Real word challenges in integrating electronic medical record and administrative health data for regional quality improvement in diabetes: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis.

Background: Linked electronic medical records and administrative data have the potential to support a learning health system and data-driven quality improvement. However, data completeness and accuracy must first be assessed before their application. We evaluated the processes, feasibility, and limitations of linking electronic medical records and administrative data for the purpose of quality improvement within five specialist diabetes clinics in Edmonton, Alberta, a province known for its robust health data infrastructure.

Using the Edmonton Obesity Staging System in the real world: a feasibility study based on cross-sectional data.

Background: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS) combined with body mass index (BMI) enables improved functional and prognostic assessment for patients. To facilitate application of the EOSS in practice, we aimed to create tools for capturing comorbidity assessments in electronic medical records and for automating the calculation of a patient's EOSS stage.

Methods: In this feasibility study, we used cross-sectional data to create a clinical dashboard to calculate and display the relation between BMI and EOSS and the prevalence of related comorbidities.

"A Touch of Sugar": A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Health Beliefs on Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management Among Black Canadian Adults.

Objectives: Black Canadians have higher rates of diabetes and complications compared with White Canadians. However, research on diabetes self-management in this community is lacking. We conducted a qualitative study to explore diabetes self-management in the Black Canadian community using the lens of the Health Belief Model.

Outcomes in the offspring of mothers with pre-diabetes during pregnancy: a protocol for a systematic review.

Background: Despite the increasing prevalence of pre-diabetes worldwide, there is insufficient literature on the impact of gestational pre-diabetes on offspring outcomes. The objective of this systematic review is to determine the risk of developing adverse outcomes for the offspring in women with pre-diabetes compared to women with normal glucose levels and women with gestational diabetes mellitus.

Methods/design: A systematic search of the published literature will be conducted for experimental and observational studies that report outcomes in the offspring of mothers with pre-diabetes during pregnancy.

Barriers to and facilitators for screening women for intimate partner violence in surgical fracture clinics: a qualitative descriptive approach.

Background: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a major health issue that involves any physical, sexual or psychological harm inflicted by a current or former partner. Musculoskeletal injuries represent the second most prevalent clinical manifestation of IPV. Health care professionals, however, rarely screen women for IPV.