Michal Abrahamowicz

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1 A proportional hazards model with time-dependent covariates and time-varying effects for analysis of fetal and infant death. Am J Epidemiol 2004 3.77
2 Mortality rates in elderly patients who take different angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors after acute myocardial infarction: a class effect? Ann Intern Med 2004 3.62
3 Physician scores on a national clinical skills examination as predictors of complaints to medical regulatory authorities. JAMA 2007 3.27
4 Cancer risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging in patients after acute myocardial infarction. CMAJ 2011 3.15
5 Modeling smoking history: a comparison of different approaches. Am J Epidemiol 2002 2.92
6 Quality of care, risk management, and technology in obstetrics to reduce hospital-based maternal mortality in Senegal and Mali (QUARITE): a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet 2013 2.88
7 Patient nonadherence to medication in inflammatory bowel disease. Am J Gastroenterol 2003 2.86
8 The natural history of type-specific human papillomavirus infections in female university students. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 2.52
9 Association between licensure examination scores and practice in primary care. JAMA 2002 2.44
10 Delirium predicts 12-month mortality. Arch Intern Med 2002 2.41
11 Predictors of functional decline in hospitalized elderly patients: a systematic review. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2002 2.32
12 Children and adults with congenital heart disease lost to follow-up: who and when? Circulation 2009 2.10
13 Comparison of nested case-control and survival analysis methodologies for analysis of time-dependent exposure. BMC Med Res Methodol 2005 2.03
14 Intra-abdominal adiposity and individual components of the metabolic syndrome in adolescence: sex differences and underlying mechanisms. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008 2.02
15 Flexible modeling of the cumulative effects of time-dependent exposures on the hazard. Stat Med 2009 2.01
16 Changing mortality in congenital heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010 1.99
17 Comparative effectiveness of rhythm control vs rate control drug treatment effect on mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation. Arch Intern Med 2012 1.94
18 The development and evaluation of an integrated electronic prescribing and drug management system for primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2005 1.89
19 A 5-year prospective assessment of the risk associated with individual benzodiazepines and doses in new elderly users. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005 1.88
20 Autoantibodies and microvascular damage are independent predictive factors for the progression of Raynaud's phenomenon to systemic sclerosis: a twenty-year prospective study of 586 patients, with validation of proposed criteria for early systemic sclerosis. Arthritis Rheum 2008 1.74
21 Specialized adult congenital heart disease care: the impact of policy on mortality. Circulation 2014 1.67
22 Recent corticosteroid use and recent disease activity: independent determinants of coronary heart disease risk factors in systemic lupus erythematosus? Arthritis Rheum 2008 1.63
23 Early consultation with a rheumatologist for RA: does it reduce subsequent use of orthopaedic surgery? Rheumatology (Oxford) 2012 1.54
24 A randomized trial of the effectiveness of on-demand versus computer-triggered drug decision support in primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008 1.53
25 Updated risk factor values and the ability of the multivariable risk score to predict coronary heart disease. Am J Epidemiol 2004 1.52
26 Effect of different angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors on mortality among elderly patients with congestive heart failure. CMAJ 2008 1.51
27 Overview of the reanalysis of the Harvard Six Cities Study and American Cancer Society Study of Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality. J Toxicol Environ Health A 2003 1.44
28 Organ manifestations influence differently the responsiveness of 2 lupus disease activity measures, according to patients' or physicians' evaluations of recent lupus activity. J Rheumatol 2002 1.44
29 Survival bias associated with time-to-treatment initiation in drug effectiveness evaluation: a comparison of methods. Am J Epidemiol 2005 1.44
30 Effectiveness of statins for secondary prevention in elderly patients after acute myocardial infarction: an evaluation of class effect. CMAJ 2005 1.43
31 Immediate and delayed impact of oral glucocorticoid therapy on risk of serious infection in older patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nested case-control analysis. Ann Rheum Dis 2012 1.43
32 Willingness to pay to eliminate the risk of restenosis following percutaneous coronary intervention: a contingent valuation. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2010 1.39
33 Use of nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and risk of infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2008 1.33
34 Modifiable risk factors associated with clearance of type-specific cervical human papillomavirus infections in a cohort of university students. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005 1.32
35 Predictors of cervical coinfection with multiple human papillomavirus types. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 1.31
36 Occurrence of cervical infection with multiple human papillomavirus types is associated with age and cytologic abnormalities. Sex Transm Dis 2003 1.30
