The epidemiology and healthcare costs of community-acquired pneumonia in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study
O’Reilly R, Lu H, Kwong JC, McGeer A, To T, Sander B. J Med Econ. 2023; 26(1):293-302. Epub 2023 Feb 9.
Publications
Maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and delta or omicron infection or hospital admission in infants: test negative design study
Jorgensen SCJ, Hernandez A, Fell DB, Austin PC, D’Souza R, Guttmann A, Brown KA, Buchan SA, Gubbay JB, Nasreen S, Schwartz KL, Tadrous M, Wilson K, Kwong JC; Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) Provincial Collaborative Network. BMJ. 2023; 380:e074035. Epub 2023 Feb 8.
Impact of study design on vaccine effectiveness estimates of 2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease
Naylor KL, McArthur E, Dixon SN, Kwong JC, Thomas D, Balamchi S, Blake PG, Garg AX, Atiqazaaman M, Hladunewich MA, Levin A, Yeung A, Oliver MJ. Kidney Int. 2023; 103(4):791-7. Epub 2023 Jan 30.
Burden of severe illness associated with laboratory-confirmed influenza in adults aged 50-64 years, 2010-2011 to 2016-2017
Kim P, Coleman B, Kwong JC, Plevneshi A, Hassan K, Green K, McNeil SA, Armstrong I, Gold WL, Gubbay J, Katz K, Kuster SP, Lovinsky, Matukas L, Ostrowska K, Richardson D, McGeer A. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022; 10(1):ofac664. Epub 2022 Dec 27.
Trends and characteristics of Tdap vaccination during pregnancy in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study
Fakhraei R, Fung SG, Petrcich W, Crowcroft N, Bolotin S, Gaudet L, Amirthalingam G, Biringer A, Wilson K, Dubey V, Halperin SA, Jamieson F, Kwong JC, Sadarangani M, Cook J, Hawken S, Walker MC, Fell DB. CMAJ Open. 2022; 10(4):E1017-26. Epub 2022 Dec 6.
Effectiveness and duration of protection of a fourth dose of Coronavirus disease 2019 messenger RNA vaccine among long-term care residents in Ontario, Canada
Grewal R, Nguyen L, Buchan SA, Wilson SE, Costa AP, Kwong JC. J Infect Dis. 2023; 227(8):977–80. Epub 2022 Dec 3.
Effect of the incremental protection of previous infection against Omicron infection among individuals with a hybrid of infection- and vaccine-induced immunity: a population-based cohort study in Canada
Wu S, Li Y, Mishra S, Bodner K, Baral S, Kwong JC, Wei X. Int J Infect Dis. 2023; 127:69-76. Epub 2022 Nov 28.
Developing a reference standard for pertussis by applying a stratified sampling strategy to electronic medical record data
McBurney SH, Kwong JC, Brown KA, Rudzicz F, Chen B, Candido E, Crowcroft NS. Ann Epidemiol. 2023; 77:53-60. Epub 2022 Nov 11.
Chronic exposure to fine particulate matter increases mortality through pathways of metabolic and cardiovascular disease
Bai L, Benmarhnia T, Chen C, Kwong JC, Burnett RT, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Kim J, Kaufman JS, Chen H. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022; Nov 8 [Epub ahead of print].
Differential patterns by area-level social determinants of health in COVID-19 related mortality and non-COVID-19 mortality: a population-based study of 11.8 million people in Ontario, Canada
Wang L, Calzavara A, Baral S, Smylie J, Chan AK, Sander B, Austin PC, Kwong JC, Mishra S. Clin Infect Dis. 2023; 76(6):1110-20. Epub 2022 Oct 28.