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• February 2014

  • Rates of thyroid cancer diagnosis vary four-fold across Ontario’s health planning regions
  • Adults with chronic kidney disease at increased risk for bone fracture
  • Lower surgeon volumes linked to greater risk of postsurgery hospitalization in patients with Crohn’s disease
  • Heart rate at hospital discharge a predictor of mortality in patients with chronic heart failure
  • Women with schizophrenia at higher risk for pre-term birth and pregnancy complications

• October 2014

  • One in 200 Ontarians have inflammatory bowel disease; rate among world's highest
  • No difference in risk of adverse gastrointestinal events with two eye drugs
  • Few patients with bladder cancer referred to a medical oncologist prior to surgery
  • Long-term proton pump inhibitor therapy linked to hospitalization for low blood magnesium
  • Babies born in Canada to immigrant mothers have lower risk of cerebral palsy

• April 2011

  • Study compares use of certain cholesterol-lowering drugs in the U.S. and Canada
  • Adults with developmental disabilities and psychiatric issues more frequent ED visitors
  • Incidence of upper GI cancers rising dramatically in Ontario
  • Health promotion program effective in reducing heart disease hospitalizations in Ontario
  • Excessive doses of opioids prescribed for nonmalignant pain linked to increased risk of death

• November 2006

  • ICES study shows ED waiting times and crowding not affected by patients with minor ailments
  • Addition of diagnostic imaging equipment in rural areas improves local health care
  • PPIs do not raise risk of hospitalization for C. difficile in elderly patients taking antibiotics
  • Many elderly diabetes patients not receiving recommended drugs
  • Study compares treatment outcomes for achalasia patients

• September 2009

  • Popular diabetes medications have different rates of heart failure and death
  • Mild glucose intolerance in pregnancy may signal increased cardiovascular risk in later life
  • Study finds 50% increase in inflammatory bowel disease in Ontario children in past decade
  • Risk factors for cardiovascular disease on the rise among Canada's young and poor
  • Diabetic seniors taking antipsychotic drugs at higher risk of hospitalization for hyperglycemia

• June 2009

  • Heart attack patients not prioritized properly in Ontario emergency departments
  • Study forecasts considerable increase in Ontarians needing dialysis services
  • Primary care reform not solving healthcare access for the poor and chronically ill
  • Mortality and hospitalization rates for cardiovascular diseases declining steadily in Canada
  • Administrative data tool reveals more Ontario children being diagnosed with diabetes

• December 2005

  • Certain pregnancy complications may increase the risk of heart disease in women
  • Use of CT and MRI scans increased at a greater rate in non-cancer patients
  • Depression during hospitalization for coronary syndromes can impact mortality rates
  • Study highlights important differences in heart failure care between the U.S. and Ontario
  • Elderly have increased use of EDs during flu outbreaks

• July/August 2005

  • Trauma injury risk is higher in summer for pregnant women
  • Population-based study demonstrates striking seasonality of croup hospitalizations in Ontario
  • Osteoporosis diagnosis and testing improvements reducing fracture rates in the elderly
  • Stroke-on-awakening and stroke-while-awake patients have similar outcomes
  • Valproate and lithium cause equally small rate of delirium in older adults with mood disorders

• January 2005

  • Potentially inappropriate drugs for seniors available through ODB
  • Alcohol-related hospitalizations highest in low-income, middle-aged individuals
  • Study shows new benefit of statins in heart failure patients
  • Diabetics who manage glucose levels effectively are not as diligent with other conditions
  • Elderly colorectal cancer patients have worse outcomes following surgery

• October 2004

  • Study offers insights into seasonal patterns for influenza and pneumonia hospitalizations
  • Certain common medications can cause lithium toxicity in the elderly
  • Ontario wait times for arthritis-related joint surgeries increase by up to 9 weeks
  • Beta-blocker therapy safe for certain heart failure patients
  • Study maps mammography use in large urban cities

• June 2004

  • Use of anti-inflammatory drugs associated with greater risk of hospitalization for heart failure
  • Patients should see hospital physicians after discharge
  • Leading causes of global death and disability not being studied in clinical trials
  • Many common illnesses increase risk of suicide in elderly
  • Most deaths in men with prostate cancer not due to prostate cancer

