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A Comparison of the Statistical Power of Different Methods for the Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Cluster Randomization Trials with Binary Outcomes ⬇️

scientific article published on March 29, 2010

A Population-Based Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinics and Identify Important Service Components

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

A Review of Propensity-Score Methods and Their Use in Cardiovascular Research

scientific article published on 23 May 2015

A Tutorial and Case Study in Propensity Score Analysis: An Application to Estimating the Effect of In-Hospital Smoking Cessation Counseling on Mortality ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

A brief note on overlapping confidence intervals

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

A comparison of 12 algorithms for matching on the propensity score

scientific article published on 7 October 2013

A comparison of Bayesian methods for profiling hospital performance

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

A comparison of a Bayesian vs. a frequentist method for profiling hospital performance

scientific article published in February 2001

A comparison of methods for analyzing health-related quality-of-life measures

scientific article published in July 2002

A comparison of propensity score methods: a case-study estimating the effectiveness of post-AMI statin use.

scientific article published in June 2006

A comparison of regression trees, logistic regression, generalized additive models, and multivariate adaptive regression splines for predicting AMI mortality

scientific article published on July 2007

A comparison of several regression models for analysing cost of CABG surgery

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A comparison of the ability of different propensity score models to balance measured variables between treated and untreated subjects: a Monte Carlo study.

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A comparison of the statistical power of different methods for the analysis of cluster randomization trials with binary outcomes

scientific article published in August 2007

A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003.

scientific article published on May 2008

A matched-cohort population study of reoperation after meniscal repair with and without concomitant anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

A modification of the Elixhauser comorbidity measures into a point system for hospital death using administrative data

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A multicenter study of the coding accuracy of hospital discharge administrative data for patients admitted to cardiac care units in Ontario

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A multinational cohort study of in-center daily hemodialysis and patient survival

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

A population-based analysis of the class effect of β-blockers after myocardial infarction

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A population-based description of atrial fibrillation in the emergency department, 2002 to 2010.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

A population-based study of anesthesia consultation before major noncardiac surgery

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A population-based study of the drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors and clopidogrel

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A review and empirical comparison of causal inference methods for clustered observational data with application to the evaluation of the effectiveness of medical devices

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

A review of the use of time-varying covariates in the Fine-Gray subdistribution hazard competing risk regression model

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

A substantial and confusing variation exists in handling of baseline covariates in randomized controlled trials: a review of trials published in leading medical journals

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

A tutorial on methods to estimating clinically and policy-meaningful measures of treatment effects in prospective observational studies: a review

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Absence of disparities in the quality of primary diabetes care for South Asians and Chinese in an urban Canadian setting

scientific article published on 8 February 2012

Absolute risk reductions and numbers needed to treat can be obtained from adjusted survival models for time-to-event outcomes

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Absolute risk reductions, relative risks, relative risk reductions, and numbers needed to treat can be obtained from a logistic regression model

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Accuracy of administrative health data for the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal diseases.

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Acronym-named randomized trials in medicine--the ART in medicine study.

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Administrative database research has unique characteristics that can risk biased results

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Administrative hospitalization database validation of cardiac procedure codes

scientific article published in April 2013

Adverse cardiac events in older patients receiving venlafaxine: a population-based study.

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Adverse cardiovascular events during treatment with pioglitazone and rosiglitazone: population based cohort study

scientific article published on 18 August 2009

Age–social stratification designs had a negligible impact on income–mortality associations

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies ⬇️

scientific article published on June 8, 2011

Analyzing hospitalization data: potential limitations of Poisson regression

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Are (the log-odds of) hospital mortality rates normally distributed? Implications for studying variations in outcomes of medical care

scientific article published in June 2009

Assessing balance in measured baseline covariates when using many-to-one matching on the propensity-score

scientific article published in December 2008

Assessing covariate balance when using the generalized propensity score with quantitative or continuous exposures.

