Peer-reviewed Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

ACHORD disseminates a variety of information through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings.

2023

• Risk of depressive disorders associated with medical cannabis authorization: A propensity score matched cohort study. 

• Rural Residence Is Associated With a Delayed Trend Away From Sulfonylurea Use for Treatment Intensification of Type 2 Diabetes. 

• Severity of in vivo corticospinal tract degeneration is associated with survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a longitudinal, multicohort study. 

• Impact of Co-morbidity on Hospitalization and Emergency Room Visits in People with Diabetes: A Longitudinal Study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project.

• A method for generating synthetic longitudinal health data. 

• On behalf of the ACHRU-CPP Research Team Older adults’ experiences and perceived impacts of the Aging, Community and Health Research Unit-Community Partnership Program (ACHRU-CPP) for diabetes self-management in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study. 

• Non-fasting lipids and cardiovascular disease in those with and without diabetes in Alberta's Tomorrow Project: a prospective cohort study.  

• Sarcopenia in Lung Cancer: A Narrative Review. 

• Effectiveness of RADAR: An Innovative Model to Organize Diabetes Care in First Nations Communities.

• Changes in Sarcopenia Status Predict Survivial Among Patients with Resectable Esophageal Cancer.

• Nonfasting remant cholesterol and cardiovascular disease risk prediction in Albertans: a prospective cohort study.

• Post-initiation predictors or discontinuation of the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: A comparative cohort study from the United Kingdom.

• Analgesic Use Among Adults with Trauma-Related Emergency Department Visit: A Retrospective Cohort Study from Alberta, Canada.

• Dairy product consumption and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

• Predicting falls-realted admissions in older adults in Alberta, Canada: a machine-learning falls prevention tool developed using population administrative health data.

• Predicting 30-day risk from benzodiazepine/Z-drug dispensations in older adults using administrative data: A prognostic machine learning approach.

• Impact of an online, individualized, patient reported outcome measures based patient decision aid on patient expectations, decisional regret, satisfaction, and health-related quality-of-life for patients considering total knee arthroplasty: results from a randomized controlled trial.

• “You need a team” – Perspectives on interdisciplinary symptom management using patient-reported outcome measures in hemodialysis care: A qualitative study.

• Identifying Sex-Specific Differences in Young-Onset Metabolic Syndrome Using Primary Care Electronic Medical Record.

• Canada Population norms for the EQ-5D-5L.

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2022

• Predicting 30-Day Readmissions in Patients With Heart Failure Using Administrative Data: A Machine Learning Approach. 

• Distinct patterns of progressive gray and white matter degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 

• Factors associated with early nonpersistence among patients experiencing side effects from a new medication. 

• Appropriateness of COVID-19 public health guidelines for an Alberta First Nations community. 

• Validity of functional patient-reported outcomes in head and neck oncology: A systematic review. 

• The Aging, Community and Health Research Unit Community Partnership Program (ACHRU-CPP) for older adults with diabetes and multiple chronic conditions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 

• Cost-utility analysis of normothermic machine perfusion compared to static cold storage in liver transplantation in the Canadian setting. 

• Metabolomic Fingerprint of Behavioral Changes in Response to Full-Spectrum Cannabis Extracts. 

• Skeletal muscle is prognostic in resected stage III malignant melanoma.

• Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Urinary Tract Infections: A Propensity Score-matched Population-based Cohort Study. 

• Mental health experiences with COVID-19 public health measures in an Alberta First Nations Community. 

• Risk of hospitalization and death associated with Sodium Glucose Cotransporter-2 inhibitors: A comparison with five other classes of antidiabetic drugs. 

• Five comparative cohorts to assess the risk of genital tract infections associated with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors initiation in type 2 diabetes mellitus. 

• Foregone Opportunities? Time to Treatment Intensification Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and Elevated Glycated Hemoglobin on Metformin Monotherapy, 2009-2018. 

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item (GAD-7) Scores in Medically Authorized Cannabis Patients-Ontario and Alberta, Canada. 

• Substance Use Disorders and Psychoactive Drug Poisoning in Medically Authorized Cannabis Patients: Longitudinal Cohort Study. 

• Anti-Hyperglycemic Medication Adherence and Health Services Utilization in People with Diabetes: A Longitudinal Study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project.

• Incidence and Predictors of Cannabis-Related Poisoning and Mental Behavioral Disorders among Patients with Medical Cannabis Authorization: A Cohort Study. 

• Comparison of the prognostic performance of the CURB-65 and a modified version of the pneumonia severity index designed to identify high-risk patients using the International Community-Acquired Pneumonia Collaboration Cohort. 

• Invasive Pneumonococcal Disease and Long-Term Mortality Rates in Adults, Alberta, Canada. 

• Disparities in adherence to diabetes screening guidelines among males and females in a universal care setting: A population-based study of 1,380,697 adults. 

• Invasive pneumococcal disease and long-term outcomes in children: A 20-year population cohort study.

• Sarcopenia reduces overall survival in unresectable oesophageal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 

• Sarcopenia Determined by Skeletal Muscle Index Predicts Overall Survival, Disease-free Survival, and Postoperative Complications in Resectable Esophageal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

• Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Estimate Risk of Adverse Outcomes Within 30 Days of Opioid Dispensation. 

• Cannabidiol Suppresses Cytokine Storm and Protects Against Cardiac and Renal Injury Associated with Sepsis. 

• Enhancing Diabetes Surveillance across Alberta by adding Laboratory and Pharmacy Data to the National Diabetes Surveillance System Methods. 

• Small differences in EQ-5D-5L health utility scores were interpreted differently between and within respondents.

• Mapping the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-Revised: Renal to the EQ-5D-5L in patients with chronic kidney disease.

• The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life of adults visiting emergency departments and primary care settings in Alberta. 

• Economic Evaluation of Sucrose Octasulfate Dressing for Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. 

• Comparative performance of the EuroQol EQ-5D-5L and the CDC Healthy Days measures in assessing population health. 

