Recent Publications

Guindon GE, Fatima T, Abbat B, Bhons P, Garasia S. Area-level differences in the prices of tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery systems: a systematic review. Health & Place. 2020. 102395

Jones A, Bronskill SE, Seow H, Junek M, Feeny D, Costa AP. Associations between continuity of primary and specialty physician care and use of hospital-based care among community-dwelling older adults with complex care needs. PLOS ONE 2020; 15: e0234205.

Manis DR, McArthur C, Costa, AP. Associations with rates of falls among home care clients in Ontario, Canada: a population-based, cross-sectional study. BMC Geriatrics. 20, 80 (2020).

Fitch MI, Longo CJ, Chan RJ. Cancer patients' perspectives on financial burden in a universal health care system: Analysis of qualitative data from participants from 20 provincial cancer centers in Canada. The Patient-Patient centered outcomes research. Patient Education and Counselling. 2020. August. (Abstract)

Asada Y, Grignon M, Hurley J, Kirkland S. “Cautionary tails of grip strength in health inequality studies: An analysis from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging.” Social Science & Medicine. 2020. 265. Nov. 113382.

Boscart V, Crutchlow LE, Sheiban Taucar L, Johnson K, Heyer M, Davey M, Costa AP, Heckman G. Chronic disease management models in nursing homes: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 2020 Feb 5;10(2):e032316. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032316.

Qureshi D, Isenberg S, Tanuseputro P, Moineddin R, Quinn K, Meaney C, McGrail K, Seow H, Webber C, Fowler R, Hsu A. Describing the characteristics and healthcare use of high-cost acute care users at the end of life: a pan-Canadian population-based study.  BMC Health Services Research. 2020. Oct 31;20(1):997. 

Jones A, Bronskill SE, Schumacher C, Seow H, Feeny D, Costa AP. Effect of access to after-hours primary care on the association between home nursing visits and same-day emergency department use. The Annals of Family Medicine. 2020. Sep;18(5):406-412. 

Helpman L, Pond GR, Elit L, Anderson LN, Seow H.  Endometrial cancer presentation Is associated with social determinants of health in a public healthcare system: A population-based cohort study. Gynecologic Oncology. 2020. April 27. pii: S0090-8258(20)30993-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.04.693.

Fitch MI, Longo CJ. Exploring out of pocket costs for cancer patients and quality of life : Using a qualitative approach.  SAGE Research Methods Cases : Medicine and Health. 2020. 

Mowbray FI, Jones A, Schumacher C, Hirdes J, Costa AP. External validation of the detection of indicators and vulnerabilities for emergency room trips (DIVERT) scale: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Geriatrics. 2020 Oct 20;20(1):413. 

Longo CJ,  Fitch MI,  Banfield L et al. Financial toxicity associated with a cancer diagnosis in publicly funded healthcare countries: A systematic review. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2020. 28, 4645–4665.

Dixon PR, Feeny D, Tomlinson G, Cushing S, Chen JM, Krahn MD. Health-related quality of life changes associated with hearing loss. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery. 2020. May 14. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2020.0674.

Schumacher C, Jones A, Costa AP. Home care nursing visits and same-day emergency department use: Which patients are most at risk? Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. 2020. Aug 20:844562120949426. doi: 10.1177/0844562120949426.

Jones A, Watts AG, Khan SU, Forsyth J, Brown KA, Costa AP, Bogoch II, Stall NM. Impact of a public policy restricting staff mobility between nursing homes in Ontario, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2021. Jan 26:S1525-8610(21).

Tarride JÉ, Adachi JD, Brown JP, Schemitsch E, Slatkovska L, Burke N. Incremental costs of fragility fractures: a population-based matched -cohort study from Ontario, Canada. Osteoporosis International. 2021. Feb 18. 

Howell D, Li M, Sutradhar R, Gu S, Iqbal J, O'Brien MA, Seow H, et al.  Integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for personalized symptom management in "real-world" oncology practices: a population-based cohort comparison study of impact on healthcare utilization. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2020. Feb 4. doi: 10.1007/s00520-020-05313-3.

