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  1. The future isn’t what it used to be: What ever happened to “advanced practice pharmacists”?
  2. Informing a governance model for integration of community pharmacists and family physicians and nurse practitioner-led practices and teams within Ontario Health Teams: A protocol
  3. Characteristics of patients seeking skin-related minor ailment pharmacy services in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cross-sectional study
  4. Implementation of an adult life-course vaccine review service, VaxCheck, in community pharmacy: A qualitative analysis
  5. Exploring the pharmacist’s role in supporting newcomer international students and their families with the transition to the Canadian healthcare system including medication use: Protocol for a qualitative study
  6. The appointment-based model in community pharmacies: Patient demographics and reimbursable clinical services uptake in Ontario
  7. Protocol for a qualitative study exploring the pharmacist’s role in supporting postsecondary students with psychotropic medication management
  8. Achieving holistic, quality-of-life focused care: description of a Compassion Care Community initiative in Canada
  9. The Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network Atlas of MedsCheck services
  10. A Web-Based Social Network Tool (GENIE) for Supporting Self-management Among High Users of the Health Care System: Feasibility and Usability Study
  11. Exploring the perspectives and strategies of Ontario community pharmacists to improve routine follow-up for patients with diabetes: A qualitative study
  12. Telehealth in community pharmacy: A new “place” for the appointment-based model given COVID-19 and the future of health care
  13. Pharmacist contributions to patient care and medical conditions present among recipients of Ontario primary care team pharmacist-led medication reviews: a qualitative analysis
  14. The Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network Interactive Atlas of Professional Pharmacist Services
  15. Barriers and facilitators of implementing an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for urinary tract infection in a long-term care facility
  16. Length of Initial Prescription at Hospital Discharge and Long-Term Medication Adherence for Elderly, Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients: Protocol for an Interrupted Time Series Study
  17. A Web-Based Social Network Tool (GENIE) for Supporting Self-management Among High Users of the Health Care System: Feasibility and Usability Study (Preprint)
  18. Community pharmacists’ evolving role in Canadian primary health care: a vision of harmonization in a patchwork system
  19. Length of initial prescription at hospital discharge and long-term medication adherence for elderly, post-myocardial infarction patients: an interventional study protocol (Preprint)
  20. Patient-oriented pharmacy practice research: Why should we care?
  21. Exploration of volunteers as health connectors within a multicomponent primary care‐based program supporting self‐management of diabetes and hypertension
  22. Community pharmacists as catalysts for deprescribing: An exploratory study using quality improvement processes
  23. Lessons learned from 3 attempts to use data sources to evaluate pharmacist prescribing in Ontario
  24. Pharmacy in the 21st century: Enhancing the impact of the profession of pharmacy on people’s lives in the context of health care trends, evidence and policies
  25. The Use and Effects of Electronic Health Tools for Patient Self-Monitoring and Reporting of Outcomes Following Medication Use: Systematic Review
  26. Feasibility study of goal setting discussions between older adults and volunteers facilitated by an eHealth application: development of the Health TAPESTRY approach
  27. Descriptive analysis of pharmacy services provided after community pharmacy screening
  28. How electronic health records could be used to share information
  29. Title: Playing Telephone: Understanding the state of medication decision making in growing healthcare teams in the time of electronic health records (Preprint)
  30. Community Pharmacists' Perspectives of a Decision Aid for Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Ontario
  31. Evaluating the potential for pharmacists to prescribe oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation
  32. The Use and Effects of Electronic Health Tools for Patient Self-Monitoring and Reporting of Outcomes Following Medication Use: Systematic Review (Preprint)
  33. Activities performed by pharmacists integrated in family health teams: Results from a web-based survey
  34. Using the ecological framework to identify barriers and enablers to implementing Namaste Care in Canada’s long-term care system
  35. Implementation of a reimbursed medication review program: Corporate and pharmacy level strategies
  36. Sustainability and scalability of a volunteer-based primary care intervention (Health TAPESTRY): a mixed-methods analysis
  37. Uptake of Community Pharmacist-Delivered MedsCheck Diabetes Medication Review Service in Ontario between 2010 and 2014
  38. Choosing the optimal method of blood pressure measurement for limited-resource rural communities in the “Community Health Assessment Program-Philippines”
  39. Effectiveness of a community paramedic-led health assessment and education initiative in a seniors’ residence building: the Community Health Assessment Program through Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS)
  40. High prevalence of modifiable stroke risk factors identified in a pharmacy-based screening programme
  41. Factors affecting the delivery of community pharmacist-led medication reviews: evidence from the MedsCheck annual service in Ontario
  42. Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertension in Relation to Achieved Blood Pressure Using Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement
  43. The effectiveness of a nurse practitioner-led pain management team in long-term care: A mixed methods study
  44. Pharmacy practice research produces findings that inform how pharmacists contribute to optimal drug therapy outcomes for Canadians
  45. MedsCheck medication review uptake in Ontario
  46. Effect of a Proton Pump Inhibitor Deprescribing Guideline on Drug Usage and Costs in Long-Term Care
  47. Adoption of Electronic Personal Health Records in Canada: Perceptions of Stakeholders
  48. A protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial using the Health Teams Advancing Patient Experience: Strengthening Quality (Health TAPESTRY) platform approach to promote person-focused primary healthcare for older adults
  49. Assessment of a hypertension screening and education intervention in Charlestown, Guyana
  50. Reducing the confusion and controversies around pragmatic trials: using the Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program (CHAP) trial as an illustrative example
  51. Thresholds for Diagnosing Hypertension Based on Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurements and Cardiovascular Risk
  52. Participation in online continuing education
  53. Rationale and methods of a multicentre randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a Community Health Assessment Programme with Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS) implemented on residents aged 55 years and older in subsidised seniors' housin...
