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• Depression and use of health care services in patients with advanced cancer

  Lo C, Calzavara A, Kurdyak P, Barbera L, Shepherd F, Zimmermann C, Moore MJ, Rodin G. Can Fam Physician. 2013; 59(3):e168-74. Epub 2013 Mar 13.

• Regional health care services and rates of lower extremity amputation related to diabetes and peripheral artery disease: an ecological study

  de Mestral C, Hussain MA, Austin PC, Forbes TL, Sivaswamy A, Kayssi A, Salata K, Wijeysundera HC, Verma S, Al-Omran M. CMAJ Open. 2020; 8(4):659-66. Epub 2020 Oct 27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200048

• Utilization of health care services by immigrants and other ethnic/cultural groups in Ontario

  Wen SW, Goel V, Williams JI. Ethn Health. 1996; 1(1):99-109.

• Utilization of physician-based mental health care services among children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

  Saunders NR, Kurdyak P, Stukel T, Strauss R, Fu L, Guan J, Fiksenbaum L, Cohen E, Guttmann A, Vigod S, Chiu M, Hepburn CM, Moran K, Gardner W, Cappelli M, Sundar P, Toulany A. JAMA Pediatr. 2022; 176(4):e216298. Epub 2022 Feb 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.6298

• Addressing Gaps in the Health Care Services Used by Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario

  Lin E, Balogh RS, Durbin A, Holder L, Gupta N, Volpe T, Isaacs BJ, Weiss JA, Lunsky Y. February 2019.

• The Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team (CANHEART): using big data to measure and improve cardiovascular health and health care services

  Tu JV, Chu A, Donovan LR, Ko DT, Booth GL, Tu K, Maclagan LC, Guo H, Austin PC, Hogg W, Kapral MK, Wijeysundera HC, Atzema CL, Gershon AS, Alter DA, Lee DS, Jackevicius CA, Bhatia RS, Udell JA, Rezai MR, Stukel TA. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2015; 8(2):204-12. Epub 2015 Feb 3.

• Prevalence of winter migration to warmer destinations among Ontarians (“snowbirds”) and patterns of their use of health care services: a population-based analysis

  Shariff SZ, Paterson JM, Dixon SN, Garg AX, Clemens KK. CMAJ Open. 2021; 9(2):E491-9. Epub 2021 May 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200270

• Living and Dying in Ontario: An Opportunity to Improve Health Information

  Iron K, Zagorski B, Sykora K, Manuel DG. March 2008

• Ontario's Mosaic of Children's Treatment Services

  Dick PT, Kavanagh L, Spalding K, McKeever PD. January 2005

• Mandatory duty to report spousal assault victims: medico-legal issues, women's health and physicians

  Ferris LE, Strike CJ. Health Law Can 1999; 19(3):65-71.

• Regional variations in ambulatory care and incidence of cardiovascular events

  Tu JV, Chu A, Maclagan L, Austin PC, Johnston S, Ko DT, Cheung I, Atzema CL, Booth GL, Bhatia RS, Lee DS, Jackevicius CA, Kapral MK, Tu K, Wijeysundera HC, Alter DA, Udell JA, Manuel DG, Mondal P, Hogg W; for the Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team (CANHEART). CMAJ. 2017; 189(13):E494-501.

• A population-based study of care at the end of life among people with HIV in Ontario from 2010 to 2013

  Kendall CE, Chalifoux M, Manuel D, Reinhard R, Robinson G, Bacon J, Rourke SB, Rosenes R, Tanuseputro P. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2017; 75(1):e1-7. Epub 2016 Dec 7.

• Impact of a provincial quality-improvement program on primary health care in Ontario: a population-based controlled before-and-after study

  Green ME, Harris SB, Webster-Bogaert S, Han H, Kotecha J, Kopp A, Ho MM, Birtwhistle RV, Glazier RH. CMAJ Open. 2017; 5(2):E281-9.

• Improving Health Care Data in Ontario

  January 2005

• Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long-acting oxycodone

  Dhalla IA, Mamdani MM, Sivilotti ML, Kopp A, Qureshi O, Juurlink DN. CMAJ. 2009; 181(12):891-6. Epub 2009 Dec 7.