Lee J, Muratov S, Tarride JE, Paterson JM, Thavorn K, Mbuagbaw L, Gomes T, Khuu W, Seow H, Thabane L, Holbrook A. Medication use and its impact on high-cost health care users among older adults: protocol for the population-based matched cohort HiCOSTT study. CMAJ Open. 2021. Jan 11;9(1):E44-E52.

Grignon M, Allin S, Corscadden L, Wolfson M.  On measuring the inequity of financing health care in the United States and the redistribution of income through health care financing in Canada. American Journal of Public Health. 2020. 110, no. 11 (November 1, 2020): pp. 1603-1604.

Paraje G, Guindon GE, Chaloupka FJ. Prices, alcohol use initiation and heavy episodic drinking among Chilean youth. Addiction. 2020. doi:10.1111/add.15167

Wei L, Feeny D. The dynamics of the gradient between child's health and family income: Evidence from Canada. Social Science & Medicine. 2019. April. Vol 226. 182-189.

Seow H, Qureshi D, Isenberg SR, Tanuseputro P. Access to palliative care during a terminal hospitalization.  Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2020. Feb 5. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0416.

Boothe K. (Re)defining legitimacy in Canadian drug assessment policy? Comparing ideas over time. Health Economics, Policy and Law. 2021. 1-6.

Fitch MI, Longo CJ, Chan RJ. Cancer patients' perspectives on financial burden in a universal health care system: Analysis of qualitative data from participants from 20 provincial cancer centers in Canada. The Patient-Patient centered outcomes research. Patient Education and Counselling. 2020. August.

Asada Y, Grignon M, Hurley J, Kirkland S. Cautionary tails of grip strength in health inequality studies: An analysis from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging. Social Science & Medicine. 2020. Nov. 22;265:113382. 

Isenberg SR, Tanuseputro P, Spruin S, Seow H, Goldman R, Thavorn K, Hsu At.Cost-effectiveness of investment in end-of-life home care to enable death in community settings.Medical Care. 2020. June 5. Doi:10. 1097.

Grignon M, Marchildon G, Longo C, Officer S. Creation of an Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare; Canada, June 2018, Health Policy. 2020. 124: 7-11 Health Reforms Monitor section.

Fitch MI, Longo CJ. Exploring out of pocket costs for cancer patients and quality of life : Using a qualitative approach. SAGE Research Methods Cases : Medicine and Health. 2020. 

Longo CJ,  Fitch MI,  Banfield L et al. Financial toxicity associated with a cancer diagnosis in publicly funded healthcare countries: A systematic review. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2020. 28, 4645–4665.

Lau VI, Xie F, Basmaji J, Cook DJ et al. Health-related quality-of-life and cost utility analyses in critical care: A systematic review. Critical Care Medicine. 2021. Feb 12.

Dewitt B, Torrance GW. Incorporating Mortality in Health Utility Measures. Medical Decision Making. 2020. 40(7) 862-872.

Sendi P, Gafni A, Birch S, Walter SD. Incorporating portfolio uncertainty in decision rules for healthcare resource allocation. Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Mar 14;9(3):325. 

Iqbal J, Sutradhar R, Zhao H, Howell D, O'Brien MA, Seow H, et al. Operationalizing Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Criteria in Lung Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study Using Health Administrative Data. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2020. Jan 16. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0515. 

Longo CJ, Fitch MI, Loree JM. et al. Patient and family financial burden associated with cancer treatment in Canada: a national study. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2021. Jan. 5

Wang RH, Zdaniuk N, Durocher E, Wilson MG. Policymaker and stakeholder perspectives on access to assistive technologies in Canada: Challenges and proposed solutions for enhancing equitable access. Disability and Rehabilitation. 2020. June 3.

Wei L, Feeny D. The dynamics of the gradient between child's health and family income: Evidence from Canada. Social Science & Medicine. 2019. April. Vol 226. 182-189.

Pitre T, Thomas A, Evans K, Jones A, Mountjoy M, Costa AP. The influence of income on medical school admissions in Canada: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Medical Education. 2020. 20(1):209.

