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Paula A. Rochon

Paula A. Rochon

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Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
31898
World Ranking
9723
National Ranking
389

Overview

Paula A. Rochon is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes in medicine with a focus on geriatrics and health professions. Their body of work spans over 201 publications, covering various interconnected fields such as general health professions, health, geriatrics and gerontology, economics and econometrics, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main research topics explored by Paula A. Rochon include health disparities and outcomes, pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, geriatric care and nursing homes, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, COVID-19 and mental health, frailty in older adults, and the broader impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Paula A. Rochon include:

  • For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths (2020), published in Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Polypharmacy, inappropriate prescribing, and deprescribing in older people: through a sex and gender lens (2021), published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Loneliness among older adults in the community during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey in Canada (2021), published in BMJ Open
  • Evaluation of a Common Prescribing Cascade of Calcium Channel Blockers and Diuretics in Older Adults With Hypertension (2020), published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Sex- and gender-related differences in psoriatic arthritis (2022), published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Paula A. Rochon include:

  • Nathan M. Stall
  • Rachel Savage
  • Jerry H. Gurwitz
  • Susan E. Bronskill
  • Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher

The primary venues for publishing their research are diverse and include leading journals such as the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, BMJ Open, JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, and European Geriatric Medicine. The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society stands out as the most frequent publication venue, with 52 papers attributed to them.

Best Publications

  • Preventing Pressure Ulcers: A Systematic Review

    Madhuri Reddy;Sudeep S. Gill;Paula A. Rochon

  • Antipsychotic Drug Use and Mortality in Older Adults with Dementia

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

  • Optimising drug treatment for elderly people: the prescribing cascade

    Paula A Rochon;Jerry H Gurwitz

  • Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 2. Assessing potential for confounding

    Muhammad Mamdani;Kathy Sykora;Ping Li;Sharon-Lise T Normand

  • Reporting randomized, controlled trials of herbal interventions: an elaborated CONSORT statement

    Joel J. Gagnier;Heather Boon;Paula Rochon;David Moher

  • Differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and cancer-specific survival by race and ethnicity in the United States.

    Javaid Iqbal;Ophira Ginsburg;Paula A. Rochon;Ping Sun

  • Cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors versus non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and congestive heart failure outcomes in elderly patients: a population-based cohort study.

    Muhammad Mamdani;David N Juurlink;David N Juurlink;Douglas S Lee;Paula A Rochon

  • The incidence of adverse drug events in two large academic long-term care facilities

    Jerry H. Gurwitz;Terry S. Field;James Judge;Paula A. Rochon

  • The prevalence of low back pain in the elderly. A systematic review of the literature.

    Hartley B. Bressler;Warren J. Keyes;Paula A. Rochon;Elizabeth Badley

  • A study of manufacturer-supported trials of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of arthritis

    Paula A. Rochon;Jerry H. Gurwitz;Robert W. Simms;Paul R. Fortin

  • Atypical antipsychotic drugs and risk of ischaemic stroke: population based retrospective cohort study

    Sudeep S. Gill;Paula A. Rochon;Nathan Herrmann;Philip E. Lee

  • The Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support on the Rates of Adverse Drug Events: A Systematic Review

    Jesse I. Wolfstadt;Jerry H. Gurwitz;Terry S. Field;Monica Lee

  • Observational study of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in elderly patients given selective cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors or conventional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

    Muhammad Mamdani;Paula A Rochon;David N Juurlink;Alex Kopp

  • 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

  • Antidepressants for agitation and psychosis in dementia

    Dallas P Seitz;Nikesh Adunuri;Sudeep S. Gill;Andrea Gruneir

  • Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: A Systematic Review

    Madhuri Reddy;Sudeep S. Gill;Sunila R. Kalkar;Wei Wu

  • Nursing home profit status and quality of care: is there any evidence of an association?

    Michael P. Hillmer;Walter P. Wodchis;Sudeep S. Gill;Geoffrey M. Anderson

  • Comorbid Illness is Associated with Survival and Length of Hospital Stay in Patients with Chronic Disability A Prospective Comparison of Three Comorbidity Indices

    Paula A. Rochon;Jeffrey N. Katz;Linda A. Morrow;Regina Mcglinchey-Berroth

  • Effect of selective cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors and naproxen on short-term risk of acute myocardial infarction in the elderly.

    Muhammad Mamdani;Paula Rochon;David N. Juurlink;Geoffrey M. Anderson

  • Principles of Pharmacology

    Jerry Avorn;Jerry H. Gurwitz;Paula A. Rochon

Frequent Co-Authors

Chaim M. Bell
Chaim M. Bell University of Toronto
Peter C. Austin
Peter C. Austin University of Toronto
Jerry H. Gurwitz
Jerry H. Gurwitz University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Nathan Herrmann
Nathan Herrmann Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Muhammad Mamdani
Muhammad Mamdani University of Toronto
Sharon-Lise T. Normand
Sharon-Lise T. Normand Harvard University
David L. Streiner
David L. Streiner University of Toronto
Steven A. Narod
Steven A. Narod University of Toronto
David N. Juurlink
David N. Juurlink University of Toronto
Douglas S. Lee
Douglas S. Lee University Health Network

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