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Implementation of a trauma care system: evolution through evaluationMoishe Liberman
Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Trauma 56:1330-5. 2004..8% in 1992 to 8.6% in 2002. CONCLUSION: A trauma system is fluid and constantly evolving. Research and constant reevaluation are necessary for continuous evaluation of the system and improvement of its outcomes and efficiency...- Functional status and quality of life in survivors of injury treated at tertiary trauma centers: what are we neglecting?John S Sampalis
Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada
J Trauma 60:806-13. 2006..The purpose of this study was to describe the functional status and quality of life (QOL) of patients at 12 months after injury... - Morbidity and mortality after RSV-associated hospitalizations among premature Canadian infantsJohn S Sampalis
McGill University, University of Montreal, JSS Medical Research Inc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Pediatr 143:S150-6. 2003..To evaluate the impact of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections on subsequent health care resource utilization in preterm infants... - The impact of weight reduction surgery on health-care costs in morbidly obese patientsJohn S Sampalis
Section of Bariatric Surgery, Division of General Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Obes Surg 14:939-47. 2004..CONCLUSION: Weight-reduction surgery in morbidly obese patients produces effective weight loss and decreases long-term direct health-care costs. The initial costs of surgery can be amortized over 3.5 years... - Assessment of mortality in older trauma patients sustaining injuries from falls or motor vehicle collisions treated in regional level I trauma centersJohn S Sampalis
Department of Surgery, Surgical Research, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Surg 249:488-95. 2009..To compare mortality in elderly trauma patients sustaining fall or motor vehicle collision (MVC) related injuries and who are subsequently treated at regional Level I (tertiary) trauma centers... - Prevention of surgical site infection and appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing habits in plastic surgeryGenevieve Landes
Hopital Notre Dame, University of Montreal Health Center CHUM, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Montreal, Canada
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 61:1347-56. 2008..The purpose of this study was to identify the incidence and risk factors for SSI in plastic surgery, and to evaluate the appropriateness of prophylactic antibiotic prescribing habits in a tertiary university centre... - The association between trauma system and trauma center components and outcome in a mature regionalized trauma systemMoishe Liberman
Department of Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Quebec, Canada
Surgery 137:647-58. 2005..Prehospital notification protocols and performance improvement programs appear to be most associated with decreased risk-adjusted odds of death... - Development and validation of a risk scoring tool to predict respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization in premature infants born at 33 through 35 completed weeks of gestationJohn S Sampalis
Department of Surgery and Medicine, McGill University and JSS Medical Research Inc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Med Decis Making 28:471-80. 2008.... - The New Injury Severity Score: a more accurate predictor of in-hospital mortality than the Injury Severity ScoreAndre Lavoie
Centre Hospitalier Affilie Universitaire De Quebec, Enfant Jésus Hospital, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
J Trauma 56:1312-20. 2004.... - Increasing volume of patients at level I trauma centres: is there a need for triage modification in elderly patients with injuries of low severity?Moishe Liberman
Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Que
Can J Surg 46:446-52. 2003..We aimed to investigate the type of patient presenting to 4 tertiary trauma centres in Quebec, the nature of their injuries and whether there was a need to modify triage protocols... - Bariatric surgery reduces cancer risk in morbidly obese patientsNicolas V Christou
McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:691-5. 2008..To assess the effect of bariatric surgery on the cancer risk of patients with morbid obesity because evidence is mounting of an association between obesity and cancer... - Statistical validation of the Glasgow Coma ScoreLynne Moore
Centre Hospitalier Affilie Universitaire De Quebec, Enfant Jésus Hospital, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
J Trauma 60:1238-43; discussion 1243-4. 2006..To validate the predictive value of the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) and find the best way to model the score in a logistic regression model predicting mortality... - Venous thromboembolism in plastic surgery: incidence, current practice and recommendationsKrystyna Miszkiewicz
Hopital Notre Dame, University of Montreal Health Center CHUM, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Montreal, Canada
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 62:580-8. 2009..There is a need for further research in established thromboprophylaxis guidelines in plastic and reconstructive surgery... - Surgery decreases long-term mortality, morbidity, and health care use in morbidly obese patientsNicolas V Christou
Section of Bariatric Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Surg 240:416-23; discussion 423-4. 2004..This study tested the hypothesis that weight-reduction (bariatric) surgery reduces long-term mortality in morbidly obese patients... - Multicenter Canadian study of prehospital trauma careMoishe Liberman
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Montreal General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Canada
Ann Surg 237:153-60. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: In urban centers with highly specialized level I trauma centers, there is no benefit in having on-site ALS for the prehospital management of trauma patients... - Breast cancer diagnosis by scintimammography: a meta-analysis and review of the literatureMoishe Liberman
