Ginetta Salvalaggio Publications

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2022

• Brooks HL, Salvalaggio G, Pauly B, Dong K, Bubela T, Taylor M, Hyshka E. (2022). “I have such a hard time hitting myself, I thought it’d be easier”: perspectives of hospitalized patients on injecting drugs into vascular access devices. Harm Reduct J. 19(1):54. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00637-1.
• Salvalaggio, G., Ferguson, L., Brooks, H.L., Hyshka, E., et al. (2022). Impact of health system engagement on the health and well-being of people who use drugs: a realist review protocol. Syst Rev 11(66). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-01938-z
• Salvalaggio G, Dong KA, Hyshka E, McCabe C, Nixon L, Rosychuk RJ, Dmitrienko K, Krajnak J, Mrklas K, Wild TC. (2022). Impact of an addiction medicine consult team intervention in a Canadian inner city hospital on acute care utilization: a pragmatic quasi-experimental study. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 17(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s13011-022-00445-7.

2021

• Kosteniuk B, Salvalaggio G, McNeil R, Brooks HL, Dong K, Twan S, Brouwer J, Hyshka E. (2021). “You don’t have to squirrel away in a staircase”: Patient motivations for attending a novel supervised drug consumption service in acute care. Int J Drug Policy. 96:103275. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103275.
• Dong, K., Lavergne, K., Salvalaggio, G., Weber, S., Xue, C., Kestler, A., … & Hyshka, E. (2021). Emergency physician perspectives on initiating buprenorphine/ naloxone in the emergency department: A qualitative study. Journal of the American College of
  Emergency Physicians Open 2(2), e12409.

2019

• Brooks HL, O’Brien D, Salvalaggio G, Dong K, Hyshka E. (2019). Uptake into a bedside needle and syringe program for acute care inpatients who inject drugs. Drug & Alcohol Review.
• Hyshka, E., Morris, H., Anderson-Baron, J., Nixon, L., Dong, K., & Salvalaggio, G. (2019). Patient perspectives on a harm reduction-oriented addiction medicine consultation team implemented in a large acute care hospital. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 204, 107523.
• Kevin Pottie,|Christine M. Mathew, Oreen Mendonca, Olivia Magwood, Ammar Saad, Tasnim Abdalla, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Gary Bloch, Vanessa Brcic, Anne Andermann, Tim Aubry, David Ponka, Claire Kendal, Ginetta Salvalaggio, Sebastian Mott, Victoire Kpade, Christine Lalonde, Terry Hannigan, Esther Shoemaker, Alain D. Mayhew, Kednapa Thavorn, Peter Tugwell. (2019). Protocol: A comprehensive review of prioritizedinterventions to improve the health and wellbeing of personswith lived experience of homelessness. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 15:e1048.

2018

• Brooks HL, Kassam S, Salvalaggio G, Hyshka E. (2018). Implementing managed alcohol programs in hospital settings: A review of academic and grey literature. Drug Alcohol Rev. 37 Suppl 1:S145-S155.

2016

• Salvalaggio, G., Dong, K.A., Hyshka, E., Nixon, L., Lavergne, K., Nicol, J., Louis, M., Lockerbie, S., Bristowe, M., Leske, J., Rosychuk, R.J., Mrklas, K., Surood, S., & Wild, T.C. (2016). Enhanced multidisciplinary care for inner city patients with high acute care use: Study protocol. Canadian Journal of Addiction. 7(3),34-41.