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2. Seasonal use by birds of stream-side riparian habitat in coniferous forest of northcentral British Columbia
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Martin, K. and Wiebe, K. L.
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ECONOMIC seasonal variations , *HABITATS , *BIRD behavior - Abstract
To determine use of riparian habitats by birds in the northern coniferous forest of British Columbia, we censused birds and vegetation along 500 m transects placed parallel and perpendicular to three second-order streams. Censuses were conducted during spring, summer, fall, and winter to investigate how use of riparian habitat changed seasonally. Stream-side riparian zones were characterized by a dense understorey of deciduous vegetation not found in the upslope forest. Nine bird species preferred the riparian understorey for breeding, six preferred it only during migration. Neotropical migrants (16 of 46 species) were more closely associated with stream-sides than year-round residents (11 species). Some breeding birds (five species) were significantly negatively associated with riparian habitats. The density of riparian birds declined with distance upstream but did not decline up to250 m away from the stream. The more extensive riparian areas downstream supported a greater density of birds in all seasons compared to upstream areas, but more species only in spring and fall. Species that nested in non-riparian areas in summer used riparian habitat in fall, making riparian corridors in the northern coniferous forest important during migration. Maintaining both riparian and upslope habitats is necessary to preserve species diversity at the landscape level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1998
3. Deceased organ and tissue donation after medical assistance in dying: 2023 updated guidance for policy.
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Wiebe K, Wilson LC, Lotherington K, Mills C, Shemie SD, and Downar J
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- Humans, Canada, Policy, Medical Assistance, Suicide, Assisted, Tissue and Organ Procurement
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Background: Since Canadian Blood Services (CBS) developed policy guidance in 2019 for organ and tissue donation after medical assistance in dying (MAiD), the federal government has made changes to legislation related to MAiD. This document provides updated guidance for clinicians, organ donation organizations, end-of-life care experts, MAiD providers and policy-makers on the impact of these changes., Methods: Canadian Blood Services assembled a group of 63 experts from critical care, organ and tissue donation, health care administration, MAiD, bioethics, law and research to review the legislative changes in the Organ and Tissue Donation After Medical Assistance in Dying - Guidance for Policy forum. Two patients who had requested and been found eligible for MAiD and 2 family members of patients who had donated organs after MAiD were also included as participants. In a series of 3 online meetings from June 2021 to April 2022, forum participants addressed a variety of topics in small and large groups. These discussions were informed by a comprehensive scoping review using JBI methodology. We used an adapted form of nominal group technique to develop the recommendations, which were approved by consensus of the participants. Management of competing interests was in accordance with Guideline International Network principles., Recommendations: Although many of the recommendations from the guidance developed in 2019 are still relevant, this guidance provides 2 updated recommendations and 8 new recommendations in the following areas: referral to an organ donation organization, consent, directed and conditional donation, MAiD procedures, determination of death, health care professionals and reporting., Interpretation: Policies and practices for organ and tissue donation after MAiD in Canada should align with current Canadian legislation. This updated guidance will help clinicians navigate the medical, legal and ethical challenges that arise when they support patients pursuing donation after MAiD., Competing Interests: Competing interests: Lindsay Wilson, Ken Lotherington and Caitlin Mills are full-time, paid employees of Canadian Blood Services (CBS). Sam Shemie reports earning salary support as a medical advisor, system development, from CBS. Kim Wiebe reports that CBS provided writing support and article processing charges, and CBS provided support for Dr. Wiebe to attend its Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplant educational event in February 2023. No other competing interests were declared., (© 2023 CMA Impact Inc. or its licensors.)
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- 2023
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4. The effects of crop attributes, selection, and recombination on Canadian bread wheat molecular variation.
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Hargreaves W, N'Daiye A, Walkowiak S, Pozniak CJ, Wiebe K, Enns J, and Lukens L
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- Bread, Canada, Recombination, Genetic, Plant Breeding, Triticum genetics
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Cultivated germplasm provides an opportunity to investigate how crop agronomic traits, selection for major genes, and differences in crossing-over rates drive patterns of allelic variation. To identify how these factors correlated with allelic variation within a collection of cultivated bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), we generated genotypes for 388 accessions grown in Canada over the past 170 yr using filtered single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) calls from an Illumina Wheat iSelect 90K SNP-array. Entries' breeding program, era of release, grain texture, kernel color, and growth habit contributed to allelic differentiation. Allelic diversity and linkage disequilibrium (LD) of markers flanking some major loci known to affect traits such as gluten strength, growth habit, and grain color were consistent with selective sweeps. Nonetheless, some flanking markers of major loci had low LD and high allelic diversity. Positive selection may have acted upon homoeologous genes that had significant enrichment for the gene ontology terms 'response-to-auxin' and 'response-to-wounding.' Long regions of LD, spanning approximately one-third the length of entire chromosomes, were associated with many pericentromeric regions. These regions were also characterized by low diversity. Enhancing recombination across these regions could generate novel allele combinations to accelerate Canadian wheat improvement., (© 2021 The Authors. The Plant Genome published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Crop Science Society of America.)
