The Author Truncation "et al." in Article References: An Anachronism That Needs to Change.

Valuable research requires contribution from many experts; however, the "et al." truncation often keeps all individuals from being acknowledged. The adoption of a new citation rule () would allow more authors to be acknowledged.

Telehealth coaching to improve self-management for secondary prevention after stroke: A randomized controlled trial of Stroke Coach.

Background: Stroke Coach is a lifestyle coaching telehealth program to improve self-management of stroke risk factors.

Aims: To examine the efficacy of Stroke Coach on lifestyle behavior and risk factor control among community-living stroke survivors within one-year post stroke.

Methods: Participants were randomized to Stroke Coach or an attention control Memory Training group.

Alignment differs between patellofemoral osteoarthritis cases and matched controls: An upright 3D MRI study.

Patellofemoral (PF) osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent and clinically important knee OA subgroup. Malalignment may be an important risk factor for PF OA. However, little is known about alignment in PF OA, particularly in an upright, weightbearing environment.

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Subsequent Malignant Neoplasm Risk After Radioactive Iodine Treatment of Thyroid Cancer.

The potential risk of subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMNs) after radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment of thyroid cancer (TC) is an important concern. A systematic review was updated comparing the risk of SMNs in TC patients treated with RAI to TC patients without RAI. Six electronic databases were searched (up to March, 2018), supplemented with a hand search.

Support service utilization and out-of-pocket payments for health services in a population-based sample of adults with neurological conditions.

Background: Social support can help to deal with the consequences of neurological conditions and promote functional independence and quality of life. Our aim was to evaluate the impact of neurological conditions on the use of support and health-care services in a population-based sample of community-dwelling adults with neurological conditions.

Methods: Data were from the Survey of Living with Neurological Conditions in Canada, which was derived from a representative sample of household residents.

Prospective surveillance and targeted physiotherapy for arm morbidity after breast cancer surgery: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate prospective surveillance and targeted physiotherapy (PSTP) compared to education (EDU) on the prevalence of arm morbidity and describe the associated program cost.

Design: Pilot randomized single-blinded controlled trial.

Setting: Urban with assessments and treatment delivered in hospitals.

Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to assess a noninferiority trial.

A well-planned randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the most optimal study design to determine if a novel surgical intervention is any different than a prevailing one. Traditionally, when we want to show that a new surgical intervention is superior to a standard one, we analyze data from an RCT to see if the null hypothesis of "no difference" can be rejected (i.e.

A telehealth intervention to promote healthy lifestyles after stroke: The Stroke Coach protocol.

Rationale Recurrent stroke is prevalent and associated with high mortality rates, disability, and social and economic costs. Adequate management of risk factors may reduce recurrent stroke; however, many stroke survivors have poor control of risk factors. We have developed a theoretically sound and evidence-based lifestyle modification program called the Stroke Coach, a telephone-based self-management program to improve control of risk factors.

Feasibility of a Systematic, Comprehensive, One-to-One Training (SCOOT) program for new scooter users: study protocol for a randomized control trial.

Background: Mobility scooters can facilitate community participation among individuals with mobility limitations. However, accidents are a serious concern with scooter use. Scooter training has been recommended to improve safety, but there are currently few validated programs available.

Development of a Chronic Disease Management Program for Stroke Survivors Using Intervention Mapping: The Stroke Coach.

Objective: To describe the systematic development of the Stroke Coach, a theory- and evidence-based intervention to improve control of lifestyle behavior risk factors in patients with stroke.

Design: Intervention development.

Setting: Community.

Measurement properties of the Wheelchair Skills Test for scooters among experienced users.

Purpose: To investigate the score distribution, reliability, and validity of the objective Wheelchair Skills Test (WST) for scooter users.

Method: A study using a test-retest design was conducted with 20 people who had mobility limitations that prevented them from ambulating more than one city block without a mobility aid, and who had owned a scooter for ≥3 months. Objective scooter skills, confidence, and physical accessibility were measured at both time points, while anxiety, depression, visual attention and task switching, functional independence, and visual acuity were measured only at baseline.

Validation of Administrative Osteoarthritis Diagnosis Using a Clinical and Radiological Population-Based Cohort.

The validity of administrative osteoarthritis (OA) diagnosis in British Columbia, Canada, was examined against X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), self-report, and the American College of Rheumatology criteria. During 2002-2005, 171 randomly selected subjects with knee pain aged 40-79 years underwent clinical assessment for OA in the knee, hip, and hands. Their administrative health records were linked during 1991-2004, in which OA was defined in two ways: (AOA1) at least one physician's diagnosis or hospital admission and (AOA2) at least two physician's diagnoses in two years or one hospital admission.

Breast cancer recurrence following radioguided seed localization and standard wire localization of nonpalpable invasive and in situ breast cancers: 5-Year follow-up from a randomized controlled trial.

