Guideline development. We developed this guideline in accordance with the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument18 and the ADAPTE framework19 for guideline ...

Scope. Based on the results of a broad survey of practising physicians in Canada conducted as part of our needs assessment (Appendix 1), the Canadian Men’s Health Foundation provided support and ...

Bell palsy is an idiopathic weakness or paralysis of the face of peripheral nerve origin, with acute onset. It affects 20–30 persons per 100 000 annually, and 1 in 60 individuals will be affected over ...

BACKGROUND: Prognostication tools that report personalized mortality risk and survival could improve discussions about end-of-life and advance care planning. We sought to develop and validate a ...

Background: Cancer surveillance data are essential to help understand where gaps exist and progress is being made in cancer control. We sought to summarize the expected impact of cancer in Canada in ...

Model overview. We developed an age-structured compartmental model that describes COVID-19 transmission in the province of Ontario, Canada. We used a modified “susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered ...

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Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are common during pregnancy and are associated with adverse outcomes. Prenatal iron deficiency occurs in more than 30% of pregnancies in Canada.1 It has been ...

Background Innovative models of collaborative palliative care are urgently needed to meet gaps in end-of-life care among people with heart failure. We sought to determine whether regionally organized, ...

Background: The speed of vaccine development has been a singular achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic, although uptake has not been universal. Vaccine opponents often frame their opposition in ...

In Figure 2, the unadjusted trendline (bottom) shows that average hours of work declined by 21.6%, from 49.1 hours per week in 1987 to 38.5 hours per week in 2020.When excluding whole week absences, ...

Background: London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) launched a safer opioid supply (SOS) program in 2016, where clients are prescribed pharmaceutical opioids and provided with comprehensive health ...