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- 2021
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5. Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada: practical aspects for healthcare teams.
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Wiebe E, Green S, and Wiebe K
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- Aged, Canada, Humans, Medical Assistance, Patient Care Team, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19
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In this paper we document some of the practical aspects of implementing medical assistance in dying (MAiD) since it became legal in Canada in 2016. The percentage of annual deaths in Canada due to MAiD varies widely, ranging from less than 0.5% in some areas to over 5% in others. By the end of 2019, approximately 13,000 people had an assisted death in Canada (1.6% of all deaths). The average age is 73 years and the majority have cancer (64%), followed by end-stage organ failure (17%), and neurological disease (11%). The safeguards in Canadian law include having two witnesses sign the patient request form, having two independent clinicians agree that the patient is eligible, and requiring a 10-day waiting period after the request is made. Although the criminal law is federal and applies throughout the nation, health services managed provincially, and there are many different models of care being used. Some provinces have standardized prescriptions and procedures for assisted dying with centralized care coordinators supporting both patients and providers. Other provinces expect individual providers to manage all aspects of assisted dying. The procedure and medications are provided free of charge to patients, but it took years before many providers were remunerated for their services. Access for patients has been a problem because there are too few providers of care (especially in rural areas), and many people have difficulty getting accurate information about the process. Many faith-based health care facilities continue to refuse to allow assisted dying within their facilities, so patients requesting MAiD need to be transferred to other locations in their last hours of life. Solutions to these problems have included the development of more training and support for providers and the creation of coordinating centres that provide information and support for patients throughout the process. Telemedicine is used for assessment of eligibility when required, especially during the COVID pandemic. There are similarities in problems of access to all end of life care options, including palliative care and residential hospices. The relationships between providers of assisted dying and specialists in palliative care vary, and examples exist throughout the spectrum from collegial to hostile. This is slowly improving, as individual clinicians gain more experience with patients choosing assisted dying. Public culture is changing as there are more conversations occurring about death and dying.
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- 2021
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6. Barriers to goals of care discussions with seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families: a multicenter survey of clinicians.
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You JJ, Downar J, Fowler RA, Lamontagne F, Ma IW, Jayaraman D, Kryworuchko J, Strachan PH, Ilan R, Nijjar AP, Neary J, Shik J, Brazil K, Patel A, Wiebe K, Albert M, Palepu A, Nouvet E, des Ordons AR, Sharma N, Abdul-Razzak A, Jiang X, Day A, and Heyland DK
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- Adult, Aged, Canada, Female, Humans, Interdisciplinary Communication, Internal Medicine education, Internship and Residency statistics & numerical data, Male, Medical Staff, Hospital statistics & numerical data, Middle Aged, Nurses statistics & numerical data, Self Report, Communication Barriers, Comprehension, Decision Making, Family psychology, Mental Competency, Palliative Care, Patient Care Planning standards, Patient Care Planning trends, Terminal Care methods, Terminal Care standards, Terminal Care trends
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Importance: Seriously ill hospitalized patients have identified communication and decision making about goals of care as high priorities for quality improvement in end-of-life care. Interventions to improve care are more likely to succeed if tailored to existing barriers., Objective: To determine, from the perspective of hospital-based clinicians, (1) barriers impeding communication and decision making about goals of care with seriously ill hospitalized patients and their families and (2) their own willingness and the acceptability for other clinicians to engage in this process., Design, Setting, and Participants: Multicenter survey of medical teaching units of nurses, internal medicine residents, and staff physicians from participating units at 13 university-based hospitals from 5 Canadian provinces., Main Outcomes and Measures: Importance of 21 barriers to goals of care discussions rated on a 7-point scale (1 = extremely unimportant; 7 = extremely important)., Results: Between September 2012 and March 2013, questionnaires were returned by 1256 of 1617 eligible clinicians, for an overall response rate of 77.7% (512 of 646 nurses [79.3%], 484 of 634 residents [76.3%], 260 of 337 staff physicians [77.2%]). The following family member-related and patient-related factors were consistently identified by all 3 clinician groups as the most important barriers to goals of care discussions: family members' or patients' difficulty accepting a poor prognosis (mean [SD] score, 5.8 [1.2] and 5.6 [1.3], respectively), family members' or patients' difficulty understanding the limitations and complications of life-sustaining treatments (5.8 [1.2] for both groups), disagreement among family members about goals of care (5.8 [1.2]), and patients' incapacity to make goals of care decisions (5.6 [1.2]). Clinicians perceived their own skills and system factors as less important barriers. Participants viewed it as acceptable for all clinician groups to engage in goals of care discussions-including a role for advance practice nurses, nurses, and social workers to initiate goals of care discussions and be a decision coach., Conclusions and Relevance: Hospital-based clinicians perceive family member-related and patient-related factors as the most important barriers to goals of care discussions. All health care professionals were viewed as playing important roles in addressing goals of care. These findings can inform the design of future interventions to improve communication and decision making about goals of care.
