Improving Care

Reducing morbidity and mortality and enhancing quality of life

Informing Policy

Transforming health care at the local, national and international levels

Featured Projects

With more than 80 scientists, research at Advancing Health encompasses a wide breadth of areas

COVID-19

The Evidence Speaks

A recurring feature highlighting the latest in Advancing Health research

Our People

In the News

Research Resources

From design to execution, Advancing Health provides a broad range of support services

Work in Progress Seminar Series

Publications

The work of our scientists, research associates, and staff are often found in the pages of top journals. Each year, our researchers publish over 400 peer-reviewed papers.


  • Which older emergency patients are at risk of intracranial bleeding after a fall? A protocol to derive a clinical decision rule for the emergency department

    de Wit K, Mercuri M, Clayton N, Worster A, Mercier E, Emond M, Varner C, McLeod SL, Eagles D, Stiell I, Barbic D, Morris J, Jeanmonod R, Kagoma Y, Shoamanesh A, Engels PT, Sharma S, Kearon C, Papaioannou A, Parpia S, for the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers

    Read More

  • A rapid review of medication taking (‘adherence’) among patients with rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Arthritis Care Res

    July 5, 2021

    COVID-19
    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Rheumatology

    Rebić N, Park J, Garg R, Ellis U, Kelly A, Davidson E, De Vera MA

    Read More

  • Effectiveness of Medical Therapy for Treatment of Idiopathic Frequent Premature Ventricular Complexes

    J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol

    July 2, 2021

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease
    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

    Tang JKK, Andrade JG, Hawkins NM, Laksman ZW, Krahn AD, Bennett MT, Heilbron B, Chakrabarti S, Yeung-Lai-Wah JA, Deyell MW

    Read More

  • Access experiences and attitudes toward abortion among youth experiencing homelessness in the United States: A systematic review

    Munro S, Benipal S, Williams A, Wahl K, Trenaman L, Begun S

    Read More

  • Predictors of the Use of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction Post-ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Wong EC, Fordyce CB, Wong G, Lee T, Perry-Arnesen M, Mackay M, Singer J, Cairns JA, Turgeon RD

    Read More

  • A qualitative exploratory case series of patient and family experiences with ECPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

    Grunau B, Dainty K, MacRedmond R, McDonald K, Sasaki A, Sarti AJ, Shemie SD, Cheung A, Gill J

    Read More

  • Researchers’ perspectives on methodological challenges and outcomes selection in interventional studies targeting medication adherence in rheumatic diseases: an OMERACT-adherence study

    Salmasi S, Kelly A, Bartlett SJ, de Wit M, March L, Tong A, Tugwell P, Tymms K, Verstappen S, De Vera MA, On behalf of the OMERACT-Adherence working group

    Read More

  • Blood pressure thresholds in pregnancy for identifying maternal and infant risk: a secondary analysis of Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) trial data

    Bone JN, Magee LA, Singer J, Nathan H, Qureshi RN, Sacoor C, Sevene E, Shennan A, Bellad MB, Goudar SS, Mallapur AA, Munguambe K, Vidler M, Bhutta ZA, von Dadelszen P, on behalf of the CLIP study group

    Read More

  • Current status of health systems financing and oversight for end-stage kidney disease care: a cross-sectional global survey

    Yeung E, Bello AK, Levin A, Lunney M, Osman MA, Ye F, Ashuntantang G, Bellorin-Font E, Gharbi MB, Davison S, Ghnaimat M, Harden P, Jha V, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Kerr P, Klarenbach S, Kovesdy C, Luyckx V, Neuen B, O’Donoghue D, Ossareh S, Perl J, Rashid HU, Rondeau E, See E, Saad S, Sola L, Tchokhonelidze I, Tesar V, Tungsanga K, Kazancioglu RT, Wang AYM, Wiebe N, Yang CW, Zemchenkov A, Zhao M, Jager KJ, Caskey F, Perkovic V, Jindal K, Okpechi IG, Tonelli M, Feehally J, Harris DC, Johnson D

    Read More

  • CRTpowerdist: An R package to calculate attained power and construct the power distribution for cross-sectional stepped-wedge and parallel cluster randomized trials

    Comput Methods Programs Biomed

    June 25, 2021

    Clinical Trials
    Statistics & Methodology

    Ouyang Y, Xu L, Karim ME, Gustafson P, Wong H

    Read More

  • CPR compression strategy 30:2 is difficult to adhere to, but has better survival than continuous chest compressions when done correctly

    Resuscitation

    June 4, 2021

    Emergency Medicine
    Resuscitation

    Schmicker RH, Nichol G, Kudenchuk P, Christenson J, Vaillancourt C, Wang HE, Aufderheide TP, Idris AH, Daya MR

    Read More

  • A multi-methods and longitudinal study of patients’ perceptions in injectable opioid agonist treatment: Implications for advancing patient-centered methodologies in substance use research

    Marchand K, Palis H, Guh D, Lock K, MacDonald S, Brissette S, Marsh DC, Harrison S, Schechter MT, Oviedo-Joekes E

    Read More