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Arthrocen & OA Pain Raw Data
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Investigation of the COMT Val158Met variant association with age of onset of psychosis, adjusting for cannabis use
(Wiley Periodicals, 2017)Objective COMT rs4680 (Val158Met) genotype moderates the effect of cannabis on the age of onset of psychosis (AoP). We investigated the association between rs4680 and AoP, after adjusting for relevant covariates, in a ... -
Integrated Quality Database
(2017-08-18)The organization: EMC provides ground and air ambulance services to Nova Scotians in emergencies. The services range from basic to advanced life support. Telehealth (811) is also part of this company which provides medical ... -
Clinical Alarm Management Project Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS
(2017-08-18)Research confirms that more than 70% of clinical alarms are unnecessary. Exposing clinicians to high volume of undesirable alarms may cause alarm fatigue associated with increasing patient risks and deaths. Alarm fatigue ... -
Utilising Bioportal to map terms in the Canada Vigilance Adverse Reaction Online Database to various terminologies and to identify the ideal terminology to supplement MedDRA to aid in Pharmacovigilance activities.
(2017-08-18)The Canada Vigilance Program is Health Canada’s post marketing surveillance program that collects and analyzes data related to the adverse events of health products that are marketed in Canada. Health Canada periodically ... -
Investigating Canadian Business & System Requirements at Allscripts Canada
(2017-08-11)Understanding the foundational principles upon which our healthcare organization is built, is perhaps one of the most crucial things when considering the implementation of healthcare technology within different clinical ... -
User Growth Intern at Figure 1
(2017-08-18)The purpose of user growth is to acquire new users to use a product or service. In the case of the internship at Figure 1, user growth is acquiring health care professionals for medical collaboration. Figure 1 is a tech ... -
Mapping Adverse Drug Reactions in Canadian Vigilance Adverse Reaction Database to various standardized terminologies and determining an ideal terminology to be...
(2017-08-18)Canada Vigilance Program is Health Canada’s post-market surveillance program that gathers and evaluates reports of suspected adverse drug reactions to various health products. This facilitates Health Canada to monitor ... -
Implementation of ChekOne Task Verification Software
(2017-08-18)The internship was performed at IWK Health Centre from May 10th, 2017 to September 8th 2017. The objective of the internship was to implement the ChekOne task verification software to track and monitor the daily work ... -
Health Data Analyst at DGI Clinical
(2017-08-18)This report discusses the internship undertaken by the author at DGI Clinical, a Halifax based company that provides innovative clinical metric solutions that demonstrate clinically meaningful outcomes of treatments. The ... -
Certification and Requirements Writing at Allscripts Canada
(2017-08-11)This document is a reflection of MHI internship performed at Allscripts Healthcare Inc., Canada, from May 15 – August 11, 2017. Allscripts Healthcare Inc. is an innovative company that provides healthcare solutions and ... -
Dynamics of Frailty and Cognition After Age 50: Why It Matters that Cognitive Decline is Mostly Seen in Old Age
(IOS Press, 2017-03)Background: Frailty has been considered an antecedent and, to a lesser extent, an outcome of cognitive impairment. Both frailty and cognitive impairment are multiply determined and each is strongly related to age, making ... -
Designing and Building an Internal Database at AGADA Biosciences
(2017-04-27)This report keeps track of the author’s internship at AGADA Biosciences in Halifax, Nova Scotia. AGADA Biosciences is a company who specializes in performing pre-clinical studies using murine models. They focus on ... -
Systematic review of childhood and adolescent risk and prognostic factors for recurrent headaches
(2016-08)Little is known about childhood and adolescent risk and prognostic factors for recurrent headaches. This systematic review: (1) Examined longitudinal evidence about factors associated with onset and course of recurrent ... -
A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of Childhood and Adolescent Risk and Prognostic Factors for Musculoskeletal Pain
(2016-08-10)A variety of factors may be involved in the development and course of musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. We undertook a systematic review with meta-analysis to synthesize and evaluate the quality of evidence about childhood and ... -
Social and environmental contexts modulate sleep deprivation-induced c-Fos activation in rats
(Elsevier, 2013-11-01)People often sleep deprive themselves voluntarily for social and lifestyle reasons. Animals also appear to stay awake longer as a result of their natural curiosity to explore novel environments and interact socially with ... -
Behavioural and neuronal activation after microinjections of AMPA and NMDA into the perifornical lateral hypothalamus in rats
(Elsevier, 2011-10-31)The perifornical lateral hypothalamic area (PeFLH), which houses orexin/hypocretin (OX) neurons, is thought to play an important role in arousal, feeding, and locomotor activity. The present study examined behavioural ... -
Role of polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule in rapid eye movement sleep regulation in rats
(Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and Blackwell Publishing Ltd (currently Wiley), 2009-12-03)Recent evidence suggests that synaptic plasticity occurs during homeostatic processes including sleep-wake regulation, although underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule ... -
Informatics Student Innovator with IWK Health Centre
(2016-08-15)This summer I have worked with IWK Health Centre and their Informatics Department in a novel position titled ‘Student Innovator in Health Informatics’, seeking to bring a health informatics based solution of my design ...
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