scientific article published in January 2018

Assessing the performance of the generalized propensity score for estimating the effect of quantitative or continuous exposures on binary outcomes

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Assessing the performance of the generalized propensity score for estimating the effect of quantitative or continuous exposures on survival or time-to-event outcomes

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Association between appropriateness of coronary revascularization and quality of life in patients with stable ischemic heart disease

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Association between metformin therapy and mortality after breast cancer: a population-based study

scientific article published on 30 April 2013

Association between metformin use and risk of prostate cancer and its grade

scientific article published on 13 July 2013

Association between tamoxifen treatment and diabetes

scientific article published on 20 September 2011

Association of blood pressure at hospital discharge with mortality in patients diagnosed with heart failure

scientific article published on 24 September 2009

Association of echocardiography before major elective non-cardiac surgery with postoperative survival and length of hospital stay: population based cohort study

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Association of heart rate at hospital discharge with mortality and hospitalizations in patients with heart failure

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Association of prior β-blocker use and the outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

scientific article published on 26 July 2015

Atypical antipsychotics and hyperglycemic emergencies: multicentre, retrospective cohort study of administrative data

scientific article

Author's response: the design of observational studies-defining baseline time

scientific article published in February 2010

Authors' response

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Automated variable selection methods for logistic regression produced unstable models for predicting acute myocardial infarction mortality

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Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity-score matched samples

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Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals

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Bayesian extensions of the Tobit model for analyzing measures of health status

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Bayesian propensity score analysis for observational data

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Bayesian statistical inference enhances the interpretation of contemporary randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

Bayeswatch: an overview of Bayesian statistics

scientific article published in May 2002

Benzodiazepine drug use and adverse respiratory outcomes among older adults with COPD.

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Beta Agonists and Progression of Parkinson's Disease in Older Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Biology or bias: practice patterns and long-term outcomes for men and women with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published in June 2002

Bisphosphonate Use and the Risk of Subtrochanteric or Femoral Shaft Fractures in Older Women

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Bootstrap confidence intervals for loess-based calibration curves

scientific article published in July 2014

Bootstrap model selection had similar performance for selecting authentic and noise variables compared to backward variable elimination: a simulation study

scientific article

Bundle branch block patterns and long-term outcomes in heart failure

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Cardiac Report Cards

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profiles of Recent Immigrants vs Long-term Residents of Ontario: A Multi-ethnic Study ⬇️

scientific article published on August 9, 2011

Cardiovascular complications and mortality after diabetes diagnosis for South Asian and Chinese patients: a population-based cohort study

scientific article published on May 2013

Cardiovascular disease after Escherichia coli O157:H7 gastroenteritis

scientific article published on 19 November 2012

Cardiovascular disease rates, outcomes, and quality of care in Ontario Métis: a population-based cohort study

scientific article

Care and outcomes of patients newly hospitalized for heart failure in the community treated by cardiologists compared with other specialists

scientific article published on 23 June 2003

Cholinesterase inhibitors and adverse pulmonary events in older people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and concomitant dementia: a population-based, cohort study

scientific article published in March 2012

Comparative ability of comorbidity classification methods for administrative data to predict outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

scientific article

Comparative-effectiveness of revascularization versus routine medical therapy for stable ischemic heart disease: a population-based study

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Comparing a multivariate response Bayesian random effects logistic regression model with a latent variable item response theory model for provider profiling on multiple binary indicators simultaneously

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Comparing clinical and administrative data for profiling hospitals on postdischarge medication use by patients with acute myocardial infarction

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Comparing hierarchical modeling with traditional logistic regression analysis among patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: should we be analyzing cardiovascular outcomes data differently?

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Comparing paired vs non‐paired statistical methods of analyses when making inferences about absolute risk reductions in propensity‐score matched samples ⬇️

scientific article published on February 21, 2011

Comparing the cohort design and the nested case-control design in the presence of both time-invariant and time-dependent treatment and competing risks: bias and precision

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Comparing the high-dimensional propensity score for use with administrative data with propensity scores derived from high-quality clinical data

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Comparing the performance of propensity score methods in healthcare database studies with rare outcomes.