37 Accuracy of conventional and marginal structural Cox model estimators: a simulation study. Int J Biostat 2010 1.30
38 Effect of a community oriented problem based learning curriculum on quality of primary care delivered by graduates: historical cohort comparison study. BMJ 2005 1.27
39 Validation of population-based disease simulation models: a review of concepts and methods. BMC Public Health 2010 1.23
40 Genes, maternal smoking, and the offspring brain and body during adolescence: design of the Saguenay Youth Study. Hum Brain Mapp 2007 1.19
41 Maintenance of exercise in women with fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum 2005 1.18
42 Modelling smoking history using a comprehensive smoking index: application to lung cancer. Stat Med 2006 1.18
43 Determinants of discordance between patients and physicians in their assessment of lupus disease activity. J Rheumatol 2003 1.17
44 A relative survival regression model using B-spline functions to model non-proportional hazards. Stat Med 2003 1.14
45 Life-course socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Framingham Offspring Study. Am J Epidemiol 2011 1.13
46 Delay in consultation with specialists for persons with suspected new-onset rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study. Arthritis Rheum 2007 1.12
47 Comparison of the responsiveness of lupus disease activity measures to changes in systemic lupus erythematosus activity relevant to patients and physicians. J Clin Epidemiol 2002 1.11
48 Associations of education with 30 year life course blood pressure trajectories: Framingham Offspring Study. BMC Public Health 2011 1.10
49 Immediate and past cumulative effects of oral glucocorticoids on the risk of acute myocardial infarction in rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2012 1.10
50 Are indirect utility measures reliable and responsive in rheumatoid arthritis patients? Qual Life Res 2005 1.08
51 Epidemiology of malaria in a hypoendemic Brazilian Amazon migrant population: a cohort study. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2004 1.08
52 A common variant of the FTO gene is associated with not only increased adiposity but also elevated blood pressure in French Canadians. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2009 1.05
53 QUARITE (quality of care, risk management and technology in obstetrics): a cluster-randomized trial of a multifaceted intervention to improve emergency obstetric care in Senegal and Mali. Trials 2009 1.03
54 Comparison of algorithms to generate event times conditional on time-dependent covariates. Stat Med 2008 1.02
55 STRengthening analytical thinking for observational studies: the STRATOS initiative. Stat Med 2014 1.01
56 Myocardial injury in critically ill patients: relation to increased cardiac troponin I and hospital mortality. Chest 2005 1.00
57 Using generalized additive models to reduce residual confounding. Stat Med 2004 0.99
58 Doctor scores on national qualifying examinations predict quality of care in future practice. Med Educ 2009 0.98
59 Measuring differences between patients' and physicians' health perceptions: the patient-physician discordance scale. J Behav Med 2003 0.97
60 Profile of the risk of death after septic shock in the present era: an epidemiologic study. Crit Care Med 2013 0.97
61 Misclassification of colorectal cancer stage and area variation in survival. Int J Cancer 2008 0.96
62 Sex differences in the contributions of visceral and total body fat to blood pressure in adolescence. Hypertension 2012 0.96
63 Statin discontinuation and risk of acute myocardial infarction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based cohort study. Ann Rheum Dis 2011 0.96
64 Association between risk factors for injurious falls and new benzodiazepine prescribing in elderly persons. BMC Fam Pract 2009 0.95
65 Risk of cerebrovascular disease associated with the use of glucocorticoids in patients with incident rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study. Ann Rheum Dis 2011 0.95
66 Evaluation of Cox's model and logistic regression for matched case-control data with time-dependent covariates: a simulation study. Stat Med 2003 0.95
67 Trends in human immunodeficiency virus incidence and risk behavior among injection drug users in montreal, Canada: a 16-year longitudinal study. Am J Epidemiol 2011 0.94
68 Assessment of health-related quality of life in arthritis: conceptualization and development of five item banks using item response theory. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2006 0.94
69 Impact of statin discontinuation on mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2012 0.93
70 Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking and accumulation of intra-abdominal fat during adolescence. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2009 0.93
71 Statistical measures were proposed for identifying longitudinal patterns of change in quantitative health indicators. J Clin Epidemiol 2004 0.92
72 Sustained drug use changes after hepatitis C screening and counseling among recently infected persons who inject drugs: a longitudinal study. Clin Infect Dis 2013 0.92
73 Adherence during an individualized home based 12-week exercise program in women with fibromyalgia. J Rheumatol 2006 0.92
74 Functional variation in the androgen-receptor gene is associated with visceral adiposity and blood pressure in male adolescents. Hypertension 2010 0.91
75 Genome-wide scan for loci of adolescent obesity and their relationship with blood pressure. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2011 0.91
76 The temporal relationship between depression symptoms and cognitive functioning in older medical patients--prospective or concurrent? J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2006 0.91
