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Meeting the primary care needs of communities where they are: mobile primary care clinics, test and try evaluation, Nova Scotia Canada [PDF]

BMC Primary Care
Background Primary care is crucial for reducing health disparities and enhancing population health. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing challenges for Canada in maintaining robust primary care; however, it also presented opportunities for ...
Tara Sampalli, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Jennifer Murdoch, Samantha Lavallée, Meaghan Sim, Mark Embrett, Prosper Koto, Marta MacInnis, Masoumeh Chokami, Alexis Bragman, Julia Guk, Noella Whelan, Holly Gillis, Jeff Fraser, Graeme Kohler, Sarah O’Brien, Lindsay Sutherland, JoAnne Wentzell, Helen Scott-Davidson, Kelly Silver, Matthew Murphy, Steven Carrigan   +21 more
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Evaluating a Paramedic-Led Fall-Referral Program in Nova Scotia: a Mixed-Methods Study [PDF]

Canadian Geriatrics Journal
Background Falls in older adults are a worldwide health issue, and lead to high morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Paramedics play a unique and important role in post-fall management. The objectives of this study were to measure the frequency
Luke Duignan, Izabella Opra, Alix Carter, Florence Grenapin, Scott McCulloch, Andrew Travers, Jan Jenson, Pan Andreou, Suzanne Baker, Judah Goldstein   +9 more
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Big and Little Feet Provincial Profiles: Nova Scotia [PDF]

The School of Public Policy Publications, 2017
This communiqué provides a summary of the production- and consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions accounts for Nova Scotia, as well as their associated trade flows. It is part of a series of communiqués profiling the Canadian provinces and territories.
Sarah Dobson, G. Kent Fellows
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E-prescribing and medication safety in community settings: A rapid scoping review

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2023
Background: Medication prescribing is essential for the treatment, curing, maintenance, and/or prevention of an illness and disease, however, medication errors remain common.
Christine E. Cassidy, Leah Boulos, Erin McConnell, Brittany Barber, Alannah Delahunty-Pike, Andrea Bishop, Nawal Fatima, Amanda Higgins, Megan Churchill, Allison Lively, Shannon P. MacPhee, Ruth Martin Misener, Rowan Sarty, Robert Wells, Janet A. Curran   +14 more
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Exploring the genesis and praxis of restorative justice in Nova Scotia, Canada

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2022
Nova Scotia has seen the most systematic growth of restorative justice (RJ) in Canada. Initially moving from a pilot RJ phase to province-wide implementation for young offenders, a similar model was used to implement RJ for adult offenders.
Dr. Muhammad Asadullah
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Incidence and Predictors of Outcome in the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis with Drug-Eluting Balloons, a Real-Life Single-Centre Study

Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 2022
Objectives. To determine the one-year and five-year occurrence and prognosticators of major adverse cardiac events (MACE: composition of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, target vessel revascularization, and vessel thrombosis), mortality, and ...
Kyle Murnaghan, Helen Bishop, Navjot Sandila, Bakhtiar Kidwai, Lawrence Title, Ata Ur Rehman Quraishi, Catherine Kells, Hussein Beydoun, Osama Elkhateeb   +8 more
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Urban-Rural Differences in Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study

CJC Open, 2022
Background: Approximately 10% of people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) treated by paramedics survive to hospital discharge. Survival differs by up to 19.2% between urban centres and rural areas.
Michael S. Connolly, BSc, Judah P. Goldstein, PCP, PhD, Margaret Currie, Alix J.E. Carter, MPH, MD, Steve P. Doucette, MSc, Karen Giddens, RDMS, RDCS, Katherine S. Allan, PhD, Andrew H. Travers, MSc, MD, Beau Ahrens, MSc, Daniel Rainham, PhD, John L. Sapp, MD   +10 more
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Patient perspectives on primary care for multimorbidity: An integrative review

Health Expectations, 2022
Introduction Improving healthcare for people with multiple chronic or ongoing conditions is receiving increased attention, particularly due to the growing number of people experiencing multimorbidity (MM) and concerns about the sustainability of the ...
Elaine Moody, Ruth Martin‐Misener, Larry Baxter, Leah Boulos, Fred Burge, Erin Christian, Brian Condran, Adrian MacKenzie, Elizabeth Michael, Tanya Packer, Kylie Peacock, Tara Sampalli, Grace Warner   +12 more
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Factors contributing to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on a mixed medical-surgical unit in a Canadian acute-care hospital

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
Objective: To identify preventable factors that contribute to the cross transmission of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to patients in healthcare facilities.
Megan K. McCallum, Glenn Patriquin, Ian R.C. Davis, Tammy MacDonald, Daniel Gaston, Jason J. LeBlanc, Yahya Shabi, B. Lynn Johnston   +7 more
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Improving stroke care in Nova Scotia, Canada: a population-based project spanning 14 years

BMJ Open Quality, 2021
Stroke is a complex disorder that challenges healthcare systems. An audit of in-hospital stroke care in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2004–2005 indicated that many aspects of care delivery fell short of national best practice recommendations ...
Jennifer Payne, Wendy Simpkin, Stephen James Phillips, Allison Stevens, Huiling Cao, Neala Gill   +5 more
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