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Comparison of cardiovascular risk profiles among ethnic groups using population health surveys between 1996 and 2007.

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Comparison of coding of heart failure and comorbidities in administrative and clinical data for use in outcomes research

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Comparison of comorbidity classification methods for predicting outcomes in a population-based cohort of adults with human immunodeficiency virus infection

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

Comparison of prescribing practices for older adults treated by female versus male physicians: A retrospective cohort study

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Conditioning on the propensity score can result in biased estimation of common measures of treatment effect: a Monte Carlo study

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Constructing inverse probability weights for institutional comparisons in healthcare

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Continuity of care and patient outcomes after hospital discharge

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Conventional models overestimate the statistical significance of volume–outcome associations, compared with multilevel models

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Coronary Angiography Following Acute Myocardial Infarction in Ontario, Canada

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Correlation between serial tests made disease probability estimates erroneous

scientific article published on 28 August 2009

Covariate balance in a Bayesian propensity score analysis of beta blocker therapy in heart failure patients

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Covariate-adjusted survival analyses in propensity-score matched samples: Imputing potential time-to-event outcomes

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Cross-cultural comparisons of health status in Canada using the Health Utilities Index

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Cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors versus non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and congestive heart failure outcomes in elderly patients: a population-based cohort study

scientific article

Deliberate Self-Poisoning in Ontario Following the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Derivation and validation of an index to predict early death or unplanned readmission after discharge from hospital to the community

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Deriving ethnic-specific BMI cutoff points for assessing diabetes risk

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Determinants of variations in initial treatment strategies for stable ischemic heart disease

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Development and validation of the Ontario acute myocardial infarction mortality prediction rules

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Development of an algorithm to identify preoperative medical consultations using administrative data

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Diabetes Is Not Treated as a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent

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Diabetic patients with prior specialist care have better glycaemic control than those with prior primary care

scientific article published in December 2005

Different measures of treatment effect for different research questions

scientific article published on 17 October 2009

Differential effects of bundle branch block morphology in heart failure

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

Dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers and the progression of parkinsonism

scientific article published in March 2012

Discriminating clinical features of heart failure with preserved vs. reduced ejection fraction in the community

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Diuretic dose and long-term outcomes in elderly patients with heart failure after hospitalization

scientific article published on August 2010

Does ED crowding decrease the number of procedures a physician in training performs? A prospective observational study

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Duration of preoperative β-blockade and outcomes after major elective noncardiac surgery

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

ED triage of patients with acute myocardial infarction: predictors of low acuity triage

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

Early deaths in patients with heart failure discharged from the emergency department: a population-based analysis.

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Early specialist care for diabetes: who benefits most? A propensity score-matched cohort study

scientific article published on 16 May 2015

Effect of Provider Continuity on Test Repetition

scientific article published on 19 October 2006

Effect of age on stroke prevention therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation: the atrial fibrillation investigators

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

Effect of cardiac and noncardiac conditions on survival after defibrillator implantation

scientific article published on 11 June 2007

Effect of discharge summary availability during post-discharge visits on hospital readmission

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Effect of marriage on duration of chest pain associated with acute myocardial infarction before seeking care

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Effect of physician remuneration fees on glaucoma procedure rates in Canada

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Effect of provider volume on the accuracy of hospital report cards: a Monte Carlo study

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Effect of selective cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors and naproxen on short-term risk of acute myocardial infarction in the elderly

scientific article published in February 2003

Effect of subsequent pregnancies on the risk of developing diabetes following a first pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes: a population-based study

scientific article published in March 2011

Effect of time to electrocardiogram on time from electrocardiogram to fibrinolysis in acute myocardial infarction patients

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Effectiveness and safety of drug-eluting stents in Ontario.

