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Peter C. Austin

Peter C. Austin

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Medicine
Canada
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
148
Citations
116786
World Ranking
1219
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Peter C. Austin is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans predominantly within the field of Medicine, with a substantial focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Statistics and Probability, Epidemiology, Surgery, and General Health Professions.

The primary areas of study include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life; Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes; Acute Ischemic Stroke Management; Heart Failure Treatment and Management; Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes; Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics; and Acute Myocardial Infarction Research.

Peter C. Austin has contributed a considerable number of publications in various scientific venues. The frequent publication outlets are:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Statistics in Medicine

Among the recent papers attributed to or associated with the author are:

  • Missing Data in Clinical Research: A Tutorial on Multiple Imputation, 2020, Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • Estimated Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines Against Omicron or Delta Symptomatic Infection and Severe Outcomes, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe covid-19 outcomes in Ontario, Canada: test negative design study, 2021, BMJ
  • Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes with variants of concern in Ontario, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Graphical calibration curves and the integrated calibration index (ICI) for survival models, 2020, Statistics in Medicine

Peter C. Austin has collaborated with frequent co-authors in their publications including:

  • Douglas S. Lee
  • Dennis T. Ko
  • Jiming Fang
  • Harindra C. Wijeysundera
  • Husam Abdel-Qadir

In recognition of contributions to the field, Peter C. Austin was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies

    Peter C. Austin

  • Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity-score matched samples

    Peter C Austin

  • Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies

    Peter C. Austin;Elizabeth A. Stuart

  • Outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a population-based study.

    R. Sacha Bhatia;Jack V. Tu;Jack V. Tu;Douglas S. Lee;Peter C. Austin

  • Rates of Hyperkalemia after Publication of the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study

    David N. Juurlink;Muhammad M. Mamdani;Douglas S. Lee;Alexander Kopp

  • Introduction to the Analysis of Survival Data in the Presence of Competing Risks.

    Peter C. Austin;Douglas S. Lee;Jason P. Fine

  • A modification of the Elixhauser comorbidity measures into a point system for hospital death using administrative data.

    Carl van Walraven;Peter C. Austin;Alison Jennings;Hude Quan

  • Predicting mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure. Derivation and validation of a clinical model

    D.S. Lee;P.C. Austin;J.L. Rouleau;P.P. Liu

  • A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003

    Peter C. Austin

  • A comparison of the ability of different propensity score models to balance measured variables between treated and untreated subjects: a Monte Carlo study.

    Peter C. Austin;Paul Grootendorst;Geoffrey M. Anderson

  • The use of propensity score methods with survival or time-to-event outcomes: reporting measures of effect similar to those used in randomized experiments

    Peter C. Austin

  • A population-based study of the drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors and clopidogrel

    David N. Juurlink;Tara Gomes;Dennis T. Ko;Dennis T. Ko;Paul E. Szmitko

  • The performance of different propensity score methods for estimating marginal hazard ratios

    Peter C. Austin;Peter C. Austin

  • The number of subjects per variable required in linear regression analyses

    Peter C. Austin;Peter C. Austin;Ewout W. Steyerberg

  • 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

  • A comparison of 12 algorithms for matching on the propensity score

    Peter C. Austin

  • Practical recommendations for reporting Fine-Gray model analyses for competing risk data

    Peter C. Austin;Peter C. Austin;Peter C. Austin;Jason P. Fine

  • Effects of socioeconomic status on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality after acute myocardial infarction.

    D A Alter;C D Naylor;P Austin;J V Tu

  • Proportion of hospital readmissions deemed avoidable: a systematic review

    Carl van Walraven;Carol Bennett;Alison Jennings;Peter C. Austin

  • Propensity-score matching in the cardiovascular surgery literature from 2004 to 2006: A systematic review and suggestions for improvement

    Peter C. Austin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack V. Tu
Jack V. Tu University of Toronto
Douglas S. Lee
Douglas S. Lee University Health Network
Paula A. Rochon
Paula A. Rochon University of Toronto
Chaim M. Bell
Chaim M. Bell University of Toronto
Muhammad Mamdani
Muhammad Mamdani University of Toronto
David N. Juurlink
David N. Juurlink University of Toronto
Therese A. Stukel
Therese A. Stukel University of Toronto
Andreas Laupacis
Andreas Laupacis St. Michael's Hospital
Paul Dorian
Paul Dorian University of Toronto
Duminda N. Wijeysundera
Duminda N. Wijeysundera University of Toronto

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