Conducting collaborative research locally, nationally and globally.

Paul Kurdyak 2023

Kurdyak, P., Lebenbaum, M., Patrikar, A., Rivera, L., Lu, H., Scales, D.C. & Guttmann, A. 2023. Sars-Cov-2 Vaccination Prevalence by Mental Health Diagnosis: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Ontario, Canada. CMAJ Open, 11(6):E1066-E1074.

Abramovich, A., Gould, W.A., Pang, N., de Oliveira, C., Iwajomo, T., Vigny-Pau, M., MacKinnon, K., Lam, J.S.H. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Exploring Mediators of Mental Health Service Use among Transgender Individuals in Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 68(12):933-948.

Ansari, H., Jaglal, S., Cheung, A.M. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Characterization of Hip Fractures among Adults with Schizophrenia in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Netw Open, 6(4):e2310550.

Baliunas, D., Selby, P., de Oliveira, C., Kurdyak, P., Rosella, L., Zawertailo, L., Fu, L. & Sutradhar, R. 2023. Primary Care-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment and Subsequent Healthcare Service Utilisation: A Matched Cohort Study of Smokers Using Linked Administrative Healthcare Data. Tob Control, 32(1):72-9.

Baliunas, D., Voci, S., de Oliveira, C., Selby, P., Kurdyak, P., Rosella, L., Zawertailo, L., Fu, L. & Sutradhar, R. 2023. Association between Smoking Cessation Treatment and Healthcare Costs in a Single-Payer Public Healthcare System. Nicotine Tob Res, 25(1):86-93.

Baliunas, D., Voci, S., Selby, P., de Oliveira, C., Kurdyak, P., Rosella, L., Zawertailo, L., Fu, L. & Sutradhar, R. 2023. Incidence of Chronic Disease Following Smoking Cessation Treatment: A Matched Cohort Study Using Linked Administrative Healthcare Data in Ontario, Canada. PLOS ONE, 18(7):e0288759.

Barker, L.C., Fung, K., Zaheer, J., Brown, H.K., Bronskill, S.E., Kurdyak, P. & Vigod, S.N. 2023. Risk of Hospital Admission after Discharge from Postpartum Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits: A Focus on the Social Determinants of Health. Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 83:27-34.

Barker, L.C., Hussain-Shamsy, N., Rajendra, K.L., Bronskill, S.E., Brown, H.K., Kurdyak, P. & Vigod, S.N. 2023. The Use of Key Social Determinants of Health Variables in Psychiatric Research Using Routinely Collected Health Data: A Systematic Analysis. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 58(2):183-191.

Barry, R., Rehm, J., de Oliveira, C., Gozdyra, P., Chen, S. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Help-Seeking Behavior among Adults Who Attempted or Died by Suicide in Ontario, Canada. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 53(1):54-63.

Barry, R., Rehm, J., de Oliveira, C., Gozdyra, P., Chen, S. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. The Relationship between Rurality, Travel Time to Care and Death by Suicide. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1):345.

Bayoumi, I., Whitehead, M., Li, W., Kurdyak, P. & Glazier, R.H. 2023. Association of Physician Financial Incentives with Primary Care Enrolment of Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses in Ontario: A Retrospective Observational Population-Based Study. CMAJ Open, 11(1):E1-E12.

Bhasin, A.A., Molnar, A.O., McArthur, E., Nash, D.M., Busse, J.W., Cooper, R., Heale, E., Ip, J., Pang, J., Blake, P.G., Garg, A.X., Kurdyak, P., Kim, S.J., Sultan, H. & Walsh, M. 2023. Mental Health and Addiction Service Utilization among People Living with Chronic Kidney Disease. Nephrol Dial Transplant.

Couturier, J., Gayowsky, A., Findlay, S., Webb, C., Sami, S., Chan, A., Chanchlani, R. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. A Diagnostic Subgroup Comparison of Health Care Utilization Patterns in Individuals with Eating Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood and/or Adolescence. Int J Eat Disord, 56(10):1919-1930.

Crispo, J.A.G., Liu, L., Bach, P., Ansell, D.R., Sivapathasundaram, B., Nguyen, F., Kurdyak, P., Seitz, D.P., Conlon, M. & Cragg, J.J. 2023. Amphetamine-Related Emergency Department Visits in Ontario, Canada, 2003-2020. Can J Psychiatry, 68(11):838-849.

de Oliveira, C., Iwajomo, T. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Mental Health Care Use among Children and Adolescents with High Health Care Costs in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Netw Open, 6(5):e2313172.

de Oliveira, C., Tanner, B., Colton, P. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Understanding the Scope of Preventable Acute Care Spending among Patients with Eating Disorders. Int J Eat Disord, 56(6):1156-1187.