scientific article published in October 2007

Effectiveness of emergency department asthma management strategies on return visits in children: a population-based study

scientific article published in December 2007

Effectiveness of preprocedural statin therapy on clinical outcomes for patients with stable coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary interventions

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Effectiveness of public report cards for improving the quality of cardiac care: the EFFECT study: a randomized trial

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Effectiveness of statins for secondary prevention in elderly patients after acute myocardial infarction: an evaluation of class effect

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Effects of cholinesterase inhibitors on postoperative outcomes of older adults with dementia undergoing hip fracture surgery

scientific article published in September 2011

Effects of dementia on postoperative outcomes of older adults with hip fractures: a population-based study

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Effects of impairment in activities of daily living on predicting mortality following hip fracture surgery in studies using administrative healthcare databases

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Effects of socioeconomic status on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality after acute myocardial infarction

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Emergency Department Triage of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and the Effect on Outcomes

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Epidemiology of primary anterior shoulder dislocation requiring closed reduction in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 25 November 2013

Epidural anaesthesia and survival after intermediate-to-high risk non-cardiac surgery: a population-based cohort study

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Epidural analgesia and postoperative outcome – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Estimating Multilevel Logistic Regression Models When the Number of Clusters is Low: A Comparison of Different Statistical Software Procedures ⬇️

scientific article published on April 22, 2010

Estimating linear regression models in the presence of a censored independent variable

scientific article published in February 2004

Evaluating early repeat emergency department use in patients with atrial fibrillation: A population-based analysis

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Evaluating sex differences in population-based utilization of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: role of cardiac conditions and noncardiac comorbidities

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Evaluation of Early Complications Related to De Novo Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Factoring Socioeconomic Status Into Cardiac Performance Profiling for Hospitals

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Factors associated with 90-day death after emergency department discharge for atrial fibrillation

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Factors associated with the use of evidence-based therapies after discharge among elderly patients with myocardial infarction

scientific article published on October 2008

Family physician ethnicity influences quality of diabetes care for Chinese but not South Asian patients

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Gender differences in outcomes after hospital discharge from coronary artery bypass grafting.

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Generating survival times to simulate Cox proportional hazards models with time‐varying covariates ⬇️

scientific article published on July 4, 2012

Goodness-of-fit diagnostics for the propensity score model when estimating treatment effects using covariate adjustment with the propensity score

scientific article published in December 2008

Graphical assessment of internal and external calibration of logistic regression models by using loess smoothers

scientific article published on 23 August 2013

Graphical calibration curves and the integrated calibration index (ICI) for competing risk models

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Graphical calibration curves and the integrated calibration index (ICI) for survival models

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Higher risk of hospitalization among females with cystic fibrosis

scientific article published on 4 December 2010

Higher surgeon and hospital volume improves long-term survival after radical cystectomy

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How Many “Me-Too” Drugs are Enough? The Case of Physician Preferences for Specific Statins

article published in 2006

IScore

scientific article published on 07 February 2011

Impact of Clostridium difficile colitis on 5-year health outcomes in patients with ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 14 October 2012

Impact of age on peritonitis risk in peritoneal dialysis patients: an era effect

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Impact of community based, specialist palliative care teams on hospitalisations and emergency department visits late in life and hospital deaths: a pooled analysis

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Impact of gastroenterologist care on health outcomes of hospitalised ulcerative colitis patients

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Impact of modality choice on rates of hospitalization in patients eligible for both peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis

scientific article published on January 2014

Impact of renal insufficiency on short- and long-term outcomes after cardiac surgery

scientific article published in September 2004

Impact of socio-economic status on breast cancer screening in women with diabetes: a population-based study

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

Impact of the choice of benchmark on the conclusions of hospital report cards

scientific article published in December 2004

Impact of the pravastatin or atorvastatin evaluation and infection therapy-thrombolysis in myocardial infarction 22/Reversal of Atherosclerosis with Aggressive Lipid Lowering trials on trends in intensive versus moderate statin therapy in Ontario, C

scientific article published on 22 August 2005

Improved outcomes with early collaborative care of ambulatory heart failure patients discharged from the emergency department