Department of Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Que, Canada
Breast Cancer Res Treat 80:115-26. 2003..8% and that for specificity was 86.9%. The results of this review have shown that scintimammography may be used effectively as an adjunct to mammography and physical examination in the diagnosis of breast cancer... - Fibrin sealant associated with increased body temperature and leukocytosis after laparoscopic gastric bypassEvangelos Efthimiou
Section of Bariatric Surgery, Division of General Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Surg Obes Relat Dis 6:46-9. 2010..We studied FS use and its effect on the clinical inflammatory response after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass... - Reduction in estimated risk for coronary artery disease after use of ezetimibe with a statinJohn S Sampalis
Department of Surgery and Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Pharmacother 41:1345-51. 2007..Patients not at target lipid levels while on hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statin) monotherapy are at increased cardiovascular risk... - Ten-year surgical experience with nontraumatic pericardial effusions: a comparison between the subxyphoid and transthoracic approaches to pericardial windowMoishe Liberman
Department of Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Arch Surg 140:191-5. 2005..The approach to pericardial window in patients with nontraumatic pericardial effusion impacts outcome... - Impact of bariatric surgery on cardiovascular and musculoskeletal morbidityJohn S Sampalis
Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Surg Obes Relat Dis 2:587-91. 2006..The objective of the study was to assess the impact of bariatric surgery on cardiovascular and musculoskeletal morbidity... - Clinical evaluation of the spine in the intoxicated blunt trauma patientMoishe Liberman
Montreal General Hospital, Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Que, Canada H3G 1A4
Injury 36:519-25. 2005..0%, respectively. Intoxicated blunt trauma patients may be able to have spine fractures requiring operative stabilization excluded using physical examination of the spine at presentation to the trauma center... - Delays to surgery in non-small-cell lung cancerMoishe Liberman
Department of Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Que
Can J Surg 49:31-6. 2006..We attempted to evaluate the length of various waiting times for surgery as well as their association with surgical stage in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)... - Effectiveness and safety of dorzolamide-timolol alone or combined with latanoprost in open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertensionMark R Lesk
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Pharmacother 42:498-504. 2008..For patients who do not respond to monotherapy, combination treatment may be effective in achieving therapeutic reduction or target IOP... - International prospective evaluation of scintimammography with (99m)technetium sestamibiFotini S Sampalis
Department of Surgery, University of Montreal, Hôpital Sacré Coeur, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Surg 185:544-9. 2003..The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of scintimammography with (99m)Technetium-Sestamibi for the diagnosis of breast cancer... - Selection bias found in interpreting analyses with missing data for the prehospital index for traumaLawrence Joseph
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital, Department of Medicine, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4, Canada
J Clin Epidemiol 57:147-53. 2004..To evaluate the effects of missing data on analyses of data from trauma databases, and to verify whether commonly used techniques for handling missing data work well in theses settings... - Outcomes in the management of sternal dehiscence by plastic surgery: a ten-year review in one university centerGenevieve Landes
Hopital Notre Dame, University of Montreal Health Center CHUM, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Plast Surg 59:659-66. 2007..The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient outcomes following plastic surgery correction of sternotomy dehiscence (SD)... - Vitamin D status and response to daily 400 IU vitamin D3 and weekly alendronate 70 mg in men and women with osteoporosisAndrew C Karaplis
Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Pharmacother 45:561-8. 2011..Suboptimal vitamin D status is common in elderly individuals. However, the extent of vitamin D inadequacy in men and women being treated for osteoporosis in a family practice setting has not been well characterized... - (99m)Tc sestamibi breast imaging for the examination of patients with dense and fatty breasts: multicenter studyIraj Khalkhali
Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
Radiology 222:149-55. 2002..Scintimammography led to similar and significant changes in the posttest likelihood of cancer for both dense and fatty breasts. CONCLUSION: The diagnostic accuracy of scintimammography is not affected by breast density... - The Injury Severity Score or the New Injury Severity Score for predicting intensive care unit admission and hospital length of stay?Andre Lavoie
Unité de recherche en traumatologie, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec Enfant Jésus Hospital, 1401, 18ème rue, Quebec City QC, Que, Canada G1J 1Z4
Injury 36:477-83. 2005.... - Efficacy and safety of chitosan HEP-40 in the management of hypercholesterolemia: a randomized, multicenter, placebo-controlled trialShahin Jaffer
Internal Medicine, Delta Hospital, Delta, British Columbia, Canada
Altern Med Rev 12:265-73. 2007..Hypercholesterolemia is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD)... - Field triage of trauma patients: improving on the Prehospital IndexHala Tamim
Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Am J Emerg Med 20:170-6. 2002..76 v 0.66, P <.05). Considering time independent variables could lead to better injury triage decisions... - Multiple imputation of the Glasgow Coma ScoreLynne Moore
Centre Hospitalier Affilie Universitaire De Quebec, Enfant Jésus Hospital, Trauma Research Unit, Quebec City, Canada
J Trauma 59:698-704. 2005....