The validity of electronic health data for measuring smoking status: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MA Haque, MLB Gedara, N Nickel, M Turgeon… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2024 - Springer
Background Smoking is a risk factor for many chronic diseases. Multiple smoking status
ascertainment algorithms have been developed for population-based electronic health …

Prevalence of injecting drug use and coverage of interventions to prevent HIV and hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs in Canada

B Jacka, S Larney, L Degenhardt… - … journal of public …, 2020 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To determine the number of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Canada and the
annual coverage of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) and needle-and-syringe provision for …

[HTML][HTML] Validated administrative data based ICD-10 algorithms for chronic conditions: A systematic review

A Kuang, C Xu, DA Southern, N Sandhu… - Journal of Epidemiology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective This systematic review aimed to identify ICD-10 based validated algorithms for
chronic conditions using health administrative data. Methods A comprehensive systematic …

The impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare system resource use and costs in two provinces in Canada: An interrupted time series analysis

S Zeitouny, DC Cheung, KE Bremner, RE Pataky… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The aim of our study was to assess the initial impact of COVID-19 on total
publicly-funded direct healthcare costs and health services use in two Canadian provinces …

Understanding challenges of using routinely collected health data to address clinical care gaps: a case study in Alberta, Canada

T McGuckin, K Crick, TW Myroniuk… - BMJ open …, 2022 - bmjopenquality.bmj.com
High-quality data are fundamental to healthcare research, future applications of artificial
intelligence and advancing healthcare delivery and outcomes through a learning health …

Congestive heart failure among children with acute leukemia: a population-based matched cohort study

D Chellapandian, JD Pole, PC Nathan… - Leukemia & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose was to describe the incidence and risk factors of congestive heart failure (CHF)
among children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia …

Characteristics of a population-based multiple sclerosis cohort treated with disease-modifying drugs in a universal healthcare setting

HS Ng, F Zhu, E Kingwell, Y Zhao, S Yao… - Expert Review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Relatively little is known about the use of disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) for
multiple sclerosis (MS) in the population-based universal healthcare setting. This study …

Hospital healthcare flows: a longitudinal clustering approach of acute coronary syndrome in women over 45 years

J Pinaire, J Aze, S Bringay, P Poncelet… - Health Informatics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in women is a growing public health issue and a death
leading cause. We explored whether the hospital healthcare trajectory was characterizable …

[HTML][HTML] The SPOR-Canadian Data Platform: a national initiative to facilitate data rich multi-jurisdictional research

LT Dahl, A Katz, K McGrail, B Diverty… - … Journal of Population …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Administrative health data is recognized for its value for conducting population-based
research that has contributed to numerous improvements in health. In Canada, each …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-province epidemiological research using linked administrative data: a case study from Canada

AL Butler, M Smith, W Jones, CE Adair… - … Journal of Population …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Canada has a publicly-funded universal healthcare system with information
systems managed by 13 different provinces and territories. This context creates …