Published in Can Fam Physician on February 01, 2009
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Grand challenges in global health: engaging civil society organizations in biomedical research in developing countries. PLoS Med (2007) 1.68
Evidence-based medicine in primary care: qualitative study of family physicians. BMC Fam Pract (2003) 1.65
Psychosocial effects of SARS on hospital staff: survey of a large tertiary care institution. CMAJ (2004) 1.51
How applicable are clinical practice guidelines to elderly patients with comorbidities? Can Fam Physician (2011) 1.51
Grand challenges in global health: ethical, social, and cultural issues based on key informant perspectives. PLoS Med (2007) 1.50
Croup hospitalizations in Ontario: a 14-year time-series analysis. Pediatrics (2005) 1.49
MedsCheck: an opportunity missed. CMAJ (2008) 1.40
Chaperone use during intimate examinations in primary care: postal survey of family physicians. BMC Fam Pract (2005) 1.39
SARS and hospital priority setting: a qualitative case study and evaluation. BMC Health Serv Res (2004) 1.33
Influenza and pneumonia hospitalizations in Ontario: a time-series analysis. Epidemiol Infect (2004) 1.30
The IMPACT clinic: innovative model of interprofessional primary care for elderly patients with complex health care needs. Can Fam Physician (2013) 1.28
From clinical observation to clinical discovery: the challenge for family medicine research. Can Fam Physician (2014) 1.19
'Relief of oppression': an organizing principle for researchers' obligations to participants in observational studies in the developing world. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.19
Family physicians' attitudes toward education in research skills during residency: findings from a national mailed survey. Can Fam Physician (2008) 1.16
Trends in health services utilization, medication use, and health conditions among older adults: a 2-year retrospective chart review in a primary care practice. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 1.15
Critical reflections on evidence, ethics and effectiveness in the management of tuberculosis: public health and global perspectives. BMC Med Ethics (2004) 1.14
A prospective study of physician-observed concussions during junior ice hockey: implications for incidence rates. Neurosurg Focus (2010) 1.14
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The seasonality of total hospitalizations in Ontario by age and gender: a time series analysis. Can J Public Health (2003) 1.04
Patients' perspectives on taking warfarin: qualitative study in family practice. BMC Fam Pract (2004) 1.03
Seasonality of primary care utilization for respiratory diseases in Ontario: a time-series analysis. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 1.02
A population-based cohort study of ambulatory care service utilization among older adults. J Eval Clin Pract (2010) 1.01
Return to play after an initial or recurrent concussion in a prospective study of physician-observed junior ice hockey concussions: implications for return to play after a concussion. Neurosurg Focus (2010) 0.99
Warfarin therapy and risk of hip fracture among elderly patients. Pharmacotherapy (2003) 0.98
Long term benzodiazepine use for insomnia in patients over the age of 60: discordance of patient and physician perceptions. BMC Fam Pract (2002) 0.97
The assessment and treatment of a complex geriatric patient by an interprofessional primary care team. BMJ Case Rep (2011) 0.96
A qualitative study of the duty to care in communicable disease outbreaks. Soc Sci Med (2007) 0.96
Mortality of elderly patients in Ontario after hospital admission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Can Respir J (2007) 0.96
Feasibility of a patient decision aid regarding disclosure of personal health information: qualitative evaluation of the Health Care Information Directive. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2004) 0.94
Anesthesia, ethics, and severe acute respiratory syndrome. Can J Anaesth (2003) 0.94
Therapeutic benefit of preventive telehealth counseling in the Community Outreach Heart Health and Risk Reduction Trial. Am J Cardiol (2011) 0.93
The nexus of evidence, context, and patient preferences in primary care: postal survey of Canadian family physicians. BMC Fam Pract (2003) 0.93
Oral vitamin B12 therapy in the primary care setting: a qualitative and quantitative study of patient perspectives. BMC Fam Pract (2005) 0.93
Hepatitis B virus infected physicians and disclosure of transmission risks to patients: a critical analysis. BMC Med Ethics (2001) 0.92
Contextual factors in clinical decision making: national survey of Canadian family physicians. Can Fam Physician (2005) 0.90
Dual loyalty of physicians in the military and in civilian life. Am J Public Health (2008) 0.89
Is there a clinically significant gender bias in post-myocardial infarction pharmacological management in the older (>60) population of a primary care practice? BMC Fam Pract (2002) 0.89
