Background: Fractures have largely been assessed by their impact on quality of life or health
care costs. We conducted this study to evaluate the relation between fractures and mortality…

Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was examined in relation to prevalent fractures in 4816
community-dwelling Canadian men and women 50 years and older participating in the …

… Papadimitropoulos is with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ont.; Dr. Coyte is with the Department of Health Administration and the Institute for …

Osteoporotic fractures can be a major cause of morbidity. It is important to determine the
impact of fractures on health-related quality of life (HRQL). A total of 3,394 women and 1,122 …

OBJECTIVE: To design a Bayesian random effects model for pooling binary outcome data
from cluster randomized trials (CRTs) with individually randomized trials (IRTs) and then use …

Background. There has been a paucity of data on the healthcare resource utilization of
infectious disease-related complications in solid organ transplant recipients. The aims of this …

Empiric antibiotic therapy is often prescribed prior to the availability of bacterial culture results.
In some cases, the organism isolated may not be susceptible to initial empiric therapy (…

Background: Limited information exists regarding the natural progression of health-related
quality of life (HRQOL) in the general population, as most research has been cross-sectional …

Objectives Our objective was to study changes in calcium and vitamin D intakes over time,
and their cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with bone mineral density (BMD). …

Objectives Normative data for the SF-36 measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL)
exist for those over 25 years of age, based on data from the population-based Canadian …