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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Hypertension Canada guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in adults in primary care Clinical practice guideline for management of osteoporosis and fracture prevention in Canada: ...

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 ...

Who should be screened for infection? Opportunistic screening is critical in identifying asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends ...

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 ...