77 Access to health-care in Canadian immigrants: a longitudinal study of the National Population Health Survey. Health Soc Care Community 2010 0.91
78 Influence of physicians' management and communication ability on patients' persistence with antihypertensive medication. Arch Intern Med 2010 0.90
79 Convergence of body mass index of immigrants to the Canadian-born population: evidence from the National Population Health Survey (1994-2006). Eur J Epidemiol 2009 0.90
80 Steroid-sparing effects of methotrexate in systemic lupus erythematosus: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Arthritis Rheum 2008 0.90
81 Factors associated with pattern of care before surgery for breast cancer in Quebec between 1992 and 1997. Med Care 2003 0.89
82 A randomized clinical trial of exercise to alleviate postpartum depressed mood. J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 2009 0.88
83 12-month cognitive outcomes of major and minor depression in older medical patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2008 0.88
84 Maternal and perinatal outcomes by mode of delivery in senegal and mali: a cross-sectional epidemiological survey. PLoS One 2012 0.88
85 Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking, amygdala volume, and fat intake in adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry 2013 0.88
86 Patient-physician discordance in fibromyalgia. J Rheumatol 2003 0.87
87 Effect of Cumulating Exposure to Abacavir on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events in Patients From the Swiss HIV Cohort Study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2015 0.87
88 The risk of lung cancer related to dietary intake of flavonoids. Nutr Cancer 2012 0.86
89 Antidepressant use and cognitive functioning in older medical patients with major or minor depression: a prospective cohort study with database linkage. J Clin Psychopharmacol 2011 0.86
90 A weighted Cox model for modelling time-dependent exposures in the analysis of case-control studies. Stat Med 2010 0.86
91 The effect of physicians' training on prescribing beta-blockers for secondary prevention of myocardial infarction in the elderly. Ann Epidemiol 2002 0.86
92 Do physician communication skills influence screening mammography utilization? BMC Health Serv Res 2012 0.85
93 Assessing the cumulative effects of exposure to selected benzodiazepines on the risk of fall-related injuries in the elderly. Int Psychogeriatr 2011 0.85
94 Sex differences in blood pressure and its relationship to body composition and metabolism in adolescence. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2009 0.84
95 Flexible modeling of the effects of continuous prognostic factors in relative survival. Stat Med 2011 0.84
96 Can birth weight standards based on healthy populations improve the identification of small-for-gestational-age newborns at risk of adverse neonatal outcomes? Pediatrics 2009 0.84
97 Psychosocial correlates of patient-physician discordance in inflammatory bowel disease. Am J Gastroenterol 2002 0.83
98 A comparison of prospective and retrospective evaluations of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of Rheumatology Damage Index for systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol 2005 0.83
99 Ophthalmic outcomes of congenital toxoplasmosis followed until adolescence. Pediatrics 2014 0.83
100 Availability of body art facilities and body art piercing do not predict hepatitis C acquisition among injection drug users in Montreal, Canada: Results from a cohort study. Int J Drug Policy 2010 0.83
101 Different outcomes for different health measures in immigrants: evidence from a longitudinal analysis of the National Population Health Survey (1994-2006). J Immigr Minor Health 2012 0.83
102 Development and validation of a predictive algorithm to identify adult asthmatics from medical services and pharmacy claims databases. Health Serv Res 2011 0.83
103 Patterns of health services use prior to a first diagnosis of psychosis: the importance of primary care. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2013 0.83
104 FTO, obesity and the adolescent brain. Hum Mol Genet 2012 0.83
105 Predictors of health status in women with fibromyalgia: a prospective study. Int J Behav Med 2006 0.82
106 Longitudinal patterns of new Benzodiazepine use in the elderly. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2004 0.82
107 Flexible modeling of competing risks in survival analysis. Stat Med 2010 0.82
108 Individual and institutional determinants of caesarean section in referral hospitals in Senegal and Mali: a cross-sectional epidemiological survey. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2012 0.82
109 Clinical, immunological and virological evolution in patients with CD4 T-cell count above 500/mm3: is there a benefit to treat with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)? Eur J Epidemiol 2004 0.82
110 Self-rated health in Canadian immigrants: analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada. Health Place 2011 0.81
111 Methodologic issues in the validation of putative biomarkers and surrogate endpoints in treatment evaluation for systemic lupus erythematosus. Endocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets 2009 0.81
112 The incidence of first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis in adolescents and young adults in montreal: an estimate from an administrative claims database. Can J Psychiatry 2012 0.81
113 Valvular operations in patients with congenital heart disease: increasing rates from 1988 to 2005. Ann Thorac Surg 2010 0.81