• Self-reported health-related quality of life of the general population in Alberta, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• How the Routine Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Hemodialysis Care Influences Patient-Clinician Communication: A Mixed-Methods Study. 

• An online individualised patient decision aid improves the quality of decisions in patients considering total knee arthroplasty in routine care: A randomized controlled trial.

• Health-related quality-of-life and health-utility reporting in clinical care.

2021

• Adopting and implementing an innovative model to organize diabetes care within First Nations communities: A qualitative assessment

• Characteristics and Outcomes of Physician-to-Physician Telephone Consultation Programs: Environmental Scan

• Effect of a pharmacy comprehensive chronic diseases care plan on use of lipid-lowering drugs among patients with hypertension

• Modifying the quality-adjusted life year calculation to account for meaningful change in health-related quality of life: insights from a pragmatic clinical trial.

• The effect of home medication review in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review

• The performance of the EQ-5D-3L in screening for anxiety and depressive symptoms in hospital and community settings

• The predictive ability of EQ-5D-3L compared to the LACE index and its association with 30-day post-hospitalization outcomes

• The effect of home medication review in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review.  

• Characteristics and Outcomes of Physician-to-Physician Telephone Consultation Programs: Environmental Scan. 

• The Actual Operative Costs of Liver Transplantation and Normothermic Machine Perfusion in a Canadian Setting. 

• Development Of An Ordinal Scale Treatment Endpoint In Adults Hospitalized With Influenza. 

• Men's Physical Activity and Sleep Following a Workplace Health Intervention: Findings from the POWERPLAY STEP Up challenge. 

• Cohort study of medical cannabis authorization and motor vehicle crash-related healthcare visits in 2014-2017 in Ontario, Canada. 

• Opioid use in medical cannabis authorization adult patients from 2013 to 2018: Alberta, Canada. 

• Safe opioid prescribing: a prognostic machine learning approach to predicting 30-day risk after an opioid dispensation in Alberta, Canada. 

• Gaps in evidence for the use of medically authorized cannabis: Ontario and Alberta, Canada. 

• Improved documentation following the implementation of a trauma registry: A means of sustainability for trauma registries in low- and middle-income countries.

• An exploratory study of body composition as a predictor of dose-limiting toxicity in metastatic pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel.

• Is there a need for pneumococcal vaccination programs for the homeless to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease? 

• Progressive Neurochemical Abnormalities in Cognitive and Motor Subgroups of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Prospective Multicenter Study. 

• Adherence to Home-Based Swallowing Therapy Using a Mobile System in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors. 

• Medical cannabis authorization and the risk of cardiovascular events: a longitudinal cohort study. 

• Exploring the impact of pharmacist comprehensive annual care plans on perceived quality of chronic illness care by patients in Alberta, Canada. 

• CT-based assessment of body composition and skeletal muscle in melanoma: A systematic review. 

• Chronic disease surveillance in Alberta's tomorrow project using administrative health data. 

• Renal effectiveness and safety of the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors: a population-based cohort study.

• Measuring value in healthcare from a patients’ perspective. 

• A multi-level approach for the use of routinely collected patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) data in healthcare systems. 

• Selection of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for use in health systems. 

• Patient-reported outcome measures in the care of in-centre hemodialysis patients. 

• Burden of mental health symptoms and perceptions of their management in .in-centre hemodialysis care: a mixed methods study.

• Searching the Holy Grail: A Systematic Review of Heath-Related Quality of Life Measures for Active Youth.

2020

• 3125 steps to perfect health: a nonparametric approach to developing the EQ-5D-5L value set

• A cluster randomized controlled trial for the Evaluation of routinely Measured PATient reported outcomes in HemodialYsis care (EMPATHY): A study protocol

• A longitudinal study on the association between diabetic foot disease and health related quality of life in people with type 2 diabetes

• Anthropometric changes and risk of diabetes: are there sex differences? A longitudinal study of Alberta’sTomorrow Project

• Change in Trajectories of Adherence to Lipid-Lowering Drugs Following Non-Fatal Acute Coronary Syndrome or Stroke

• Changes in body mass index and incidence of diabetes: A longitudinal study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project Cohort.

• Costarting sitagliptin with metformin is associated with a lower likelihood of disease progression in newly treated people with type 2 diabetes: a cohort study

• Developing and evaluating a patient decision aid for hormone therapy to manage symptoms of surgical menopause: the story behind the “SheEmpowers” patient decision aid

• Diet Quality and Health Service Utilization for Depression: A Prospective Investigation of Adults in Alberta’sTomorrow Project.

• Evaluation of comprehensive annual care plans by pharmacists in Alberta for patients with complex conditions

• Factors Associated with Pneumococcal Vaccination in 2040 People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-sectional Study

• Feasibility of identifying and describing the burden of early-onset metabolic syndrome in primary care electronic medical record data: a cross-sectional analysis

• Financial advantage or barrier when deprescribing for seniors: A case based analysis

• Pharmacologic Glycemic Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Adults: 2020 Update

• Potential cost-savings from the use of the biosimilars filgrastim, infliximab and insulin glargine in Canada: a retrospective analysis.

• Prevalence and Correlates of Accelerometer-Based Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Among Kidney Transplant Recipients

• Prevalence of diabetes in pregnancy among Indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Systemic use of antibiotics and risk of diabetes in adults: A nested case-control study of Alberta’sTomorrow Project.

• Thiazide Diuretic-Induced Change in Fasting Plasma Glucose: a Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

• Time to Treatment Intensification in Newly Treated Adult Type 2 Diabetes Patients: Comparison of Canada and the United States

• Validation of drug prescription records for senior patients in Alberta’s Tomorrow Project: Assessing agreement between two population-level administrative pharmaceutical databases in Alberta, Canada.

