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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
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6 publications dans cette catégorie
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Ontario" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of General Surgery, St Michael's Hospital, CIBC Breast Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
1 Offord Centre for Child Studies & Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
2 Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
1 Offord Centre for Child Studies & Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
4 Department of Sociology, King's University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
5 Children's Health and Therapeutics, Children's Health Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
1 Offord Centre for Child Studies & Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
2 Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
1 Offord Centre for Child Studies & Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto, ON.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Toronto Public Health, Toronto, ON.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Canada.
Canadian Centre for Health Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Canada.
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Canada.
Canadian Centre for Health Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Deparment of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Insitute of Labour Economics, Deutsche Post Foundation, Bonn, Germany.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Ontario Medical Association, Toronto, Canada.
Canadian Centre for Health Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Publications dans "Ontario" :
To provide evidence-based recommendations to practicing clinicians on the management of patients with small-cell lung cancer....
An Expert Panel of medical oncology, thoracic surgery, radiation oncology, pulmonary, community oncology, research methodology, and advocacy experts were convened to conduct a literature search, which...
The literature search identified 95 relevant studies to inform the evidence base for this guideline....
Evidence-based recommendations were developed to address systemic therapy options, timing of therapy, treatment in patients who are older or with poor performance status, role of biomarkers, and use o...
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced widespread disruptions for healthcare systems across Canada. Perinatal care in Ontario, Canada was subject to province-wide public health restrictions, reallocation ...
Semi-structured key informant virtual interviews were conducted between August 2021 and January 2022 with 15 Ontario-based perinatal care providers. Recorded interviews were transcribed, and thematic ...
Participants were mainly women, practicing in Eastern and Central Ontario as health providers (obstetricians, nurses, midwives), allied regulated health professionals (social worker, massage therapist...
Perinatal care providers reported significant stress and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and evolving hospital protocols. Providers perceived that their patients were distressed by both th...
We assessed the hydrochemistry of 15 watersheds in the Halton Region, southern Ontario, in high resolution (n > 500 samples across n > 40 streams) to characterize water quality dynamics and governing ...
Nearly 30 years post legalisation and introduction, midwifery is still not optimally integrated within the health system of Canada's largest province, Ontario. Funding models have been identified as o...
Using a constructivist perspective, we conducted a qualitative descriptive study to examine how antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum funding arrangements in Ontario impact midwifery integration. We...
We interviewed 20 participants, including 5 obstetricians, 5 family physicians, 5 midwives, 4 nurses, and 1 policy expert. We found that while course-of-care-based midwifery funding is perceived to su...
Significant policy changes, such as adequate remuneration for consultants, possibly including salary-based physician funding; flexibility to compensate midwives for care beyond the existing course of ...
Newborn screening (NBS) for inherited and congenital disorders is a form of secondary disease prevention and a public health responsibility. The development of NBS programs is one of the most importan...
A recent study of the health of Indigenous children in four First Nations Communities in remote northwestern Ontario found that 21% of children had been admitted to hospital for respiratory infections...
Comparative studies evaluating quality of care in different healthcare systems can guide reform initiatives. This study seeks to characterize best practices by comparing utilization and outcomes for p...
Patients (age ≥ 66 years) with PC were identified from the Ontario Cancer Registry and SEER-Medicare databases from 2006 to 2015. Demographics and treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or multi...
This study includes 38,858 and 11,512 patients with PC from the USA and Ontario, respectively. More female patients were identified in the USA (54.0%) versus Ontario (46.9%). In the entire cohort, US ...
We observed substantive differences in treatment and outcomes between PC patients in the USA and Ontario, which may reflect known differences in healthcare systems. Close evaluation of healthcare poli...
Community hospitals provide the majority of patient care in Canada but traditionally do not participate in clinical research. The disconnect between where most patients receive their health care and w...
Three medical databases (PubMed, Embase, and CINAHL) were searched for publications that included at least one author affiliated with one of Ontario's 47 LCHs, and for which the topic was hospital or ...
We identified 3,719 publications from 2016 to 22 with at least one Ontario LCH-affiliated author, representing an annualized output of 531 publications. The most frequent publication type was observat...
Health research by LCH-affiliated clinicians and researchers increased significantly in 2016-2022 relative to 2013-2015. Participation in randomized controlled trials however, remains low, suggesting ...
Language barriers can impact health care and outcomes. Valid and reliable language data is central to studying health inequalities in linguistic minorities. In Canada, language variables are available...
An Ontario combined sample of CCHS cycles from 2000 to 2012 (from participants who consented to link their data) was individually linked to three administrative databases (home care, long-term care [L...
Language variables from home care and LTC databases had the highest agreement with LOSH (kappa = 0.76 [95%CI, 0.735-0.793] and 0.75 [95%CI, 0.70-0.80], respectively) and FOLS (kappa = 0.66 for both). ...
Language variables in home care and LTC health databases were most consistent with the language often spoken at home. Studies using language variables from administrative data can use the sensitivity ...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached over 1.3 million in Ontario, Canada by June 4, 2022. The continued spread of the virus underlying COVID-19 has been spurred by the emergence of variants ...