Regional variation in the use of surgery in Ontario
Feinberg AE, Porter J, Saskin R, Rangrej J, Urbach DR. CMAJ Open. 2015; 3(3):E310-6.
Publications
Outcomes of daytime procedures performed by attending surgeons after night work
Govindarajan A, Urbach DR, Kumar M, Li Q, Murray BJ, Juurlink D, Kennedy E, Gagliardi A, Sutradhar R, Baxter NN. N Engl J Med. 2015; 373(9):845-53.
A population-based study of 30-day incidence of ischemic stroke following surgical neck dissection
MacNeil SD, Liu K, Garg AX, Tam S, Palma D, Thind A, Winquist E, Yoo J, Nichols A, Fung K, Hall S, Shariff SZ. Medicine (Baltimore). 2015; 94(33):e1106.
Once is rarely enough: a population-based study of reoperations after postmastectomy breast reconstruction
Roberts A, Baxter N, Camacho X, Lau C, Zhong T. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015; 22(10):3302-7. Epub 2015 Jul 23.
Lymph node counts are valid indicators of the quality of surgical care in bladder cancer: a population-based study
Siemens DR, Mackillop WJ, Peng Y, Wei X, Berman D, Booth CM. Urol Oncol. 2015; 33(10):425.e15-23. Epub 2015 Jul 18.
Trends over time in the use of laparoscopic hysterectomy for the treatment of endometrial cancer
Kroft J, Li Q, Saskin R, Elit L, Bernardini MQ, Gien LT. Gynecol Oncol. 2015; 138(3):536-41. Epub 2015 Jul 11.
Body mass index, outcomes, and mortality following cardiac surgery in Ontario, Canada
Johnson AP, Parlow JL, Whitehead M, Xu J, Rohland S, Milne B. J Am Heart Assoc. 2015; 4:e002140.
A population-based validation study of the DCIS Score predicting recurrence risk in individuals treated by breast-conserving surgery alone
Rakovitch E, Nofech-Mozes S, Hanna W, Baehner FL, Saskin R, Butler SM, Tuck A, Sengupta S, Elavathil L, Jani PA, Bonin M, Chang MC, Robertson SJ, Slodkowska E, Fong C, Anderson JM, Jamshidian F, Miller DP, Cherbavaz DB, Shak S, Paszat L. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015; 152(2):389-98. Epub 2015 Jun 29.
Trends in pulmonary function testing before noncardiothoracic surgery
Sun LY, Gershon AS, Ko DT, Thilen SR, Yun L, Beattie WS, Wijeysundera DN. JAMA Intern Med. 2015; 175(8):1410-2. Epub 2015 Jun 8.
Association of perioperative plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels with 3-year mortality after cardiac surgery: a prospective observational cohort study
Moledina DG, Parikh CR, Garg AX, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Koyner JL, Patel UD, Devarajan P, Shlipak MG, Coca SG, TRIBE-AKI Consortium. PLoS One. 2015; 10(6):e0129619.