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| B R ShahSummaryAffiliation: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Country: Canada Publications
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Disparities in attendance at diabetes self-management education programs after diagnosis in Ontario, Canada: a cohort studyKaren Cauch-Dudek
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G106 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada
BMC Public Health 13:85. 2013..abstract:..- Absence of disparities in the quality of primary diabetes care for South Asians and Chinese in an urban Canadian settingBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Diabetes Care 35:794-6. 2012..To examine whether quality of diabetes care is equitable for South Asian and Chinese patients in an urban Canadian setting... - Feedback GAP: study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary careNoah M Ivers
Women s College Hospital Family Health Team, 76 Grenville Street, Toronto ON, M5 S 1B2, Canada
Implement Sci 5:98. 2010..abstract:.. 
Missed opportunities for type 2 diabetes testing following gestational diabetes: a population-based cohort studyB R Shah
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
BJOG 118:1484-90. 2011..This study sought to evaluate population-level trends in postpartum diabetes testing after GDM, and to evaluate postpartum physician care for these women...- Increased risk of cardiovascular disease in young women following gestational diabetes mellitusBaiju R Shah
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Diabetes Care 31:1668-9. 2008..To determine whether women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) following pregnancy... - Utilization of physician services for diabetic patients from ethnic minoritiesBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:327-31. 2008..Although ethnic variations in disease prevalence are known, variations in the utilization of physician services for the disease (particularly in publicly funded health care systems) are uncertain... - Self-reported diabetes is associated with self-management behaviour: a cohort studyBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 8:142. 2008.... - Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation studyBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada
BMC Med Res Methodol 10:42. 2010..Surname lists are useful for identifying cohorts of ethnic minority patients from secondary data sources. This study sought to develop and validate lists to identify people of South Asian and Chinese origin... - Predictors and effectiveness of diabetes self-management education in clinical practiceBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Patient Educ Couns 74:19-22. 2009..To describe the demographic and clinical predictors of attendance at a diabetes education center (DEC) for self-management education, and to compare subsequent quality of care indicators between attendees and non-attendees... - Deficiencies in the quality of diabetes care: comparing specialist with generalist care misses the pointBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Gen Intern Med 22:275-9. 2007..The development of such interventions to help all physicians implement better quality care could greatly benefit people with diabetes... 
Diabetes is not treated as a coronary artery disease risk equivalentBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N3M5, Canada
Diabetes Care 30:381-3. 2007- Use of vascular risk-modifying medications for diabetic patients differs between physician specialtiesB R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Diabet Med 23:1117-23. 2006..This study examined whether vascular risk-modifying medication utilization for diabetic patients differed among physician specialties... - Diabetes prevalence and care in the Metis population of Ontario, CanadaBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Diabetes Care 34:2555-6. 2011..The Métis are a distinct Aboriginal people in Canada with a unique history, culture, and language. This study examined diabetes prevalence and care in the Métis of Ontario... - Diabetic patients with prior specialist care have better glycaemic control than those with prior primary careBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Eval Clin Pract 11:568-75. 2005..To compare glycaemic control, as reflected in the A1c level, of diabetic patients with primary care vs. with specialist care... - Propensity score methods gave similar results to traditional regression modeling in observational studies: a systematic reviewBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Clin Epidemiol 58:550-9. 2005..To determine whether adjusting for confounder bias in observational studies using propensity scores gives different results than using traditional regression modeling... - Clinical inertia in response to inadequate glycemic control: do specialists differ from primary care physicians?Baiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G106 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada M4N 3M5
Diabetes Care 28:600-6. 2005..quot; Because data suggest that specialist care results in better control than primary care, we evaluated whether specialists demonstrated less clinical inertia than primary care physicians... - Risk modification for diabetic patients. Are other risk factors treated as diligently as glycemia?Baiju R Shah
Department of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Program, University of Toronto, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Can J Clin Pharmacol 11:e239-44. 2004..However, other preventative interventions, such as using medications to manage lipid and blood pressure levels, are underused for diabetic patients... - Evaluation of a toolkit to improve cardiovascular disease screening and treatment for people with type 2 diabetes: protocol for a cluster-randomized pragmatic trialBaiju R Shah
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Trials 11:44. 2010..This study will evaluate the impact of the strategy to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening, prevention and treatment for people with diabetes... - Using the Johns Hopkins' Aggregated Diagnosis Groups (ADGs) to predict 1-year mortality in population-based cohorts of patients with diabetes in Ontario, CanadaP C Austin
