Published in CMAJ on April 20, 1999
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Will elderly patients stand aside for younger patients in the queue for cardiac services? Lancet (1999) 1.21
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Pitfalls in nonrandomized outcomes studies. The case of incidental appendectomy with open cholecystectomy. JAMA (1995) 0.99
Regionalized delivery and variable utilization of coronary artery bypass grafting in Ontario from 1981 to 1991. CMAJ (1994) 0.99
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Integrated delivery systems: has their time come in Canada? CMAJ (1996) 0.90
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Drug prices and third party payment: do they influence medication selection? Pharmacoeconomics (1994) 0.89
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Should there be early publication of ancillary studies prior to the first primary report of an unblinded randomized clinical trial? J Clin Epidemiol (1993) 0.87
Parkinsonism in Ontario: physician utilization. Can J Neurol Sci (2002) 0.87
Benchmarking the provision of coronary artery surgery. CMAJ (1998) 0.87