Publications by authors named "Shelina M Jamal"
Background: Evidence-based clinical care guidelines improve medical treatment by reducing error, improving outcomes and possibly lowering healthcare costs. While some data exist on individual guideline compliance, no data exist on overall compliance to multiple nuanced guidelines in a paediatric intensive care setting.
Methods: Guideline compliance was observed and measured with a prospective cohort at a tertiary academic paediatric medical-surgical intensive care unit.
Objective: This global survey aimed to assess the current respiratory support capabilities for children with hypoxemia and respiratory failure in different economic settings.
Methods: An online, anonymous survey of medical providers with experience in managing pediatric acute respiratory illness was distributed electronically to members of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Society, and other critical care websites for 3 months.
Results: The survey was completed by 295 participants from 64 countries, including 28 High-Income (HIC) and 36 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC).
Fifteen years ago, United Nations world leaders defined millenium development goal 4 (MDG 4): to reduce under-5-year mortality rates by two-thirds by the year 2015. Unfortunately, only 27 of 138 developing countries are expected to achieve MDG 4. The majority of childhood deaths in these settings result from reversible causes, and developing effective pediatric emergency and critical care services could substantially reduce this mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The recent withdrawal of cerivastatin by the manufacturer has led to an interest in hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) inhibitors and the incidence of myopathy. We review the epidemiology, pharmacology, and presumed mechanisms of statin-induced myopathy, with a particular focus on cerivastatin.
Methods: A MEDLINE search of English-language articles published between 1985 and 2003 was performed.
Background: Despite existing research on outcomes of cardiac care in Canada, little is known about Canada-wide trends and interprovincial differences in outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Objectives: To examine Canadian trends in rates of in-hospital mortality and same-admission coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) after PCI and to compare provincial risk-adjusted in-hospital death and same-admission CABG rates.
Methods: Hospital discharge abstract data were obtained from the Canadian Institute for Health Information and were used to identify cohorts of patients who underwent PCI in eight provinces in fiscal years 1992/93 through 2000/01.