...
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Treatment in the pediatric emergency department is evidence based: a retrospective analysis.
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Wiebe, N., Waters, K. L., Cramer, K., Klassen, T. P., Hartling, L.
Background Our goal was to quantify the evidence that is available to the physicians of a pediatric emergency department (PED) in making treatment decisions. Further, we wished to ascertain what percentage of evidence for treatment provided in the PED comes from pediatric studies. Methods We...
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Unregulated provider perceptions of audit and feedback reports in long-term care: Cross-sectional survey findings from a quality improvement intervention.
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Baylon, M. A., Fraser, K. D., Bostrom, A. M., Sales, A. E., Rourke, H. M.
Audit with feedback is a moderately effective approach for improving professional practice in other health care settings. Although unregulated caregivers give the majority of direct care in long-term care settings, little is known about how they understand and perceive feedback reports because...