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  1. Bridging Perspectives on Comorbidities in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study with Individuals with Lived Experience and Healthcare Professionals
  2. Injury preceding the classical recognition of multiple sclerosis: A population-based study
  3. Are Neural Representation Learning Methods a Viable Alternative to TMLE for Causal Estimation?
  4. Sex/gender differences in the association between behavioural factors and cancers: an umbrella review of systematic reviews with quantitative synthesis
  5. Intersectional disparities in mental healthcare utilization by sex and race/ethnicity among US adults: An NHANES study
  6. Heterogeneity in health care pathways preceding the classical recognition of adult-onset multiple sclerosis: A multichannel state sequence analysis
  7. Poverty type, immigration background, and secondary school academic outcomes for children in British Columbia
  8. Finding the Optimal Number of Splits and Repetitions in Double Cross‐Fitting Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimators
  9. Informative patterns of health care utilization preceding the recognition of adult-onset multiple sclerosis: A population-based study
  10. Comparative effectiveness of urine drug testing schedules alongside opioid agonist treatment: Emulation of a population‐based target trial in British Columbia, Canada
  11. Ethnic Disparities in Extrahepatic Manifestations Among People With HCV Infection: A Population-Based Study in British Columbia
  12. LASSO-Based Survival Prediction Modeling with Multiply Imputed Data: A Case Study in Tuberculosis Mortality Prediction
  13. Bayesian adaptive enrichment design in multi-arm clinical trials: The BayesAET package for R users
  14. Enhancing risk prediction base on health administrative data using high-dimensional prediction model
  15. Can patient-reported data improve predictions about who will be a high-need, high-cost patient in British Columbia?
  16. High‐Dimensional Disease Risk Score for Dealing With Residual Confounding Bias in Estimating Treatment Effects With a Survival Outcome
  17. Comparative effectiveness of missed dose protocols of opioid agonist treatment in British Columbia, Canada: protocol for a population-based target trial emulation
  18. Simultaneously Dealing With Immortal Time Bias and Residual Confounding: A Case Study of a High‐Dimensional Propensity Score Approach With a Nested Case–Control Framework in Multiple Sclerosis Research
  19. Direct-Acting Antivirals and Risk of Hepatitis C Extrahepatic Manifestations
  20. Is there a competitive advantage to using multivariate statistical or machine learning methods over the Bross formula in the hdPS framework for bias and variance estimation?
  21. Intersectional Disparities in Mental Healthcare Utilization by Sex and Race/Ethnicity among US Adults: An NHANES Study
  22. How Effective Are Machine Learning and Doubly Robust Estimators in Incorporating High‐Dimensional Proxies to Reduce Residual Confounding?
  23. Examining the Role of Race/Ethnicity and Sex in Modifying the Association Between Early Smoking Initiation and Mortality: A 20-Year NHANES Analysis
  24. Longitudinal trajectories of healthcare costs among high-need high-cost patients: a population-based retrospective cohort study in British Columbia, Canada
  25. Maternal age at first birth and uterine cancer risk: A comprehensive analysis using NHANES data (2003–2018)
  26. Comparative effectiveness of methadone take-home dose initiation in British Columbia, Canada: protocol for a population-based retrospective cohort study using target trial guidelines
  27. Evaluating the Role of High‐Dimensional Proxy Data in Confounding Adjustment in Multiple Sclerosis Research: A Case Study
  28. Immunogenicity of bivalent versus monovalent mRNA booster vaccination among adult paramedics in Canada who had received three prior mRNA wild-type doses
  29. Problem of pain in the USA: evaluating the generalisability of high-impact chronic pain models over time using National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data
  30. The misclassification of depression and anxiety disorders in the multiple sclerosis prodrome: A probabilistic bias analysis
  31. Towards robust causal inference in epidemiologic research: employing double cross-fit TMLE in right heart catheterization data
  32. Buprenorphine/Naloxone vs Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
  33. Comorbidities and their association with outcomes in the multiple sclerosis population: A rapid review
  34. Investigation of treatment delay in a complex healthcare process using physician insurance claims data: an application to symptomatic carotid artery stenosis
  35. Benefits of Repeated Matched-Cohort and Nested Case–Control Analyses with Time-dependent Exposure in Observational Studies
  36. Childhood poverty, social support, immigration background and adolescent health and life satisfaction: A population‐based longitudinal study
  37. Physical comorbidity is associated with overnight hospitalization in U.S. adults with asthma: an assessment of the 2005–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys
