Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications
Research in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications examines age, environment, chronic disease, social health determinants, maternal and child health, and mental health all in an effort to understand and improve the health of populations as a whole. These publications contain risk assessment and examinations of various health determinants to understand the health and circumstances of certain populations.
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Submissions from 2011
Ethical Issues Posed by Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Research, Charles Weijer, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Monica Taljaard, Ariella Binik, Robert Boruch, Jamie C. Brehaut, Allan Donner, Martin P. Eccles, Antonio Gallo, Andrew D. McRae, Raphael Saginur, and Merrick Zwarenstein
The Effects of Publishing Emergency Department Wait Time on Patient Utilization Patterns in a Community with Two Emergency Department Sites: A Retrospective, Quasi-experiment Design, Bin Xie and Sabrina Youash
Lung Cancer Brachytherapy: Robotics-Assisted Minimally Invasive Approach, Edward Yu, Craig Lewis, Ana Luisa Trejos, Rajni V. Patel, and Richard A. Malthaner
The Impact of Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy on Male Breast Cancer Patients--A Case Series, Edward Yu, Hiromichi Suzuki, Jawaid Younus, Tarek Elfiki, Larry Stitt, Gary Yau, Olga Vujovic, Francisco Perera, Michael Lock, and Patricia Tai
Submissions from 2010
The pathways to mental health care of first-episode psychosis patients: a systematic review., Kelly K. Anderson, Rebecca Fuhrer, and Ashok K. Malla
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Seropositivity and Relationship Status among U.S. Adults Age 20 to 49: A Population-based Analysis, Greta R. Bauer, Nooshin Khobzi, and Todd A. Coleman
Drive time to Cardiac Rehabilitation: At What Point Does It Affect Utilization?, Janette Brual, Shannon Gravely-Witte, Neville Suskin, Donna E. Stewart, Alison Macpherson, and Sherry L. Grace
Community Based Intervention to Optimize Osteoporosis Management: Randomized Controlled Trial, Patricia M. Ciaschini, Sharon E. Straus, Lisa R. Dolovich, Ron A. Goeree, Karen M. Leung, Carol R. Woods, Greg M. Zimmerman, Sumit R. Majumdar, Silvana Spadafora, Luke A. Fera, and Hui N. Lee
Increased Incidence of Glucose Disorders during Pregnancy Is Not Explained by Pre-pregnancy Obesity in London, Canada, Margie H. Davenport, M. Karen Campbell, and Michelle F. Mottola
The Role of Supplemental Coverage in a Universal Health Insurance System: Some Canadian Evidence, Rose Anne Devlin, Sisira Sarma, and Qi Zhang
If You Build It, They still May Not Come: Outcomes and Process of Implementing a Community-based Integrated Knowledge Translation Mapping Innovation, S. Michelle Driedger, Anita Kothari, Ian D. Graham, Elizabeth Cooper, Eric J. Crighton, Melanie Zahab, Jason Morrison, and Michael Sawada
Injury Analyses in Rural Children: Comparison of Old-Order Anabaptists and Non-Anabaptists, Karen Forward, Melissa Chan, Tanya Charyk-Stewart, Jason Gilliland, Craig Campbell, and Douglas D. Fraser
Investigating Concordance in Diabetes Diagnosis between Primary Care Charts (Electronic Medical Records) and Health Administrative Data: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Stewart B. Harris, Richard H. Glazier, Jordan W. Tompkins, Andrew S. Wilton, Vijaya Chevendra, Moira A. Stewart, and Amardeep Thind
Screen-related Sedentary Behaviors: Children's and Parents' Attitudes, Motivations, and Practices, Meizi He, Leonard Piché, Charlene Beynon, and Stewart Harris
The Impact of Delays to Admission from the Emergency Department on Inpatient Outcomes, Qing Huang, Amardeep Thind, Jonathan F. Dreyer, and Gregory S. Zaric
APOC1 T45S Polymorphism Is Associated with Reduced Obesity Indices and Lower Plasma Concentrations of Leptin and Apolipoprotein C-I in Aboriginal Canadians, Piya Lahiry, Henian Cao, Matthew R. Ban, Rebecca L. Pollex, Mary Mamakeesick, Bernard Zinman, Stewart B. Harris, Anthony J. G. Hanley, Murray W. Huff, Philip W. Connelly, and Robert A. Hegele
New Graduate Nurses’ Experiences of Bullying and Burnout in Hospital Settings, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Ashley L. Grau, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
Extending Collaborations for Knowledge Translation: Lessons from the Community-based Participatory Research Literature, Raphael Lencucha, Anita Kothari, and Nadia Hamel
Association of Apolipoprotein B with Incident Type 2 Diabetes in an Aboriginal Canadian Population, Sylvia H. Ley, Stewart B. Harris, Philip W. Connelly, Mary Mamakeesick, Joel Gittelsohn, Thomas M. Wolever, Robert A. Hegele, Bernard Zinman, and Anthony J. Hanley
Assessing the Association of the HNF1A G319S Variant with C-reactive Protein in Aboriginal Canadians: A Population-based Epidemiological Study, Sylvia H. Ley, Robert A. Hegele, Philip W. Connelly, Stewart B. Harris, Mary Mamakeesick, Henian Cao, Joel Gittelsohn, Ravi Retnakaran, Bernard Zinman, and Anthony J. Hanley
Development of the InterRAI Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale (PURS) for Use in Long-term Care and Home Care Settings, Jeff Poss, Katharine M. Murphy, M. Gail Woodbury, Heather Orsted, Kimberly Stevenson, Gail Williams, Shirley Macalpine, Nancy Curtin-Telegdi, and John P. Hirdes
Ethics, Economics and the Regulation and Adoption of New Medical Devices: Case Studies in Pelvic Floor Surgery, Sue Ross, Charles Weijer, Amiram Gafni, Ariel Ducey, Carmen Thompson, and Rene Lafreniere
Does the Way Physicians Are Paid Influence the Way They Practice? The Case of Canadian Family Physicians’ Work Activity, Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin, Bachir Belhadji, and Amardeep Thind
Physician's Production of Primary Care in Ontario, Canada, Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin, and William Hogg
Evaluating the Impact of MEDLINE Filters on Evidence Retrieval: Study Protocol, Salimah Z. Shariff, Meaghan S. Cuerden, R. Brian Haynes, K. Ann McKibbon, Nancy L. Wilczynski, Arthur V. Iansavichus, Mark R. Speechley, Amardeep Thind, and Amit X. Garg