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Outcomes
"Dose-dependent" impact of recurrent cardiac events on mortality in patients with heart failure
A population study in the Province of Ontario of the complications after conversion of hip or knee arthrodesis to total joint replacement
A population-based study of follow-up care for Hodgkin lymphoma survivors
A population-based study to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-disciplinary heart failure clinics and identify important service components
A tutorial on methods to estimating clinically and policy-meaningful measures of treatment effects in prospective observational studies
Absolute risk reductions, relative risks, relative risk reductions, and numbers needed to treat can be obtained from a logistic regression model
Adverse cardiovascular events during treatment with pioglitazone and rosiglitazone: a population-based cohort study
Adverse effects of observational studies when examining adverse outcomes of drugs: case-control studies with low prevalence of exposure
Adverse events among medical patients after discharge from hospital
Age disparities in stroke quality of care and delivery of health services
Age, risk-benefit trade-offs, and the projected effects of evidence-based therapies
Age-social stratification designs had a negligible impact on income-mortality associations
An early invasive strategy versus ischemia-guided management after fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis of contemporary randomized controlled trials
Analysis of deaths while waiting for cardiac surgery among 29,293 consecutive patients in Ontario, Canada
Anticoagulation intensity and outcomes among patients prescribed oral anticoagulant therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Anxiety-related visits to Ontario physicians following September 11, 2001
Are complication rates for elective primary total hip arthroplasty in Ontario related to surgeon and hospital volumes? A preliminary investigation
Aspirin use and outcomes in a community-based cohort of 7,352 patients discharged after first hospitalization for heart failure
Assessing the volume-outcome hypothesis and region-level quality improvement interventions: pancreas cancer surgery in two Canadian provinces
Association between hospital cardiac management and outcomes for acute myocardial infarction patients
Association between waiting times and short term mortality and hospital admission after departure from the emergency department: Population-based cohort study from Ontario, Canada
Association of blood pressure at hospital discharge with mortality in patients diagnosed with heart failure
Association of hospital spending intensity with mortality and readmission rates in Ontario hospitals
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Attitudes of family physicians, specialists and radiologists about the use of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in Ontario
Autoimmune hypothyroidism and breast cancer in the elderly
Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals
Bayesian propensity score analysis for observational data
Beta-blockers and cardiovascular outcomes in dialysis patients: A cohort study in Ontario, Canada
Biology or bias: practice patterns and long-term outcomes for men and women with acute myocardial infarction
Birth outcomes by neighbourhood income and recent immigration in Toronto
Bootstrap model selection had similar performance for selecting authentic and noise variables compared to backward variable elimination: a simulation study
Breast cancer survival by teaching status of the initial treating hospital
Can we alter physician behavior by educational methods? lessons learned from studies of the management and follow-up of hypertension
Canadian cardiovascular atlas
Canadian quality indicators for percutaneous coronary interventions
Cardiovascular disease and hypertension risk in living kidney donors: an analysis of health administrative data in Ontario, Canada
Cardiovascular health and services in Ontario
Cardiovascular outcomes after a change in prescription policy for clopidogrel
Cardiovascular outcomes are predicted by exercise-stress myocardial perfusion imaging: Impact on death, myocardial infarction, and coronary revascularization procedures
Care and outcomes of patients newly hospitalized for heart failure in the community treated by cardiologists compared with other specialists
Changes in patient health outcomes from admission to discharge in acute care
Chiropractic manipulation and stroke: a population-based case-control study
Chronic dialysis and death among survivors of acute kidney injury requiring dialysis
Clustering of opioid prescribing and opioid-related mortality among family physicians in Ontario
Community factors, hospital characteristics and inter-regional outcome variations following acute myocardial infarction in Canada
Comparative ability of comorbidity classification methods for administrative data to predict outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Comparing methods to calculate hospital-specific rates of early death or urgent readmission
Comparison of coding of heart failure and comorbidities in administrative and clinical data for use in outcomes research
Comparison of primary percutaneous coronary intervention and fibrinolytic therapy in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. Bayesian hierarchical meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials and observational studies
Comparisons of patient and physician expectations for cancer survivorship care
Continental variations in IgA nephropathy among Asians
Costs and outcomes associated with alternative discharge strategies following joint replacement surgery: analysis of an observational study using a propensity score
Defining needs-based urban health planning areas is feasible and desirable: a population-based approach in Toronto, Ontario
Depression and self-reported functional status: impact on mortality following acute myocardial infarction
Derivation and validation of an index to predict early death or unplanned readmission after discharge from hospital to the community
Design and implementation of a population-based registry of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in Ontario
Detection and treatment of post-stroke depression: Results from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network
Determinants of outcome after carotid endarterectomy
Development and validation of the Ontario acute myocardial infarction mortality prediction rules
Differences in operative mortality between high- and low-volume hospitals in Ontario for 5 major surgical procedures: estimating the number of lives potentially saved through regionalization
Diuretic dose and long-term outcomes in elderly patients with heart failure after hospitalization
Do all age groups benefit from organized inpatient stroke care?
