Chaim M Bell

Biographic Data

ID5535326
NAMEChaim M Bell
GIVEN NAMESChaim M
FAMILY NAMEBell
SIGNATUREBELL C M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0002-3778-9469
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • Association Between Attending Physicians’ Rates of Referral to Palliative Care and Location of Death in Hospitalized Adults With Serious Illness

    Kieran L Quinn, Thérèse A Stukel et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2021References: 42

    BACKGROUND: Patients who receive palliative care are less likely to die in hospital. OBJECTIVE: To measure the association between physician rates of referral to palliative care and location of death in hospitalized adults with serious illness. RESEARCH DESIGN: Population-based decedent cohort study using linked health administrative data in Ontario, Canada. SUBJECTS: A total of 7866 physicians paired with 130,862 hospitalized adults in their las…

  • Language Barriers Among the Foreign-Born in Canada

    Open AccessKaren Okrainec, Gillian L Booth et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2015

  • The Relationship Between Variations in Antipsychotic Prescribing Across Nursing Homes and Short-Term Mortality

    Susan E Bronskill, Paula A Rochon et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2009References: 34

    BACKGROUND: High rates of antipsychotic drug prescribing in nursing homes can signal poor quality processes, but also raise concerns about drug safety due to the mortality risk of this therapy. Determining the extent to which variations in antipsychotic use are a symptom of facility-level quality problems as compared with a drug safety issue is important for selecting the correct interventions to effect change. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether nur…

  • Population mortality during the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Toronto

    Open AccessSung-Wook Hwang, Angela M Cheung et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    Limitations on access to medical services during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto had no observable impact on short-term population mortality. Effects on morbidity and long-term mortality were not assessed. Efforts to contain future infectious disease outbreaks due to influenza or other agents must consider effects on access to essential health care services

  • Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish

    Arlene S Bierman, Chaim M BellARTICLEMedical Care2004References: 19

    From the *Facility of Nursing, and the †Facility of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ‡the Inner City Health Research Unit St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; and §the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada. Reprints: Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS, Inner City Health Research Unit, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5B 1W8. E-mail: [email protected]

  • Economic Messages in Prescription Drug Advertisements in Medical Journals

    Peter J Neumann, Kara Zivin Bambauer et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2002References: 21

    BACKGROUND: The extent to which pharmaceutical companies promote the economic advantages of their products in advertisements in medical journals, and whether such claims are supported by evidence, has not been quantified. Our objectives were to examine how often prescription drug advertisements in leading medical journals contain economic messages, and to determine the types of promotional claims made and whether supporting evidence is provided. …

  • Aetiological factors in cutaneous malignant melanomas seen at a UK skin clinic

    Chaim M Bell, C Jenkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1987References: 6

    A clinic-based case-control study was set up in 1961 to examine a variety of aetiological factors in malignant melanoma cases compared with controls with other non-malignant skin conditions. The 268 cases and 1577 controls showed odds ratios of 1.9 for red hair, 2.0 for skin that burns in the sun, and no difference between indoor and outdoor workers or between Celts and other Europeans, consistent with the results of more recent studies. Exposure…