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Publications

2022 - 2024

McCreary ML, Yeung RO, Manca DP, Greiver M, Singer A, Lau D. Use of SGLT-2 Inhibitors in Adults (Age ≥ 65) with Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease is Lower in Alberta and Manitoba than in Ontario (2018-2020): A Cross-Sectional Study of Different Drug Funding Policies. Can Journal of Diabetes. 2024.

Boisvenue JJ, Oliva CU, Manca DP, Johnson JA, Yeung RO. Identifying Sex-Specific Differences in Young-Onset Metabolic Syndrome Using Primary Care Electronic Medical Record. Metab Syndr Relat Disord. 2023;21(3):133-40.

Gruneir A, Youngson E, Dobbs B, Wagg A, Williamson T, Duerksen K, et al. Older persons living with dementia and their use of acute care services over 2 years in Alberta. Can Fam Physician. 2023;69(2):114-24.

Soos B, Garies S, Cornect-Benoit A, Montgomery L, Sharpe H, Rittenbach K, et al. Documenting cannabis use in primary care: a descriptive cross-sectional study using electronic medical record data in Alberta, Canada. BMC Res Notes. 2023;16(1):9.

Nandiwada S, Manca DP, Yeung RO, Lau D. Achievement of treatment targets among patients with type 2 diabetes in 2015 and 2020 in Canadian primary care. CMAJ. 2023;195(1):E1-E9.

Carroll JC, Liddy C, Afkham A, Keely E, Goh ES, Graham GE, Permaul JA, Allanson J, Heisey R, Makuwaza T, Manca DP. Use of eConsult to enhance genetics service delivery in primary care: A multimethod study. Genetics in Medicine. 2022 Oct 1;24(10):2034-41.

Hao R, Myroniuk T, McGuckin T, Manca D, Campbell-Scherer D, Lau D, et al. Underuse of cardiorenal protective agents in high-risk diabetes patients in primary care: a cross-sectional study. BMC Prim Care. 2022;23(1):124.

Katrina E. Donahue, Donna Manca, Jacqueline R. Halladay, Jinping Xu, Rowena J. Dolor, Hazel Tapp, Elexia Wright, Michelle L. Hernandez, Jack Westfall, Donald E. Nease. The Watershed Of Practice-Based Research: Lessons And Opportunities From The COVID Pandemic. Health Affairs Forefront. 2022

Garrison SR, Kolber MR, Allan GM, Bakal J, Green L, Singer A, et al. Bedtime versus morning use of antihypertensives for cardiovascular risk reduction (BedMed): protocol for a prospective, randomized, open-label, blinded end-point pragmatic trial. BMJ Open. 2022;12(2):e059711.

2020 - 2021

Garies S, McBrien K, Quan H, Manca DP, Drummond N, Williamson T. A data quality assessment to inform hypertension surveillance using primary care electronic medical record data from Alberta, Canada. BMC Public Health. 2021;21(1):264.

Swaleh R, McGuckin T, Myroniuk TW, Manca D, Lee K, Sharma AM, et al. Using the Edmonton Obesity Staging System in the real world: a feasibility study based on cross-sectional data. CMAJ open. 2021;9(4):E1141-E8.

Aponte-Hao S, Wong ST, Thandi M, Ronksley P, McBrien K, Lee J, et al. Machine learning for identification of frailty in Canadian primary care practices. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2021;6(1):1650.

Garies S, Cummings M, Quan H, McBrien K, Drummond N, Manca DP, et al. Methods to improve the quality of smoking records in a primary care EMR database: exploring multiple imputation and pattern-matching algorithms. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 2020;20(1):56.

Boisvenue JJ, Oliva CU, Manca DP, Johnson JA, Yeung RO. Feasibility of identifying and describing the burden of early-onset metabolic syndrome in primary care electronic medical record data: a cross-sectional analysis. CMAJ open. 2020;8(4):E779-E87.

Dash S, Delibasic V, Alsaeed S, Ward M, Jefferson K, Manca DP, et al. Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Related to Physician-Delivered Dietary Advice for Patients with Hypertension. Journal of Community Health. 2020.

Adam LM, Jarman M, Barker M, Manca DP, Lawrence W, Bell RC. Use of healthy conversation skills to promote healthy diets, physical activity and gestational weight gain: Results from a pilot randomised controlled trial. Patient Educ Couns. 2020;103(6):1134-42.

Garies S, Youngson E, Soos B, Forst B, Duerksen K, Manca DP, et al. Primary care EMR and administrative data linkage in Alberta, Canada: describing the suitability for hypertension surveillance. BMJ Health Care Inform. 2020;27(3).

Presentations, Posters & Workshops

2023 - 2024

Cheung, H, Duerksen, K, Forst, B, Fernandes, C, Campbell-Scherer, D, Manca, D. Uses of personalized physician feedback reports to assist in quality improvement, research and inform practice: The Northern Alberta Primary Care Learning & Research Network (NAPCReN). Poster presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group 52st Annual Meeting, November 21, 2024, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Manca, D. A pragmatic RCT on deprescribing for older adults in community-based primary care across Canada: Lessons learned. Presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group 52st Annual Meeting, November 21, 2024, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Cheung, H, Duerksen, K, Forst, B, Campbell-Scherer, D, Manca, D. Uses of personalized physician feedback reports to assist in quality improvement, research and inform practice: The Northern Alberta Primary Care Learning & Research Network (NAPCReN). Presented at the University of Alberta Family Medicine Research Day, June 07, 2024, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Duerksen, K, Manca, D. What have we learned about Practice-Based Research and Learning Networks during the COVID-19 pandemic? Presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group 51st Annual Meeting, November 1, 2023, San Francisco, California, USA.