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Lehana Thabane

Lehana Thabane

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Medicine

D-Index
125
Citations
72042
World Ranking
3042
National Ranking
127

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Lehana Thabane is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and contributes extensively to the field of medicine, focusing on a range of subfields and topics related to health systems, clinical trials, and public health. Their research portfolio includes a significant number of publications, particularly in medicine and several sub-disciplines such as public health, surgery, and epidemiology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine

With several subfields contributing to their work, these include:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Surgery
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Epidemiology
  • General Health Professions

Thabane addresses topics such as:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials

Frequent publication venues for Lehana Thabane include:

  • BMJ Open
  • Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • Eye
  • Trials
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Thabane has collaborated extensively with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Gordon Guyatt
  • Sheila Sprague
  • Lawrence Mbuagbaw
  • Mohit Bhandari
  • Zainab Samaan

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Lehana Thabane include:

  • "Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis," 2020, BMJ
  • "Development of the Instrument to assess the Credibility of Effect Modification Analyses (ICEMAN) in randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses," 2020, Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • "Guidelines for Reporting Outcomes in Trial Reports," 2022, JAMA
  • "Effect of early treatment with fluvoxamine on risk of emergency care and hospitalisation among patients with COVID-19: the TOGETHER randomised, platform clinical trial," 2021, The Lancet Global Health
  • "Efficacy and safety of low and very low carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes remission: systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished randomized trial data," 2021, BMJ

In recognition of contributions to statistical sciences, Lehana Thabane was awarded the Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how

    Lehana Thabane;Lehana Thabane;Jinhui Ma;Jinhui Ma;Rong Chu;Rong Chu;Ji Cheng;Ji Cheng

  • CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials.

    Sandra M. Eldridge;Claire L. Chan;Michael J. Campbell;Christine M. Bond

  • Ventilation Strategy Using Low Tidal Volumes, Recruitment Maneuvers, and High Positive End-Expiratory Pressure for Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Maureen O. Meade;Deborah J. Cook;Gordon H. Guyatt;Arthur S. Slutsky

  • Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial

    Richard T Lester;Richard T Lester;Richard T Lester;Paul Ritvo;Edward J. Mills;Antony Kariri

  • Relationship Between Intraoperative Mean Arterial Pressure and Clinical Outcomes After Noncardiac Surgery: Toward an Empirical Definition of Hypotension

    Michael Walsh;Philip J. Devereaux;Amit X. Garg;Andrea Kurz

  • Defining Feasibility and Pilot Studies in Preparation for Randomised Controlled Trials: Development of a Conceptual Framework.

    Sandra M. Eldridge;Gillian A. Lancaster;Michael J. Campbell;Lehana Thabane

  • Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa and North America: a meta-analysis.

    Edward J. Mills;Jean B. Nachega;Jean B. Nachega;Iain Buchan;James Orbinski

  • Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America

    Edward J. Mills;Jean B. Nachega;Iain Buchan;Sonal Singh

  • Association between postoperative troponin levels and 30-day mortality among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery

    P. J. Devereaux;M. T. Chan;P. Alonso-Coello

  • Myocardial Injury after Noncardiac Surgery: A Large, International, Prospective Cohort Study Establishing Diagnostic Criteria, Characteristics, Predictors, and 30-day Outcomes

    Fernando Botto;Pablo Alonso-Coello;Matthew T V Chan;Matthew T V Chan;Juan Carlos Villar

  • Drug treatments for covid-19: living systematic review and network meta-analysis.

    Reed Ac Siemieniuk;Jessica J Bartoszko;Long Ge;Dena Zeraatkar

  • Systematic review of long-term weight loss studies in obese adults: clinical significance and applicability to clinical practice

    J D Douketis;C Macie;L Thabane;D F Williamson

  • Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?

    Kristian Thorlund;P. J. Devereaux;Jørn Wetterslev;Gordon Guyatt

  • A tutorial on sensitivity analyses in clinical trials: the what, why, when and how

    Lehana Thabane;Lawrence Mbuagbaw;Lawrence Mbuagbaw;Shiyuan Zhang;Shiyuan Zhang;Zainab Samaan

  • Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy

    S. S. Jolly;S. Yusuf;B. Meeks;J. Pogue

  • Association of Postoperative High-Sensitivity Troponin Levels With Myocardial Injury and 30-Day Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery.

    P. J. Devereaux;Bruce M. Biccard;Alben Sigamani;Denis Xavier

  • The statistical significance of randomized controlled trial results is frequently fragile: A case for a Fragility Index

    Michael Walsh;Michael Walsh;Sadeesh K. Srinathan;Daniel F. McAuley;Marko Mrkobrada

  • Femoral nerve block improves analgesia outcomes after total knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

    James E. Paul;Aman Arya;Lindsay Hurlburt;Ji Cheng

  • A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis of the Effectiveness of Radioactive Iodine Remnant Ablation for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

    Anna M. Sawka;Kullathorn Thephamongkhol;Melissa Brouwers;Melissa Brouwers;Lehana Thabane;Lehana Thabane

  • Relation between fractures and mortality: results from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study

    George Ioannidis;Alexandra Papaioannou;Wilma M Hopman;Noori Akhtar-Danesh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Adachi
Jonathan D. Adachi McMaster University
Alexandra Papaioannou
Alexandra Papaioannou McMaster University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University
Philip J. Devereaux
Philip J. Devereaux Population Health Research Institute
Mohit Bhandari
Mohit Bhandari McMaster University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Guillaume Paré
Guillaume Paré Population Health Research Institute
Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto

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