• Women’s experiences with peer counselling and social support during a lifestyle intervention among women with a previous gestational diabetes pregnancy

• Working towards a better understanding of type 2 diabetes care organization with First Nations communities: A qualitative assessment

2019

• An individualized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) based patient decision aid and surgeon report for patients considering total knee arthroplasty: protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

• Adherence to biphosphonates after an upper extremity fracture: A pre-specified substudy of the C-Stop randomized controlled trial

• Anthropometric Changes and Risk of Diabetes: Are There Differences between Men and Women? A Longitudinal Study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project Cohort

• Association of Depressive Symptoms and Diabetes Distress with Severe Hypoglycemia in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

• CMV-Specific T-cells and CD27-CD28-CD4+ T-cells for Assignment of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Status in Adults Awaiting Organ Transplant

• Change in Skeletal Muscle Following Resection of Stage I–III Colorectal Cancer is Predictive of Poor Survival: A Cohort Study

• Changes in functional status after aquatic exercise for adults with type 2 diabetes and arthritis: A Pilot Study

• Changing provider behaviour to increase nurse visits for obesity in family practice: The 5As Team Randomised Control Trial

• Characterisation of concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepine/Z-drugs in Alberta, Canada: a population-based study

• Clinical Utility of Pre-Exercises Stress Testing in People with Diabetes

• Cost-effectiveness of Osteoporosis Interventions to Improve Quality of Care after Upper Extremity Fracture: Results from a Randomized Trial (C-STOP Trial).

• Developing a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus in a primary care electronic medical record database: an exploratory study. 

• Discriminative Validity of the EQ-5D-5L and SF-12 in Older Adults with Arthritis.

• Evaluation of Health User Effects with Metformin and Other Oral Antihyperglycemia Medication Users in Adult Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

• Healthy Eating and Active Living for Diabetes-Glycemic Index (HEALD-GI): study rationale, design and evaluation of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

• Individualized Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) and Its Adaptations: A Critical Appraisal

• The History of Hypertension Guidelines in Canada

• Optimal threshold of adherence to lipid-lowering drugs in predicting acute coronary syndrome, stroke, or mortality: a cohort study

• Population-Level Outcomes With a 2-Step Approach for Gestational Diabetes Screening and Diagnosis: Response to the Letter to the Editor from Dr. Kong

• Prevalence and correlates of accelerometer-based physical activity and sedentary time among kidney transplant recipients

• Prognostic tools for cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of C-statistics

• Systematic review of community pharmacy-based and pharmacist-led foot care interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes

• The association between vascular complications during pregnancy in women with Type 1 diabetes and congenital malformations

• The Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance on Sexual Activity Outcomes in Cardiovascular Disease Patients: A Systematic Review.

• The frequency and availability of population-specific patient reported outcome measures and minimal clinically important differences among approved drugs in Canada.

• The importance of measuring the impact of patient-oriented research.

• Understanding the Experiences of East African Immigrant Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Validation of Drug Prescription Records for Senior Patients in Alberta’s Tomorrow Project: Assessing agreement between two population-level administrative pharmaceutical databases in Alberta, Canada

• Women’s experience with peer counselling and social support during a lifestyle intervention among women with a previous gestational diabetes pregnancy. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. 

2018

• Acute vs Cumulative Benefits of Metformin use in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Failure. 

• Changes in body mass index and incidence of diabetes: A longitudinal study of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project Cohort

• Changes in glucose-lowering drug use before and after cancer diagnosis among patients with diabetes.

• Comparative effectiveness and safety of cognitive enhancers for treating Alzheimer’s dementia: systematic review and network meta-analysis

• Dietary patterns prior to pregnancy and associations with pregnancy complications

• Effect of Age on the Manifestations and Outcomes of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Adults

• Examining Sex Differences in Glycaemic Index Knowledge and Intake Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. 

• Hospital rehabilitation for patients with obesity: a scoping review.

• Validation of administrative and clinical definitions for gestational diabetes mellitus against laboratory results. 

2017

• Association between Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

• Association of insulin dosage with mortality or major adverse cardiovascular events: a retrospective cohort study.

• Association of Preference-Based Health-Related Quality of Life with Weight Loss in Obese Adults.

• Body Mass Index Is Associated With Differential Rates of Coronary Revascularization After Cardiac Catheterization.

• Correlates of Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

• Dietary intake and prospective changes in cardiometabolic risk factors in children and youth.Prevalence of gestational diabetes among Chinese and South Asians: A Canadian population-based analysis.

• Examining Diet-Related Care Practices Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Focus on GlycemicIndex Choices.

• Geographic Clustering of Acute Complications and Sociodemographic Factors in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.Engaging Patients and Clinicians in Establishing Research Priorities for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

• Healthy eating and active living after gestational diabetes mellitus (HEALD-GDM):  Rationale, design, and proposed evaluation of a randomized controlled trial

• Limited Effectiveness of Diabetes Risk Assessment Tools in Seniors’ Facility Residents.

• Sex differences in associations between insulin resistance, heart rate variability, and arterial stiffness in healthy women and men: a physiology study.

• Sitagliptin and risk of fractures in type 2 diabetes: Results from the TECOS trial

• Time-Varying Risk for Breast Cancer Following Initiation of Glucose-Lowering Therapy in Women with Type 2 Diabetes: Exploring Detection Bias.

• Validation of administrative and clinical case definitions for gestational diabetes mellitus against laboratory results.

• Walking and type 2 diabetes risk using CANRISK scores among older adults.

2016

• Income-related inequalities in visual impairment and eye screening services in patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Large-for-Gestational-Age Neonate Predicts 2 5-Fold Increased Odds of Neonatal Hypoglycemia in Women with Type 1 Diabetes

• Sex differences in associations between insulin resistance, heart rate variability, and arterial stiffness in healthy women and men: a physiology study.

• Dietary intake and prospective changes in cardiometabolic risk factors in children and youth.

• Prevalence of gestational diabetes among Chinese and South Asians: A Canadian population-based analysis.

• Time-Varying Risk for Breast Cancer Following Initiation of Glucose-Lowering Therapy in Women with Type 2 Diabetes: Exploring Detection Bias.

• Walking and type 2 diabetes risk using CANRISK scores among older adults.

• Geographic Clustering of Acute Complications and Sociodemographic Factors in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.

• Engaging Patients and Clinicians in Establishing Research Priorities for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

• Association of insulin dosage with mortality or major adverse cardiovascular events: a retrospective cohort study.

