Kevin E Thorpe

Biographic Data

ID7192709
NAMEKevin E Thorpe
GIVEN NAMESKevin E
FAMILY NAMEThorpe
SIGNATURETHORPE K E
AFFILIATIONSSt. Michael's Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-7586-3893
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Quantitative assessment of national essential medicines lists processes

    Open AccessEkanki Saxena, Jillian C Kohler et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    The National Essential Medicines List (NEML) selection process is a foundational component of an essential medicines based policy, and the NEML itself is a key policy tool. The World Health Organization (WHO) provides guidance for policy development that aligns with the Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) framework, along with a model Essential Medicines List (EML) to support NEML selection process development. An effective selection process …

  • Effect of Free Medicine Distribution on Health Care Costs in Canada Over 3 Years

    Open AccessNavindra Persaud, Nav Persaud et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2023

    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02744963

  • Building on existing tools to improve chronic disease prevention and screening in public health

    Open AccessAïsha Lofters, Mary Ann O’Brien et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    NCT03052959 , registered February 10, 2017

  • Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood overweight

    Open AccessShelley M Vanderhout, Mary Aglipay et al.ARTICLE2020

  • A qualitative study to understand parent and physician perspectives about cow’s milk fat for children

    Open AccessShelley Vanderhout, Shelley M Vanderhout et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective: Consensus guidelines recommend that children consume reduced-fat (0·1–2 %) cow’s milk at age 2 years to reduce the risk of obesity. Behaviours and perspectives of parents and physicians about cow’s milk fat for children are unknown. Objectives were to: (i) understand what cow’s milk fat recommendations physicians provide to 2-year-old children; (ii) assess the acceptability of reduced-fat v . whole cow’s milk in children’s diets by par…

  • Hydroxyvitamin D supplementation and health-service utilization for upper respiratory tract infection in young children

    Open AccessJessica A Omand, Jessica Omand et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective Upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) are the most common and costly condition of childhood. Low vitamin D levels have been hypothesized as a risk factor for URTI. The primary objective was to determine if serum vitamin D levels were associated with health-service utilization (HSU) for URTI including hospital admission, emergency department visits and outpatient sick visits. The secondary objectives were to determine whether oral vi…

  • The PRECIS-2 tool

    Open AccessKirsty Loudon, Shaun Treweek et al.ARTICLEBMJ2015

    PRECIS is a tool to help trialists make design decisions consistent with the intended purpose of their trial. This paper gives guidance on how to use an improved, validated version, PRECIS-2, which has been developed with the help of over 80 international trialists, clinicians, and policymakers. Keeping the original simple wheel format, PRECIS-2 has nine domains—eligibility criteria, recruitment, setting, organisation, flexibility (delivery), fle…

  • Non-Western immigrant children have lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D than children from Western families

    Open AccessJessica A Omand, Jessica Omand et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective To determine if children aged 1–6 years from non-Western immigrant families have lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels than children from Western-born families and examine which factors influence this relationship. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Toronto, Canada. Subjects Healthy children ( n 1540) recruited through the TARGet Kids! practice-based research network. Serum 25(OH)D concentrations of non-Western immigrants …

  • Accuracy of Physician Self-assessment Compared With Observed Measures of Competence

    David A Davis, Paul E Mazmanian et al.ARTICLEJAMA2006

    CONTEXT: Core physician activities of lifelong learning, continuing medical education credit, relicensure, specialty recertification, and clinical competence are linked to the abilities of physicians to assess their own learning needs and choose educational activities that meet these needs. OBJECTIVE: To determine how accurately physicians self-assess compared with external observations of their competence. DATA SOURCES: The electronic databases …