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Kathy Boutis

The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Emergency Medicine
Verified email at sickkids.ca
Cited by 7164

Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research

…, M Blaabjerg, H den Boogert, K Boutis… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
A concerted effort to tackle the global health problem posed by traumatic brain injury (TBI) is
long overdue. TBI is a public health challenge of vast, but insufficiently recognised, …

Should a head-injured child receive a head CT scan? A systematic review of clinical prediction rules

JL Maguire, K Boutis, EM Uleryk, A Laupacis… - …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
… Three reviewers (Drs Maguire, Boutis, and Parkin) independently extracted data from the
studies by using the data abstraction form shown in Appendix 2. Discrepancies between the 3 …

Clinical risk score for persistent postconcussion symptoms among children with acute concussion in the ED

…, C McGahern, M Aglipay, G Sangha, K Boutis… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Approximately one-third of children experiencing acute concussion experience
ongoing somatic, cognitive, and psychological or behavioral symptoms, referred to as …

Association between early participation in physical activity following acute concussion and persistent postconcussive symptoms in children and adolescents

…, KO Yeates, J Gravel, I Gagnon, K Boutis… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although concussion treatment guidelines advocate rest in the immediate postinjury
period until symptoms resolve, no clear evidence has determined that avoiding physical …

A primer on the statistical modelling of learning curves in health professions education

MV Pusic, K Boutis, MR Pecaric, O Savenkov… - Advances in Health …, 2017 - Springer
Learning curves are a useful way of representing the rate of learning over time. Features
include an index of baseline performance (y-intercept), the efficiency of learning over time (…

Delayed identification of pediatric abuse-related fractures

…, M Bejuk, N Al-Harthy, M Shouldice, H Au, K Boutis - …, 2010 - publications.aap.org
… After data collection was complete, information on each patient was reviewed for accuracy
and completeness by a pediatric ED physician (Dr Boutis) in collaboration with the 2 research …

Natural progression of symptom change and recovery from concussion in a pediatric population

…, K Tang, KO Yeates, MV Pusic, K Boutis… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The natural progression of symptom change and recovery remains poorly defined
in children after concussion. Objectives To describe the natural progression of symptom …

Learning curves in health professions education

MV Pusic, K Boutis, R Hatala, DA Cook - Academic Medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… Panel A is adapted from Pusic M, Pecaric M, Boutis K. How much practice is enough?
Using learning curves to assess the deliberate practice of radiograph interpretation. …

Association of persistent postconcussion symptoms with pediatric quality of life

…, SB Freedman, I Gagnon, G Gioia, K Boutis… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Persistent postconcussion symptoms (PPCS) pose long-term challenges and
can negatively affect patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To date, no large …

Intention-to-treat and per-protocol analysis

K Boutis, A Willan - Cmaj, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
… I congratulate CMAJ and Boutis and colleagues for a brilliant research paper.Intention-to-treat
analysis is a comparison of the treatment groups that includes all patients as originally allo…