BACKGROUND: Minimizing bleeding and transfusion is desirable given its cost, complexity
and potential for adverse events. Concerns have been heightened by recent data …

Background Operating rooms (ORs) are estimated to generate up to one-third of hospital
waste. At the London Health Sciences Centre, prosthetics and implants represent 17% of the …

BACKGROUND:: Many laboratories now report estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
when a serum creatinine measurement is ordered. A summary of the impact of eGFR …

Background The detection of liver metastases is important for pancreatic cancer curative
treatment eligibility. The data suggest that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive …

Introduction Seniors who fall are an increasing proportion of the patients who are treated in
emergency departments (ED). Falling on level-ground is the most common cause of …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of LI-RADS ancillary features
on MRI and to ascertain whether the number of ancillary features can be reduced without …

… Author links open overlay panel Christopher Moraes a b , Yoan K. Kagoma a , Bogdan M.
Beca a , Rachel LM Tonelli-Zasarsky a , Yu Sun a b , … K. Stokes, R. McVenes, JM Anderson …

Peer learning is a quality initiative used to identify potential areas of practice improvement,
both on a patient level and on a systemic level. Opportunities for peer learning include review …

Background Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are followed for years due to older and likely
biased works demonstrating a strong association with pancreatic carcinoma; more recent data …

The Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) guidelines suggest that clinicians
use the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) measurements and minimize the use of …