Publications authored by Michael Law from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.
Sharma K, Brophy S, Law M, Sriram V. Health worker protests and the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis. Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Sep 1;102(9):650-656. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290330. Epub 2024 Jul 4. Read more
Johnson KM, Cheng L, Yin Y, Carter R, Chow S, Brigham E, Law MR. The Impact of Eliminating Out-of-Pocket Payments on Asthma Medication Use. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Aug 6. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202402-130OC. Online ahead of print. Read more
Gao C, Cho LL, Dhillon A, Kim S, McGrail K, Law MR, Sunderji N, Barbic S. Understanding the factors related to how East and Southeast Asian immigrant youth and families access mental health and substance use services: A scoping review. PLoS One. 2024 Jul 15;19(7):e0304907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304907. eCollection 2024. Read more
Hardiman S, Fradet G, Kuramoto L, Law M, Robinson S, Sobolev B. The effect of treatment timing on repeat revascularization in patients with stable ischemic heart disease. JTCVS Open. 2024 Apr 22;19:164-174. doi: 10.1016/j.xjon.2024.04.009. eCollection 2024 Jun. Read more
Wickham ME, McGrail KM, Law MR, Cragg A, Hohl CM. Validating use of diagnostic codes in Canadian administrative data for identification of adverse drug events. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1111/bcp.16067. Online ahead of print. Read more
Au SW, Law MR, Cheng L, McGrail K, Harrison M. The Impact of reference pricing on prescribing patterns, costs, and health services utilization of proton pump inhibitors: A quasi-experimental study in British Columbia, Canada. Health Policy. 2024 Apr 4;144:105061. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105061. Online ahead of print. Read more
Trenaman L, Guh D, Law MR, Cheng L, Harrison M. Effect of a billing code to reimburse nurse-supported rheumatology care on health care costs and access: an interrupted time series analysis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2024 Feb 25. doi: 10.1002/acr.25317. Online ahead of print. Read more
Law M, Clement F. National Pharmacare: Laying the Groundwork. IRPP Insight No. 51. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy; February 2024. Read more
Wickham ME, McGrail KM, Law MR, Cragg A, Hohl CM. Validating methods used to identify non-adherence adverse drug events in Canadian administrative health data. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2024 Feb 6. doi: 10.1111/bcp.16014. Online ahead of print. Read more
Zeitouny S, McGrail K, Tadrous M, Wong ST, Cheng L, Law M. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prescription drug use and costs in British Columbia: a retrospective interrupted time series study. BMJ Open. 2024 Jan 4;14(1):e070031. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070031. Read more
Rebić N, Law MR, Brotto LA, Cragg JJ, De Vera MA. The Intersectional Impact of Cost-Related Non-Adherence and Depression: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey by Sex, Race, and Indigeneity. Community Ment Health J. 2023 Nov 6. doi: 10.1007/s10597-023-01202-1. Online ahead of print. Read more
Johnson KM, Cheng L, Yin Y, Carter R, Chow S, Brigham E, Law MR. Impact of income-based public drug coverage deductibles on adherence to asthma medications. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2023 Oct 21:S1081-1206(23)01345-5. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2023.10.017. Online ahead of print. Read more
Itiola AJ, Cheng L, Zhang W, Gomes T, Shah BR, Law MR. The Impact of Blood Glucose Test Strips Reimbursement Limits on Utilization, Costs, and Health Care Use in British Columbia. Can J Diabetes. 2023 Aug 21:S1499-2671(23)00193-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2023.08.005. Online ahead of print. Read more
Zeitouny S, Cheng L, Wong ST, Tadrous M, McGrail K, Law MR. Prevalence and predictors of primary nonadherence to medications prescribed in primary care. CMAJ. 2023 Aug 8;195(30):E1000-E1009. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.221018. Read more
Cui Z, Karamouzian M, Law M, Hayashi K, Milloy MJ, Kerr T. The Impact of Longitudinal Substance Use Patterns on the Risk of Opioid Agonist Therapy Discontinuation: A Repeated Measures Latent Class Analysis. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2023 Jun. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-023-01098-8. Read more
Romanowski K, Law MR, Karim ME, Campbell JR, Hossain MB, Gilbert M, Cook VJ, Johnston JC. Healthcare utilization after respiratory tuberculosis: a controlled interrupted time series analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 May 9:ciad290. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad290. Online ahead of print. Read more
Persaud N, Bedard M, Boozary A, Glazier RH, Gomes T, Hwang SW, Jüni P, Law MR, Mamdani M, Manns B, Martin D, Morgan SG, Oh P, Pinto AD, Shah BR, Sullivan F, Umali N, Thorpe KE, Tu K, Wu F, Laupacis A; CLEAN Meds study team. Effect of Free Medicine Distribution on Health Care Costs in Canada Over 3 Years: A Secondary Analysis of the CLEAN Meds Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Health Forum. 2023 May 5;4(5):e231127. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1127. Read more
Rebić N, Law MR, Cragg J, Brotto LA, Ellis U, Garg R, Park JY, De Vera MA. "What's sex and gender got to do with it?" A scoping review of sex and gender-based analysis in pharmacoepidemiologic studies of medication adherence. Value Health. 2023 Apr 15:S1098-3015(23)02559-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2023.04.002. Online ahead of print. Read more
Morrow RL, Mintzes B, Gray G, Law MR, Garrison S, Dormuth CR. Public reporting of clinical trial findings as an ethical responsibility to participants: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2023 Mar 21;13(3):e068221. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068221. Read more
Nethery E, Law MR, Kotaska A, Janssen PA, Hutcheon JA. The effect of changing screening practices and demographics on the incidence of gestational diabetes in British Columbia, 2005–2019. CMAJ. 2023 Mar 20;195(11):E396-E403. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.221404. Read more