• Rural-urban differences in use of health care resources among patients with ankle sprains in Ontario

  Lucas G, Bielska IA, Fong R, Johnson AP. Can J Rural Med. 23(1):7-14. Epub 2018 Jan 1.

• Impact of health care reform on enrolment of immigrants in primary care in Ontario, Canada

  Batista R, Pottie KC, Dahrouge S, Manuel DG, Tanuseputro P, Mark AE, Ng E. Fam Pract. 2018; 36(4):445-51. Epub 2018 Sep 14. DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmy082.

• Diabetes during pregnancy and perinatal outcomes among First Nations women in Ontario, 2002/03–2014/15: a population-based cohort study

  Vélez MP, Slater M, Griffiths R, Shah BR, Sutherland R, Jones C, Jacklin K, Walker JD, Green ME. CMAJ Open. 2020; 8(1):E214-25. Epub 2020 Mar 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20190195

• Hospital Care For All: An Equity Report on Differences in Household Income Among Patients at Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (TC LHIN) Hospitals, 2008-2010

  Murphy K, Glazier R, Wang X, Holton E, Fazli G, Ho M. May 2012

• Fee-for-Service Core Mental Health Services: Changes in Provider Source and Visit Frequency

  Lin E, Goering P. April 2000

• Variations in Quality Indicators Across Ontario Physician Networks

  Stukel TA, Croxford R, Rahman F, Bierman AS, Glazier RH. June 2016.

• Devolution of hip and knee replacement surgery?

  Coyte PC, Young W, Williams JI. Can J Surg. 1996; 39(5):373-8.

• Lesson from Canada’s universal care: socially disadvantaged patients use more health services, still have poorer health

  Alter DA, Stukel T, Chong A, Henry D. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011; 30(2):274-83.

• Resource use and costs of end-of-life/palliative care: Ontario adult cancer patients dying during 2002 and 2003

  Walker H, Anderson M, Farahati F, Howell D, Librach SL, Husain A, Sussman J, Viola R, Sutradhar R, Barbera L. J Palliat Care. 2011; 27(2):79-88.

• March 2019

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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

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  • 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

• February 2022

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  • ICES Research Forum – Save the Date

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  • Utilization of physician-based mental health care services among children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada
  • The association between recreational cannabis legalization, commercialization and cannabis attributable emergency department visits in Ontario, Canada: an interrupted time-series analysis

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  • Incident cancer detection during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Impact of team-based care on emergency department use

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  • COVID-19 excess mortality among long-term care residents in Ontario, Canada
  • The rate of unnecessary interventions for the management of knee osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study
  • Trends in non-receipt of recommended chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medication
  • Association between handover of anesthesiology care and 1-year mortality among adults undergoing cardiac surgery
  • Practice profiles and patterns of Ontario family medicine residents 5 years after residency examinations: an exploratory study
  • Drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic among recently homeless individuals
  • Prevalence, cost, and variation in cost of pediatric hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada
  • Association of diabetes duration and glycemic control with stroke rate in patients with atrial fibrillation and diabetes: a population-based cohort study

• Use of hospital-related health care among Health Links enrollees in the Central Ontario health region: a propensity-matched difference-in-differences study

  Mondor L, Walker K, Bai YQ, Wodchis WP. CMAJ Open. 2017; 5(4):E753-9.

• Paediatric health care access in community health centres is associated with survival for critically ill children who undergo inter-facility transport: a province-wide observational study

  Tijssen JA, To T, Morrison LJ, Alnaji F, MacDonald RD, Cupido C, Lee KS, Parshuram CS. Paediatr Child Health. 2020; 25(5):308-16. Epub 2019 Apr 26. DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxz013.

• The impact of language on emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and length of stay among home care recipients

  Reaume M, Batista R, Rhodes E, Knight B, Imsirovic H, Seale E, Riad K, Prud'homme D, Tanuseputro P. Med Care. 2021; 59(11):1006-13. Epub 2021 Aug 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001638

• Use of the health care system by Ontario First Nations people with diabetes: a population-based study

  Shah BR, Slater M, Frymire E, Jacklin K, Sutherland R, Khan S, Walker JD, Green ME. CMAJ Open. 2020; 8(2):E313-8. Epub 2020 May 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200043

• Health care use during transfer to adult care among youth with chronic conditions

  Cohen E, Gandhi S, Toulany A, Moore C, Fu L, Orkin J, Levy D, Stephenson AL, Guttmann A. Pediatrics. 2016; 137(3):1-9. Epub 2016 Feb 23.

