A Broken Bone is Life-Changing!

A doctor is holding a tablet computer, with one hand on the shoulder of an elderly patient. They are both smiling while looking at the test results.

A Broken Bone is Life-Changing John Winslow December 2019 Facebook X (Twitter) Linkedin Email John Winslow was an engineer who loved getting the job done. He enrolled in McMaster University’s Divinity Program and went on to become a Reverend. A resident of Hamilton, he believed in giving back to the community and spent his leisure…

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Improvements in osteoporosis testing & care are found following the wide scale implementation of the Ontario Fracture Clinic Screening Program

Improvements in osteoporosis testing and care are found following the wide scale implementation of the Ontario Fracture Clinic Screening Program: an interrupted time series analysis Beaton DE, Mamdani M, Zheng H, Jaglal S, Cadarette SM, Bogoch ER, Sale JEM, Sujic R, Jain R. Medicine. 2017; 96(48):e9012. We evaluated a system-wide impact of a health intervention to…

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Association between wait-time and 30-day mortality in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery

Association between wait-time and 30-day mortality in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery Pincus D, Ravi B, Wasserstein D, Huang A, Paterson JM, Nathens AB, Kreder HJ, Jenkinson RJ, Wodchis WP. JAMA. 2017; 318(20):1994-2003. Epub 2017 Nov 28. Importance — Although wait-times for hip fracture surgery have been linked to mortality and are being used as quality-of-care indicators worldwide,…

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