Background: Research into adverse events (AEs) has highlighted the need to improve
patient safety. AEs are unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability or …

Many pregnancies are lost during early gestation, but clinicians still lack tools to recognize
risk factors for miscarriage. Thus, the identification of risk factors for miscarriage during the …

Background Continuity of care has been explored largely from academic and service
provider perspectives, and in relation to adult patient/client groups. We interviewed parents of …

Problem Maternal stress perception is frequently alleged as a cause of infertility, miscarriages,
late pregnancy complications or impaired fetal development. The purpose of the present …

Background: Social media are dynamic and interactive computer-mediated communication
tools that have high penetration rates in the general population in high-income and middle-…

Background. Advances in molecular genetics have led to the development of tests that can
predict the risk of inheriting the genes for several adult-onset diseases. However, the …

This report presents the process and summative evaluation results from a community-based
diabetes prevention and control project implemented in response to the increasing …

Objectives To examine the effect of parity on the association between older maternal age
and adverse birth outcomes, specifically stillbirth, neonatal death, preterm birth, small for …

A recent population-based study in the Canadian province of British Columbia showed that,
since the mid-1960s, there has been a significant increase in the incidence of retinopathy of …

As the availability of both health utilization and outcome information becomes increasingly
important to health care researchers and policy makers, the ability to link person-specific …