  38. High-Dimensional Propensity Score and Its Machine Learning Extensions in Residual Confounding Control
  39. Can supervised deep learning architecture outperform autoencoders in building propensity score models for matching?
  40. Epidemiological insights into neonatal deaths: The role of cooking fuel pollution in Colombia
  41. Receipt of Opioid Agonist Treatment in provincial correctional facilities in British Columbia is associated with a reduced hazard of nonfatal overdose in the month following release
  42. Assessing the Risk of Depression Among U.S. Adults with Resolved Thyroid Dysfunction--data analysis from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2013–2018)
  43. What is the ideal time to begin tapering opioid agonist treatment? A protocol for a retrospective population-based comparative effectiveness study in British Columbia, Canada
  44. Childhood poverty and school readiness: Differences by poverty type and immigration background
  45. Investigating the Antibody Imprinting Hypothesis among Canadian Paramedics after SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Circulation
  46. Abdominal drainage after elective colorectal surgery: propensity score-matched retrospective analysis of an Italian cohort
  47. Treatment of HCV with direct-acting antivirals on reducing mortality related to extrahepatic manifestations: a large population-based study in British Columbia, Canada
  48. Bayesian Adaptive Enrichment Design in Multi-Arm Clinical Trials: The Bayesaet Package for R Users
  49. Ethnic Disparities in Extrahepatic Manifestations: A Population-Based Study in British Columbia
  50. The impact of comorbidities on outcomes in the multiple sclerosis population: a rapid review protocol
  51. The intensity and duration of occupational noise exposure and cardiovascular disease in the United States: a nationally representative study, 2015 to 2020
  52. Eleven-month SARS-CoV-2 binding antibody decay, and associated factors, among mRNA vaccinees: implications for booster vaccination
  53. The Association of Post-COVID-19–Related Symptoms and Preceding Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Fully Vaccinated Paramedics in Canada
  54. Distinct healthcare utilization profiles of high healthcare use tuberculosis survivors: A latent class analysis
  55. 11-month SARS-CoV-2 immunogenicity decay, and associated factors, among mRNA vaccinees: Implications for Booster Vaccination
  56. Chronic physical conditions and suicidal ideation: a population-level analysis of Canadian school-attending young adults
  57. Properties of inverse probability of adherence weighted estimator of the per-protocol effect for sustained treatment strategies under different data-generating mechanisms and adherence patterns
  58. The association between HIV self-test awareness and recent HIV testing uptake in the male population in Gambia: data analysis from 2019–2020 demographic and health survey
  59. Implementing TMLE in the presence of a continuous outcome
  60. Healthcare Utilization After Respiratory Tuberculosis: A Controlled Interrupted Time Series Analysis
  61. Adding nuance to dietary prescriptions: does sodium reduction benefit people already losing weight?
  62. The Problem of Pain in the United States: A Population-Based Characterization of Biopsychosocial Correlates of High Impact Chronic Pain Using the National Health Interview Survey
  63. Comparative effectiveness of natalizumab on cognition in multiple sclerosis: A cohort study
  64. The Effects of HIV Self-Test Knowledge on Recent HIV Testing Uptake in the Male Population in Gambia: Data analysis from 2019-2020 Demographic and Health Survey
  65. Determining the Optimal SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Dosing Interval for Maximum Immunogenicity
  66. Comparative Analysis of Instrumental Variables on the Assignment of Buprenorphine/Naloxone or Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
  67. Role of latent tuberculosis infection on elevated risk of cardiovascular disease: a population-based cohort study of immigrants in British Columbia, Canada, 1985–2019
  68. Treatment of HCV with Direct-Acting Antivirals on Reducing Mortality Related to Extrahepatic Manifestations: A Large Population-Based Study in British Columbia, Canada
  69. Does Vaccination Protect against Human Papillomavirus-Related Cancers? Preliminary Findings from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011–2018)
  70. Multimorbidity prevalence and chronic disease patterns among tuberculosis survivors in a high-income setting
  71. Impact of Hepatitis B Virus Infection, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Hepatitis C Virus Co-infection on Liver-Related Death among People Tested for Hepatitis B Virus in British Columbia: Results from a Large Longitudinal Population-Based Cohort...
  72. Sex and age differences in the Multiple Sclerosis prodrome
  73. Traditional birth attendant-assisted versus unassisted births: a comparison of neonatal deaths in Nigeria, 2008–2018
  74. Primary cancer prevention: Developing multi‐level food retailer intervention assessment tools
  75. Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Neutralizing Antibody Titers with Anti-Spike Antibodies and ACE-2 Inhibition among Vaccinated Individuals
  76. The Relationship Between Anti-Spike SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Levels and Risk of Breakthrough COVID-19 Among Fully Vaccinated Adults
  77. Understanding the association between informed choice and long‐term reversible contraception among Ugandan women: Findings from the 2016 Demographic Health Survey
  78. Are higher antibody levels against seasonal human coronaviruses associated with a more robust humoral immune response after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination?
