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What Synthesis Methodology Should I Use? A Review and Analysis of Approaches to Research Synthesis.

AIMS public health

Schick-Makaroff K, MacDonald M, Plummer M, Burgess J, Neander W.
PMID: 29546155
AIMS Public Health. 2016 Mar 30;3(1):172-215. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2016.1.172. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: When we began this process, we were doctoral students and a faculty member in a research methods course. As students, we were facing a review of the literature for our dissertations. We encountered several different ways of conducting...

Quality Assurance Audit of Technique Failure and 90-Day Mortality after Program Discharge in a Canadian Home Hemodialysis Program.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN

Shah N, Reintjes F, Courtney M, Klarenbach SW, Ye F, Schick-Makaroff K, Jindal K, Pauly RP.
PMID: 28739573
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Jul 24; doi: 10.2215/CJN.00140117. Epub 2017 Jul 24.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Little is known about patients exiting home hemodialysis. We sought to characterize the reasons, clinical characteristics, and pre-exit health care team interactions of patients on home hemodialysis who died or underwent modality conversion (negative disposition) compared...

Symptoms, Coping, and Quality of Life of People with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Nephrology nursing journal : journal of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association

Schick-Makaroff K, Molzahn AE, Kalfoss M.
PMID: 30303644
Nephrol Nurs J. 2018 Jul-Aug;45(4):339-355.

The purpose of this study was to explore how symptoms affect quality of life (QOL) for people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney transplants, and to determine the relationship among various coping styles, symptoms, and QOL. An...

An Evidence-Based Theory About PRO Use in Kidney Care: A Realist Synthesis.

The patient

Schick-Makaroff K, Levay A, Thompson S, Flynn R, Sawatzky R, Thummapol O, Klarenbach S, Karimi-Dehkordi M, Greenhalgh J.
PMID: 34109571
Patient. 2021 Jun 10; doi: 10.1007/s40271-021-00530-2. Epub 2021 Jun 10.

BACKGROUND: There is international interest on the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in nephrology.OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to develop a kidney-specific program theory about use of PROs in nephrology that may enhance person-centered care, both at individual and aggregated...

Facilitators and Barriers to Care in Rural Emergency Departments in Alberta for Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis (PD): An Interpretive Descriptive Study.

Canadian journal of kidney health and disease

Lillebuen L, Schick-Makaroff K, Thompson S, Molzahn A.
PMID: 33224512
Can J Kidney Health Dis. 2020 Nov 04;7:2054358120970098. doi: 10.1177/2054358120970098. eCollection 2020.

BACKGROUND: Home dialysis offers many advantages to patients, but they require support to manage a home-based therapy such as peritoneal dialysis (PD). A rural emergency department provides an important safety net for patients requiring medical care, including managing complications...

Barriers and facilitators for implementation of electronic consultations (eConsult) to enhance access to specialist care: a scoping review.

BMJ global health

Osman MA, Schick-Makaroff K, Thompson S, Bialy L, Featherstone R, Kurzawa J, Zaidi D, Okpechi I, Habib S, Shojai S, Jindal K, Braam B, Keely E, Liddy C, Manns B, Tonelli M, Hemmelgarn B, Klarenbach S, Bello AK.
PMID: 31565409
BMJ Glob Health. 2019 Sep 13;4(5):e001629. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001629. eCollection 2019.

INTRODUCTION: Electronic consultation (eConsult)-provider-to-provider electronic asynchronous exchanges of patient health information at a distance-is emerging as a potential tool to improve the interface between primary care providers and specialists. Despite growing evidence that eConsult has clinical benefits, it is...

Furthering Cultural Safety in Kidney Care Within Indigenous Communities: A Systematic and Narrative Review.

Kidney medicine

Smith M, Silva E Silva V, Schick-Makaroff K, Kappel J, Bachynski JC, Monague V, Paré GC, Ross-White A.
PMID: 34938999
Kidney Med. 2021 Jul 12;3(6):896-904. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2021.04.023. eCollection 2021.

RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Cultural Safety is being prioritized within health care around the world. As a concept, Cultural Safety centers upon power relations between health providers and indigenous recipients of care, ensuring that all people feel safe and respected...

Knowledge translation resources to support the use of quality of life assessment tools for the care of older adults living at home and their family caregivers.

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation

Schick-Makaroff K, Sawatzky R, Cuthbertson L, Öhlén J, Beemer A, Duquette D, Karimi-Dehkordi M, Stajduhar KI, Suryaprakash N, Terblanche L, Wolff AC, Cohen SR.
PMID: 34664161
Qual Life Res. 2021 Oct 18; doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-03011-z. Epub 2021 Oct 18.

PURPOSE: To support the use of quality of life (QOL) assessment tools for older adults, we developed knowledge translation (KT) resources tailored for four audiences: (1) older adults and their family caregivers (micro), (2) healthcare providers (micro), (3) healthcare...

Chinese Hospitalized Cardiovascular Patients' Attitudes Towards Self-Management: A Qualitative Study.

Patient preference and adherence

Qiu R, Schick-Makaroff K, Tang L, Wang X, Zhang Q, Ye Z.
PMID: 32109995
Patient Prefer Adherence. 2020 Feb 17;14:287-300. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S236348. eCollection 2020.

PURPOSE: This study is aiming to investigate cardiovascular patients' attitudes towards self-management during hospitalization in China.PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-nine individuals living with cardiovascular disease from one designated Cardiology Department in Hangzhou, China, were recruited through a purposive sampling procedure....

Qualitative Data Management and Analysis within a Data Repository.

Western journal of nursing research

Antonio MG, Schick-Makaroff K, Doiron JM, Sheilds L, White L, Molzahn A.
PMID: 31665999
West J Nurs Res. 2020 Aug;42(8):640-648. doi: 10.1177/0193945919881706. Epub 2019 Oct 30.

Data repositories can support secure data management for multi-institutional and geographically dispersed research teams. Primarily designed to provide secure access, storage, and sharing of quantitative data, limited focus has been given to the unique considerations of data repositories for...

Patient-reported outcome measures in the care of in-centre hemodialysis patients.

Journal of patient-reported outcomes

Davison SN, Klarenbach S, Manns B, Schnick-Makaroff K, Buzinski R, Corradetti B, Short H, Johnson JA.
PMID: 34637030
J Patient Rep Outcomes. 2021 Oct 12;5:93. doi: 10.1186/s41687-021-00365-3.

Kidney failure requiring dialysis is associated with high symptom burden and low health-related quality of life (HRQL). Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized instruments that capture patients' symptom burden, level of functioning, and HRQL. The routine use of PROMs...

Holding Secrets While Living With Life-Threatening Illness: Normalizing Patients' Decisions to Reveal or Conceal.

Qualitative health research

Bruce A, Beuthin R, Sheilds L, Molzahn A, Schick-Makaroff K.
PMID: 31744416
Qual Health Res. 2020 Apr;30(5):655-665. doi: 10.1177/1049732319887714. Epub 2019 Nov 19.

Communicating openly and directly about illness comes easily for some patients, whereas for others fear of disclosure keeps them silent. In this article, we discuss findings about the role of keeping secrets regarding health and illness. These findings were...

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