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Anne Matlow
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 113
Citations - 3752
Anne Matlow is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Patient safety & Health care. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 112 publications receiving 3475 citations. Previous affiliations of Anne Matlow include National Patient Safety Foundation & Hospital for Sick Children.
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Mupirocin-Resistant, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains in Canadian Hospitals
Andrew E. Simor,Tammy L. Stuart,Lisa Louie,Christine Watt,Marianne Ofner-Agostini,Denise Gravel,Michael R. Mulvey,Mark Loeb,Allison McGeer,Allison McGeer,Elizabeth Bryce,Anne Matlow +11 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that the incidence of HLMupr is increasing among Canadian strains of MRSA and that HLM upr MRSA is recovered from patients with distinct clinical and epidemiologic characteristics compared to the characteristics of patents with Mups MRSA strains.
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Adverse events among children in Canadian hospitals: the Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study
Anne Matlow,G. Ross Baker,Virginia Flintoft,D. Douglas Cochrane,Maitreya Coffey,Eyal Cohen,Catherine M.G. Cronin,Rita Damignani,Robert Dubé,Roger Galbraith,Dawn Hartfield,Leigh Anne Newhook,Cheri Nijssen-Jordan +12 more
TL;DR: There are many opportunities to reduce harm affecting children in hospital in Canada, particularly related to surgery, intensive care and diagnostic error, but adverse events in the former are less likely to be preventable.
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Point prevalence survey for healthcare-associated infections within Canadian adult acute-care hospitals
Denise Gravel,Geoff Taylor,Marianna Ofner,Lynn Johnston,Mark Loeb,Virginia Roth,Jacob Stegenga,E. Bryce,Anne Matlow +8 more
TL;DR: In this first national point prevalence study in Canada, the prevalence of HAI was found to be similar to that reported by other industrialized countries.
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Children hospitalized with severe acute respiratory syndrome-related illness in Toronto.
Ari Bitnun,Upton Allen,Helen Heurter,Susan M. King,Mary Anne Opavsky,Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones,Anne Matlow,Ian Kitai,Raymond Tellier,Susan E. Richardson,David Manson,Paul Babyn,Stanley E. Read +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic features of children who were admitted to the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, with a presumptive diagnosis of suspect or probable SARS.
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The use of Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal isolates from healthy children to predict features of invasive disease.
James D. Kellner,Allison McGeer,Martin S. Cetron,Donald E. Low,Jay C. Butler,Anne Matlow,James Talbot,Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones +7 more
TL;DR: Nasopharyngeal carriage isolates of S. pneumoniae reflect the antibiotic susceptibility rates of invasive isolates found in the same period for most antibiotics, however, even a large study like this may have limited power to detect a difference.