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 2008
Rural Women and Pharmacologic Therapy: Needs and Issues in Rural Canada, Beverly Leipert, Doreen Matsui, Jessica Wagner, and Michael J. Rieder
Grounded Theory, Mixed Methods, and Action Research, Lorelei Lingard, Mathieu Albert, and Wendy Levinson
Evaluation of a Preoperative Checklist and Team Briefing among Surgeons, Nurses, and Anesthesiologists to Reduce Failures in Communication, Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Beverley Orser, Richard Reznick, G. Ross Baker, Diane Doran, Sherry Espin, John Bohnen, and Sarah Whyte
Evaluation of a Preoperative Checklist and Team Briefing among Surgeons, Nurses, and Anesthesiologists to Reduce Failures in Communication, Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Beverley Orser, Richard Reznick, G. Ross Baker, Diane Doran, Sherry Espin, John Bohnen, and Sarah Whyte
The Future of RIP2/RICK/CARDIAK as a Biomarker of the Inflammatory Response to Infection, Michelle L. McCully, Todd Fairhead, Peter G. Blake, and Joaquin Madrenas
Receptor-interacting Protein-2 Deficiency Delays Macrophage Migration and Increases Intracellular Infection during Peritoneal Dialysis-associated Peritonitis, Michelle L. McCully, Todd Fairhead, Chantal S. Colmont, Federico C. Beasley, David E. Heinrichs, Peter G. Blake, Nicholas Topley, and Joaquín Madrenas
U.S. Federal Regulations for Emergency Research: A Practical Guide and Commentary, Andrew McRae and Charles Weijer
Prospective Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Angiography with Selective Renal Angiography for Living Kidney Donor Assessment, Christopher Neville, Andrew A. House, Christopher Y. Nguan, Kenneth A. Beasley, David Peck, Lisa M. F. Thain, Richard Rankin, Vivian C. McAlister, Alison R. Spouge, and Patrick P. W. Luke
Perfusion of Renal Allografts with Verapamil Improves Graft Function, Chris Y. Nguan, Alp Sener, Vaishali Karnik, Yves Caumartin, Andrew A. House, Vivian C. McAlister, and Patrick P. W. Luke
Intra-arterial thrombolysis of occluded middle cerebral artery by use of collateral pathways in patients with tandem cervical carotid artery/middle cerebral artery occlusion, Ozcan Ozdemir, M. Bussière, A. Leung, I. Gulka, D. Lee, R. Chan, J. D. Spence, and D. Pelz
Ethical Issues Associated With the Introduction of New Surgical Devices, or Just Because We Can, Doesn’t Mean We Should, Sue Ross, Magali Robert, Marie-Andrée Harvey, Scott Farrell, Jane Schulz, David Wilkie, Danny Lovatsis, Annette Epp, Bill Easton, Barry McMillan, Joyce Schachter, Chander Gupta, and Charles Weijer
Ethics and Schizophrenia, A. Rudnick and Charles Weijer
The Rhetoric of Patient Voice: Reported Talk with Patients in Referral and Consultation Letters, Marlee M. Spafford, Catherine F. Schryer, and Lorelei Lingard
Is carotid intima-media thickness a reliable clinical predictor?, J. David Spence
White-coat hypertension is hypertension, J. David Spence
Measuring Educational Workload: A Pilot Study of Paper-based and PDA Tools, Susan Tallett, Lorelei Lingard, Karen Leslie, Jonathan Pirie, Ann Jefferies, Lawrence Spero, Rayfel Schneider, Robert Hilliard, Jay Rosenfield, Jonathan Hellmann, Marcellina Mian, and Jennifer Hurley
Characterization of Oligomers Induced by Inverse Agonists of CTLA-4, Wendy A. Teft and Joaquín Madrenas
Mesna for treatment of hyperhomocysteinemia in hemodialysis patients: A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial, Bradley L. Urquhart, David J. Freeman, Murray J. Cutler, Rahul Mainra, J. David Spence, and Andrew A. House
Interprofessional Communication and Medical Error: A Reframing of Research Questions and Approaches, Lara Varpio, Pippa Hall, Lorelei Lingard, and Catherine F. Schryer
A Novel Expression Platform for the Production of Diabetes-associated Autoantigen Human Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase (hGAD65), Xiaofeng Wang, Martin Brandsma, Reynald Tremblay, Denis Maxwell, Anthony M. Jevnikar, Norm Huner, and Shengwu Ma
Rules of Engagement: Residents' Perceptions of the In-training Evaluation Process, Christopher J. Watling, Cynthia F. Kenyon, Elaine M. Zibrowski, Valerie Schulz, Mark A. Goldszmidt, Indu Singh, Heather L. Maddocks, and Lorelei Lingard
Paradoxical Effects of Interprofessional Briefings on OR Team Performance, Sarah Whyte, Lorelei Lingard, Sherry Espin, G. Ross Baker, John Bohnen, Beverley A. Orser, Diane Doran, Richard Reznick, and Glenn Regehr
Abetalipoproteinemia: Two Case Reports and Literature Review, Rola Zamel, Razi Khan, Rebecca L. Pollex, and Robert A. Hegele
Submissions from 2007
Quantitative and Qualitative Differences in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Stores across Lipodystrophy Types Shown by Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Salam A. Al-Attar, Rebecca L. Pollex, John F. Robinson, Brooke A. Miskie, Rhonda Walcarius, Cynthia Harper Little, Brian K. Rutt, and Robert A. Hegele
Analysis of a Missense Variant of the Human N-formyl Peptide Receptor that Is Associated with Agonist-independent β-arrestin Association and Indices of Inflammation, M. Bhattacharya, J. Wang, F. M. Ribeiro, S. J. Dixon, R. D. Feldman, R. A. Hegele, and S. S. G. Ferguson