Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications
Research in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications examines age, environment, chronic disease, social health determinants, maternal and child health, and mental health all in an effort to understand and improve the health of populations as a whole. These publications contain risk assessment and examinations of various health determinants to understand the health and circumstances of certain populations.
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Submissions from 2010
Evaluating the Impact of MEDLINE Filters on Evidence Retrieval: Study Protocol, Salimah Z. Shariff, Meaghan S. Cuerden, R. Brian Haynes, K. Ann McKibbon, Nancy L. Wilczynski, Arthur V. Iansavichus, Mark R. Speechley, Amardeep Thind, and Amit X. Garg
Knowledge Brokering with Injured Workers: Perspectives of Injured Worker Groups and Health Care Professionals, Lynn Shaw, Joy McDermid, Anita Kothari, Rob Lindsay, Phil Brake, Peter Page, Colin Argyle, Crystal Gagnon, and Melissa Knott
Persistent Suicide Risk in Clinically Improved Schizophrenia Patients: Challenge of the Suicidal Dimension, Amresh Shrivastava, Megan E. Johnston, Nilesh Shah, Marco Innamorati, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, David Lester, and Maurizio Pompili
Predictors of Long-term Outcome of First-episode Schizophrenia: A Ten-year Follow-up Study, Amresh Shrivastava, Nilesh Shah, Megan Johnston, Larry Stitt, and Meghana Thakar
Effects of Duration of Untreated Psychosis on Long-term Outcome of People Hospitalized with First Episode Schizophrenia, Amresh Shrivastava, Nilesh Shah, Megan Johnston, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, and Gurusamy Chinnasamy
Effects of Intensive Medical Therapy on Microemboli and Cardiovascular Risk in Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis, J. David Spence, Victoria Coates, Hector Li, Arturo Tamayo, Claudio Muñoz, Daniel G. Hackam, Maria DiCicco, Janine DesRoches, Chrysi Bogiatzi, Jonathan Klein, Joaquim Madrenas, and Robert A. Hegele
Electronic Search Strategies to Identify Reports of Cluster Randomized Trials in MEDLINE: Low Precision Will Improve with Adherence to Reporting Standards, Monica Taljaard, Jessie McGowan, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Jamie C. Brehaut, Andrew McRae, Martin P. Eccles, and Allan Donner
Hip Fracture Types in Men and Women Change Differently with Age, David A. Tanner, Marita Kloseck, Richard G. Crilly, Bert Chesworth, and Jason Gilliland
Ethics in Conduct of Trials in Developing Countries, Charles Weijer
Is Philosophy Dead? Far from It, Charles Weijer
What Are the Factors that Predict Outcome at Relapse after Previous Esophagectomy and Adjuvant Therapy in High-risk Esophageal Cancer?, Edward Yu, P. Tai, R. Malthaner, L. Stitt, G. Rodrigues, R. Dar, B. Yaremko, J. Younus, M. Sanatani, M. Vincent, B. Dingle, D. Fortin, and R. Inculet
Submissions from 2009
“I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives”: How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People, Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, and Michelle Boyce
Physical Activity Levels of Older Community-dwelling Adults Are Influenced by Summer Weather Variables, Caitlin A. Brandon, Dawn P. Gill, Mark Speechley, Jason Gilliland, and Gareth R. Jones
Minimal Risk and Large-scale Biobank and Cohort Research, Timothy Caulfield and Charles Weijer
Penetrance of Colorectal Cancer among MLH1/MSH2 Carriers Participating in the Colorectal Cancer Familial Registry in Ontario, Yun-Hee Choi, Michelle Cotterchio, Gail McKeown-Eyssen, Monga Neerav, Bharati Bapat, Kevin Boyd, Steven Gallinger, John McLaughlin, Melyssa Aronson, and Laurent Briollais
Association of the Novel Cardiovascular Risk Factors Paraoxonase 1 and Cystatin C in Type 2 Diabetes, Philip W. Connelly, Bernard Zinman, Graham F. Maguire, Mary Mamakeesick, Stewart B. Harris, Robert A. Hegele, Ravi Retnakaran, and Anthony J. G. Hanley
The Limits of Consent: A Socio-ethical Approach to Human Subject Research in Medicine, Oonagh Corrigan, John McMillan, Kathleen Liddell, Martin Richards, and Charles Weijer
Introduction, Oonagh Corrigan, John McMillan, and Charles Weijer
Providing Research Results to Participants: Attitudes and Needs of Adolescents and Parents of Children with Cancer, Conrad Vincent Fernandez, Jun Gao, Caron Strahlendorf, Albert Moghrabi, Rebecca Davis Pentz, Raymond Carlton Barfield, Justin Nathaniel Baker, Darcy Santor, Charles Weijer, and Eric Kodish
Tobacco Control Interest Groups and Their Influence on Parliamentary Committees in Canada, Robyn E. Hastie and Anita Kothari
The 2009 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for the Management of Hypertension: Part 2--Therapy, Nadia A. Khan, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Robert J. Herman, Chaim M. Bell, Jeff L. Mahon, Lawrence A. Leiter, Simon W. Rabkin, Michael D. Hill, Raj Padwal, Rhian M. Touyz, Pierre Larochelle, Ross D. Feldman, Ernesto L. Schiffrin, Norman R. C. Campbell, Gordon Moe, Ramesh Prasad, Malcolm O. Arnold, Tavis S. Campbell, Alain Milot, James A. Stone, Charlotte Jones, Richard I. Ogilvie, Pavel Hamet, George Fodor, George Carruthers, Kevin D. Burns, Marcel Ruzicka, Jacques deChamplain, George Pylypchuk, Robert Petrella, Jean-Martin Boulanger, Luc Trudeau, Robert A. Hegele, Vincent Woo, Phil McFarlane, Michel Vallée, Jonathan Howlett, Simon L. Bacon, Patrice Lindsay, Richard E. Gilbert, Richard Z. Lewanczuk, Sheldon Tobe, and Canadian Hypertension Education Program
Helsinki Discords: FDA, Ethics, and International Drug Trials, Jonathan Kimmelman, Charles Weijer, and Eric M. Meslin
Penetrance of HNPCC-related Cancers in a Retrolective Cohort of 12 Large Newfoundland Families Carrying a MSH2 Founder Mutation: An Evaluation Using Modified Segregation Models, Karen A. Kopciuk, Yun-Hee Choi, Elena Parkhomenko, Patrick Parfrey, John McLaughlin, Jane Green, and Laurent Briollais
Is Research Working for You? Validating a Tool to Examine the Capacity of Health Organizations to Use Research, Anita Kothari, Nancy Edwards, Nadia Hamel, and Maria Judd
Increasing Capacity for Knowledge Translation: Understanding How Some Researchers Engage Policy-makers, Anita Kothari, Lynne McLean, and Nancy Edwards