  79. Community Belonging and Flourishing in Youth: The role of Positive Coping and Racial and Ethnic Identity
  80. Key considerations for choosing a statistical method to deal with incomplete treatment adherence in pragmatic trials
  81. The association between rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease among adults in the United States during 1999–2018, and age-related effect modification in relative and absolute scales
  82. A Prospective Observational Cohort Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Between Paramedics and Matched Blood Donors in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  83. Considerations for choosing an imputation method for addressing sparse measurement issues dictated by the study design - An illustration from per-protocol analysis in pragmatic trials
  84. Recommendations for the use of propensity score methods in multiple sclerosis research
  85. An E-value analysis of potential unmeasured or residual confounding in systematic reviews of post-tuberculosis mortality, respiratory disease, and cardiovascular disease
  86. The association between diabetes and excessive daytime sleepiness among American adults aged 20–79 years: findings from the 2015–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys
  87. Accurate classification of carotid endarterectomy indication using physician claims and hospital discharge data
  88. Understanding the association between informed choice and long-term reversible contraception among women aged 15-49 in Uganda: findings from the 2016 Demographic Health Survey
  89. Determining the optimal SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine dosing interval for maximum immunogenicity
  90. Evaluation of the Performance of a Multiplexed Serological Assay in the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in a Predominantly Vaccinated Population
  91. Analysis approaches to address treatment nonadherence in pragmatic trials with point-treatment settings: a simulation study
  92. Patterns and determinants of adherence to colorectal cancer primary and secondary prevention recommendations in the BC Generations Project
  93. Tendances et déterminants de l’adhésion aux recommandations en matière de prévention primaire et secondaire du cancer colorectal dans le cadre du BC Generations Project
  94. Association Between Prescription Opioid Therapy for Noncancer Pain and Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion
  95. Use of community healthcare and overdose in the 30 days following release from provincial correctional facilities in British Columbia
  96. A Higher Antibody Response Is Generated With a 6- to 7-Week (vs Standard) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Vaccine Dosing Interval
  97. Prescription opioid treatment for non-cancer pain and initiation of injection drug use: large retrospective cohort study
  98. Tuberculosis-associated depression: a population-based cohort study of people immigrating to British Columbia, Canada, 1985–2015
  99. Sodium intake and high blood pressure among adults on caloric deficit: a multi-year cross-sectional analysis of the U.S. population, 2007–2018
  100. Understanding subjective quality of life in homeless and vulnerably housed individuals: The role of housing, health, substance use, and social support
  101. CRTpowerdist: An R package to calculate attained power and construct the power distribution for cross-sectional stepped-wedge and parallel cluster randomized trials
  102. Influence of chronic hepatitis C infection on the monocyte-to-platelet ratio: data analysis from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2009–2016)
  103. Is Regular Access to Internet Services Associated with Comprehensive Correct HIV/AIDS Knowledge among People Aged 15–49 Years in Nigeria? Findings from the 2018 Demographic Health Survey
  104. Testing the Feasibility of Sensor-Based Home Health Monitoring (TEC4Home) to Support the Convalescence of Patients With Heart Failure: Pre–Post Study
  105. Impact of HCV infection and ethnicity on incident type 2 diabetes: findings from a large population-based cohort in British Columbia
  106. Incorporating partial adherence into the principal stratification analysis framework
  107. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), the Canadian Network on Hepatitis C (CANHEPC) and the Canadian Association of Hepatology Nurses (CAHN) 2021 Abstracts.
