Using Primary Care Clinical Text Data and Natural Language Processing to Identify Indicators of COVID-19 in Toronto, Canada. by Christopher Meaney, Rahim Moineddin, Sumeet Kalia, Babak Aliarzadeh, Michelle Greiver

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Spatio-temporal constraints of carer-workers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area: An exploratory analysis using potential path areas by Daniel Van Veghel, Anastassios Dardas, Darren M. Scott, David Swanlund, Nadine Schuurman, Allison Williams

“…We collected three to seven day-long trip diaries of 25 carer-workers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in 2017–18, including all trips made over the diary period and whether the trip involved care work. …”
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Household food insecurity is prevalent in a cohort of postpartum women who registered in the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program in Toronto by Alison Mildon, Jane Francis, Stacia Stewart, Bronwyn Underhill, Yi Man Ng, Christina Rousseau, Valerie Tarasuk, Erica Di Ruggiero, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Deborah L O’Connor, Daniel W Sellen

“…Design: Cohort investigation pooling data from two studies which administered the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module at 6 months postpartum and collected prospective infant feeding data at 2 weeks and 2, 4 and 6 months. …”
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Auditing and Analysis of Natural Gas Consumptions in Small- and Medium-Sized Industrial Facilities in the Greater Toronto Area for Energy Conservation Opportunities by Altamash Ahmad Baig, Alan S. Fung, Rakesh Kumar

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School and Employment-Related Barriers for Youth and Young Adults with and without a Disability during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area by Sally Lindsay, Hiba Ahmed

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Health system use among patients with mental health conditions in a community based sample in Toronto, Canada: A retrospective cohort study by Kimberly Lazare, Sumeet Kalia, Babak Aliarzadeh, Steven Bernard, Rahim Moineddin, David Eisen, Michelle Greiver, David Kaplan, David Koczerginski, Maria Muraca, Wai Lun Alan Fung, Braden O’Neill

“…<h4>Objective</h4> To identify hospital and primary care health service use among people with mental health conditions or addictions in an integrated primary-secondary care database in Toronto, Ontario. <h4>Method</h4> This was a retrospective cohort study of adults with mental health diagnoses using data from the Health Databank Collaborative (HDC), a primary care-hospital linked database in Toronto. …”
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A Street-Specific Analysis of Level of Traffic Stress Trends in Strava Bicycle Ridership and its Implications for Low-Stress Bicycling Routes in Toronto by Amreen A. Imrit, Jaimy Fischer, Timothy C. Y. Chan, Shoshanna Saxe, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher

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Can alexithymia be assessed through an interview in adolescents? The Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia: Reliability, concurrent validity, discriminant validity, and rela... by Stefania Muzi, Michela Di Trani, Alessia Renzi, Cecilia Serena Pace

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Evaluation of low acuity patients discharged from a virtual emergency department at a major urban academic health sciences centre in Toronto, Canada. by Emily Borgundvaag, Lesley Plumptre, Michael Paterson, Diana An, Shelley McLeod, Jean-Eric Tarride, Clare Atzema, Michael Schull, Aikta Verma, Justin Hall

“… Objective In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre launched the first virtual emergency department (VED) in Toronto, Ontario. The objective of this pilot project was to leverage linked administrative data to describe the healthcare utilization of VED patients compared to matched patients who attended an ED in person. …”
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18 Finding the place for nutrition in healthcare education and practice by Kathy Martyn, Elaine MacAninch, Celia Laur, Luke Buckner, Breanna Lepre, Ebiambu Agwara, Wanja Nyaga

Real-time Forecast of Multiphase Outbreak by Ying-Hen Hsieh, Yuan-Sen Cheng

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Quantifying the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions on CO, CO₂, and CH₄ in Downtown Toronto Using Open-Path Fourier Transform Spectroscopy by Yuan You, Brendan Byrne, Orfeo Colebatch, Richard L. Mittermeier, Felix Vogel, Kimberly Strong