114 Analysis of willingness to pay for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy. Am J Cardiol 2011 0.81
115 Predictors of disability and pain six months after the end of treatment for fibromyalgia. Clin J Pain 2010 0.80
116 A prediction score for maternal mortality in Senegal and Mali. Obstet Gynecol 2013 0.80
117 Predictors of pain for patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2013 0.80
118 Are physicians with better clinical skills on licensing examinations less likely to prescribe antibiotics for viral respiratory infections in ambulatory care settings? Med Care 2011 0.79
119 A population-based analysis of the class effect of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 2007 0.79
120 Analysis of multiple exposures: an empirical comparison of results from conventional and semi-bayes modeling strategies. Epidemiology 2010 0.79
121 Bias-variance trade-off in pharmacoepidemiological studies using physician-preference-based instrumental variables: a simulation study. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2009 0.79
122 Consultation with an arthritis specialist for children with suspected juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008 0.79
123 A cluster-randomized trial to reduce cesarean delivery rates in Quebec. N Engl J Med 2015 0.78
124 Longitudinal evolution of risk of coronary heart disease in systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol 2012 0.78
125 Comparison of Cox's and relative survival models when estimating the effects of prognostic factors on disease-specific mortality: a simulation study under proportional excess hazards. Stat Med 2005 0.78
126 Predicting in-hospital maternal mortality in Senegal and Mali. PLoS One 2013 0.78
127 Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hippocampal Atrophy in a Prospective Cohort of Older Adults. Psychosom Med 2017 0.77
128 Treatment effect estimates varied depending on the definition of the provider prescribing preference-based instrumental variables. J Clin Epidemiol 2011 0.77
129 Routine clinical measures of adiposity as predictors of visceral fat in adolescence: a population-based magnetic resonance imaging study. PLoS One 2013 0.77
130 Bootstrap-based methods for estimating standard errors in Cox's regression analyses of clustered event times. Stat Med 2010 0.77
131 Evaluation of the use of an integrated drug information system by primary care physicians for vulnerable population. Int J Med Inform 2007 0.77
132 Estimating the cost related to surveillance of colorectal cancer in a French population. Eur J Health Econ 2009 0.76
133 Effect of amiodarone dose on the risk of permanent pacemaker insertion. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2004 0.76
134 Hippocampal atrophy and subsequent depressive symptoms in older men and women: results from a 10-year prospective cohort. Am J Epidemiol 2014 0.76
135 Predictors of adherence to an integrated multimodal program for fibromyalgia. J Rheumatol 2008 0.76
136 Factors influencing treatment decisions in patients with low risk prostate cancer referred to a brachytherapy clinic. Can J Urol 2008 0.76
137 Dietary Vitamin A and Visceral Adiposity: A Modulating Role of the Retinol-Binding Protein 4 Gene. J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics 2015 0.76
138 Flexible statistical models provided new insights into the role of quantitative prognostic factors for mortality in gastric cancer. J Clin Epidemiol 2008 0.76
139 Risk of Miscarriage in Women Receiving Antidepressants in Early Pregnancy, Correcting for Induced Abortions. Epidemiology 2016 0.76
140 Brain tumours and cigarette smoking: analysis of the INTERPHONE Canada case-control study. Environ Health 2014 0.76
141 Association between physician competence at licensure and the quality of asthma management among patients with out-of-control asthma. Arch Intern Med 2011 0.76
142 The impact of exposure model misspecification on signal detection in prospective pharmacovigilance. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2014 0.76
143 Relation of socioeconomic position with ankle-brachial index. Am J Cardiol 2011 0.75
144 Extreme maternal education and preterm birth: time-to-event analysis of age and nativity-dependent risks. Ann Epidemiol 2012 0.75
145 [Evaluation of medical information systems as a mean of identification of incident cases of colorectal cancer]. Sante Publique 2014 0.75
146 Psychometric testing of the McGill Ingestive Skills Assessment. Am J Occup Ther 2006 0.75
147 Association between erectile function and lower urinary tract symptoms in patients treated with permanent seed prostate brachytherapy. Can J Urol 2010 0.75
148 Bronchial artery embolization in adults with cystic fibrosis: impact on the clinical course and survival. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2006 0.75
149 Use of time-dependent measures to estimate benefits of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2004 0.75
150 The McGill ingestive skills assessment predicts time to death in an elderly population with neurogenic dysphagia: preliminary evidence. Dysphagia 2005 0.75
151 Antiretroviral combination use during pregnancy and the risk of major congenital malformations. AIDS 2017 0.75
152 Relative survival multistate Markov model. Stat Med 2011 0.75
153 Classification of patterns of delirium severity scores over time in an elderly population. Int Psychogeriatr 2006 0.75
154 Impact of the model-building strategy on inference about nonlinear and time-dependent covariate effects in survival analysis. Stat Med 2014 0.75
155 Development of a paper-and-pencil semi-adaptive questionnaire for 5 domains of health-related quality of life (PAT-5D-QOL). Qual Life Res 2013 0.75