  108. Comparing the use of aggregate data and various methods of integrating individual patient data to network meta-analysis and its application to first-line ART
  109. Using external data to incorporate unmeasured confounders: A plasmode simulation study comparing alternative approaches to impute body mass index in a study of the relationship between osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease
  110. Post-tuberculosis airway disease: A population-based cohort study of people immigrating to British Columbia, Canada, 1985–2015
  111. When does the use of individual patient data in network meta-analysis make a difference? A simulation study
  112. Sodium intake and high blood pressure among adults on caloric restriction: a multi-year cross-sectional analysis of the U.S. Population, 2007-2018
  113. A Propensity Score Analysis of the Effect of a Single Dose Vitamin A Supplementation on Child Hemoglobin Status in Bangladesh
  114. Association between human papillomavirus vaccine status and sexually transmitted infection outcomes among females aged 18-35 with a history of sexual activity in the United States: A population survey-based cross-sectional analysis
  115. The use and quality of reporting of propensity score methods in multiple sclerosis literature: A review
  116. Comparative efficacy, tolerability and safety of dolutegravir and efavirenz 400mg among antiretroviral therapies for first-line HIV treatment: A systematic literature review and network meta-analysis
  117. Dealing With Treatment-Confounder Feedback and Sparse Follow-up in Longitudinal Studies: Application of a Marginal Structural Model in a Multiple Sclerosis Cohort
  118. Are US adults with low-exposure to methylmercury at increased risk for depression? A study based on 2011–2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)
  119. The relationship between mood disorder diagnosis and experiencing an unmet health-care need in Canada: findings from the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey
  120. Comparative effectiveness of buprenorphine-naloxone versus methadone for treatment of opioid use disorder: a population-based observational study protocol in British Columbia, Canada
  121. Application of decision tree-based techniques to veneer processing
  122. Correction: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial testing the effects of the international scientific SCI exercise guidelines on SCI chronic pain: protocol for the EPIC-SCI trial
  123. Post-tuberculosis mortality risk among immigrants to British Columbia, Canada, 1985–2015: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis of linked immigration, public health, and vital statistics data
  124. Reply
  125. Explaining the variation in the attained power of a stepped-wedge trial with unequal cluster sizes
  126. A pragmatic randomized controlled trial testing the effects of the international scientific SCI exercise guidelines on SCI chronic pain: protocol for the EPIC-SCI trial
  127. Explaining the variation in the attained power of a stepped-wedge trial with unequal cluster sizes
  128. The PRECISE (PREgnancy Care Integrating translational Science, Everywhere) Network’s first protocol: deep phenotyping in three sub-Saharan African countries
  129. The Association of Residential Instability and Hospitalizations among Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Individuals: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study
  130. Are perceived barriers to accessing health care associated with inadequate antenatal care visits among women of reproductive age in Rwanda?
  131. Longitudinal Associations between Perceived Quality of Living Spaces and Health-Related Quality of Life among Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Individuals Living in Three Canadian Cities
  132. Role of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs in the Association Between Osteoarthritis and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Longitudinal Study
  133. The randomization-induced risk of a trial failing to attain its target power: assessment and mitigation
  134. SAT0600 COMPARATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR SAFETY OF NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS) AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS; FINDINGS FROM PROVINCIAL PRESCRIPTION CLAIM RECORDS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  135. Nurses “Seeing Forest for the Trees” in the Age of Machine Learning
  136. Nephrology consultation and mortality in people with stage 4 chronic kidney disease: a population-based study
  137. When exposure is subject to nondifferential misclassification, are validation data helpful in testing for an exposure–disease association?
  138. Multimorbidity prevalence in Canada: a comparison of Northern Territories with Provinces, 2013/14
  139. Effectiveness of contrast-associated acute kidney injury prevention methods; a systematic review and network meta-analysis
  140. Authors' reply: Letter to the Editor: Comparison of statistical approaches dealing with time-dependent confounding in drug effectiveness studies (SMMR, Vol 27, Issue 6, 2018)
  141. The Effect of Serious Offending on Health: A Marginal Structural Model
  142. Estimating the effect of referral for nephrology care on the survival of adults with advanced chronic kidney disease in a real-world clinical setting
  143. OP0190 The role of nsaids in the association between osteoarthritis and cardiovascular diseases: a population-based cohort study
  144. Can We Train Machine Learning Methods to Outperform the High-dimensional Propensity Score Algorithm?
  145. Determinants of Antibiotic Tailoring in Pediatric Intensive Care
  146. On the application of statistical learning approaches to construct inverse probability weights in marginal structural Cox models: Hedging against weight-model misspecification
  147. Estimating inverse probability weights using super learner when weight-model specification is unknown in a marginal structural Cox model context
  148. THE AUTHORS REPLY
  149. Statistical approaches dealing with time-dependent confounding
  150. Comparison of Statistical Approaches for Dealing With Immortal Time Bias in Drug Effectiveness Studies
  151. Hypothesis Testing for an Exposure–Disease Association in Case–Control Studies Under Nondifferential Exposure Misclassification in the Presence of Validation Data: Bayesian and Frequentist Adjustments
  152. Beta-interferon exposure and onset of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
  153. Antibody dissociation rates are predictive of neutralizing antibody (NAb) course: A comparison of interferon beta-1b-treated Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients with transient versus sustained NAbs
  154. Directed Acyclic Graphs to Identify Confounders
  155. Multiple Sclerosis in Older Adults: The Clinical Profile and Impact of Interferon Beta Treatment
  156. Marginal Structural Cox Models for Estimating the Association Between  -Interferon Exposure and Disease Progression in a Multiple Sclerosis Cohort
  157. Investigation of heterogeneity in the association between interferon beta and disability progression in multiple sclerosis: an observational study
  158. Can joint replacement reduce cardiovascular risk?
  159. Interferon Beta and Long-term Disability in Multiple Sclerosis
  160. Association Between Use of Interferon Beta and Progression of Disability in Patients With Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis