Background: Hip fractures occur in 280,000 North Americans each year. Although surgeons
have reached consensus with regard to the treatment of undisplaced fractures of the hip, the …

Background: Low response rates among surgeons can threaten the validity of surveys.
Internet technologies may reduce the time, effort, and financial resources needed to conduct …

Background Starting in the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry sought to increase
prescribing of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. Influencing the content of clinical practice …

Background Opioid related overdoses and overdose deaths continue to constitute an urgent
public health crisis. The implementation of naloxone programs, such as ‘take-home …

Study design We conducted an observational cross-sectional study to examine the prevalence
of psychological symptoms among orthopedic trauma patients and the association of …

Even the best-designed, randomized controlled trials suffer when patients are lost to follow-up.
Incomplete follow-up biases the results of a trial when patients who drop out are different …

… Devereaux b , Pamela Leece d , Sohail Bajammal e , Diane Heels-Ansdell b , Jason W. …
We considered a P-value <0.05 statistically significant. The data were analyzed using SPSS (IBM…

In this paper, we claim that we can only seek to eradicate the stigma associated with the
contemporary opioid overdose epidemic when we understand how opioid stigma and the …

… Patients of frequent prescribers had a slightly higher prevalence of HIV although not
statistically significant (n=50, 15.5%, p=0.11) and were more likely to have received palliative care …

The legalization of non-medical cannabis use and supply is impending in Canada. This
constitutes a major policy change with the declared objective of improving public health …