Background: The World Health Organization recognizes 5 groups of pulmonary hypertension
(PH), categorized by pathogenesis or comorbidity: 1-pulmonary arterial hypertension 2-left-…

Objectives To determine hospital incidence, mortality, and management for thoracic aortic
dissections and aneurysms. Methods A population-based retrospective cohort study of …

Objectives: This study describes the development of a framework for health technology
decisions, for Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC) in Ontario, Canada.…

Objective To assess the efficacy of a programme of supervised physiotherapy on the
recovery of simple grade 1 and 2 ankle sprains. Design A randomised controlled trial of 503 …

… No competing interests declared by Yan Xu, Anne Holbrook and Ana Johnson. … Yan Xu
and Ana Johnson acquired the data. Yan Xu was involved in data analysis, and all authors …

Objective: Procalcitonin may be associated with reduced antibiotic usage compared to
usual care. However, individual randomized controlled trials testing this hypothesis were too …

Background The “obesity paradox” reflects an observed relationship between obesity and
decreased morbidity and mortality, suggesting improved health outcomes for obese individuals…

... Producers' cooperatives, which do involve workers significantly in management, have re-peatedly
been proved both economically and socially an inappropriate vehicle for workers' …

Background Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have expanded the armamentarium for
antithrombotic therapy. Although DOAC-related major bleeding was associated with favorable …

The reported prevalence of neuropathic pain ranges from 6.9% to 10%; however the only
Canadian study reported 17.9%. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology …