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2012

Sampath, P., Wilson, D.M.

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...

2013-02-04

Hamm, Michele, Vandermeer, Ben, Thomson, Denise, Milne, Andrea, Tjosvold, Lisa, Klassen, Terry P., Curtis, Sarah, Hartling, Lisa

BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for trials assessing the effects of therapeutic interventions; therefore it is important to understand how they are conducted. Our objectives were to provide an overview of a representative sample of pediatric RCTs published in...

2013-02-04

Hartling, Lisa, Chisholm, Annabritt, Moher, David, Bow, Simon, Klassen, Terry P., Thomson, Denise, Tjosvold, Lisa, Klassen, Jeffrey

Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) are considered an important tool for decision-making. There has been no recent comprehensive identification or description of child-relevant SRs. A description of existing child-relevant SRs would help to identify the extent of available child-relevant...

2013

Saltaji, H.

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...

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...

Fall 2014

Vogel, Christina K

Parent with children undergoing neurosurgery need access to specialized information as well as support resources. The public is becoming more active in managing their own health care and they often turn to the Internet as a starting point in their quest for health information resources. The...

Spring 2011

Samuel, Tarah M

Background: Celiac disease affects 1% of the population and the only treatment for CD is life-long adherence to a gluten-free diet, this affects every aspect of life including emotional, social, physical and psychological which in turn has an effect on patient quality of life. Objective: This...

2014

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...

2013

Scott, S. D., Johnson, D. W., Klassen, T. P., Bishop, T., Hartling, L.

Introduction Stories may be an effective tool to communicate with patients because of their ability to engage the reader. Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of story booklets compared to standard information sheets for parents of children attending the emergency department (ED) with...

Spring 2015

Rajani, Seema

Introduction: Celiac disease (CD) is the most common autoimmune disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. In 2012, the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition changed their guidelines for CD diagnosis to include a serological diagnosis for certain patients instead...