Peer Support for Individuals with Major Limb Loss: a Scoping Review.

Background: Major limb loss can have profound physical and psychosocial implications for individuals, impacting their quality of life and well-being. Despite the effectiveness of peer support in improving outcomes for various chronic conditions, its impact on individuals with major limb loss remains understudied.

Objectives: This review aims to explore the existing literature on peer support for individuals with major limb loss.

Implementation of virtual pulmonary rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences and perceptions of patients and healthcare providers.

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) plays an important role in the management of symptomatic patients with chronic respiratory diseases (CRD). While studies have investigated the feasibility and efficacy of virtual PR (VPR), it is important to understand the experiences of patients and healthcare providers (HCPs) during the rapid digital health transformation that occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: To explore the experiences and perspectives of patients and HCPs who participated in VPR during the pandemic.

A qualitative study exploring healthcare professionals' perceptions of lower limb 3D printed sockets.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore healthcare professionals' (HCPs) perceptions and experiences related to 3D scanning and 3D printing for fabricating lower limb prosthetic sockets.

Materials And Methods: This study used a qualitative descriptive approach. Participants were recruited through HCPs' professional associations, social media posts, and snowball sampling.

User perspectives of digital manufacturing for lower-limb prosthetic sockets.

Background: There is growing interest to use digital technology (DT) for manufacturing lower-limb prosthetic sockets to improve efficiency and clinical outcomes. However, little is known about how lower-limb prosthesis users perceive DTs, such as 3D scanning and 3D printing.

Objectives: This study aimed to provide an understanding of perceptions and experiences with DT for prosthetic socket manufacturing from the perspective of prosthesis users.

The effect of digital interventions on related health literacy and skills for individuals living with chronic diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Chronic diseases are a leading cause of death and disease burden globally. Digital interventions could be an approach to improve patients' ability to find, evaluate, and use health information.

Objectives: The main objective was to conduct a systematic review to determine the effect of digital interventions on digital health literacy for patients living with chronic disease.

Understanding the Use of Patient Rooms to Inform Family Zone Implementation: A Qualitative Study.

A family zone (FZ) is a portion of the patient room that visitors use to visit their loved one. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of patients, family and hospital staff to inform potential FZ implementation. Two focus groups (N = 17) were conducted using semi-structured interviews.

Hospital Outdoor Spaces: User Experience and Implications for Design.

Objectives: This article aims to describe users' perspectives about the impact of hospital outdoor spaces on the patient experience in a postacute setting.

Background: Hospital outdoor space is an important element in healthcare facility design. There is growing evidence that access to green space within hospital outdoor spaces facilitates healing.

Chest computed tomography is a valid measure of body composition in individuals with advanced lung disease.

There is growing interest in evaluating body composition using routine clinical computed tomography (CT) scans; however, the validity of this technique in lung transplant patients has not been described. The study objectives were to determine the reliability of measuring fat compartments from thoracic CT and evaluate the validity of muscle and fat cross-sectional area (CSA) from thoracic CT by comparing to bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Thoracic CT scans from lung transplant assessments were obtained for analysis.

Exploring Gaps in Concussion Knowledge and Knowledge Translation Among Coaches of Youth Female Hockey.

Objective: To better understand the level of concussion knowledge of youth female hockey coaches and to identify preferred methods of knowledge translation for this population.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Participants independently completed written surveys before in-person concussion information sessions or online surveys through link provided in emails.

Heart rate variability following youth concussion: how do autonomic regulation and concussion symptoms differ over time postinjury?

Objectives: Following youth concussion, objective physiological indicators are needed to corroborate changes in subjective clinical measures. The objectives of the current study were to: (1) explore the effect of concussion on heart rate variability (HRV) across days postinjury in youth athletes aged 13-18 years old, compared with healthy age-matched and sex-matched controls and (2) examine the relationship between postconcussion symptom domains (physical, cognitive, fatigue and emotional) and HRV.

Methods: Prospective, longitudinal, case-control study (N=44).

Autonomic Function Following Concussion in Youth Athletes: An Exploration of Heart Rate Variability Using 24-hour Recording Methodology.

Participation in organized sports makes a significant contribution to youth development, but places youth at a higher risk for sustaining a concussion. To date, return-to-activity decision-making has been anchored in the monitoring of self-reported concussion symptoms and neurocognitive testing. However, multi-modal assessments that corroborate objective physiological measures with traditional subjective symptom reporting are needed and can be valuable.

Interprofessional empathy: A four-stage model for a new understanding of teamwork.

Collaboration in healthcare implies that health providers share responsibility and partner with each other in order to provide comprehensive patient care. A review of the empirical literature on teamwork in healthcare settings suggests that the relationships between service providers remain conflictual and variable in commitment to interprofessional collaboration. Recently, social psychologists have given considerable attention to the possibility that empathy could be used to improve intergroup attitudes and relations.

Medical assistance in dying: Examining Canadian pharmacy perspectives using a mixed-methods approach.

Background: Canada legalized assisted dying with the passing of Bill C-14, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), in June 2016. This legislation has implications for health care professionals participating in MAiD. This research aims to understand the effect that MAiD has on pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in Canada.

Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Non-Concussed Youth Athletes: Exploring the Effect of Age, Sex, and Concussion-Like Symptoms.

Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) is a non-invasive neurophysiological measure of autonomic nervous system regulation emerging in concussion research. To date, most concussion studies have focused on the university-aged athlete with no research examining healthy active youths. Corroborating changes in HRV alongside traditional subjective self-report measures (concussion symptoms) in the non-concussed state provides a foundation for interpreting change following concussion.

Community pharmacists' perspectives on shared decision-making in diabetes management.

Objectives: Shared decision-making (SDM) is an approach where patients and clinicians share evidence and patients are supported to deliberate options resulting in preference-based informed decisions. The aim of this study was to describe community pharmacists' perceptions and awareness of SDM within their provision of general diabetes management [including Ontario's MedsCheck for Diabetes (MCD) programme], and potential challenges of implementing SDM within community pharmacy.

Methods: This qualitative study used semistructured interviews with a convenience sample of community pharmacists.

Community Pharmacists' Perspectives of a Decision Aid for Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Ontario.

Objectives: Decision aids are tools designed to help patients make choices about their health care. We explored pharmacists' perceptions of an evidence-based diabetes decision aid developed by the Mayo Clinic, Diabetes Medication Choice (DMC). Using DMC as a reference, we aimed to explore pharmacists' perspectives on decision aids, their place in a community pharmacy setting and the implementing of a decision aid, such as DMC, in Ontario.

Clinical Documentation in an Era of Increasing Transparency: The Impact of Electronic Portals on Care.

Electronic health records (EHRs) and consumer health portals have implications for improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare and make it much easier for patients and families to access health information in a timely and convenient manner. However, the accessibility of information afforded by EHRs and health portals changes the dynamic of control over health information in very significant ways. Institutions and their clinicians have typically been the caretakers of these documents; therefore, the introduction of portals represents a major cultural shift in healthcare.

A multi-modal approach to assessing recovery in youth athletes following concussion.

Concussion is one of the most commonly reported injuries amongst children and youth involved in sport participation. Following a concussion, youth can experience a range of short and long term neurobehavioral symptoms (somatic, cognitive and emotional/behavioral) that can have a significant impact on one's participation in daily activities and pursuits of interest (e.g.