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At a Glance is a monthly e-newsletter highlighting key findings of recent ICES research. At a Glance was redesigned in April 2016 to better share our work visually through infographics, videos and news stories. Subscribe to At a Glance.
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- First Nations and Diabetes in Ontario
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- Validation study of health administrative data algorithms to identify individuals experiencing homelessness and estimate population prevalence of homelessness in Ontario, Canada
- Association of baclofen with encephalopathy in patients with chronic kidney disease
- Long-term mortality in mothers of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome: a population-based parallel-cohort study in England and Ontario, Canada
- Rates of recognized pregnancy in women with disabilities in Ontario, Canada
- Dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: health care use and cost in the last year of life
ICES in the News
- Long-term mental health outcomes in mothers and siblings of children with cancer: a population-based matched cohort study
- Effect of asthma exacerbation during pregnancy in women with asthma: a population-based cohort study
- Cross-Canada differences in early-stage breast cancer treatment and acute-care use
- Population impact of generic valsartan recall
- Trends of intentional drug overdose among youth: a population-based cohort study
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- Interfacility patient sharing and clostridioides difficile infection incidence in the Ontario hospital system: a 13-year cohort study
- The impact of air pollution on the incidence of diabetes and survival among prevalent diabetes cases
- Comparison of cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes among practicing physicians vs the general population in Ontario, Canada
- Real-world risk of cardiovascular outcomes associated with hypertriglyceridemia among individuals with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and potential eligibility for emerging therapies
- Avoidable mortality rates decrease but inequity gaps widen for marginalized neighborhoods: a population-based analysis in Ontario, Canada from 1993 to 2014
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- Association between neighborhood walkability and predicted 10-year cardiovascular disease risk: the Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team (CANHEART) cohort
- Risk of involuntary admission among first-generation ethnic minority groups with early psychosis: a retrospective cohort study using health administrative data
- Perinatal outcomes for untreated women with gestational diabetes by IADPSG criteria: a population-based study
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-related sudden cardiac death in young people in Ontario
Research Video
- One-year home-time and mortality after thrombolysis compared with nontreated patients in a propensity-matched analysis
ICES in the News
- The uptake of the pharmacy-dispensed naloxone kit program in Ontario: A population-based study
- An opioid prescription for men undergoing minor urologic surgery is associated with an increased risk of new persistent opioid use
- Clinical effectiveness of cardiac noninvasive diagnostic testing in patients discharged from the emergency department for chest pain
- Uptake of colorectal cancer screening by physicians is associated with greater uptake by their patients
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- 90-90-90 for everyone? Access to HIV care and treatment for people with HIV who experience imprisonment in Ontario, Canada
- Association between angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, and suicide
- Potential impact of changes in administrative database coding methodology on research and policy decisions: an example from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan
- Pitfalls in measuring temporal trends for late diagnosis of viral hepatitis
- Incremental healthcare utilisation and costs among new senior high-cost users in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective matched cohort study
- Identifying Ontario geographic regions to assess adults who present to hospital with laboratory-defined conditions: a descriptive study
- Inequity in access to transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a pan-Canadian evaluation of wait-times
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- Influenza vaccine effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations in older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Association between physician intensity of antibiotic prescribing and the prescription of benzodiazepines, opioids and proton-pump inhibitors to nursing home residents: a population-based observational study
- Cardiovascular consequences of obstructive sleep apnea in women: a historical cohort study
ICES in the News
- Prevalence of inappropriateness of parenteral vitamin B12 administration in Ontario, Canada
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- One-year home-time and mortality after thrombolysis compared with nontreated patients in a propensity-matched analysis
- Prescription synthetic oral cannabinoid use among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population-based cohort study
- Time trends in opioid prescribing among Ontario long-term care residents: a repeated cross-sectional study
- Association of early-stage breast cancer and subsequent chemotherapy with risk of atrial fibrillation
- An opioid prescription for men undergoing minor urologic surgery is associated with an increased risk of new persistent opioid use
- Emergency department use in people who experience imprisonment in Ontario, Canada
- Data variability across Canadian administrative health databases: differences in content, coding, and completeness
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- Risks of preoperative anemia in women undergoing elective hysterectomy and myomectomy
- Sex-specific differences in end-of-life burdensome interventions and antibiotic therapy in nursing home residents with advanced dementia
- Chronic physical conditions and risk for perinatal mental illness: a population-based retrospective cohort study
- Physician availability in long-term care and resident hospital transfer: a retrospective cohort study
ICES in the News
