Thomas Piggott - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Assistant Professor (Part-Time), Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences

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- A content analysis of Canadian master of public health course descriptions and core competencies. European Journal of Public Health. 2020
journal articles
- Defining decision thresholds for judgments on health benefits and harms using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a randomised methodological study (GRADE-THRESHOLD).. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 111639. 2024
- Empirical estimation of disutilities and decision thresholds for composite endpoints.. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 179:111638. 2024
- We're living through a planetary health crisis: health guidelines must consider planetary health.. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8:e979-e980. 2024
- ASH living guidelines on use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: executive summary.. Blood Advances. bloodadvances.2024014219. 2024
- WHO Model list of essential medicines: visions for the future.. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 102:722-729. 2024
- A living critical interpretive synthesis to yield a framework on the production and dissemination of living evidence syntheses for decision-making.. Implementation Science. 19:67. 2024
- Immunomodulators and immunosuppressants for progressive multiple sclerosis: a network meta-analysis.. Clinical Respiratory Journal. 9:CD015443. 2024
- Barriers and opportunities faced by public health practitioners in using public health guidance on COVID-19: a knowledge translation exercise for the eCOVID-19 RecMap. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 172:111410-111410. 2024
- Values and preferences in COVID-19 public health guidelines: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 174:111473-111473. 2024
- Considering planetary health in health guidelines and health technology assessments: a scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 13:163. 2024
- GRADE Concept 7: Issues and Insights Linking Guideline Recommendations to Trustworthy Essential Medicine Lists. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 166:111241-111241. 2024
- WHO considers multiple sclerosis treatments essential. Lancet Neurology. 23:140-140. 2024
- Immunomodulators and immunosuppressants for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a network meta-analysis. Clinical Respiratory Journal. 2024:CD011381. 2024
- Burnout among public health workers in Canada: a cross-sectional study. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 24:48. 2024
- User-experience testing of an evidence-to-decision framework for selecting essential medicines. PLOS Global Public Health. 4:e0002723-e0002723. 2024
- Impact of strategies to mitigate misinformation in diverse settings and populations: a protocol for a living evidence synthesis. BMJ Open. 13:e076672-e076672. 2023
- Protocol for a living evidence synthesis on variants of concern and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness. Vaccine. 41:6411-6418. 2023
- Equity issues rarely addressed in the development of COVID-19 formal recommendations and good practice statements: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 161:116-126. 2023
- Defining Misinformation and Related Terms in Health-Related Literature: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25:e45731-e45731. 2023
- Good or best practice statements: proposal for the operationalisation and implementation of GRADE guidance. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 28:189-196. 2023
- Patient and Physician Decisional Factors Regarding Hypercalcemia of Malignancy Treatment: A Novel Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). 108:563-584. 2023
- Treatment of Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Adults: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). 108:507-528. 2023
- Decision criteria for selecting essential medicines and their connection to guidelines: an interpretive descriptive qualitative interview study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 154:146-155. 2023
- The GIN-McMaster guideline tool extension for the integration of quality improvement and quality assurance in guidelines: a description of the methods for its development. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 154:197-203. 2023
- Utility of the Peterborough Public Health COVID-19 rapid antigen test self-report tool: Implications for COVID-19 surveillance. Canada Communicable Disease Report. 49:44-49. 2023
- Wastewater surveillance for earlier detection of seniors congregate living COVID-19 outbreaks in Peterborough, Ontario. Canada Communicable Disease Report. 49:35-43. 2023
- Equity Issues Rarely Addressed in the Development of COVID-19 Formal Recommendations and Good Practice Statements 2023
- Which actionable statements qualify as good practice statements In Covid-19 guidelines? A systematic appraisal. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 27:361-369. 2022
- Evaluation of the Peterborough Public Health COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Self-Report Tool: Implications for COVID-19 Surveillance 2022
- GRADE guidance 35: update on rating imprecision for assessing contextualized certainty of evidence and making decisions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 150:225-242. 2022
- Analytical frameworks in colorectal cancer guidelines: development of methods for systematic reviews, their application and practical guidance for their use. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 149:206-216. 2022
- Enhancing the Trustworthiness of the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). 107:2129-2138. 2022
- An evaluation of the COVID-19 recommendation map identified diverging clinical and public health guidance. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 147:83-94. 2022
- Biological plausibility in environmental health systematic reviews: a GRADE concept paper. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 146:32-46. 2022
- Standardized wording to improve efficiency and clarity of GRADE EtD frameworks in health guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 146:106-122. 2022
- Integrating Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement With Guidelines: Systematic Stakeholder-Driven Development of an Extension of the Guidelines International Network–McMaster Guideline Development Checklist. ACP journal club. 175:735-739. 2022
- Biological plausibility in environmental health systematic reviews: a GRADE concept paper. Environment International. 162:107109-107109. 2022
- The ecosystem of health decision making: from fragmentation to synergy. The Lancet Public Health. 7:e378-e390. 2022
- In-Hospital Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Drivers and Interventions for Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Rapid Evidence Synthesis of Data from Canada and Other OECD Countries. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. 2022:1-11. 2022
