Background Long-term multidisciplinary care after bariatric surgery is important for weight
maintenance and management of co-morbidities. Despite this, the rate of attendance to follow-…

… Author links open overlay panel Michelle Greiver MD a b , Tyler Williamson PhD c d , David
Barber MD c , Richard Birtwhistle MD c d , Babak Aliarzadeh MD a b , Shahriar Khan MSc c , …

Objective To determine whether neighbourhood walkability is associated with clinical
measures of obesity, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia in an urban adult population. …

Background Several new classes of glucose-lowering medications have been introduced in
the past two decades. Some, such as sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2s), …

Objective To demonstrate how non-negative matrix factorization can be used to learn a temporal
topic model over a large collection of primary care clinical notes, characterizing diverse …

Background: Some evidence supports the use of a short list of essential medicines to improve
prescribing. We aimed to create a preliminary essential medicines list for use in Canada. …

Objective To identify hospital and primary care health service use among people with
mental health conditions or addictions in an integrated primary-secondary care database in …

Background. Calculating disease prevalence requires both a numerator (number of persons
with a disease) and a matching denominator (the ‘population at risk’ being studied). …

Introduction All adolescent and adult patients should be asked if they smoke. Data entered in
electronic medical records offer new opportunities to study tobacco-related clinical activities…

Objectives To study systematic errors in recording blood pressure (BP) as measured by end
digit preference (EDP); to determine associations between EDP, uptake of Automated Office …