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Ross Upshur

Family and Community Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Verified email at utoronto.ca
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Principles for the justification of public health intervention

REG Upshur - Canadian journal of public health, 2002 - Springer
Upshur is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award
and a Research Scholarship from the Department of Family and Community Medicine, …

Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto

…, AS Daar, BM Dickens, SK MacRae, REG Upshur… - Bmj, 2003 - bmj.com
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the Toronto area earlier this
year forced medical and government workers to make hard choices, often with limited …

[HTML][HTML] Allocation techniques for balance at baseline in cluster randomized trials: a methodological review

…, J Barnsley, JM Grimshaw, BR Shah, K Tu, R Upshur… - Trials, 2012 - Springer
Reviews have repeatedly noted important methodological issues in the conduct and reporting
of cluster randomized controlled trials (C-RCTs). These reviews usually focus on whether …

[HTML][HTML] Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of Covid-19

EJ Emanuel, G Persad, R Upshur… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
… Estimates of the reproductive number (R) of SARS-CoV-2 show that at the beginning of
the epidemic, each infected person spreads the virus to at least two others, on average. A …

Psychosocial effects of SARS on hospital staff: survey of a large tertiary care institution

…, S Hanjrah, A Hussain, S Makhlouf, REG Upshur - Cmaj, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
Background: The outbreak of SARS in 2003 had a dramatic effect on the health care system
in Toronto. The main objective of this study was to investigate the psychosocial effects …

Evidence-based health policy: context and utilisation

MJ Dobrow, V Goel, REG Upshur - Social science & medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
Evidence-based decision-making is centred on the justification of decisions. In the shift from
an individual-clinical to a population-policy level, the decision-making context becomes …

[HTML][HTML] Grand challenges in global health: community engagement in research in developing countries

PO Tindana, JA Singh, CS Tracy, REG Upshur… - Plos …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
… G Upshur, … G Upshur, … Ross Upshur receives support from the University of Toronto
through a Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research, and from the Sunnybrook …

[HTML][HTML] Pandemic influenza preparedness: an ethical framework to guide decision-making

AK Thompson, K Faith, JL Gibson, REG Upshur - BMC medical ethics, 2006 - Springer
… Ross Upshur is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research. We also
thank our three peer reviewers, Angela Bate, Ezekiel … Ross EG Upshur … Ross EG Upshur

Guillain-Barré syndrome after influenza vaccination in adults: a population-based study

…, RE Upshur, DG Manuel, R Moineddin… - Archives of internal …, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
… The autoregressive R 2 was 0.17, indicating no evidence of seasonality. The intervention
model showed no statistically significant increase in admissions because of GBS after …

[HTML][HTML] Priority setting: what constitutes success? A conceptual framework for successful priority setting

SL Sibbald, PA Singer, R Upshur, DK Martin - BMC health services …, 2009 - Springer
Background The sustainability of healthcare systems worldwide is threatened by a growing
demand for services and expensive innovative technologies. Decision makers struggle in …