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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: What is the Role of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Audiologists, Nurses and Speech Language Pathologists According to Academic Literature and Canadian Newspaper Coverage?
(Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 2020-01-20)Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) increasingly influences products and processes used by social workers, occupational therapists, audiologists, nurses and speech language pathologists (health professionals ... -
Comparing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients with non-cancer and cancer diagnoses in a tertiary palliative care setting
(Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, Critical Care Medicine, Family Medicine, Medicine, Oncology, University of Calgary, 2019-11-27)OBJECTIVE: The purpose was to describe the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients with non-cancer serious illness diagnoses compared to those of patients with cancer. METHOD: We conducted a ... -
Description of Continuous Palliative Sedation Practices in a Large Health Region and Comparison with Clinical Practice Guidelines
(Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-09-03)Background: Published reports of continuous palliative sedation therapy (CPST) suggest heterogeneity in practice. There is a paucity of reports that compare practice with clinical guidelines. Objectives: To assess adherence ... -
A population-based study of the associations between neighbourhood walkability and different types of physical activity in Canadian men and women
(Cumming School of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 2019-11-05)Few Canadian studies have examined whether or not associations between neighbourhood walkability and physical activity differ by sex. We estimated associations between perceived neighbourhood walkability and physical ... -
Risks of Dysglycemia Over the First 4 Years After a Hypertensive Disorder of Pregnancy
(Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2019-07-25)Women with the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) (preeclampsia [PE] and gestational hypertension [GHTN]) have increased risks of future diabetes. Postpartum glycemic testing offers early identification and treatment ... -
Acellular pertussis vaccine effectiveness and waning immunity in Alberta, Canada: 2010–2015, a Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study
(University of Calgary, University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta Health Services, Alberta Ministry of Health, University of Toronto, Public Health Ontario, University of Manitoba, Post-print, 2019-06-01)Background Pertussis is still frequently reported in Canada. In Alberta, pertussis incidence ranged from 1.8 to 20.5 cases per 100,000 persons for 2004–2015. Most cases occurred in those aged <15 years. In Alberta, acellular ... -
Antigenic variation in the Lyme spirochete: detailed functional assessment of recombinational switching at vlsE in the JD1 strain of Borrelia burgdorferi
(Wiley, Cumming School of Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-archiving.html, Post-print, 2019-01)Borrelia burgdorferi is a causative agent of Lyme disease and establishes long-term infection in mammalian hosts. Persistence is promoted by the VlsE antigenic variation system, which generates combinatorial diversity of ... -
METRICS: a pattern language of scholarship in medical education
(Cumming School of Medicine, Other, University of Calgary, Publisher's version, 2017-11-07)Scholarly activity in health professions education has been growing steadily but despite the broad interest, quite what is considered to be scholarly activity in medical education has remained vague. Boyer’s classes of ... -
Abstract booklet from the 2019 Sebastian K. Littmann Research Day
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Application of immobilized ATP to the study of NLRP inflammasomes
(Cumming School of Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Duke University, 2019-01-11)The NLRP proteins are a subfamily of the NOD-like receptor (NLR) innate immune sensors that possess an ATP-binding NACHT domain. As the most well-studied member, NLRP3 can initiate the assembly process of a multiprotein ...
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