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Overview

Chaim M. Bell is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a total of 183 publications. Their research spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ophthalmology, Oncology, and Epidemiology.

The main topics covered in Bell's work include:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Bell has published research in a variety of journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • PLoS ONE
  • CMAJ Open
  • Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology
  • JAMA Network Open
  • CHEST Journal

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Bell include:

  • Association of Receipt of Palliative Care Interventions With Health Care Use, Quality of Life, and Symptom Burden Among Adults With Chronic Noncancer Illness, 2020, JAMA
  • Association between palliative care and healthcare outcomes among adults with terminal non-cancer illness: population based matched cohort study, 2020, BMJ
  • Comparison of Palliative Care Delivery in the Last Year of Life Between Adults With Terminal Noncancer Illness or Cancer, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Nephrologist Follow-Up versus Usual Care after an Acute Kidney Injury Hospitalization (FUSION): A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2021, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of an antimicrobial stewardship program in primary care: A qualitative study, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bell include:

  • Kieran L. Quinn
  • Thérèse A. Stukel
  • David R. Urbach
  • Allan S. Detsky
  • Nancy N. Baxter

Bell has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. One such book is Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock, published in 2023 by the State University of New York Press.

Best Publications

  • Mortality among patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays.

    Chaim M. Bell;Donald A. Redelmeier

  • Derivation and validation of an index to predict early death or unplanned readmission after discharge from hospital to the community

    Carl van Walraven;Irfan A. Dhalla;Chaim Bell;Edward Etchells

  • Long-term analgesic use after low-risk surgery: a retrospective cohort study.

    Asim Alam;Tara Gomes;Hong Zheng;Muhammad M. Mamdani

  • Antipsychotic Drug Use and Mortality in Older Adults with Dementia

    Sudeep S. Gill;Susan E. Bronskill;Sharon-Lise T. Normand;Geoffrey M. Anderson

  • Hospital Readmission in General Medicine Patients: A Prediction Model

    Omar Hasan;Omar Hasan;David O. Meltzer;Shimon A. Shaykevich;Chaim M. Bell

  • Bias in published cost effectiveness studies: systematic review

    Chaim M Bell;David R Urbach;Joel G Ray;Ahmed Bayoumi

  • Syncope and its consequences in patients with dementia receiving cholinesterase inhibitors: a population-based cohort study.

    Sudeep S. Gill;Geoffrey M. Anderson;Hadas D. Fischer;Chaim M. Bell

  • Gastrointestinal Adverse Events with Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate (Kayexalate) Use: A Systematic Review

    Ziv Harel;Shai Harel;Prakesh S. Shah;Prakesh S. Shah;Ron Wald

  • Systematic Overview of Cost-Utility Assessments in Oncology

    C.C. Earle;R.H. Chapman;C.S. Baker;C.M. Bell

  • The 2008 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part 1 – blood pressure measurement, diagnosis and assessment of risk

    Raj S. Padwal;Brenda R. Hemmelgarn;Finlay A. McAlister;Donald W. McKay

  • Association of ICU or Hospital Admission With Unintentional Discontinuation of Medications for Chronic Diseases

    Chaim M. Bell;Stacey S. Brener;Nadia Gunraj;Cindy Huo

  • The 2009 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for the management of hypertension: Part 2 – therapy

    Nadia A. Khan;Brenda Hemmelgarn;Robert J. Herman;Chaim M. Bell

  • Impact of Infectious Disease Consultation on Quality of Care, Mortality and Length of Stay in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Results from a Large Multicenter Cohort Study

    Anthony D. Bai;Adrienne Showler;Lisa Burry;Marilyn Steinberg

  • Antipsychotic therapy and short-term serious events in older adults with dementia.

    Paula A. Rochon;Sharon-Lise T. Normand;Tara Gomes;Sudeep S. Gill

  • Brief overview of maternal triglycerides as a risk factor for pre-eclampsia.

    JG Ray;P Diamond;G Singh;CM Bell

  • Metformin Use and All-Cause and Prostate Cancer–Specific Mortality Among Men With Diabetes

    David Margel;David R. Urbach;Lorraine L. Lipscombe;Chaim M. Bell

  • The Quality of Reporting in Published Cost-Utility Analyses, 1976–1997

    Peter J. Neumann;Patricia W. Stone;Richard H. Chapman;Eileen A. Sandberg

  • Nephrologist follow-up improves all-cause mortality of severe acute kidney injury survivors

    Ziv Harel;Ziv Harel;Ron Wald;Ron Wald;Joanne M Bargman;Muhammad Mamdani;Muhammad Mamdani;Muhammad Mamdani

  • The association between caregiver burden and caregiver health-related quality of life in Alzheimer disease.

    Chaim M. Bell;Sally S. Araki;Peter J. Neumann

  • Frequency and pattern of emergency department visits by long-term care residents--a population-based study

    Andrea Gruneir;Chaim M. Bell;Susan E. Bronskill;Michael Schull

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula A. Rochon
Paula A. Rochon University of Toronto
Peter C. Austin
Peter C. Austin University of Toronto
Muhammad Mamdani
Muhammad Mamdani University of Toronto
George Tomlinson
George Tomlinson University of Toronto
Therese A. Stukel
Therese A. Stukel University of Toronto
Peter J. Neumann
Peter J. Neumann University of Bern
Nathan Herrmann
Nathan Herrmann Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Glenn M. Chertow
Glenn M. Chertow Stanford University
Amit X. Garg
Amit X. Garg University of Western Ontario
Donald A. Redelmeier
Donald A. Redelmeier University of Toronto

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