AbstractThe accidental fatality rate of the construction industry is one of the highest areas with occupational accidents in all workplaces. To investigate the most common and direct cause of hazardous accidental incidents, the unsafe behaviors of construction workers w...

SPIRIT 2013 Checklist. (PDF 48 kb)

Background Policy making, translation and implementation in politically and administratively decentralized systems can be challenging. Beyond the mere sub-national acceptance of national initiatives, adherence to policy implementation processes is often poor, particular...

Suboptimal stent delivery and deployment in calcified coronary lesions are associated with a poor clinical outcome. Using the National Inpatient Sample database, we identified patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Comparison between procedural an...

ABSTRACTThe Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task is a widely used measure of preschoolers’ executive function. We combined data for 3,290 3-year-olds from 37 unique studies reporting 130 experimental conditions. Using raw pass/fail counts, we computed the pass rates...

Risk of bias of included caseâ control studies. (DOC 52 kb)

This article provides a review of the memoir The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew.

Background Transplantation is often the best, if not the only treatment for end-stage organ failure; however, the quality metrics for determining whether a transplant program is delivering safe, high quality care remains unknown. The purpose of this study is to identify...

AbstractThis is an update to the 2014 Canadian Hereditary Angioedema Guideline with an expanded scope to include the management of hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients worldwide. It is a collaboration of Canadian and international HAE experts and patient groups led by t...

Data regarding chewing gum consumption habits and attitudes were collected for 963 children and adolescents (aged 6–14) and 3150 adolescents and adults (aged 13 years+) in the United States (U.S.) ...