- Population-based secular trends in lower extremity amputation for diabetes and peripheral artery disease
- Opioid prescribing after surgery in the United States, Canada and Sweden
- Sex differences in long‐term survival after major cardiac surgery: a population‐based cohort study
- Trends in the use of cardiac imaging for patients with heart failure in Canada
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- Days spent at home in the last 6 months of life: a quality indicator of end of life care in patients with hematologic malignancies
- Trends in use of medical imaging in US health care systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-2016
- Ambient air pollution and the risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke: a population-based cohort study
- Incidence of hospitalizations and emergency department visits for herpes zoster in immunocompromised and immunocompetent adults in Ontario, Canada, 2002-2016
- Understanding those overdue for cancer screening by five years or more: a retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada
- Impact of the 2016 policy change on the delivery of Medscheck services in Ontario: an interrupted time-series analysis
- The impact of hospital harm on length of stay, costs of care and length of person-centred episodes of care: a retrospective cohort study
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- High-performing physicians are more likely to participate in a research study: findings from a quality improvement study
- Prevalence of inappropriateness of parenteral vitamin B12 administration in Ontario Canada
- Association of mirabegron with the risk of arrhythmia in adult patients 66 years or older—a population-based cohort study
- Antipsychotic initiation among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario: a population-based cohort study
ICES in the News
- Association of primary care continuity with outcomes following transition to adult care for adolescents with severe mental illness
- A 15-year population-based investigation of sexual assault cases across the province of Ontario, Canada, 2002–2016
- Health outcomes of young children born to mothers who received 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination during pregnancy: retrospective cohort study
- Rates of emergency department visits attributable to alcohol use in Ontario from 2003 to 2016: a retrospective population-level study
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- End-of-life care in individuals with respiratory diseases: a population study comparing the dying experience between those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer
- Regional variation of premature mortality in Ontario, Canada: a spatial analysis
- The time-varying effect of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for DCIS
- The impact of the long-term care homes act and public reporting on physical restraint and potentially inappropriate antipsychotic use in Ontario's long-term care homes
- Can administrative data improve the performance of cancer clinical trial economic analyses?
- Comparison of outcomes in elective endovascular aortic repair vs open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
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- Changing rates of self-harm and mental disorders by sex in youths presenting to Ontario emergency departments: repeated cross-sectional study
- Same-day discharge after elective percutaneous coronary interventions in Ontario, Canada
- Management of sleep disorders in community-dwelling older women and men at the time of diagnosis
- The risk of cardiovascular events on cannabis’ highest day
ICES in the News
- Interaction between neighborhood walkability and traffic-related air pollution on hypertension and diabetes: the CANHEART cohort
- Introduction of anti-TNF therapy has not yielded expected declines in hospitalisation and intestinal resection rates in inflammatory bowel diseases: a population-based interrupted time series study
- Geographic Variation in Primary Care Need, Service Use and Providers in Ontario, 2015/16
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- Risk of hospitalization for serious adverse gastrointestinal events associated with sodium polystyrene sulfonate use in patients of advanced age
- Primary care performance of alternatively licenced physicians in Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional study using administrative data
- Adherence to predefined dietary patterns and risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the Canadian adult population
- The urine culturing cascade: variation in nursing home urine culturing and association with antibiotic use and C. difficile infection
- A challenge to all. A primer on inter-country differences of high-need, high-cost patients
- Suicide and self-harm in recent immigrants in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study
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- Naloxone Distribution Across Ontario
- Neighborhood material deprivation is associated with childhood asthma development
- End-of-career practice patterns of primary care physicians in Ontario
- Quality of primary care among individuals receiving treatment for opioid use disorder
ICES Research Video
- Recent trends in child and youth emergency department visits because of pedestrian motor vehicle collisions by socioeconomic status in Ontario, Canada
ICES in the News
- Association between statin use and risk of dementia after a concussion
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- Low-value diagnostic imaging use in the pediatric emergency department in the United States and Canada
- Suicide in Canadian veterans living in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study linking routinely collected data
- Ethnic differences in prediabetes incidence among immigrants to Canada: a population-based cohort study
- The primary care and other health system use of home care patients: a retrospective cohort analysis
- A population profile of older adults with prescription encounters with nurse practitioners and family physicians in Ontario: a descriptive retrospective cohort study
- Derivation and external validation of a scoring system for predicting fracture risk after ischemic stroke in a Canadian cohort
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- Do-not-resuscitate and do-not-hospitalize orders in nursing homes: Who gets them and do they make a difference?
