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Assessing the quality of randomized trials: reliability of the Jadad scale.

• Heather D Clark, George A Wells, +4 authors Andreas Laupacis
• Controlled clinical trials
• 1999

An instrument was developed and validated by Jadad, et al. to assess the quality of clinical trials using studies from the pain literature. Our study determined the reliability of the Jadad scale and… (More)

Adverse events among medical patients after discharge from hospital.

• Alan J. Forster, Heather D Clark, +5 authors Carl van Walraven
• CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal…
• 2004

BACKGROUND Adverse events (AEs) are adverse outcomes caused by medical care. Several studies have indicated that a substantial number of patients experience AEs before or during hospitalization.… (More)

Do postal reminders increase postpartum screening of diabetes mellitus in women with gestational diabetes mellitus? A randomized controlled trial.

• Heather D Clark, Ian D. Graham, Alan J Karovitch, Erin J. Keely
• American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
• 2009

OBJECTIVE Women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus rarely receive the recommended 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) after delivery. We sought to determine whether postal reminders to… (More)

Serum creatinine is an inadequate screening test for renal failure in elderly patients

• Peter J. Swedko, Heather D Clark, Koushi Paramsothy, Ayub Akbari
• Archives of internal medicine
• 2003

BACKGROUND Serum creatinine is the most commonly used screening test for renal failure. We hypothesized that serum creatinine would underestimate the degree of renal failure in elderly people because… (More)

Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease With Laboratory Reporting of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and an Educational Program

• Ayub Akbari, Peter J. Swedko, +5 authors Daylily S. Ooi
• Archives of internal medicine
• 2004

BACKGROUND Serum creatinine concentration is an inadequate screening test for chronic kidney disease, especially in elderly patients. We hypothesized that laboratory reporting of estimated glomerular… (More)

Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital.

• Alan J. Forster, Tim R Asmis, +7 authors Carl van Walraven
• CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal…
• 2004

BACKGROUND Adverse events are poor patient outcomes that are due to medical care. Studies of hospital patients have demonstrated that adverse events are common, but few data describe the timing of… (More)

Did publication of a clinical practice guideline recommendation to screen for type 2 diabetes in women with gestational diabetes change practice?

• Heather D Clark, Carl van Walraven, Cathy C Code, Alan J Karovitch, Erin Keely
• Diabetes care
• 2003

OBJECTIVE To determine whether women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were screened postpartum for type 2 diabetes according to the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) guidelines. … (More)

Measured creatinine clearance from timed urine collections substantially overestimates glomerular filtration rate in patients with liver cirrhosis: a systematic review and individual patient…

• Normand L. Proulx, Ayub Akbari, Amit X. Garg, Alaa Rostom, Jim Jaffey, Heather D Clark
• Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official…
• 2005

BACKGROUND Accurate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) assessment in patients with liver cirrhosis is important for prognostication, chronic kidney disease staging, drug dosing and identifying combined… (More)

Effect of a nurse team coordinator on outcomes for hospitalized medicine patients.

• Alan J. Forster, Heather D Clark, +6 authors Carl van Walraven
• The American journal of medicine
• 2005

PURPOSE Several randomized trials have found that discharge planning improves outcomes for hospitalized patients. We do not know if adding a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) to physician teams in… (More)

Perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion does not cause adverse sequelae in patients with cancer: a meta-analysis of unconfounded studies.

• Finlay Aleck McAlister, Heather D Clark, Philip S Wells, Andreas Laupacis
• The British journal of surgery
• 1998

BACKGROUND There is controversy over whether perioperative allogeneic red blood cell transfusions are associated with an increased risk of cancer recurrence, postoperative infection or death in… (More)

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