Edwards, J., Kurdyak, P., Waddell, C., Patten, S.B., Reid, G.J., Campbell, L.A. & Georgiades, K. 2023. Surveillance of Child and Youth Mental Disorders and Associated Service Use in Canada. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 68(11):819-825.d

Friesen, E.L., Yu, W., Buajitti, E., Selby, P., Rosella, L. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Clarifying Rural-Urban Disparities in Alcohol-Related Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada: A Spatial Analysis. J Rural Health, 39(1):223-232.

Friesen, E.L., Yu, W. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Outpatient Psychiatric Service Use Is Associated with a Reduced Risk of 1-Year Readmission and Mortality Following Alcohol-Related Hospitalizations: A Historical Cohort Study. Acta Psychiatr Scand, 148(2):179-189.

Furqan, Z., Cooper, R.B., Lustig, A., Sinyor, M., Nakhost, A., Kurdyak, P., Rudoler, D., Naeem, F., Stergiopoulos, V. & Zaheer, J. 2023. "I Was Close to Helping Him but Couldn't Quite Get There": Psychiatrists' Experiences of a Patient's Death by Suicide. Can J Psychiatry, 68(3):187-199.

Gatov, E., Strudwick, G., Wiljer, D. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. E-Mental Health Services in Canada: Can They Close the Access Gap? Healthc Policy, 19(1):40-48.

Gong, I., Cheung, M.C., Chan, K.K.W., Arya, S., Faught, N., Calzavara, A., Liu, N., Odejide, O.O., Abel, G., Kurdyak, P., Raphael, M.J., Kuczmarski, T., Prica, A. & Mozessohn, L. 2023. Mortality among Patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with Mental Disorders: A Population-Based Study. J Natl Cancer Inst, 115(10):1194-1203.

Ishrat Husain, M., Rodie, D.J., Perivolaris, A., Sanches, M., Crawford, A., Fitzgibbon, K.P., Levinson, A., Geist, R., Kurdyak, P., Mitchell, B., Oslin, D., Sunderji, N., Mulsant, B.H. & Group, P.A.S. 2023. A Collaborative-Care Telephone-Based Intervention for Depression, Anxiety, and at-Risk Drinking in Primary Care: The Partners Randomized Clinical Trial. Can J Psychiatry, 68(10):732-744.

Mason, J., Laporte, A., McDonald, J.T., Kurdyak, P. & de Oliveira, C. 2023. Health Reporting from Different Data Sources: Does it Matter for Mental Health? J Ment Health Policy Econ, 26(1):33-57.

Mitchell, R.H.B., Toulany, A., Chung, H., Cohen, E., Fu, L., Strauss, R., Vigod, S.N., Stukel, T.A., Moran, K., Guttmann, A., Kurdyak, P., Artani, A., Kopec, M. & Saunders, N.R. 2023. Self-Harm among Youth During the First 28 Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Study. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 195(36):E1210-E1220.

Myran, D., Friesen, E.L., Pugliese, M., Milani, C., Kurdyak, P., Saraswat, M. & Tanuseputro, P. 2023. Changes in Health Service Use Due to Alcohol During the Covid-19 Pandemic among Individuals with and Individuals without Pre-Existing Alcohol-Related Medical Diagnoses. Can J Public Health, 114(2):185-194.

O'Neill, B., Yusuf, A., Kurdyak, P., Kiran, T., Sullivan, F., Chen, T., Kalia, S., Eisen, D., Anderson, E., Selby, P. & Campbell, D. 2023. Diabetes Care among Individuals with and without Schizophrenia in Three Canadian Provinces: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 82:19-25.

O'Neill, B., Yusuf, A., Lofters, A., Huang, A., Ekeleme, N., Kiran, T., Greiver, M., Sullivan, F. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. Breast Cancer Screening among Females with and without Schizophrenia. JAMA Netw Open, 6(11):e2345530.

Rotenberg, M., Gozdyra, P., Anderson, K.K. & Kurdyak, P. 2023. The Role of Geography and Distance on Physician Follow-up after a First Hospitalization with a Diagnosis of a Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study in Ontario, Canada. PLOS ONE, 18(6):e0287334.

Rudoler, D., Lavergne, M.R., Marshall, E.G., Zaheer, J., Etches, S., Good, K.P., Grudniewicz, A., Katz, A., Kurdyak, P., Bolton, J., Kaoser, R., Moravac, C., Morrison, J., Mulsant, B., Peterson, S. & Tibbo, P.G. 2023. Pan-Canadian Study of Psychiatric Care (Pcpc): Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study. BMJ Open, 13(7):e073183.