• July/August 2004

  • Spironolactone use can lead to increased hospitalizations and deaths from high potassium
  • More hospital beds filled by patients requiring life support
  • More detailed cardiac procedure data needed
  • Low number of Ontarians screened for colorectal cancer
  • Certain maternal factors cause developmental disorders in young children

• April 2004

  • Privacy concerns hinder the development of useful medical registries needed to improve care
  • Infant hospitalizations impacted by family’s health
  • Patients at high risk for stroke are being under treated in Ontario
  • Study shows striking variation in the use of end-of-life care in U.S. hospitals
  • Rectal cancer patients treated at high-volume hospitals have better outcomes

• December 2003

  • Heart disease drug expenditures soar in Canada
  • Lower income people with diabetes suffering excessive hospitalizations
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) do not cause acute pancreatitis in the elderly
  • High-volume surgeons improve outcomes for patients undergoing certain high-risk procedures
  • Certain patient characteristics can predict risk of stroke or death after carotid endarterectomy

• October 2003

  • Canadian hospitalization rates for cardiovascular conditions increasing
  • Emergency department “gridlock” results in delays for patients with chest pain
  • Polysporin ointment reduces infections and mortality in dialysis patients
  • Parkinson’s patients not receiving adequate access to specialists
  • HOPE (Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation) trial’s effect on ramipril prescribing unprecedented

• February 2008

  • Physicians reluctant to report patients who are medically unfit to drive
  • Women with diabetes experience higher mortality rates following breast cancer
  • Study examines anticoagulation control and hospitalization in elderly patients
  • Benefit of long-term cholinesterase inhibitor use for dementia patients questioned
  • Value of cardiac troponin testing confirmed as a predictor of mortality in heart failure patients

• December 2013

  • Parents more likely to take first-born children to hospital after vaccine reactions
  • Researchers call for health care changes to help Ontario adults with developmental disabilities
  • Rheumatoid arthritis patients at increased risk for complications following joint replacement
  • First Nations residents at greater risk for hospitalization during 2009 flu outbreak
  • Kidney donors at no greater risk for kidney stones than nondonors

• October 2013

  • Half of uterine cancer patients in Ontario wait longer than recommended six weeks for surgery
  • Better selection criteria needed for patients with stable angina who undergo angiograms
  • Cancer and chronic disease screening lowest in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
  • Risk of dying one year after hospitalization in Ontario fell sharply between 1994 and 2009
  • Drug prescribing significantly influenced by clinical evidence and policy changes

• Changing patterns in competing causes of death in men with prostate cancer: a population based study

  Lu-Yao G, Stukel TA, Yao SL. J Urol. 2004; 171(6 Pt 1):2285-90.

• Trends in heart failure outcomes and pharmacotherapy: 1992 to 2000

  Lee DS, Mamdani MM, Austin PC, Gong Y, Liu PP, Rouleau JL, Tu JV. Am J Med. 2004; 116(9):581-9.

• Risk of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in warfarin users treated with nonselective NSAIDs or COX-2 inhibitors

  Battistella M, Mamdani MM, Juurlink DN, Rabeneck L, Laupacis A. Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165(2):189-92.

• Antidepressants, warfarin and the risk of hemorrhage

  Kurdyak PA, Juurlink DN, Kopp A, Herrmann N, Mamdani MM. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2005; 25(6):561-4.

• Physician warnings in psychiatry and the risk of road trauma: an exposure crossover study

  Lustig AJ, Kurdyak PA, Thiruchelvam D, Redelmeier DA. J Clin Psychiatry. 2016; 77(10):e1256-61.

• Neighborhood income and health outcomes in infants: how do those with complex chronic conditions fare?

  Wang C, Guttmann A, To T, Dick PT. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009; 163(7):608-15.

• Transition to adult care for youths with diabetes mellitus: findings from a universal health care system

  Nakhla M, Daneman D, To T, Paradis G, Guttmann A. Pediatrics. 2009; 124(6):e1134-41. Epub 2009 Nov 23.