Zoratti MJ, Xie F, Thorlund K, Allen N, Levine M. An Exploratory Analysis of Predictors of Concordance Between Canadian Common Drug Review Reimbursement Recommendations and the Subsequent Decisions by Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. Healthcare Policy. 2020. 15(3):90-101. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2020.26128.

Fitch MI, Longo CJ, Chan RJ. Cancer patients' perspectives on financial burden in a universal health care system: Analysis of qualitative data from participants from 20 provincial cancer centers in Canada. The Patient-Patient centered outcomes research. Patient Education and Counselling. 2020. August. (abstract).

Grignon M, Marchildon G, Longo C, Officer S. Creation of an Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare; Canada, June 2018, Health Policy. 2020. 124:7-11 Health Reforms Monitor section.

Fitch MI, Longo CJ. Exploring out of pocket costs for cancer patients and quality of life : Using a qualitative approach.  SAGE Research Methods Cases : Medicine and Health. 2020. 

Longo CJ,  Fitch MI,  Banfield L et al. Financial toxicity associated with a cancer diagnosis in publicly funded healthcare countries: A systematic review. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2020. 28, 4645–4665.

Li G, Lip GYH, Marcucci M, Thabane L, Tian J, Levine MAH.  The number needed to treat for net effect (NNTnet) as a metric for measuring combined benefits and harms. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2020. Sept 1. (125) 100-107.

Denburg A, Giacomini M, Ungar W and Abelson J. ‘The problem is small enough, the problem is big enough’: Health technology assessment and public policy on drug funding decisions for children. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2020 Mar 30;19(1):45.

Mattison C, Lavis JN, Wison MG, Hutton E, Dion ML. A critical interpretive synthesis of the role of midwives in health systems. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2020. 18:17.

D'Amico RS, Baum G, Serulle Y, Silva D, Smith ML, Wallack RA, Ellis JA, Levine M, Ortiz R, Boockvar JA, Langer DJ. A roadmap to reopening a neurosurgical practice in the Age of COVID-19. World Neurosurgery. 2020. July. 139:289-293.

Hunt M, Nouvet E, Chenier A, Krishnaraj G, Bernard C, Bezanson K, de Laat S, Schwartz L. Addressing obstacles to the inclusion of palliative care in humanitarian health projects: a qualitative study of humanitarian health professionals’ and policy makers’ perceptions. Conflict and Health. 2020. 14:70.

De Freitas C, Buckley R, Klimo R, Daniel J, Mountjoy M, Vanstone M. Admissions experiences of aspiring physicians from low-income backgrounds. Medical Education. 2021. Feb 2.

Mbuagbaw L, Anderson LN, Lokker C, Thabane L. Advice for junior faculty regarding academic promotion: What not to worry about, and what to worry about. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. 2020. Jan 31;13:117-122. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S240056.

Jones A, Bronskill SE, Seow H, Junek M, Feeny D, Costa AP. Associations between continuity of primary and specialty physician care and use of hospital-based care among community-dwelling older adults with complex care needs. PLOS ONE 2020; 15: e0234205.

Vanstone M, Sadik M. Smith O, Neville T et al. Building organizational compassion amongst teams delivering end-of-life care in the ICU: The Three Wishes Project. Palliative Medicine. 2020. June 10.

Cook DJ, Takaoka A, Hoad N, …. Vanstone M. Clinician perspectives on caring for dying patients during the pandemic. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020. Dec. 8.

Patel T, Christy K, Grierson L, Shadd J, Farag A, O’Toole D, Lawson J, Vanstone M. Clinician responses to legal requests for hastened death: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 2020.

Embrett M, Randall GE, Lavis JN, Dion ML. Conceptualising characteristics of resources withdrawal from medical services: a systematic qualitative synthesis. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2020. Oct 28;18(1):123. 

Wang C, Sweetman A. Delisting eye examinations from public health insurance: Empirical evidence from Canada regarding impacts on patients and providers. Health Policy. 2020. Mar 19. pii: S0168-8510(20)30056-7. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.03.006.

Staykov E, Qureshi D, Scott M, Costa A, et al. Do patients retain their family physicians after long-term care entry? A retrospective cohort study. The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. 2020. June 22.