• Differences in health care spending and utilization among older frail adults in high-income countries: ICCONIC hip fracture persona

  Papanicolas I, Figueroa JF, Schoenfeld AJ, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Bowden N, Blankart CR, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Penneau A, Shatrov K, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis W, Jha AK. Health Serv Res. 2021; 56(Suppl 3):1335-46. Epub 2021 Aug 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13739

• Chronic migraineurs: an important subgroup of patients who visit emergency departments frequently

  Chan BT, Ovens HJ. Ann Emerg Med. 2004; 43(2):238-42.

• Immunization coverage among young children of urban immigrant mothers: findings from a universal health care system

  Guttmann A, Manuel D, Stukel TA, DesMeules M, Cernat G, Glazier RH. Ambul Pediatr. 2008; 8(3):205-9. Epub 2008 Apr 11.

• Patients with high mental health costs incur over 30 per cent more costs than other high-cost patients

  de Oliveira C, Cheng J, Vigod S, Rehm J, Kurdyak P. Health Aff. 2016; 35(1):36-43.

• A population-based cohort study of ambulatory care service utilization among older adults

  Nie JX, Wang L, Tracy CS, Moineddin R, Upshur RE. J Eval Clin Pract. 2010; 16(4):825-31. Epub 2010 Jun 14.

• Myocardial infarction associated with recency of immigration to Ontario

  Saposnik G, Redelmeier DA, Lu H, Fuller-Thomson E, Lonn E, Ray JG. QJM. 2010; 103(4):253-8. Epub 2010 Feb 18.

• Risk of premature stroke in recent immigrants (PRESARIO): population-based matched cohort study

  Saposnik G, Redelmeier DA, Lu H, Lonn E, Fuller-Thomson E, Ray JG. Neurology. 2010; 74(6):451-7. Epub 2010 Feb 3.

• A population-based study of paediatric emergency department and office visits for concussions from 2003 to 2010

  Macpherson A, Fridman L, Scolnik M, Corallo A, Guttmann A. Paediatr Child Health. 2014; 19(10):543-6.

• Measuring data reliability for preventive services in electronic medical records

  Greiver M, Barnsley J, Glazier RH, Harvey BJ, Moineddin R. BMC Health Serv Res. 2012; 12:116. Epub 2012 May 14.

• Regional variations in the use of home care services in Ontario, 1993/94

  Coyte PC, Young W. CMAJ. 1999; 161(4):376-80.

• Practice patterns in the management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer in Ontario Canada 2000-2008

  Hall SF, Irish JC, Groome PA, Urbach DR. J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2014; 43(1):29. Epub 2014 Jul 24.

• November 2020

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  • Life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in people with inflammatory bowel disease
  • Utilisation and outcomes of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in Ontario, Canada, and New York State, USA: a population-based retrospective cohort study
  • Patient-centered time-at-home outcomes in older adults after surgical cancer treatment

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  • COVID-19 in Ontario: Notable findings for the week of November 1-7, 2020
  • Prenatal hepatitis B screening, and hepatitis B burden among children, in Ontario: a descriptive study
  • Association between adherence to fractional flow reserve treatment thresholds and major adverse cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease

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  • Incidental detection, imaging modalities and temporal trends of differentiated thyroid cancer in Ontario: a population-based retrospective cohort
  • The associations between direct and delayed critical care unit admission with mortality and readmissions among patients with heart failure
  • Increasing wait-time mortality for severe aortic stenosis: a population-level study of the transition in practice from surgical aortic valve replacement to transcatheter aortic valve replacement
  • Declining use of red blood cell transfusions for gastrointestinal cancer surgery: a population-based analysis
  • Regional health care services and rates of lower extremity amputation related to diabetes and peripheral artery disease: an ecological study
  • Use of cardiac noninvasive testing after emergency department discharge: association of hospital network testing intensity and outcomes in Ontario, Canada
  • Comorbidities before and after the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: a matched longitudinal study
  • Coexistence of clinically significant obstructive sleep apnea with physician-diagnosed asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a population study of prevalence and mortality

