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Gillian Currie
Researcher at University of Calgary
Publications - 68
Citations - 1692
Gillian Currie is an academic researcher from University of Calgary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 56 publications receiving 1422 citations. Previous affiliations of Gillian Currie include Alberta Children's Hospital.
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Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infection, Antibiotics, and Risk of Developing Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis
Stephen B. Freedman,Jianling Xie,Madisen S. Neufeld,William L Hamilton,Lisa Hartling,Phillip I. Tarr,Alberto Nettel-Aguirre,Anderson Chuck,Bonita E. Lee,David W. Johnson,Gillian Currie,James Talbot,Jason Jiang,James A. Dickinson,James D. Kellner,Judy MacDonald,Lawrence W. Svenson,Linda Chui,Marie Louie,Martin Lavoie,Mohamed Eltorki,Otto G. Vanderkooi,Raymond Tellier,Samina Ali,Steven J. Drews,Timothy A.D. Graham,Xiao-Li Pang +26 more
TL;DR: Overall, use of antibiotics was not associated with an increased risk of developing HUS; however, after excluding studies at high risk of bias and those that did not employ an acceptable definition of HUS, there was a significant association.
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Special care facility compared with traditional environments for dementia care: a longitudinal study of quality of life.
TL;DR: To compare the effect of a specialized care facility (SCF) on quality of life (QoL) for residents with middle‐ to late‐stage dementia over a 1‐year period with residence in traditional institutional facilities.
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Cost effectiveness analysis in health care: contraindications
TL;DR: The basic economic principles are revisited and it is made the case that lack of adherence to such principles, through current practice of reducing everything to incremental cost effectiveness ratios, leads to contraindications.
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Best worst discrete choice experiments in health: methods and an application.
TL;DR: It is suggested that BWDCEs are a valuable way to investigate preferences in the health sector and discuss implications for task design, analysis and areas for future research.
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Randomized trial of brief motivational treatments for pathological gamblers: More is not necessarily better.
TL;DR: The efficacy of brief treatments for media-recruited pathological gamblers was tested in a randomized clinical trial design and participants in the brief booster treatment group showed no greater improvement than brief treatment participants.