Xie F, Yan J, Agarwal G, Ferron R. Economic analysis of mobile integrated health care delivered by emergency medical services paramedic teams. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Feb 1;4(2):e210055. 

Stall NM, Jones A, Brown KA, Rochon PA, Costa AP. For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths. CMAJ. 2020.

Correia RH, Klea L, Campbell G, Costa AP. Fostering intergenerational education: An experiential learning program for medical students and older adults. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 2020. Sep 23;11(5):e74-e77.

Mercuri M, Upshur RE, Gafni A. Guidelines should not recommend the type of decision-making for the medical encounter. Patient Education & Counseling. 2020. May 15. pii: S0738-3991(20)30282-2.

Jones A, Watts AG, Khan SU, Forsyth J, Brown KA, Costa AP, Bogoch II, Stall NM. Impact of a public policy restricting staff mobility between nursing homes in Ontario, Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2021. Jan 26:S1525-8610(21).

Haidar H, Vanstone M, Laberge AM, et al. Implementation considerations for an ethical introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing: A qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ views from Lebanon and Quebec. BMC Medical Ethics. 2020. 21, 15.

Burgess R, Cernat A, Little L, Vanstone M.  Implementing publicly funded non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal aneuploidy in Ontario, Canada: Clinician experiences with a disruptive technology. Qualitative Health Research. 2020.

Jones A, Bronskill S, Seow H, Feeny D, Lapointe-Shaw L, Mowbray F, Costa A. Physician home visit patterns and hospital use among older adults with functional impairments. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020. June 24.

Burrows K, Abelson J, Miller P, Levine M, Vanstone M. Professional, practical and political opportunities: optimizing the role of Ontario physician assistants in Family Medicine. Journal of Canada’s Physician Assistants. 2020. 1(4), 17-33.

Lee L, Jones A, Costa A, et al. The C5-75 Program: Meeting the Need for Efficient, Pragmatic Frailty Screening and Management in Primary Care. Canadian Journal on Aging. 2020. 1-13.

Pitre T, Thomas A, Evans K, Jones A, Mountjoy M, Costa AP. The influence of income on medical school admissions in Canada: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Medical Education. 2020. 20(1):209.

Sandor C, Murray-Davis B, Vanstone M, Bryant C. “The transition to clinical practice for new registrant midwives in Ontario, Canada. Starting Life as a Midwife: An international review of transition from student to practitioner.” Gray, M., Kitson-Reynolds, E., Cummins, A. (Ed). Switzerland: Springer. Pp. 73-94.

Burrows K, Abelson J, Miller P, Levine M, Vanstone M. Understanding health professional role integration in complex adaptive systems: A multiple-case study of Physician Assistants in Ontario, Canada. BMC Health Services Research. 2020.

Mattison C, Lavis JN, , Hutton E, Dion ML, Wison MG.  Understanding the conditions that influence the roles of midwives in Ontario, Canada’s, health system: an embedded, single case study. BMC Health Services Research. 2020. 20:197

Apatu A, Sinnott W, Piggott T, Butler-Jones T, Anderson LN, Alvarez L, et al. Where are we now? A content analysis of Canadian Master of Public Health course descriptions and the Public Health Agency of Canada's core competencies. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2020. May 4.

Doumouras AG, Hong D, Lee Y, Tarride JE, Paterson JM, Anvari M. Association between bariatric surgery and all-cause mortality: A population-based matched cohort study in a universal health care system. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020 Aug 18. doi: 10.7326/M19-3925.

Doumouras A, Wong JA, Paterson JM, Lee Y, Sivapathasundaram B, Tarride JÉ, Thabane L, Hong D, Yusuf S, Anvari M. Bariatric surgery and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with obesity and cardiovascular disease: A population-based retrospective cohort study. Circulation. 2021. Apr 5.

Parackal A, Tarride JE, Xie F, Blackhouse G, Hoogenes J, Matsumoto ED, Hylton D, Hanna W, Adili A, Shayegan B.  Economic evaluation of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy compared to open radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer treatment in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Urological Association Journal. 2020 Apr 28. doi: 10.5489/cuaj.6376. 

