Obesity, lifestyle risk-factors, and health service outcomes among healthy middle-aged adults in Canada
Alter DA, Wijeysundera HC, Franklin B, Austin PC, Chong A, Oh PI, Tu JV, Stukel TA. BMC Health Serv Res. 2012; 12:238. Epub 2012 Aug 4.
Publications
The average lifespan of patients discharged from hospital with heart failure
Alter DA, Ko DT, Tu JV, Stukel TA, Lee DS, Laupacis A, Chong A, Austin PC. J Gen Intern Med. 2012; 27(9):1171-9. Epub 2012 May 2.
Effect of ambiguous hemochromatosis gene test results on physician utilization
Speechley M, Alter D, Harrison H, Guo H, Adams PC. Med Care. 2012; 50(5):394-8.
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.
Posttraumatic growth in coronary artery disease outpatients: relationship to degree of trauma and health service use
Leung YW, Alter DA, Prior PL, Stewart DE, Irvine J, Grace SL. J Psychosom Res. 2012; 72(4):293-9. Epub 2012 Jan 28.
The relationship between need and capacity for multidisciplinary cardiovascular risk-reduction programs in Ontario
Candido E, Richards JA, Oh P, Suskin N, Arthur HM, Fair T, Alter DA. Can J Cardiol. 2011; 27(2):200-7. Epub 2011 Mar 1.
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.
Improved outcomes with early collaborative care of ambulatory heart failure patients discharged from the emergency department
Lee DS, Stukel TA, Austin PC, Alter DA, Schull MJ, You JJ, Chong A, Henry D, Tu JV. Circulation. 2010; 122(18):1806-14. Epub 2010 Oct 18.
Item nonresponse to psychosocial questionnaires was associated with higher mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Candido E, Kurdyak P, Alter DA. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011; 64(2):213-22. Epub 2010 Jun 20.
Depression and self-reported functional status: impact on mortality following acute myocardial infarction
Kurdyak PA, Chong A, Gnam WH, Goering P, Alter DA. J Eval Clin Pract. 2011; 17(3):444-51. Epub 2010 Jun 1.