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The ethical development and sustainability of trauma registries in low- and middle-income countries
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Trauma registries are an anonymized, systematic, prospective data banks for trauma patients that may include details on demographics, injury details, hospital processes, and outcomes. They are an important component of trauma care systems and a tool for improving outcomes in trauma. Given the...
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International Comparison of Time to Treatment Intensification and Rates of Complications in Metformin Monotherapy Treated Type 2 Diabetes Patients
DownloadFall 2018
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a progressive disease which affects many people in Canada and the United States, and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is only expected to increase in the future. Pharmacological interventions are a cornerstone of the management of type 2 diabetes as they help to...
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Improving the Assignment of Cytomegalovirus Infection Status in Adults and Children Awaiting Solid Organ Transplant
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a herpes-virus, is widespread in the human population as a lifelong and largely asymptomatic infection in immunocompetent people, but it is a major cause of morbidity in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Knowledge of pre-transplant CMV infection status, generally...
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An Exploration of the Cost of Liver Transplantation Using the OrganOx Normothermic Machine Perfusion in Comparison to Static Cold Storage in the Canadian Setting
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Liver transplantation is life-saving but costly for the health care system, the patient and their caregivers. Over the last decade there has been a decrease in the available liver grafts leading to an increased use of extended criteria donors and an increase in the waitlist mortality rate. The...
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Influenza Vaccination in Patients with Diabetes: Exploration of the Healthy User in Pharmacoepidemiology Studies
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Pharmacoepidemiologic studies of preventive medications or therapies are prone to the healthy user bias, as patients who are prescribed and adhere to preventive medications/therapies are likely different than patients not receiving these medications in multiple aspects of their lives. These...
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Fall 2021
Despite the introduction of vaccination and surveillance efforts, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) remains a disease of great public health concern, in terms of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burden. The association between increased short-term (30-day) mortality following IPD has been...
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Estimating the Seroprevalence of Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and the Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted and Community-Acquired CMV Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Donors and Recipients
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are ubiquitous herpesviruses that establish lifelong, often asymptomatic, infections in healthy people, but are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in certain hosts. CMV is the most common congenital infection worldwide, causing...
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Fall 2020
Antihypertensives are prevalent in long-term care (LTC) populations, however the ratio of benefit to harm of antihypertensive treatment is unclear. There has not yet been a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of deprescribing all classes of antihypertensive medication in the frail...
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Fall 2021
Body composition, or the breakdown of the body into components such as skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, is increasingly recognized as an important factor impacting morbidity and survival in a variety of diseases. Body composition analysis provides both valuable prognostic information and...
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Effect of Antimicrobial Exposure on Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) Colonization of the Infant Gut Microbiota in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Birth Cohort
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Introduction: Antimicrobial exposure in early life has been associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis and development of allergic diseases in childhood. In adults and older children, C. difficile is the major pathogen responsible for antibiotic-induced diarrhea but the effect of colonization with...