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- 17Canada, Alberta, Edmonton
- 4Dementia
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- 9Edmonton Social Planning Council
- 3Forbes, D.
- 2Crossley, M.
- 2Crossley, Margaret
- 2Edmonton Council of Community Services
- 2Gaboury, Jackie
- 22Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)
- 14Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 14Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 6Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)/Children, Youth and Family (Edmonton Social Planning Council)
- 6Nursing, Faculty of
- 5Nursing, Faculty of/Chronicity
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2012
Mendelsohn, M., Lischka, A.R., Overend, T., Forbes, D.
Early detection of dementia is essential to guide front-line health care practitioners in further clinical evaluations and treatments. There is a paucity of literature assessing the effectiveness of screening tools to predict the development of dementia, thus we conducted a systematic review to...
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Fall 2013
Purpose: evaluate 1) reliability and accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) for assessing adenoid size compared to nasoendoscopy (NE), 2) Influence of clinical experience on CBCT diagnosis. Methods: Four blinded evaluators reviewed randomized CBCT images. Adenoid size was graded on a...
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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 2014
While there has been much literature in the area of system monitoring and diagnosis, most of these techniques have a relatively small scope in terms of the faults and performance issues that they are built to detect. When implementing several monitors simultaneously on a single process, a single...
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Spring 2014
Clients with cybersex addiction (CSA) are a growing challenge for mental health practitioners. Therapists must be more skilled and adept at identifying when the core issue is cybersex addiction in spite of client denial and potentially confounding symptoms. The main purpose of this exploratory...
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Challenges for Resource Allocation, Decision Making and Consideration of Social Values for Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatitis C in Canadian Populations
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Introduction: Health care system decision makers face challenges in allocating resources for screening, diagnosis and therapies for hepatitis C, caused by the highly infectious and blood borne hepatitis C virus (HCV) (WHO, 2014). Approximately 240,000 individuals are infected with HCV in Canada...
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Clinical Implications of Historical Development of the DSM through Examining Two Main Disorders
DownloadFall 2013
As a gateway to support for those who experience significant distress or impairment as a result of cognitive, affective, developmental, social, environmental, or other personal/interpersonal challenges, mental disorder diagnosis is a common practice in mental health professions. In order to...