Department of Medicine Publications
As the largest department within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department of Medicine hosts a vast range of research in its divisions. Research areas include cardiology, clinical immunology and allergy, clinical pharmacology, dermatology, critical care and emergency medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, gastroenterology, hematology, molecular toxicology, nephrology, respirology, and rheumatology.
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Submissions from 2009
Filtering out the Noise: Evaluating the Impact of Noise and Sound Reduction Strategies on Sleep Quality for ICU Patients, Karen J. Bosma and V. Marco Ranieri
Stopping Randomized Trials Early for Benefit: A Protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2), Matthias Briel, Melanie Lane, Victor M. Montori, Dirk Bassler, Paul Glasziou, German Malaga, Elie A. Akl, Ignacio Ferreira-Gonzalez, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Gerard Urrutia, Regina Kunz, Carolina Ruiz Culebro, Suzana Alves da Silva, David N. Flynn, Mohamed B. Elamin, Brigitte Strahm, M. Hassan Murad, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Neill K. J. Adhikari, Edward J. Mills, Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Haresh Kirpalani, Heloisa P. Soares, Nisrin O. Abu Elnour, John J. You, Paul J. Karanicolas, Heiner C. Bucher, Julianna F. Lampropulos, Alain J. Nordmann, Karen E. A. Burns, Sohail M. Mulla, Heike Raatz, Amit Sood, Jagdeep Kaur, Clare R. Bankhead, Rebecca J. Mullan, Kara A. Nerenberg, Per Olav Vandvik, Fernando Coto-Yglesias, Holger Schünemann, Fabio Tuche, Pedro Paulo M. Chrispim, Deborah J. Cook, Kristina Lutz, Christine M. Ribic, Noah Vale, Patricia J. Erwin, Rafael Perera, Qi Zhou, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Tim Ramsay, Stephen D. Walter, and Gordon H. Guyatt
Relationship of the ApoE Polymorphism to Plasma Lipid Traits among South Asians, Chinese, and Europeans Living in Canada, Debika Burman, Andrew Mente, Robert A. Hegele, Shofiqul Islam, Salim Yusuf, and Sonia S. Anand
The Cellular Level of O-antigen Polymerase Wzy Determines Chain Length Regulation by WzzB and WzzpHS-2 in Shigella flexneri 2a, Javier A. Carter, Juan C. Jiménez, Mercedes Zaldívar, Sergio A. Alvarez, Cristina L. Marolda, Miguel A. Valvano, and Inés Contreras
Timing of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis Administration: Complexities of Analysis, Carrie Cartmill, Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Sherry Espin, John Bohnen, Ross Baker, and Lorne Rotstein
Minimal Risk and Large-scale Biobank and Cohort Research, Timothy Caulfield and Charles Weijer
Long-term Outcomes of Emergency Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure, Gabriel Chan, Ali Taqi, Paul Marotta, Mark Levstik, Vivian McAlister, William Wall, and Douglas Quan
Toll-like Receptor 2 Ligands on the Staphylococcal Cell Wall Downregulate Superantigen-induced T Cell Activation and Prevent Toxic Shock Syndrome, Thu A. Chau, Michelle L. McCully, William Brintnell, Gary An, Katherine J. Kasper, Enrique D. Vinés, Paul Kubes, S. M. Mansour Haeryfar, John K. McCormick, Ewa Cairns, David E. Heinrichs, and Joaquín Madrenas
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
Categorizing Patients in a Forced-Choice Triad Task: The Integration of Context in Patient Management, Sarah L. Devantier, John Paul Minda, Mark Goldszmidt, and Wael Haddara
Carotid atherosclerosis and a reduced likelihood for lowered cognitive Performance in a Canadian first nations population, J. H. Fergenbaum, S. Bruce, J. D. Spence, W. Lou, A. J.G. Hanley, C. Greenwood, and T. K. Young
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
Lipid Incorporation Inhibits Src-Dependent Assembly of Fibronectin and Type I Collagen by Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells, Matthew J. Frontini, Caroline O'Neil, Cynthia Sawyez, Bosco M. C. Chan, Murray W. Huff, and J. Geoffrey Pickering
Silence, Power and Communication in the Operating Room, Fauzia Gardezi, Lorelei Lingard, Sherry Espin, Sarah Whyte, Beverley Orser, and G. Ross Baker
Ictal Asystole Secondary to Suspected Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: A Case Report, Robert Gooch
Communication Channels in General Internal Medicine: A Description of Baseline Patterns for Improved Interprofessional Collaboration, Lesley Gotlib Conn, Lorelei Lingard, Scott Reeves, Karen-Lee Miller, Ann Russell, and Merrick Zwarenstein
Attenuation of Massive Cytokine Response to the Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Superantigen by the Innate Immunomodulatory Protein Lactoferrin, J. L. Hayworth, K. J. Kasper, M. Leon-Ponte, C. A. Herfst, D. Yue, W. C. Brintnell, D. M. Mazzuca, D. E. Heinrichs, E. Cairns, J. Madrenas, D. W. Hoskin, J. K. McCormick, and S. M. M. Haeryfar
SIRT1 Markedly Extends Replicative Lifespan if the NAD+ Salvage Pathway Is Enhanced, Cynthia Ho, Eric van der Veer, Oula Akawi, and J. Geoffrey Pickering
Recombinant Activated Factor VII in the Treatment of Non-haemophilia Patients: Physician Under-reporting of Thromboembolic Adverse Events, C. C. Hsia, J. H. Zurawska, M. Z. Y. Tong, K. Eckert, Vivian C. McAlister, and I. H. Chin-Yee
The Utilization of Appropriate Osteoporosis Medications Improves following a Multifaceted Educational Intervention: The Canadian Quality Circle Project (CQC), George Ioannidis, Alexandra Papaioannou, Lehana Thabane, Amiram Gafni, Anthony Hodsman, Brent Kvern, Aleksandra Walsh, Famida Jiwa, and Jonathan D. Adachi
Alternate Day Dosing of Rosuvastatin: Potential Usefulness in Statin-intolerant Patients, Tisha Joy and Robert A. Hegele
The End of the Road for CETP Inhibitors after Torcetrapib?, Tisha Joy and Robert A. Hegele
Predicting Abdominal Adipose Tissue among Women with Familial Partial Lipodystrophy, Tisha Joy, Brooke A. Kennedy, Salam Al-Attar, Brian K. Rutt, and Robert A. Hegele
Narrative Review: Statin-Related Myopathy, Tisha R. Joy and Robert A. Hegele