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A review of the cost of atrial fibrillationWalter P Wodchis
Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Value Health 15:240-8. 2012..To systematically review and synthesize the literature on the costs of atrial fibrillation (AF) with attention to study design and costing methods, geography, and intervention approaches...- Sex differences in the relative contribution of social and clinical factors to the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 measure of health-related quality of life in older home care clientsColleen J Maxwell
Department of Community Health Sciences and Centre for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Health Qual Life Outcomes 7:80. 2009..We examined the relative contribution of social and clinical factors to HRQL among older home care clients and explored whether any of the observed associations varied by sex... - Validating diagnostic information on the Minimum Data Set in Ontario Hospital-based long-term careWalter P Wodchis
Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Med Care 46:882-7. 2008..A full assessment of the quality of the diagnostic information recorded on the MDS is lacking... - Cost and quality: evidence from Ontario long term care hospitalsWalter P Wodchis
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Med Care 45:981-8. 2007..Such knowledge is necessary to guide facility management and policy action... - Effect of Medicaid payment on rehabilitation care for nursing home residentsWalter P Wodchis
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario
Health Care Financ Rev 28:117-29. 2007..Retrospective payment for Medicaid resident care was associated with greater use of therapy for Medicaid residents... - Study of observed and self-reported HRQL in older frail adults found group-level congruence and individual-level differencesWalter P Wodchis
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada
J Clin Epidemiol 60:502-11. 2007..To evaluate the consistency of self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQL) using the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) with observer rated HRQL using the Minimum Data Set Health-Status Index (MDS-HSI)... - New thyroxine treatment in older adults beginning lithium therapy: implications for clinical practiceKenneth I Shulman
Dept of Psychiatry and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:299-304. 2005.... - Initiation of benzodiazepines in the elderly after hospitalizationChaim M Bell
Department of Medicine, St Michael s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1W8
J Gen Intern Med 22:1024-9. 2007..To estimate the rate of new chronic benzodiazepine use after hospitalization in older adults not previously prescribed with benzodiazepines... - Incidence of delirium in older adults newly prescribed lithium or valproate: a population-based cohort studyKenneth I Shulman
Department of Psychiatry and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Clin Psychiatry 66:424-7. 2005..Therefore, we compared the incidence of delirium in older adults with mood disorders who were newly dispensed either lithium or valproate... - Health status utilities and the impact of pressure ulcers in long-term care residents in OntarioHla Hla Thein
Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Qual Life Res 19:81-9. 2010..To estimate health status utilities in long-term care (LTC) residents in Ontario, both with and without pressure ulcers (PUs), and to determine the impact of PU on health-related quality of life (HRQOL)... - Payer incentives and physical rehabilitation therapy for nonelderly institutional long-term care residents: evidence from Michigan and OntarioWalter P Wodchis
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 85:210-7. 2004..To examine the effect of payment incentives on the provision of rehabilitation therapy to non elderly nursing home residents... - Representation of patients with dementia in clinical trials of donepezilSudeep S Gill
Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario
Can J Clin Pharmacol 11:e274-85. 2004..To evaluate the representation of frail older adults in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and to assess consequences of under representation by analyzing drug discontinuation rates... - Analysis of factors affecting demand for rehabilitation services in Ontario, Canada: a health-policy perspectiveMichel D Landry
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Disabil Rehabil 30:1837-47. 2008..Demand for health services tends to outstrip supply in an environment of economic scarcity... - Variation in nursing home antipsychotic prescribing ratesPaula A Rochon
Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Arch Intern Med 167:676-83. 2007..We explored variation in the use of antipsychotic therapy across nursing homes in Ontario, Canada, and determined if prescribing decisions were based on clinical indications... - Physical rehabilitation following medicare prospective payment for skilled nursing facilitiesWalter P Wodchis
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Queen Elizabeth Centre, 130 Dunn Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 2R7
Health Serv Res 39:1299-318. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The present results indicate that rehabilitation therapy is sensitive to the specific payment incentives associated with PPS... - Health-related quality of life measure based on the minimum data setWalter P Wodchis
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Queen Elizabeth Centre, Ontario, Canada
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 19:490-506. 2003..To introduce a health-related quality of life measure for home care and institutional long-term care settings based on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2)... - Atypical antipsychotic drugs and risk of ischaemic stroke: population based retrospective cohort studySudeep S Gill
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada
BMJ 330:445. 2005..To compare the incidence of admissions to hospital for stroke among older adults with dementia receiving atypical or typical antipsychotics... - Nursing home profit status and quality of care: is there any evidence of an association?Michael P Hillmer
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Med Care Res Rev 62:139-66. 2005..For-profit nursing homes appear to provide lower quality of care in many important areas of process and outcome... - Supervisory support, job stress, and job satisfaction among long-term care nursing staffKatherine S McGilton
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, 130 Dunn Ave, Suite N236B, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 2R7
J Nurs Adm 37:366-72. 2007..To investigate the effects of perceived supervisory support provided by registered nursing staff on job stress and job satisfaction among nurse aides (NAs) working in long-term care... - Using the Johns Hopkins Aggregated Diagnosis Groups (ADGs) to predict mortality in a general adult population cohort in Ontario, CanadaPeter C Austin
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Department of Health Management, Policy and Evaluation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Med Care 49:932-9. 2011..There are limited validated methods for risk adjustment in ambulatory populations using administrative healthcare databases... - Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Long-term Care: A Cost-effectiveness AnalysisBa Pham
PhD c, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative, Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Leslie Dan Pharmacy Bldg, 144 College St, Sixth Floor, Room 651, Toronto, ON M5S 3M2, Canada
Arch Intern Med 171:1839-47. 2011..Pressure ulcers are common in many care settings, with adverse health outcomes and high treatment costs. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of evidence-based strategies to improve current prevention practice in long-term care facilities... - Is P4P really FFS?Walter P Wodchis
Department of Health Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 298:1797-9. 2007 - Association of hospital spending intensity with mortality and readmission rates in Ontario hospitalsTherese A Stukel
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G106 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
JAMA 307:1037-45. 2012..The extent to which better spending produces higher-quality care and better patient outcomes in a universal health care system with selective access to medical technology is unknown... - Rehabilitation services after total joint replacement in Ontario, Canada: can 'prehabilitation' programs mediate an increasing demand?Michel D Landry
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Int J Rehabil Res 30:297-303. 2007..Overall, our results indicate that the demand for rehabilitation services after TJR is increasing and that innovative approaches to care delivery are required to align increasing demand with supply... - Neuroleptic drug therapy in older adults newly admitted to nursing homes: incidence, dose, and specialist contactSusan E Bronskill
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:749-55. 2004.... - The relationship of 60 disease diagnoses and 15 conditions to preference-based health-related quality of life in Ontario hospital-based long-term care residentsJonathan M C Lam
Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, Ontario
Med Care 48:380-7. 2010..Population-based diagnosis- and condition-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) scores are required for decision-making and research purposes. These HRQoL scores do not exist for hospital-based long-term care (LTC) residents... - The efficiency and effectiveness of utilizing diagrams in interviews: an assessment of participatory diagramming and graphic elicitationMuriah J Umoquit
Cancer Services and Policy Research Unit, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:53. 2008..The two methods are 'participatory diagramming', where the respondent creates a diagram that assists in their communication of answers, and 'graphic elicitation', where a researcher-prepared diagram is used to stimulate data collection... - Traumatic brain injury in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury: clinical and economic consequencesCheryl L Bradbury
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:S77-84. 2008..To evaluate the clinical and economic burden of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in people with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)... - Measuring health status and decline in at-risk seniors residing in the community using the Health Utilities Index Mark 2Jenny X Zhang
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Health Sciences Centre, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
Qual Life Res 15:1415-26. 2006..CONCLUSION: The HUI2 measure of HRQL in older persons at risk for institutionalization appears to reflect health status at a point in time and to be responsive to changes in health status over time... - A national study showed that diagnoses varied by age group in nursing home residents under age 65Brant E Fries
Institute of Gerontology and School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 300 North Ingalls, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2007, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:198-205. 2005..Those aged <65 in nursing homes (NHs) are substantially different from elderly residents. This study uses data gathered from the Resident Assessment Instrument's Minimum Data Set (MDS) to describe these relatively rare residents... - Longitudinal effects of Botox injections on voice-related quality of life (V-RQOL) for patients with adductory spasmodic dysphonia: part IIAdam D Rubin
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0312, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130:415-20. 2004..This study demonstrates the efficacy of Botox for treating patients with adductory spasmodic dysphonia and further illustrates the usefulness and validity of the V-RQOL Measure in evaluating patients with dysphonia... - The effect of Medicare's prospective payment system on discharge outcomes of skilled nursing facility residentsWalter P Wodchis
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Queen Elizabeth Centre, 130 Dunn Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6K 2R7
Inquiry 41:418-34. 2004..The results indicate that PPS reduced the relative risk of discharge to home and to death for Medicare residents (compared to non-Medicare residents) and had no significant effect on hospitalizations or transfers... - Skilled nursing facility rehabilitation and discharge to home after strokeWalter P Wodchis
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Toronto, ON Canada
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 86:442-8. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Postacute residents with an uncertain prognosis are an important target population for intensive RT... - Overlap in HMO physician networksMichael E Chernew
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy, Ann Arbor, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:91-101. 2004..Overlap ranges from an upper quartile of 69 percent to a lower quartile of 34 percent. Group/staff-model HMOs have little overlap, while younger plans, for-profit plans, and plans in small markets have greater overlap...