Denburg A E, Giacomini M, Ungar W, Abelson J. Ethical and Social Values for Paediatric Health Technology Assessment and Drug Policy.  International Journal of Health Policy Management. 2020 Aug 11.

Paquette M, Kelecevic J, Schwartz L, Nieuwlaat R. Ethical issues in competing clinical trials. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communication. 2019. April 3; 14: 100352.

Burgess R, Cernat A, Little L, Vanstone M.  Implementing publicly funded non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal aneuploidy in Ontario, Canada: Clinician experiences with a disruptive technology. Qualitative Health Research. 2020.

Cox JL, Parkash R, Foster GA, Xie F, MacKillop JH, Ciaccia A, Choudhri SH, Hamilton LM, Nemis-White JM, Thabane L; IMPACT-AF Investigators. Integrated Management Program Advancing Community Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF): A cluster randomized trial of a computerized clinical decision support tool. American Heart Journal. 2020. June. (224) 35-46.

Muratov S, Canelo-Aybar C, Tarride JE, et al. Monitoring and evaluation of breast cancer screening programmes: selecting candidate performance indicators. BMC Cancer. 2020 Aug 24;20(1):795. doi: 10.1186/s12885-020-07289-z.

Wang RH, Zdaniuk N, Durocher E, Wilson MG. Policymaker and stakeholder perspectives on access to assistive technologies in Canada: Challenges and proposed solutions for enhancing equitable access. Disability and Rehabilitation. 2020. June 3.

Li G, Lip GYH, Marcucci M, Thabane L, Tian J, Levine MAH. The number needed to treat for net effect (NNTnet) as a metric for measuring combined benefits and harms. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2020. Sept 1. (125) 100-107.

Denburg A, Giacomini M, Ungar W and Abelson J. ‘The problem is small enough, the problem is big enough’: Health technology assessment and public policy on drug funding decisions for children. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2020 Mar 30;19(1):45.

Schnarr KL, Seow H, Elit LM, Pond GR, Helpman L, O'Leary E, Kong I. The use of imaging in endometrial cancer prior to potential surgery: Are guidelines being followed?   Gynecologic Oncology. 2021. Mar 6:S0090-8258(21)00166-9.

Thomas S, Johnson JA, Xie F. 3125 steps to perfect health: a nonparametric approach to developing the EQ-5D-5L value set. Quality of Life Research. 2020. 10.1007/s11136-020-02589-0.

 Maity T, Longo CJ. Adverse drug reactions in Canada in 2009-2018: Insights from the Canada Vigilance database.  Healthcare Quarterly. 2020. 23(1), pp 40-46.

Manis DR, McArthur C, Costa, AP. Associations with rates of falls among home care clients in Ontario, Canada: a population-based, cross-sectional study. BMC Geriatrics. 20, 80 (2020).

Javed AA, Aljied R, Allison DJ, Anderson LN, Ma J, Raina P. Body mass index and all‐cause mortality in older adults: A scoping review of observational studies. Obesity Reviews. 2020. April 21. doi: 10.1111/obr.13035. Review.

Andreacchi AT, Griffith LE, Guindon GE … Anderson LN et al. Body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and body fat in relation to health care use in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. International Journal of Obesity. 2021. January 11.  

Poder TG, Guertin JR, Touré M, Pratte G, Gauvin C, Feeny D, Furlong W, Camden C. Canadian French translation and linguistic validation of the health-related quality of life utility measure for pre-school children. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 2021. March 8. 1-7.

Seow H, et al. Development and validation of a prognostic survival model with patient-reported outcomes for patients with cancer. JAMA Network Open. 2020 Apr  1;3(4):e201768.

Van Spall HGC, Lee SF, Xie F, et al. “Effect of patient-centered transitional care services on clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure: The PACT-HF Randomized Clinical Trial.” JAMA. 2019;321(8):753-761.

Seow H, Sutradhar R, Burge F, et al. End-of-life outcomes with or without early palliative care: a propensity score matched, population-based cancer cohort study. BMJ Open. 2021. 11:e041432.

