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2008
Quinlan, L., Duggleby, W., Nixon, B.
This video features family caregivers of persons with dementia. It was funded by the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan. (18 minutes)
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2008
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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2014
da Silva, Jean C.B., de Souza, Maria L., Botelho, Lúcio J., Hegadoren, Kathleen M., de Faria, Fernanda P., Radunz, Vera
Population-based quantitative study. This study's objectives were to examine the influence of regions, age, and time on cervical cancer mortality. We analyzed cervical cancer mortality rates in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil between 1996 and 2011. Data were obtained from the Mortality...
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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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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,...
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Smoking status and survival: impact on mortality of continuing to smoke one year after the angiographic diagnosis of coronary artery disease, a prospective cohort study
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Wild, Cameron T., Hammal, Fadi, Norris, Colleen M., Finegan, Barry A, Ezekowitz, Justin A.
Background: Smoking is an undertreated risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD) and is associated with adverse outcomes after myocardial infarction. Aims of our study were to determine if management of CAD by medical therapy (MT) alone or with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or...
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2015
Molzahn, Anita, Schick-Makaroff, Kara
Background Mobile devices are increasingly being used for data collection in research. However, many researchers do not have experience in collecting data electronically. Hence, the purpose of this short report was to identify issues that emerged in a study that incorporated electronic capture of...
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2014-11-05
Thompson, Richard B., Oudit, Gavin Y., Paterson, D. Ian, Becher, Harald, Kaul, Padma, Knudtson, Merril L., Dyck, Jason R.B., Lopaschuk, Gary D., Belenkie, Israel, Clark, Alexander M., Schulz, Richard, Howlett, Jonathan G., Kim, Daniel H., Anderson, Todd J., Weeks, Sarah G., Haykowsky, Mark J., McAlister, Finlay A., Ezekowitz, Justin A., Friedrich, Matthias G., Quan, Hude, Duff, Henry J., Noga, Michelle L., Kassiri, Zamaneh, Light, Peter E.
Nationally, symptomatic heart failure affects 1.5-2% of Canadians, incurs $3 billion in hospital costs annually and the global burden is expected to double in the next 1–2 decades. The current one-year mortality rate after diagnosis of heart failure remains high at >25%. Consequently, new...
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The journey with dementia from the perspective of bereaved family caregivers: a qualitative descriptive study
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Forbes, Dorothy A., Hammond-Collins, Karon, Peacock, Shelley
Background: With increasing rates of dementia among older adults, many people will be affected by this disease; either by having the disease or by caring for a relative with dementia. Due to a shift toward home and community-based care there will be an increase in the number of family caregivers...
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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...