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Mental health sequelae in survivors of cardiogenic shock complicating myocardial infarction. A population-based cohort study
Cardiogenic shock secondary to acute myocardial infarction (AMI-CS) is associated with substantial short- and long-term morbidity and mortality. However, there are limited data on mental health sequelae that s...
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Open AccessAscertaining the Francophone population in Ontario: validating the language variable in health data
Language barriers can impact health care and outcomes. Valid and reliable language data is central to studying health inequalities in linguistic minorities. In Canada, language variables are available in admin...
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Open AccessWhat are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?
The prioritization protocols for accessing adult critical care in the extreme pandemic context contain tiebreaker criteria to facilitate decision-making in the allocation of resources between patients with a s...
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Open AccessStudy protocol for the development and validation of a clinical prediction tool to estimate the risk of 1-year mortality among hospitalized patients with dementia
Patients with dementia and their caregivers could benefit from advance care planning though may not be having these discussions in a timely manner or at all. A prognostic tool could serve as a prompt to health...
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Open AccessPrevalence and patterns of multimorbidity among linguistic groups of patients receiving home care in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study
Prior studies have demonstrated the negative impact of language barriers on access, quality, and safety of healthcare, which can lead to health disparities in linguistic minorities. As the population ages, tho...
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Association between non-medical cannabis legalization and emergency department visits for cannabis-induced psychosis
A major public health concern of cannabis legalization is that it may result in an increase in psychotic disorders. We examined changes in emergency department (ED) visits for cannabis-induced psychosis follow...
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Open AccessIdentifying predictors of cognitive decline in long-term care: a sco** review
Cognitive impairment can cause social, emotional, and financial burdens on individuals, caregivers, and healthcare providers. This is especially important in settings such as long-term care (LTC) homes which l...
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Open AccessIntensity of end-of-life care among children with life-threatening conditions: a national population-based observational study
Children with life-threatening conditions frequently experience high intensity care at the end of life, though most of this research only focused on children with cancer. Some research suggests inequities in c...
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Changes in health service use due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with and individuals without pre-existing alcohol-related medical diagnoses
To compare changes in outpatient and acute care visits due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic between individuals with and those without a history of alcohol-related health service use (AHSU).
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Open AccessImproving social justice in observational studies: protocol for the development of a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline
Addressing persistent and pervasive health inequities is a global moral imperative, which has been highlighted and magnified by the societal and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Observational studies c...
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Open AccessInitial treatment is associated with improved survival and end-of-life outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer: a cohort study
We describe the association between initial treatment and end-of-life (EOL) outcomes among patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
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Open AccessCaring for older men and women: whose caregivers are more distressed? A population-based retrospective cohort study
To our knowledge, no population-based studies have examined whether family or friend caregivers of men and women differ in their experience of distress over time. Thus, we aimed to describe, on a population-le...
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Open AccessCharacteristics and resource utilization of high-cost users in the intensive care unit: a population-based cohort study
Healthcare expenditure within the intensive care unit (ICU) is costly. A cost reduction strategy may be to target patients accounting for a disproportionate amount of healthcare spending, or high-cost users. T...
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Open AccessChanges in the dollar value of per capita alcohol, essential, and non-essential retail sales in Canada during COVID-19
Multiple survey reports suggest that alcohol use has increased in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, less is known about how per capita alcohol sales, which predict population-level alcohol use, hav...
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Places of death and places of care for Indigenous Peoples in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study
Most people, including Indigenous people in Ontario, wish to die in their communities. How often Indigenous people in Ontario die in their preferred settings is unknown. This study aims to describe the places ...
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Open AccessThe association between varying levels of palliative care involvement on costs during terminal hospitalizations in Canada from 2012 to 2015
Inpatient palliative care is associated with lower inpatient costs; however, this has yet to be studied using a more nuanced, multi-tiered measure of inpatient palliative care and a national population-represe...
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Open AccessDescribing the characteristics and healthcare use of high-cost acute care users at the end of life: a pan-Canadian population-based study
A minority of individuals use a large portion of health system resources, incurring considerable costs, especially in acute-care hospitals where a significant proportion of deaths occur. We sought to describe ...
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Open AccessThe impact of dementia and language on hospitalizations: a retrospective cohort of long-term care residents
Hospitalizations carry considerable risks for frail, elderly patients; this is especially true for patients with dementia, who are more likely to experience delirium, falls, functional decline, iatrogenic comp...
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Avoidable Mortality Rates Decrease but Inequity Gaps Widen for Marginalized Neighborhoods: A Population-Based Analysis in Ontario, Canada from 1993 to 2014
Avoidable mortality (AM) is a health indicator used to examine trends in avoidable deaths amenable to public health and medical interventions. AM is more likely amongst marginalized populations. Our objective ...
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Open AccessSevere pain at the end of life: a population-level observational study
Pain is a prevalent symptom at the end of life and negatively impacts quality of life. Despite this, little population level data exist that describe pain frequency and associated factors at the end of life. T...
