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Sharada Weir
Researcher at Ontario Medical Association
Publications - 24
Citations - 1009
Sharada Weir is an academic researcher from Ontario Medical Association. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications receiving 882 citations. Previous affiliations of Sharada Weir include University of Western Ontario & Johns Hopkins University.
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The value of trauma center care.
Ellen J. MacKenzie,Sharada Weir,Frederick P. Rivara,Gregory J. Jurkovich,Avery B. Nathens,Weiwei Wang,Daniel O. Scharfstein,David S. Salkever +7 more
TL;DR: Findings provide evidence that regionalization of trauma care is not only effective but also it is cost-effective.
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Healthcare costs and utilization for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's
TL;DR: Patients with AD have significantly more co-morbid medical conditions and higher healthcare costs and utilization than demographically-matched Medicare beneficiaries and even after adjusting for differences in co- Morbidity.
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The National Study on Costs and Outcomes of Trauma.
Ellen J. MacKenzie,Frederick P. Rivara,Gregory J. Jurkovich,Avery B. Nathens,Avery B. Nathens,Katherine Frey,Brian L. Egleston,Brian L. Egleston,David S. Salkever,David S. Salkever,Sharada Weir,Sharada Weir,Daniel O. Scharfstein +12 more
TL;DR: The National Study on the Costs and Outcomes of Trauma Care (NSCOT) as discussed by the authors was designed to address the need for better information on the value of trauma center care.
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Implications of comorbidity on costs for patients with Alzheimer disease.
TL;DR: AD patients are sicker and more expensive than demographically matched controls and even after adjusting for differences in illness burden, costs remain higher for AD patients.
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Predictors of prenatal and postpartum care adequacy in a medicaid managed care population.
Sharada Weir,Heather E. Posner,Jianying Zhang,Georgianna Willis,Jeffrey D. Baxter,Robin E. Clark +5 more
TL;DR: Considering the importance of prenatal and postpartum care for maternal and child health and the recent national declining trend in timely care, initiatives to improve rates of timely and adequate care must include components tailored toward particularly vulnerable subpopulations.