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Merrick Zwarenstein is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has a research focus across multiple areas of medicine and health professions. Their work spans general health professions, economics and econometrics, statistics, probability and uncertainty, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology. The scientist's research topics cover health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, health policy implementation science, chronic disease management strategies, primary care and health outcomes, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, and interprofessional education and collaboration.

Frequent publication venues for Merrick Zwarenstein include:

  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
  • BMJ
  • Implementation Science
  • BMJ Open

Among the recent papers associated with this researcher are:

  • CONSORT extension for the reporting of randomised controlled trials conducted using cohorts and routinely collected data (CONSORT-ROUTINE): checklist with explanation and elaboration, 2021, BMJ
  • Artificial Intelligence and Primary Care Research: A Scoping Review, 2020, The Annals of Family Medicine
  • Personalised cooler dialysate for patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis (MyTEMP): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review, 2022, Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Is primary health care ready for artificial intelligence? What do primary health care stakeholders say?, 2022, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Frequent co-authors in this researcher's publications include:

  • Monica Taljaard
  • Lars G. Hemkens
  • Daniel J. Lizotte
  • Edmund Juszczak
  • Bridget Ryan

The main fields of study for Merrick Zwarenstein consist of medicine and health professions, with a significant concentration on general health professions and specialized subfields such as epidemiology and health economics.

Best Publications

  • Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes (update)

    Scott Reeves;Laure Perrier;Joanne Goldman;Della Freeth

  • Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement.

    Merrick Zwarenstein;Shaun Treweek;Joel J Gagnier;Douglas G Altman

  • A pragmatic–explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers

    Kevin E. Thorpe;Merrick Zwarenstein;Andrew D. Oxman;Shaun Treweek

  • Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice-based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.

    Merrick Zwarenstein;Joanne Goldman;Scott Reeves

  • The PRECIS-2 tool: designing trials that are fit for purpose

    Kirsty Loudon;Shaun Treweek;Frank Sullivan;Peter T Donnan

  • Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes

    Scott Reeves;Ferruccio Pelone;Reema Harrison;Joanne Goldman

  • Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases.

    Simon Lewin;Susan Munabi-Babigumira;Claire Glenton;Karen Daniels

  • The case for knowledge translation: shortening the journey from evidence to effect.

    Dave Davis;Mike Evans;Alex Jadad;Laure Perrier

  • Lay health workers in primary and community health care.

    S A Lewin;J Dick;P Pond;M Zwarenstein

  • Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care: Reeves/Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care

    Scott Reeves;Simon Lewin;Sherry Espin;Merrick Zwarenstein

  • Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations: A systematic review

    Simon Lewin;Zoe Christina Skea;Vikki Ann Entwistle;Merrick Zwarenstein

  • Making trials matter: pragmatic and explanatory trials and the problem of applicability

    Shaun Treweek;Merrick Zwarenstein;Merrick Zwarenstein

  • The effectiveness of interprofessional education: Key findings from a new systematic review

    Scott Reeves;Merrick Zwarenstein;Joanne Goldman;Hugh Barr

  • Systematic reviews of the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies and programmes

    Jeremy Grimshaw;L. M. McAuley;L. Bero;R. Grilli

  • Randomised controlled trial of self-supervised and directly observed treatment of tuberculosis

    Merrick Zwarenstein;Jan H Schoeman;Caesar Vundule;Carl J Lombard

  • A scoping review to improve conceptual clarity of interprofessional interventions

    Scott Reeves;Joanne Goldman;John Gilbert;Joshua Tepper

  • Task shifting of antiretroviral treatment from doctors to primary-care nurses in South Africa (STRETCH): a pragmatic, parallel, cluster-randomised trial.

    Lara Fairall;Max O Bachmann;Carl Lombard;Venessa Timmerman

  • Knowledge translation and interprofessional collaboration: Where the rubber of evidence-based care hits the road of teamwork

    Merrick Zwarenstein;Scott Reeves

  • Interventions to promote collaboration between nurses and doctors

    Merrick Zwarenstein;Wendy Bryant

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy M. Grimshaw
Jeremy M. Grimshaw Ottawa Hospital
Scott Reeves
Scott Reeves St George's, University of London
Simon Lewin
Simon Lewin South African Medical Research Council
Eric D. Bateman
Eric D. Bateman University of Cape Town
Carl Lombard
Carl Lombard Stellenbosch University
Ian D. Graham
Ian D. Graham Ottawa Hospital
Sharon E. Straus
Sharon E. Straus University of Toronto
Martin P Eccles
Martin P Eccles Newcastle University
Alexandra Martiniuk
Alexandra Martiniuk University of Sydney
Catherine Mathews
Catherine Mathews South African Medical Research Council

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