Published in J Card Surg on May 21, 2003
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Preemptive use of high-dose fluticasone for virus-induced wheezing in young children. N Engl J Med (2009) 2.65
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The importance of social networks in their association to drug equipment sharing among injection drug users: a review. Addiction (2007) 2.32
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The Pediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada study of predictors of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus infection for infants born at 33 through 35 completed weeks of gestation. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2004) 2.15
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A small post-operative rise in serum creatinine predicts acute kidney injury in children undergoing cardiac surgery. Kidney Int (2009) 2.04
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Feeding effects on growth during infancy. J Pediatr (2004) 1.85
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Registration artifacts in international comparisons of infant mortality. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2002) 1.84
The nomenclature, definition and classification of cardiac structures in the setting of heterotaxy. Cardiol Young (2007) 1.83
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Investigating socio-economic disparities in preterm birth: evidence for selective study participation and selection bias. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2009) 1.75
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Outcomes after the Norwood operation in neonates with critical aortic stenosis or aortic valve atresia. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2003) 1.65
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Marrow stromal cells as universal donor cells for myocardial regenerative therapy: their unique immune tolerance. Ann Thorac Surg (2008) 1.62
Delirium in older emergency department patients discharged home: effect on survival. J Am Geriatr Soc (2003) 1.61
How does early ultrasound scan estimation of gestational age lead to higher rates of preterm birth? Am J Obstet Gynecol (2002) 1.60
Marrow stromal cells for cell-based therapy: the role of antiinflammatory cytokines in cellular cardiomyoplasty. Ann Thorac Surg (2010) 1.60
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Motor development of infants with positional plagiocephaly. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr (2009) 1.57
Initial application in the EACTS and STS Congenital Heart Surgery Databases of an empirically derived methodology of complexity adjustment to evaluate surgical case mix and results. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 1.56
Infant feeding and growth: can we answer the causal question? Epidemiology (2012) 1.55
Variation in child cognitive ability by week of gestation among healthy term births. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.55
Predicting the risk of dialysis and transplant among patients with CKD: a retrospective cohort study. Am J Kidney Dis (2008) 1.54
Neonatal repair of right interrupted aortic arch, aberrant left subclavian artery, ventricular septal defect and retroaortic innominate vein. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 1.53
Congenital heart surgery databases around the world: do we need a global database? Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu (2010) 1.50
Time at risk and intention-to-treat analyses: parallels and implications for inference. Epidemiology (2015) 1.47
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Quality measures for congenital and pediatric cardiac surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg (2012) 1.45
Jugular venous valved conduit (Contegra) matches allograft performance in infant truncus arteriosus repair. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2008) 1.45
Incorporation and integration of implanted myogenic and stem cells into native myocardial fibers: anatomic basis for functional improvements. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2002) 1.44
The challenge of congenital heart disease worldwide: epidemiologic and demographic facts. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu (2010) 1.43
Do the causes of infertility play a direct role in the aetiology of preterm birth? Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2015) 1.42
Bronchodilator use and the risk of arrhythmia in COPD: part 2: reassessment in the larger Quebec cohort. Chest (2012) 1.42
Addition of frailty and disability to cardiac surgery risk scores identifies elderly patients at high risk of mortality or major morbidity. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2012) 1.41
Pediatric cardiovascular surgery in South america: current status and regional differences. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg (2010) 1.40
Surgical extraction of occluded stents: when stenting becomes a problem. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2009) 1.39
Massive mechanical loss of microspheres with direct intramyocardial injection in the beating heart: implications for cellular cardiomyoplasty. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2006) 1.38
The case against customised birthweight standards. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2010) 1.36
Accuracy of the aristotle basic complexity score for classifying the mortality and morbidity potential of congenital heart surgery operations. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 1.36
Bone marrow stem cell derived paracrine factors for regenerative medicine: current perspectives and therapeutic potential. Bone Marrow Res (2010) 1.34
Effectiveness of helmets in skiers and snowboarders: case-control and case crossover study. BMJ (2005) 1.34
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Risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes among Inuit and North American Indian women in Quebec, 1985-97. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2004) 1.32
Smoking cessation attempts among adolescent smokers: a systematic review of prevalence studies. Tob Control (2007) 1.29
Initial application in the STS congenital database of complexity adjustment to evaluate surgical case mix and results. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 1.28
Impact of mis-specification of the treatment model on estimates from a marginal structural model. Stat Med (2008) 1.27
p53 codon 72 polymorphism and cervical neoplasia: a meta-analysis review. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2004) 1.26
CNODES: the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies. Open Med (2012) 1.26
Improving blood pressure control through pharmacist interventions: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. J Am Heart Assoc (2014) 1.26
Should gestational weight gain recommendations be tailored by maternal characteristics? Am J Epidemiol (2011) 1.25
Critical left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: The disproportionate impact of biventricular repair in borderline cases. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.23
An alternative to the hand searching gold standard: validating methodological search filters using relative recall. BMC Med Res Methodol (2006) 1.23
Peering at peer review revealed high degree of chance associated with funding of grant applications. J Clin Epidemiol (2006) 1.21
Nomenclature and databases - the past, the present, and the future : a primer for the congenital heart surgeon. Pediatr Cardiol (2007) 1.20
A randomized breast-feeding promotion intervention did not reduce child obesity in Belarus. J Nutr (2008) 1.17
Breastfeeding and infant size: evidence of reverse causality. Am J Epidemiol (2011) 1.17
Adiponectin, adiposity, and insulin resistance in children and adolescents. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2006) 1.16
Mid-trimester maternal plasma cytokines and CRP as predictors of spontaneous preterm birth. Cytokine (2009) 1.15
Maternal vitamin D status and spontaneous preterm birth by placental histology in the US Collaborative Perinatal Project. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 1.15
Amiodarone and the risk of bradyarrhythmia requiring permanent pacemaker in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation and prior myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol (2003) 1.14
Determinants and consequences of discrepancies in menstrual and ultrasonographic gestational age estimates. BJOG (2005) 1.14
Development and validation of a predictive equation for lean body mass in children and adolescents. Ann Hum Biol (2012) 1.13
Lessons learned from the data analysis of the second harvest (1998-2001) of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Surgery Database. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2004) 1.12
A parsimonious explanation for intersecting perinatal mortality curves: understanding the effect of plurality and of parity. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2003) 1.11
Mixing of confounding and non-collapsibility: a notable deficiency of the odds ratio. Am J Cardiol (2013) 1.11