Research Report April 2008

Special Events / Notable Opportunities and Happenings

• Carl Moore Lecture – Dr. John Sellors, Making A Global Difference: One Family Physician’s story
  The talk given on April 8th 2008 at McMaster was a great success.

• Congratulations to Tina Karawalatyjs who successfully defended her thesis on Friday April 4 2008.

Publications:
J Kaczorowski, LW Chambers, T Karwalajtys, L Dolovich, B Farrell, B McDonough, R Sebaldt, C Levitt, W Hogg, L Thabane, K Tu, R Goeree, JM Paterson, M Shubair, T Gierman, S Sullivan, M Carter.  Cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP):  A community cluster-randomised trial among elderly Canadians.  Preventive Medicine 2008 Feb 14 [Epub ahead of print].

KK Anderson, RJ Sebaldt, L Lohfled, T Karwalajtys, AS Ismaila, R Goeree, FC Donalk, K Burgess, J Kaczorowski.  Patient views on reminder letters for influenza vaccinations in an older primary care patient population: A mixed methods study.  Canadian Journal of Public Health March-April 2008;99(2):133-136.

Lee FJ, Stewart MA, Brown, JB.  Stress, Burnout, and Strategies for Reducing Them. Canadian Family Physician, 2008;54:234-235

Broomfield J, Schieda N, Sullivan SM, Chambers LW, Kaczorowski J, O'Rourke K, Hall HL, & Karwalajtys T. Recording blood pressure readings in elderly patients’ charts. What patient and physician characteristics make it more likely?  Can Fam Physician. 2008 Feb;54(2):230-1.

Ghuman J, Vadera, R. Ketorolac and morphine for analgesia in acute renal colic: Is this combination more effective than monotherapy? Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008; 10(1): 66-68.

Kennie N, Farrell B, Dolovich L. Demonstrating value, documenting care: lessons learned about writing comprehensive patient medication assessments in the IMPACT project. Part 1 Getting Started with documenting medication assessments. CPJ 2008; 141: 114-119.

Lora Giangregorio, Alexandra Papaioannou, Lehana Thabane, Justin DeBeer, Ann Cranney, Lisa Dolovich, Anthony Adili and Jonathan D Adachi Do patients perceive a link between a fragility fracture and osteoporosis? BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:38 (21 Mar 2008)

Submitted Funding:
Ontario Academic Consortium on Primary Care Research (ACE)  (Dolovich L, McMaster Lead) An External Evaluation of the Family Health Team (FHT) Initiative. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. $13,504,710.

Levine M, Cairney J, Goeree R, Hurley J, Simunovic M, Dolovich L. ICES@McMaster: Application to establish an Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Satellite Unit

Conference Presentations Accepted:
Redwood-Campbell L , Educating for global health: The role of Canadian family physicians” Family Medicine Forum.

Chan D, McCann M, Howard M. Workshop on Internet resources and basic technique on searching" Family Medicine Forum.

Chan D. MyDrugRef: Drug information in the era of Web 2.0" Family Medicine Forum

Schabort I, Howard M. Learning and application of evidence-based medicine skills through on-line resources. Family Medicine Forum