- Defining decision thresholds for judgments on health benefits and harms using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a protocol for a randomised methodological study (GRADE-THRESHOLD). BMJ Open. 12:e053246-e053246. 2022
- Global status of essential medicine selection: a systematic comparison of national essential medicine lists with recommendations by WHO. BMJ Open. 12:e053349-e053349. 2022
- American Society of Hematology living guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: July 2021 update on postdischarge thromboprophylaxis. Blood Advances. 6:664-671. 2022
- A taxonomy and framework for identifying and developing actionable statements in guidelines suggests avoiding informal recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 141:161-171. 2022
- Comparing the usability of the World Health Organization’s conventional tuberculosis guidelines to the eTB recommendations map: A two-arm superiority randomised controlled trial. PLOS Global Public Health. 2:e0001166-e0001166. 2022
- Bringing two worlds closer together: a critical analysis of an integrated approach to guideline development and quality assurance schemes. BMC Health Services Research. 21:172. 2021
- Guideline-based quality assurance: a conceptual framework for the definition of key elements. BMC Health Services Research. 21:173. 2021
- “AI’s gonna have an impact on everything in society, so it has to have an impact on public health”: a fundamental qualitative descriptive study of the implications of artificial intelligence for public health. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 21:40. 2021
- American Society of Hematology living guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: May 2021 update on the use of intermediate-intensity anticoagulation in critically ill patients. Blood Advances. 5:3951-3959. 2021
- Multiple Sclerosis International Federation guideline methodology for off-label treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical. 7:205521732110518-205521732110518. 2021
- Values and other decisional factors regarding treatment of hypercalcaemia of malignancy: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open. 11:e051141-e051141. 2021
- Consideration of antimicrobial resistance and contextual factors in infectious disease guidelines: a systematic survey. BMJ Open. 11:e046097-e046097. 2021
- Recommendation mapping of the World Health Organization's guidelines on tuberculosis: A new approach to digitizing and presenting recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 134:138-149. 2021
- Where Are We Now? A Content Analysis of Canadian Master of Public Health Course Descriptions and the Public Health Agency of Canada's Core Competencies. Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP. 27:201-207. 2021
- American Society of Hematology 2021 guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19. Blood Advances. 5:872-888. 2021
- Supporting effective participation in health guideline development groups: The Guideline Participant Tool. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 130:42-48. 2021
- Using GRADE evidence to decision frameworks to choose from multiple interventions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 130:117-124. 2021
- Developing trustworthy recommendations as part of an urgent response (1–2 weeks): a GRADE concept paper. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 129:1-11. 2021
- Approaches of integrating the development of guidelines and quality indicators: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 20:875. 2020
- Development and use of health outcome descriptors: a guideline development case study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 18:167. 2020
- Update Alert 2: Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. ACP journal club. 173:W152-W153. 2020
- Over half of the WHO guidelines published from 2014 to 2019 explicitly considered health equity issues: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 127:125-133. 2020
- Lignes directrices de pratique clinique pour les personnes sans-abri, logées précairement, ou ayant connu l’itinérance. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 192:E1225-E1241. 2020
- Predicting population health with machine learning: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 10:e037860-e037860. 2020
- Using Experiential Simulation-Based Learning to Increase Engagement in Global Health Education: an Evaluation of Self-reported Participant Experience. Medical Science Educator. 30:1245-1253. 2020
- Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. ACP journal club. 173:204-216. 2020
- Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. 395:1973-1987. 2020
- Safe management of bodies of deceased persons with suspected or confirmed COVID-19: a rapid systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 5:e002650-e002650. 2020
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluations (GRADE) notes: extremely serious, GRADE's terminology for rating down by three levels. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 120:116-120. 2020
- Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 192:E240-E254. 2020
- Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis: A Synopsis of the European Breast Guidelines. ACP journal club. 172:46-46. 2020
- The eCOVID-19 living recommendations map and gateway to contextualisation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 54-57. 2020
- Methods for Development of the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer Guidelines. ACP journal club. 171:273-273. 2019
- Youth violence victims and perpetrators in Ontario: identifying a high-risk group and a focus for public health prevention. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 109:195-203. 2018
- The authors respond to “Bill S-206 is ill-suited to achieve its stated objectives”. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 190:E338-E338. 2018
- Supporting Bill S-206 protects Canadian children from violence. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 189:E1119-E1119. 2017
- Preceptor engagement in distributed medical school campuses. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 6:e21-e28. 2015
- Peak event analysis: a novel empirical method for the evaluation of elevated particulate events. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source. 12:92. 2013
- Recommendations for essential medicines for multiple sclerosis in low-resource settings. Multiple Sclerosis.
- Surveillance des eaux usées en vue d'une détection précoce des éclosions de COVID-19 chez les personnes âgées vivant en hébergement collectif à Peterborough, en Ontario. Canada Communicable Disease Report. 49:40-49.
- Utilité de l'outil d'autodéclaration du test antigénique rapide de la COVID-19 du Bureau de santé de Peterborough : implications pour la surveillance de la COVID-19. Canada Communicable Disease Report. 49:50-55.
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