  54. Managing pain medications in long-term care: nurses' views
  55. Successful knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: final results from the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial
  56. Development of a community health and wellness pilot in a subsidised seniors’ apartment building in Hamilton, Ontario: Community Health Awareness Program delivered by Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS)
  57. Mobile phone text messaging interventions for HIV and other chronic diseases: an overview of systematic reviews and framework for evidence transfer
  58. Initial uptake of the Ontario Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Program
  59. Nurses' Perception and Comfort Level with Diabetes Management Practices in Long-Term Care
  60. ClereMed: Lessons Learned From a Pilot Study of a Mobile Screening Tool to Identify and Support Adults Who Have Difficulty With Medication Labels
  61. The effectiveness of computerized drug-lab alerts: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  62. Refinement of indicators and criteria in a quality tool for assessing quality in primary care in Canada: a Delphi Panel study
  63. Lone workers attitudes towards their health: views of Ontario truck drivers and their managers
  64. Primary health care needs for a priority population: A survey of professional truck drivers
  65. Improving care after hip fracture: the fracture? Think osteoporosis (FTOP) program
  66. Mobile phone text messages for improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART): an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials
  67. The impact of a cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP) on reducing blood pressure: a prospective cohort study
  68. Evaluation of a pilot e-learning primary health care skills training program for pharmacists
  69. Guidelines for pharmacists integrating into primary care teams
  70. Developing a Theoretical Framework for Complex Community-Based Interventions
  71. Community Mobilization, Participation, and Blood Pressure Status in a Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program in Ontario
  72. Economic Appraisal of a Community-Wide Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program
  73. Mobile phone text messages for improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART): a protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials
  74. The Cameroon Mobile Phone SMS (CAMPS) Trial: A Randomized Trial of Text Messaging versus Usual Care for Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy
  75. Characteristics of Pharmacists Who Enrolled in the Pilot ADAPT Education Program: Implications for Practice Change
  76. The Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Pain Protocol in Long Term Care
  77. Barriers and facilitators to implementing Decision Boxes in primary healthcare teams to facilitate shared decisionmaking: a study protocol
  78. Designing a novel continuing education program for pharmacists: Lessons learned
  79. An interdisciplinary knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: Study protocol for the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial
  80. Ontario Pharmacists Practicing in Family Health Teams and the Patient-Centered Medical Home
  81. The excess burden of osteoarthritis in the province of Ontario, Canada
  82. Agreement between self-report and medical records on signs and symptoms of respiratory illness
  83. Pharmacist provision of primary health care: a modified Delphi validation of pharmacists' competencies
  84. The effectiveness of integrated health information technologies across the phases of medication management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
  85. Trends and determining factors associated with adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Cameroon: a systematic review and analysis of the CAMPS trial
  86. Shared Electronic Vascular Risk Decision Support in Primary Care
  87. Defining adverse events in manual therapy: An exploratory qualitative analysis of the patient perspective
  88. Exploring Pharmacists' Understanding and Adoption of Prescribing in 2 Canadian Jurisdictions: Design and Rationale for a Mixed-Methods Approach
  89. PILOTING A RENAL DRUG ALERT SYSTEM FOR PRESCRIBING TO RESIDENTS IN LONG-TERM CARE
  90. Developing Recommendations for the Reimbursement of Expanded Professional Pharmacist's Services in Ontario
  91. Imputation strategies for missing binary outcomes in cluster randomized trials
  92. Improving cardiovascular health at population level: 39 community cluster randomised trial of Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program (CHAP)
  93. The Effectiveness of Web-Based Tools for Improving Blood Glucose Control in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis
  94. An Action-Based Approach to Improving Pain Management in Long-Term Care
  95. Community based intervention to optimize osteoporosis management: randomized controlled trial
  96. Nurses' perceived barriers to optimal pain management in older adults on acute medical units
  97. A team-based approach to warfarin management in long term care: A feasibility study of the MEDeINR electronic decision support system
  98. Practice-based collection of quality indicator data for a comprehensive quality assessment programme in Canadian family practices
  99. Osteoporosis Knowledge Among Individuals With Recent Fragility Fracture
