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Alan J Forster
The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program
1999
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PMIDPaper TitleJournal TitlePublished Year
36729458Comparing the Hospital Frailty Risk Score and the Clinical Frailty Scale Among Older Adults With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation.JAMA Netw Open2023
37280523Barriers and facilitators to participation in exercise prehabilitation before cancer surgery for older adults with frailty: a qualitative study.BMC Geriatr2023
37043654Effect of Donor Sex on Recipient Mortality in Transfusion.N Engl J Med2023
37012003Barriers and facilitators to improving patient safety learning systems: a systematic review of qualitative studies and meta-synthesis.BMJ Open Qual2023
36737087FLUID trial: a hospital-wide open-label cluster cross-over pragmatic comparative effectiveness randomised pilot trial comparing normal saline to Ringer's lactate.BMJ Open2023
36894925ICD-11: A catalyst for advancing patient safety surveillance globally.BMC Med Inform Decis Mak2023
34085390Structure, processes, and initial outcomes of The Ottawa Hospital Multi-Specialist Limb-Preservation Clinic and Programme: A unique-in-Canada quality improvement initiative.Int Wound J2022
35477679Leveraging financial incentives and behavioural economics to engage physicians in achieving quality-improvement process measures.Can J Surg2022
35589429Home-based prehabilitation with exercise to improve postoperative recovery for older adults with frailty having cancer surgery: the PREHAB randomised clinical trial.Br J Anaesth2022
36454710Development and assessment of an educational intervention to improve the recognition of frailty on an acute care respiratory ward.BMJ Open Qual2022
36069141Impact of respiratory viral infections on mortality and critical illness among hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Influenza Other Respir Viruses2022
36197944Developing EMR-based algorithms to Identify hospital adverse events for health system performance evaluation and improvement: Study protocol.PLoS One2022
35978162Identifying barriers and facilitators to routine preoperative frailty assessment: a qualitative interview study.Can J Anaesth2022
35136898Development and evaluation of an evidence-based, theory-grounded online Clinical Frailty Scale tutorial.Age Ageing2022
30907758Long-term Health Outcomes and Health System Costs Associated With Surgical Site Infections: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Ann Surg2021
33653769Post Discharge after Surgery Virtual Care with Remote Automated Monitoring Technology (PVC-RAM): protocol for a randomized controlled trial.CMAJ Open2021
33622960Pragmatic, double-blind, randomised trial evaluating the impact of red blood cell donor sex on recipient mortality in an academic hospital population: the innovative Trial Assessing Donor Sex (iTADS) protocol.BMJ Open2021
33709357Interdepartmental program to improve outcomes for acute heart failure patients seen in the emergency department.CJEM2021
33612283Adverse Events Among Emergency Department Patients With Cardiovascular Conditions: A Multicenter Study.Ann Emerg Med2021
33528779Randomized Controlled Trial of a Decision Support Intervention About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Hospitalized Patients Who Have a High Risk of Death.J Gen Intern Med2021
34454414Predicting postoperative surgical site infection with administrative data: a random forests algorithm.BMC Med Res Methodol2021
34593374Post-discharge after surgery Virtual Care with Remote Automated Monitoring-1 (PVC-RAM-1) technology versus standard care: randomised controlled trial.BMJ2021
34129633Disability, pain, and wound-specific concerns self-reported by adults at risk of limb loss: A cross-sectional study using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0.PLoS One2021
34237127Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Potentially Attributable Adverse Events in Older People with Hip Fracture: A Retrospective Population-based Cohort Study.Anesthesiology2021
34007891A commentary on the value of hospital data for covid-19 pandemic surveillance and planning.Int J Popul Data Sci2021
33372748Sepsis-Associated Mortality, Resource Use, and Healthcare Costs: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study.Crit Care Med2021
33217622Prescribing patterns and outcomes of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in hospitalized medical and cancer patients: Observations from the Ottawa Hospital.Thromb Res2021
33107007Derivation and Internal Validation of a Model to Predict the Probability of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Infection in Community People.J Gen Intern Med2021
32869663Virtual care and the pursuit of the quadruple aim: A case example.Healthc Manage Forum2021
31569165Prospective Comparison of Preoperative Predictive Performance Between 3 Leading Frailty Instruments.Anesth Analg2020
31986119Practical lessons in implementing frailty assessments for hospitalised patients with COPD.BMJ Open Qual2020
31980246Characteristics of high-cost inpatients with peripheral artery disease.J Vasc Surg2020
33239330Association between neuraxial anaesthesia or general anaesthesia for lower limb revascularisation surgery in adults and clinical outcomes: population based comparative effectiveness study.BMJ2020
32778405Frailty and long-term postoperative disability trajectories: a prospective multicentre cohort study.Br J Anaesth2020
32929659Evaluation of a preoperative personalized risk communication tool: a prospective before-and-after study.Can J Anaesth2020
32696048Development and evaluation of a quality improvement framework for healthcare.Int J Qual Health Care2020
32302511Economic Analysis of Exclusive Human Milk Diets for High-Risk Neonates, a Canadian Hospital Perspective.Breastfeed Med2020
32131817Predicting the need for supportive services after discharged from hospital: a systematic review.BMC Health Serv Res2020
32317594Adverse Events After Transition From ICU to Hospital Ward: A Multicenter Cohort Study.Crit Care Med2020
30048320Frailty as a Predictor of Death or New Disability After Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study.Ann Surg2020
31439760Validation of new ICD-10-based patient safety indicators for identification of in-hospital complications in surgical patients: a study of diagnostic accuracy.BMJ Qual Saf2020
31270254Study of a multisite prospective adverse event surveillance system.BMJ Qual Saf2020
29348731Problems with precaution: the transfusion medicine experience.J Risk Res2019
31238743Creating a Just Culture: The Ottawa Hospital's experience.Healthc Manage Forum2019
31236446Developing a Strategy for the Improvement in Patient Experience in a Canadian Academic Department of Surgery.J Patient Exp2019
31539073Effect of an Electronic Medication Reconciliation Intervention on Adverse Drug Events: A Cluster Randomized Trial.JAMA Netw Open2019
31250427The MedSafer Study: A Controlled Trial of an Electronic Decision Support Tool for Deprescribing in Acute Care.J Am Geriatr Soc2019
31092665Multinational comparison of new antidepressant use in older adults: a cohort study.BMJ Open2019
30916409Trends in IVIG use at a tertiary care Canadian center and impact of provincial use mitigation strategies: 10-year retrospective study with interrupted time series analysis.Transfusion2019
31135504Frailty and Associated Outcomes and Resource Utilization Among Older ICU Patients With Suspected Infection.Crit Care Med2019
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