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| Bing LiSummaryAffiliation: University of Calgary Country: Canada Publications
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Risk adjustment performance of Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidities in ICD-9 and ICD-10 administrative databasesBing Li
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 8:12. 2008....- Assessing record linkage between health care and Vital Statistics databases using deterministic methodsBing Li
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 6:48. 2006..We assessed the linkage and correct linkage rate using deterministic record linkage among three commonly used Canadian databases, namely, the population registry, hospital discharge data and Vital Statistics registry... 
Emergency department visits for acetaminophen overdose: a Canadian population-based epidemiologic study (1997-2002)Robert P Myers
Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta
CJEM 9:267-74. 2007..We describe the epidemiology of emergency department (ED) visits for acetaminophen overdose in a large Canadian health region, with a focus on sociodemographic risk factors and temporal trends...- Validation of ICD-9-CM/ICD-10 coding algorithms for the identification of patients with acetaminophen overdose and hepatotoxicity using administrative dataRobert P Myers
Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 7:159. 2007..Acetaminophen overdose is the most common cause of acute liver failure (ALF). Our objective was to develop coding algorithms using administrative data for identifying patients with acetaminophen overdose and hepatic complications... 
Impact of liver disease, alcohol abuse, and unintentional ingestions on the outcomes of acetaminophen overdoseRobert P Myers
Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 6:918-25; quiz 837. 2008..In this population-based study, we examined outcomes of acetaminophen overdose, with particular attention to these risk factors...- Updating and validating the Charlson comorbidity index and score for risk adjustment in hospital discharge abstracts using data from 6 countriesHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4Z6
Am J Epidemiol 173:676-82. 2011..876 in Swiss data (2008). The updated index of 12 comorbidities showed good-to-excellent discrimination in predicting in-hospital mortality in data from 6 countries and may be more appropriate for use with more recent administrative data... - Association of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders with somatic or biomedical diagnoses: do population-based utilization study results support the adverse childhood experiences study?T C R Wilkes
Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Perm J 16:23-6. 2012..Few population-based studies have examined the relationship between psychiatric and somatic or biomedical disorders... - Temporal associations of early patient transfers and mortality with the implementation of a regional myocardial infarction care modelAlka B Patel
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Can J Cardiol 27:731-8. 2011..Calgary is a Canadian city that implemented this type of model in 2004... - Health resource use in epilepsy: Significant disparities by age, gender, and aboriginal statusNathalie Jette
Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Epilepsia 49:586-93. 2008..Epilepsy imposes a significant burden on society. The objective of this study was to estimate health resource utilization (HRU) over a 1-year period in epilepsy patients, using administrative databases... - Assessing validity of ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data in recording clinical conditions in a unique dually coded databaseHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences and Centre for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N4N1, Canada
Health Serv Res 43:1424-41. 2008.... - Comparison and validity of procedures coded With ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CA/CCICarolyn De Coster
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Med Care 46:627-34. 2008..It is imperative to assess errors that could occur in administrative data due to the introduction of the new coding system... - Child health insurance coverage: a survey among temporary and permanent residents in ShanghaiMingshan Lu
Department of Economics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 8:238. 2008..We conducted a survey in Shanghai to describe children's health insurance coverage according to their migration status... - Hospitalizations for acetaminophen overdose: a Canadian population-based study from 1995 to 2004Robert P Myers
Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BMC Public Health 7:143. 2007..Acetaminophen overdose (AO) is the most common cause of acute liver failure. We examined temporal trends and sociodemographic risk factors for AO in a large Canadian health region... - Invasive cardiac procedure use and mortality among South Asian and Chinese Canadians with coronary artery diseaseHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta
Can J Cardiol 26:e236-42. 2010..Previous studies evaluated cardiac procedure use and outcome over the short term, with relatively few Asian patients included... - Follow-through after calling a nurse telephone advice line: a population-based studyCarolyn De Coster
Data Integration, Measurement and Reporting, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta
Fam Pract 27:271-8. 2010..Compliance studies utilizing database analysis are frequently limited to a defined population, such as children or Emergency Department (ED) users... - Association of mental health with health care use and cost: a population studyDavid Cawthorpe
Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Addictions Program, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone, Calgary, Alberta
Can J Psychiatry 56:490-4. 2011..To compare the health costs of groups with and without psychiatric diagnoses (PDs) using 9 years of physician billing data... - Association of oxidative stress with arsenic methylation in chronic arsenic-exposed children and adultsYuanyuan Xu
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Heping District, Shenyang, PR China
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 232:142-9. 2008..These results may provide linkage between arsenic methylation capacity and oxidative stress in humans and suggest that adverse health effects induced by arsenic are related to arsenic methylation through oxidative stress... - Automatic active model initialization via Poisson inverse gradientBing Li
C L Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
IEEE Trans Image Process 17:1406-20. 2008.... - Guiding automated left ventricular chamber segmentation in cardiac imaging using the concept of conserved myocardial volumeChristopher D Garson
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Comput Med Imaging Graph 32:321-30. 2008..The metric was most useful when applied to the gradient vector field weighting and temporal step-size parameters, but less effective in guiding an optimal choice of the active surface tension and rigidity parameters... - [Relationship between the patients' knowledge on hypertension prevention and control and the rate on blood pressure control]Xin Wang
Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Institute and Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 24:1082-5. 2003..CONCLUSION: Patients' knowledge on hypertension control was significantly related to the rate on hypertension control. Health education should be helpful to improve the rate on hypertension control... - [Clinical diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex in 5 children without calcified nodule on brain CT]Yan Hu
Zhonghua Er Ke Za Zhi 42:466-7. 2004 - Electro-acupuncture improves epileptic seizures induced by kainic acid in taurine-depletion ratsHong-Bing Jin
National Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P R China
Acupunct Electrother Res 30:207-17. 2005..Taurine transporter level increased after EA treatment. These results suggested that taurine participated in epileptogenesis and EA may be related to taurine in controlling epileptic seizure... - Diagnosis and management of extrahepatic portal vein aneurysm: a case reportHai Feng Luo
Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116011, China
Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int 5:311-3. 2006..Extrahepatic portal vein aneurysm is a rare clinical entity with no more than 50 reported cases in the English literature. This study was to elucidate the procedures used in the diagnosis and management of portal vein aneurysm... - Quantitative and topographical evaluation of ankle articular cartilage using high resolution MRISteven A Millington
Centre of Excellence, High Field MR, Medical University of Vienna, Leitermayergasse 31 20, A1180, Vienna, Austria
J Orthop Res 25:143-51. 2007.... - Current research problems of chronic arsenicosis in ChinaGuifan Sun
Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China
J Health Popul Nutr 24:176-81. 2006..The susceptibility of children compared to adults to chronic arsenic exposure and the need to re-evaluate the appropriate standard of arsenic in drinking-water were also discussed in this paper... - Urinary arsenic metabolites in children and adults exposed to arsenic in drinking water in Inner Mongolia, ChinaGuifan Sun
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, No 92 Bei Er Road, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, People s Republic of China
Environ Health Perspect 115:648-52. 2007.... - Active contour external force using vector field convolution for image segmentationBing Li
C L Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
IEEE Trans Image Process 16:2096-106. 2007..Examples and comparisons with GVF are presented in this paper to show the advantages of this innovation, including superior noise robustness, reduced computational cost, and the flexibility of tailoring the force field... - Clinical manifestations and arsenic methylation after a rare subacute arsenic poisoning accidentYuanyuan Xu
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, PR China 110001
Toxicol Sci 103:278-84. 2008..Peripheral neuropathy is the most frequent manifestation after the initial phase. The biomethylation of arsenic decreases in a dose rate-dependent manner... - HIV-neutralizing immunoglobulin A and HIV-specific proliferation are independently associated with reduced HIV acquisition in Kenyan sex workersTaha Hirbod
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
AIDS 22:727-35. 2008..We performed a prospective, nested case-control study to examine the association of genital IgA and systemic cellular immune responses with subsequent HIV acquisition in high-risk Kenyan female sex workers (FSWs)... - Angiogenesis-independent endothelial protection of liver: role of VEGFR-1Jennifer LeCouter
Departments of Molecular Oncology, Protein Engineering, and Pathology, Genentech Inc, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
Science 299:890-3. 2003..Thus, VEGFR-1 agonists may have therapeutic potential for preservation of organ function in certain liver disorders...