Six ways to maximize survey response rates: lessons from a medical school accreditation survey in a Canadian setting.

Background: Surveys are being increasingly used to gather feedback and study data in healthcare professions. However, it may be challenging to achieve high response rates in surveys administered to healthcare professionals. The aim of this paper is to report six strategies that contributed to a high response rate on the Independent Student Analysis at the University of Toronto (U of T), which can be applied to other surveys to achieve strong response rates amongst healthcare professionals.

Examination of a Canada-Wide Collaboration Platform for Order Sets: Retrospective Analysis.

Background: Knowledge translation and dissemination are some of the main challenges that affect evidence-based medicine. Web 2.0 platforms promote the sharing and collaborative development of content.

Fostering trust, collaboration, and a culture of continuous quality improvement: A call for transparency in medical school accreditation.

Medical schools provide the foundation for a physician's growth and lifelong learning. They also require a large share of government resources. As such, they should seek opportunities to maintain trust from the public, their students, faculty, universities, regulatory colleges, and each other.

Evaluating the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses published on direct oral anticoagulants in the past 5 years.

Systematic reviews (SRs) have been reported with increasing frequency as a means of collating studies which may have been performed over different period of times, in different geographical areas and by different groups of investigators. As SRs have become more common, quality metrics such as Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) have become available for these reviews. AMSTAR is an 11-point checklist that assesses the methodological and reporting quality of a SR.

A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations in Vascular Surgery.

Background: With increasing healthcare costs and the emergence of new technologies in vascular surgery, economic evaluations play a critical role in informing decision-making that optimizes patient outcomes while minimizing per capita costs. The objective of this systematic review is to describe all English published economic evaluations in vascular surgery and to identify any significant gaps in the literature.

Methods: We conducted a comprehensive English literature review of EMBASE, MEDLINE, The Cochrane Library, Ovid Health Star, and Business Source Complete from inception until December 1, 2018.

An integrative longitudinal resilience curriculum.

Background: It is well documented that student well-being is challenged at medical school and that levels of distress increase as students navigate their training. The Doctor of Medicine (MD) programme at the University of Toronto developed a 4-year resilience curriculum (RC) to encourage students to reach out for help and equip them with resilience-building strategies to manage adversities in a demanding academic and clinical programme. … resilience curriculum (RC) to encourage students to reach out for help and equip them with resilience-building strategies METHODS: Satisfaction surveys, consisting of statements rated by a five-point Likert scale and short-answer questions, were distributed to 518 students; in total, data from four workshops were collected.

Level of clinical evidence presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting during a 5-year period (2012-2016).

Objective: During the past decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on the use of high-quality evidence to inform clinical decision-making. The purpose of our study was to assess trends in the level of evidence (LOE) of abstracts presented at the Vascular Annual Meeting from 2012 to 2016.

Methods: All Vascular Annual Meeting abstracts for 2012 to 2016 were obtained through the Journal of Vascular Surgery.