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- 2015
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7. Critically ill patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection in Canada.
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Kumar A, Zarychanski R, Pinto R, Cook DJ, Marshall J, Lacroix J, Stelfox T, Bagshaw S, Choong K, Lamontagne F, Turgeon AF, Lapinsky S, Ahern SP, Smith O, Siddiqui F, Jouvet P, Khwaja K, McIntyre L, Menon K, Hutchison J, Hornstein D, Joffe A, Lauzier F, Singh J, Karachi T, Wiebe K, Olafson K, Ramsey C, Sharma S, Dodek P, Meade M, Hall R, and Fowler RA
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- Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Canada epidemiology, Child, Child, Preschool, Comorbidity, Critical Illness, Disease Outbreaks, Female, Humans, Hypoxia etiology, Infant, Intensive Care Units, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Length of Stay, Male, Middle Aged, Multiple Organ Failure etiology, Multiple Organ Failure mortality, Prospective Studies, Respiration, Artificial, Respiratory Distress Syndrome etiology, Respiratory Distress Syndrome mortality, Young Adult, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype, Influenza, Human complications, Influenza, Human diagnosis, Influenza, Human mortality, Influenza, Human therapy
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Context: Between March and July 2009, the largest number of confirmed cases of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection occurred in North America., Objective: To describe characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of critically ill patients in Canada with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection., Design, Setting, and Patients: A prospective observational study of 168 critically ill patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection in 38 adult and pediatric intensive care units (ICUs) in Canada between April 16 and August 12, 2009., Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome measures were 28-day and 90-day mortality. Secondary outcomes included frequency and duration of mechanical ventilation and duration of ICU stay., Results: Critical illness occurred in 215 patients with confirmed (n = 162), probable (n = 6), or suspected (n = 47) community-acquired 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection. Among the 168 patients with confirmed or probable 2009 influenza A(H1N1), the mean (SD) age was 32.3 (21.4) years; 113 were female (67.3%) and 50 were children (29.8%). Overall mortality among critically ill patients at 28 days was 14.3% (95% confidence interval, 9.5%-20.7%). There were 43 patients who were aboriginal Canadians (25.6%). The median time from symptom onset to hospital admission was 4 days (interquartile range [IQR], 2-7 days) and from hospitalization to ICU admission was 1 day (IQR, 0-2 days). Shock and nonpulmonary acute organ dysfunction was common (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment mean [SD] score of 6.8 [3.6] on day 1). Neuraminidase inhibitors were administered to 152 patients (90.5%). All patients were severely hypoxemic (mean [SD] ratio of Pao(2) to fraction of inspired oxygen [Fio(2)] of 147 [128] mm Hg) at ICU admission. Mechanical ventilation was received by 136 patients (81.0%). The median duration of ventilation was 12 days (IQR, 6-20 days) and ICU stay was 12 days (IQR, 5-20 days). Lung rescue therapies included neuromuscular blockade (28% of patients), inhaled nitric oxide (13.7%), high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (11.9%), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (4.2%), and prone positioning ventilation (3.0%). Overall mortality among critically ill patients at 90 days was 17.3% (95% confidence interval, 12.0%-24.0%; n = 29)., Conclusion: Critical illness due to 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Canada occurred rapidly after hospital admission, often in young adults, and was associated with severe hypoxemia, multisystem organ failure, a requirement for prolonged mechanical ventilation, and the frequent use of rescue therapies.
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- 2009
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