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Christine Soong
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 40
Citations - 639
Christine Soong is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health care. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 30 publications receiving 483 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine Soong include Mount Sinai Hospital & Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
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Gender differences in sleep apnea: the role of neck circumference.
TL;DR: The frequency and severity of sleep apnea in the sleep clinic population is greater in men than women, and factors other than NC, age, and BMI must contribute to these gender differences.
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Evidence-based guidelines to eliminate repetitive laboratory testing
Kevin P. Eaton,Kathryn Levy,Christine Soong,Amit K. Pahwa,Christopher M. Petrilli,Justin B. Ziemba,Hyung J. Cho,Rodrigo F. Alban,Jaime Friel Blanck,Andrew S Parsons +9 more
TL;DR: This review presents an evidence-based implementation blueprint to guide teams aimed at improving appropriate routine laboratory testing among hospitalized patients.
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Education as a low-value improvement intervention: often necessary but rarely sufficient
TL;DR: Australia’s NPS MedicineWise (previously the National Prescribing Service) developed the study intervention released in association with Choosing Wisely Australia's similar educational materials and alerts highlighting the importance of reducing or ceasing PPI prescribing in the absence of specific indications.
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Development of a checklist of safe discharge practices for hospital patients.
Christine Soong,Stacey Daub,Joseph Lee,Cynthia Majewski,Emily Musing,Peter Nord,Roy Wyman,G. Ross Baker,Nick Zacharopoulos,Chaim M. Bell +9 more
TL;DR: The Checklist of Safe Discharge Practices for Hospital Patients as discussed by the authors summarizes the sequence of events that need to be completed throughout a typical hospitalization, starting from the first day of admission.
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High Prevalence of Inappropriate Benzodiazepine and Sedative Hypnotic Prescriptions among Hospitalized Older Adults.
Elisabeth Anna Pek,Andrew Remfry,Ciara Pendrith,Chris Fan-Lun,R. Sacha Bhatia,Christine Soong +5 more
TL;DR: The majority of newly prescribed benzodiazepines and sedative hypnotics were potentially inappropriate and were primarily prescribed as sleep aids and future interventions should focus on the development of safe sleep protocols and education targeted at first‐year trainees.