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List of works by Amiram Gafni

A Prospective Mixed-Methods Study of Decision-Making on Surgery or Active Surveillance for Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

A cross-sectional study of the prevalence, correlates, and costs of falls in older home care clients 'at risk' for falling

scientific article

A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care--a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

A protocol for a Canadian prospective observational study of decision-making on active surveillance or surgery for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

A review of health literacy: Definitions, interpretations, and implications for policy initiatives

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

A scoping review of strategies for the prevention of hip fracture in elderly nursing home residents

scientific article

A shared treatment decision-making approach between patients with chronic conditions and their clinicians: the case of diabetes

scientific article published on March 2006

A systematic review examining the effects of therapeutic radioactive iodine on ovarian function and future pregnancy in female thyroid cancer survivors

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

A systematic review of the effect of alendronate on bone mineral density in men.

scientific article

A systematic review of the gonadal effects of therapeutic radioactive iodine in male thyroid cancer survivors

scientific article published on 31 October 2007

A systematic review of the literature examining the diagnostic efficacy of measurement of fractionated plasma free metanephrines in the biochemical diagnosis of pheochromocytoma

scientific article

A treatment decision aid may increase patient trust in the diabetes specialist. The Statin Choice randomized trial

scientific article

A usability study of a computerized decision aid to help patients with, early stage papillary thyroid carcinoma in, decision-making on adjuvant radioactive iodine treatment

scientific article published on 21 August 2010

AN INTEGRATED TRANSITIONAL CARE MODEL FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH MULTIMORBIDITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS

scholarly article in Innovation in Aging, vol. 3, Suppl 1, November 2019

Achievements and challenges of medicare in Canada: Are we there yet? Are we on course?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

An updated systematic review and commentary examining the effectiveness of radioactive iodine remnant ablation in well-differentiated thyroid cancer

scientific article published on June 2008

Are cancer-related decision aids effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 05 January 2009

Are health states "timeless"? The case of the standard gamble method

scientific article

Assessing the conceptual clarity and evidence base of quality criteria/standards developed for evaluating decision aids ⬇️

scientific article published on November 3, 2011

Attitudes of women who are currently using or recently stopped estrogen replacement therapy with or without progestins: results of the AWARE survey

scientific article published in November 2004

Basis for Physician Recommendations for Adjuvant Radioiodine Therapy in Early-Stage Thyroid Carcinoma: Principal Findings of the Canadian-American Thyroid Cancer Survey

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Building bridges between academic research and policy formulation: when costing less means costing more

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Burden of dysthymia and comorbid illness in adults in a Canadian primary care setting: high rates of psychiatric illness in the offspring

scientific article published in January 2004

CHIPS-Child: Testing the developmental programming hypothesis in the offspring of the CHIPS trial

scientific article published on 19 May 2018

Can I accurately predict the impact of an illness and its treatment on my future subjective well-being? A complex question that does not have a simple answer

scientific article published on September 2006

Can adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes be predicted when blood pressure becomes elevated? Secondary analyses from the CHIPS (Control of Hypertension In Pregnancy Study) randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Canadian Quality Circle pilot project in osteoporosis: rationale, methods, and feasibility.

scientific article

Changes in children's behavior and costs for service use associated with parents' response to treatment for dysthymia

scientific article

Children receiving chemotherapy at home: perceptions of children and parents

scientific article published in September 2006

Clinician's use of theStatin Choicedecision aid in patients with diabetes: a videographic study nested in a randomized trial

Community Program Improves Quality of Life and Self-Management in Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus and Comorbidity

scientific article

Comorbidity and its relationship with health service use and cost in community-living older adults with diabetes: A population-based study in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Conceptualizing and validating the human services integration measure

scientific article

Core competencies for shared decision making training programs: insights from an international, interdisciplinary working group

scientific article

Cost analysis of monitoring asthma treatment using sputum cell counts

scientific article published on October 2008

Cultural influences on the physician-patient encounter: The case of shared treatment decision-making

scientific article published on 26 September 2006

Decision aid on radioactive iodine treatment for early stage papillary thyroid cancer--a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Decision aid on radioactive iodine treatment for early stage papillary thyroid cancer: update to study protocol with follow-up extension

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Mobile Health Technologies for Managing Chronic Conditions in Older Adults: A Scoping Review

scientific article

Developing and pre-testing a decision board to facilitate informed choice about delivery approach in uncomplicated pregnancy

scientific article

Development and pretesting of a decision-aid to use when counseling parents facing imminent extreme premature delivery

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Discussing prognosis with patients and their families near the end of life: impact on satisfaction with end-of-life care.