Measuring change in health status of older adults at the population level: the transition probability model. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 0.88
Access and use of human tissues from the developing world: ethical challenges and a way forward using a tissue trust. BMC Med Ethics (2011) 0.88
A prospective study of concussion education in 2 junior ice hockey teams: implications for sports concussion education. Neurosurg Focus (2010) 0.87
Primary care physicians' attitudes towards cognitive screening: findings from a national postal survey. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry (2010) 0.87
Avian influenza and pandemics. N Engl J Med (2005) 0.86
The formal and informal surgical ethics curriculum: views of resident and staff surgeons in Toronto. Am J Surg (2011) 0.84
Survival with tiotropium compared to long-acting Beta-2-agonists in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. COPD (2008) 0.84
Philosophy, ethics, medicine and health care: the urgent need for critical practice. J Eval Clin Pract (2010) 0.83
Utilization patterns of diagnostic imaging across the late life course: a population-based study in Ontario, Canada. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (2008) 0.83
Men on the margin: a Bourdieusian examination of living into adulthood with muscular dystrophy. Soc Sci Med (2007) 0.83
Lack of chart reminder effectiveness on family medicine resident JNC-VI and NCEP III guideline knowledge and attitudes. BMC Fam Pract (2004) 0.82
Ethics and chronic disease: where are the bioethicists? Bioethics (2012) 0.82
Temporal analysis of acute myocardial infarction in Ontario, Canada. Can J Cardiol (2005) 0.82
The medical chaperone: outdated anachronism or modern necessity? South Med J (2008) 0.82
Spatio-temporal analysis of pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada. Geospat Health (2008) 0.82
Osteoporosis prescribing trends in primary care: a population-based retrospective cohort study. Prim Health Care Res Dev (2012) 0.82
Still dizzy after all these years: a 90-year-old woman with a 54-year history of dizziness. BMJ Case Rep (2011) 0.82
Public perceptions of quarantine: community-based telephone survey following an infectious disease outbreak. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.82
Addressing ethical, social, and cultural issues in global health research. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 0.81
Evidence and effectiveness in decisionmaking for quarantine. Am J Public Health (2007) 0.81
Does socioeconomic status affect mortality subsequent to hospital admission for community acquired pneumonia among older persons? J Negat Results Biomed (2005) 0.81
Framework for bioethical assessment of an article on therapy. J Neurosurg (2003) 0.81
Explanation, understanding, objectivity and experience. J Eval Clin Pract (2013) 0.79
Empirical bioethics research in the developing world: when the 'is' is close to an 'ought'. Am J Bioeth (2009) 0.79
Canadian national surveys on pandemic influenza preparations: pre-pandemic and peri-pandemic findings. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.79
Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 0.79
Medical characteristics of the oldest old: retrospective chart review of patients aged 85+ in an academic primary care centre. BMC Res Notes (2014) 0.78
Contextualizing ethics: ventilators, H1N1 and marginalized populations. Healthc Q (2010) 0.78
Disadvantaging the disadvantaged: When public health policies and practices negatively affect marginalized populations. Can J Public Health (2013) 0.77
Virtue, progress and practice. J Eval Clin Pract (2011) 0.77
Comorbidity in very old adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Am Geriatr Soc (2013) 0.76
Sources of evidence in HIV/AIDS care: pilot study comparing family physicians and AIDS service organization staff. BMC Health Serv Res (2004) 0.76
Restrictive measures in an influenza pandemic: a qualitative study of public perspectives. Can J Public Health (2012) 0.76
Medication regimens. CMAJ (2012) 0.75
Time series analysis of age related cataract hospitalizations and phacoemulsification. BMC Ophthalmol (2006) 0.75
Doctors must be trained to assess credibility. CMAJ (2014) 0.75
A randomised comparison of the effect of three patient information leaflet models on older patients' treatment intentions. Br J Gen Pract (2002) 0.75
Philosophy, medicine and health care - where we have come from and where we are going. J Eval Clin Pract (2014) 0.75
Are there different spheres of conscience? J Eval Clin Pract (2010) 0.75
Reason and value: making reasoning fit for practice. J Eval Clin Pract (2012) 0.75
The duty to care in an influenza pandemic: a qualitative study of Canadian public perspectives. Soc Sci Med (2012) 0.75
Historical thinking in clinical medicine: lessons from R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history. J Eval Clin Pract (2015) 0.75