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| Y C MacNabSummaryAffiliation: University of British Columbia Country: Canada Publications
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On Gaussian Markov random fields and Bayesian disease mappingYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Canada
Stat Methods Med Res 20:49-68. 2011..Several illustrative examples of disease mapping and spatial regression are presented...
Autoregressive spatial smoothing and temporal spline smoothing for mapping ratesY C MacNab
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, and Centre for Community Child Health and Health Evaluation Research, British Columbia Institute for Children s and Women s Health, Vancouver, Canada
Biometrics 57:949-56. 2001..Regions with consistently high rate estimates may be followed for further investigation. The methodology is illustrated by analysis of British Columbia infant mortality data...- On Bayesian shared component disease mapping and ecological regression with errors in covariatesYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
Stat Med 29:1239-49. 2010..Fully Bayesian inference via Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations is presented... - Bayesian multivariate disease mapping and ecological regression with errors in covariates: Bayesian estimation of DALYs and 'preventable' DALYsYing C MacNab
School of Population and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stat Med 28:1369-85. 2009..A burden of injury study on road traffic accidents in local health areas in British Columbia, Canada, is presented as an illustrative example... - Mapping disability-adjusted life years: a Bayesian hierarchical model framework for burden of disease and injury assessmentYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stat Med 26:4746-69. 2007.... - An innovative application of Bayesian disease mapping methods to patient safety research: a Canadian adverse medical event studyYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Stat Med 25:3960-80. 2006..The work was motivated by the need to explore relatively efficient ways to analyse regional variations of health services outcomes and resource utilization when a considerable amount of statistical modelling and inference are required... - Parametric bootstrap and penalized quasi-likelihood inference in conditional autoregressive modelsY C MacNab
Centre for Health Evaluation Research, British Columbia Institute for Children s and Women s Health, 4480 Oak Street, Rm E 414, Vancouver, B C, Canada V6H 3V4
Stat Med 19:2421-35. 2000..The proposed methodology is illustrated by analysing infant mortality in the province of British Columbia in Canada... - Bayesian spatial and ecological models for small-area accident and injury analysisYing C MacNab
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4, Canada
Accid Anal Prev 36:1019-28. 2004..Thereby they are potentially useful in identifying priority areas for injury/accident prevention and in informing regional health planning and policy development... - Regression B-spline smoothing in Bayesian disease mapping: with an application to patient safety surveillanceYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stat Med 26:4455-74. 2007..The methods are motivated and illustrated through a Bayesian analysis of adverse medical events (also known as iatrogenic injuries) among hospitalized elderly patients in British Columbia, Canada... 
A conceptual model of water's role as a reservoir in Helicobacter pylori transmission: a review of the evidenceN R Bellack
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Epidemiol Infect 134:439-49. 2006..Verification of the proposed model pathways has important implications for public-health prevention strategies...- Mixed models and empirical bayes estimation for retrospective exposure assessment of dust exposures in Canadian sawmillsMelissa C Friesen
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ann Occup Hyg 50:281-8. 2006..We assess three models for predicting historical dust exposures of sawmill workers... - Determinants of use of hearing protection devices in Canadian lumber mill workersHind Sbihi
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, 3rd Floor, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
Ann Occup Hyg 54:319-28. 2010..As such information was seldom available for individual workers, modeling was necessary to predict hearing protection use and derive adjusted noise measures... - An investigation of the adjustment of retrospective noise exposure for use of hearing protection devicesHind Sbihi
School of Environmental Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
Ann Occup Hyg 54:329-39. 2010..To account for use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) in retrospective noise exposure assessment, adjust noise exposure estimates accordingly, and validate the adjusted estimates... - Estimation in Bayesian disease mappingYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
Biometrics 60:865-73. 2004..The work is motivated by a recent analysis of small-area infant mortality rates in the province of British Columbia in Canada... - A Bayesian hierarchical model for accident and injury surveillanceYing C MacNab
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, BC, Vancouver, Canada V6H 3V4
Accid Anal Prev 35:91-102. 2003..During the 10-year period, high injury risk ratios evolved from northwest to central-interior and the southeast [corrected]... - Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of spatially correlated health service outcome and utilization ratesYing C MacNab
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B C, Canada V6H 3V4
Biometrics 59:305-16. 2003..To illustrate relevant problems, methods, and techniques, we present an analysis of regional variation in intraventricular hemorrhage incidence rates among neonatal intensive care unit patients across Canada... - Spatio-temporal modelling of rates for the construction of disease mapsYing C MacNab
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Stat Med 21:347-58. 2002..The goals of the analysis are to produce more reliable small-area estimates of mortality rates, assess spatial patterns over time, and examine risk trends at both global (provincial) and local (local health area) levels... - Instituting surveillance guidelines and adverse outcomes in preeclampsiaJennifer Menzies
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Obstet Gynecol 110:121-7. 2007..To assess the incidence of combined adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in women with preeclampsia before and after introducing standardized assessment and surveillance... - Hierarchical Bayesian spatial modelling of small-area rates of non-rare diseaseYing C MacNab
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Stat Med 22:1761-73. 2003..With this extension, we assess residual spatial effects and the extent to which risk factors such as illness severity at NICU admission, low birth weight, and very low birth weight influence the CLD rate variation... - Proportional hazards frailty models for recurrent methadone maintenance treatmentBohdan Nosyk
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Providence Health Care Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 170:783-92. 2009..Many reenter treatment. The primary finding of this study was that patients experiencing multiple treatment episodes tended to stay in treatment for progressively longer periods in later episodes... - Mortality prediction in congenital diaphragmatic herniaRobert Baird
Division of Pediatric Surgery, British Columbia Children s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3V4
J Pediatr Surg 43:783-7. 2008..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the calibration and discrimination of these predictive models using the Canadian Pediatric Surgical Network dataset... - Neonatal intensive care unit characteristics affect the incidence of severe intraventricular hemorrhageAnne R Synnes
Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Med Care 44:754-9. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of severe IVH is affected by NICU characteristics, suggesting important new strategies to reduce this important adverse outcome... - Transferring injury data to decision makers in British ColumbiaCraig Mitton
Faculty of Health and Social Development, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 15:41-3. 2008