Publications

The CNODES network of researchers, trainees, and analysts conduct studies using administrative healthcare data in response to queries from Canadian regulators. The results of these studies are published in open-access academic journals. CNODES also publishes a selection of its methodological advances, knowledge translation initiatives, and trainee projects.

Platt RW, Dormuth CR, Chateau D, Filion K. Observational studies of drug safety in multi-database studies: Methodological challenges and opportunities. EGEMS (Wash DC). 2016 May 18;4(1):1221.

Filion KB, Suissa S. DPP-4 inhibitors and heart failure: Some reassurance, some uncertainty. Diabetes Care. 2016 May; 39(5):735–737.

Bilandzic A, Fitzpatrick T, Rosella L, Henry D. Risk of bias in systematic reviews of non-randomized studies of adverse cardiovascular effects of thiazolidinediones and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors: application of a new Cochrane risk of bias tool. PLoS medicine. 2016 Apr 5;13(4):e1001987.

Abrahamowicz M, Bjerre LM, Beauchamp ME, LeLorier J, Burne R. The missing cause approach to unmeasured confounding in pharmacoepidemiology. Stat Med. 2016 Mar 30;35(7):1001-16.

Tuccori M, Filion KB, Yin H, Yu OH, Platt RW, Azoulay L. Pioglitazone use and bladder cancer risk: a population-based cohort study. BMJ. 2016 Mar 30;352:i1541.

Filion KB, Azoulay L, Platt R, Dahl M, Dormuth C, Clemens K, Hu N, Paterson M, Targownik L, Turin T, Udell J, Ernst P; CNODES Investigators. A multicenter observational study of incretin-based drugs and heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2016 Mar 24;374(12):1145-54.

Dormuth C, Filion KB, Platt RW. Likelihood ratio meta-analysis: New motivation and approach for an old method. Contemp Clin Trials. 2016 Mar;47:259-65.

Filion KB, Eberg M, Ernst P. Confounding by drug formulary restriction in pharmacoepidemiologic research. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2016 Mar;25(3):278-86

Wu JW, Filion KB, Azoulay L, Doll MK, Suissa S. Effect of long-acting insulin analogs on the risk of cancer: a systematic review of observational studies. Diabetes Care. 2016 Mar;39(3):486-94.

Guertin JR, Rahme E, Dormuth C, LeLorier J. Head to head Comparison of the propensity score and the high-dimensional propensity score matching methods. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2016 Feb 19;16:22.