Robyn Tamblyn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1730627 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robyn Tamblyn |
| PRENOMES | Robyn |
| SOBRENOME | Tamblyn |
| ASSINATURA | TAMBLYN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0134-6954 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Association of Antidepressant Prescription Filling With Treatment Indication and Prior Prescription Filling Behaviors and Medication Experiences
BACKGROUND: Given the wide range of uses for antidepressants, understanding indication-specific patterns of prescription filling for antidepressants provide valuable insights into how patients use these medications in real-world settings. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the association of antidepressant prescription filling with treatment indication, as well as prior prescription filling behaviors and medication experience…
Predatory journals
Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.
Validation of Diagnostic Groups Based on Health Care Utilization Data Should Adjust for Sampling Strategy
OBJECTIVE: Valid measurement of outcomes such as disease prevalence using health care utilization data is fundamental to the implementation of a "learning health system." Definitions of such outcomes can be complex, based on multiple diagnostic codes. The literature on validating such data demonstrates a lack of awareness of the need for a stratified sampling design and corresponding statistical methods. We propose a method for validating the mea…
A qualitative study of health information technology in the Canadian public health system
The application of HIT in public health should focus on automating core processes and identifying innovative applications of HIT to advance public health outcomes. The Public Health Agency of Canada should develop the expertise to lead public health HIT policy and should establish a mechanism for coordinating public health stakeholder input on HIT policy
Patient, physician, encounter, and billing characteristics predict the accuracy of syndromic surveillance case definitions
Many physician, patient, encounter, and billing characteristics associated with the PPV of surveillance case definition are accessible to public health, and could be used to reduce false-positive alerts by surveillance systems, either by focusing on the data most likely to be accurate, or by adjusting the observed data for known biases in diagnosis reporting and performing surveillance using the adjusted values
Accuracy of syndrome definitions based on diagnoses in physician claims
Future research should identify physician, patient, and encounter characteristics associated with the accuracy of diagnostic codes in physician claims. This would enable public health to improve syndromic surveillance, either by focusing on physician claims whose diagnostic code is more likely to be accurate, or by using all physician claims and weighing each according to the likelihood that its diagnostic code is accurate
Are Physicians With Better Clinical Skills on Licensing Examinations Less Likely to Prescribe Antibiotics for Viral Respiratory Infections in Ambulatory Care Settings
BACKGROUND: Viral respiratory infections (VRIs) are a common reason for ambulatory visits, and 35% are treated with an antibiotic. Antibiotic use for VRIs is not recommended, and it promotes antibiotic resistance. Effective patient-physician communication is critical to address this problem. Recognizing the importance of physician communication skills, licensure examinations were reformed in the United States and Canada to evaluate these skills. …
Electronic prescriptions and disruptions to the jurisdiction of community pharmacists
Caractéristiques des médecins prescrivant des psychotropes davantage aux femmes qu’aux hommes
Les différences observées dans l'état de santé et l'utilisation des services médicaux, selon le sexe, se sont avérées insuffisantes pour expliquer une plus grande consommation de psychotropes chez les femmes que chez les hommes dans les pays industrialisés. Nous avons testé l'hypothèse selon laquelle les habitudes de prescription des médecins expliquent une partie importante de cette observation. Nous démontrons, à l'aide des données de la Régie …
Does the Addition of Functional Status Indicators to Case-Mix Adjustment Indices Improve Prediction of Hospitalization, Institutionalization, and Death in the Elderly
BACKGROUND: Case-mix adjustment is widely used in health services research to ensure that groups being compared are equivalent on variables predicting outcome. There has been considerable development and testing of comorbidity indices derived from diagnostic codes recorded in administrative databases, but increasingly, the benefit of clinical information and patient reported ratings of health and functional status is being recognized. One type of…
Physician and Practice Characteristics Associated with the Early Utilization of New Prescription Drugs
BACKGROUND: Prescription of new drugs contributes to substantial increases in annual drug expenditures. A small proportion of physicians appear to be early users of new prescription drugs and little is known about their characteristics. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the initial utilization rate of new prescription drugs among physicians, and the physician and practice characteristics associated with early use. DESIGN: Cumulative prospective assessment o…
Factors Associated With Pattern of Care Before Surgery for Breast Cancer in Quebec Between 1992 and 1997
BACKGROUND: Practice guidelines for breast cancer emphasize the importance of establishing an accurate diagnosis using a minimum number of procedures and selecting optimal treatment regimens. Understanding the determinants of waiting time is essential to develop optimum interventions to reduce delay. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to estimate the extent to which variability in 1) the number of procedures before surgery and 2) waiting ti…
Adverse Events Associated With Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing Among Poor and Elderly Persons
CONTEXT: Rising costs of medications and inequities in access have sparked calls for drug policy reform in the United States and Canada. Control of drug expenditures by prescription cost-sharing for elderly persons and poor persons is a contentious issue because little is known about the health impact in these subgroups. OBJECTIVES: To determine (1) the impact of introducing prescription drug cost-sharing on use of essential and less essential dr…
Medication Use in the Seniors Population
Robyn Tamblyn, Medication Use in the Seniors Population: Optimization of Physician Prescribing as a Means of Preventing Drug-Related Illness, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 23, Special Joint Issue: Aging / Vieillissement (Spring, 1997), pp. 147-161
Exposure to varying levels of contaminants and symptoms among workers in two office buildings
OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that exposure to contaminants would be associated with symptoms reported by office workers. METHODS: In two mechanically ventilated office buildings in. Montreal, the outdoor air supply was manipulated for 6 weeks, while symptoms were reported and environmental parameters were measured at multiple sites. RESULTS: Contaminant concentrations varied considerably, in part related to experimental changes in outdoor air supp…
Electronic prescriptions and disruptions to the jurisdiction of community pharmacists
Exposure to varying levels of contaminants and symptoms among workers in two office buildings
OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that exposure to contaminants would be associated with symptoms reported by office workers. METHODS: In two mechanically ventilated office buildings in. Montreal, the outdoor air supply was manipulated for 6 weeks, while symptoms were reported and environmental parameters were measured at multiple sites. RESULTS: Contaminant concentrations varied considerably, in part related to experimental changes in outdoor air supp…
Exposure to varying levels of contaminants and symptoms among workers in two office buildings
OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that exposure to contaminants would be associated with symptoms reported by office workers. METHODS: In two mechanically ventilated office buildings in. Montreal, the outdoor air supply was manipulated for 6 weeks, while symptoms were reported and environmental parameters were measured at multiple sites. RESULTS: Contaminant concentrations varied considerably, in part related to experimental changes in outdoor air supp…
Medication Use in the Seniors Population
Robyn Tamblyn, Medication Use in the Seniors Population: Optimization of Physician Prescribing as a Means of Preventing Drug-Related Illness, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 23, Special Joint Issue: Aging / Vieillissement (Spring, 1997), pp. 147-161
Adverse Events Associated With Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing Among Poor and Elderly Persons
CONTEXT: Rising costs of medications and inequities in access have sparked calls for drug policy reform in the United States and Canada. Control of drug expenditures by prescription cost-sharing for elderly persons and poor persons is a contentious issue because little is known about the health impact in these subgroups. OBJECTIVES: To determine (1) the impact of introducing prescription drug cost-sharing on use of essential and less essential dr…
Physician and Practice Characteristics Associated with the Early Utilization of New Prescription Drugs
BACKGROUND: Prescription of new drugs contributes to substantial increases in annual drug expenditures. A small proportion of physicians appear to be early users of new prescription drugs and little is known about their characteristics. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the initial utilization rate of new prescription drugs among physicians, and the physician and practice characteristics associated with early use. DESIGN: Cumulative prospective assessment o…
Factors Associated With Pattern of Care Before Surgery for Breast Cancer in Quebec Between 1992 and 1997
BACKGROUND: Practice guidelines for breast cancer emphasize the importance of establishing an accurate diagnosis using a minimum number of procedures and selecting optimal treatment regimens. Understanding the determinants of waiting time is essential to develop optimum interventions to reduce delay. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to estimate the extent to which variability in 1) the number of procedures before surgery and 2) waiting ti…
Does the Addition of Functional Status Indicators to Case-Mix Adjustment Indices Improve Prediction of Hospitalization, Institutionalization, and Death in the Elderly
BACKGROUND: Case-mix adjustment is widely used in health services research to ensure that groups being compared are equivalent on variables predicting outcome. There has been considerable development and testing of comorbidity indices derived from diagnostic codes recorded in administrative databases, but increasingly, the benefit of clinical information and patient reported ratings of health and functional status is being recognized. One type of…
Caractéristiques des médecins prescrivant des psychotropes davantage aux femmes qu’aux hommes
Les différences observées dans l'état de santé et l'utilisation des services médicaux, selon le sexe, se sont avérées insuffisantes pour expliquer une plus grande consommation de psychotropes chez les femmes que chez les hommes dans les pays industrialisés. Nous avons testé l'hypothèse selon laquelle les habitudes de prescription des médecins expliquent une partie importante de cette observation. Nous démontrons, à l'aide des données de la Régie …
Accuracy of syndrome definitions based on diagnoses in physician claims
Future research should identify physician, patient, and encounter characteristics associated with the accuracy of diagnostic codes in physician claims. This would enable public health to improve syndromic surveillance, either by focusing on physician claims whose diagnostic code is more likely to be accurate, or by using all physician claims and weighing each according to the likelihood that its diagnostic code is accurate
Are Physicians With Better Clinical Skills on Licensing Examinations Less Likely to Prescribe Antibiotics for Viral Respiratory Infections in Ambulatory Care Settings
BACKGROUND: Viral respiratory infections (VRIs) are a common reason for ambulatory visits, and 35% are treated with an antibiotic. Antibiotic use for VRIs is not recommended, and it promotes antibiotic resistance. Effective patient-physician communication is critical to address this problem. Recognizing the importance of physician communication skills, licensure examinations were reformed in the United States and Canada to evaluate these skills. …
Electronic prescriptions and disruptions to the jurisdiction of community pharmacists
Patient, physician, encounter, and billing characteristics predict the accuracy of syndromic surveillance case definitions
Many physician, patient, encounter, and billing characteristics associated with the PPV of surveillance case definition are accessible to public health, and could be used to reduce false-positive alerts by surveillance systems, either by focusing on the data most likely to be accurate, or by adjusting the observed data for known biases in diagnosis reporting and performing surveillance using the adjusted values
A qualitative study of health information technology in the Canadian public health system
The application of HIT in public health should focus on automating core processes and identifying innovative applications of HIT to advance public health outcomes. The Public Health Agency of Canada should develop the expertise to lead public health HIT policy and should establish a mechanism for coordinating public health stakeholder input on HIT policy
Validation of Diagnostic Groups Based on Health Care Utilization Data Should Adjust for Sampling Strategy
OBJECTIVE: Valid measurement of outcomes such as disease prevalence using health care utilization data is fundamental to the implementation of a "learning health system." Definitions of such outcomes can be complex, based on multiple diagnostic codes. The literature on validating such data demonstrates a lack of awareness of the need for a stratified sampling design and corresponding statistical methods. We propose a method for validating the mea…
Predatory journals
Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.
Association of Antidepressant Prescription Filling With Treatment Indication and Prior Prescription Filling Behaviors and Medication Experiences
BACKGROUND: Given the wide range of uses for antidepressants, understanding indication-specific patterns of prescription filling for antidepressants provide valuable insights into how patients use these medications in real-world settings. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the association of antidepressant prescription filling with treatment indication, as well as prior prescription filling behaviors and medication experience…
Medicine (12 obras) · Medical prescription (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Family medicine (5 obras) · Internal Medicine (5 obras) · Internal Medicine (5 obras) · Medication Adherence and Compliance (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras) · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (3 obras)