Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Department of Veterinary Anatomy Physiology and Pathology, Institute of Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Chester High Rd, Neston CH64 7TE, UK.
Laboratory of Bioanalysis, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Drug Analysis and Radiopharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszyńskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland; Department of Applied Pharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszyńskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland.
Although chronic pain (CP) is common, little is known about its economic burden in Alberta, Canada....
To estimate incremental (as compared to the general population or people without CP) societal (healthcare and lost productivity) costs of CP in Alberta....
We applied the prevalence estimated from the Canadian Community Health Survey data to the population retrieved from the Statistics Canada to estimate the number of people with CP in Alberta in 2019. W...
The prevalence of any CP was 20.1% and of activity-preventing CP was 14.5% among people aged > = 12 years. Incremental cost per person with CP per year was CA$2,217 for healthcare services (among peop...
Interventions improving CP prevention and management to reduce this substantial economic burden are urgently needed....
Because farming is a physically demanding occupation, farmers may be susceptible to developing osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of this study was to determine the risk of developing OA in Canadian farm, n...
A retrospective cohort study of five Alberta health administrative databases examined the risk of developing OA among three groups: farm (n=143 431), non-farm rural (n=143 431) and urban (n=143 431) r...
A total of 26 957 OA cases were identified among 1 706 256 person-years (PYs) in the farm cohort. The crude incidence rate of OA over a period of 21 years ranged from 19.1 (95% confidence interval (CI...
When accounting for age and sex, farm and non-farm rural residents have a higher risk of developing OA as compared to the urban population. The higher mortality-adjusted lifetime risk of developing OA...
Little is known about immunization coverage among kindergarten-aged children in jurisdictions that do not require children's immunization records to be provided at school entry. Thus, we assessed immu...
This retrospective cohort study used population-based administrative health data for childhood vaccines in Alberta, Canada. We categorized and compared immunization status of children as follows: (a) ...
Immunization coverage for the complete vaccine series for children (N = 41,515) at kindergarten entry was suboptimal (44.5%, 95% CI 44.0-45.0) and substantially lower than for children at the end of g...
Immunization coverage at kindergarten entry was strikingly low. Risk factors for incomplete immunization status were identified that require particular attention when addressing immunization coverage....
Poststroke visual impairment (VI) negatively affects rehabilitation potential and quality of life for stroke survivors. In this cross-sectional observational study, stroke survivors and providers were...
The Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) is a standardized tool for assessing gross motor development from birth through independent walking (0-18 months). The AIMS was developed, validated and standardi...
The research involved 431 infants (219 girls, 212 boys, aged 0-<19 months), divided into nineteen age groups. The translated into Polish and validated version of the AIMS was used. The mean AIMS total...
The mean AIMS total scores in the Polish population were significantly lower in the seven age groups: 0-<1, 1-<2, 4-<5, 5-<6, 6-<7, 13-<14, and 15-<16 months of age (with small to large effect size). ...
Our study provides the norms for the Polish AIMS version. According to differences in the mean AIMS total scores and percentiles, the original Canadian reference values are not congruent for Polish in...
ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05264064. URL https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05264064 . Date of registration: 03/03/2022....
Very little is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the health of residents and the healthcare system in Alberta, Canada. The purpose of this study is to establish an observational study...
This is a population-level provincial observational study which will follow-up with Alberta residents who underwent testing for COVID-19 and completed surveys adapted from the ISARIC COVID-19 long-ter...
This study was reviewed and approved by the University of Alberta ethics committee (Study ID: Pro00112053 & Pro00113039) on 13 August 2021 and adheres to the Alberta Health Services research informati...
6 June 2022 EUROQOL ID: 161 015....
LDL-C, a cardiovascular disease risk assessment biomarker, is commonly calculated using the Friedewald equation. The NIH equation overcomes several limitations of the Friedewald equation. Consistent w...
1-year (01/01/2021-12/31/2021) of lipid results (n = 1,486,584 after data cleaning) were obtained from five analytical instrument groups used across Alberta. Analyses were performed on all data and af...
Friedewald- and NIH-calculated LDL-C exhibit the strongest correlation when triglycerides ≤ 4.52 mmol/L. The difference between Friedewald- and NIH-calculated LDL-C increases with decreasing LDL-C con...
Our findings demonstrate the benefits of implementing the NIH equation across Alberta....
Data on the incidence and characteristics of stillbirths attributed to congenital syphilis were collected....
We extracted data on stillbirths in the Edmonton Zone on January 1, 2015, through June 30, 2021, born to persons diagnosed with infectious syphilis (primary, secondary, early latent, or early neurosyp...
Of 314 infants documented to be exposed to infectious syphilis during gestation, 16 (5.1%) were stillborn. Three of the 16 females with stillbirths were diagnosed with syphilis during pregnancy but no...
Stillbirths due to congenital syphilis were all due to failure to treat syphilis in pregnancy. Innovative strategies to prevent syphilis in the community and to reach those experiencing barriers to ca...
Triage is the process of identifying patients with both the greatest clinical need and the greatest likelihood of benefit in the setting of limited clinical resources. The primary objective of this st...
Data from the Alberta Trauma Registry (ATR) was used to assess seven triage tools: START, JumpSTART, SALT, RAMP, MPTT, BCD and MITT. Clinical data captured in the ATR was used to determine which triag...
Of the 9448 records that were captured 8652 were included in our analysis. The most sensitive triage tool was MPTT, which demonstrated a sensitivity of 0.76 (0.75, 0.78). Four of the seven triage tool...
There was a wide range in the sensitivity of triage tools to identify patients requiring urgent lifesaving interventions. MPTT, BCD and MITT were the most sensitive triage tools assessed. All of the t...
To describe and quantify independent prescribing of oncology pharmacists working in adult, ambulatory cancer centers in Alberta, Canada....
A retrospective chart review of oncology pharmacists prescribing in the electronic health record, ARIA...
Over 6 months, 3474 prescriptions were ordered by 33 clinically deployed pharmacists. The median number of medications prescribed was 7 per month (interquartile range: 1.50-27.00; Range: 0.17-79.5). W...
Oncology pharmacists utilize their independent prescribing to initiate and continue supportive care medications for cancer patients. The prescribing volume varied greatly among pharmacists. Opportunit...