  100. Implementing a Mentorship Program for Pharmacists Integrating into Family Practice: Practical Experience from the IMPACT Project Team
  101. Utilization and Expenditure on Blood Glucose Test Strips in Canada
  102. Shifts in expectations: Evaluating physicians' perceptions as pharmacists become integrated into family practice
  103. Pharmacist's identity development within multidisciplinary primary health care teams in Ontario; qualitative results from the IMPACT (†) project
  104. Implementing a standardized community-based cardiovascular risk assessment program in 20 Ontario communities
  105. Iterative diagnosis
  106. Community-based intervention to optimise falls risk management: a randomised controlled trial
  107. Individualized electronic decision support and reminders to improve diabetes care in the community: COMPETE II randomized trial
  108. Comparison of Bayesian and classical methods in the analysis of cluster randomized controlled trials with a binary outcome: The Community Hypertension Assessment Trial (CHAT)
  109. Osteoporosis risk perceptions among patients who have sustained a fragility fracture
  110. Prevention ofClostridium difficileInfection withSaccharomyces boulardii: A Systematic Review
  111. Integrating into family practice: the experiences of pharmacists in Ontario, Canada
  112. Methodologic Issues in Health Informatics Trials: The Complexities of Complex Interventions
  113. Reliability testing of a case-leveling framework for assigning level of difficulty of pharmacist's initial patient medication assessments
  114. GPs' approach to insulin prescribing in older patients: a qualitative study
  115. Quality of anticoagulation and use of warfarin-interacting medications in long-term care: A chart review
  116. Enhancing hypertension awareness and management in the elderly: Lessons learned from the Airdrie Community Hypertension Awareness and Management Program (A-CHAMP)
  117. Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program (CHAP): A community cluster-randomised trial among elderly Canadians
  118. Medication recommendations to physicians by pharmacists for seniors: expected clinical impact in relation to implementation and expected time frame to effect
  119. It's all about relationships: A qualitative study of health researchers' perspectives of conducting interdisciplinary health research
  120. Demonstrating value, documenting care: Lessons learned about writing comprehensive patient medication assessments in the IMPACT project: PART II
  121. Do patients perceive a link between a fragility fracture and osteoporosis?
  122. Integrating Family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance Primary Care Therapeutics
  123. Demonstrating value, documenting care: Lessons learned about writing comprehensive patient medication assessments in the IMPACT project
  124. Narrative Reports to Monitor and Evaluate the Integration of Pharmacists Into Family Practice Settings
  125. Developing a tool to measure contributions to medication-related processes in family practice
  126. Examining physicians' perspectives during the integration of a pharmacist into family practice: Qualitative results from the IMPACT study
  127. Pain Management Decision Making Among Long-Term Care Physicians and Nurses
  128. The effect of pharmacist education on asthma treatment plans for simulated patients
  129. Comparison of self, physician, and simulated patient ratings of pharmacist performance in a family practice simulator
  130. Exploring design-related bias in clinical studies on receptor genetic polymorphism of hypertension
  131. Long-Term Cost-utility Analysis of a Multidisciplinary Primary Care Diabetes Management Program in Ontario
  132. Patient Adherence to Osteoporosis Medications
  133. The State of Science and Research in Clinical Pharmacy
  134. Patient Compliance
  135. Drug-related problems in elderly general practice patients receiving pharmaceutical care
  136. A randomized trial of mail vs. telephone invitation to a community-based cardiovascular health awareness program for older family practice patients [ISRCTN61739603]
  137. Are Brand-Name and Generic Warfarin Interchangeable? Multiple N-of-1 Randomized, Crossover Trials
  138. The Impact of Reference Pricing of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents on the Use and Costs of Analgesic Drugs
  139. In Response
  140. Attitudes of Women Who are Currently Using or Recently Stopped Estrogen Replacement Therapy With or Without Progestins: Results of the Aware Survey
  141. The Diabetes Continuity of Care Scale: the development and initial evaluation of a questionnaire that measures continuity of care from the patient perspective*
  142. Prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to elderly people
  143. Providing evidence-based information to patients in general practice and pharmacies: what is the acceptability, usefulness and impact on drug use?
  144. Collaboration Between Community Pharmacists and Family Physicians: Lessons Learned from the Seniors Medication Assessment Research Trial
  145. Bupropion versus Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors for Treatment of Depression
  146. Promoting Optimal Antibiotic Therapy for Otitis Media Using Commercially Sponsored Evidence-Based Detailing: A Prospective Controlled Trial
  147. Azithromycin-Related Ototoxicity in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus