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S M Sharp

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Sharp S, McLellan W, Rotstein D, Costidis A, Barco S, Durham K, et al.
Dis Aquat Organ . 2019 Jun; 135(1):1-31. PMID: 31219432
Seventy mortalities of North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis (NARW) were documented between 2003 and 2018 from Florida, USA, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. These included 29 adults,...
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Fisher E, WENNBERG J, Stukel T, Skinner J, Sharp S, Freeman J, et al.
Health Serv Res . 2000 Feb; 34(6):1351-62. PMID: 10654835
Objective: To explore whether geographic variations in Medicare hospital utilization rates are due to differences in local hospital capacity, after controlling for socioeconomic status and disease burden, and to determine...
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Birkmeyer J, Finlayson S, Tosteson A, Sharp S, Warshaw A, Fisher E
Surgery . 1999 Mar; 125(3):250-6. PMID: 10076608
Background: Reports of better results at national referral centers than at low-volume community hospitals have prompted calls for regionalizing pancreaticoduodenectomy (the Whipple procedure). We examined the relationship between hospital volume...
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Birkmeyer J, Sharp S, Finlayson S, Fisher E, WENNBERG J
Surgery . 1998 Nov; 124(5):917-23. PMID: 9823407
Background: Rates of many surgical procedures vary widely across both large and small geographic regions. Although variation in health care use has long been described, few studies have systematically compared...
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Pritchard R, Fisher E, Teno J, Sharp S, Reding D, Knaus W, et al.
J Am Geriatr Soc . 1998 Oct; 46(10):1242-50. PMID: 9777906
Objective: To examine the degree to which variation in place of death is explained by differences in the characteristics of patients, including preferences for dying at home, and by differences...
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Fisher E, WENNBERG J, Stukel T, Sharp S
N Engl J Med . 1994 Oct; 331(15):989-95. PMID: 8084356
Background: Geographic variations in the use of hospital services are associated with differences in the availability of hospital beds. There continues to be uncertainty about the extent to which unmeasured...
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Sharp S, Sawada S, Segar D, Ryan T, Kovacs R, Fineberg N, et al.
J Am Coll Cardiol . 1994 Oct; 24(4):934-9. PMID: 7930227
Objectives: This study attempted to determine the safety and accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography for detection of coronary artery disease in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Background: Detection of regional wall...
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Stukel T, Glynn R, Fisher E, Sharp S, Lu-Yao G, WENNBERG J
Stat Med . 1994 Sep; 13(17):1781-91. PMID: 7997711
Longitudinal studies are often concerned with estimating the rate of an event that may recur. Examples are nonmelanoma skin cancer rates, screening rates for breast cancer using mammography and hospital...
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Glynn R, Stukel T, Sharp S, Bubolz T, Freeman J, Fisher E
Am J Epidemiol . 1993 Apr; 137(7):776-86. PMID: 8484369
Usual approaches for estimating the variance of a standardized rate may not be applicable to rates of recurrent events. Where individuals are prone to repeated health events, Greenwood and Yule...
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Roos L, Fisher E, Brazauskas R, Sharp S, Shapiro E
Health Aff (Millwood) . 1992 Jan; 11(2):56-72. PMID: 1500060
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