[HTML][HTML] Drivers of the opioid crisis: an appraisal of financial conflicts of interest in clinical practice guideline panels at the peak of opioid prescribing

S Spithoff, P Leece, F Sullivan, N Persaud, P Belesiotis… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Starting in the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry sought to increase
prescribing of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. Influencing the content of clinical practice …

Search for unpublished data by systematic reviewers: an audit

H Ziai, R Zhang, AW Chan, N Persaud - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives We audited a selection of systematic reviews published in 2013 and reported on
the proportion of reviews that researched for unpublished data, included unpublished data …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of essential medicines lists in 137 countries

N Persaud, M Jiang, R Shaikh, A Bali… - Bulletin of the World …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To compare the medicines included in national essential medicines lists with the
World Health Organization's (WHO's) Model list of essential medicines, and assess the …

Suicide by means of opioid overdose in patients with chronic pain

P Madadi, N Persaud - Current pain and headache reports, 2014 - Springer
Deaths from prescription opioid use continue to rise in North America. The main focus to
date has been developing strategies to prevent nonintentional (accidental) fatalities, which …

Comparison of antibiotics included in national essential medicines lists of 138 countries using the WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) classification: a cross …

I Adekoya, D Maraj, L Steiner, H Yaphe… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines classified antibiotics into
Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) categories for the treatment of 31 priority bacterial …

Racialised people in clinical guideline panels

N Persaud, M Ally, H Woods, A Workentin, NN Baxter… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Clinical practice guidelines can include recommendations with important implications for
health equity; therefore, guideline panels should comprise individuals positioned to make …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability of routinely collected anthropometric measurements in primary care

S Carsley, PC Parkin, K Tu, E Pullenayegum… - BMC medical research …, 2019 - Springer
Background Measuring body mass index (BMI) has been proposed as a method of
screening for preventive primary care and population surveillance of childhood obesity …

Global status of essential medicine selection: a systematic comparison of national essential medicine lists with recommendations by WHO

T Piggott, A Nowak, R Brignardello-Petersen… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Examining the availability of essential medicines is a necessary step to monitor
country-level progress towards universal health coverage. We compared the 2017 essential …

[HTML][HTML] William Osler: saint in a “White man's dominion”

N Persaud, H Butts, P Berger - CMAJ, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
CMAJ| NOVEMBER 9, 2020| VOLUME 192| ISSUE 45 E1415 made racist statements
publicly. A newspaper reporting on a 1914 speech summarized Osler's view on immigration …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for equitable COVID-19 pandemic recovery in Canada

N Persaud, H Woods, A Workentin, I Adekoya, JR Dunn… - Cmaj, 2021 - Can Med Assoc
Health inequities—or avoidable differences in health status between populations—that were
exposed and exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic can be addressed through …