Do cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute have better surgical outcomes?
Do operator volumes relate to clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in the Canadian health care system?
Does it matter what a hospital is "high volume" for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data
Effect of cardiac and noncardiac conditions on survival after defibrillator implantation
Effect of different angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors on mortality among elderly patients with congestive heart failure
Effect of socioeconomic status on treatment and mortality after stroke
Effect of subspecialty training and volume on outcome after pediatric inguinal hernia repair
Effectiveness of preprocedural statin therapy on clinical outcomes for patients with stable coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary interventions
Effects of socioeconomic status on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Efficacy of angiotensin II receptor antagonists in preventing headache: a systematic overview and meta-analysis
End of life care for women with gynecologic cancers
Epidural anaesthesia and survival after intermediate-to-high risk non-cardiac surgery: a population-based cohort study
Evolution of the coronary care unit: clinical characteristics and temporal trends in healthcare delivery and outcomes
Fecal occult blood testing: people in Ontario are unaware of it and not ready for it
Fifteen-year trends in risk severity and operative mortality in elderly patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Fluoroquinolone therapy and idiosyncratic acute liver injury: a population-based study
Gastrointestinal bleeding after acute ischemic stroke
Gender differences in carotid imaging and revascularization following stroke
Gender differences in stroke care and outcomes in Ontario
Healthcare-associated infections as patient safety indicators
Hemodialysis infection prevention with polysporin ointment
Higher incidence of in-hospital complications in patients with clipped versus coiled ruptured intracranial aneurysms
Hospital procedure volume and teaching status do not influence treatment and outcome measures of rectal cancer surgery in a large general population
Hospital volume and mortality for mechanical ventilation of medical and surgical patients: a population-based analysis using administrative data
Hospital volume, length of stay, and readmission rates in high-risk surgery
How many arterial grafts are enough? A population-based study of midterm outcomes
How many Canadians will be diagnosed with diabetes between 2007 and 2017? Assessing population risk
Hypokalemia following polyethylene glycol-based bowel preparation for colonoscopy in older hospitalized patients with significant comorbidities
ICES-MNO Reports on Chronic Diseases: Diabetes, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease & Respiratory Disease
Impact of renal insufficiency on short- and long-term outcomes after cardiac surgery
Impact of socioeconomic status on cardiovascular outcomes in Canada
In-hospital outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in Canada: 1992/93 to 2000/01
Incidence and risk factors for cardiovascular events and death in pediatric renal transplant patients: a single center long-term outcome study
Income-related differences in mortality among people with diabetes mellitus
Indicators of quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction
Inhibition of serotonin reuptake by antidepressants and upper gastrointestinal bleeding in elderly patients: retrospective cohort study
Inpatient smoking-cessation counseling and all-cause mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Intensive care outcomes in bone marrow transplant recipients: a population-based cohort analysis
International migration and adverse birth outcomes: role of ethnicity, region of origin and destination
Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice-based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Introducing a methodology for estimating duration of surgery in health services research
Investigating the determinants of decreasing postmyocardial infarction mortality: an analysis of in-hospital data from 1992 and 1997
Is there an association between lipid-lowering drugs and cholecystectomy?
