selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Initiation of a new infection control system for the COVID-19 outbreak. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2020
- Reply to letter to the editor “Forrest plots or caterpillar plots?”. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2020
- Combining Frailty and Trabecular Bone Score Did Not Improve Predictive Accuracy in Risk of Major Osteoporotic Fractures. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 2020
- Multiple uses of forest plots in presenting analysis results in health research: A Tutorial. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 117:89-98. 2020
- Frailty and risk of osteoporotic fractures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Data from the Ontario Best Practices Research Initiative. Bone. 127:129-134. 2019
- Frailty and Risk of Fractures in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 42:507-513. 2019
- Direct comparative effectiveness and safety between non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. European Journal of Epidemiology. 34:173-190. 2019
- Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants for Risk of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism. Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis. 25:107602961985362-107602961985362. 2019
- A comparison of meta-analytic methods for synthesizing evidence from explanatory and pragmatic trials. Systematic Reviews. 7:19. 2018
- A systematic review of comparisons between protocols or registrations and full reports in primary biomedical research. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 18:9. 2018
- Key factors of clinical research network capacity building. Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases. 24:15. 2018
- A Systematic Survey of Control Groups in Behavioral and Social Science Trials. Research on Social Work Practice. 28:538-545. 2018
- Evaluating Completeness of Reporting in Behavioral Interventions Pilot Trials. Research on Social Work Practice. 28:577-584. 2018
- Assessing frailty in the intensive care unit: A reliability and validity study. Journal of Critical Care. 45:197-203. 2018
- Enhancing primary reports of randomized controlled trials: Three most common challenges and suggested solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115:2595-2599. 2018
- Systematic review of the effect of denosumab on children with osteogenesis imperfecta showed inconsistent findings. Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics. 107:534-537. 2018
- Enhancing research publications and advancing scientific writing in health research collaborations: sharing lessons learnt from the trenches. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Volume 11:245-254. 2018
- Exploring the characteristics, global distribution and reasons for retraction of published articles involving human research participants: a literature survey. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Volume 11:39-47. 2018
- Prevalence of and risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury in rural China: Results from a nationwide survey in China. Journal of Affective Disorders. 226:188-195. 2018
- A scoping review of comparisons between abstracts and full reports in primary biomedical research. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 17:181. 2017
- An overview of osteoporosis and frailty in the elderly. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 18:46. 2017
- Relationship between calcium channel blockers and skin fibrosis in patients with systemic sclerosis.. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology. 35 Suppl 106:56-60. 2017
- Relationship between hyperbaric oxygen therapy and quality of life in participants with chronic diabetic foot ulcers: data from a randomized controlled trial. Acta Diabetologica. 54:823-831. 2017
- Reproductive factors and risk of Parkinson’s disease in women: A meta-analysis of observational studies. Behavioural Brain Research. 335:103-110. 2017
- Modifying the Phenotypic Frailty Model in Predicting Risk of Major Osteoporotic Fracture in the Elderly. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 18:414-419. 2017
- An introduction to multiplicity issues in clinical trials: the what, why, when and how. International Journal of Epidemiology. 46:dyw320-dyw320. 2017
- State of reporting of primary biomedical research: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 7:e014749-e014749. 2017
- The Disease Burden and Clinical Characteristics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Chinese Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14:238-238. 2017
- Relationship between calcium channel blockers and skin fibrosis in patients with systemic sclerosis. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology. 35:S56-S60. 2017
- Erratum to: Risk factors for mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units with pneumonia. Respiratory Research. 17:128. 2016
- Registry-based randomized controlled trials- what are the advantages, challenges, and areas for future research?. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 80:16-24. 2016
- Risk factors for and prediction of mortality in critically ill medical–surgical patients receiving heparin thromboprophylaxis. Annals of Intensive Care. 6:18. 2016
- Risk factors for mortality in patients admitted to intensive care units with pneumonia. Respiratory Research. 17:80. 2016
- Comparative effectiveness and safety of oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation in real-world practice: a population-based cohort study protocol. BMJ Open. 6:e013263-e013263. 2016
- Comparison of treatment effect estimates of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants versus warfarin between observational studies using propensity score methods and randomized controlled trials. European Journal of Epidemiology. 31:541-561. 2016
- Frailty Change and Major Osteoporotic Fracture in the Elderly: Data from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women 3-Year Hamilton Cohort. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 31:718-724. 2016
- Can We Predict Individual Combined Benefit and Harm of Therapy? Warfarin Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation as a Test Case. PLoS ONE. 11:e0160713-e0160713. 2016
- Relationship between hyperuricemia and dietary risk factors in Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study. Rheumatology International. 35:2079-2089. 2015
- Prediction of individual combined benefit and harm for patients with atrial fibrillation considering warfarin therapy: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 5:e009518-e009518. 2015
- Competing Risk Analysis for Evaluation of Dalteparin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Venous Thromboembolism in Medical-Surgical Critically Ill Patients. Medicine (United States) Medicine. 94:e1479-e1479. 2015
- Fluid type and the use of renal replacement therapy in sepsis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Intensive Care Medicine. 41:1561-1571. 2015
- Comparison between frailty index of deficit accumulation and fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) in prediction of risk of fractures. Bone. 77:107-114. 2015
- Effect of green tea supplementation on blood pressure among overweight and obese adults. Journal of Hypertension. 33:243-254. 2015
- Comparison between Frailty Index of Deficit Accumulation and Phenotypic Model to Predict Risk of Falls: Data from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) Hamilton Cohort. PLoS ONE. 10:e0120144-e0120144. 2015
- Frailty index of deficit accumulation and falls: data from the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Women (GLOW) Hamilton cohort. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 15:185. 2014
- Fluid Resuscitation in Sepsis. Annals of Internal Medicine. 161:347-347. 2014
- Effect of green tea supplementation on blood pressure among overweight and obese adults: a protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open. 4:e004971-e004971. 2014
- Efficacy of Vitamin D Supplementation in Depression in Adults: A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 99:757-767. 2014
- Efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in depression in adults: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 2:64. 2013
- Fluid resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock: systematic description of fluids used in randomized trials. Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej. 123:603-608. 2013
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conference paper
- FRAILTY AND RISK OF FRAGILITY FRACTURES IN PARTICIPANTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS. Osteoporosis International. S313-S314. 2018
- FRAILTY AND RISK OF FRAGILITY FRACTURES IN PARTICIPANTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS. Osteoporosis International. S104-S105. 2018
- Frailty and Risk of Fractures in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from the Ontario Best Practices Research Initiative (OBRI). Arthritis and Rheumatology. 2017
- On synthesis evidence from explanatory and pragmatic trials: a comparison of meta-analytic methods. Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine Trials. 2017