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Clinical librarian attendance at general surgery quality of care rounds (Morbidity and Mortality Conference).

Greco E, Englesakis M, Faulkner A, Trojan B, Rotstein LE, Urbach DR.

Surg Innov. 2009 Sep;16(3):266-9. Epub 2009 Aug 27.PMID: 19717393 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Longer wait times increase overall mortality in patients with bladder cancer.

Kulkarni GS, Urbach DR, Austin PC, Fleshner NE, Laupacis A.

J Urol. 2009 Oct;182(4):1318-24. Epub 2009 Aug 14.PMID: 19683272 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Attitudes of patients and care providers toward a surgical site marking policy.

Goldberg AE, Harnish JL, Stegienko S, Urbach DR.

Surg Innov. 2009 Sep;16(3):249-57. Epub 2009 Aug 9.PMID: 19666933 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Abdominal Surgery Impact Scale (ASIS) is responsive in assessing outcome following IPAA.

Datta I, O'Connor B, Victor JC, Urbach DR, McLeod RS.

J Gastrointest Surg. 2009 Apr;13(4):687-94. Epub 2009 Jan 16.PMID: 19148705 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Challenges in multidisciplinary cancer care among general surgeons in Canada.

Gagliardi AR, Wright FC, Davis D, McLeod RS, Urbach DR.

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008 Dec 22;8:59.PMID: 19102761 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Association of colonoscopy and death from colorectal cancer.

Baxter NN, Goldwasser MA, Paszat LF, Saskin R, Urbach DR, Rabeneck L.

Ann Intern Med. 2009 Jan 6;150(1):1-8. Epub 2008 Dec 15.PMID: 19075198 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Varied definitions of hospital volume did not alter the conclusions of volume-outcome analyses.

Kulkarni GS, Laupacis A, Urbach DR, Fleshner NE, Austin PC.

J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 Apr;62(4):400-7. Epub 2008 Nov 14.PMID: 19013765 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The efficiency and effectiveness of utilizing diagrams in interviews: an assessment of participatory diagramming and graphic elicitation.

Umoquit MJ, Dobrow MJ, Lemieux-Charles L, Ritvo PG, Urbach DR, Wodchis WP.

BMC Med Res Methodol. 2008 Aug 8;8:53.PMID: 18691410 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Risk factors for bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a case-control study.

Kholdebarin R, Boetto J, Harnish JL, Urbach DR.

Surg Innov. 2008 Jun;15(2):114-9. Epub 2008 Apr 29.PMID: 18448447 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Patient-centered measures for achalasia.

Harnish JL, Darling GE, Diamant NE, Kortan PP, Tomlinson GA, Deitel W, Laporte A, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2008 May;22(5):1290-3. Epub 2007 Nov 20.PMID: 18027052 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Adoption of an innovation to repair aortic aneurysms at a Canadian hospital: a qualitative case study and evaluation.

Danjoux NM, Martin DK, Lehoux PN, Harnish JL, Shaul RZ, Bernstein M, Urbach DR.

BMC Health Serv Res. 2007 Nov 15;7:182.PMID: 18005409 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Optimal treatment for severe neurogenic bowel dysfunction after chronic spinal cord injury: a decision analysis.

Furlan JC, Urbach DR, Fehlings MG.

Br J Surg. 2007 Sep;94(9):1139-50. Review.PMID: 17535012 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Factors affecting the number of lymph nodes retrieved in colorectal cancer specimens.

Ostadi MA, Harnish JL, Stegienko S, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2007 Dec;21(12):2142-6. Epub 2007 May 24.PMID: 17522917 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Regional variation in surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease in Ontario.

Lopushinsky SR, Austin PC, Rabeneck L, Kulkarni GS, Urbach DR.

Surg Innov. 2007 Mar;14(1):35-40.PMID: 17442878 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A research agenda for gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgery.

Urbach DR, Horvath KD, Baxter NN, Jobe BA, Madan AK, Pryor AD, Khaitan L, Torquati A, Brower ST, Trus TL, Schwaitzberg S.

