Sylvie Cardin

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Social and Preventive Medicine

Objective: lb determine the test‐retest reliability and concurrent criterion validity of a self‐report ED screening questionnaire for adverse outcomes in elders. Methods: A cohort of 1,885 patients aged ≤ 65 years were recruited from the EDs of 4 Montreal hospitals. Patients were excluded if they could not be interviewed because of their clinical s...

Emergency department (ED) use in Quebec may be measured from varied sources, eg, patient's self-reports, hospital medical charts, and provincial health insurance claims databases. Determining the relative validity of each source is complicated because none is a gold standard. We sought to compare the validity of different measures of ED use without...

To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the determinants of hospital emergency department (ED) visits by elders, using a modification of the Andersen behavioral model of health services, adapted to explain ED utilization. Relevant articles were identified through MEDLINE and a search of reference lists and personal files. Studies of pop...

Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the determinants of hospital emergency department (ED) visits by elders, using a modification of the Andersen behavioral model of health services, adapted to explain ED utilization. Methods: Relevant articles were identified through MEDLINE and a search of reference lists and personal...

We evaluate the effect of a multifaceted intervention to decrease emergency department crowding on the incidence of return visits to the ED or a hospital ward. The intervention included increased emergency physician coverage, the designation of physician coordinators, and new hospital policies regarding laboratory, consultation, and admission proce...

RÉSUMÉ À l'aide de données provenant d'une cohorte de 1 352 personnes àgées demeurant dans la communauté et ayant visité l'urgence d'un centre hospitalier, nous avons étudié la prévalence (avant la visite à l'urgence) et l'incidence (pendant une période de suivi de six mois) de l'utilisation des services communautaires de santé ainsi que les facteu...

A simple screening tool, Identification of Seniors at Risk (ISAR), developed for administration in the emergency department for patients 65 years and older, predicts adverse health outcomes during the 6 months after the ED visit. In this study, we investigated whether the ISAR tool can also predict acute care hospital utilization in the same popula...

Study Objective: A simple screening tool, Identification of Seniors at Risk (ISAR), developed for administration in the emergency department for patients 65 years and older, predicts adverse health outcomes during the 6 months after the ED visit. In this study, we investigated whether the ISAR tool can also predict acute care hospital utilization i...

1) To describe the pattern of return visits to the emergency department (ED) among elders over the six months following an index visit; 2) to identify the predictors of early return (within 30 days) and frequent return (three or more return visits in six months); and 3) to evaluate a newly developed screening tool for functional decline, Identifica...

The objective of this study was to determine the validity of French and English versions of the Older American Resources and Services (OARS) activities of daily living (ADL) questionnaire using a premorbid reference period among older emergency department (ED) patients. A sample of 404 ED patients aged 65 and over participating in a study of functi...

To develop a self-report screening tool to identify older people in the emergency department (ED) of a hospital at increased risk of adverse health outcomes, including: death, admission to a nursing home or long-term hospitalization, or a clinically significant decrease in functional status. Prospective (6-month) follow-up study of a cohort of ED p...

To determine the test-retest reliability and concurrent criterion validity of a self-report ED screening questionnaire for adverse outcomes in elders. A cohort of 1,885 patients aged > or = 65 years were recruited from the EDs of 4 Montreal hospitals. Patients were excluded if they could not be interviewed because of their clinical status or cognit...

Responses to selection for high and low intrafamily coefficients of variation of pupa weight in Tribolium castaneum were observed for 10 generations. A significant decrease of the coefficient of variation has been observed in the replicated lines selected downwards while no response occurred in the other lines. Mean pupa weights did not change sign...

Data required for the surveillance of the population of small areas and the implementation and evaluation of health preventive programmes are usually obtained from surveys conducted within each relevant small area. The substantial cost of local surveys has encouraged the search for other methods of obtaining the required information. One alternativ...

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