Use of a PHQ-9 Heat Map to Facilitate Management Decisions in Patients With Depression.

Background: Depression is a common concern for patients seeking medical care. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a tool used to diagnose and manage depression. Tracking individual symptom scores rather than the sum of multiple symptom scores has been found to be more predictive of depression treatment response.

Lower limb squat biomechanics and select clinical measures in chronic ankle instability.

Background: Individuals with chronic ankle instability often present with clinical and biomechanical abnormalities, however squat biomechanics have not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to compare select clinical assessments and squat biomechanics between individuals with and without chronic ankle instability.

Methods: Fifteen individuals with chronic ankle instability and a matched control group were studied.

Clearance and nutrition in neonatal continuous kidney replacement therapy using the Carpediem™ system.

Background: Infants with kidney failure (KF) demonstrate poor growth partly due to obligate fluid and protein restrictions. Delivery of liberalized nutrition on continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) is impacted by clinical instability, technical dialysis challenges, solute clearance, and nitrogen balance. We analyzed delivered nutrition and growth in infants receiving CKRT with the Cardio-Renal, Pediatric Dialysis Emergency Machine (Carpediem™).

Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Scoping Review and Graphical Visualization of the Evidence.

Background: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neuromuscular disease with an estimated prevalence of 1/10 000 births. SMA is increasingly recognized as a multi-system disease with a need to study additional under-recognized health domains such as quality of life, fatigue, bulbar function, respiratory function, and independence.

Objective: Identify and assess reported evidence from the literature investigating Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in adults with SMA.

"I Don't Want to Go Anywhere Else": Patient Experiences of Abortion in Family Medicine.

Background And Objectives: Prior studies have demonstrated that most women are comfortable with the option of receiving early abortion care in the family medicine setting, and patients who received early abortion care in this context report satisfaction with their experience. There are few qualitative studies, however, that explore abortion experiences in the family medicine setting. This study aimed to better understand influential factors in women's choices and experiences of their family medicine setting for abortion care.

In for the long haul: knowledge translation between academic and nonprofit organizations.

Although scientists are continually refining existing knowledge and producing new evidence to improve health care and health care delivery, far too little scientific output finds its way into the tool kits of practitioners. Likewise, the questions that clinicians would like to be answered all too rarely get taken up by researchers. In this article we focus on knowledge translation challenges accompanying a longitudinal research program with nonprofit organizations providing direct and indirect health and social services to disadvantaged groups in one region of Canada.