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Diabet Med 29:1134-41. 2012..The objective was to examine the ability of the Johns Hopkins' Aggregated Diagnosis Groups to predict mortality in population-based ambulatory samples of both incident and prevalent subjects with diabetes... - Abnormal screening glucose challenge test in pregnancy and future risk of diabetes in young womenR Retnakaran
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Diabet Med 26:474-7. 2009..Thus, in this context, we sought to determine whether women who have a pregnancy complicated by an abnormal GCT, but who do not have GDM, are at increased risk of subsequent diabetes, compared with their peers with an abnormal GCT... - Mild glucose intolerance in pregnancy and risk of cardiovascular disease: a population-based cohort studyRavi Retnakaran
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CMAJ 181:371-6. 2009..Thus, we sought to determine whether pregnant women with an abnormal glucose challenge test result but without gestational diabetes have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease... - Markers of access to and quality of primary care for aboriginal people in Ontario, CanadaBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
Am J Public Health 93:798-802. 2003..64, 0.91, and 1.00, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The increased ACS hospitalization rate and reduced RCS procedure utilization rate suggest that northern Ontario's aboriginal residents have insufficient or ineffective primary care... - Progression through diabetes therapies among new elderly users of metformin: a population-based studyT Gomes
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Diabet Med 30:e51-5. 2013..To examine temporal changes in progression to second-line therapies among older patients with diabetes newly treated with metformin... - Impact of gestational diabetes on the risk of diabetes following pregnancy among Chinese and South Asian womenG Mukerji
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Diabetologia 55:2148-53. 2012..However, it is uncertain whether ethnicity modifies the effect of GDM on diabetes risk. We aimed to determine the risk of diabetes following pregnancy with and without GDM for Chinese and South Asian women compared with white women... - Effect of subsequent pregnancies on the risk of developing diabetes following a first pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes: a population-based studyR Retnakaran
Department of Medicine Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Diabet Med 28:287-92. 2011..Thus, we sought to determine whether subsequent pregnancies are associated with the risk of developing diabetes following gestational diabetes... - Adverse cardiovascular events during treatment with glyburide (glibenclamide) or gliclazide in a high-risk populationD N Juurlink
The Sunnybrook Research Institute, Departments of Medicine Pediatrics Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Department of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Diabet Med 29:1524-8. 2012.... - The effectiveness of implementing a reminder system into routine clinical practice: does it increase postpartum screening in women with gestational diabetes?A K Shea
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Chronic Dis Can 31:58-64. 2011..The current study examined whether the implementation of a reminder system improved screening rates... - Income-related differences in mortality among people with diabetes mellitusLorraine L Lipscombe
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 182:E1-E17. 2010..Whether all income groups have benefited equally, however, is unclear. We examined the impact of income on mortality trends among people with diabetes... - Blood glucose test strips: options to reduce usageTara Gomes
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 182:35-8. 2010..The impact of more focused public-payer policies for the use of blood glucose test strips may be substantial... - Increased rates of adverse outcomes for gestational diabetes and pre-pregnancy diabetes in on-reserve First Nations Women in Ontario, CanadaS L Liu
Resident Research Career Development Program, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada
Diabet Med 29:e180-3. 2012..To compare the prevalence of diabetes in pregnancy, pregnancy care and adverse pregnancy outcomes in on-reserve First Nations women vs. non-First Nations women in Ontario, Canada... - Erythropoietin deficiency in hyporeninemiaS Donnelly
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Am J Kidney Dis 33:947-53. 1999..3%) versus controls (99.4% +/- 0.1%; P = 0.007 and P = 0.01, respectively). Subjects with type 1 diabetes with HRHA had low hemoglobin concentrations that were caused, at least in part, by inappropriately low serum erythropoietin levels... - New use of rosiglitazone decreased following publication of a meta-analysis suggesting harmB R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
Diabet Med 25:871-4. 2008..It is uncertain whether meta-analyses lead to changes in prescribing practices. We studied trends in the prescribing of glucose-lowering therapy before and after the publication of a meta-analysis suggesting harm from rosiglitazone... - Outpatient gatifloxacin therapy and dysglycemia in older adultsLaura Y Park-Wyllie
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
N Engl J Med 354:1352-61. 2006.... - Quantifying the risk of infectious diseases for people with diabetesBaiju R Shah
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Diabetes Care 26:510-3. 2003..In addition to microvascular and macrovascular sequelae, clinicians should consider infection a complication of diabetes... - The impact of diabetes education on blood glucose self-monitoring among older adultsAdam Millar
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
J Eval Clin Pract 16:790-3. 2010..To determine whether attending diabetes education is associated with blood glucose self-monitoring among unselected older adults in routine clinical care... - Management of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes: the 2008 Canadian Diabetes Association guidelinesOnil K Bhattacharyya
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 179:920-6. 2008 - Administrative data algorithms can describe ambulatory physician utilizationBaiju R Shah
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G106 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M4N 3M5
Health Serv Res 42:1783-96. 2007..To validate algorithms using administrative data that characterize ambulatory physician care for patients with a chronic disease...