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and risk of acute kidney injury and hyperkalemia in older adults: a population-based study
ICES in the News
- Recent trends in child and youth emergency department visits because of pedestrian motor vehicle collisions by socioeconomic status in Ontario, Canada
- Canada-wide health database to launch with federal funding
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- Infective endocarditis hospitalizations and antibiotic prophylaxis rates before and after the 2007 American Heart Association guidelines revision
- Trends in site of death and health care utilization at the end of life: a population-based cohort study
- Cancer diagnosis and risk of suicide after accounting for prediagnosis psychiatric care: a matched‐cohort study of patients with incident solid‐organ malignancies
- Predictors and variability of antibiotic prescribing amongst family physicians
- The impact of the adoption of a patient rostering model on primary care access and continuity of care in urban family practices in Ontario, Canada
- Comparing the high-dimensional propensity score for use with administrative data with propensity scores derived from high-quality clinical data
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- Homelessness at discharge and its impact on psychiatric readmission and physician follow-up: a population-based cohort study
- Glucose screening in pregnancy and future risk of cardiovascular disease in women: a retrospective, population-based study
Video
- Differences in HbA1C at the time of diabetes diagnosis in the adult population of Ontario, Canada
- Incidence of heart failure among immigrants to Ontario, Canada: a CANHEART immigrant study
ICES in the News
- Do incentive payments reward the wrong providers? A study of primary care reform in Ontario, Canada
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- The effect of adopting pediatric protocols in adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in pediatric vs adult centers: an IMPACT Cohort study
- Patient-reported symptoms following mastectomy alone or lumpectomy plus radiation for early stage breast cancer: a cohort study
- Impact of delisting high-strength opioid formulations from a public drug benefit formulary on opioid utilization in Ontario, Canada
- Days at home in the last 6 months of life: a patient-determined quality indicator for cancer care
- Periodic health visits by primary care practice model, a population-based study using health administrative data
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- Addressing Gaps in the Health Care Services Used by Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario
- Closed for business? Using a mixture model to explore the supply of psychiatric care for new patients
- Association of duration of surgery with postoperative delirium among patients receiving hip fracture repair
- Colorectal and breast cancer screening status for people in Ontario provincial correctional facilities
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- Exploring spatial variation in registration for deceased organ donation in Ontario, Canada
ICES in the News
- The impact of psychiatric utilisation prior to cancer diagnosis on survival of solid organ malignancies
- Rural-urban differences in stroke risk factors, incidence, and mortality in people with and without prior stroke: the CANHEART Stroke Study
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- Comparison of readmission and death among patients with cardiac disease in Northern vs Southern Ontario
- Community-based specialist palliative care teams and health system costs at end of life: a retrospective matched cohort study
- Equity and impact: Ontario’s infant rotavirus immunization program five years following implementation. A population-based cohort study
- Evaluation of the fentanyl patch-for-patch program in Ontario, Canada
- The association between insulin initiation and adverse outcomes after hospital discharge in older adults: a population-based cohort study
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- Social licence and the general public’s attitudes toward research based on linked administrative health data, a qualitative study
- Do doctors who order more routine medical tests diagnose more cancers? A population-based study from Ontario, Canada
- Injection of opioids linked to increase in bacterial heart infections
- Cause-specific mortality among HIV-infected people in Ontario, 1995–2014: a population-based retrospective cohort study
- Association of surgical intervention for adhesive small-bowel obstruction with the risk of recurrence
ICES in the News
- How using your Ontario health card creates system change
- Infertility treatment and risk of severe maternal morbidity: a propensity score-matched cohort study
- Association of transvaginal mesh complications with the risk of new-onset depression or self-harm in women with a midurethral sling
- Inflammatory bowel disease and new-onset psychiatric disorders in pregnancy and post-partum: a population based cohort study
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- The risk of heart failure and other cardiovascular hospitalizations after early stage breast cancer: a matched cohort study
- One-year survival and admission to hospital for cardiovascular events among older residents of long-term care facilities who were prescribed intensive- and moderate-dose statins
- Healthcare utilization costs of emerging adults with mood and anxiety disorders in an early intervention treatment program compared to a matched cohort
- Survival and health care use after feeding tube placement in children with neurologic impairment
- Disparities in breast cancer diagnosis for immigrant women in Ontario and BC: results from the CanIMPACT study
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- Early initiation of palliative care is associated with reduced late-life acute-hospital use: a population-based retrospective cohort study
- Cervical cancer screening access for women who experience imprisonment in Ontario, Canada
- Effect of early physician follow-up on mortality and subsequent hospital admissions after emergency care for heart failure: a retrospective cohort study
- Appropriate treatment receipt after breast-conserving surgery
ICES in the News
- Death and readmissions after hospital discharge during the December holiday period: cohort study
- Incidence of cirrhosis in young birth cohorts in Canada from 1997 to 2016: a retrospective population-based study
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- Evaluating the impact of prescribed versus nonprescribed benzodiazepine use in methadone maintenance therapy: results from a population-based retrospective cohort study
- Overweight and obesity in preschool aged children and risk of mental health service utilization
- Young stroke survivors with no early recurrence at high long‐term risk of adverse outcomes
- Covariate-adjusted survival analyses in propensity-score matched samples: imputing potential time-to-event outcomes
- A population-based study of the frequency and predictors of induced abortion among women with schizophrenia
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