Recent Publications

April 2020 – Present

  • Thai-Son Tang, Peter C. Austin, Keith A. Lawson, Antonio Finelli, Olli Saarela. (2020). Constructing inverse probability weights for institutional comparisons in healthcare. Statistics in Medicine. Early Access:1-17. [Link]
  • Evan J.H. Lewis, Leif E. Lovblom, Maryam Ferdousi, Elise M. Halpern, Maria Jeziorska, Daniele Pacaud, Nicola Pritchard, Cirous Dehghani, Katie Edwards, Sangeetha Srinivasan, Roni Mintz Shtein, Nathan Efron, Mitra Tavakoli, Vera Bril, Rayaz Ahmed Malik, Bruce A. Perkins (2020). Rapid Corneal Nerve Fiber Loss: A Marker of Diabetic Neuropathy Onset and Progression. Diabetes Care. 43(6): dc190951. [link]
  • Daniel Harris, Jean-Paul Soucy, David Kinitz, Kuan Liu, Aravind Rajendran, Shelby Sturrock, Kate St Cyr, Rebecca Christensen. (2020). Four Dates, One Future. University of Toronto Journal of Public Health. 1(1): 1-5. [link]
  • Armend Lokku, Lily S. Lim, Catherine S. Birken, Eleanor M. Pullenayegum & on behalf of the TARGet Kids! Collaboration. (2020). Summarizing the extent of visit irregularity in longitudinal data. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 20: 135. [link]
  • Sudipta Saha, Zhihui Liu, Olli Saarela. (2020). A causal model for subgroup effects in randomized screening trials. arXiv Methodology. arXiv:2005.07322. [link]
  • Bo Chen, Olli Saarela. (2020). Hierarchical causal variance decomposition for institution and provider comparisons in healthcare. arXiv Methodology. arXiv:2005.07314. [link]
  • Michelle Greiver, Sumeet Kalia, Rahim Moineddin, Simon Chen, Raquel Duchen & Alanna Rigobon. (2020). Impact of the diabetes Canada guideline dissemination strategy on dispensed vascular protective medications for older patients in Ontario, Canada: a linked EMR and administrative data study. BMC Health Services Research. 20: 370. [link]
  • Kuan Liu, George Tomlinson, Ann M. Reed, Adam M. Huber, Olli Saarela, Sharon M. Bout-Tabaku, Megan Curran, Jeffrey A. Dvergsten, Barbara A. Eberhard, Lawrence K. Jung, Susan Kim, Sarah Ringold, Kelly A. Rouster-Steven, Melissa Tesher, Dawn M. Wahezi and Brian M. Feldman for the CARRA Registry Investigators. (2020). Pilot study of the juvenile dermatomyositis consensus treatment plans: a CARRA Registry study. The Journal of Rheumatology.  47(6). [link]
  • ​Michele Vitale, Changchang Xu, Wendy Lou, Stacey Horodezny, Linda Dorado, Souraya Sidani, Baiju R.​ Shah, Enza Gucciardi. (2020). Impact of diabetes education teams in primary care on processes of care​ indicators. Primary Care Diabetes. 14(2): 111. [link]

December 2019 – March 2020

  • Enza Gucciardi, Changchang Xu, Michele Vitale, Wendy Lou, Stacey Horodezny, Linda Doradom, Souraya Sidani, Baiju R. Shah. (2020). Evaluating the Impact of Onsite Diabetes Education Teams in Primary Care​ on Clinical Outcomes. BMC Family Practice. 21(1): 48. [link]
  • Kuan Liu, Olli Saarela, Brian M Feldman, Eleanor Pullenayegum. (2020). Estimation of causal effects with repeatedly measured outcomes in a Bayesian framework. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 962280219900362. [link]
  • Alon Abraham, Leif E. Lovblom, Vera Bril. (2020). The utility of a single simple question in the evaluation of patients with nondiabetic polyneuropathy. Muscle & Nerve. 61(4): 526-529. [link]
  • Dongyang Yang, Wei Xu. (2019). Statistical modeling on human microbiome sequencing data. Big Data and Information Analytics. 4(1): 1-12. [link]
  • Caitlin McArthur, Mehdi Rostami, Olli Saarela, Mohammad Owais Suria, Cindy Feng and Katherine Berg. (2019). Resident-Level Factors Associated with Hospitalization Rates for Newly Admitted Long-Term Care Residents in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Canadian Journal on Aging. 38(4): 441-448. [link]
  • Nancy Cardinez, Leif E Lovblom, Andrej Orszag, Vera Bril, David Z Cherney, Bruce A Perkins. (2019). Sex differences in neuropathy & neuropathic pain: A brief report from the Phase 2 Canadian Study of Longevity in Type 1 Diabetes. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications. 33(12): 107397. [link]