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  • Chronic Pain among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness and Its Interdependence with Opioid and Other Substance Use and Mental Illness

    Vogel M, Choi F, Westenberg JN, Cabanis M, Nikoo N, Nikoo M, Hwang SW, Somers J, Schütz CG, Krausz M

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  • Sex Differences in End-Stage Ankle Arthritis and Following Total Ankle Replacement or Ankle Arthrodesis

    Dodd A, Pinsker E, Younger ASE, Penner MJ, Wing KJ, Dryden PJ, Glazebrook M, Daniels TR

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  • Provision of a DAPT Score to Cardiologists and Extension of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Beyond 1 Year After ACS: Randomized Substudy of the Prospective Canadian ACS Reflective II Study

    Arbel Y, Patel AD, Goodman SG, Tan MK, Suskin N, McKelvie RS, Mathew AL, Ahmed F, Lutchmedial S, Dehghani P, Lavoie AJ, Huynh T, Lavi S, Khan R, Yan AT, Fordyce CB, Heffernan M, Jedrzkiewicz S, Madan M, Ahmed S, Barry C, Dery JP, Bagai A

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  • Heart failure treatment in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices: Opportunity for improvement

    Salimian S, Deyell MW, Andrade JG, Chakrabarti S, Bennett MT, Krahn AD, Hawkins NM

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  • Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination across a cascade of knowledge, willingness, and uptake among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Canada’s three largest cities

    Hum Vaccin Immunother

    December 2, 2021

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Vaccines

    Grewal R, Deeks SL, Hart TA, Cox J, De Pokomandy A, Grennan T, Lambert G, Moore D, Coutlée F, Gaspar M, George C, Grace D, Jollimore J, Lachowsky NJ, Nisenbaum R, Ogilvie G, Sauvageau C, Tan DHS, Yeung A, Burchell AN

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  • Immunogenicity of Extended mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Dosing Intervals

    JAMA

    December 3, 2021

    COVID-19
    Vaccines

    Grunau B, Goldfarb DM, Asamoah-Boaheng M, Golding L, Kirkham TL, Demers PA, Lavoie PM

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  • Protocol for #iBeatCRC: a community-based intervention to increase early-onset colorectal cancer awareness using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach

    Rogers CR, Brooks E, Curtin K, De Vera MA, Qeadan F, Rogers TN, Petersen E, Gallagher P, Pesmen C, Johnson W, Henley C, Hickman W, Newcomb E, Korous KM, Handley MA

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  • CCEDRRN COVID-19 Infection Score (CCIS): development and validation in a Canadian cohort of a clinical risk score to predict SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected COVID-19

    McRae AD, Hohl CM, Rosychuk R, Vatanpour S, Ghaderi G, Archambault PM, Brooks SC, Cheng I, Davis P, Hayward J, Lang E, Ohle R, Rowe B, Welsford M, Yadav K, Morrison LJ, Perry J; Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) investigators for the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

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  • Compatible Donor and Recipient Pairs’ Perspectives on Participation in Kidney Paired Donation Programs: A Mixed-Methods Study

    Can J Kidney Health Dis

    November 25, 2021

    Nephrology
    Organ Transplant
    Patient Preferences

    Fortin MC, Gill J, Allard J, Gallego FB, Gill J

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  • Immigrant status, gender and work disability duration: findings from a linked, retrospective cohort of workers’ compensation and immigration data from British Columbia, Canada

    Saffari N, Senthanar S, Koehoorn M, McGrail K, McLeod C

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  • Longitudinal Oral Anticoagulant Adherence Trajectories in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

    Salmasi S, De Vera MA, Safari A, Lynd LD, Koehoorn M, Barry AR, Andrade JG, Deyell MW, Rush K, Zhao Y, Loewen P

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  • A comparison of three strategies to reduce the burden of osteoarthritis: A population-based microsimulation study

    Kopec JA, Sayre EC, Okhmatovskaia A, Cibere J, Li LC, Bansback N, Wong H, Ghanbarian S, Esdaile JM

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