selected scholarly activity
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chapters
- Evidence-based medicine and public health. 143-160. 2022
- Hybrid Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine. 425-438. 2017
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conferences
- INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGIST POINT OF CARE TREATMENT DECISION VERSUS VIRTUAL HEART TEAM RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF MULTIVESSEL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: DIFFERENCES OF OPINION. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 93-93. 2019
- Clinical impact of bleeding in cancer-associated venous thromboembolism: results from the Hokusai VTE Cancer randomized trial. Thrombosis Research. S223-S223. 2018
- Efficacy and safety of edoxaban in clinically relevant subgroups: results from the Hokusai VTE Cancer randomized trial. Thrombosis Research. S194-S194. 2018
- REVIEW OF NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY PRACTICES AND RADIATION EXPOSURE IN THE OCEANIA REGION: RESULTS FROM THE IAEA NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY PROTOCOLS STUDY (INCAPS). Internal Medicine Journal. 15-15. 2015
- PERIOPERATIVE ADVERSE OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION TAKING EDOXABAN OR WARFARIN: ANALYSIS OF THE ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 TRIAL. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A2092-A2092. 2015
- Aripazine reverses unfractionated and low molecular weight heparins, fondaparinux and new Xa and IIa oral anticoagulants: report of Phase I/II clinical trial with edoxaban. European Heart Journal. 854-855. 2014
- RADIATION DOSIMETRY AND RADIATION BEST PRACTICE USE FOR NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES: RESULTS FROM THE 66 COUNTRY INCAPS (IAEA NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY PROTOCOLS) STUDY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A996-A996. 2014
- VARIATION IN RADIATION DOSES FROM NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES: RESULTS FROM THE 66 COUNTRY INCAPS (IAEA NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY PROTOCOLS) STUDY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A1226-A1226. 2014
- A Multicenter MRI Protocol for the Evaluation and Quantification of Deep Vein Thrombosis. Circulation. 2013
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journal articles
- Radiation Dose in Interventional Cardiology Procedures: Urgent Need for Monitoring Dose and Establishing Diagnostic Reference Levels. Healthcare Quarterly. 11:76-83. 2088
- Every problem is embedded in a greater whole.. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 31:e14139. 2025
- Perceived medical disinformation and public trust: Commentary on Grimes and Greenhalgh (2024).. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2024
- Emergency physician gender and head computed tomography orders for older adults who have fallen. Academic Emergency Medicine. 31:1006-1013. 2024
- Which adults aged 65 and older are at low-risk for cervical spine injuries after low-level falls?. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 26:721-726. 2024
- Smartphone Application for Pre-Hospital ECG Transmission in STEMI Activation: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (Preprint). JMIR Research Protocols. 13:e55506. 2024
- Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 29:1453-1461. 2024
- Where to after COVID-19? Systems thinking for a human-centred approach to pandemics. Palgrave Communications. 11. 2024
- A Longitudinal Survey on Canadian Emergency Physician Burnout. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 83:576-584. 2024
- Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster University education data. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 29:641-657. 2024
- Evaluation of a single-dose HPV vaccine strategy for promoting vaccine, health, and gender equity. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 24:e654-e658. 2024
- Derivation of the Falls Decision Rule to exclude intracranial bleeding without head CT in older adults who have fallen. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 195:E1614-E1621. 2023
- The consideration of clinicians' time needed to treat by guideline developers is not a solution to the scarcity of healthcare resources problem. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29:1240-1242. 2023
- Expediting approval for medical countermeasures to address high burden disease: an ethical justification to move beyond emergency use authorisation. BMJ Global Health. 8:e013480-e013480. 2023
- Improving patient engagement in research is not enough to answer the question of what is important for an individual patient in the clinical encounter: A commentary on Turcotte et al. (2023) call for a change in the approach to ‘patient‐oriented’ research. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29:741-743. 2023
- Humans not heroes: Canadian emergency physician experiences during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency Medicine Journal. 40:86-91. 2023
- The impact of performance feedback reports on physician ordering behavior in the use of computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA). Emergency Radiology. 30:63-69. 2023
