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Although adults with ADHD can benefit from medications commonly used to treat the disorder in children, there is variation in their use across Canada and some of the drugs can be difficult to access.

Report released today by Health Quality Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences explores impact of mental illness and addictions in Ontario and examines quality of care.

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People living in areas with high numbers of fast-food restaurants and few healthy alternatives are more likely to experience obesity.

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Researchers say it is highly likely that establishing up to three supervised injection facilities in Toronto and up to two facilities in Ottawa would be cost-effective.

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Statistics Canada data could be used to estimate the number of prescription opioid-related deaths in Canada to aid in national surveillance by provincial and national public health agencies.

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Incidence rates for head and neck cancers indicate need for treatment will grow as Ontario ages.

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The quality of patient care provided by family physicians is mostly not compromised by larger patient load.

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Healthy older people at lower risk of kidney failure in their lifetime compared to younger people, may make good living donor candidates.

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The Apgar score that evaluates a baby’s condition at birth may also be a useful tool for predicting whether a mother is critically ill.

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Patients admitted to hospitals with low volumes of ischemic stroke care are more likely to die within 30 days.

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Only one third of women and less than half of men in Ontario get all the cancer, diabetes and heart disease screening tests for which they are eligible.

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Pregnant refugee women in Ontario have a higher prevalence of HIV than immigrants and Canadian-born women, a new study examining serious pregnancy and delivery complications has found.

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The risk of self-harm emergencies increased after bariatric surgery, underscoring need for suicide risk screening, prevention during follow-up.

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Researchers have safety concerns about high rates of new opioid use among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Study of 53,739 long-term care residents over three-year period found that for-profit facilities have significantly higher hospitalization and mortality rates than not-for-profit facilities.

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Adult survivors of childhood cancer stay in better health and require fewer visits to emergency departments if they are clients of specialized survivor clinics

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Ontario women have a one in 30 chance of vaginal mesh removal or revision after treatment, and a nearly five-fold increased risk of complications with multiple mesh slings.

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Regular visits to primary care providers play an important role in a women’s uptake of periodic mammograms, and this association increases as women get older

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A groundbreaking new big data study demonstrates a “healthy immigrant effect” on heart health in Ontario.

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Colonoscopy is the most common procedure performed in Ontario, with relatively similar rates in all regions. However, less common procedures show more regional variation.

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Patients who underwent elective daytime procedures by physicians in Ontario who had provided medical services the night before did not have a higher risk of adverse outcomes.

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Among people receiving chronic opioid therapy, men are more likely than women both to escalate to high doses and to die from opioid-related causes.

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Each person living with diabetes requires care that costs an average of $16,000 over eight years, compared to $6,000 in average health care costs for people who don’t live with diabetes

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South Asian Canadians are less likely than the general Ontario population to register as organ donors and their families are less likely to consent to deceased organ donation at the time of death.

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People diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes later in life had a 16 per cent higher risk of developing dementia than people without diabetes, a new study indicates.

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People with lower incomes who struggle to put food on the table use the health care system more, leading to higher health care costs, according to new research.

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Cardiovascular risk factors are worsening at different rates for different ethnic groups. This study used over 10 years of data to show that general trends don’t apply to all ethnic groups.

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Ontario hospitals that participated in a pay-for-performance program to reduce emergency department wait times showed a reduction in overall length of stay without compromising quality of care.

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A diagnosis of fibromyalgia increases the risk of a serious traffic crash that continues for years after the initial diagnosis, according to a new study by researchers at ICES.

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Researchers at ICES are preparing to investigate the impacts of climate change on public health with an innovative new program that combines health data with weather data.

People who live in areas where they are more likely to walk to work, to school or to run errands are, on average, less likely to be overweight than those living in car-dependent neighbourhoods.

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Up to 20 years after people in the 20-44 age group are declared cancer-free, they still have more hospitalizations than the general public, new research has found.

