Scientific Articles

Everybody's business: economic surveillance of public health services in Alberta, Canada

Philip Jacobs; Jessica Moffatt; Arto Ohinmaa; Egon Jonsson
The European Journal of Public Health 2011; doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr185

The Role of Triage Liaison Physicians on Mitigating Overcrowding in Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review

Rowe BH, Guo X, Villa-Roel C, Schull M, Holroyd B, Bullard M, Vandermeer B, Ospina M, Innes G. The Role of Triage Liaison Physicians on Mitigating Overcrowding in Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review. Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Feb;18(2):111-120.

Applying the Risk of Bias Tool in a Systematic Review of Combination Long-Acting Beta-Agonists and Inhaled Corticosteroids for Persistent Asthma

Hartling L, Bond K, Vandermeer B, Seida J, Dryden DM, et al. (2011) Applying the Risk of Bias Tool in a Systematic Review of Combination Long-Acting Beta-Agonists and Inhaled Corticosteroids for Persistent Asthma. PLoS ONE 6(2): e17242. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017242

Improving ethics analysis in health technology assessment

Duthie K, Bond K. Improving ethics analysis in health technology assessment. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2011;27(1):64-70.

Relationships between job stress and worker perceived responsibilities and job characteristics

This paper shows that about 18% of Alberta workers found their jobs to be extremely stressful. High stress increased when workers perceived that their actions affected those around them and when their jobs entailed additional or variable working hours.

Social StoriesTM to improve social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

Karkhaneh M, Clark B, Ospina MB, Seida JC, Smith V, Hartling L. Social StoriesTM to improve social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review. Autism. 2010 Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation of 10- and 13- Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines

Article finds that vaccines with increasing serotype coverage are more cost effective when considering the effects of both direct protection and herd immunity.

Chuck AW, Jacobs P, Tyrrell G, Kellner JD. Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of 10- and 13- valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Vaccine 2010; 28: 5485-5490