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2009

Svenson, L. W., Schopflocher, D. P., Yiannakoulias, N.

Background Geographic public health surveillance is concerned with describing and disseminating geographic information about disease and other measures of health to policy makers and the public. While methodological developments in the geographical analysis of disease are numerous, few have been...

2013

Low, G., Molzahn, A. E., Schopflocher, D.

Background With ever-increasing life expectancy globally, it is imperative to build knowledge of how older peoples’ views of their own aging, considering their health-related circumstances, affect quality of life for practitioners and policy-makers alike. Based on our literature review, we wanted...

2009

Schopflocher, D., Newburn-Cook, C. V., Yu, H., Dundon, B., Drummond, J., Neufeld, S. M.

Background Nausea and vomiting is a problem for children after neurosurgery and those requiring posterior fossa procedures appear to have a high incidence. This clinical observation has not been quantified nor have risk factors unique to this group of children been elucidated. Methods A six year...

2010

Newburn-Cook, C., Sommerfeldt, S., Schopflocher, D., Harvey, S., O'Brien, B., Beischel, S.

OBJECTIVE: In response to consumer demand and a critical shortage of Canadian maternity care providers, provinces have integrated or are in the process of integrating midwives into their health care systems. We compared the costs and outcomes of newly integrated, autonomous midwifery care with...

2007

Mitton, C., Beck, C., Esposito, E., Patten, S. B., Dobson, K., Schopflocher, D., Jian, L. W., Newman, S., Williams, J. V. A., Barbui, C., Adair, C. E.

Objective: Population-based data about depression treatment are largely restricted to estimates of the frequency of antidepressant (AD) use. Such frequencies are difficult to interpret in the absence of information about dosages, reasons for taking the medications, and participation in...

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...

2005

Bunnah, T., Ellehoj, E., Iglesias, S., Yee, J., Bott, N., Jennissen, B., Schopflocher, D.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the maternal and perinatal outcomes of Alberta's regionalized system of care. In particular, to compare the outcomes of communities with limited or no local intrapartum care with those of regional and tertiary care centres. METHODS: We conducted a population-based...

2007

Warren, S. A., Yiannakoulias, N., Svenson, L. W., Schopflocher, D. P.

Our objective is to examine how persons diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease (PD) change residence following disease onset. We hypothesize that persons choose to change residence (locally or regionally) in different ways depending on whether or not they have been...

2007

Warren, K. G., Patten, S. B., Schopflocher, D. P., Metz, L. M., Warren, S., Svenson, L. W.

BACKGROUND: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is reported to be uncommon among North American aboriginals despite frequent intermarriage with people of European ancestry, but few population-based studies have been conducted. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of MS among First...

2014

Vanspronsen, E., Nykiforuk, C., Schopflocher, D.

The Irvine-Minnesota Inventory (IMI) is an audit tool used to record properties of built environments. It was designed to explore the relationships between environmental features and physical activity. As published, the IMI does not provide scoring to support this use. Two papers have since been...