IScore: A risk score to predict death early after hospitalization for an acute ischemic stroke
Item nonresponse to psychosocial questionnaires was associated with higher mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Lack of association between ipratropium bromide and mortality in elderly patients with chronic obstructive airway disease
Late results of the 'warm heart trial': the influence of nonfatal cardiac events on late survival
Life expectancy after an index hospitalization for patients with heart failure: a population-based study
Life expectancy gains and cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter/defibrillators for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Logistic regression had superior performance compared with regression trees for predicting in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure
Long-term MI outcomes at hospitals with or without on-site revascularization
Long-term outcomes of regional variations in intensity of invasive vs. medical management of Medicare patients with AMI
Long-term safety and effectiveness of drug-eluting stents for the treatment of saphenous vein grafts disease: A population-based study
Long-term survival in young adults with colorectal cancer: a population-based study
Longer wait times increase overall mortality in patients with bladder cancer
Management of gastric cancer in Ontario
Misclassification of hospital volume in surgical volume-outcome analyses of persons aged 65 years and older: potential limitations of medicare data
Mortality among patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays
Mortality among patients with hypertension from 1995 to 2005: a population-based study
Mortality of elderly patients in Ontario after hospital admission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Neighborhood income and health outcomes in infants: how do those with complex chronic conditions fare?
Neighbourhood chronic stress and gender inequalities in hypertension among Canadian adults: a multilevel analysis
Nevus density and melanoma risk in women: a pooled analysis to test the divergent pathway hypothesis
Nurse staffing and patient outcomes: evolution of an international study
Nursing skill mix and experience reduce patient mortality
Nursing-related determinants of 30-day mortality for hospitalized patients
Onset and clinical course of bleeding and perforation after outpatient colonoscopy: A population-based study
Ontario Burden of Infectious Disease Study
Outcome after stroke upon awakening
Outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a population-based study
Outcome of revascularization procedures for peripheral arterial occlusive disease in Ontario between 1991 and 1998: a population-based study
Outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Canada: 1992/93 to 2000/01
Outcomes in elderly patients following surgery for colorectal cancer in the veterans affairs health care system
Outcomes in surgery for ovarian cancer
Outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Canada
Outpatient antibiotic therapy and short-term mortality in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Paclitaxel versus sirolimus stents in diabetic and nondiabetic patients
Parkinsonism in Ontario: increased mortality compared with controls in a large cohort study
Patient characteristics affecting the prognosis of total hip and knee joint arthroplasty: a systematic review
Patient satisfaction and its relationship with quality and outcomes of care after acute myocardial infarction
Patterns of health care in Ontario, 2nd edition
Pneumatic dilatation and surgical myotomy for achalasia
Predicting mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery: what do artificial neural networks learn?
Predicting the risk of 1-year mortality in incident dialysis patients: Accounting for case-mix severity in studies using administrative data
Predictors of postacute mortality following traumatic brain injury in a seriously injured population
Predictors of short-term complications after ICD replacement: Results from the Ontario ICD database
Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long-acting oxycodone
Prevalence of information gaps in the emergency department and the effect on patient outcomes
Prevalence, predictors and outcomes of primary nonadherence after acute myocardial infarction
Primary care service areas: a new tool for the evaluation of primary care services
Prognosis and determinants of survival in patients newly hospitalized for heart failure: a population-based study
Proton pump inhibitors and hospitalization for Clostridium Difficile-associated disease: a population-based study
Provider volume and other predictors of outcome following total knee arthroplasty: a population study in Ontario
Psychological outcomes following maternal serum screening: a cohort study
Publicly reported provider outcomes: The concerns of cardiac surgeons in a single-payer system
Published randomized controlled trials of drug therapy for dementia often lack complete data on harm
Rate of stroke recurrence in patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage
Ready-made, recalibrated, or remodeled? issues in the use of risk indexes for assessing mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Regional outcomes of heart failure in Canada
Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network: Progress Report 2001-2005
Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network: Report on the 2002/03 Ontario stroke audit
Relation between hospital surgical volume and outcome for pancreatic resection for neoplasm in a publicly funded health care system
Relation of disease pathogenesis and risk factors to heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction. Insights from the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Relationship between annual volume of patients treated by admitting physician and mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates
Report on coronary artery bypass surgery in Ontario, fiscal years 2005/06 and 2006/07
Rescue percutaneous coronary interventions for failed fibrinolytic therapy in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A population-based study
