Family physician perceptions of a medication assessment clinic located within a pharmacy school.

Objective: To determine if the clinical services provided at a patient care clinic run by pharmacy faculty and students are valuable to family physicians.

Design: Paper-based postal survey.

Setting: The Medication Assessment Centre located within the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

Interprofessional Education for Internationally Educated Health Professionals: Pathways to Licensure.

In response to the shortage of healthcare professionals, the Canadian government has supported two innovative health workforce planning strategies: interprofessional education for interprofessional collaboration and recruiting internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs). Interprofessional collaboration is increasingly expected by Canadian-educated healthcare professionals; IEHPs must also be oriented to this practice model. An environmental scan and iterative assessments and evaluations informed the development of an online interprofessional competency toolkit aimed at training and assessing interprofessional collaboration for IEHPs.

Screening and Management of Substance Use in Pregnancy: A Review.

Substance use during pregnancy has important implications for health care providers, policy makers, and can negatively impact a woman's health and the health of her children. Understanding trends, patterns of use and outcomes are critical to prevention campaigns, building awareness, and providing effective care. This review will discuss the current therapeutic approaches and recommendations for screening and patient management for substance use in pregnancy and during the postpartum period, and it is geared towards any care providers who care for patients or those who may care for patients who may be at risk for substance use during pregnancy.

An outline of anemia among adolescent girls in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional study.

Background: Anemia is a significant wide spread public health threat especially among the adolescent girls who are more vulnerable towards low level of hemoglobin particularly of low and middle income countries (LMICs). We investigated the prevalence of anemia among the adolescent girls (10-19 years) in Bangladesh and its socio-demographics distribution.

Methods: We collected data digitally in ODK platform from a sub-sample of a nationwide cross-sectional survey of 1314 adolescent girls in 2015.

Voices in the wilderness: Co-location meeting the needs of children in protective care.

Objective: To explore how access to a family medicine clinic co-locating with the Children's Aid Society (CAS) of Hamilton in Ontario helped meet the unique needs of children in care.

Design: Qualitative research using semistructured face-to-face and telephone interviews.

Setting: The CAS of Hamilton.

Health workers who ask about social determinants of health are more likely to report helping patients: Mixed-methods study.

Objective: To assess the feasibility of implementing a clinical decision aid called the CLEAR Toolkit that helps front-line health workers ask their patients about social determinants of health, refer to local support resources, and advocate for wider social change.

Design: A mixed-methods study using quantitative (online self-completed questionnaires) and qualitative (in-depth interviews, focus groups, and key informant interviews) methods.

Setting: A large, university-affiliated family medicine teaching centre in Montreal, Que, serving one of the most ethnically diverse populations in Canada.

Bridging science and traditional knowledge to assess cumulative impacts of stressors on ecosystem health.

Cumulative environmental impacts driven by anthropogenic stressors lead to disproportionate effects on indigenous communities that are reliant on land and water resources. Understanding and counteracting these effects requires knowledge from multiple sources. Yet the combined use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Scientific Knowledge (SK) has both technical and philosophical hurdles to overcome, and suffers from inherently imbalanced power dynamics that can disfavour the very communities it intends to benefit.

Extended family medicine training: Measuring training flows at a time of substantial pedagogic change.

Objective: To examine trends in family medicine training at a time when substantial pedagogic change is under way, focusing on factors that relate to extended family medicine training.

Design: Aggregate-level secondary data analysis based on the Canadian Post-MD Education Registry.

Setting: Canada.

Synchrotron-based and globar-sourced molecular (micro)spectroscopy contributions to advances in new hulless barley (with structure alteration) research on molecular structure, molecular nutrition, and nutrient delivery.

This paper aimed to review synchrotron-based and globar-sourced molecular infrared (micro)spectroscopy contributions to advances in new hulless barley (with structure alteration) research on molecular structure, molecular nutrition, and nutrient delivery in ruminants. It reviewed recent progress in barley varieties, its utilization for animal and human, inherent structure features and chemical make-up, evaluation and research methodology, breeding progress, rumen degradation, and intestinal digestion. The emphasis of this review was focused on the effect of alteration of carbohydrate traits of newly developed hulless barley on molecular structure changes and nutrient delivery and quantification of the relationship between molecular structure features and changes and truly absorbed nutrient supply to ruminants.

Using vibrational infrared biomolecular spectroscopy to detect heat-induced changes of molecular structure in relation to nutrient availability of prairie whole oat grains on a molecular basis.

Background: To our knowledge, there is little study on the interaction between nutrient availability and molecular structure changes induced by different processing methods in dairy cattle. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of heat processing methods on interaction between nutrient availability and molecular structure in terms of functional groups that are related to protein and starch inherent structure of oat grains with two continued years and three replication of each year.

Method: The oat grains were kept as raw (control) or heated in an air-draft oven (dry roasting: DO) at 120 °C for 60 min and under microwave irradiation (MIO) for 6 min.

The promise of virtual navigation in cancer care: Insights from patients and health care providers.

Virtual navigation (VN) in health care is a proactive process by which patients obtain information and support via Internet resources to manage their illness demands. The objective of this analysis was to explore converging and diverging perspectives of key stakeholders: patients with cancer and Health Care Providers (HCPs), about a cancer-related VN tool called the Oncology Interactive Navigator (OIN™). A qualitative secondary analysis was performed combining data sets from two prior studies exploring perspectives of VN among patients (study 1, n=20) and HCPs (study 2, n=13).

Response of immune response genes to adjuvants poly [di(sodium carboxylatoethylphenoxy)phosphazene] (PCEP), CpG oligodeoxynucleotide and emulsigen at intradermal injection site in pigs.

Understanding the mechanisms by which adjuvants mediate their effects provide critical information on how innate immunity influences the development of adaptive immunity. Despite being a critical vaccine component, the mechanisms by which adjuvants mediate their effects are not fully understood and this is especially true when they are used in large animals. This lack of understanding limits our ability to design effective vaccines.