• Hospital rehabilitation for patients with obesity: a scoping review.

• Longer Duration of Diabetes Strongly Impacts Fracture Risk Assessment: The Manitoba BMD Cohort.

• Examining Diet-Related Care Practices Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Focus on Glycemic Index Choices.

• Intensive lowering of blood pressure: Should we SPRINT?

• The association between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and poor glycaemic control: a longitudinal cohort study.

• Validation of administrative and clinical case definitions for gestational diabetes mellitus against laboratory results.

• Association between Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

• Sitagliptin and risk of fractures in type 2 diabetes: Results from the TECOS trial.

• Environmental Risk Factors and Type 1 Diabetes: Past, Present, and Future.

• Systematic review of validated case definitions for diabetes in ICD-9-coded and ICD-10-coded data in adult populations.

• A qualitative study examining healthcare managers and providers’ perspectives on participating in primary care implementation research.

• The temporal relationship between diabetes and cancer: A population-based study.

• Factors Affecting Number of Diabetes Management Activities Provided by Pharmacists.

• Comparative effectiveness of incretin-based therapies and the risk of death and cardiovascular events in 38,233 metformin monotherapy users.

• Telemonitoring and Protocolized Case Management for Hypertensive Community-Dwelling Seniors With Diabetes: Protocol of the TECHNOMED Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Treated glycosylated hemoglobin levels in individuals with diabetes mellitus vary little by health status: A retrospective cohort study.

• Medication Adherence Affects Risk of New Diabetes Complications: A Cohort Study.

• Severe Obesity Is Associated With Increased Risk of Early Complications and Extended Length of Stay Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery.

• Comparative effectiveness and safety of gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and adjustable gastric banding in a population-based bariatric program: prospective cohort study.

• Hypertension Canada’s 2016 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Guidelines for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, and Assessment of Risk of Pediatric Hypertension.

• Direct comparison of FRAX(R) and a simplified fracture risk assessment tool in routine clinical practice: a registry-based cohort study.

• Dose-response relationship between sulfonylureas and major adverse cardiovascular events in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Comparability of two commonly used automated office blood pressure devices in the severely obese.

• Antiresorptive therapy and newly diagnosed diabetes in women: a historical cohort study.

• The relationship of diabetes-related distress and depressive symptoms with physical activity and dietary behaviors in adults with type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional study.

• Association between subjective social status and cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Dietary Patterns in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Predict Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.

• Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of Collaborative Care for Diabetes and Depression in Primary Care.

• Does Sitagliptin Affect the Rate of Osteoporotic Fractures in Type 2 Diabetes? Population-Based Cohort Study.

• Testing social-cognitive mediators for objective estimates of physical activity from the Healthy Eating and Active Living for Diabetes in Primary Care Networks (HEALD-PCN) study.

• Antihypertensive treatments for adults with type 2 diabetes.

2015

• The association between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and poor glycaemic control: a longitudinal cohort study.

• How much will we pay to increase steps per day? Examining the cost-effectiveness of a pedometer-based lifestyle program in primary care.

• Current depressive symptoms but not history of depression predict hospital readmission or death after discharge from medical wards: a multisite prospective cohort study.

• Income-related inequalities in visual impairment and eye screening services in patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Health Literacy, Pedometer, and Self-Reported Walking Among Older Adults.

• Associations of Body Mass Index With Incident Fractures and Hip Structural Parameters in a Large Canadian Cohort.

• (1)H-NMR urinary metabolomic profiling for diagnosis of gastric cancer.

• Osteoarthritis prevalence and modifiable factors: a population study.

• Health literacy and health-related quality of life in adults with type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal study.

• Validation of administrative data case definitions for gestational diabetes mellitus.

• Prevalence and Timing of Screening and Diagnostic Testing for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Study in Alberta, Canada.

• Perceived Barriers to and Facilitators of Patient-to-Provider E-Mail in the Management of Diabetes Care.

• Sulfonylurea use is associated with larger infarct size in patients with diabetes and ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

• Alternation as a form of allocation for quality improvement studies in primary healthcare settings: the on-off study design.

• Temporal variation of diabetic ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes: A nationwide cohort study.

• A Comparison of Casual In-Clinic Blood Pressure Measurements to Standardized Guideline-Concordant Measurements in Severely Obese Individuals.

• The Comparative Effectiveness of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Patients With Diabetes.

• Contextualizing the Proven Effectiveness of a Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: A Qualitative Assessment Based on the RE-AIM Framework.

• Diabetic Foot Disease, Self-Care and Clinical Monitoring in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: The Alberta’s Caring for Diabetes (ABCD) Cohort Study.

• The Alberta’s Caring for Diabetes (ABCD) Study: Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of a Prospective Cohort of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.

• Contextualizing the Effectiveness of a Collaborative Care Model for Primary Care Patients with Diabetes and Depression (Teamcare): A Qualitative Assessment Using RE-AIM.

• How dead is dead? Qualitative findings from participants of combined traditional and lead-time time trade-off valuations.

• Risk of new-onset heart failure in patients using sitagliptin: a population-based cohort study.

• Challenges in Identifying Patients with Type 2 Diabetes for Quality-Improvement Interventions in Primary Care Settings and the Importance of Valid Disease Registries.

• Impact of Organizational Stability on Adoption of Quality-Improvement Interventions for Diabetes in Primary Care Settings.

• How Do You Know Which Health Care Effectiveness Research You Can Trust? A Guide to Study Design for the Perplexed.

• Ten-Year Mortality after Community-acquired Pneumonia. A Prospective Cohort.

• Characteristics and health behaviors of diabetic patients receiving influenza vaccination.

• Socioeconomic factors associated with visual impairment and ophthalmic care utilization in patients with type II diabetes.

• Associations between health literacy and health outcomes in a predominantly low-income african american population with type 2 diabetes.

• Association of Inadequate Health Literacy with Health Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Depression: Secondary Analysis of a Controlled Trial.