Surg Endosc. 2007 Sep;21(9):1518-25. Epub 2007 Feb 8.PMID: 17287915 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Accuracy of administrative health data for the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal diseases.

Lopushinsky SR, Covarrubia KA, Rabeneck L, Austin PC, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2007 Oct;21(10):1733-7. Epub 2007 Feb 8.PMID: 17285379 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

What is a meant when a laparoscopic surgical procedure is described as "safe"?

Weizman D, Cyriac J, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2007 Aug;21(8):1369-72. Epub 2007 Feb 8. Review.PMID: 17285377 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for the management of benign and malignant adrenal tumors.

Cyriac J, Weizman D, Urbach DR.

Expert Rev Med Devices. 2006 Nov;3(6):777-86. Review.PMID: 17280543 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

How are decisions to introduce new surgical technologies made? Advanced laparoscopic surgery at a Canadian community hospital: A qualitative case study and evaluation.

Sharma B, Danjoux NM, Harnish JL, Urbach DR.

Surg Innov. 2006 Dec;13(4):250-6.PMID: 17227923 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Surgeon volumes and selected patient outcomes in cataract surgery: a population-based analysis.

Bell CM, Hatch WV, Cernat G, Urbach DR.

Ophthalmology. 2007 Mar;114(3):405-10. Epub 2006 Dec 14.PMID: 17174399 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Potentially unintended discontinuation of long-term medication use after elective surgical procedures.

Bell CM, Bajcar J, Bierman AS, Li P, Mamdani MM, Urbach DR.

Arch Intern Med. 2006 Dec 11-25;166(22):2525-31.PMID: 17159020 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Effect of surgeon on outcome of antireflux surgery.

Kundhal PS, Harnish JL, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2007 Jun;21(6):902-6. Epub 2006 Nov 14.PMID: 17103281 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Pneumatic dilatation and surgical myotomy for achalasia.

Lopushinsky SR, Urbach DR.

JAMA. 2006 Nov 8;296(18):2227-33.PMID: 17090769 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

A measure of quality of life after abdominal surgery.

Urbach DR, Harnish JL, McIlroy JH, Streiner DL.

Qual Life Res. 2006 Aug;15(6):1053-61.PMID: 16900285 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Bias in published cost effectiveness studies: systematic review.

Bell CM, Urbach DR, Ray JG, Bayoumi A, Rosen AB, Greenberg D, Neumann PJ.

BMJ. 2006 Mar 25;332(7543):699-703. Epub 2006 Feb 22. Review.PMID: 16495332 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The treatment and prognosis of Hürthle cell follicular thyroid carcinoma compared with its non-Hürthle cell counterpart.

Haigh PI, Urbach DR.

Surgery. 2005 Dec;138(6):1152-7; discussion 1157-8.PMID: 16360403 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Short-term health-related quality of life after abdominal surgery: a conceptual framework.

Urbach DR, Harnish JL, Long G.

Surg Innov. 2005 Sep;12(3):243-7.PMID: 16224646 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A measure of disease-specific health-related quality of life for achalasia.

Urbach DR, Tomlinson GA, Harnish JL, Martino R, Diamant NE.

Am J Gastroenterol. 2005 Aug;100(8):1668-76.PMID: 16144120 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

How are volume-outcome associations related to models of health care funding and delivery? A comparison of the United States and Canada.

Urbach DR, Croxford R, MacCallum NL, Stukel TA.

World J Surg. 2005 Oct;29(10):1230-3. Review.PMID: 16132398 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Measuring quality of life after surgery.

Urbach DR.

Surg Innov. 2005 Jun;12(2):161-5. Review.PMID: 16034507 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Reducing variation in surgical care.

Urbach DR, Baxter NN.

BMJ. 2005 Jun 18;330(7505):1401-2. No abstract available. PMID: 15961794 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Users' guide to the surgical literature. Case-control studies in surgical journals.

Mihailovic A, Bell CM, Urbach DR.

Can J Surg. 2005 Apr;48(2):148-51.PMID: 15887796 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Conventional models overestimate the statistical significance of volume-outcome associations, compared with multilevel models.

Urbach DR, Austin PC.