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Do hip protectors decrease the risk of hip fracture in institutional and community-dwelling elderly? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article

Does alendronate reduce the risk of fracture in men? A meta-analysis incorporating prior knowledge of anti-fracture efficacy in women

scientific article

Economics and the evaluation of health care programmes: generalisability of methods and implications for generalisability of results

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Economics of preoperative radiotherapy with total mesorectal excision: what can we learn from the Dutch experience?

scientific article published on 09 December 2003

Economists' dream or nightmare? Maximizing health gains from available resources using the NICE guidelines.

scientific article

Editorial: special conference issue

scientific article published on March 2000

Effect of a Decision Aid on Knowledge and Treatment Decision Making for Breast Cancer Surgery

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Effect of gender, age, and severity of asthma attack on patterns of emergency department visits due to asthma by month and day of the week

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Effective/efficient mental health programs for school-age children: a synthesis of reviews

scientific article published in April 2004

Effectiveness of a community program for older adults with type 2 diabetes and multimorbidity: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Empirical Testing of the External Validity of a Discrete Choice Experiment to Determine Preferred Treatment Option: The Case of Sleep Apnea.

scientific article

Empirical relationships between health literacy and treatment decision making: a scoping review of the literature

scientific article published on 08 December 2014

End-of-life care in acute care hospitals in Canada: a quality finish?

scientific article published on January 2005

Estimation, power and sample size calculations for stochastic cost and effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published on January 2007

Ethical economics and cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical to ignore opportunity costs?

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Evaluating health-related quality of life and priority health problems in patients with prostate cancer: a strategy for defining the role of the advanced practice nurse

scientific article published in January 2010

Exploring the relationship between patients' information preference style and knowledge acquisition process in a computerized patient decision aid randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Family involvement in cancer treatment decision-making: A qualitative study of patient, family, and clinician attitudes and experiences.

scientific article

Family physicians' personal and practice characteristics that are associated with improved utilization of bone mineral density testing and osteoporosis medication prescribing

scientific article published on June 2009

Guidelines should not recommend the type of decision-making for the medical encounter

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Health promotion for frail older home care clients

scientific article published in May 2006

Helping Patients Make Informed Choices: A Randomized Trial of a Decision Aid for Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer ⬇️

scientific article published on April 16, 2003

Helping Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Make Treatment Decisions

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Hemodialysis Infection Prevention Protocols Ontario-Shower Technique (HIPPO-ST): A Pilot Randomized Trial

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Hip fracture prevention strategies in long-term care: a survey of Canadian physicians' opinions ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Hip protectors decrease hip fracture risk in elderly nursing home residents: a Bayesian meta-analysis

scientific article

Home chemotherapy for children with cancer: perspectives from health care professionals

scientific article published on March 2004

Hospital and home chemotherapy for children with leukemia: a randomized cross-over study

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

How oncologists communicate information to women with recurrent ovarian cancer in the context of treatment decision making in the medical encounter ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Impact of support services provided by a community-based AIDS service organization on persons living with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published in July 2005

Improvement in health-related quality of life in osteoporosis patients treated with teriparatide

scientific article

In Response

article published in 2005

Inclusion of drugs in provincial drug benefit programs: Should "reasonable decisions" lead to uncontrolled growth in expenditures?

scientific article

Increasing comorbidity and health services utilization in older adults with prior stroke

scientific article

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): the silence of the lambda

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Information created to evade reality (ICER): things we should not look to for answers.

scientific article published on January 2006

Insights on multimorbidity and associated health service use and costs from three population-based studies of older adults in Ontario with diabetes, dementia and stroke

article

Interprofessional stroke rehabilitation for stroke survivors using home care

scientific article published on March 2011

Is fetal gender associated with emergency department visits for asthma during pregnancy?

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Is there an economic rationale for cancer drugs to have a separate reimbursement review process for resource allocation purposes?

scientific article

Less-Tight Versus Tight Control of Hypertension in Pregnancy

article by Laura A Magee et al published May 2015 in Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Less-tight versus tight control of hypertension in pregnancy

scientific article published on January 2015

Lessons learned from the Decision Board: a unique and evolving decision aid

scientific article published on March 2000

Measurement of fractionated plasma metanephrines for exclusion of pheochromocytoma: Can specificity be improved by adjustment for age?

scientific article

NICE methodological guidelines and decision making in the National Health Service in England and Wales

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Nurse-led health promotion interventions improve quality of life in frail older home care clients: lessons learned from three randomized trials in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

Nutritional Mobile Applications for CKD Patients: Systematic Review.

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

On being NICE in the UK: guidelines for technology appraisal for the NHS in England and Wales

scientific article published in April 2002

On the margins of health economics: a response to 'resolving NICE'S nasty dilemma'.

scientific article published on April 2015

Oncologists' Perceptions of Recurrent Ovarian Cancer Patients' Preference for Participation in Treatment Decision Making and Strategies for When and How to Involve Patients in This Process

scientific article

Optimizing a portfolio of health care programs in the presence of uncertainty and constrained resources

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Optimizing care in osteoporosis: the Canadian quality circle project

scientific article

Outcomes and metrics: measuring the impact of a comprehensive adolescent and young adult cancer program

scientific article published in May 2011

Patient characteristics associated with nocturnal emergency department visits for asthma

scientific article published in August 2006

Patients' with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) preferences and demand for treatment: a discrete choice experiment.

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

Patterns of health service use in community living older adults with dementia and comorbid conditions: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada

scientific article

Physician-related facilitators and barriers to patient involvement in treatment decision making in early stage breast cancer: perspectives of physicians and patients ⬇️

scientific article published on September 16, 2011

Portfolio theory and the alternative decision rule of cost-effectiveness analysis: theoretical and practical considerations

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Predicting tissue plasminogen activator use and success in in-center hemodialysis patients

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Quality of life of individuals with heart failure: a randomized trial of the effectiveness of two models of hospital-to-home transition

scientific article published in April 2002

Quantitative sputum cell counts to monitor bronchitis: a qualitative study of physician and patient perspectives

scientific article published on January 2013

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Computerized Decision Aid on Adjuvant Radioactive Iodine Treatment for Patients With Early-Stage Papillary Thyroid Cancer

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Recreation for children on social assistance, 4-17 years old, pays for itself the same year

scientific article published on 10 August 2006

Regional Differences in Opinions on Adjuvant Radioactive Iodine Treatment of Thyroid Carcinoma within Canada and the United States

article

Reporting quality of pilot clinical trials in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis: a methodological survey

Response: Letter to Editor "A prospective mixed-methods study of decision-making on surgery or active surveillance for low risk papillary thyroid cancer"

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Second primary malignancy risk in thyroid cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on December 2007

Self-reported use of shared decision-making among breast cancer specialists and perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing this approach

scientific article published on December 2004

Sertraline and/or interpersonal psychotherapy for patients with dysthymic disorder in primary care: 6-month comparison with longitudinal 2-year follow-up of effectiveness and costs

scientific article

Sex differences in hospital admissions from emergency departments in asthmatic adults: a population-based study

scientific article published in May 2006

Shared decision making in the medical encounter: are we all talking about the same thing?

scientific article published on 14 September 2007

Shared decision-making in primary care: tailoring the Charles et al. model to fit the context of general practice

scientific article

Shared treatment decision making in a collectively funded health care system: possible conflicts and some potential solutions

scientific article published in May 2002

Shared treatment decision making: what does it mean to physicians?

scientific article published in March 2003

Should clinicians deliver decision aids? Further exploration of the statin choice randomized trial results

scientific article published on 15 July 2009

Should cost-effectiveness take the blame?

Study protocol for a hospital-to-home transitional care intervention for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and depressive symptoms: a pragmatic effectiveness-implementation trial

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

The 'NICE' approach to technology assessment: an economics perspective

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

The 2-year costs and effects of a public health nursing case management intervention on mood-disordered single parents on social assistance.

scientific article published in February 2002

The ACHRU-CPP versus usual care for older adults with type-2 diabetes and multiple chronic conditions and their family caregivers: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

The Aging, Community and Health Research Unit-Community Partnership Program for older adults with type 2 diabetes and multiple chronic conditions: a feasibility study.

scientific article

The CHIPS Randomized Controlled Trial (Control of Hypertension in Pregnancy Study): Is Severe Hypertension Just an Elevated Blood Pressure?

