Rachel Rodin

TL;DR: A group of 24 multidisciplinary experts used a systematic review of articles on existing reporting guidelines and methods, a 3-round Delphi process, a consensus meeting, pilot testing, and iterative refinement to develop the PRISMA diagnostic test accuracy guideline.

TL;DR: The population-based incidence of admission to hospital with laboratory-confirmed pandemic (H1N1) influenza was low in the first five months of the pandemic in Canada and the risk of a severe outcome was associated with the presence of one or more underlying medical conditions, age of 20 years or more and a delay in hospital admission.

TL;DR: The epidemiologic features of the first and second waves of the 2009 pandemic differed; the second wave was substantially larger and, although the patients admitted to hospital were older and more of them had underlying conditions, a smaller proportion had a severe outcome.

TL;DR: There is a negligible risk of sexual transmission of HIV when an HIV-positive sex partner adheres to antiretroviral therapy and maintains a suppressed viral load of less than 200 copies/mL measured every 4 to 6 months.

TL;DR: During the first outbreak of influenza A/pH1N1 infection, when the population was naïve to this novel virus, severe illness was common among children with underlying chronic conditions and aboriginal children, and this higher rate and severity of respiratory illness did not result in an increased mortality when compared with seasonal influenza.