• July 2021

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  • Surgery and the subtype of inflammatory bowel disease impact the risk of venous thromboembolism after hospital discharge
  • Primary care provider and child characteristics associated with age of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: a population-based cohort study
  • Risk of serious medical events in patients with depression treated with electroconvulsive therapy: a propensity score-matched, retrospective cohort study

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  • Development and validation of a predictive algorithm for risk of dementia in the community setting
  • Predicting death in home care users: derivation and validation of the Risk Evaluation for Support: Predictions for Elder-Life in the Community Tool (RESPECT)
  • Prevalence of winter migration to warmer destinations among Ontarians (“snowbirds”) and patterns of their use of health care services: a population-based analysis
  • COVID-19 in Ontario: Highlights for the week of July 4-10, 2021
  • Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against variants of concern, Canada

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  • Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organized cancer screening and diagnostic follow-up care in Ontario, Canada: a provincial, population-based study
  • Effect of a health system payment and quality improvement programme for tonsillectomy in Ontario, Canada: an interrupted time series analysis
  • Depression-related weight change and incident diabetes in a community sample
  • Health services use by children identified as heterozygous hemoglobinopathy mutation carriers via newborn screening
  • Characteristics and outcomes of women developing heart failure after early stage breast cancer chemotherapy: a population-based matched cohort study
  • Childhood seizures after prenatal exposure to maternal influenza infection: a population-based cohort study from Norway, Australia and Canada
  • Specialist care in individuals with asthma who required hospitalization: a retrospective population-based study
  • NAFLD and alcohol-related liver disease will be responsible for almost all new diagnoses of cirrhosis in Canada by 2040

• August 2022

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  • Increased demand for paramedic transports to the emergency department in Ontario, Canada: a population-level descriptive study from 2010 to 2019
  • Neonatal outcomes of mothers with a disability
  • Primary care physician use and frequency of visits among physicians in Ontario, Canada

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  • Uncovering SARS-COV-2 vaccine uptake and COVID-19 impacts among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples living in Toronto and London, Ontario
  • Impact of Ontario's Harmonized Heat Warning and Information System on emergency department visits for heat-related illness in Ontario, Canada: a population-based time series analysis

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  • Prescription pathways from initial medication use to triple therapy in older COPD patients: a real-world population study
  • Physician home visits in Ontario: a cross-sectional analysis of patient characteristics and postvisit use of health care services
  • Quality of end-of-life care in multiple myeloma: a 13-year analysis of a population-based cohort in Ontario, Canada
  • Long-term health care utilization and associated costs after dialysis-treated acute kidney injury in children
  • Primary care physician use and frequency of visit among physicians in Ontario, Canada
  • Time to surgery for patients with esophageal cancer undergoing trimodal therapy in Ontario: a population-based cross-sectional study
  • Community trial evaluating the integration of Indigenous healing practices and a harm reduction approach with principles of seeking safety in an Indigenous residential treatment program in northern Ontario

• Team-based primary care practice and physician’s services: evidence from family health teams in Ontario, Canada

  Somé NH, Devlin RA, Mehta N, Zaric GS, Sarma S. Soc Sci Med. 2020; 264:113310. Epub 2020 Aug 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113310

• The relationship between depressive symptoms, health service consumption, and prognosis after acute myocardial infarction: a prospective cohort study

  Kurdyak PA, Gnam WH, Goering P, Chong A, Alter DA. BMC Health Serv Res. 2008; 8:200.

• Trends in health care utilization and costs attributable to hepatocellular carcinoma, 2002-2009: a population-based cohort study

  Thein HH, Qiao Y, Young SK, Zarin W, Yoshida EM, de Oliveira C, Earle CC. Curr Oncol. 2016; 23(3):e196-220. Epub 2016 Jun 9.

• Phase-specific health care costs of cervical cancer: estimates from a population-based study

  Liu N, Mittmann N, Coyte PC, Hancock-Howard R, Seung SJ, Earle CC. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016; 214(5):615.e1-11. Epub 2015 Nov 25.

