Lawson Health Research Institute

Consumer Perceptions and Behaviors Toward Fermented Foods: Insights From a Canadian Survey

ABSTRACT Chronic and autoimmune diseases continue to rise across Canada, demonstrating the need for sustainable dietary strategies that promote long‐term health. Fermented foods (FFs) have emerged as a potential approach, yet national data on consumption patterns and public perce...

Beyond the Fracture Clinic: 3 Things a Surgeon Can Do to Help Older Patients Stay Out of the Hospital

Musculoskeletal conditions, particularly osteoarthritis, account for >40 million disability-adjusted life years worldwide among persons aged 60 years and above. Research has also demonstrated that up to half of older adults have multimorbidity, which requires optimization for pos...

Evaluating the performance of administrative data elements used to document homelessness among psychiatric patients in Ontario, Canada: a validation study

Housing information about patients admitted to hospitals is routinely documented in health administrative records, which are increasingly used to inform planning and research. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of these records in identifying people experiencing homelessne...

A Novel Approach to Characterizing Patterns of Real-World Upper-Extremity Use During Walking and Activities of Daily Living in People with Subacute Stroke

In accelerometer-based measurement, the inclusion of upper extremity (UE) activity during walking can overestimate real-world functional UE use in people post-stroke. This study introduces a comprehensive, accelerometer-based approach to examining real-world UE use, including the...

Distinct Clinical and Laboratory Profiles of Biopsy-Positive and Biopsy-Negative Giant Cell Arteritis: A Meta Analysis

Objectives Although temporal artery biopsy (TAB) remains the diagnostic reference for giant cell arteritis (GCA) in resource-restricted settings that lack access to imaging, up to half of clinically diagnosed patients have negative biopsy results.[1,2] This study aimed to describ...