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Almost one in 10 Ontarians suffer from migraines but few receive public coverage for medication to manage the pain. Study recommends expanded access to triptans for acute treatment.

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Residents of high antibiotic use homes have a 24 per cent higher risk of antibiotic-related adverse events according to a new study by researchers at ICES.

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People recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes who have other serious chronic health issues have less heart disease and lower death rates if they see an endocrinologist within one year of diagnosis.

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Women who live in urban areas, are from high income neighbourhoods and whose pregnancy care is provided by an obstetrician are more likely to receive prenatal screening.

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The use of atypical antipsychotic drugs in the elderly living in the community has increased 26 per cent in the last five years.

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Guidelines recommend limiting medical tests before low-risk surgeries, however electrocardiograms and chest x-rays are still frequently performed.

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The sex of a baby and gestational diabetes mellitus can now provide insight into a woman’s risk of diabetes after delivery and in a subsequent pregnancy.

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Patients with irregular heart beat who present at the ED were hospitalized nearly twice as often in the US when compared to Ontario.

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The estimated incidence of acute kidney injury treated with dialysis is one in 10,000 pregnancies.

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Antipsychotic medication use during pregnancy does not put women at additional risk of developing gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders or major blood clots that obstruct circulation.

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Immigrants from the Caribbean and Bermuda, as well as refugees from East Africa and South Asia, have a 1.5 to 2 times higher risk of psychotic disorders compared to the general population of Ontario.

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Individual, household and neighbourhood socio-economic status impact future high-cost users of health care according to researchers at ICES, UofT and PHO.

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Only half of patients who presented in an Ontario emergency department with a new diagnosis of atrial fibrillation saw a family doctor or a specialist within seven days of discharge.

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There is strong evidence of the early benefits of the HPV vaccine on reductions in cervical dysplasia and possible reductions in anogenital warts.

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South Asian women are more likely to be diagnosed with later stage breast cancer compared to the general population, while Chinese women are more likely to be diagnosed with early stage cancer.

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Older patients prescribed PPIs were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for acute kidney failure relative to individuals not prescribed these drugs, new research has found.

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The majority of home care users are older women, who have higher rates of disability and chronic conditions than men the same age.

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The Métis population is 25 to 77 per cent more likely to suffer from five common cardiovascular conditions than the general population in Ontario, according to new research conducted at ICES.

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New research found that most suicide deaths occur well after the first attempt.

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Researchers at ICES and Lawson Health Research Institute have found that donating a kidney modestly increases an individual’s absolute long-term incidence of gout.

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Diabetes is associated with more advanced stage breast cancer, according to a new study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Women’s College Hospital.

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The first-ever Atlas of Childhood Cancer in Ontario is an in-depth, unique, population-based account of cancer in childhood over a 20-year period.

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The younger a person is when they immigrate to Canada, the higher their risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and its major subtypes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

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Chinese patients with diabetes received better quality of care when their family physicians were also Chinese. However, that was not the case for South Asian patients.

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A ground-breaking report from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) examines the gap that exists in population-based mental health research for children and youth in Ontario.

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Adults in Ontario with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome are significantly less likely to be screened for colorectal cancer than the general population.

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One in four high-risk patients assessed for chest pain and discharged from an ED in Ontario did not receive any physician follow-up within one month of discharge.

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Patients with irregular heart beat who are newly prescribed a common blood thinner, are at a three-times increased risk of ischemic stroke during the first 30 days of therapy.

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The number of newborns suffering from opioid withdrawal increased 15-fold in Ontario over 20 years, according to research published today in CMAJ Open.

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People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a 40 to 50 per cent higher mortality rate than the general population according to new research conducted at ICES.

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Stoke patients with language barriers had an approximately 30 per cent reduced rate of death at seven days and 30 days, and a more than 20 per cent reduced rate of death at one year.

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For older patients who take trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and spironolactone, the combination can double their risk of sudden cardiac death.

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