J Clin Epidemiol. 2005 Apr;58(4):391-400.PMID: 15862725 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Extent of thyroidectomy is not a major determinant of survival in low- or high-risk papillary thyroid cancer.

Haigh PI, Urbach DR, Rotstein LE.

Ann Surg Oncol. 2005 Jan;12(1):81-9. Epub 2004 Dec 27.PMID: 15827782 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Rate of elective cholecystectomy and the incidence of severe gallstone disease.

Urbach DR, Stukel TA.

CMAJ. 2005 Apr 12;172(8):1015-9.PMID: 15824406 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Azathioprine or ileocolic resection for steroid-dependent terminal ileal Crohn's disease? A Markov analysis.

Kennedy ED, Urbach DR, Krahn MD, Steinhart AH, Cohen Z, McLeod RS.

Dis Colon Rectum. 2004 Dec;47(12):2120-30.PMID: 15657664 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Underuse of wide excision for primary cutaneous melanoma in the United States.

Haigh PI, Urbach DR.

Am Surg. 2004 Nov;70(11):942-6.PMID: 15586502 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Volume and outcome in healthcare: implications for health policy.

Urbach DR.

Healthc Q. 2004;7(4):22-3. No abstract available. PMID: 15540396 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Does it matter what a hospital is "high volume" for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data.

Urbach DR, Baxter NN.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 Oct;13(5):379-83.PMID: 15465942 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

AMES prognostic index and extent of thyroidectomy for well-differentiated thyroid cancer in the United States.

Haigh PI, Urbach DR, Rotstein LE.

Surgery. 2004 Sep;136(3):609-16.PMID: 15349109 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Does it matter what a hospital is "high volume" for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data.

Urbach DR, Baxter NN.

BMJ. 2004 Mar 27;328(7442):737-40. Epub 2004 Mar 12.PMID: 15020356 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Whither surgery in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)?

Urbach DR, Ungar WJ, Rabeneck L.

CMAJ. 2004 Jan 20;170(2):219-21. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 14734435 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Extended transmediastinal dissection: an alternative to gastroplasty for short esophagus.

O'Rourke RW, Khajanchee YS, Urbach DR, Lee NN, Lockhart B, Hansen PD, Swanstrom LL.

Arch Surg. 2003 Jul;138(7):735-40.PMID: 12860754 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Differences in operative mortality between high- and low-volume hospitals in Ontario for 5 major surgical procedures: estimating the number of lives potentially saved through regionalization.

Urbach DR, Bell CM, Austin PC.

CMAJ. 2003 May 27;168(11):1409-14.PMID: 12771069 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

A comparison of diet and exercise therapy versus laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity: a decision analysis model.

Patterson EJ, Urbach DR, Swanström LL.

J Am Coll Surg. 2003 Mar;196(3):379-84.PMID: 12648689 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Cohort study of surgical bypass to the gallbladder or bile duct for the palliation of jaundice due to pancreatic cancer.

Urbach DR, Bell CM, Swanstrom LL, Hansen PD.

Ann Surg. 2003 Jan;237(1):86-93.PMID: 12496534 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The surgeon on call is a strong factor determining the use of a laparoscopic approach for appendectomy.

Cervini P, Smith LC, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2002 Dec;16(12):1774-7. Epub 2002 Jul 29.PMID: 12140626 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for severe gastroesophageal reflux after vertical banded gastroplasty.

Bloomberg RD, Urbach DR.

Obes Surg. 2002 Jun;12(3):408-11.PMID: 12082898 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The effect of intraoperative bupivacaine administration on parenteral narcotic use after laparoscopic appendectomy.

Cervini P, Smith LC, Urbach DR.

Surg Endosc. 2002 Nov;16(11):1579-82. Epub 2002 Jun 6.PMID: 12045850 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Preoperative determinants of an esophageal lengthening procedure in laparoscopic antireflux surgery.

Urbach DR, Khajanchee YS, Glasgow RE, Hansen PD, Swanstrom LL.

Surg Endosc. 2001 Dec;15(12):1408-12.PMID: 11965455 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles