Publications by authors named "Karen Sadler"

Background: The Program® () is a universal parent education program that is delivered by nurses and health care providers to all parents/caregivers of newborns in British Columbia (B.C.).

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  • Researchers wanted to find out how Canadian universities manage concussions in athletes and create a special online tool to help educate them about it.
  • They asked university staff and student athletes about their needs and preferences for learning about concussions through surveys and interviews.
  • The study showed that most athletes want to learn online, prefer to study alone, and think it's super important to know how to recognize and report concussions. The final tool aims to help athletes understand how to report their symptoms and support each other during recovery.
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Background: Medical and healthcare professionals report an important gap in their training and knowledge on concussion diagnosis and management. The Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT) for medical professionals provides evidenced-based training and resources, representing an important effort to fill this gap. The goal of the current article was to summarize and describe the general uptake of the 2018 relaunch of the CATT for medical professionals and to present results of a quality assurance/quality improvement (QA/QI) assessment including qualitative feedback from medical and healthcare professionals.

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Purpose: Bortezomib has shown synergy with melphalan in preclinical models. We assessed the safety, tolerability, and response rate in a dose-escalation study of this combination for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients.

Methods: Bortezomib was administered from 0.

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Neuronal survival in developing animals is often dependent on afferent activity. In the posthatch chick, approximately 30% of the neurons in the avian cochlear nucleus, nucleus magnocellularis (NM) die following elimination of VIIIth nerve activity. The factors that influence death or survival of an individual NM neuron are largely unknown.

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