The impact of alternate level of care on access block and operational strategies to reduce emergency wait times: a multi-center simulation study.

Objectives: Lengthy emergency department (ED) wait times caused by hospital access block is a growing concern for the Canadian health care system. Our objective was to quantify the impact of alternate-level-of-care on hospital access block and evaluate the likely effects of multiple interventions on ED wait times.

Methods: Discrete-event simulation models were developed to simulate patient flows in EDs and acute care of six Canadian hospitals.

Aquatic exercise training for fibromyalgia.

Background: Exercise training is commonly recommended for individuals with fibromyalgia. This review examined the effects of supervised group aquatic training programs (led by an instructor). We defined aquatic training as exercising in a pool while standing at waist, chest, or shoulder depth.

Resistance exercise training for fibromyalgia.

Background: Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain that leads to reduced physical function. Exercise training is commonly recommended as a treatment for management of symptoms. We examined the literature on resistance training for individuals with fibromyalgia.

Beverage consumption patterns of Canadian adults aged 19 to 65 years.

Objective: To investigate the beverage intake patterns of Canadian adults and explore characteristics of participants in different beverage clusters.

Design: Analyses of nationally representative data with cross-sectional complex stratified design.

Setting: Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.

Fruit drink consumption is associated with overweight and obesity in Canadian women.

Objective: Overweight and obesity in Canada have significantly increased during the last three decades, paralleled by increased intake of fat and sugar, particularly sugary beverages. The Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2, conducted in 2004 (CCHS 2.

Beverage patterns among Canadian children and relationship to overweight and obesity.

Sweetened beverage intake has risen in past decades, along with a rise in prevalence of overweight and obesity among children. Our objective was to examine the relationship between beverage intake patterns and overweight and obesity among Canadian children. Beverage intake patterns were identified by cluster analysis of data from the cross-sectional Canadian Community Health Survey 2.

Beverage intake patterns of Canadian children and adolescents.

Objective: Little is known of the beverage intake patterns of Canadian children or of characteristics within these patterns. The objective was to determine beverage intake patterns among Canadian children and compare intakes of fourteen types of beverages, along with intakes of vitamin C and Ca, and sociodemographic factors across clusters.

Design: Dietary information was collected using one 24 h recall.

Exercise therapy for fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia syndrome, a chronic condition typically characterized by widespread pain, nonrestorative sleep, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and other somatic symptoms, negatively impacts physical and emotional function and reduces quality of life. Exercise is commonly recommended in the management of people with fibromyalgia, and interest in examining exercise benefits for those with the syndrome has grown substantially over the past 25 years. Research supports aerobic and strength training to improve physical fitness and function, reduce fibromyalgia symptoms, and improve quality of life.