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| A S GershonSummaryAffiliation: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Country: Canada Publications
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Identifying individuals with physcian diagnosed COPD in health administrative databasesA S Gershon
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
COPD 6:388-94. 2009..This offers a powerful means of generating evidence to inform strategies that optimize the prevention and management of COPD...
Quantifying health services use for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseAndrea S Gershon
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto Ontario, Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 187:596-601. 2013..Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a common manageable condition, is a leading cause of death. A better understanding of its impact on health-care systems would inform strategies to reduce its burden...
Global asthma prevalence in adults: findings from the cross-sectional world health surveyTeresa To
Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BMC Public Health 12:204. 2012..We set out to generate estimates of the global burden of asthma in adults, which may inform the development of strategies to address this common disease...- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and socioeconomic status: a systematic reviewAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
COPD 9:216-26. 2012..We conducted a systematic review to examine the consistency and magnitude of the association between socioeconomic status and COPD health outcomes to determine the potential impact of SES disparity on the COPD population... - Describing and quantifying asthma comorbidity [corrected]: a population studyAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PLoS ONE 7:e34967. 2012..Managing it improves these outcomes. Little is known about the amount of different types of comorbidity associated with asthma and how they vary by age... - Pulmonary function testing in the diagnosis of asthma: a population studyAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada
Chest 141:1190-6. 2012..The proportion of people who have had objective pulmonary function testing around the time of diagnosis and factors associated with receiving testing are not well understood... - The course of asthma activity: a population studyAndrea Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Allergy Clin Immunol 129:679-86. 2012..As a result, its course has been difficult to characterize and its prognosis difficult to predict... - Lifetime risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a longitudinal population studyAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lancet 378:991-6. 2011..We aimed to quantify the lifetime risk of developing physician-diagnosed COPD in a large, multicultural North American population... - Trends in asthma prevalence and incidence in Ontario, Canada, 1996-2005: a population studyAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 172:728-36. 2010..This is attributable, in part, to an increase in the incidence of asthma in children. Effective clinical and public health strategies are needed to prevent and manage asthma in the population... - Burden of comorbidity in individuals with asthmaAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G1 06, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
Thorax 65:612-8. 2010..The aim of this study was to quantify empirically the amount of comorbidity associated with asthma... - Trends in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease prevalence, incidence, and mortality in ontario, Canada, 1996 to 2007: a population-based studyAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluation Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Arch Intern Med 170:560-5. 2010..Whether this amount has been increasing, decreasing, or stable over time remains unknown... - Identifying patients with physician-diagnosed asthma in health administrative databasesAndrea S Gershon
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Can Respir J 16:183-8. 2009..A population-based surveillance and research program based on health administrative data could measure and study the burden of asthma; however, the validity of a health administrative data diagnosis of asthma must first be confirmed... - Survival with tiotropium compared to long-acting Beta-2-agonists in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
COPD 5:229-34. 2008..This result suggests that tiotropium might also be associated with decreased mortality compared to no treatment at all. Randomized placebo-control trials are needed to confirm these findings... - What is the lifetime risk of physician-diagnosed asthma in Ontario, Canada?Teresa To
Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8 Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 181:337-43. 2010..The estimates of risk of developing asthma may help researchers and health planners set research agendas, predict the burden of asthma on society, and target the at-risk population for asthma prevention, management, and control... - Delayed tuberculosis treatment in urban and suburban OntarioAndrea S Gershon
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
Can Respir J 15:244-8. 2008..Delay in the treatment of patients with tuberculosis (TB) increases the risk of poor clinical outcomes--including death and transmission of disease--and may be reducible... - Health care workers and the initiation of treatment for latent tuberculosis infectionAndrea S Gershon
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Clin Infect Dis 39:667-72. 2004..The objective of this study was to determine whether health care workers were less likely than non-health care workers to initiate treatment for latent tuberculosis infection...