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Clients’ experiences on North America’s first take-home injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) program: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background To support public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, oral opioid agonist treatment (OAT) take-home doses were expanded in Western countries with positive results. Injectable OAT (iOAT) take-home doses were previously not an eligible
Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, Sophia Dobischok, José Carvajal, Scott MacDonald, Cheryl McDermid, Piotr Klakowicz, Scott Harrison, Julie LaJeunesse, Nancy Chow, Murray Brown, Sam Gill, Martin Schechter   +11 more
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Use of sustained release dextroamphetamine for the treatment of stimulant use disorder in the setting of injectable opioid agonist treatment in Canada: a case report

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background For people with opioid use disorder who are not responding to oral opioid agonist treatment, evidence supports the effectiveness of injectable opioid agonist treatment with injectable hydromorphone (an opioid analgesic) and diacetylmorphine ...
Heather Palis, Scott MacDonald, Jennifer Jun, Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes   +3 more
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Outcome‐based evaluation [PDF]

Library Hi Tech, 2003
Outcome‐based evaluation is increasingly used for digital library projects. The point of outcome‐based evaluation is to establish a project’s effectiveness with its target audience. Although many small‐scale human‐oriented project outcomes do not readily lend themselves to survey or statistical analysis, other research methods can be used to evaluate ...
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Men’s and women’s response to treatment and perceptions of outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of injectable opioid assisted treatment for severe opioid use disorder

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2017
Background To test whether there are gender differences in treatment outcomes among patients receiving injectable opioids for the treatment of long-term opioid-dependence.
Heather Palis, Kirsten Marchand, Daphne Guh, Suzanne Brissette, Kurt Lock, Scott MacDonald, Scott Harrison, Aslam H. Anis, Michael Krausz, David C. Marsh, Martin T. Schechter, Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes   +11 more
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Building capacity for implementation—the KT Challenge

Implementation Science Communications, 2021
Background The KT Challenge program supports health care professionals to effectively implement evidence-based practices. Unlike other knowledge translation (KT) programs, this program is grounded in capacity building, focuses on health care ...
Agnes T. Black, Marla Steinberg, Amanda E. Chisholm, Kristi Coldwell, Alison M. Hoens, Jiak Chin Koh, Allana LeBlanc, Martha Mackay, Amy Salmon, M. Elizabeth Snow   +9 more
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Co-production of randomized clinical trials with patients: a case study in autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant for patients with scleroderma

Trials, 2021
Background Increasingly, it is argued that clinical trials struggle to recruit participants because they do not respond to key questions or study treatments that patients will be willing or able to use.
Magda Aguiar, Tracey-Lea Laba, Sarah Munro, Tiasha Burch, Jennifer Beckett, K. Julia Kaal, Nick Bansback, Marie Hudson, Mark Harrison   +8 more
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Treatment Discontinuation and Clinical Events in Type 2 Diabetes Patients Treated with Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors or NPH Insulin as Third-Line Therapy

Journal of Diabetes Research, 2018
Objective. To compare dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors with neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin, in terms of effectiveness and safety for the management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) not controlled on metformin and ...
Cristiano S. Moura, Zale B. Rosenberg, Michal Abrahamowicz, Sasha Bernatsky, Hassan Behlouli, Louise Pilote   +5 more
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Access to reperfusion therapy and mortality outcomes in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction under universal health coverage in Thailand

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020
Background Evidence on access to reperfusion therapy for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and associated mortality in developing countries is scarce.
Chulaporn Limwattananon, Jiraphan Jaratpatthararoj, Jutatip Thungthong, Phumtham Limwattananon, Amnat Kitkhuandee   +4 more
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Control of Line Complications with KiteLock (CLiCK) in the critical care unit: study protocol for a multi-center, cluster-randomized, double-blinded, crossover trial investigating the effect of a novel locking fluid on central line complications in the critical care population

Trials, 2022
Background Insertion of a central venous access device (CVAD) allows clinicians to easily access the circulation of a patient to administer life-saving interventions.
Marlena Ornowska, Hubert Wong, Yongdong Ouyang, Anish Mitra, Aaron White, Sue Willems, Jessica Wittmann, Steven Reynolds   +7 more
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Valuation of Lost Productivity in Caregivers: A Validation Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
ObjectiveThis study aimed to: (a) adapt the previously validated Valuation of Lost Productivity (VOLP) questionnaire for people with health problems, to a caregiver version to measure productivity losses associated with caregiving responsibilities, and ...
Aaron Gelfand, Julie Sou, Rick Sawatzky, Rick Sawatzky, Katrina Prescott, Alison Pearce, Aslam H. Anis, Aslam H. Anis, Christine Lee, Christine Lee, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang   +11 more
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