Saunders, N., Strauss, R., Swayze, S., Kopp, A., Kurdyak, P., Furqan, Z., Malick, A., Husain, M.I., Sinyor, M. & Zaheer, J. 2023. Suicide and Self-Harm among Immigrant Youth to Ontario, Canada from Muslim Majority Countries: A Population-Based Study. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 68(10):755-765.

Saunders, N.R., Stukel, T.A., Strauss, R., Fu, L., Guan, J., Cohen, E., Vigod, S., Guttmann, A., Kurdyak, P. & Toulany, A. 2023. Association between Physician Characteristics and Practice-Level Uptake of Paediatric Virtual Mental Healthcare: A Population-Based Study. BMJ Open, 13(7):e070172.

Singla, D.R., de Oliveira, C., Murphy, S.M., Patel, V., Charlebois, J., Davis, W.N., Dennis, C.-L., Kim, J.J., Kurdyak, P., Lawson, A., Meltzer-Brody, S., Mulsant, B.H., Schoueri-Mychasiw, N., Silver, R.K., Tschritter, D., Vigod, S.N. & Byford, S. 2023. Protocol for an Economic Evaluation of Scalable Strategies to Improve Mental Health among Perinatal Women: Non-Specialist Care Delivered Via Telemedicine Vs. Specialist Care Delivered in-Person. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1):817.

St Cyr, K., Aiken, A.B., Cramm, H., Whitehead, M., Kurdyak, P. & Mahar, A.L. 2023. Sex-Specific Differences in Physical Health and Health Services Use among Canadian Veterans: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Healthcare Administrative Data. BMJ Mil Health, 169(5):430-435.

St Cyr, K., Kurdyak, P., Smith, P.M. & Mahar, A.L. 2023. Mental Health Service Use among Canadian Veterans within the First 5 Years Following Service: Methodological Considerations for Comparisons with the General Population. Occup Environ Med, 80(8):462-468.

Tanner, B., Kurdyak, P. & de Oliveira, C. 2023. Adult Psychiatric Hospitalizations in Ontario, Canada before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 68(12):925-932.

Toulany, A., Kurdyak, P., Stukel, T.A., Strauss, R., Fu, L., Guan, J., Fiksenbaum, L., Cohen, E., Guttmann, A., Vigod, S., Chiu, M., Moore Hepburn, C., Moran, K., Gardner, W., Cappelli, M., Sundar, P. & Saunders, N. 2023. Sociodemographic Differences in Physician-Based Mental Health and Virtual Care Utilization and Uptake of Virtual Care among Children and Adolescents During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Study. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 68(12):904-915.

Toulany, A., Saunders, N.R., Kurdyak, P., Strauss, R., Fu, L., Joh-Carnella, N., Chen, S., Guttmann, A. & Stukel, T.A. 2023. Acute Presentations of Eating Disorders among Adolescents and Adults before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 195(38):E1291-E1299.

Toulany, A., Vigod, S., Kurdyak, P., Stukel, T.A., Strauss, R., Fu, L., Guttmann, A., Guan, J., Cohen, E., Chiu, M., Hepburn, C.M., Moran, K., Gardner, W., Cappelli, M., Sundar, P. & Saunders, N. 2023. New and Continuing Physician-Based Outpatient Mental Health Care among Children and Adolescents During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Study. Front Psychiatry, 14:1063203.

Waddell, A.E., Yue, Y., Comrie, R., Wong, B.M. & Kurdyak, P.A. 2023. Effects of the Implementation of a Patient-Oriented Discharge Summary (Pods) on Pre- and Postdischarge Outcomes. Psychiatric Services, 74(11):1204-1207.

Wiener, J.C., Rodrigues, R., Reid, J.N.S., Archie, S., Booth, R.G., Cheng, C., Jan, S.H., Kurdyak, P., MacDougall, A.G., Palaniyappan, L., Ryan, B.L., Anderson, K.K. & project co-investigators 2023. Patient and Physician Factors Associated with First Diagnosis of Non-Affective Psychotic Disorder in Primary Care. Adm Policy Ment Health, 50(2):212–224.

Yorke, E., Toulany, A., Chiu, M., Gandhi, S., Guttmann, A., Emerson, S.D., Kurdyak, P., Vigod, S., Fung, K. & Saunders, N. 2023. Population-Based Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Hospitalizations for Comorbid Physical and Psychiatric Disorders in Young Adults in Ontario, Canada. J Adolesc Health, 73(4):715-723.

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