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

The Cost Implications of Less Tight Versus Tight Control of Hypertension in Pregnancy (CHIPS Trial).

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

The Diabetes Continuity of Care Scale: the development and initial evaluation of a questionnaire that measures continuity of care from the patient perspective*

article

The HAART side of resource allocation.

scientific article published on July 2003

The NICE reference case requirement: more pain for what, if any, gain?

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

The Rationale of Patients with Early-Stage Papillary Thyroid Cancer for Accepting or Rejecting Radioactive Iodine Remnant Ablation

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

The Silence in Hoch et al.'s Commentary about the Rationale for and Objective(s) of Canada's Separate HTA Process for Cancer Drugs: The Importance of Transparency and Accountability when Allocating Taxpayers' Dollars

scientific article published in August 2015

The TRIO Framework: Conceptual insights into family caregiver involvement and influence throughout cancer treatment decision-making

scientific article

The biggest bang for the buck or bigger bucks for the bang: the fallacy of the cost-effectiveness threshold

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

The costs and effects of addressing the needs of vulnerable populations: results of 10 years of research

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

The development and testing of a new communication tool to help clinicians inform patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome about treatment options.

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

The development of a decision aid to elicit treatment preferences for displaced femoral neck fractures ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

The distribution problem in economic evaluation: income and the valuation of costs and consequences of health care programmes

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

The economic implications of three biochemical screening algorithms for pheochromocytoma

scientific article

The effectiveness and efficiency of home-based nursing health promotion for older people: a review of the literature

scientific article published on October 2006

The effects and costs of a multifactorial and interdisciplinary team approach to falls prevention for older home care clients 'at risk' for falling: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published in March 2010

The evidence‐based medicine model of clinical practice: scientific teaching or belief‐based preaching? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 18, 2010

The impact of thyroid cancer and post-surgical radioactive iodine treatment on the lives of thyroid cancer survivors: a qualitative study

scientific article

The influence of child abuse on the pattern of expenditures in women's adult health service utilization in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published on 21 June 2006

The seriously ill hospitalized patient: preferred role in end-of-life decision making?

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

The statutory duty of physicians to inform patients versus unmet patients' information needs: the case of breast cancer in France

scientific article published on 16 January 2009

The use of hip protectors in long-term care facilities: a survey of nursing home staff

scientific article published on 18 April 2007

The utilization of appropriate osteoporosis medications improves following a multifaceted educational intervention: the Canadian quality circle project (CQC).

scientific article

The vexing problem of defining the meaning, role and measurement of values in treatment decision-making

scientific article published on March 2014

Thyroid cancer patient perceptions of radioactive iodine treatment choice: Follow-up from a decision-aid randomized trial

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Treatment decision aids: conceptual issues and future directions

scientific article published on June 2005

Treatment decision-making in the medical encounter: comparing the attitudes of French surgeons and their patients in breast cancer care

scientific article

Treatment of displaced femoral neck fractures in the elderly: a cost-benefit analysis

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Uncertainty and the decision maker: assessing and managing the risk of undesirable outcomes ⬇️

scientific article published on December 26, 2012

Understanding cardiopulmonary resuscitation decision making: perspectives of seriously ill hospitalized patients and family members

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Walking a tightrope: oncologists’ perspective on providing information to women with recurrent ovarian cancer (ROC) during the medical encounter ⬇️

scientific article published on December 14, 2011

What is the number of older Canadians needed to screen by measurement of bone density to detect an undiagnosed case of osteoporosis? a population-based study from CaMos

scientific article

What matters most in end-of-life care: perceptions of seriously ill patients and their family members.

scientific article

When guidelines don't guide: the effect of patient context on management decisions based on clinical practice guidelines

scientific article published in February 2015

Why Cancer Patients Enter Randomized Clinical Trials: Exploring the Factors That Influence Their Decision

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Women's perceptions of their involvement in treatment decision making for early stage breast cancer

scientific article

Women's perceptions of their treatment decision-making about breast cancer treatment

scientific article published on 28 August 2008

Women's views and postpartum follow-up in the CHIPS Trial (Control of Hypertension in Pregnancy Study).

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

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