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

In Response

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

Incidence of diabetes among postmenopausal breast cancer survivors

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Incidence, predictors, and prognostic implications of hospitalization for late bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention for patients older than 65 years

scientific article published on 23 March 2010

Incident opioid drug use among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study

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Income-related differences in mortality among people with diabetes mellitus

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Increased surgeon experience with rheumatoid arthritis reduces the risk of complications following total joint arthroplasty

scientific article published in March 2014

Inflation of the type I error rate when a continuous confounding variable is categorized in logistic regression analyses

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Inhaled Anticholinergic Drug Therapy and the Risk of Acute Urinary Retention in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Inhaled Long-acting Anticholinergics and Urinary Tract Infection in Individuals with COPD.

scientific article

Initial Cholinesterase Inhibitor Therapy Dose and Serious Events in Older Women and Men

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Intensive hemodialysis associates with improved survival compared with conventional hemodialysis

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Intermediate and advanced topics in multilevel logistic regression analysis.

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Interpreting the concordance statistic of a logistic regression model: relation to the variance and odds ratio of a continuous explanatory variable ⬇️

scientific article published on June 20, 2012

Intraoperative transfusion of small amounts of blood heralds worse postoperative outcome in patients having noncardiac thoracic operations

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Is pathology necessary to predict mortality among men with prostate-cancer? ⬇️

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Ischemic electrocardiographic abnormalities and prognosis in decompensated heart failure

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Levothyroxine dose and risk of fractures in older adults: nested case-control study.

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Life expectancy after an index hospitalization for patients with heart failure: a population-based study

scientific article published in February 2008

Lifetime analysis of hospitalizations and survival of patients newly admitted with heart failure

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Logistic regression had superior performance compared with regression trees for predicting in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure

scientific article

Longer wait times increase overall mortality in patients with bladder cancer

scientific article published on 14 August 2009

Low Adherence to Statin Treatment during the First Year after an Acute Myocardial Infarction is associated with Increased Second Year Mortality Risk- An Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighted Study on 54,872 Patients

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Machine learning vs. conventional statistical models for predicting heart failure readmission and mortality ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Measures of clustering and heterogeneity in multilevel Poisson regression analyses of rates/count data.

scientific article

Measuring the effect of a large reduction in welfare payments on mental health service use in welfare-dependent neighborhoods

scientific article published in September 2005

Meta-analysis of the effects of endothelin receptor blockade on survival in experimental heart failure

scientific article published on October 2003

Metformin use and all-cause and prostate cancer-specific mortality among men with diabetes

scientific article published on 5 August 2013

Missed opportunities in the secondary prevention of myocardial infarction: An assessment of the effects of statin underprescribing on mortality

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Missed strokes using computed tomography imaging in patients with vertigo: population-based cohort study

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Mitral Repair Versus Replacement for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Modern modelling techniques are data hungry: a simulation study for predicting dichotomous endpoints

scientific article

Morbidity and mortality associated with prescription cannabinoid drug use in COPD

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and barriers to peritoneal dialysis: a mixed methods study

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

New use of rosiglitazone decreased following publication of a meta-analysis suggesting harm

scientific article published in July 2008

Non-invasive cardiac stress testing before elective major non-cardiac surgery: population based cohort study

scientific article

Obesity, lifestyle risk-factors, and health service outcomes among healthy middle-aged adults in Canada

scientific article

Older men with dementia are at greater risk than women of serious events after initiating antipsychotic therapy

scientific article published on 10 January 2013

Optimal Statistical Decisions for Hospital Report Cards

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Optimal caliper widths for propensity-score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies

scientific article

Optimal full matching for survival outcomes: a method that merits more widespread use.

