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    Describing the content of trial recruitment interventions using the TIDieR reporting checklist: a systematic methodology review

    Recruiting participants to clinical trials is an ongoing challenge, and relatively little is known about what recruitment strategies lead to better recruitment. Recruitment interventions can be considered comp...

    Natasha Hudek, Kelly Carroll, Seana Semchishen in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2024)

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    Youth and family involvement in the development of a plain language trial results communication tool: CommuniKIDS

    Pediatric trials are possible through voluntary participation of children, youth (age ≤ 18 years), and their families. Despite important arguments for trialists to provide trial progress or results, and eviden...

    Ami Baba, Dawn P. Richards, Maureen Smith in Research Involvement and Engagement (2023)

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    A pediatric virtual care evaluation framework and its evolution using consensus methods

    The use of virtual care has increased dramatically in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet evidence is lacking regarding the impact of virtual care on patient outcomes, particularly in pediatrics. A standard...

    Catherine Dulude, Stephanie Sutherland, Shelley Vanderhout, W. James King in BMC Pediatrics (2023)

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    Ethical and practical considerations related to data sharing when collecting patient-reported outcomes in care-based child health research

    The collection and use of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in care-based child health research raises challenging ethical and logistical questions. This paper offers an analysis of two questions related to PRO...

    Shelley Vanderhout, Beth K. Potter, Maureen Smith in Quality of Life Research (2023)

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    Facilitating and supporting the engagement of patients, families and caregivers in research: the “Ottawa model” for patient engagement in research

    Patient engagement is increasingly being recognized as a critical component of health research; however, institutional models for building infrastructure and capacity for patient engagement in research are lim...

    Shelley Vanderhout, Stuart Nicholls, Zarah Monfaredi in Research Involvement and Engagement (2022)

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    Delay in childhood vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic

    In many jurisdictions, routine medical care was reduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study was to determine whether the frequency of on-time routine childhood vaccinations among ...

    Da In Diane Lee, Shelley Vanderhout, Mary Aglipay in Canadian Journal of Public Health (2022)

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    Automated Self-Administered 24-H Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24) recalls for parent proxy-reporting of children’s intake (> 4 years of age): a feasibility study

    Robust measurement of dietary intake in population studies of children is critical to better understand the diet–health nexus. It is unknown whether parent proxy-report of children’s dietary intake through onl...

    Isobel Sharpe, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Brendan T. Smith in Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2021)