• The economic burden of cancer care in Canada: a population-based cost study

  de Oliveira C, Weir S, Rangrej J, Krahn MD, Mittmann N, Hoch JS, Chan KKW, Peacock S. CMAJ Open. 2018; 6(1):E1-10. Epub 2018 Jan 4.

• The relation between food insecurity and mental health care service utilization in Ontario

  Tarasuk V, Cheng J, Gundersen C, de Oliveira C, Kurdyak P. Can J Psychiatry. 2018; 63(8):557-69. Epub 2018 Jan 7.

• Health system costs for stage-specific breast cancer: a population-based approach

  Mittmann N, Porter J, Rangrej J, Seung SJ, Liu N, Saskin R, Cheung MC, Leighl NB,  Hoch JS, Trudeau M, Evans WK, Dainty KN, DeAngelis C, Earle CC. Curr Oncol. 2014; 21(6):281-93.

• Incidence and current treatment gaps in pediatric stroke and TIA: an Ontario-wide population-based study

  Surmava AM, Maclagan LC, Khan F, Kapral MK, Hall RE, deVeber G. Neuroepidemiology. 2019; 52(3-4):119-27. Epub 2019 Jan 17.

• The association of female sex with application of evidence-based practice recommendations for perioperative care in hip fracture surgery

  Cho N, Boland L, McIsaac DI. CMAJ. 2019; 191(6):E151-8. Epub 2019 Feb 11.

• Dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: health care use and cost in the last year of life

  Zwicker J, Qureshi D, Talarico R, Bourque P, Scott M, Chin-Yee N, Tanuseputro P. Neurology. 2019; 93(23):e2083-93. Epub 2019 Oct 31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008582

• Factors associated with emergency department presentation after total joint arthroplasty: a population-based retrospective cohort study

  Ravi B, Leroux T, Austin PC, Paterson JM, Aktar S, Redelmeier DA. CMAJ Open. 2020; 8(1): E26-33. Epub 2020 Jan 28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20190116

• Incidence of ESKD and mortality among children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery

  Parikh CR, Greenberg JH, McArthur E, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Everett AD, Wald R, Zappitelli M, Chanchlani R, Garg AX. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019; 14(10):1450-7. Epub 2019 Sep 9. DOI: 10.2215/CJN.00690119.

• Explaining the variation in surgical practice for differentiated thyroid cancer in Ontario, Canada

  Hall SF, Irish JC, Griffiths RJ, Whitehead M. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019; 145(10):949-54. Epub 2019 Aug 29. DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2019.2304.

• Correlates of non-adherence to breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening among screen-eligible women: a population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada

  Vahabi M, Lofters AK, Kopp A, Glazier RH. Cancer Causes Control. 2021; 32(2):147-55. Epub 2021 Jan 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-020-01369-y

• A population-based analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on common abdominal and gynecological emergency department visits

  Gomez D, Simpson AN, Sue-Chue-Lam C, de Mestral C, Dossa F, Nantais J, Wilton AS, Urbach D, Austin PC, Baxter NN. CMAJ. 2021; 193(21):E753-60. Epub 2021 May 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.202821

• Health care utilization for musculoskeletal issues during the prediagnosis period in psoriatic arthritis: a population-based study

  Eder L, Tu K, Rosen CF, Alhusayen R, Cheng SY, Young J, Campbell W, Bernatsky S, Gladman DD, Paterson JM, Widdifield J. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2021; 73(5):680-6. Epub 2020 Jan 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24146

• First Nations people with diabetes in Ontario: methods for a longitudinal population-based cohort study

  Slater M, Green ME, Shah B, Khan S, Jones CR, Sutherland R, Jacklin K, Walker JD. CMAJ Open. 2019; 7(4):E680-8. Epub 2019 Nov 24. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20190096

• Pediatric primary care in Ontario and Manitoba after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study

  Saunders N, Guttmann A, Brownell M, Cohen E, Fu L, Guan J, Sarkar J, Mahar A, Gandhi S, Fiksenbaum L, Katz A, Eze N, Stukel TA. CMAJ Open. 2021; 9(4):E1149-58. Epub 2021 Dec 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20210161

• Changes in community and hospital-based health care use during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities