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Outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a population-based study

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Outcomes and care of patients with acute heart failure syndromes and cardiac troponin elevation

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Outcomes and processes of care related to preoperative medical consultation

scientific article published in August 2010

Outcomes in patients with heart failure treated in hospitals with varying admission rates: population-based cohort study

scientific article

Paclitaxel versus sirolimus stents in diabetic and nondiabetic patients

scientific article published on 5 March 2009

Patient and Physician Predictors of Peritoneal Dialysis Technique Failure: A Population Based, Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Patient, physician, and community factors affecting referrals to specialists in Ontario, Canada: a population-based, multi-level modelling approach

scientific article published in April 2003

Patterns of use of thienopyridine therapy after percutaneous coronary interventions with drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents

scientific article published on 22 August 2009

Pisces did not have increased heart failure: data-driven comparisons of binary proportions between levels of a categorical variable can result in incorrect statistical significance levels

scientific article

Postoperative medical complications associated with anesthesia in older adults with dementia

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Practical recommendations for reporting Fine-Gray model analyses for competing risk data

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Predicting mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure: derivation and validation of a clinical model

scientific article published in November 2003

Predicting potential survival benefit of renal transplantation in patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article

Predicting the risk of 1-year mortality in incident dialysis patients: accounting for case-mix severity in studies using administrative data

scientific article

Predictive accuracy of risk factors and markers: a simulation study of the effect of novel markers on different performance measures for logistic regression models

scientific article published on 10 September 2012

Predictors and Outcomes of Routine Versus Optimal Medical Therapy in Stable Coronary Heart Disease

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Predictors of Postacute Mortality Following Traumatic Brain Injury in a Seriously Injured Population

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Predictors of Short-Term Complications After Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Replacement

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Predictors of peritonitis in patients on peritoneal dialysis: results of a large, prospective Canadian database

scientific article published on 30 April 2009

Prescription Synthetic Oral Cannabinoid use Among Older Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Prescriptions for Estrogen Replacement Therapy in Ontario Before and After Publication of the Women's Health Initiative Study

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Presentation blood glucose and death, hospitalization, and future diabetes risk in patients with acute heart failure syndromes.

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Prevalence and Extent of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease Among Patients Undergoing Elective Coronary Catheterization in New York State and Ontario

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Primer on statistical interpretation or methods report card on propensity-score matching in the cardiology literature from 2004 to 2006: a systematic review

scientific article published on September 2008

Printed educational messages aimed at family practitioners fail to increase retinal screening among their patients with diabetes: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN72772651].

scientific article

Processes and outcomes of care for diabetic acute myocardial infarction patients in Ontario: do physicians undertreat?

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

Propensity score methods for time-dependent cluster confounding

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Propensity score methods gave similar results to traditional regression modeling in observational studies: a systematic review

scientific article

Propensity-score matching in the cardiovascular surgery literature from 2004 to 2006: a systematic review and suggestions for improvement

scientific article published on November 2007

Prophylactic defibrillators in patients with severe chronic kidney disease.

scientific article published in June 2014

Proportion of hospital readmissions deemed avoidable: a systematic review

scientific article published on 28 March 2011

Public versus private institutional performance reporting: what is mandatory for quality improvement?

scientific article

Quality of Care of International and Canadian Medical Graduates in Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Quantifying the impact of survivor treatment bias in observational studies

scientific article published in December 2006

Quantile regression: a statistical tool for out-of-hospital research.

scientific article published on July 2003

R and S-PLUS produced different classification trees for predicting patient mortality

scientific article

Racial composition of residential areas associates with access to pre-ESRD nephrology care

scientific article

Ranking hospital performance based on individual indicators: can we increase reliability by creating composite indicators?