Background: This study compared 5-year breast cancer (BC) recurrence rates in patients randomized to radioguided seed localization (RSL) or wire localization (WL) for non-palpable BC undergoing breast conserving surgery.

Methods: Chart review of follow-up visits and surveillance imaging was conducted. Data collected included patient and tumour factors, adjuvant therapies and BC recurrence (local recurrence (LR), regional recurrence (RR), and distant metastasis (DM)).

Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to assess an article about harm in surgery.

You are a new plastic surgeon in the community and you are referred a patient interested in breast reconstruction. The patient is a 35-year-old female school teacher who had a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy 2 years earlier, as she was a BRCA gene carrier. Since she is of a petite build with very little subcutaneous tissue or extra skin in the lower abdomen, you decide that she is not a suitable candidate for an abdomen-based autologous tissue reconstruction.

Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a physical activity counseling intervention using Fitbit in people with knee osteoarthritis: the TRACK-OA study protocol.

Background: Physical activity (PA) reduces pain and improves functioning in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA), but few people with the condition meet recommended PA guidelines. Successful intervention strategies to increase PA include goal setting, action planning, self-monitoring, and follow-up feedback from a healthcare professional. Recently developed consumer wearable activity trackers allow users to set activity goals, self-monitor daily goal-progress, and provide feedback on goal attainment.

Coronary artery calcification, cardiovascular events, and death: a prospective cohort study of incident patients on hemodialysis.

Background: Coronary calcification in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular outcomes and death from all causes. Previous evidence has been limited by short follow-up periods and inclusion of a heterogeneous cluster of events in the primary analyses.

Objective: To describe coronary calcification in patients incident to ESRD, and to identify whether calcification predicts vascular events or death.

Risk of Type 2 Diabetes among Osteoarthritis Patients in a Prospective Longitudinal Study.

Objectives. Our aim was to determine the risk of diabetes among osteoarthritis (OA) cases in a prospective longitudinal study. Methods.

A cosmesis outcome substudy in a prospective, randomized trial comparing radioguided seed localization with standard wire localization for nonpalpable, invasive, and in situ breast carcinomas.

Background: The primary study objective was to compare the cosmetic result of radioguided seed localization (RSL) with wire localization (WL).

Methods: A subgroup of patients enrolled in a multicentered, randomized trial comparing WL with RSL participated. Frontal photographs were taken 1 and 3 years postsurgery.

Osteoarthritis incidence and trends in administrative health records from British Columbia, Canada.

Objective: To calculate the incidence rates of osteoarthritis (OA) and to describe the changes in incidence using 18 years of administrative health records.

Methods: We analyzed visits to health professionals and hospital admission records in a random sample (n = 640,000) from British Columbia, Canada, from 1991/1992 through 2008/2009. OA was defined in 2 ways: (1) at least 1 physician diagnosis or 1 hospital admission; and (2) at least 2 physician diagnoses in 2 years or 1 hospital admission.

Physician-delivered injection therapies for mechanical neck disorders: a systematic review update (non-oral, non-intravenous pharmacological interventions for neck pain).

Background: Controversy persists regarding medicinal injections for mechanical neck disorders (MNDs).

Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of physician-delivered injections on pain, function/disability, quality of life, global perceived effect and patient satisfaction for adults with MNDs.

Search Methods: We updated our previous searches of CENTRAL, MEDLINE and EMBASE from December 2006 through to March 2012.

Pharmacological Interventions Including Medical Injections for Neck Pain: An Overview as Part of the ICON Project.

Objectives: To conduct an overview (review-of-reviews) on pharmacological interventions for neck pain.

Search Strategy: Computerized databases and grey literature were searched from 2006 to 2012.

Selection Criteria: Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCT) in adults with acute to chronic neck pain reporting effects of pharmacological interventions including injections on pain, function/disability, global perceived effect, quality of life and patient satisfaction.

Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) for Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression.

Purpose: This systematic review update evaluated low level laser therapy (LLLT) for adults with neck pain.

Methods: Computerized searches (root up to Feb 2012) included pain, function/disability, quality of life (QoL) and global perceived effect (GPE). GRADE, effect-sizes, heterogeneity and meta-regression were assessed.

Risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with osteoarthritis: a prospective longitudinal study.

Objective: To determine the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among osteoarthritis (OA) patients using population-based administrative data from British Columbia, Canada.

Methods: The medical history of a random sample of 600,000 individuals from 1991-2009 was analyzed. A total of 12,745 OA cases and up to 3 non-OA individuals matched by age, sex, and year of diagnosis were followed for CVD events.

Risks and benefits of screening asymptomatic women for ovarian cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify risks and benefits of screening asymptomatic women for ovarian cancer.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Cochrane CENTRAL, without language restrictions, from January 1, 1979 to February 5, 2012. Eligible studies randomly assigned asymptomatic women to screening or usual care.