Publications by authors named "I Schiller"
The changing epidemiology of infection and the NAP1/027 strain in two Québec hospitals: a 17-year time-series study.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
June 2024
Objective: To describe the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infection (HA-CDI) in two Québec hospitals in Canada following the 2003 epidemic and to evaluate the impact of antibiotic stewardship on the incidence of HA-CDI and the NAP1/027 strain.
Design: Time-series analysis.
Setting: Two Canadian tertiary care hospitals based in Montréal, Québec.
Many lecturers develop voice problems, such as hoarseness. Nevertheless, research on how voice quality influences listeners' perception, comprehension, and retention of spoken language is limited to a small number of audio-only experiments. We aimed to address this gap by using audio-visual virtual reality (VR) to investigate the impact of a lecturer's hoarseness on university students' heard text recall, listening effort, and listening impression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Vaccination against COVID-19 is highly effective in preventing severe disease and hospitalization, but primary COVID mRNA vaccination schedules often differed from those recommended by the manufacturers due to supply chain issues. We investigated the impact of delaying the second dose on antibody responses to COVID mRNA-vaccines in a prospective cohort of health-care workers in Quebec.
Methods: We recruited participants from the McGill University Health Centre who provided serum or participant-collected dried blood samples (DBS) at 28-days, 3 months, and 6 months post-second dose and at 28-days after a third dose.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to establish more reliable cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) reference values for diagnosing left and right ventricular issues by utilizing a larger, more diverse sample size across multiple countries and techniques.
- Researchers performed a comprehensive meta-analysis of 254 studies including over 12,000 healthy adults, applying a novel Bayesian hierarchical model to derive normalized reference ranges for various CMR parameters.
- Key findings include specific pooled reference values for left ventricular ejection fraction, end-diastolic volume, end-systolic volume, and mass across genders, providing a more accurate framework for clinicians to assess cardiac health.
Introduction: Our voice is key for conveying information and knowledge to others during verbal communication. However, those who heavily depend on their voice, such as teachers and university professors, often develop voice problems, signaled by hoarseness. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of hoarseness on listeners' memory for auditory-verbal information, listening effort, and listening impression.
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