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Indigenous injury outcomes: Life satisfaction among injured Māori in New Zealand three months after injury
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Samaranayaka, Ari, Derrett, Sarah, Hokowhitu, Brendan, Wyeth, Emma
Background: Māori, the indigenous population of New Zealand, experience numerous and consistent health disparities when compared to non-Māori. Injury is no exception, yet there is a paucity of published literature that examines outcomes following a wide variety of injury types and severities for...
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2009
Pretorius, V., Majumdar, S.R., McAlister, F.A., Ross, D.B., Norris, C.M., Kapoor, A.S., Mohamed, R.
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the risk of postoperative infection. We conducted this study to explore whether preoperative statin use was associated with infection after cardiac surgery (recipients of which have a higher-than-average...
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Representations of the health value of vitamin D supplementation in newspapers and magazines: Media content analysis
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Field, Catherine J., McCormack, James P., Caulfield, Timothy, Rachul, Christen, Clark, Marianne
Objective To examine the nature of media coverage of vitamin D in relation to its role in health and the need for supplements. Design Media content analysis. Setting Print articles from elite newspapers in the UK, the USA and Canada. Participants 294 print newspaper articles appearing over...
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2011
Estabrooks, C.A., O'Rourke, H.M., Cobban, S., Squires, J.E., Bostrom, A.M., Hutchinson, A.M.
Background: In the past forty years, many gains have been made in our understanding of the concept of research utilization. While numerous studies exist on professional nurses' use of research in practice, no attempt has been made to systematically evaluate and synthesize this body of literature...
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Wheelchair seating assessment and intervention: A comparison between Telerehabilitation and face-to-face service
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Sekulic, Angela, Liu, Lili, Barlow, Ingrid
This study compared outcomes of wheelchair seating and positioning interventions provided by telerehabilitation (n=10) and face-to-face (n=20; 10 in each of two comparison groups, one urban and one rural). Comparison clients were matched to the telerehabilitation clients in age, diagnosis, and...
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Women's and care providers' perspectives of quality prenatal care: a qualitative descriptive study
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Kingston, D., Tough, S., Janssen, P.A., Brooks, S., Sword, W., Young, D., Heaman, M.I., Hutton, E., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Helewa, M.E.
Background: Much attention has been given to the adequacy of prenatal care use in promoting healthy outcomes for women and their infants. Adequacy of use takes into account the timing of initiation of prenatal care and the number of visits. However, there is emerging evidence that the quality of...