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| R J HilsdenSummaryAffiliation: University of Calgary Country: Canada Publications
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Development and evaluation of a quality score for abstractsAntje Timmer
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany
BMC Med Res Methodol 3:2. 2003..The evaluation of abstracts for scientific meetings has been shown to suffer from poor inter observer reliability. A measure was developed to assess the formal quality of abstract submissions in a standardized way...
Publication bias in gastroenterological research - a retrospective cohort study based on abstracts submitted to a scientific meetingAntje Timmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
BMC Med Res Methodol 2:7. 2002..The aim of this study was to examine the determinants of publication and whether publication bias occurred in gastroenterological research...
Complementary and alternative medicine use by patients with inflammatory bowel disease: An Internet surveyR J Hilsden
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Can J Gastroenterol 13:327-32. 1999....
Complementary therapies: evaluating their effectiveness in cancerR J Hilsden
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive N W, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1 Canada
Patient Educ Couns 38:101-8. 1999..Although it is important to evaluate complementary therapies, it is mandatory that studies be sensitive to these issues and that existing research methods be adjusted and modified for this purpose...
Complementary therapies and cancer care: an overviewM J Verhoef
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4N1
Patient Educ Couns 38:93-100. 1999....
Complementary therapies for cancer patients: assessing information use and needsM J Verhoef
Departments of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Chronic Dis Can 29:80-8. 2009....
Attitudes toward smoking and smoking behaviors of patients with Crohn's diseaseR J Hilsden
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Am J Gastroenterol 96:1849-53. 2001..Two of three patients who had recently quit at baseline had resumed smoking. CONCLUSION: When compared to similar data for the general population, patients with Crohn's disease are no more refractory to smoking cessation...
Determinants of abstract acceptance for the Digestive Diseases Week--a cross sectional studyA Timmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
BMC Med Res Methodol 1:13. 2001..The acceptance of an abstract for presentation at this meeting is the most important determinant of subsequent full publication. We wished to examine the determinants of abstract acceptance for this meeting...
Qualitative research in inflammatory bowel disease: dispelling the myths of an unknown entityL C Vanderheyden
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Alta, Canada T2N 4N1
Dig Liver Dis 38:60-3. 2006..In this paper, we provide a brief overview of qualitative research and address some of the misconceptions and criticisms that we have come across during our use of qualitative research methods in inflammatory bowel disease research...
Endoscopic management of gastric varices: efficacy and outcomes of gluing with N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate in a North American patient populationP J Belletrutti
Gastrointestinal and Mucosal Inflammation Research Groups Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Gastroenterol 22:931-6. 2008..The majority of studies on this mode of therapy are in Asian populations in which the etiology of portal hypertension differs from North America...
Inflammatory bowel disease patients' decisions to use complementary therapies: links to existing models of careC M Scott
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
Complement Ther Med 11:22-7. 2003..In this paper we present emergent categories of factors that influence inflammatory bowel disease patients' decisions to use complementary therapies and discuss similarities between this work and existing models of care...
Intestinal permeability is increased in a proportion of spouses of patients with Crohn's diseaseN P Breslin
Division of Gastroenterology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Am J Gastroenterol 96:2934-8. 2001..The presence of abnormal permeability studies in patients with Crohn's disease and a proportion of their healthy close contacts suggests that this phenomenon is caused by environmental factors...
Historical features are poor predictors of liver fibrosis in Canadian patients with chronic hepatitis CR P Myers
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Viral Hepat 8:249-55. 2001..Alternate noninvasive methods of predicting hepatic fibrosis are needed...
Who provides gastrointestinal endoscopy in Canada?R J Hilsden
Department of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Can J Gastroenterol 21:843-6. 2007..To determine who provides gastrointestinal endoscopy in Canada and to understand provincial and regional differences in endoscopy providers...
