Investigating Dietitians' Knowledge and Comfort in Supporting Muslim Clients and Communities Who Fast During Ramadan.

The purpose of this preliminary study was to explore Saskatchewan Registered Dietitians' perceived knowledge, comfort, and access to resources in supporting Muslims who choose to fast during Ramadan. An online anonymous survey was distributed to Saskatchewan dietitians from January 31 to February 22, 2022. Quantitative data analysis was employed using Microsoft Excel.

Donor-specific immune senescence as a candidate biomarker of operational tolerance following liver transplantation in adults: Results of a prospective, multicenter cohort study.

Immunosuppression can be withdrawn from selected liver transplant recipients, although robust clinical predictors of tolerance remain elusive. The Immune Tolerance Network ITN056ST study (OPTIMAL; NCT02533180) assessed clinical outcomes and mechanistic correlates of phased immunosuppression withdrawal (ISW) in nonautoimmune, nonviral adult liver transplant recipients. Enrolled subjects were ≥3 years posttransplant with minimal/absent inflammation or fibrosis on a screening liver biopsy.

Impact of hospital-acquired pneumonia on the Medicare program.

Objective: Patient safety organizations and researchers describe hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) as a largely preventable hospital-acquired infection that affects patient safety and quality of care. We provide evidence regarding the consequences of HAP among 2019 Medicare beneficiaries.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Dietary Patterns of Off-Reserve Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Their Association with Chronic Conditions.

Nationally representative nutrition surveys (Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 2.2, Nutrition 2004 and 2015) were used to examine dietary patterns and their association with socioeconomic/sociodemographic factors and chronic conditions in off-reserve Indigenous population in Canada. A cluster analysis was used to identify dietary patterns (DPs), and the Nutrient Rich Food Index (NRF 9.

Handling missing data through prevention strategies in self-administered questionnaires: a discussion paper.

Background: Self-administered questionnaires are efficient and low-cost ways of collecting data with wide cohorts. Nonetheless, their use in studies can result in a high occurrence of missing data, which can affect the statistical power, representativeness and generalisability of the findings. Imputation methods have been considered efficient statistical techniques for managing missing data.