Search Results - "Rosychuk, R. J."

An examination of five spatial disease clustering methodologies for the identification of childhood cancer clusters in Alberta, Canada by Torabi, M, Rosychuk, R J

“…Cluster detection is an important part of spatial epidemiology because it may help suggest potential factors associated with disease and thus, guide further…”
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Circumstances Surrounding End of Life in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit by Garros, Daniel, Rosychuk, Rhonda J, Cox, Peter N

“…Approximately 60% of deaths in pediatric intensive care units follow limitation or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (LST). We aimed to describe the…”
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A review of general hepatitis C virus lookbacks in Canada by Bowker, S. L., Smith, L. J., Rosychuk, R. J., Preiksaitis, J. K.

“…Background and Objectives  This article reviews the Canadian experience with general hepatitis C virus (HCV) lookback programmes. Materials and Methods …”
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Comparison of variance estimation approaches in a two-state Markov model for longitudinal data with misclassification by Rosychuk, R. J., Sheng, X., Stuber, J. L.

“…We examine the behaviour of the variance–covariance parameter estimates in an alternating binary Markov model with misclassification. Transition probabilities…”
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Development of a Clinical Static and Dynamic Standing Balance Measurement Tool Appropriate for Use in Adolescents by Emery, Carolyn A, Cassidy, J David, Klassen, Terry P, Rosychuk, Rhonda J, Rowe, Brian B

“…There is a need in sports medicine for a static and dynamic standing balance measure to quantify balance ability in adolescents. The purposes of this study…”
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(2) EFFECTIVENESS OF A PROPRIOCEPTIVE BALANCE TRAINING PROGRAM IN HEALTHY ADOLESCENTS: A CLUSTER RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL by Emery, C. A., Cassidy, J. D., Klassen, T. P., Rosychuk, R. J., Rowe, B. H.

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Medical students and pandemic influenza by Herman, Benjamin, Rosychuk, Rhonda J, Bailey, Tracey, Lake, Robert, Yonge, Olive, Marrie, Thomas J

“…To assess knowledge of pandemic influenza, we administered a questionnaire to all medical students at the University of Alberta; 354 (69%) of 510 students…”
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Effectiveness of a home-based balance-training program in reducing sports-related injuries among healthy adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled trial by Emery, Carolyn A, Cassidy, J David, Klassen, Terry P, Rosychuk, Rhonda J, Rowe, Brian H

“…Sport is the leading cause of injury requiring medical attention among adolescents. We studied the effectiveness of a home-based balance-training program using…”
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A randomised controlled pilot trial evaluating feasibility and acceptability of a computer-based tool to identify and reduce harmful and hazardous drinking among adolescents with alcohol-related presentations in Canadian pediatric emergency departments by Newton, Amanda S, Dow, Nadia, Dong, Kathryn, Fitzpatrick, Eleanor, Cameron Wild, T, Johnson, David W, Ali, Samina, Colman, Ian, Rosychuk, Rhonda J

“…ObjectiveThis study piloted procedures and obtained data on intervention acceptability to determine the feasibility of a definitive randomised controlled trial…”
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Spatial Event Cluster Detection Using a Compound Poisson Distribution by Rosychuk, Rhonda J, Huston, Carolyn, Prasad, Narasimha G. N

“…Geographic disease surveillance methods identify regions that have higher disease rates than expected. These approaches are generally applied to incident or…”
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Bias correction of two-state latent Markov process parameter estimates under misclassification by Rosychuk, Rhonda J., Thompson, Mary E.

“…A discretely observed two‐state process may misclassify the state of an unobservable continuous‐time, two‐state Markov process. We examine the behaviour of…”
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The safety and use of short-acting nifedipine in hospitalized hypertensive children by Yiu, Verna, Orrbine, Elaine, Rosychuk, Rhonda J, MacLaine, Peter, Goodyer, Paul, Girardin, Colette, Gowrishankar, Manjula, Ogborn, Malcolm, Midgley, Julian, Filler, Guido, Harley, Frances

“…Recent reports suggest that calcium channel blockers are harmful in the treatment of acute hypertension in adults. However, short-acting nifedipine is an…”
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A semi-Markov model for binary longitudinal responses subject to misclassification by Rosychuk, Rhonda J., Thompson, Mary E.

“…The authors propose a two-state continuous-time semi-Markov model for an unobservable alternating binary process. Another process is observed at discrete time…”
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