Background The recent increase in childhood obesity is expected to add significantly to the
prevalence of chronic diseases. We used multivariate multilevel analysis to examine …

Background Evaluating geographic access to health services often requires determining the
patient travel time to a specified service. For urgent care, many research studies have …

Introduction In ischaemic stroke care, fast reperfusion is essential for disability free survival.
It is unknown if bypassing thrombolysis centres in favour of endovascular thrombectomy (…

Data pooling from pre-existing datasets can be useful to increase study sample size and
statistical power in order to answer a research question. However, individual datasets may …

Background Although the nature and frequency of postoperative complications after intestinal
resection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease have been previously described, …

… Contributors: Robert Welsh, Hude Quan and Padma Kaul conceived the study; Alka Patel,
Hude Quan and Padma Kaul wrote the manuscript; Alka Patel conducted the analysis and …

Rural Canadians have high health care needs due to high prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA)
but lack access to care. Examining realized access to three types of providers (general …

Background This study uses geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool to evaluate and
visualize the general accessibility of areas within the province of Alberta (Canada) to …

Objective This study examined the association of anxiety alone, depression alone and the
presence of both anxiety and depression with preterm birth (PTB) and further examined …

Evaluation designs that can capture the complexity of health promotion (HP) interventions are
needed. Our objective was to assess if such evaluations use a Complex Adaptive Systems …