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  • Unravelling the mysteries of gout by multimodality imaging

    Semin Arthritis Rheu

    June 1, 2020

    Arthritis
    Diagnostics
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  • Effects of a 12-Week Multifaceted Wearable-Based Program for People With Knee Osteoarthritis: Randomized Controlled Trial

    Li LC, Feehan LM, Xie H, Lu N, Shaw CD, Gromala D, Zhu S, Aviña-Zubieta JA, Hoens AM, Koehn C, Tam J, Therrien S, Townsend AF, Noonan G, Backman CL

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  • Global Disparity and Solidarity in a Pandemic

    Ho A, Dascalu I

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  • Self‐managing illicit stimulant use: A qualitative study with patients receiving injectable opioid agonist treatment

    Drug and Alcohol Review

    June 25, 2020

    Cascade of Care
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Palis H, Harrison S, MacDonald S, Marsh DC, Schechter MT, Oviedo‐Joekes E

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  • Key Highlights From the Canadian Thoracic Society’s Position Statement on Optimizing the Management of Sleep Disordered Breathing During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

    Chest

    June 6, 2020

    COVID-19
    Editorial
    Sleep & Health

    Ayas NT, Fraser KL, Giannouli E, Hanly PJ, Kendzerska T, Katz SL, Lachmann BN, Lajoie A, Minville C, Morrison D, Narang I, Povitz M, Skomro R, Spurr KF

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  • The Baby, the Bathwater, and the Polysomnogram

    Am J Respir Crit Care Med

    June 8, 2020

    Diagnostics
    Editorial
    Innovation & Technology
    Sleep & Health

    Malhotra A, Ayas NT

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  • Hypertension Canada’s 2020 Evidence Review and Guidelines for the Management of Resistant Hypertension

    Can J Cardiol

    May 1, 2020

    Editorial
    Hypertension

    Hiremath S, Sapir-Pichhadze R, Nakhla M, Gabor JY, Khan NA, Kuyper LM, Ruzicka M, Tobe SW, Tran K, Rabi DM, Daskalopoulou SS

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  • Evaluating the measurement properties of the 26-item Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC-26) with a multicenter cohort

    Can Urological Assoc J

    April 1, 2020

    Cancer
    Health Services & Outcomes
    Quality of Life

    Crump RT, Peterson A, Charbonneau C, Carlson KV, Sutherland JM, Baverstock RJ

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  • Findings from world mental health surveys of the perceived helpfulness of treatment for patients with major depressive disorder

    JAMA Psychiatry

    May 20, 2020

    Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Harris MG, Kazdin AE, Chiu WT, Sampson NA, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Altwaijri Y, Andrade LH, Cardoso G, Cía A, Florescu S, Gureje O, Hu C, Karam EG, Karam G, Mneimneh Z, Navarro-Mateu F, Oladeji BD, O’Neill S, Scott K, Slade T, Torres Y, Vigo D, Wojtyniak B, Zarkov Z, Ziv Y, Kessler RC, for the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators

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  • Comparison of Chlamydia outer membrane complex to recombinant outer membrane proteins as vaccine

    Vaccine

    April 3, 2020

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Vaccines

    Yu H, Karunakaran KP, Jiang X, Chan Q, Rose C, Foster LJ, Johnson RM, Brunham RC

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  • Traumatic and hemorrhagic complications after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

    Resuscitation

    December 1, 2020

    Emergency Medicine
    Resuscitation

    Nguyen ML, Gause E, Mills B, Tonna JE, Alvey H, Saczkowski R, Grunau B, Becker LB, Gaieski DF, Youngquist S, Gunnerson K, England P, Hamilton J, Badulak J, Mandell SP, Bulger EM, Johnson NJ, on behalf of the Extracorporeal Resuscitation Consortium

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  • EMS Access Constraints And Response Time Delays For Deprived Critically Ill Patients Near Paris, France

    Heidet M, Cunha TD, Brami E, Mermet E, Dru M, Simonnard B, Lecarpentier E, Chollet-Xémard C, Bergeron C, Khalid M, Grunau B, Marty J, Audureau E

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