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Outdoor Air Pollution and Children´s Asthma in the Census Metropolitan Area of Edmonton, Alberta: the Influence of Place of Residence and Socioeconomic Position
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Background: Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease in children and air pollution has been implicated in its development and exacerbations worldwide. The Census Metropolitan Area of Edmonton (CMAE), Alberta, has unique air pollution sources (traffic and industrial related air...
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Patient-reported outcome measures for adverse events: A systematic review and COSMIN evaluation study
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ABSTRACT Background: Health care requires constant improvement. Harms in health care are becoming a priority, as is incorporating the patient’s voice in both clinical research and clinical care. Patients have been found to provide a more subjective, detailed perspective of their treatment...
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Fall 2013
Physician training influences the care that a patient receives. A retrospective cohort of children over 6 years of age, seen in a multi-disciplinary asthma clinic between 2009 and 2010 and followed to 2012, was completed to identify differences in pediatric asthma management by physician...
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Poor reliability between Cochrane reviewers and blinded external reviewers when applying the Cochrane risk of bias tool in physical therapy trials.
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Saltaji, H., Ha, C., Cummings, G. G., da Costa, B. R., Armijo-Olivo, S., Egger, M., Ospina, M., Fuentes, J.
Objectives: To test the inter-rater reliability of the RoB tool applied to Physical Therapy (PT) trials by comparing ratings from Cochrane review authors with those of blinded external reviewers. Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in PT were identified by searching the Cochrane Database...
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Fall 2009
This thesis presents the results of three studies examining the management of migraine in children. First we conducted a systematic review of all clinical trials conducted in children and adolescents of the acute migraine therapy. A meta-analysis of the 26 randomized controlled trials is...
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Primary Outcomes Reporting in Trials (PORTal): a systematic review of inadequate reporting in pediatric randomized controlled trials
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Adams, Denise, Terwee, Caroline B., Hansraj, Namrata, Hartling, Lisa, Vohra, Sunita, Bhaloo, Zafira, Liu, Yali
Objective: Conduct a systematic review of pediatric randomized controlled trials published in high impact journals to assess the reporting of primary outcomes and the psychometric properties of their measures. Study Design and Setting: Systematic review with screening and simultaneous data...
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Probiotic supplementation during pregnancy or infancy for the prevention of wheeze and asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Ramsey, Clare D., Zarychanski, Ryan , Azad, Meghan B., Coneys, J. Gerard, Friesen, Carol, Becker, Allan B., Abou-Setta, Ahmed M., Field, Catherine J., Kozyrskyj, Anita L.
Objective To evaluate the association of probiotic supplementation during pregnancy or infancy with childhood asthma and wheeze. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Data sources Medline, Embase, and Central (Cochrane Library) databases from inception to...