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 2007
Co-management in Healthcare: Negotiating Professional Boundaries, Catherine F. Schryer, Olga Gladkova, Marlee M. Spafford, and Lorelei Lingard
Towards Embracing Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons from Social Work, Optometry and Medicine, Marlee M. Spafford, Catherine F. Schryer, Sandra L. Campbell, and Lorelei Lingard
Molecular Determinants of Inverse Agonist Activity of Biologicals Targeting CTLA-4, Wendy A. Teft and Joaquín Madrenas
Seeing and Listening: A Visual and Social Analysis of Optometric Record-Keeping Practices, Lara Varpio, Marlee M. Spafford, Catherine F. Schryer, and Lorelei Lingard
Homozygous Missense Mutation (G56R) in Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored High-density Lipoprotein-binding Protein 1 (GPI-HBP1) in Two Siblings with Fasting Chylomicronemia (MIM 144650), Jian Wang and Robert A. Hegele
Evaluating Benefits and Harms in Intensive Care Research, Charles Weijer and Paul B. Miller
Refuting the Net Risks Test: A Response to Wendler and Miller's "Assessing Research Risks Systematically", Charles Weijer and Paul B. Miller
Submissions from 2006
Semi-automated Segmentation and Quantification of Adipose Tissue in Calf and Thigh by MRI: A Preliminary Study in Patients with Monogenic Metabolic Syndrome, Salam A. Al-Attar, Rebecca L. Pollex, John F. Robinson, Brooke A. Miskie, Rhonda Walcarius, Brian K. Rutt, and Robert A. Hegele
Tutorial in biostatistics: Analyzing associations between total plasma homocysteine and B vitamins using optimal categorization and segmented regression, Heejung Bang, Madhu Mazumdar, and J. David Spence
Bacterial Superantigens Bypass Lck-Dependent T Cell Receptor Signaling by Activating a Gα11-Dependent, PLC-β-Mediated Pathway, Clara Bueno, Caitlin D. Lemke, Gabriel Criado, Miren L. Baroja, Stephen S. G. Ferguson, A. K. M. Nur-Ur Rahman, Constantine D. Tsoukas, John K. McCormick, and Joaquin Madrenas
Error or "Act of God"? A Study of Patients' and Operating Room Team Members' Perceptions of Error Definition, Reporting, and Disclosure, Sherry Espin, Wendy Levinson, Glenn Regehr, G. Ross Baker, and Lorelei Lingard
Persistence of Unsafe Practice in Everyday Work: An Exploration of Organizational and Psychological Factors Constraining Safety in the Operating Room, S. Espin, L. Lingard, G. R. Baker, and G. Regehr
Persistence of Unsafe Practice in Everyday Work: An Exploration of Organizational and Psychological Factors Constraining Safety in the Operating Room, S. Espin, Lorelei Lingard, G. R. Baker, and G. Regehr
Obligations in Offering to Disclose Genetic Research Results, Conrad V. Fernandez and Charles Weijer
Peroxisomal Proliferator Activated Receptor-γ Deficiency in a Canadian Kindred with Familial Partial Lipodystrophy Type 3 (FPLD3), Gordon A. Francis, Gang Li, Robin Casey, Jian Wang, Henian Cao, Todd Leff, and Robert A. Hegele
Prevention of Catheter Lumen Occlusion with rT-PA versus Heparin (Pre-CLOT): Study Protocol of a Randomized Trial [ISRCTN35253449], Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Louise Moist, Rachel M. Pilkey, Charmaine Lok, Marc Dorval, Paul Y. W. Tam, Murray J. Berall, Martine LeBlanc, Edwin B. Toffelmire, Braden J. Manns, and Nairne Scott-Douglas
Using the Net Benefit Regression Framework to Construct Cost-effectiveness Acceptability Curves: An Example Using Data from a Trial of External Loop Recorders versus Holter Monitoring for Ambulatory Monitoring of "Community Acquired" Syncope, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Marie Antoinette Rockx, and Andrew D. Krahn
Making Sense of Grounded Theory in Medical Education, Tara J. T. Kennedy and Lorelei A. Lingard
Women and Pharmacologic Therapy in Rural and Remote Canada, Beverly D. Leipert, Doreen Matsui, and Michael J. Rieder
A Theory-based Instrument to Evaluate Team Communication in the Operating Room: Balancing Measurement Authenticity and Reliability, Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Sherry Espin, and Sarah Whyte
Towards Safer Interprofessional Communication: Constructing a Model of "Utility" from Preoperative Team Briefings, Lorelei Lingard, Sarah Whyte, Sherry Espin, G. Ross Baker, Beverley Orser, and Diane Doran
Dendritic Cells as Arbiters of Peritoneal Immune Responses, Michelle L. McCully and Joaquín Madrenas
Fiduciary Obligation in Clinical Research, Paul B. Miller and Charles Weijer
Trust-based Obligations of the State and Physician-researchers to Patient-subjects, Paul B. Miller and Charles Weijer
Relationship of the Metabolic Syndrome to Carotid Ultrasound Traits, Rebecca L. Pollex, Khalid Z. Al-Shali, Andrew A. House, J. David Spence, Aaron Fenster, Mary Mamakeesick, Bernard Zinman, Stewart B. Harris, Anthony J. G. Hanley, and Robert A. Hegele