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Vivek Goel
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 119
Citations - 6108
Vivek Goel is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 116 publications receiving 5731 citations. Previous affiliations of Vivek Goel include York University & University of British Columbia.
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Evidence-based health policy: context and utilisation.
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for evidence-based decision-making is developed, focusing on how context impacts on what constitutes evidence and how that evidence is utilised, suggesting that it may be more important how evidence is used than how it is defined.
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Comparison of Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mammography, and Ultrasound for Surveillance of Women at High Risk for Hereditary Breast Cancer
Ellen Warner,Donald B. Plewes,Rene Shumak,G. C. Catzavelos,L. S. Di Prospero,Martin J. Yaffe,Vivek Goel,E. Ramsay,P. L. Chart,David E. C. Cole,G. A. Taylor,M. Cutrara,T. H. Samuels,J. P. Murphy,J. M. Murphy,Steven A. Narod +15 more
TL;DR: Breast MRI may be superior to mammography and ultrasound for the screening of women at high risk for hereditary breast cancer.
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Perioperative Parenteral Nutrition: A Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: The evidence available up to August 1986 shows that the routine use of perioperative total parenteral nutrition in unselected patients having major surgery is not justified; however, this intervention may be helpful in subgroups of these patients who are at high risk.
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Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations.
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Randomized trial of a patient decision aid for choice of surgical treatment for breast cancer.
TL;DR: Although the decision aid had minimal impact on the main study outcomes, a subgroup of women who were initially leaning toward mastectomy or were unsure had lower decisional conflict and may have benefited.