University of Alberta

Patient Perspectives on the Environmental Impact of their Advanced Therapy Injection Device

Objectives Data demonstrates there is a significant environmental impact using medications requiring injection, including the injecting device and needle. Rheumatology patient perspectives on this impact have not been previously explored. As part of a larger study, we aim to repo...

Telephone versus in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030: a crossover study, Brazil, Canada, India and Malawi.

Objective: To examine agreement between telephone and in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) survey. Methods: -tests and intraclass correlation coefficients. Findings: : -0.36), regardless of modality. However, pooled and stratified intr...

End of life in the ICU: A scoping review of factors associated with moral distress in critical care nurses

BACKGROUND: Moral distress is common among critical care nurses providing end-of-life (EOL) care, yet contributing factors are not fully synthesized. PURPOSE: To summarize the literature on factors influencing moral distress in adult ICU nurses delivering EOL care. METHODS: A sco...

The core-mantle mode of gravitational oscillation

We present the characteristics of a mode of axial oscillation between Earth's mantle, fluid core and solid inner core that has not been previously reported. The mode involves a quasi-rigid rotation of the fluid core outside the tangent cylinder (TC) exchanging its angular momentu...