Mortality among single fathers as compared with single mothers and partnered fathers: a cohort study by Maria Chiu, Farah Rahman, Simone Vigod, Cindy Lau, John Cairney, Paul Kurdyak

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Variation in Access to Specialist Care and Risk of Surgery in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study by Ellen Kuenzig, Therese Stukel, Sanjay Murthy, Geoffrey Nguyen, Robert Talarico, Eric Benchimol

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Association of prescribed oral stimulants on cocaine use among patients enrolled in opioid agonist treatment: A retrospective longitudinal cohort study by Mark Tatangelo, Mark Tatangelo, Farah Tahsin, Kristen A. Morin, Kristen A. Morin, Kristen A. Morin, David C. Marsh, David C. Marsh, David C. Marsh

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Fecal occult blood test screening uptake among immigrants from Muslim majority countries: A retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada by Mandana Vahabi, Aisha Lofters, Josephine Pui‐Hing Wong, Lisa Ellison, Erin Graves, Cynthia Damba, Richard H. Glazier

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Statin therapy and mortality among new long-term care residents in Ontario, Canada: the contribution of clinical assessment data to a population-based cohort study by Michael Campitelli, Susan Bronskill, Vasily Giannakeas, Andrew Morris, Colleen Maxwell, Chaim Bell

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How integration of the federal Indian Register has enhanced First Nations-specific analysis of ICES data by Sue Schultz, Carmen Jones, Jennifer Walker

“…Objectives and Approach The Chiefs of Ontario entered into a Data Governance Agreement with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) that enabled the linkage of the federal Indian Register (IR) to data at ICES. …”
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General Public Views on Uses and Users of Administrative Health Data by P. Alison Paprica, Michael Schull

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Secure data analysis environments: can we agree on criteria for “Appropriate secure access” to linked health data? by Louisa R Jorm, Kim McGrail, J. Charles Victor, Kerina Jones, David Ford, Timothy Churches

“…Charles Victor, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada Dr Kerina Jones, Swansea University Medical School, Wales, United Kingdom Professor David Ford, Swansea University Medical School, Wales, United Kingdom 1. …”
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Improving the Measurement of Health System Performance across the Rural-Urban Continuum by Naushaba Degani, Sharon Gushue, Alex Yurkiewich, Emmalin Buajitti, Matthew Kumar, Michael Campitelli, Laura Rosella

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Learning Unsupervised Representations from Biomedical Text by Christopher Meaney, Karen Tu, Liisa Jaakkimainen, Michael Escobar, Frank Rudzicz, Jessica Widdifield

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Information Management at a Health Services Research Organization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Moving from Identifiable Data to Coded Data by Lisa Thurairasu, Nelson Chong

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How much is enough for total knee arthroplasty? by J Michael Paterson, Tosan Okoro, Sebastian Tomescu, Bheeshma Ravi, Caesar Wek

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A cohort study examining emergency department visits and hospital admissions among people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada by Claire E. Kendall, Lisa M. Boucher, Amy E. Mark, Alana Martin, Zack Marshall, Rob Boyd, Pam Oickle, Nicola Diliso, Dave Pineau, Brad Renaud, Tiffany Rose, Sean LeBlanc, Mark Tyndall, Olivia M. Lee, Ahmed M. Bayoumi

“…The population was a marginalized cohort of PWUD (the PROUD study) for whom survey data was linked (n = 663) to provincial health administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. We constructed a 5:1 comparison group matched by age, sex, income quintile, and region. …”
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Using Biomedical Text as Data and Representation Learning for Identifying Patients with an Osteoarthritis Phenotype in the Electronic Medical Record by Christopher Meaney, Jessica Widdifield, Liisa Jaakkimainen, Michael Escobar, Frank Rudzicz, Karen Tu

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Small area variation in the utilization of common medical tests and consultations in Ontario, Canada by Colleen Webber, Yvonne Dewit, Steve Hall

“…Approach This is a population-based cross-sectional study in Ontario, Canada using linked, administrative databases from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The study population was all adults aged 40 to 75 as of January 1, 2008. …”
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Preterm birth, unplanned hospital contact and mortality in infants born to teenage mothers in five countries: a cross-country comparison using linked administrative data by Katie Harron, Maximiliane Verfuerden, Ibinabo Ibiebele, Can Liu, Alex Kopp, Astrid Guttmann, Jane Ford, Anders Hjern, Jan van der Meulen, Ruth Gilbert

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Preterm birth, unplanned hospital contact and mortality in infants born to teenage mothers in five countries: a cross-country comparison using linked administrative data by Katie Harron, Maximiliane Verfuerden, Ibinabo Ibiebele, Can Liu, Alex Kopp, Astrid Guttmann, Jane Ford, Jan van der Meulen, Anders Hjern, Ruth Gilbert

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Pan-Canadian Real-World Health Data Network: Building a National Data Platform by Mark Smith, Kim McGrail, Michael Schull, Alan Katz, Ted McDonald, P. Alison Paprica, J. Charles Victor, Lisa Lix, Dan Chateau, Brent Diverty

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Using health administrative data to identify patients with pulmonary hypertension: A single center, proof of concept validation study in Ontario, Canada by Don Thiwanka Wijeratne, Ahmad Housin, Katherine Lajkosz, M. Diane Lougheed, Ping Yu Xiong, David Barber, Katharine M. Doliszny, Stephen L. Archer

“…These data were securely transferred to the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The diagnosis of PH from chart abstraction was used as the gold standard. …”
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Association Between Institutional Factors and Long‐Term Survival Following Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt by Jeffrey M. Mah, Yvonne DeWit, Maya Djerboua, Alexandre Menard, Christopher M. Booth, Jennifer A. Flemming

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