Risk factors for acute endophthalmitis after cataract surgery: A population-based study
Risk factors for death or stroke after carotid endarterectomy: observations from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry
Risk factors for posterior compared to anterior ischemic stroke: an observational study of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network
Risk of death or readmission among people discharged from hospital on Fridays
Risk of death or readmission is highest for Friday discharges from hospital
Safety and effectiveness of drug-eluting stents among diabetic patients: a propensity analysis
Safety of patients isolated for infection control
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and breast cancer mortality in women receiving tamoxifen: a population based cohort study
Self-reported diabetes is associated with self-management behaviour: a cohort study
Sex differences and similarities in the management and outcome of stroke patients
Sex differences in carotid endarterectomy outcomes: results from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry
Sex differences in stroke care and outcomes: results from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network
Socioeconomic status, access to health care, and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction in Canada's universal health care system
Somali women and their pregnancy outcomes postmigration: data from six receiving countries
Statin therapy and clinical outcomes in heart failure: a propensity-matched analysis
Suboptimal use of statin therapy in elderly patients with atherosclerosis: A population-based study
Surgical outcomes in women with ovarian cancer
Survival after hepatic resection of colorectal cancer metastases: a national experience
Survival with tiotropium compared to long-acting Beta-2-agonists in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Temporal changes in emergency department triage of patients with acute myocardial infarction and the effect on outcomes
Temporal changes in the outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Ontario, 1992-1996
Temporal trends in cardiogenic shock treatment and outcomes among Ontario patients with myocardial infarction between 1992 and 2008
The average lifespan of patients discharged from hospital with heart failure
The effect of computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support on the rates of adverse drug events: a systematic review
The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes
The effect of hospital type and surgical delay on mortality after surgery for hip fracture
The effect of participation in a weight loss programme on short-term health resource utilization
The effect of universal influenza immunization on mortality and health care use
The impact of diabetes on survival following breast cancer
The impact of federal warnings on publically funded desmopressin utilization among children in Ontario
The impact of therapeutic modality on outcomes following repair of ruptured intracranial aneurysms: an administrative data analysis
The implications of regional variations in Medicare spending. Part 1: the content, quality, and accessibility of care
The implications of regional variations in Medicare spending. Part 2: health outcomes and satisfaction with care
The improving outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Ontario, 1981 to 1995
The influence of education and income on atherogenic risk factor profiles among patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction
The influence of surgical specialty training on the outcomes of elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
The performance of two data-generation processes for data with specified marginal treatment odds ratios
The relationship between physician supply, cardiovascular health service use and cardiac disease burden in Ontario: supply-need mismatch
The relationship between the supply of fast-food chains and cardiovascular outcomes
The relationship between unprovoked venous thromboembolism, age, and acute myocardial infarction
The relationship between variations in antipsychotic prescribing across nursing homes and short-term mortality: quality of care implications
The relationship of 60 disease diagnoses and 15 conditions to preference-based health-related quality of life in Ontario hospital-based long-term care residents
The relevance of subgroup-specific treatment effects: the Studies Of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) revisited
The transition study: a look at youth and adults with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and acquired brain injury
Therapy and harm outcomes of health services
Translating transition: a critical review of the diabetes literature
Trends in hospitalization associated with traumatic brain injury in a publicly insured population, 1992-2002
Trends in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Canada: temporal, socio-demographic and geographic factors
Trends in the aggressiveness of end-of-life cancer care in the universal health care system of Ontario, Canada
Universal drug coverage and socioeconomic disparities in major diabetes outcomes
Uptake and outcomes associated with cyclooxgenase (COX-2) inhibitors in Ontario's elderly
Use of calcium channel blockers after stroke is not associated with poor outcome: a cohort from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network
Use of ezetimibe in the United States and Canada
Use of interventional procedures for peripheral arterial occlusive disease in Ontario between 1991 and 1998: a population-based study
Use of statins and the subsequent development of deep vein thrombosis
Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency
Waiting times, revascularization modality, and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction at hospitals with and without on-site revascularization facilities in Canada
What do we really know about the transition to adult-centered health care? A focus on cerebral palsy and spina bifida

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