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A process for systematically reviewing the literature: providing the research evidence for public health nursing interventions

interventions

Dobbins M.
GSID: vsupLa1UrKQJ
BH Thomas, D Ciliska, M Dobbins… - … on Evidence‐Based …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library

Background: Several groups have outlined methodologies for systematic literature reviews of the effectiveness of interventions. The Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) …

If You Build It, Who Will Come? A Description of User Characteristics and Experiences With the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal.

Gerontology & geriatric medicine

Neil-Sztramko SE, Farran R, Watson S, Levinson AJ, Lavis JN, Iorio A, Dobbins M.
PMID: 29152540
Gerontol Geriatr Med. 2017 Nov 08;3:2333721417737681. doi: 10.1177/2333721417737681. eCollection 2017.

No abstract available.

Early adult psychological consequences for males of adolescent pregnancy and its resolution.

Journal of youth and adolescence

Buchanan M, Robbins C.
PMID: 24272535
J Youth Adolesc. 1990 Aug;19(4):413-24. doi: 10.1007/BF01537080.

Using data front 2522 young men who were first surveyed as 7th-grade students in Houston, Texas in 1971, we examined the psychological consequences in early adulthood of having a girlfriend become pregnant in adolescence. By age 21, 15% of...

An Institutional Analysis of Risk Factors in Pectoralis Advancement Flap Reconstruction.

Wounds : a compendium of clinical research and practice

Robbins C, Ahumada L, de la Torre J.
PMID: 26110326
Wounds. 2007 Jun;19(6):169-72.

BACKGROUND: Between 1996 and 2004, 21 patients at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (BVA) underwent bilateral pectoralis flap reconstruction for treatment of post sternotomy sternal wound infection.METHODS: Data from the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center were...

The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Usability Evaluation of a Unique Evidence-Based Health Information Website.

JMIR human factors

Barbara AM, Dobbins M, Haynes RB, Iorio A, Lavis JN, Raina P, Levinson AJ.
PMID: 27170443
JMIR Hum Factors. 2016 May 11;3(1):e14. doi: 10.2196/humanfactors.4800.

BACKGROUND: Increasingly, older adults and their informal caregivers are using the Internet to search for health-related information. There is a proliferation of health information online, but the quality of this information varies, often based on exaggerated or dramatic findings,...

Body mass index and measures of body fat for defining obesity and underweight: a cross-sectional, population-based study.

BMC obesity

Pasco JA, Holloway KL, Dobbins AG, Kotowicz MA, Williams LJ, Brennan SL.
PMID: 26217501
BMC Obes. 2014 Jun 23;1:9. doi: 10.1186/2052-9538-1-9. eCollection 2014.

BACKGROUND: The body mass index (BMI) is commonly used as a surrogate marker for adiposity. However, the BMI indicates weight-for-height without considering differences in body composition and the contribution of body fat to overall body weight. The aim of...

A Tool That Assesses the Evidence, Transparency, and Usability of Online Health Information: Development and Reliability Assessment.

JMIR aging

Dobbins M, Watson S, Read K, Graham K, Yousefi Nooraie R, Levinson AJ.
PMID: 31518240
JMIR Aging. 2018 May 07;1(1):e3. doi: 10.2196/aging.9216.

BACKGROUND: The internet is commonly used by older adults to obtain health information and this trend has markedly increased in the past decade. However, studies illustrate that much of the available online health information is not informed by good...

Opportunities to observe and measure intangible inputs to innovation: Definitions, operationalization, and examples.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Keller S, Korkmaz G, Robbins C, Shipp S.
PMID: 30530693
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Dec 11;115(50):12638-12645. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800467115.

Measuring the value of intangibles is not easy, because they are critical but usually invisible components of the innovation process. Today, access to nonsurvey data sources, such as administrative data and repositories captured on web pages, opens opportunities to...

Knowledge Transfer and Dissemination of Advanced Practice Nursing Information and Research to Acute-Care Administrators.

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres

Carter N, Dobbins M, Peachey G, Hoxby H, Ireland S, Akhtar-Danesh N, DiCenso A.
PMID: 29509498
Can J Nurs Res. 2014 Mar;46(2):10-27. doi: 10.1177/084456211404600203.

The objective of this study was to ascertain the information needs and knowledge-dissemination preferences of acute-care administrators with respect to advanced practice nursing (APN). Supportive leadership is imperative for the success of APN roles and administrators need up-to-date research...

Silicic acid limitation drives bloom termination and potential carbon sequestration in an Arctic bloom.

Scientific reports

Krause JW, Schulz IK, Rowe KA, Dobbins W, Winding MHS, Sejr MK, Duarte CM, Agustí S.
PMID: 31148569
Sci Rep. 2019 May 31;9(1):8149. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-44587-4.

The spring diatom bloom in the Arctic Ocean accounts for significant annual primary production leading to the most rapid annual drawdown of water-column pCO

The utilization of data analysis techniques in predicting student performance in massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Research and practice in technology enhanced learning

Hughes G, Dobbins C.
PMID: 30613219
Res Pract Technol Enhanc Learn. 2015;10(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s41039-015-0007-z. Epub 2015 Jul 16.

The growth of the Internet has enabled the popularity of open online learning platforms to increase over the years. This has led to the inception of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that globally enrol millions of people. Such courses...

Understanding Smartwatch Battery Utilization in the Wild.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Homayounfar M, Malekijoo A, Visuri A, Dobbins C, Peltonen E, Pinsky E, Teymourian K, Rawassizadeh R.
PMID: 32640587
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Jul 06;20(13). doi: 10.3390/s20133784.

Smartwatch battery limitations are one of the biggest hurdles to their acceptability in the consumer market. To our knowledge, despite promising studies analyzing smartwatch battery data, there has been little research that has analyzed the battery usage of a...

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