Helpman L, Pond GR, Elit L, Anderson LN, Seow H.  Endometrial cancer presentation Is associated with social determinants of health in a public healthcare system: A population-based cohort study. Gynecologic Oncology. 2020. April 27. pii: S0090-8258(20)30993-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.04.693.

Feng YY, Yu ZM, van Blyderveen S, Schmidt L, Sword W, Vanstone M, et al. Gestational weight gain outside the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations: novel psychological and behavioural factors associated with inadequate or excess weight gain in a prospective cohort study.  BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth. 2021. 21,70.

Alvarez E, Joshi S, Lokker C, Wang A, Pavalagantharajah S, Qiu Y, Sidhu H, Mbuagbaw L, Qutob M, Henedi A, Levine M, Lennox R, Tarride JE, Kalina D. Health programmes and services addressing the prevention and management of infectious diseases in persons who inject drugs in Canada: a systematic integrative review protocol.  BMJ Open. 2020 Aug 13;10(8):e035188. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035188.

Barbera L, Sutradhar R, Seow H, Earle CC, Howell D, Mittmann N, Li Q, Thiruchelvam D. Impact of standardized Edmonton Symptom Assessment System use on emergency department visits and hospitalization: Results of a population-based retrospective matched cohort analysis. JCO Oncology Practice. 2020. May 28:JOP1900660. doi: 10.1200/JOP.19.00660.

Cox JL, Parkash R, Foster GA, Xie F, MacKillop JH, Ciaccia A, Choudhri SH, Hamilton LM, Nemis-White JM, Thabane L; IMPACT-AF Investigators. Integrated Management Program Advancing Community Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF): A cluster randomized trial of a computerized clinical decision support tool. American Heart Journal. 2020. June. (224) 35-46.

Howell D, Li M, Sutradhar R, Gu S, Iqbal J, O'Brien MA, Seow H, et al.  Integration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for personalized symptom management in "real-world" oncology practices: a population-based cohort comparison study of impact on healthcare utilization. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2020. Feb 4. doi: 10.1007/s00520-020-05313-3.

Petrusevski C, Choo S, Wilson MG, MacDermid J, Richardson J. Interventions to address sedentary behaviour for older adults: a scoping review. Disability and Rehabilitation. 2020. Feb. 14.

Michalowsky B, Hoffmann W, Kennedy K, Xie F.  Is the whole larger than the sum of its parts? Impact of missing data imputation in economic evaluation conducted alongside randomized controlled trials. The European Journal of Health Economics. 2020 Feb 27. doi: 10.1007/s10198-020-01166-z.

Partridge ACR, Mansilla C, Randhawa H, Lavis JN, El-Jardali F, Sewankambo NK. Lessons learned from descriptions and evaluations of knowledge translation platforms supporting evidence-informed policy-making in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2020. 18: 127.

Lee J, Muratov S, Tarride JE, Paterson JM, Thavorn K, Mbuagbaw L, Gomes T, Khuu W, Seow H, Thabane L, Holbrook A. Medication use and its impact on high-cost health care users among older adults: protocol for the population-based matched cohort HiCOSTT study. CMAJ Open. 2021. Jan 11;9(1):E44-E52.

Muratov S, Canelo-Aybar C, Tarride JE, et al, and ECIBC contributor group. Monitoring and evaluation of breast cancer screening programmes: selecting candidate performance indicators. BMC Cancer. 2020. Aug 24;20(1):795.

Morgenstern JD, Rosella LC, Costa AP, de Souza RJ, Anderson LN. Perspective: Big Data and Machine Learning could help advance nutritional epidemiology.  Advances in Nutrition. 2021. Feb 19: nmaa183.

McDonald S, Yu M, Van Blyderveen S, Schmid L., Sword W, Vanstone M, Biringer A, Beyene J. Prediction of excess pregnancy weight gain using psychological, physical, and social predictors: A validated model in a prospective cohort study. PLOS One. 2020. 15(6):e0233774.

Takaoka A, Tam B, Vanstone M, et al. Scale-up and sustainability of a personalized end-of-life care intervention: A longitudinal mixed-methods study. BMC Health Services Research. 2021. 21:218.

Markle-Reid M, McAiney C, Ganann R, Fisher K, Gafni A, et al. 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. BMC Geriatrics. 2020. 20(1):240.

Lee L, Jones A, Costa A, et al. The C5-75 Program: Meeting the Need for Efficient, Pragmatic Frailty Screening and Management in Primary Care. Canadian Journal on Aging. 2020. 1-13.

Mbuagbaw L, Logie CH, Thabane L, Smaill F, Smieja M, Burchell AN, Rachlis B, Tarride JE, Kroch A, Mazzulli T, Alvarez E, Lawson DO, Nguyen F, Perez R, Seow H. The impact of routine HIV drug resistance testing in Ontario: A controlled interrupted time series study. PLoS One. 2021 Apr 2;16(4):e0246766. 

Seow H, Stevens T, Barbera LC, et al. Trajectory of psychosocial symptoms among home care patients with cancer at end-of-life. Psychooncology. 2020. Oct 2.

Akhtar-Danesh N, Akhtar-Danseh GG, Seow H, Shakeel S, Finley C. Treatment Modality and Trends in Survival for Gallbladder Cancer: A Population-Based Study. Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer. 2020. March 18.

Sebastian A, Carroll J, Vanstone M., et al. Widening the lens of actionability: A qualitative study of primary care providers’ views and experiences of managing secondary findings from genomic sequencing. European Journal of Human Genetics. 2021. March.

Xie F, Yan J, Agarwal G, Ferron R. Economic analysis of mobile integrated health care delivered by emergency medical services paramedic teams. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Feb 1;4(2):e210055. 

Zhang M, Ma J, Xie F, Thabane L. Identifying factors associated with high use of acute care in Canada: protocol of a population-based retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2020 Oct 15;10(10):e038008.

Bullock HL, Abelson J. “A Fresh Approach to Reform? A Policy Analysis of the Development and Implementation of Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions Strategy.” Healthcare Policy. 2019. 14(3) February. 29-42. 

Seow H, Qureshi D, Isenberg SR, Tanuseputro P. Access to palliative care during a terminal hospitalization.  Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2020. Feb 5. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0416.

Quinn KL, Hsu AT, Meaney C, Qureshi D, Tanuseputro P, Seow H, et al. Association between high cost user status and end-of-life care in hospitalized patients: A national cohort study of patients who die in hospital.  Palliative Medicine. 2021. Mar 30:2692163211002045.

Jones A, Bronskill SE, Seow H, Junek M, Feeny D, Costa AP. Associations between continuity of primary and specialty physician care and use of hospital-based care among community-dwelling older adults with complex care needs. PLoS One. 2020;15(6):e0234205.

Manis DR, McArthur C, Costa, AP. Associations with rates of falls among home care clients in Ontario, Canada: a population-based, cross-sectional study. BMC Geriatrics. 20, 80 (2020).

Margier J, Gafni A, Moumjid N. Cancer care at home or in local health centres versus in hospital: Public policy goals and patients' preferences in the Rhône-Alps region in France. Health Policy. 2020. Nov 21;S0168-8510(20)30293-1.

Boscart V, Crutchlow LE, Sheiban Taucar L, Johnson K, Heyer M, Davey M, Costa AP, Heckman G. Chronic disease management models in nursing homes: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 2020 Feb 5;10(2):e032316. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032316.

Vanstone M., et al. Compassionate End-of-Life Care: Mixed-Methods Multisite Evaluation of the 3 Wishes Project. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020. 172(1) 1-11.

Isenberg SR, Tanuseputro P, Spruin S, Seow H, Goldman R, Thavorn K, Hsu At.  Cost-effectiveness of investment in end-of-life home care to enable death in community settings.  Medical Care. 2020. August. 58:8. 665-673.

Grignon M, Marchildon G, Longo C, Officer S. Creation of an Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare; Canada, June 2018, Health Policy. 2020. 124:7-11 Health Reforms Monitor section.

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Shakeel S, Finley C, Akhtar-Danesh G, Seow HY, Akhtar-Danesh N. Trends in survival based on treatment modality in patients with pancreatic cancer: a population-based study. Current Oncology. 2020. Feb. 27 (1):e1-e8.

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