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Kim McGrail

Professor, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia
Verified email at ubc.ca
Cited by 6373

Apocalypse no: Population aging and the future of health care systems

RG Evans, KM McGrail, SG Morgan… - Canadian Journal on …, 2001 - cambridge.org
Illness increases with age. All else being equal, an older population has greater needs for
health care. This logic has led to dire predictions of skyrocketing costs “apocalyptic …

Income-related health inequalities in Canada and the United States: a decomposition analysis

KM McGrail, E Van Doorslaer… - … journal of public …, 2009 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We examined income-related inequalities in self-reported health in the United
States and Canada and the extent to which they are associated with individual-level risk …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual visits and patient-centered care: results of a patient survey and observational study

KM McGrail, MA Ahuja, CA Leaver - Journal of medical Internet research, 2017 - jmir.org
Background Virtual visits are clinical interactions in health care that do not involve the patient
and provider being in the same room at the same time. The use of virtual visits is growing …

[HTML][HTML] A Position Statement on Population Data Science: The science of data about people

KM McGrail, K Jones, A Akbari, TD Bennett… - … Journal of Population …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Information is increasingly digital, creating opportunities to respond to pressing issues
about human populations using linked datasets that are large, complex, and diverse. The …

Childhood behavior disorders and injuries among children and youth: a population-based study

JC Brehaut, A Miller, P Raina, KM McGrail - Pediatrics, 2003 - publications.aap.org
Context. While an association between pediatric behavioral disorders and injuries is
generally acknowledged, no studies have measured the risk for injury in the context of a large, …

[HTML][HTML] Abortion safety and use with normally prescribed mifepristone in Canada

…, EK Darling, S Dunn, K McGrail… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In the United States, mifepristone is available for medical abortion (for use with
misoprostol) only with Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) restrictions, despite …

End-of-life cancer care: temporal association between homecare nursing and hospitalizations

H Seow, R Sutradhar, K McGrail… - Journal of palliative …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Objectives: Most cancer patients want to die at home, but scaleable models to achieve this
are not well researched. Our objective was to investigate the temporal association of …

Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia.

K McGrail, B Green, ML Barer, RG Evans… - Age and …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: the consequences of ageing populations for health care costs have become
a concern for governments and health care funders in most countries. However, there is …

The relationship between quality and staffing in long-term care: A systematic review of the literature 2008–2020

S Clemens, W Wodchis, K McGilton, K McGrail… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Higher staffing levels in long-term care have been associated with better outcomes
for residents in several landmark studies. However previous systematic reviews found …

Systematic review of factors associated with antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections

R McKay, A Mah, MR Law, K McGrail… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antibiotic use is a modifiable driver of antibiotic resistance. In many circumstances, antibiotic
use is overly broad or unnecessary. We systematically assessed factors associated with …