61 research outputs found
Soul and body, sound and hearty: getting to know Bishop MacEachern
No full textThe examination of a letter written by first Roman Catholic bishop of Prince Edward Island, the Scottish Highlander Angus Bernard MacEachern, written in 1832 to a former parishoner Angus Walker in which the bishop engages in clever code switching from English to Scottish Gaelic and back in order to deliver a message which could only be understood, if intercepted, by another bilingual Scottish Gaelic/English speaker. The paper reveals the historical setting of the 1832 letter and goes on to examine closely the passages of Scottish Gaelic: their meaning in terms of social commentary, their non-standard orthography which provide clues to mainland Scottish dialect variants evidenced by the same, and the descriptions of parishoners encrypted in the author's first language.Source type: Print(0
Cardiac Rehabilitation and Frailty: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
No full textThere is a high level of frailty among individuals entering cardiac rehabilitation which is associated with worse health outcomes. However, there is no synthesis of literature which quantifies the relationship between frailty prevalence and outcomes following participation in cardiac rehabilitation. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes the cardiac rehabilitation literature to examine the prevalence of frailty, frailty changes, and if frailty is associated with adverse outcomes following cardiac rehabilitation
A comparative study of international recruitment – tensions and opportunities in institutional recruitment practice
No full textCardiac Rehabilitation and Frailty: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
No full textThere is a high level of frailty among individuals entering cardiac rehabilitation which is associated with worse health outcomes. However, there is no synthesis of literature which quantifies the relationship between frailty prevalence and outcomes following participation in cardiac rehabilitation. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes the cardiac rehabilitation literature to examine the prevalence of frailty, frailty changes, and if frailty is associated with adverse outcomes following cardiac rehabilitation
Comparing Virtual and Center Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Changes in Frailty
No full textThis is a paper-based thesis, however, the manuscript (Chapter 4) has not been submitted to an academic journal at the time of submitting this thesis.Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the gold standard for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Frailty defines health in ageing and is associated with adverse health outcomes. Evidence suggests traditional CR can reduce frailty levels, with the greatest improvements observed in the most severely frail patients. CR is also offered virtually, whereby patients receive their care remotely. Yet, whether virtual CR can improve patient frailty has not been studied. Here, we compared virtual versus center-based CR on changes in frailty and cardiovascular biomarkers. We observed center (0.14±0.003) versus virtual CR participants (0.07±0.003) had higher baseline frailty, though, we found no effect of cardiac rehabilitation model on change in frailty. Additionally, frailer virtual participants at admission showed greater frailty improvements (-3.810 [-7.360,-0.251], p=.034) and greater reductions in triglyceride (-0.766 [-1.508,-0.025], p=0.04) and cholesterol (-0.660 [-1.229,-0.092], p=.021) than center-based participants. Therefore, we recommend virtual CR as a feasible alternative to traditional CR
A Critical Analysis of Peer Reviewer Comments on Systematic Review Search Strategies
No full textThis document is a working draft, presented as-is. The authors do not plan to complete and submit it for publication.The full dataset for this project is available at:
Townsend, W. A., MacEachern, M. P., Song, J. (2020). Analyzing Reviewer Responses to Systematic Review Search Methodology through Open Peer Review [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/acjm-cz18Introduction: Numerous studies have demonstrated the poor quality of systematic reviews. While many groups provide methodology recommendations to increase the quality of search strategies and compliance with reporting standards, it is unclear how often or how rigorously the search strategies are actually reviewed during the manuscript peer review process. The peer review process should address egregious methodology and reporting issues, but we hypothesize that this process seldom adequately addresses the search methods. Through Open Peer Review (OPR), we were able to investigate how peer review handles the search process of systematic review studies.
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We conducted a search through one publisher's 54 medicine and public health journals that provide OPR documentation in order to identify systematic review papers published in 2017. For each article we determined if OPR data, reviewer and author comments, were accessible. If so, we assessed the search methodology and reporting quality of the search process with a grading rubric based on PRISMA and PRESS standards, and then mined peer reviewer comments for references to the search methodology.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/193519/1/FOR DEPOSIT Manuscript Outline_Open Peer Review.docxDescription of FOR DEPOSIT Manuscript Outline_Open Peer Review.docx : Draft articleSEL
Government-sponsored bursaries: Examining financial support for residents to study at home
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