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Rates of hyperkalemia after publication of the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study

scientific article

Regional Variation in Surgery for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Ontario

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Regional effects of satellite haemodialysis units on renal replacement therapy in non-urban Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 4 April 2007

Regression trees for predicting mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease: what improvement is achieved by using ensemble-based methods?

scientific article

Relation between cardiac troponin I and mortality in acute decompensated heart failure

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Relation between surgeon volume and risk of complications after total hip arthroplasty: propensity score matched cohort study

scientific article

Relationship between care gaps and projected life expectancy after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 3 June 2014

Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates

scientific article published in June 2008

Reply to M.M.J. Zanders et al

scientific article published on 06 January 2014

Response to Comment on Shah et al. Cardiovascular Complications and Mortality After Diabetes Diagnosis for South Asian and Chinese Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2013;36:2670–2676

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Return to work after heart transplantation: 12-year follow-up

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Risk-Treatment Mismatch in the Pharmacotherapy of Heart Failure

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Safety and Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Stents for Patients With Off- and On-Label Indications

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Safety and effectiveness of drug-eluting stents among diabetic patients: a propensity analysis

scientific article

Selection bias explains apparent differential mortality between dialysis modalities

scientific article

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and breast cancer mortality in women receiving tamoxifen: a population based cohort study

scientific article

Serotonergic antidepressant use and morbidity and mortality among older adults with COPD

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Sex differences in carotid endarterectomy outcomes: results from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry

scientific article

Sex differences in the management and outcomes of Ontario patients with cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Shunt-dependent hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: incidence, predictors, and revision rates

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Socioeconomic status and risk of hemorrhage during warfarin therapy for atrial fibrillation: A population-based study

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Socioeconomic status and risk of hospitalization among individuals with cystic fibrosis in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Socioeconomic status, access to health care, and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction in Canada's universal health care system

scientific article published in July 2007

Socioeconomic status, functional recovery, and long-term mortality among patients surviving acute myocardial infarction

scientific article

Socioeconomic status, service patterns, and perceptions of care among survivors of acute myocardial infarction in Canada

scientific article published on March 2004

Some methods of propensity-score matching had superior performance to others: results of an empirical investigation and Monte Carlo simulations

scientific article published in February 2009

Speak fast, use jargon, and don't repeat yourself: a randomized trial assessing the effectiveness of online videos to supplement emergency department discharge instructions

scientific article

Standard admission orders can improve the management of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Statin Therapy and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure: A Propensity-Matched Analysis

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Statins and intracerebral hemorrhage: a retrospective cohort study.

scientific article

Statins and renovascular disease in the elderly: a population-based cohort study

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

Statistical Criteria for Selecting the Optimal Number of Untreated Subjects Matched to Each Treated Subject When Using Many-to-One Matching on the Propensity Score ⬇️

scientific article published on August 28, 2010

Surgical outcomes and transfusion of minimal amounts of blood in the operating room

scientific article published in January 2012

Survivor treatment bias, treatment selection bias, and propensity scores in observational research

scientific article published in February 2010

Temporal Trends in Cardiogenic Shock Treatment and Outcomes Among Ontario Patients With Myocardial Infarction Between 1992 and 2008

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Temporal changes in emergency department triage of patients with acute myocardial infarction and the effect on outcomes

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Terminating observation within matched pairs of subjects in a matched cohort analysis: a Monte Carlo simulation study

scientific article published on 16 August 2015

Testing multiple statistical hypotheses resulted in spurious associations: a study of astrological signs and health

scientific article

The Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team (CANHEART): using big data to measure and improve cardiovascular health and healthcare services.

scientific article

The Effect of Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinic Characteristics on 1-Year Postdischarge Health Care Costs

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The Impact of Under Coding of Cardiac Severity and Comorbid Diseases on the Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

The Impact of Unmeasured Clinical Variables on the Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards: A Monte Carlo Study

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

The Integrated Calibration Index (ICI) and related metrics for quantifying the calibration of logistic regression models

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

The Long-Term Use of Warfarin Among Atrial Fibrillation Patients Discharged From an Emergency Department With a Warfarin Prescription

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

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