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.
Publications
A tutorial on methods to estimating clinically and policy-meaningful measures of treatment effects in prospective observational studies
Austin PC, Laupacis A. Int J Biostat. 2011; 7(1):6. Epub 2011 Jan 6.
A tutorial and case study in propensity score analysis: an application to estimating the effect of in-hospital smoking cessation counseling on mortality
Austin PC. Multivariate Behav Res. 2011; 46(1):119-151.
Gender differences in stroke care and outcomes in Ontario
Kapral MK, Degani N, Hall R, Fang J, Saposnik G, Richards J, Silver FL, Robertson A, Bierman AS. Womens Health Issues. 2011; 21(2):171-6. Epub 2010 Dec 24.
Cost-effectiveness of specialized multidisciplinary heart failure clinics in Ontario, Canada
Wijeysundera HC, Machado M, Wang X, Van Der Velde G, Sikich N, Witteman W, Tu JV, Lee DS, Goodman SG, Petrella R, O'Flaherty M, Capewell S, Krahn M. Value Health. 2010; 13(8):915-21. Epub 2010 Nov 23.
Association between weekend hospital presentation and stroke fatality
Fang J, Saposnik G, Silver FL, Kapral MK; Investigators of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network. Neurology. 2010; 75(18):1589-96.
Patterns of care and outcomes after computed tomography scans for headache
You JJ, Gladstone J, Symons S, Rotstein D, Laupacis A, Bell CM. Am J Med. 2011; 124(1):58-63.e1. Epub 2010 Oct 19.
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.
Major radiodiagnostic imaging in pregnancy and the risk of childhood malignancy: a population-based cohort study in Ontario
Ray JG, Schull MJ, Urquia ML, You JJ, Guttmann A, Vermeulen MJ. PLoS Med. 2010; 7(9):e1000337.
Statistical criteria for selecting the optimal number of untreated subjects matched to each treated subject when using many-to-one matching on the propensity score
Austin PC. Am J Epidemiol. 2010; 172(9):1092-7. Epub 2010 Aug 28.