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| Boris G SobolevSummaryAffiliation: University of British Columbia Country: Canada Publications
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Classifying health-related quality of life outcomes of total hip arthroplastyMin Xu
Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 6:48. 2005..The objective is to develop criteria that classify individual treatment health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcome after primary THA, adjusted by preoperative scores...- Risk of emergency admission while awaiting elective cholecystectomyBoris Sobolev
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Hospital, BC
CMAJ 169:662-5. 2003..There is uncertainty regarding the frequency of adverse events while on a surgical waiting list. We assess the relationship between the duration of wait for cholecystectomy and the risk of emergency admission... - The risk of death associated with delayed coronary artery bypass surgeryBoris G Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 6:85. 2006..Therefore, we sought to improve the estimates of the risk of death associated with delayed surgical treatment of coronary artery disease... - Do longer delays for coronary artery bypass surgery contribute to preoperative mortality in less urgent patients?Boris G Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, The University of British Columbia, 828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Med Care 44:680-6. 2006..We evaluated whether longer delays contribute to the probability of death before surgery among patients prioritized into the less urgent category... - Policy analysis using patient flow simulations: conceptual framework and study designBoris Sobolev
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Clin Invest Med 28:359-63. 2005..We introduce the framework and study design to evaluate methods for improving the peri-operative process with the use of patient flow simulations... - Survival benefit of coronary-artery bypass grafting accounted for deaths in those who remained untreatedBoris G Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, The University of British Columbia, Canada
J Cardiothorac Surg 3:47. 2008..The objective of this analysis was to compare survival after the treatment decision between patients who underwent CABG and those who remained untreated... - Delay in admission for elective coronary-artery bypass grafting is associated with increased in-hospital mortalityBoris G Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 8:185. 2008.... - Delays for coronary artery bypass surgery: how long is too long?Boris Sobolev
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, 828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, V5Z 1L8, Canada
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res 8:27-32. 2008..We also discuss the utility of each method for determining the point at which a delay in waiting for coronary artery bypass surgery becomes too long, from the perspectives of hospital managers, surgeons and patients... - Systematic review of the use of computer simulation modeling of patient flow in surgical careBoris G Sobolev
School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, 828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada V5Z1L8
J Med Syst 35:1-16. 2011..In addition, we found a wide variation in the presentation of assumptions, system requirements, input and output data, and results of simulation-based policy analysis... - Waiting time in relation to wait-list size at registration: statistical analysis of a waiting-list registryBoris Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Clin Invest Med 27:298-305. 2004..To examine the relationship between the length of a waiting list for elective vascular surgery and the delay before undergoing the operation... - Unplanned emergency surgery in relation to length of wait lists at registrationBoris Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Clin Invest Med 29:193-200. 2006.... - Do women spend longer on wait lists for coronary bypass surgery? Analysis of a population-based registry in British Columbia, CanadaAdrian R Levy
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia BC, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 7:24. 2007..It is therefore difficult to ascertain whether higher operative mortality among women is due to biological differences or to delayed access to elective CABG... - Medication errors associated with the use of ethanol and fomepizole as antidotes for methanol and ethylene glycol poisoningKatherine J Lepik
Department of Pharmacy, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Clin Toxicol (Phila) 49:391-401. 2011..Study objectives were to describe and compare the frequency, type, outcome and underlying causes of medication errors associated with ethanol and fomepizole... - Chances of late surgery in relation to length of wait listsBoris G Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 5:63. 2005..We sought to determine what proportion of patients have had late coronary bypass surgery after registration on wait lists of different size in a network of hospitals with uniform standards for timing of surgery... - Time on wait lists for coronary bypass surgery in British Columbia, Canada, 1991-2000Adrian R Levy
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 5:22. 2005..We sought to determine whether the period of registration on wait lists had an effect on time to isolated CABG and whether the period effect was similar across priority groups... - Cumulative incidence for wait-list death in relation to length of queue for coronary-artery bypass grafting: a cohort studyBoris G Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
J Cardiothorac Surg 1:21. 2006..Our objective was to compare the cumulative incidence for death on the wait list according to the length of wait lists at the time of registration for the operation... - Does wait-list size at registration influence time to surgery? Analysis of a population-based cardiac surgery registryBoris Sobolev
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada
Health Serv Res 41:23-39. 2006..Hospital managers may use these findings to improve resource planning and to reduce uncertainty when providing advice on expected treatment delays... - On reporting results from randomized controlled trials with recurrent eventsLisa Kuramoto
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:35. 2008..The purpose of this paper is to outline guidelines for reporting results from RCTs where the outcome of interest is a recurrent event... - The effect of compensation status on waiting time for elective surgical lumbar discectomyJeffrey A Quon
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:2052-9. 2009..Prospective cohort study of patients registered for elective surgical lumbar discectomy (ESLD) between November 1999 and December 2003 at a major tertiary care center in Vancouver... - Adherence to emergency department discharge prescriptionsCorinne M Hohl
Department of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
CJEM 11:131-8. 2009..The main objective of our study was to assess the incidence of prescription-filling and medication adherence in patients discharged from the emergency department (ED)... - The costs of change: direct medical costs of solid organ transplantation in British Columbia, Canada, 1995-2003Adrian R Levy
British Columbia Transplant Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Value Health 12:282-92. 2009..The objective here was to compare the direct medical costs of kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplantations in British Columbia (BC), Canada... - Utility of the mean cumulative function in the analysis of fall eventsMeghan G Donaldson
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 62:415-9. 2007..The objective of these simulation studies was to describe the Mean Cumulative Function (MCF) and to evaluate the utility of the MCF in detecting differences between groups experiencing different patterns of event intensities... - The direct costs of HIV/AIDS careAdrian R Levy
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lancet Infect Dis 6:171-7. 2006..Although this information is important for planning purposes, only a small number of published studies provide useful estimates of the direct cost. A useful method of estimating resource use and costs is computer simulation... - Delays worsen quality of life outcome of primary total hip arthroplastyDonald S Garbuz
Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Clin Orthop Relat Res 447:79-84. 2006..Expedited access resulted in a larger proportion of patients with better than expected function 12 months after surgery... - Adverse drug events associated with the antidotes for methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning: a comparison of ethanol and fomepizoleKatherine J Lepik
British Columbia Drug and Poison Information Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ann Emerg Med 53:439-450.e10. 2009..We describe type, frequency, severity, seriousness, and onset time of adverse drug events and test the hypothesis that fomepizole results in fewer adverse drug events than ethanol... - Falls and fall-related injuries in older dialysis patientsWendy L Cook
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 1:1197-204. 2006..In the HD population, the fall risk is higher than in the general community, and fall-related morbidity is high. Better identification of HD patients who are at risk for falls and targeted fall intervention strategies are required... - Using the Statecharts paradigm for simulation of patient flow in surgical careBoris Sobolev
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, 620 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver V6Z 1Y6, Canada
Health Care Manag Sci 11:79-86. 2008..We conclude that Statecharts capture successfully the behavioral aspects of surgical care delivery by specifying permissible chronology of events, conditions, and actions... - Priority waiting lists: is there a clinically ordered queue?Boris G Sobolev
J Eval Clin Pract 11:408-10. 2005