  Durbin A, Balogh R, Lin E, Palma L, Plumptre L, Lunsky Y. J Intellect Disabil Res. 2022; 66(5):399-412. Epub 2022 Mar 30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12929

• Dying with Parkinson's disease: healthcare utilization and costs in the last year of life

  Zwicker J, Qureshi D, Talarico R, Webber C, Watt C, Kim WJ, Milani C, Ramanathan U, Mestre T, Tanuseputro P. J Parkinsons Dis. 2022; 12(7):2249-59. Epub 2022 Sep 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-223429

• The use of telemedicine in older-adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a weekly cross-sectional analysis in Ontario, Canada

  Chu C, Brual J, Fang J, Fleury C, Stamenova V, Bhattacharyya O, Tadrous M. Can Geriatr J. 2022; 25(4):380-9. Epub 2022 Dec 1. DOI: https://cgjonline.ca/index.php/cgj/article/view/610

• Preventive health care among children of women with schizophrenia: a population-based cohort study

  Taylor CL, Brown HK, Saunders NR, Barker LC, Chen S, Cohen E, Dennis CL, Ray JG, Vigod SN. J Clin Psychiatry. 2023; Mar 1 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.22m14497

• Exploring mediators of mental health service use among transgender individuals in Ontario, Canada

  Abramovich A, Gould WA, Pang N, de Oliveira C, Iwajomo T, Vigny-Pau M, MacKinnon K, Lam JSH, Kurdyak P. Can J Psychiatry. 2023; May 10 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437231171541

• Trends in health service use among persons with Parkinson’s disease by rurality: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study

  Maclagan LC, Marras C, Sewell IJ, Wu CF, Butt DA, Tu K, Bronskill SE. PLoS One. 2023; May 19 [Epub ahead of print].

• Direct cost associated with acquired brain injury in Ontario

  Chen A, Bushmeneva K, Zagorski B, Colantonio A, Parsons D, Wodchis WP. BMC Neurol. 2012; 12:76. Epub 2012 Aug 17.

• Preoperative testing before low-risk surgical procedures

  Kirkham KR, Wijeysundera DN, Pendrith C, Ng R, Tu JV, Laupacis A, Schull MJ, Levinson W, Bhatia RS. CMAJ. 2015; 187(11):E349-58. Epub 2015 Jun 1.

• High health care costs among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a population-based study

  Lunsky Y, de Oliveira C, Wilton A, Wodchis W. J Intellect Disabil Res. 2019; 63(2):124-37. Epub 2018 Nov 1.

• Youth mental health services utilization rates after a large-scale social media campaign: population-based interrupted time-series analysis

  Booth RG, Allen BN, Bray Jenkyn KM, Li L, Shariff SZ. JMIR Ment Health. 2018; 5(2):e27. Epub 2018 Apr 6.

• Effect of free medicine distribution on health care costs in Canada over 3 years: a secondary analysis of the CLEAN Meds randomized clinical trial

  Persaud N, Bedard M, Boozary A, Glazier RH, Gomes T, Hwang SW, Jüni P, Law MR, Mamdani M, Manns B, Martin D, Morgan SG, Oh P, Pinto AD, Shah BR, Sullivan F, Umali N, Thorpe KE, Tu K, Wu F, Laupacis A; CLEAN Meds study team. JAMA Health Forum. 2023; 4(5):e231127. Epub 2023 May 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1127

• Population-based estimates of health care utilization and expenditures by adults during the last 2 years of life in Canada’s single-payer health system

  Rosella LC, Kornas K, Bornbaum C, Huang A, Watson T, Shuldiner J, Wodchis WP. JAMA Netw Open. 2020; 3(4):e201917. Epub 2020 Apr 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.1917

• Effect of patient-centered transitional care services on clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure: the PACT-HF randomized clinical trial

  Van Spall HGC, Lee SF, Xie F, Oz UE, Perez R, Mitoff PR, Maingi M, Tjandrawidjaja MC, Heffernan M, Zia MI, Porepa L, Panju M, Thabane L, Graham ID, Haynes RB, Haughton D, Simek KD, Ko DT, Connolly SJ. JAMA. 2019; 321(8):753–61. Epub 2019 Feb 26.