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Barriers, motivators and facilitators related to prenatal care utilization among inner-city women in Winnipeg, Canada: a case–control study
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Morris, Heather, Moffatt, Michael, Elliott, Lawrence, Cook, Catherine, Gregory, Patricia, Sword, Wendy, Tjaden, Lynda, Heaman, Maureen I., Helewa, Michael E.
Background: The reasons why women do not obtain prenatal care even when it is available and accessible are complex. Despite Canada’s universally funded health care system, use of prenatal care varies widely across neighborhoods in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the highest rates of inadequate prenatal...
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Association between older age and outcome after cardiac surgery: A population-based cohort study
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Zibdawi, Mohamad, Norris, Colleen M., MacArthur, Roderick, Zibdawi, Rami, Wang, Wei, Bagshaw, Sean M.
Objective Octogenarians (aged???80 years) are increasingly being referred for cardiac surgery. We aimed to describe the morbidity, mortality, and health services utilization of octogenarians undergoing elective cardiac surgery. Methods Retrospective population-based cohort study of adult...
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2014
Scott, Shannon. D., Foster, Roxie L.
Peer review is the essence of scholarship, embodying unique disciplinary expertise and the altruism to painstakingly enhance a manuscript for an anonymous author. In fact, peer review has been termed “a gift of uncompensated time from scientists to whom time is a precious commodity”...
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What is a p value and what does it mean?
2014-12-03
Researchers aim to make the strongest possible conclusions from limited amounts of data. To do this, they need to overcome two problems. First, important differences in the findings can be obscured by natural variability and experimental imprecision. Thus, it is difficult to distinguish real...
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Place of death of people living with parkinson's disease: A population-level study in 11 countries
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Teno, Joan, Cohen, Joachim, Morin, Lucas, Harding, Richard, Houttekier, Dirk, Loucka, Martin, Marchetti, Stefano, Moens, Katrien, Wilson, Donna M, Cardenas-Turanzas, Marylou, Deliens, Luc, Van den Block, Lieve, Rhee, YongJoo, Naylor, Wayne A, Garcia-Leon, Francisco J, Csikos, Agnes
Background Most people prefer to receive end-of-life care in familiar surroundings rather than in hospital. This study examines variation in place of death for people dying from Parkinson’s disease (PD) across 11 European and non-European countries. Methods Using death certificate data of 2008...
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Duggleby, W., Shannon, C., Jewitt, L., Wright, K.
The information in this video reflects the findings of a University of Saskatchewan research study on the hope experience of terminally ill patients and their families. This video was funded by Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation and produced by Media Access and Production (eMAP) at the...
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Maternal Depressive Symptoms across Early Childhood and Asthma in School Children: Findings from a Longitudinal Australian Population Based Study
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Cooklin, Amanda, Kozyrskyj, Anita, Bahreinian, Salma, Brown, Stephanie, Kingston, Dawn, Giallo, Rebecca
There is a growing body of evidence attesting to links between early life exposure to stress and childhood asthma. However, available evidence is largely based on small, genetically high risk samples. The aim of this study was to explore the associations between the course of maternal depressive...
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Enhancing Educators’ Skills for Promoting Critical Thinking in Their Classroom Discourses: A Randomized Control Trial
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Gul, Raisa B., Schopflocher, Donald, Cassum, Shanaz, Ahmed, Azra, Saeed, Tanveer, Khan, Shehla, Profetto-McGrath, Joanne, Parpio, Yasmin
The literature reveals that educators find it challenging to foster critical thinking (CT) in their students if they have not learned how to use CT in their educational system or training. This paper reports findings from a national research project that was undertaken to enhance the educators’...
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Association between prenatal and postnatal psychological distress and toddler cognitive development: A systematic review
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Kingston, Dawn, Tough, Suzanne, Austin, Marie-Paul, Mcdonald, Sheila
Purpose Maternal psychological distress is one of the most common perinatal complications, affecting up to 25% of pregnant and postpartum women. Research exploring the association between prenatal and postnatal distress and toddler cognitive development has not been systematically compiled. The...
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Predicting cardiovascular intensive care unit readmission after cardiac surgery: derivation and validation of the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcomes Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) cardiovascular intensive care unit clinical prediction model from a registry cohort of 10,799 surgical cases
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Nagendran, Jayan, van Diepen, Sean, Graham, Michelle M., Norris, Colleen M.
Introduction In medical and surgical intensive care units, clinical risk prediction models for readmission have been developed; however, studies reporting the risks for cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) readmission have been methodologically limited by small numbers of outcomes,...