Martin Paré, Rebecca C. Richler, Martin ten Hove, Kevin G. Munhall
We conducted three experiments in order to examine the influence of gaze behavior and fixation on audiovisual speech perception in a task that required subjects to report the speech sound they perceived during the presentation of congruent and incongruent (McGurk) audiovisual stimuli. Experiment 1 s...
Edsel Ing, Neil R. Miller, Angeline Nguyen, Wanhua Su et al.
Purpose: To develop and validate neural network (NN) vs logistic regression (LR) diagnostic prediction models in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis (GCA). Design: Multicenter retrospective chart review. Methods: An audit of consecutive patients undergoing temporal artery biopsy (TABx) for ...
Chaim M. Bell, Sudeep S. Gill, Martin ten Hove, Sherif El-Defrawy et al.
IMPORTANCE: The growing complexity of medical and surgical care has resulted in increasing subspecialization. To date, data have been lacking regarding the degree to which subspecialization has affected the provision of strabismus surgical services. This gap is important to address given the implica...
Edsel Ing, Gabriela Lahaie Luna, Christian Pagnoux, P. Baer et al.
OBJECTIVE The incidence of giant cell arteritis (GCA) is insufficiently documented for Canada, but important to ascertain for public health planning. We estimate the incidence of biopsy-proven GCA (BPGCA) in Kingston, Ontario, and for the province of Ontario. METHOD The number of cases of BPGCA was ...
Clare Liddy, Sheena Guglani, Timothy Ratzlaff, Robert Campbell et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of connecting optometrists to ophthalmologists on an eConsult service. DESIGN: Descriptive analysis of utilization data and an anonymous survey. PARTICIPANTS: All eConsult cases sent by optometrists between March 2019 and February 2020 (utili...
Gabriela Lahaie Luna, Jean–Marie Parel, Alex González, Wilma M. Hopman et al.
OBJECTIVE To validate the use of a mechanized remotely operated stereoscopic drone slit lamp (DSL) in assessing anterior segment pathology in ophthalmology patients compared with conventional slit lamp (CSL). METHODS Patients were recruited from eye clinics at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, Ontari...
Hanno Hoven, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Insa Backhaus-Hoven, Andrea Riebler et al.
The European Social Survey (ESS) is a pan-European social survey that has mapped and explained stability and change in the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour patterns of European populations since 2002. In 2013/14, the ESS introduced a rotating module on health and its social determinants. With this ...
Robert Campbell, Martin ten Hove, Sherif El-Defrawy
Cataract surgery is the most common operation performed in most developed countries, including Canada. Nuanced, evidence-driven policies are needed to ensure appropriate access to this sight-saving operation while maintaining the highest standards in quality of care. The Vision Health Services Resea...
Bishnupriya Ghosh
What does it mean to write histories of global pandemics? As global forms defined by their wide geographic extension, minimal population immunity, and contagiousness, among other criteria, pandemics are notoriously difficult crisis-events to plot temporally or to scale spatially (see Movens, Folkers...
Chaim M. Bell, Martin ten Hove, Sudeep S. Gill, Philip L. Hooper et al.
OBJECTIVE An important potential unintended consequence of the growth of surgical subspecialization is the narrowing of surgical practice among comprehensive ophthalmologists. We investigated trends in the narrowing of surgical practice and the exclusive provision of cataract surgery. DESIGN Populat...