• Effect of an experiential exercise in diabetes management on pharmacy students’ fear and perceived pain of injection and fingertip lancing.

• Effect of oral vitamin D analogs on mortality and cardiovascular outcomes among adults with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis.

• Cardiovascular safety of sulphonylureas: over 40 years of continuous controversy without an answer.

• Multimorbidity in a prospective cohort: prevalence and associations with weight loss and health status in severely obese patients.

• The impact of multimorbidity on short-term events in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: prospective cohort study.

• Increase in Daily Steps After an Exercise Specialist Led Lifestyle Intervention for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes In Primary Care: A Controlled Implementation Trial.

• Limited impact of drug exposure misclassification from non-benefit thiazolidinedione drug use on mortality and hospitalizations from Saskatchewan, Canada: a cohort study.

• Cost-effectiveness analysis of adding pharmacists to primary care teams to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with Type 2 diabetes: results from a randomized controlled trial.

• Comparative cardiovascular safety of insulin secretagogues following hospitalization for ischemic heart disease among type 2 diabetes patients: a cohort study.

2014

• Effect of oral vitamin D analogs on mortality and cardiovascular outcomes among adults with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis.

• The impact of multimorbidity on short-term events in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: prospective cohort study.

• Safety and effectiveness of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors versus intermediate-acting insulin or placebo for patients with type 2 diabetes failing two oral antihyperglycaemic agents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

• Comparative cardiovascular safety of insulin secretagogues following hospitalization for ischemic heart disease among type 2 diabetes patients: a cohort study.

• Mortality risk among sulfonylureas: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

• Diabetes that impacts on routine activities predicts slower recovery after total knee arthroplasty: an observational study.

• Sex-based disparities in cardioprotective medication use in adults with diabetes.

• Impact of gestational diabetes mellitus and high maternal weight on the development of diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease: a population-level analysis.

• Health literacy and nurses’ communication with type 2 diabetes patients in primary care settings.

• Trends in postcoronary artery bypass graft sternal wound dehiscence in a provincial population.

• Weight loss required by the severely obese to achieve clinically important differences in health-related quality of life: two-year prospective cohort study.

• Collaborative care versus screening and follow-up for patients with diabetes and depressive symptoms: results of a primary care-based comparative effectiveness trial.

• Safety, effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of long acting versus intermediate acting insulin for patients with type 1 diabetes: systematic review and network meta-analysis.

• Measurement properties and comparative performance of health literacy screening questions in a predominantly low income African American population with diabetes.

• Clinical review: Effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on improving glucose homeostasis and preventing diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Outdoor time is associated with physical activity, sedentary time, and cardiorespiratory fitness in youth.

• Life course impact of school-based promotion of healthy eating and active living to prevent childhood obesity.

• Sitagliptin use in patients with diabetes and heart failure: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

• Implementation and evaluation of the 5As framework of obesity management in primary care: design of the 5As Team (5AsT) randomized control trial.

• Food and physical activity behaviours of adults attending a prediabetes education class.

• Association between participation in a brief diabetes education programme and glycaemic control in adults with newly diagnosed diabetes.

• Cardiovascular medication utilization and adherence among adults living in rural and urban areas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Implementation research in osteoporosis: an update.

• Association between diabetic ketoacidosis hospitalizations and driving distance to outpatient diabetes centres in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

• The 2014 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, prevention, and treatment of hypertension.

• A primary care based healthy-eating and active living education session for weight reduction in the pre-diabetic population.

• Prompted awareness and use of Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide: a population-based study.

• Comparative effectiveness of olmesartan and other angiotensin receptor blockers in diabetes mellitus: retrospective cohort study.

• Mental health and the relationship between health promotion counseling and health outcomes in chronic conditions: cross-sectional population-based study.

• Working-age adults with diabetes experience greater susceptibility to seasonal influenza: a population-based cohort study.

• Prioritization and willingness to pay for bariatric surgery: the patient perspective.

• Predictors of health-related quality of life in 500 severely obese patients.

• Prevalence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity in diabetic patients treated with aspirin.

• Weight loss and outcomes in wait-listed, medically managed, and surgically treated patients enrolled in a population-based Bariatric program: prospective cohort study.

• Effectiveness of mobile electronic devices in weight loss among overweight and obese populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Profile of adults with type 2 diabetes and uptake of clinical care best practices: results from the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada – Diabetes component.

• Changes in thiazolidinedione use and outcomes following removal of a prior-authorization policy: controlled time-series analysis.

2013

• Utilization of health resources in South Asian, Chinese and white patients with diabetes mellitus.

• The effect of weight loss on health-related quality of life: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.

• Vigorous physical activity and longitudinal associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in youth.

• Diabetes treatments and cancer risk: the importance of considering aspects of drug exposure.

• Prevalence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity in diabetic patients treated with aspirin.

• Profile of adults with type 2 diabetes and uptake of clinical care best practices: results from the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada – Diabetes component.

• Multimorbidity prevalence in the general population: the role of obesity in chronic disease clustering.

• Use patterns of antidiabetic regimens by patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Utilization of health resources in South Asian, Chinese and white patients with diabetes mellitus.

• Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: Results of the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada.

• Risks of gestational diabetes and preeclampsia over the last decade in a cohort of Alberta women.

• A simple prediction rule for all-cause mortality in a cohort eligible for bariatric surgery.

• The effect of weight loss on health-related quality of life: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.

• Hypoglycemia associated with hospitalization and adverse events in older people: population-based cohort study.

• The evaluating self-management and educational support in severely obese patients awaiting multidisciplinary bariatric care (EVOLUTION) trial: rationale and design.

• Hospitalization for uncomplicated hypertension: an ambulatory care sensitive condition.

• Vigorous physical activity and longitudinal associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in youth.

• Prevalence and predictors of self-reported sexual abuse in severely obese patients in a population-based bariatric program.

• Risk of acute coronary events associated with glyburide compared with gliclazide use in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study.

• Risks and benefits of intensive blood pressure lowering in patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Determinants of lifestyle behavior in type 2 diabetes: results of the 2011 cross-sectional survey on living with chronic diseases in Canada.

