Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on August 01, 2010
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Use of lipid-lowering agents, indication bias, and the risk of dementia in community-dwelling elderly people. Arch Neurol (2002) 2.18
Cross-national comparative performance of three versions of the ICD-10 Charlson index. Med Care (2007) 2.14
Outcomes after aortic and mitral valve replacement surgery in Canada: 1994/95 to 1999/2000. Can J Cardiol (2004) 2.11
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Overview of a formal scoping review on health system report cards. Implement Sci (2010) 1.95
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Development and validation of a surname list to define Chinese ethnicity. Med Care (2006) 1.71
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Assessing accuracy of diagnosis-type indicators for flagging complications in administrative data. J Clin Epidemiol (2004) 1.62
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The Enhancing Secondary Prevention in Coronary Artery Disease trial. CMAJ (2009) 1.57
Systematic review and meta-analysis: anti-tumor necrosis factor α therapy and cardiovascular events in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) (2011) 1.55
Women with coronary artery disease report worse health-related quality of life outcomes compared to men. Health Qual Life Outcomes (2004) 1.53
Accuracy of city postal code coordinates as a proxy for location of residence. Int J Health Geogr (2004) 1.52
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Acute kidney injury following coronary angiography is associated with a long-term decline in kidney function. Kidney Int (2010) 1.50
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Relation of T-axis abnormalities to coronary artery disease and survival after cardiac catheterization. Am J Cardiol (2005) 1.48
Exploring the treatment-risk paradox in coronary disease. Arch Intern Med (2007) 1.48
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Counselling overweight and obese patients in primary care: a prospective cohort study. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2006) 1.44
Canadian Cardiovascular Society Consensus Conference 2002: Management of heart disease in the elderly patient. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.44
Association of postoperative complications with hospital costs and length of stay in a tertiary care center. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.42
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Causal assessment of dietary acid load and bone disease: a systematic review & meta-analysis applying Hill's epidemiologic criteria for causality. Nutr J (2011) 1.41
Individual-level and neighborhood-level income measures: agreement and association with outcomes in a cardiac disease cohort. Med Care (2005) 1.39
Trends in wait times for cardiac revascularization. Can J Cardiol (2011) 1.39
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Variations in rates of appropriate and inappropriate carotid endarterectomy for stroke prevention in 4 Canadian provinces. CMAJ (2004) 1.36
Involving clinical librarians at the point of care: results of a controlled intervention. Acad Med (2011) 1.36
Improved accuracy of co-morbidity coding over time after the introduction of ICD-10 administrative data. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.35
Economic evaluation of sirolimus-eluting stents. CMAJ (2005) 1.32
A comparison of several regression models for analysing cost of CABG surgery. Stat Med (2003) 1.31
Nodding and napping in medical lectures: an instructive systematic review. CMAJ (2005) 1.30
Improving recruitment into geriatric medicine in Canada: Findings and recommendations from the geriatric recruitment issues study. J Am Geriatr Soc (2006) 1.30
Contrast-induced acute kidney injury and risk of adverse clinical outcomes after coronary angiography: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Circ Cardiovasc Interv (2013) 1.29
The intraaortic balloon pump in cardiac surgery. Ann Thorac Surg (2002) 1.29
Use of valve surgery in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.28
The development, evolution, and modifications of ICD-10: challenges to the international comparability of morbidity data. Med Care (2010) 1.27
Loop diuretics in the management of acute renal failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care Resusc (2007) 1.26
A systematic review of tools for predicting severe adverse events following patient discharge from intensive care units. Crit Care (2013) 1.26
The relative importance of barriers to the prescription of warfarin for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.25
Application of patient safety indicators internationally: a pilot study among seven countries. Int J Qual Health Care (2009) 1.25
Microscopic colitis -- a common cause of diarrhoea in older adults. Age Ageing (2010) 1.24