Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed journal articles authored by CHSPR faculty and staff 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.


Aaltonen M, El Adam S, Martin-Matthews A, Sakamoto M, Strumpf E, McGrail KM. Dementia and Poor Continuity of Primary Care Delay Hospital Discharge in Older Adults: A Population-Based Study From 2001 to 2016. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2020 Dec 22:S1525-8610(20)31016-1. Online ahead of print. Read more

Sutherland JM. Health Services Research and Government’s Spending on Healthcare Programs: A Welcome Misalignment? Healthc Policy. 2020 Nov;16(2):6-13. Read more

Wong J, Milroy S, Sun K, Iorio P, Seto M, Monakova J, Sutherland JM. Reallocating Cancer Surgery Payments for Alternate Level of Care in Ontario: What Are the Options? Healthc Policy. 2020 Nov;16(2):41-54. Read more

Jerath A, Sutherland J, Austin PC, Ko DT, Wijeysundera HC, Fremes S, Karanicolas P, McCormack D, Wijeysundera DN. Delayed discharge after major surgical procedures in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study. CMAJ. 2020 Nov 16;192(46):E1440-E1452. Read more

Dahl LT, Katz A, McGrail K, Diverty B, Ethier JF, Gavin F, McDonald JT, Paprica PA, Schull M, Walker JD, Wu J. The SPOR-Canadian Data Platform: a national initiative to facilitate data rich multi-jurisdictional research. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2020 Nov 9;5(1):1374. Read more

Qureshi D, Isenberg S, Tanuseputro P, Moineddin R, Quinn K, Meaney C, McGrail K, Seow H, Webber C, Fowler R, Hsu A. Describing the characteristics and healthcare use of high-cost acute care users at the end of life: a pan-Canadian population-based study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Oct 31;20(1):997. Read more

Hategeka C, Ruton H, Karamouzian M, Lynd LD, Law MR. Use of interrupted time series methods in the evaluation of health system quality improvement interventions: a methodological systematic review. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Oct;5(10):e003567. Read more

Sheehan KJ, Sobolev B, Guy P, Kim JD, Kuramoto L, Beaupre L, Levy AR, Morin SN, Sutherland JM, Harvey EJ; Canadian Collaborative Study on Hip Fractures. Variation in surgical demand and time to hip fracture repair: a Canadian database study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Oct 10;20(1):935. Read more

Seow H, Stevens T, Barbera LC, Burge F, McGrail K, Chan KKW, Peacock SJ, Sutradhar R, Guthrie DM. Trajectory of psychosocial symptoms among home care patients with cancer at end-of-life. Psychooncology. 2020 Oct 2. Read more

Wang S, Nie Y, Sutherland JM, Wang L. Pattern discovery of health curves using an ordered probit model with Bayesian smoothing and functional principal component analysis. Stat Methods Med Res. 2020 Sep 25:962280220951834. Read more

Wiseman SM, Crump T, Cadesky E, Sutherland JM. Addressing the mental health of Canadians waiting for elective surgery: a potential positive post-pandemic legacy. Can J Surg 2020;63(5):E393-E39. Read more

Hung YW, Hoxha K, Irwin BR, Law MR, Grépin KA. Using routine health information data for research in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Aug 25;20(1):790. Read more

Williamson T, Aponte-Hao S, Mele B, Lethebe BC, Leduc C, Thandi M, Katz A, Wong ST. Developing and Validating a Primary Care EMR-based Frailty Definition Using Machine Learning. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2020 Sep 1;5(1):1344. Read more

Symes MJ, Younger A, Escudero M, Penner MJ, Wing K, Mulligan CS, Sutherland JM, Salat P, Veljkovic A. The Impact of Concomitant Ipsilateral Knee Pain on Functional Outcomes in Total Ankle Arthroplasty. Foot Ankle Spec. 2020 Aug 25:1938640020950893. Online ahead of print. Read more

Paprica PA, Sutherland E, Smith A, Brudno M, Cartagena RG, Crichlow M, Courtney B, Loken C, McGrail KM, Ryan A, Schull MJ, Thorogood A, Virtanen C, Yang K. Essential requirements for establishing and operating data trusts: Practical guidance co-developed by representatives from fifteen Canadian organizations and initiatives. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2020 Aug 24;5(1):1353. Read more

Hategeka C, Ogilvie G, Nisingizwe MP, Rulisa S, Law MR. Effect of human papilloma virus vaccination on sexual behaviours among adolescent women in Rwanda: a regression discontinuity study. Health Policy Plan. 2020 Aug 24;czaa083. Online ahead of print. Read more

Daw JR, Law MR. Compared With Other Countries, Women In The US Are More Likely Than Men To Forgo Medicines Because Of Cost. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Aug;39(8):1334-1342. Read more

Wong ST, Katz A, Williamson T, Singer A, Peterson S, Taylor C, Price M, McCracken R. Can Linked Electronic Medical Record and Administrative Data Help Us Identify Those Living with Frailty? International Journal of Population Data Science. 2020;5(1):29. Read more

Alsabbagh MW, Kueper JK, Wong ST, Burge F, Johnston S, Peterson S, Lawson B, Chung H, Bennett M, Blackman S, McGrail K, Glazier R, Campbell J, Hogg W. Development of comparable algorithms to measure primary care indicators using administrative health data across three Canadian provinces. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2020 Aug 11;5(1):1340. Read more

Paprica PA, Sydes MR, McGrail KM, Morris AD, Schull MJ, Walker R. Prospective data linkage to facilitate COVID-19 trials - A call to action. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2020 Aug 11;5(2):1383. Read more