Academic
Medical missions in a post-pandemic world
A single question threatens to dampen the enthusiasm of thousands of volunteers: could short-term medical missions be causing harm? Now, as the world focuses inward, Western humanitarians struggle to reinvent themselves and their embattled programs.
Intended for doctors, nurses, student volunteers, and academics, this practical handbook presents a framework for best practices and clinical guidelines for medical missions – drawing on both personal experiences and medical literature to bring ethical dilemmas to life.
Global health publications
Medical missions after the pandemic
Dainton C, Jessani G, Hircock C. Resilience of the medical mission model: assessment of the perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on short-term medical missions to Latin America and the Caribbean. Journal of Global Health Reports. 2022;6:e2022059.
Validation of the Service Trip Audit Tool for medical missions
Dainton C, Gorman C, Cherniak W, Lopez L, Chu CH. Reliability of the Service Trip Audit Tool to assess the quality of short-term medical missions. Int Health. 2021 Dec 1;13(6):606-614.
Field manuals: women's health
Dainton C, Chu CH. A qualitative narrative review of protocols for women's health on short-term medical missions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Int Health. 2022 Jul 1;14(4):434-441.
Clinical decision-making on medical missions
Dainton C, Chu CH, Lin H, Loh LC. Variability of clinical practice decisions on Latin American mobile medical service trips (MSTs). Journal of Global Health Reports. 2019;3:e2019034.
Field manuals: respirology
Dainton C, Chu CH. A narrative review of protocols for the management of respiratory illness on short-term medical missions (STMMs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Journal of Global Health Reports. 2018;2:e2018035.
Point of care tests on medical missions
Dainton C, Shah N, Chu CH. Prevalence of Portable Point of Care Tests Used on Medical Service Trips in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ann Glob Health. 2018 Nov 5;84(4):736-742.
A framework for best practices on medical missions
Dainton C, Chu CH, Gorman C, Cherniak W. Development of a theoretical framework for assessment of quality of primary care medical service trips in Latin America. Int J Public Health. 2019 Apr;64(3):333-342. doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1199-y. Epub 2019 Jan 8. PMID: 30617500.
Field manuals: dermatology
Dainton C, Chu CH. A narrative review of dermatologic protocols for primary care medical service trips in Latin America and the Caribbean. Int J Dermatol. 2017 Dec;56(12):1425-1431.
Field manuals: hypertension and diabetes
Dainton C, Truong J, Chu CH. A Review of Hypertension and Diabetes Protocols for Medical Service Trips (MSTs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ann Glob Health. 2018 Nov 5;84(4):563-570.
Practice guidelines for medical missions
Dainton C, Chu CH, Lin H, Cherniak W, Loh LC. A Protocol to Develop Practice Guidelines for Primary Care Medical Service Trips. Ann Glob Health. 2016 Sep-Oct;82(5):678-685.
Clinical guidelines for medical missions
Dainton C, Chu CH, Lin H, Loh L. Clinical guidelines for Western clinicians engaged in primary care medical service trips in Latin America and the Caribbean: an integrative literature review. Trop Med Int Health. 2016 Apr;21(4):470-8.
Epidemiology on medical missions
Dainton C, Chu C. Symptom clusters on primary care medical service trips in five regions in Latin America. J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2015 Sep;5(3):259-64.
Medical technology
QuickChart EMR for medical missions
Dainton C, Chu C. 2016. Mobile EMR use for epidemiological surveillance on a medical service trip in Honduras: a pilot study. EHealth Telecommunication Systems and Networks, 5, 1-7.
Electronic medical records for medical missions
Dainton C, Chu CH. A review of electronic medical record keeping on mobile medical service trips in austere settings. Int J Med Inform. 2017 Feb;98:33-40.
Pandemic
Vaccine hesitancy
Dainton C, Wong J. Repairing our broken relationship with the vaccine hesitant: Empathy, compassion, and humility are needed. Can Fam Physician. 2022 Mar;68(3):211-213.
Efficacy of pandemic lockdowns
Dainton C., Hay A. Quantifying the relationship between lockdowns, mobility, and effective reproduction number (Rt) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area. BMC Public Health 21, 1658 (2021).
Mental health and lockdowns
Dainton C, Donato-Woodger S, Chu CH. A multicenter study of short-term changes in mental health emergency services use during lockdown in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health. 2021 Oct 12;21(1):1840.
Social isolation and lockdowns
Chu CH, Donato-Woodger S, Dainton CJ. Competing crises: COVID-19 countermeasures and social isolation among older adults in long-term care. J Adv Nurs. 2020 Oct;76(10):2456-2459.
Epidemiology of medical missions
Dainton C, Chu C. Symptom clusters on primary care medical service trips in five regions in Latin America. J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2015 Sep;5(3):259-64.
Case reports and more
Colloids in renal failure
Dainton, C. Do hydroxyethyl starch colloids increase the incidence of renal failure in patients with sepsis? BestBETS. 2010 November.
Case report
Dainton CJ, Iglar K, Prabhudesai V. A case of right-sided congenital subclavian steal. Can J Cardiol. 2010 Jan;26(1):e15-6.
Rural family medicine
Dainton, C. Reflections on the Rural Northern Initiative. Canadian Family Physician. 2010 May; 56: 494.
Writers on writing
Dainton C. Physician-writers in the age of blogging. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2009 August.
Case report
Dainton, C. A case of pancytopenia in an HIV-positive patient. University of Toronto Medical Journal. 2007 March; 84(2): 85-87.