“…These reductions in trace gas mole fraction enhancements coincide with the decline of local traffic during the stay-at-home periods, with an estimated reduction in CO and CO<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> enhancements of 0.74 ± 0.15 ppb and 0.18 ± 0.05 ppm per percentage decrease in traffic, respectively.…”
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Cancer data quality and harmonization in Europe: the experience of the BENCHISTA Project – international benchmarking of childhood cancer survival by stage by Angela Lopez-Cortes, Fabio Didonè, Laura Botta, Lisa L. Hjalgrim, Zsuzsanna Jakab, Adela Cañete Nieto, Charles Stiller, Bernward Zeller, Gemma Gatta, Kathy Pritchard-Jones, The BENCHISTA Project Working Group, Joanne Aitken, Leisa O’Neil, Monika Hack, Ruth Ladenstein, Elizabeth Van Eycken, Nancy Van Damme, Lindsay Frazier, Beatriz De Camargo, Marceli de Oliveira Santos, Zdravka Valerianova, Dobrin Konstantinov, Sumit Gupta, Jason D Pole, Mario Sekerija, Jan Stary, Jaroslav Sterba, Lisa L. Hjalgrim, Jeanette F Winther, Keiu Paapsi, Brigitte Lacour, Emmanuel Desandes, Jacqueline Clavel, Claire Poulalhon, Friederike Erdmann, Eleni T Petridou, Evdoxia Bouka, Zsuzsanna Jakab, Michael Mian, Rocco Galasso, Giuseppe Sampietro, Francesco Vetrano, Milena M Maule, Carlotta Sacerdote, Paola Ballotari, Emilia De Santis, Margherita Ferrante, Rosalia Ragusa, Luca Boni, Magda Rognoni, Rosalba Amodio, Lorenza Boschetti, Francesco Cuccaro, Danila Bruno, Antonio G Russo, Federico Gervasi, Maria L Gambino, Elisabetta Borciani, Maria Michiara, Lucia Mangone, Gianbattista Spagnoli, Stefano Ferretti, Fabio Falcini, Eugenia Spata, Sonia Manasse, Paola Coccia, Francesca Bella, Adele Caldarella, Teresa Intrieri, Tiziana Scuderi, Roberto V Rizzello, Massimo Rugge, Stefano Guzzinati, Deirdre Murray, Tomohiro Matsuda, Kayo Nakata, Miriam J Azzopardi, Aina H Dahlen, Johannesen Tom Børge, Bernward Zeller, Jerzy Kowalczyk, Monika Jedrzejczyk, Gabriela Caldas, Mihaela Bucurenci, Dana Coza, Vesna Zadnik, Arantza Lopez de Munain, Fernando Almela-Vich, Nieves Fuster-Camarena, Ra f a e l Marcos-Gragera, Maria José Sanchez, Nuria Aragones, Raquel Lopez, Maria Dolores Chirlaque, Marcela Guevara, Elena Pardo, Rafael Peris-Bonet, Adela Cañete Nieto, Marià Carulla, Päivi Lähteenmäki, Claudia E Kuehni, Shelagh M Redmond, Henrike Karim-Kos, Charles Stiller, Paul Stacey, Lucy Irvine, Anna Gavin, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, David S Morrison, Karen Smith, Dyfed Wyn Huws, Janet Warlow, Sandra Strauss, Simon Bailey, Adela Canete Nieto, Nathalie Gaspar, Lisa L. Hjalgrim, Filippo Spreafico, Angela Polanco, Riccardo Capocaccia, Andrea Di Cataldo, Meric Klein

“…Due to heterogeneity found in legal aspects, 18 months were spent on finalizing the DTA. The data collection survey was answered by 68 respondents from 63 PBCRs; 44% of them confirmed the ability to re-consult a clinician in cases where stage ascertainment was difficult/uncertain. …”
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The Toronto Concussion Study: a prospective investigation of characteristics in a cohort of adults from the general population seeking care following acute concussion, 2016–2020 by Paul Comper, Paul Comper, Paul Comper, Evan Foster, Tharshini Chandra, Laura Langer, Catherine Wiseman-Hakes, Catherine Wiseman-Hakes, George Mochizuki, George Mochizuki, Lesley Ruttan, Lesley Ruttan, David W. Lawrence, David W. Lawrence, David W. Lawrence, Elizabeth L. Inness, Elizabeth L. Inness, Elizabeth L. Inness, Jonathan Gladstone, Jonathan Gladstone, Jonathan Gladstone, Cristina Saverino, Alan Tam, Alan Tam, Alice Kam, Alice Kam, Alice Kam, Alice Kam, Firas Al-Rawi, Firas Al-Rawi, Firas Al-Rawi, Mark Theodore Bayley, Mark Theodore Bayley

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Community perspectives on ideal bacterial STI testing services for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Toronto, Canada: a qualitative study by Jayoti Rana, Ann N. Burchell, Susan Wang, Carmen H. Logie, Ryan Lisk, Dionne Gesink

“…Yet, the STI testing processes and technologies that best address local testing barriers among GBM in Toronto is unknown. We aimed to explore men’s perspectives regarding STI testing services for GBM to identify and prioritize new STI testing interventions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. …”
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Andrij Makuch (13 March 1956-18 January 2019) by Roman Senkus

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Conference 2018: Translating Innovative Technology to Patient Care. An international symposium held jointly by CSPS, CSPT, and CC-CRS, May 22-25, 2018, Toronto, ON, Canada by Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sci. (CSPS)

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Fungal infection and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18–30 months in preterm infants by Qi Zhou, Edmond Kelly, Thuy Mai Luu, Xiang Y. Ye, Joseph Ting, Prakesh S. Shah, Shoo K. Lee

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Andrea D. Bührmann, 2020: Reflexive Diversitätsforschung. Eine Einführung anhand eines Fallbeispiels. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich. 188 Seiten. 20,00 Euro by Ilse Lenz

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Randomized controlled trial evaluating a virtual parenting intervention for young children at risk of obesity: study protocol for Parenting Addressing Early Years Intervention with... by Sarah Rae, Jonathon Maguire, Mary Aglipay, Melanie Barwick, Karoon Danavan, Jess Haines, Jennifer Jenkins, Marie Klaassen, Myla E. Moretti, Frank Ong, Nav Persaud, Michelle Porepa, Sharon Straus, Erika Tavares, Andrew Willan, Catherine Birken

“…Practice Based Research Network will be conducted. Young children (ages 18–48 months) who are at increased risk for childhood obesity will be invited to participate. …”
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