• A comprehensive assessment of health care utilization among homeless adults under a system of universal health insurance

  Hwang SW, Chambers C, Chiu S, Katic M, Kiss A, Redelmeier DA, Levinson W. Am J Public Health. 2013; 103(Suppl 2):S294-301. Epub 2013 Oct 22.

• Gastrointestinal bleeding after the introduction of COX 2 inhibitors: ecological study

  Mamdani M, Juurlink DN, Kopp A, Naglie G, Austin PC, Laupacis A. BMJ. 2004; 328(7453):1415-6. Epub 2004 May 11.

• Pisces did not have increased heart failure: data-driven comparisons of binary proportions between levels of a categorical variable can result in incorrect statistical significance levels

  Austin PC, Goldwasser MA. J Clin Epidemiol. 2008; 61(3):295-300. Epub 2007 Sep 24.

• Payment incentives for community-based psychiatric care in Ontario, Canada

  Rudoler D, de Oliveira C, Cheng J, Kurdyak P. CMAJ. 2017; 189(49):E1509-16. Epub 2017 Dec 11.

• Which physicians are taking care of people with COPD?

  Cho EE, Mecredy GC, Wong HH, Stanbrook MB, Gershon AS. Chest. 2019; 155(4):771-7. Epub 2019 Jan 19.

• Rivaroxaban vs. low molecular weight heparin for the prevention of venous thromboembolism after hip or knee arthroplasty: a cohort study

  Lazo-Langner A, Fleet JL, McArthur E, Garg AX. J Thromb Haemost. 2014; 12(10):1626-35. Epub 2014 Jul 28.

• Estimating age-specific influenza-associated asthma morbidity in Ontario, Canada

  Feldman LY, Zhu J, To T. Respir Med. 2019; 155:104-12. Epub 2019 Jul 17. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2019.07.017

• Mortality after the first diagnosis of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a population-based retrospective cohort study

  Kurdyak P, Mallia E, de Oliveira C, Carvalho AF, Kozloff N, Zaheer J, Tempelaar WM, Anderson KK, Correll CU, Voineskos AN. Schizophr Bull. 2021; 47(3):864-74. Epub 2021 Jan 18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa180

• Trends and outcomes of serious complications associated with non-fatal opioid overdoses in Ontario, Canada

  Kitchen SA, McCormack D, Werb D, Caudarella A, Martins D, Matheson FI, Gomes T. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021; 225:108830. Epub 2021 Jun 24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108830

• Cardiorenal outcomes in eligible patients referred for bariatric surgery

  Dash S, Everett K, Jackson T, Okrainec A, Urbach DR, Sockalingam S, Shah BR, Farkouh ME. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021; 29(12):2035-43. Epub 2021 Nov 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23294

• Estimated effectiveness of postpartum maternal messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccination against Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization in infants younger than 6 months

  Jorgensen SCJ, Hernandez A, Fell DB, Austin PC, D’Souza R, Guttmann A, Kwong JC. JAMA Pediatr. 2023; Feb 27 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.6134

• Multimorbidity and healthcare utilization among home care clients with dementia in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective analysis of a population-based cohort

  Mondor L, Maxwell CJ, Hogan DB, Bronskill SE, Gruneir A, Lane NE, Wodchis WP. PLoS Med. 2017; 14(3):e1002249.

• Higher-dose sitagliptin and the risk of congestive heart failure in older adults with CKD

  Muanda FT, Weir MA, Bathini L, Clemens KK, Perkovic V, Sood MM, McArthur E, Sontrop JM, Kim RB, Garg AX. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020; 15(12):1728-39. Epub 2020 Nov 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.08310520

• Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy and dose-related outcomes in older adults with new heart failure in the community

  Rochon PA, Sykora K , Bronskill SE, Mamdani M, Anderson GM, Gurwitz JH, Gill S, Tu JV, Laupacis A. J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19(6):676-83.

• Admission to hospital for pneumonia and influenza attributable to 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 influenza in First Nations communities in three provinces of Canada

  Green ME, Wong ST, Lavoie JG, Kwong J, MacWilliam L, Peterson S, Liu G, Katz A. BMC Public Health. 2013; 13:1029. Epub 2013 Oct 30.

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