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Best strategies to implement clinical pathways in an emergency department setting: Study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Download2013
Guttman, A., Scott, S. D., McNaughton-Filion, M. L., Lougheed, M. D., Taljaard, M., Shafir, M., Klassen, T., Grimshaw, J., Johnson, D. W., Ducharme, F. M., Jabbour, M., Newton, A., Paprica, A., Rotter, T., Curran, J.
Background The clinical pathway is a tool that operationalizes best evidence recommendations and clinical practice guidelines in an accessible format for ‘point of care’ management by multidisciplinary health teams in hospital settings. While high-quality, expert-developed clinical pathways have...
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Blinding: An essential component in decreasing risk of bias in experimental designs
2014-12-03
What is blinding? Blinding (or masking) is the process used in experimental research by which study participants, persons caring for the participants, persons providing the intervention, data collectors and data analysts are kept unaware of group assignment (control vs intervention). Blinding...
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Brief communication: Patient satisfaction with the use of tablet computers: A pilot study in two outpatient home dialysis clinics
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Schick-Makaroff, K., Molzahn, A.
Background Electronic capture of patients’ reports of their health is significant in clinical nephrology research because health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients with end-stage renal disease is compromised and assessment by patients of their HRQOL in practice is relatively uncommon....
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Canadian community-dwelling young-old and old-old: Determinants of satisfaction with health care
Download2001
The purpose of the study was to identify the determinants of satisfaction with health care for Canadian community-dwelling older adults. A correlational design was used to examine the relationships between socio-demographic indicators, psychosocial variables, health services utilization, and...
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2011
Forbes, D., Forchuk, C., Wagner, J., Leipert, B.
Background: In Canada, one in five women lives in a rural area. These rural women often experience different health challenges than urban women, including lower life expectancy, higher rates of disability and cancer, fewer available health care resources and greater distances to access health...
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2012
Thomas, R., Robertson, S., Osei-Waree, J., Kovacs Burns, K., Wilson, D.M., Hewitt, J.A.
Few studies have focused on the care setting transitions that occur in the last year of life. A three part mixed-methods study was conducted to gain an understanding of the number and implications or impact of care setting transitions in the last year of life for rural Canadians. Provincial...
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Canadians with dementia: Gender differences in use and availability of home- and community-based health services.
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Hawranik, P., Jansen, L., Kingston, D., Markle-Reid, M., Henderson, S., Peacock, P., Forbes, D., Morgan, D., Leipert, B.
The purpose was to examine the use and availability of home and communitybased services by men and women with dementia using data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey.Variables of interest were based on the Andersen and Newman model and included predisposing, enabling, need, and use of...