- Heterogeneity in multicentre trial participating centers: lessons from the TOPCAT trial on interpreting trial data for clinical practice. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 153:78-82. 2023
- A pandemic of nonsense. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 28:927-931. 2022
- Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 96:1-9. 2022
- From Innovation to Intrapreneurship: Fostering academic success via the GridlockED project and innovation fund. AEM Education and Training. 6:e10816. 2022
- Correction to: Canadian emergency medicine physician burnout: a survey of Canadian emergency physicians during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 24:463-464. 2022
- The brave new world of pandemic resilience. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 28:347-352. 2022
- (Mis)Communication of COVID‐19 vaccine benefits and harms. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 28:173-177. 2022
- Canadian emergency medicine physician burnout: a survey of Canadian emergency physicians during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 24:288-292. 2022
- Utilization of CT angiography of the head and neck in the era of endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective study. Emergency Radiology. 29:291-298. 2022
- Thirty years of teaching evidence-based medicine: have we been getting it all wrong?. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 27:263-276. 2022
- Utilization of serum D-dimer assays prior to computed tomography pulmonary angiography scans in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism among emergency department physicians: a retrospective observational study. BMC Emergency Medicine. 21:10. 2021
- Worldwide Variation in the Use of Nuclear Cardiology Camera Technology, Reconstruction Software, and Imaging Protocols. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. 14:1819-1828. 2021
- Which older emergency patients are at risk of intracranial bleeding after a fall? A protocol to derive a clinical decision rule for the emergency department. BMJ Open. 11:e044800-e044800. 2021
- Anticoagulation for newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation and 90-day rates of stroke and bleeding. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 23:325-329. 2021
- Worldwide Diagnostic Reference Levels for Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. 14:657-665. 2021
- Patient participation in the clinical encounter and clinical practice guidelines: The case of patients’ participation in a GRADEd world. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 85:192-199. 2021
- Physician choices in pulmonary embolism testing. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 193:E38-E46. 2021
- Guidelines should not recommend the type of decision-making for the medical encounter. Patient Education and Counseling. 103:2613-2615. 2020
- Just follow the science: A government response to a pandemic. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 26:1575-1578. 2020
- Canadian emergency physician psychological distress and burnout during the first 10 weeks of COVID‐19: A mixed‐methods study. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. 1:1030-1038. 2020
- Relevance, validity, and evidential reasoning in clinical practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 26:1341-1343. 2020
- Comparison of Heart Team vs Interventional Cardiologist Recommendations for the Treatment of Patients With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease. JAMA network open. 3:e2012749-e2012749. 2020
- Making Decisions in the Era of the Clinical Decision Rule: How Emergency Physicians Use Clinical Decision Rules. Academic Medicine. 95:1230-1237. 2020
- When were clinicians ever not competent?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 26:1067-1069. 2020
- Regional needs assessment for emergency physician audit and feedback. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 22:542-548. 2020
- Don't panic, it is only an emergency. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 26:685-686. 2020
- Good drivers: Achieving dose reduction across a health care system through implementation of multiple radiation-sparing practices. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 27:795-797. 2020
- Clinical Predictors of Intracranial Bleeding in Older Adults Who Have Fallen: A Cohort Study. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society. 68:970-976. 2020
- Variability in practice patterns among emergency physicians in the evaluation of patients with a suspected diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.. Emergency Radiology. 27:127-134. 2020
- Publishing your work: An editor's perspective. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 26:3-6. 2020
- Examining Canada's return visits to the emergency department after a concussion. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 21:784-788. 2019
- The ever‐shifting source of authority on what works in clinical medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 25:703-705. 2019
- What counts as evidence in an evidence‐based world?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 25:533-535. 2019
- The “problem(s)” with quality improvement in health care. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 25:355-357. 2019
- Humility in the face of uncertainty. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 25:173-175. 2019
- Rock Climber Self-Rescue Skills. Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. 30:44-51. 2019
- From the (new) editor's desk. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 25:3-4. 2019
- Time of Transfer of Admitted Patients from the ED: A Contributor to ED Boarding in High-Volume Community Hospitals. Healthcare Quarterly. 21:48-53. 2019
- Creating GridlockED: A Serious Game for Teaching About Multipatient Environments. Academic Medicine. 94:66-70. 2019
- Emergency department boarding: a descriptive analysis and measurement of impact on outcomes. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 20:929-937. 2018
- Going from evidence to recommendations: Can GRADE get us there?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:1232-1239. 2018
- How do we know if a clinical practice guideline is good? A response to Djulbegovic and colleagues' use of fast‐and‐frugal decision trees to improve clinical care strategies. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:1255-1258. 2018
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The evolution of
GRADE (part 1): Is there a theoretical and/or empirical basis for theGRADE framework?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:1203-1210. 2018 -
The evolution of
GRADE (part 2): Still searching for a theoretical and/or empirical basis for theGRADE framework. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:1211-1222. 2018 -
The evolution of
GRADE (part 3): A framework built on science or faith?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:1223-1231. 2018 - Treating real people: Science and humanity. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:919-929. 2018
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What confidence should we have in
GRADE ?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:1240-1246. 2018 - Authors’ response to ‘Impact of physician navigators: looking beyond productivity metrics and silver bullets’ by Leunget al. Emergency Medicine Journal. 35:334-334. 2018
- Impact of age on the selection of nuclear cardiology stress protocols: The INCAPS (IAEA nuclear cardiology protocols) study. International Journal of Cardiology. 259:222-226. 2018
- Managing Multiplicity: Conceptualizing Physician Cognition in Multipatient Environments. Academic Medicine. 93:786-793. 2018
- Barriers to the use of emergency medical services for ST‐elevation myocardial infarction: Determining why many patients opt for self‐transport. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:375-379. 2018
- Examining the role of the physician as a source of variation: Are physician‐related variations necessarily unwarranted?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24:145-151. 2018
- Tackling the demand for emergency department services: there are no silver bullets. Emergency Medicine Journal. 35:3-4. 2018
- Nuance and Noise: Lessons Learned From Longitudinal Aggregated Assessment Data. Journal of graduate medical education. 9:724-729. 2017
- Admission factors associated with international medical graduate certification success: a collaborative retrospective review of postgraduate medical education programs in Ontario. CMAJ open. 5:E785-E790. 2017
- Nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure in Africa: results from the IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Study (INCAPS). SAMJ - South African Medical Journal. 28:229-234. 2017
- Building Capacity in Healthcare by Re-examining Clinical Services in Paramedicine. Prehospital Emergency Care. 21:652-661. 2017
- Adherence to Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy in Emergency Medicine Research. Academic Emergency Medicine. 24:914-919. 2017
- Opportunities for improvement on current nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure in Latin America: Findings from the 65-country IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols cross-sectional Study (INCAPS). Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 24:851-859. 2017
- Obstacle course runs: review of acquired injuries and illnesses at a series of Canadian events (RACE). Emergency Medicine Journal. 34:170-174. 2017
- WORLDWIDE VARIATION IN THE USE OF NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY CAMERA TECHNOLOGY, RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE, AND ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS: FINDINGS FROM THE IAEA NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY PROTOCOLS STUDY (INCAPS). Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 69:1587-1587. 2017
- Nuclear Cardiology Practice in Asia: Analysis of Radiation Exposure and Best Practice for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging ― Results From the IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Cross-Sectional Study (INCAPS) ―. Circulation Journal. 81:501-510. 2017
- Nuclear Cardiology Practices and Radiation Exposure in the Oceania Region: Results From the IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Study (INCAPS). Heart Lung and Circulation. 26:25-34. 2017
- BET 1: Screening for delirium within the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal. 33:741.2-743. 2016
- Interpreting risk as evidence of causality: lessons learned from a legal case to determine medical malpractice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 22:515-521. 2016
- Magnetic resonance venography to assess thrombus resolution with edoxaban monotherapy versus parenteral anticoagulation/warfarin for symptomatic deep vein thrombosis: A multicenter feasibility study. Vascular Medicine. 21:361-368. 2016
- Impact of Center Experience on Patient Radiation Exposure During Transradial Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Intervention: A Patient‐Level, International, Collaborative, Multi‐Center Analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 5:e003333. 2016
- Gender Differences in Radiation Dose From Nuclear Cardiology Studies Across the World. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. 9:376-384. 2016
- Nuclear cardiology practice and associated radiation doses in Europe: results of the IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Study (INCAPS) for the 27 European countries. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 43:718-728. 2016
- Comparison of Radiation Doses and Best-Practice Use for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in US and Non-US Laboratories. JAMA Internal Medicine. 176:266-266. 2016
- Estimating the Reduction in the Radiation Burden From Nuclear Cardiology Through Use of Stress-Only Imaging in the United States and Worldwide. JAMA Internal Medicine. 176:269-269. 2016
- Current worldwide nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure: results from the 65 country IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Cross-Sectional Study (INCAPS). European Heart Journal. 36:1689-1696. 2015
- A Multicenter MRI Protocol for the Evaluation and Quantification of Deep Vein Thrombosis. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e52761. 2015
- A prospective evaluation of edoxaban compared to warfarin in subjects undergoing cardioversion of atrial fibrillation: The EdoxabaN vs. warfarin in subjectS UndeRgoing cardiovErsion of Atrial Fibrillation (ENSURE-AF) study. American Heart Journal. 169:597-604.e5. 2015
- Multifaceted intervention to optimize antibiotic use for intra-abdominal infections. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 70:1226-1229. 2015
- When Guidelines Don’t Guide. Academic Medicine. 90:191-196. 2015
- Providing optimal regional care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a prospective cohort study of patients in the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network. CMAJ open. 3:E1-E7. 2015
- Predicting international medical graduate success on college certification examinations: responding to the Thomson and Cohl judicial report on IMG selection.. Canadian Family Physician. 60:e478-e484. 2014
- Using small‐area variations to inform health care service planning: what do we ‘need’ to know?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 19:1054-1059. 2013
- Edoxaban versus Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation. New England Journal of Medicine. 369:2093-2104. 2013
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society Position Statement on Radiation Exposure From Cardiac Imaging and Interventional Procedures. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 29:1361-1368. 2013
- A small but real risk of cancer in children from undergoing CT. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 18:158-159. 2013
- Treatment Assignment of High-Risk Symptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis Patients Referred for Transcatheter AorticValve Implantation. American Journal of Cardiology. 112:100-103. 2013
- Measures of body fat in South Asian adults. Nutrition and Diabetes. 3:e69-e69. 2013
- Tracking patient radiation exposure: Challenges to integrating nuclear medicine with other modalities. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 19:895-900. 2012
- ST-elevation myocardial infarction: Is there time for Q waves?. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 184:1125-1126. 2012
- An even smaller area variation: Differing practice patterns among interventional cardiologists within a single high volume tertiary cardiac centre. Health Policy. 104:179-185. 2012
- Medical practice variations: what the literature tells us (or does not) about what are warranted and unwarranted variations. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 17:671-677. 2011
- Reply. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 4:937-938. 2011
- Radiation exposure from medical imaging: A silent harm?. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 183:413-414. 2011
- Radial Artery Access as a Predictor of Increased Radiation Exposure During a Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization Procedure. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 4:347-352. 2011
- Improving the Timeliness of Care for Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Implications of "Self-Transport" versus Use of EMS. Healthcare Quarterly. 13:105-109. 2010
- Predictors of Increased Radiation Dose During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. American Journal of Cardiology. 104:1241-1244. 2009
- Insight into capacity planning for cardiac catheterization services: Policy lessons learned from “Looking in the Mirror” over a decade. Health Policy. 91:314-320. 2009