Association of hospital spending intensity with mortality and readmission rates in Ontario hospitals
Stukel TA, Fisher ES, Alter DA, Guttmann A, Ko DT, Fung K, Wodchis WP, Baxter NN, Earle CC, Lee DS. JAMA. 2012; 307(10):1037-45.
Publications
Social disparities in the use of colonoscopy by primary care physicians in Ontario
Jacob BJ, Baxter NN, Moineddin R, Sutradhar R, Delgiudice L, Urbach DR. BMC Gastroenterol. 2011; 11(102). Epub 2011 Sep 28.
Analysis of administrative data finds endoscopist quality measures associated with post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer
Baxter NN, Sutradhar R, Forbes SS, Paszat LF, Saskin R, Rabeneck L. Gastroenterology. 2011; 140(1):65-72. Epub 2010 Sep 18.
Assessing the volume-outcome hypothesis and region-level quality improvement interventions: pancreas cancer surgery in two Canadian provinces
Simunovic M, Urbach D, Major D, Sutradhar R, Baxter N, To T, Brown A, Davis D, Levine M. Ann Surg Oncol. 2010; 17(10):2537-44. Epub 2010 Jul 13.
Long-term survival in young adults with colorectal cancer: a population-based study
Forbes SS, Sutradhar R, Paszat LF, Rabeneck L, Urbach DR, Baxter NN. Dis Colon Rectum. 2010; 53(7):973-8.
New findings about the risks and limitations of colonoscopy used in the early detection of colorectal cancer
Baxter N, Rabeneck L. Healthc Q. 2009; 12(2):24-5.
Association of colonoscopy and death from colorectal cancer
Baxter NN, Goldwasser MA, Paszat LF, Saskin R, Urbach DR, Rabeneck L. Ann Intern Med. 2009; 150(1):1-8. Epub 2008 Dec 15.
Does it matter what a hospital is “high volume” for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data
Urbach DR, Baxter NN. Qual Saf Healthcare. 2004; 13(5):379-83.
Misclassification of hospital volume in surgical volume-outcome analyses of persons aged 65 years and older: potential limitations of medicare data
Baxter NN, Urbach D. Evid Based Surg. 2003; 1(1):49-55.
Hospital procedure volume and teaching status do not influence treatment and outcome measures of rectal cancer surgery in a large general population
Simunovic M, To T, Baxter N, Balshem A, Ross E, Cohen Z, McLeod R, Engstrom P, Sigurdson E. J Gastrointest Surg. 2000; 4(3):324-30.