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Howard Ovens

University of Toronto
Verified email at utoronto.ca
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Emergency department overcrowding and access block

…, A Drummond, BH Rowe, HJ Ovens - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Emergency Department overcrowding (EDOC) is defined as a situation where the demand
for emergency services exceeds the ability of an emergency department (ED) to provide …

Frequent users of emergency departments. Do they also use family physicians' services?

BTB Chan, HJ Ovens - Canadian Family Physician, 2002 - cfp.ca
OBJECTIVE To determine whether frequent users of emergency department (ED) services
use more or fewer primary care services than other ED patients. DESIGN Population-based, …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy users of emergency services: a population-based review

HJ Ovens, BTB Chan - Cmaj, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
Note: ED= emergency department, GP/FP= general practitioner/family physician.* Heavy
users were patients who made 12 or more visits in the study year, and non-heavy users were …

Chronic migraineurs: an important subgroup of patients who visit emergency departments frequently

BTB Chan, HJ Ovens - Annals of emergency medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: We examine whether patients with frequent migraines represent a
distinct subgroup of patients who visit emergency departments (EDs) frequently. METHODS: …

Emergency physicians and sexual involvement with patients: an Ontario survey

HJ Ovens, JA Permaul-Woods - CMAJ, 1997 - Can Med Assoc
OBJECTIVE: To describe Ontario emergency physicians' knowledge of colleagues' sexual
involvement with patients and former patients, their own personal experience of such …

Microwave-mediated synthesis of lophine: developing a mechanism to explain a product

RD Crouch, JL Howard, JL Zile… - Journal of chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
ovensoven to 30% and heating for 10 minutes, we were able to achieve comparable yields
of the identical product. It is important to note that different models of microwave ovens have …

Coal devolatilization and hydrogastification

DB Anthony, JB Howard - AIChE Journal, 1976 - Wiley Online Library
The fundamental understanding of coal and its behavior under gasification conditions is far
from complete, but significant insights into the complex chemical and physical phenomena …

Exchange-coupled ni-fe/fe-mn, ni-fe/ni-mn and nio/ni-fe films for stabilization of magnetoresistive sensors

…, C Tsang, RE Fontana, JK Howard - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… as-deposited films were annealed in the tube oven. In each annealing cycle, the oven
temperature increased to a set value in 2 min, remained at this value for 20 min, and then …

Interrater reliability, accuracy, and triage time pre-and post-implementation of a real-time electronic triage decision-support tool

…, N Mittmann, S Scott, H Ovens, J Garay… - Annals of emergency …, 2020 - Elsevier
… d e , Steve Scott MBA, BEngMgt d , Howard Ovens MD a b , Jason Garay MHSc d , Michael
Ovens is a paid advisor to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care of Ontario and in that …

Shiftwork and emergency medical practice

JR Frank, H Ovens - Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2002 - cambridge.org
Shiftwork has numerous negative effects on workers, but it is an essential component of the
demanding 24/7 practice of emergency medicine. We conducted a systematic literature …