• Comparative safety and effectiveness of sitagliptin in patients with type 2 diabetes: retrospective population based cohort study.

• Join the conversation! The development and preliminary application of conversation cards in pediatric weight management.

• Anthropometric and dietary predictors of insulin sensitivity in 10- to 14-year-old boys and girls.

• Effectiveness of influenza vaccination in working-age adults with diabetes: a population-based cohort study.

• Association between maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level and pregnancy and neonatal outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

• Comparative safety and effectiveness of metformin in patients with diabetes mellitus and heart failure: systematic review of observational studies involving 34,000 patients.

• Adding pharmacists to primary care teams increases guideline-concordant antiplatelet use in patients with type 2 diabetes: results from a randomized trial.

• Clinical and socio-demographic factors associated with diabetic ketoacidosis hospitalization in adults with Type 1 diabetes.

• Health care costs in people with diabetes and their association with glycemic control and kidney function.

• Health literacy and health outcomes in diabetes: a systematic review.

• Obesity and outcomes in patients hospitalized with pneumonia.

• The Alberta Diabetes and Physical Activity Trial (ADAPT): a randomized trial evaluating theory-based interventions to increase physical activity in adults with type 2 diabetes.

• Measuring health literacy in individuals with diabetes: a systematic review and evaluation of available measures.

• Health related quality of life measures in Arabic speaking populations: a systematic review on cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties.

2012

• Anthropometric and dietary predictors of insulin sensitivity in 10- to 14-year-old boys and girls.

• Health care costs in people with diabetes and their association with glycemic control and kidney function.

• Insulin use and cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

• Applying the RE-AIM framework to the Alberta’s Caring for Diabetes Project: a protocol for a comprehensive evaluation of primary care quality improvement interventions.

• Health literacy and health outcomes in diabetes: a systematic review.

• Thiazolidinedione use and cancer incidence in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Characteristics of the population eligible for and receiving publicly funded bariatric surgery in Canada.

• Physical activity intensity and cardiometabolic risk in youth.

• Obesity and outcomes in patients hospitalized with pneumonia.

• Controlled trial of a collaborative primary care team model for patients with diabetes and depression: rationale and design for a comprehensive evaluation.

• Stress hyperglycemia and newly diagnosed diabetes in 2124 patients hospitalized with pneumonia.

• Use of thiazolidinediones and the risk of bladder cancer among people with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis.

• PP157. Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant women with gestational diabetes in Alberta.

• Healthy eating and active living for diabetes in primary care networks (HEALD-PCN): rationale, design, and evaluation of a pragmatic controlled trial for adults with type 2 diabetes.

• The 2012 Canadian hypertension education program recommendations for the management of hypertension: blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, and therapy.

• Increasing rates of diabetes amongst status Aboriginal youth in Alberta, Canada.

• Restrictive drug coverage policies can induce substantial drug exposure misclassification in pharmacoepidemiologic studies.

• Relationship between duration of type 2 diabetes and self-reported participation in diabetes education in Korea.

• Measuring health literacy in individuals with diabetes: a systematic review and evaluation of available measures.

• Adding pharmacists to primary care teams reduces predicted long-term risk of cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetic patients without established cardiovascular disease: results from a randomized trial.

• Diabetes and cancer (1): evaluating the temporal relationship between type 2 diabetes and cancer incidence.

• Patient-level evaluation of community-based, multifactorial intervention to prevent diabetic nephropathy in northern alberta, Canada.

• Utilization of general and specialized cardiac care by people with schizophrenia.

• Quantifying the impact of drug exposure misclassification due to restrictive drug coverage in administrative databases: a simulation cohort study.

• Enrolment in primary care networks: impact on outcomes and processes of care for patients with diabetes.

• Validation of classification algorithms for childhood diabetes identified from administrative data.

• Filling a Need: Pediatric Lifestyle Programs for Diabetes and Weight Management.

2011

• Patient-level evaluation of community-based, multifactorial intervention to prevent diabetic nephropathy in northern alberta, Canada.

• Quantifying the impact of drug exposure misclassification due to restrictive drug coverage in administrative databases: a simulation cohort study.

• Determinants of quality of life in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

• Enrolment in primary care networks: impact on outcomes and processes of care for patients with diabetes.

• Association between glycemic control and adverse outcomes in people with diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease: a population-based cohort study.

• Hypoglycemic agents in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

• Appreciating the medical literature: five notable articles in general internal medicine from 2009 and 2010.

• Changes in labelling for metformin use in patients with type 2 diabetes and heart failure: documented safety outweighs theoretical risks.

• Risk of breast cancer after onset of type 2 diabetes: evidence of detection bias in postmenopausal women.

• The effects of a supplemental, theory-based physical activity counseling intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes.

• The 2011 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, and therapy.

• Recent epidemiologic trends of diabetes mellitus among status Aboriginal adults.

• Validation of classification algorithms for childhood diabetes identified from administrative data.

• Time-varying incidence of cancer after the onset of type 2 diabetes: evidence of potential detection bias.

• Effect of aspirin dose on mortality and cardiovascular events in people with diabetes: a meta-analysis.

• Metformin and exercise in type 2 diabetes: examining treatment modality interactions.

• Aspirin effect on the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Do anthropometric indices accurately reflect directly measured body composition in men and women with chronic heart failure?

• Effect of alcohol consumption on biological markers associated with risk of coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies.

• How important is age in defining the prognosis of patients with community-acquired pneumonia?

• Oxygen saturations less than 92% are associated with major adverse events in outpatients with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study.

• Determinants of quality of life in type 2 diabetes population: the inclusion of personality.

• Intensive glycaemic control and cancer risk in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of major trials.

• Systematic review and meta-analysis: anti-tumor necrosis factor α therapy and cardiovascular events in rheumatoid arthritis.

• Effect of adding pharmacists to primary care teams on blood pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial.

• Prognostic impact of pre-operative albumin on short-term mortality and complications in patients with hip fracture.

• Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and health care use in people with and without schizophrenia.

2010

• Oxygen saturations less than 92% are associated with major adverse events in outpatients with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study.

• Physical activity related information sources predict physical activity behaviors in adults with type 2 diabetes.

• Determinants of quality of life in type 2 diabetes population: the inclusion of personality.

• Intensive glycaemic control and cancer risk in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of major trials.

• The Alberta population-based prospective evaluation of the quality of life outcomes and economic impact of bariatric surgery (APPLES) study: background, design and rationale.

• Effect of adding pharmacists to primary care teams on blood pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial.

• Prognostic impact of pre-operative albumin on short-term mortality and complications in patients with hip fracture.

• Insulin, glucose and the increased risk of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Do researchers use pharmacists’ communication as an outcome measure? A scoping review of pharmacist involvement in diabetes care.

• Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and health care use in people with and without schizophrenia.

• Child Health Ecological Surveillance System (CHESS) for childhood obesity: a feasibility study.

• Association between direct measures of body composition and prognostic factors in chronic heart failure.

• Admission hypoglycemia and increased mortality in patients hospitalized with pneumonia.

• Effect of preoperative glucose-insulin-potassium infusions on mortality and atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

• Physical activity and stages of change: a longitudinal test in types 1 and 2 diabetes samples.

• Glucose-lowering therapies and cancer risk: the trials and tribulations of trials and observations.

• Glucose-lowering agents and cancer mortality rates in type 2 diabetes: assessing effects of time-varying exposure.

• Validity of administrative data claim-based methods for identifying individuals with diabetes at a population level.

• Glycemic control and the risk of death in 1,484 patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

• Association of median household income with burden of coronary artery disease among individuals with diabetes.

• Outcomes in a diabetic population of South Asians and whites following hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study.

• Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and disease in people with schizophrenia: a population-based study.

• Alberta Diabetes and Physical Activity Trial (ADAPT): a randomized theory-based efficacy trial for adults with type 2 diabetes–rationale, design, recruitment, evaluation, and dissemination.

• Dysglycaemia and 90 day and 1 year risks of death or readmission in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia.

• Metabolic risk varies according to waist circumference measurement site in overweight boys and girls.

• Insulin use and increased risk of mortality in type 2 diabetes: a cohort study.

2009

• Association of median household income with burden of coronary artery disease among individuals with diabetes.

• Dysglycaemia and 90 day and 1 year risks of death or readmission in patients hospitalised for community-acquired pneumonia.

• The Enhancing Secondary Prevention in Coronary Artery Disease trial.

• Increasing incidence and prevalence with limited survival gains among rural Albertans with diabetes: a retrospective cohort study, 1995-2006.

• Metabolic risk varies according to waist circumference measurement site in overweight boys and girls.

• Insulin use and increased risk of mortality in type 2 diabetes: a cohort study.

• Improved cardiovascular health following a progressive walking and dietary intervention for type 2 diabetes.

• Hypertension treatment and control rates: chart review in an academic family medicine clinic.

• Forced euvolemic diuresis with mannitol and furosemide for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with CKD undergoing coronary angiography: a randomized controlled trial.

• Increasing incidence and prevalence of diabetes among the Status Aboriginal population in urban and rural Alberta, 1995-2006.

• Risk of heart failure in patients with recent-onset type 2 diabetes: population-based cohort study.

• Preoperative statin use and infection after cardiac surgery: a cohort study.

• Metformin treatment in diabetes and heart failure: when academic equipoise meets clinical reality.

• Elevated body mass index and use of coronary revascularization after cardiac catheterization.

• Admission hyperglycemia predicts a worse outcome in stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis.

• Long-term outcomes of patients receiving drug-eluting stents.

2008

• Risk of heart failure in patients with recent-onset type 2 diabetes: population-based cohort study.

• Maintenance of improved lipid levels following attendance at a cardiovascular risk reduction clinic: a 10-year experience.

• Long-term outcomes of patients receiving drug-eluting stents.

• Self-monitoring of blood glucose was not cost-effective in non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes.

• Glycaemic control was not affected by self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.

• A randomized trial of the effect of community pharmacist and nurse care on improving blood pressure management in patients with diabetes mellitus: study of cardiovascular risk intervention by pharmacists-hypertension (SCRIP-HTN).

• Access to health care among status Aboriginal people with chronic kidney disease.

• Self-monitoring of blood glucose was not cost-effective in non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes.

• Glycemic control was not affected by self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.

• The darkening cloud of diabetes: do trends in cardiovascular risk management provide a silver lining?

• Walking: a matter of quantity and quality physical activity for type 2 diabetes management.

• The ankle-to-arm blood pressure index predicts risk of cardiac complications after noncardiac surgery.

• Health-related behaviours in adults with diabetes: associations with health care utilization and costs.

• The risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with oral agent monotherapy.

• Review: thiazolidinediones increase congestive heart failure but not cardiovascular deaths in prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.

• The efficacy and safety of intensive statin therapy: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.

• Impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance, as well as known diabetes, increased risk for death within 5 years.

• Acute effect of metformin on exercise capacity in active males.

• Type of antidepressant therapy and risk of type 2 diabetes in people with depression.

• Clinical in-stent restenosis with bare metal stents: is it truly a benign phenomenon?

2007

• Health care costs and mortality for Canadian urban and rural patients with diabetes: population-based trends from 1993-2001.

• Health care costs and mortality for Canadian urban and rural patients with diabetes: population-based trends from 1993-2001.

• Acute effect of metformin on exercise capacity in active males.

• Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and survival among aboriginal people.

• Quality of life after islet transplant: impact of the number of islet infusions and metabolic outcome.

• Benefits and harms of antidiabetic agents in patients with diabetes and heart failure: systematic review.

• Type of antidepressant therapy and risk of type 2 diabetes in people with depression.

• Clinical in-stent restenosis with bare metal stents: is it truly a benign phenomenon?

• How evidence-based are the recommendations in evidence-based guidelines?

• Short-term risk for stroke is doubled in persons with newly treated type 2 diabetes compared with persons without diabetes: a population-based cohort study.

