Research Report July/August 2009

Special Events / Notable Opportunities and Happenings

• Congratulations to Kim Sheehan who received her MSc in Applied Health Sciences from Brock
  University. Thesis title: The relationship between intrapartum intravenous therapy and method of delivery on newborn weight loss: Challenging the 7% rule. Defended July 30, 2009.
• Congratulations to Jagdeep Kaur’s eHealth group paper on “The Discharge Summary Divide: a
  review of electronic solutions, obstacles and benefits” has been accepted for presentation at the
  “2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e‐Business” to be held
  at Delta Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from August 25‐27, 2009.

Publications:

Bayoumi I, Howard M, Holbrook A, Schabort I. Interventions to Improve Medication Reconciliation in
Primary Care: A Systematic Review. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, in press: Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Sep 8. [Epub ahead of print]

Price D, Howard H, Hilts L, Dolovich L, McCarthy L, Walsh AE, Dykeman K. Interprofessional education in academic family medicine teaching units: A functional program and culture. Can Fam Physician 2009;55:901901.e5

Clavet D, Walsh AE. Helping to prepare future physicians: Every family physician's responsibility? Can Fam Physician 2009;55 862863

Howard M, Agarwal G, Hilts L. Patient satisfaction with access in two interprofessional academic family
medicine clinics. Family Practice 2009; doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmp049

Ma J, Thabane L, Kaczorowski J, Chambers J, Dolovich L, Karwalajtys T, Levitt C. Comparison of Bayesian and classical methods in the analysis of cluster randomized controlled trials with a binary outcome: The Community Hypertension Assessment Trial (CHAT). BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:37 (16 Jun 2009)

Holbrook A, Thabane L, Keshavjee K, Dolovich L, Bernstein B, Chan D, Troyan S, Foster G, Gerstein H, for the COMPETE II Investigators. Individualized electronic decision support and reminders to improve diabetes care in the community: COMPETE II randomized trial. CMAJ 2009; 18(12):3744.

Jerrett M, Finkelstein MM, Brook JR, Arain MA, Kanaroglou P, Stieb DM, Gilbert NL, Verma D, Finkelstein
N, Chapman KR, Sears MR. A cohort study of traffic related air pollution and mortality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Environ Health Perspect. 2009 May; 117(5):7727. Epub 2009 Jan 5.

Rouleau K, Redwood-Campbell L. International development and humanitarian aid: In times of economic
crisis, should Canada maintain its spending? (Commentary) Can Fam Physician 2009; 55:575577.

Kaczorowski J, Karwalajtys T, Lohfeld L, Laryea S, Anderson K, Roder S, Sebaldt RJ. Women’s view on
reminder letters for screening mammography. Can Fam Physician 2009; 55:6223.e14.

Chalmers B, Levitt C, Heaman M, O’Brien B, Sauve R, Kaczorowski J for Maternity Experiences Study Group. Breastfeeding rates and hospital breastfeeding practice in Canada: A national survey of women. Birth 2009; 36(2): 122132.

Burcu Balam Yavuz, Tim Standish, ELizabeth Almeida, Alwin Cunje, Paula DiLoreto, Ainsley Moore,
Brandon Kucher, Monica Marchese, Mohammed Warsi, Alexander J. Molloy, D.William Molloy. Antibiotics in Dementia: What's Next? The DARAD Trial. Akad Geriatri 2009; 1: 6772

Finkelstein MM, Liss GL, Kusiak R. Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Asbestos Exposed Workers: A Systematic
Review. WorkSafe BC, August 19, 2009. Accessible at:
http://www.worksafebc.com/regulation_and_policy/policy_consultation/law_40_10_680.asp

Funding Awarded:
Raina P, McKibbon A, Dolovich L, Holbrook A, Tamblyn R, Keshavjee K, Handler S, Archer N.
Enabling Medication Management through Health IT. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) ($422,725) June 2009 – September 2010

Grimshaw JM (Co‐PI), Straus SE (Co‐PI), Archer NP, Armson HA, Benzies KM, Berta WB, Bhattacharyya
O; Brehaut JC, Brouwers MC, Campbell BR, Chignell MH, Ciliska DK, Cummings G,
Davies BL, Desroches S, Dicenso A, Dobbins MJ, Dolovich LR et al. Knowledge Translation Canada:
A CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research. Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(CIHR) – Training Grant. ($165,000 ‐ 2009‐10) April 2009 – March 2015

Submitted Funding:
Moore A. The effects of (one year's) treatment with doxycycline and rifampicin on neurotransmitter levels in cerebrospinal fluid and their association with cognition, mood, behavior and function in Alzheimer's disease. Submitted to Scottish Rite ($35,000) April 30, 2009.

Raina P, Ciliska D, Dolovich L et al. McMaster Evidence Review and Synthesis Centre (MERSC). Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Knowledge SynthesisPreventive HealthCare, Evidence Review. ($3,192,354) 11/2009 To: 11/2014

M. Howard, K. Brazil, G. Agarwal, N. AkhtarDanesh, L. Jaakkimainen. Effect of organizational factors and team functioning on outcome indicators of diabetes and asthma care in primary care. Sept 15, 2009 CIHR $149,671.

Dr. Souraya Sidani (PI), J. Brewster, J. Cairney, J. Miranda, D. Streiner, S. Walkerley. Catalyst Grant:
Advancing the Science to Reduce Tobacco Use and Nicotine Addiction 20091102.
$45,908 Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Paul Kurdyak (PI), J. Cairney, M. Gignac, G. Hawker, J. Sale, T. Stukel. Depression, illness burden, and health service utilization in a populationbased osteoarthritis cohort. Ontario Mental Health Foundation

Dr. Paul Kurdyak (PI), J. Cairney, M. Gignac, G. Hawker, J. Sale, T. Stukel. Depression, illness burden, and health service utilization in a population based osteoarthritis cohort. $78,634 Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Dr. Amy Cheung (PI), J. Cairney, C. Dewa, M. Feldman, S. Grigoriadis, J. Kaczorowski, A. Kiss, D. Klein, A. Levitt, B. Sarvet, A. Schaffer. Depression screening and mental health support for adolescent depression in primary care. $330,000 Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Dr. Mark Tremblay (CoPI) and Dr. Meghann Lloyd (CoPI), A. Belcastro, J. Cairney, T. Saunders, J.D.
Willms. Children with and without movement difficulties: A 20 yearfollow up study of health related fitness and habitual physical activity. $95,000 Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Kate Graham (PI), S. Bernards, J. Cairney, A.R. Flynn, N. Poole, J. Rehm, P.F. Tremblay, S. Wells. Why did it happen? Perpetrators’ and targets’ explanations for intimate partner aggression. $129,875 Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Book Chapter:
McCann DGC. 2009.Chapter 31 I-- Disaster Medicine: A New Specialty Comes of Age. In Forensic Sciences, Volume 3. Cyril Wecht, Ed. Lexis Nexis Publishing. Chap 31I pp.579.