• Glycemic control and use of the insulin sliding scale in hospitalized patients with diabetes.

• The effect of specialist care within the first year on subsequent outcomes in 24,232 adults with new-onset diabetes mellitus: population-based cohort study.

• Derivation and validation of a clinical index for prediction of rapid progression of kidney dysfunction.

• Drug treatments for obesity: orlistat, sibutramine, and rimonabant.

2006

• Utilization of diabetes medication and cost of testing supplies in Saskatchewan, 2001.

• The natural history of LDL control in type 2 diabetes: a prospective study of adherence to lipid guidelines.

• Health care use and costs in the decade after identification of type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a population-based study.

• Self-monitoring in Type 2 diabetes: a randomized trial of reimbursement policy.

• Association of socio-economic status with diabetes prevalence and utilization of diabetes care services.

• Treatment and blood pressure control in 47,964 people with diabetes and hypertension: a systematic review of observational studies.

• Understanding the determinants of health for people with type 2 diabetes.

• Type 2 diabetes does not increase risk of depression.

• Walking faster: distilling a complex prescription for type 2 diabetes management through pedometry.

• Health Utilities Index mark 3 demonstrated construct validity in a population-based sample with type 2 diabetes.

• A cross-sectional study of health-related quality of life deficits in individuals with comorbid diabetes and cancer.

• Misinterpretation with norm-based scoring of health status in adults with type 1 diabetes.

• Progression of kidney dysfunction in the community-dwelling elderly.

• Increased cancer-related mortality for patients with type 2 diabetes who use sulfonylureas or insulin.

• External validation of a percutaneous coronary intervention mortality prediction model in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

• Dose-response relation between sulfonylurea drugs and mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study.

2005

• Risk factors for new-onset diabetes mellitus in patients receiving protease inhibitor therapy.

• Improved clinical outcomes associated with metformin in patients with diabetes and heart failure.

• Angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of myocardial infarction: systematic review.

• Relationship between number, timing, and type of pharmacist interventions and patient outcomes.

• Understanding the complex associations between patient-provider relationships, self-care behaviours, and health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetes: a structural equation modeling approach.

• Health-related quality of life deficits associated with diabetes and comorbidities in a Canadian National Population Health Survey.

• Secondary failure rates associated with metformin and sulfonylurea therapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus.

• Measuring habitual walking speed of people with type 2 diabetes: are they meeting recommendations?

• History of depression increases risk of type 2 diabetes in younger adults.

• The relation between hyperglycemia and outcomes in 2,471 patients admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia.

• Generalizability and persistence of a multifaceted intervention for improving quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with metformin use in subjects with Type 2 diabetes.

• Long-term impact of a community pharmacist intervention on cholesterol levels in patients at high risk for cardiovascular events: extended follow-up of the second study of cardiovascular risk intervention by pharmacists (SCRIP-plus).

• Management of community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency room.

• A systematic review of drug therapy to delay or prevent type 2 diabetes.

• Economic evaluation of sirolimus-eluting stents.

2004

• Evidence of suboptimal management of cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and symptomatic atherosclerosis.

• The association among renal insufficiency, pharmacotherapy, and outcomes in 6,427 patients with heart failure and coronary artery disease.

• Survival after coronary revascularization among patients with kidney disease.

• Statin use in Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a delay in starting insulin.

• Lack of insurance coverage for testing supplies is associated with poorer glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Treatment gaps for hypertension management in rural Canadian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

• Reduced mortality associated with the use of ACE inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes.

• Improvements in patient-reported outcomes associated with an intervention to enhance quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes: results of a controlled trial.

• Underuse of aspirin in type 2 diabetes mellitus: prevalence and correlates of therapy in rural Canada.

• Performance of the RAND-12 and SF-12 summary scores in type 2 diabetes.

• Construct validity of the RAND-12 and Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and 3 in type 2 diabetes.

• Detailed cost analysis of care for survivors of severe sepsis.

• Greater effect of enhanced pharmacist care on cholesterol management in patients with diabetes mellitus: a planned subgroup analysis of the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Intervention by Pharmacists (SCRIP).

• Effect of community pharmacist intervention on cholesterol levels in patients at high risk of cardiovascular events: the Second Study of Cardiovascular Risk Intervention by Pharmacists (SCRIP-plus).

2003

• Stroke: strategies for primary prevention.

• Health-related quality of life deficits associated with varying degrees of disease severity in type 2 diabetes.

• A comparison of the health utilities indices Mark 2 and Mark 3 in type 2 diabetes.

• Sex differences in the prognostic importance of diabetes in patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing coronary angiography.

• Controlled trial of a multifaceted intervention for improving quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes.

• The cost of major comorbidity in people with diabetes mellitus.

• In-hospital outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in Canada: 1992/93 to 2000/01.

• Outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Canada: 1992/93 to 2000/01.

• Compliance with clinical practice guidelines for type 2 diabetes in rural patients: treatment gaps and opportunities for improvement.

2002

• Patient profiles at a centralized, urban, diabetes education centre.

• Decreased mortality associated with the use of metformin compared with sulfonylurea monotherapy in type 2 diabetes.

• How well are hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and smoking managed after a stroke or transient ischemic attack?

• A randomized trial of the effect of community pharmacist intervention on cholesterol risk management: the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Intervention by Pharmacists (SCRIP).

2001

• Use of chelation therapy after coronary angiography.

• Effectiveness of a group psychoeducation program for the treatment of subclinical disordered eating in women with type 1 diabetes.

• Comparison of 2 methods for calculating adjusted survival curves from proportional hazards models.

• Economic impact of community pharmacist intervention in cholesterol risk management: an evaluation of the study of cardiovascular risk intervention by pharmacists.

2000

• Prognostic significance of diabetes as a predictor of survival after cardiac catheterization. APPROACH Investigators. Alberta Provincial Program for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease.

• Excess costs of diabetes in the Aboriginal population of Manitoba, Canada.

• Pharmacists’ attitudes toward diabetes.