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Olivia Ostrow

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of PaediatricsUniversity of Toronto

Olivia Ostrow

Associate Professor

Department of Paediatrics

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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18 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Low‐value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada (CareBEST): Protocol for a multi‐center prospective cohort study
Journal of Hospital Medicine · 2026
Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Rule to Detect Bacteremia Versus Contaminants in Positive Pediatric Blood Cultures: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Annals of Emergency Medicine · 2025
Association between time to gram stain positivity and true bacteremia in pediatric emergency department patients
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2025

All 25 publications

Latest funding

Low-value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$761,175
Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: reducing overdiagnosis and cascade effects
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$527,851
Low-value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 3 grants and awards

25 publications.

Low‐value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada (CareBEST): Protocol for a multi‐center prospective cohort study

Bonham B, Perez T, Bailey M, Barrowman N, Bonafide C, Boutin A, Buba M, Buchanan F, Carwana M, Chen BA

Journal of Hospital Medicine20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/jhm.70219

Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Rule to Detect Bacteremia Versus Contaminants in Positive Pediatric Blood Cultures: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Jocelyn Gravel, Charlotte Grandjean-Blanchet, Alino Demean Loghin, Brandon Noyon, Olivia Ostrow, Émilie Vallières, Soha Rached-d’Astous

Annals of Emergency Medicine20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2025.06.620 PMID: 40810705

Association between time to gram stain positivity and true bacteremia in pediatric emergency department patients

Brandon Noyon, Alino Demean Loghin, Charlotte Grandjean-Blanchet, Olivia Ostrow, Émilie Vallières, Jocelyn Gravel

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2025.05.019 PMID: 40413904

Timeliness of management of button battery impactions in children in the province of Ontario: a multi-center analysis.

Wolter NE, Siu JM, Davidson J, Bhatt A, Ostrow O, Rourke R, Hong X, Maclean J, Pugi J, Pulkki KH, Philteos JG, Graham ME, Seemann NM

CJEM2025

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-025-01010-4 PMID: 40960685

Current pathogen profile for bacteremia in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department in Canada

Alino Demean Loghin, Brandon Noyon, Charlotte Grandjean-Blanchet, Olivia Ostrow, Émilie Vallières, Jocelyn Gravel

Paediatrics & Child Health2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxaf046 PMID: 41323940

Recommendations for Choosing Wisely in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Five Opportunities to Improve Value.

Mullan PC, Levasseur KA, Bajaj L, Nypaver M, Chamberlain JM, Thull-Freedman J, Ostrow O, Jain S

Annals of emergency medicine202424 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.01.007 PMID: 38349290

Public knowledge of button battery ingestions: A social media based cross-sectional analysis.

Philteos J, Madan Y, James AL, Propst EJ, Ostrow O, McKinnon N, Everett T, Siu J, Wolter NE

International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology202411 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2024.111902 PMID: 38479070

Validation of the Hospital for Sick Children Algorithm for Discriminating Bacteremia From Contaminants in Children With a Preliminary Positive Blood Culture

Jocelyn Gravel, Charlotte Grandjean-Blanchet, Alino Demean-Loghin, Brandon Noyon, Olivia Ostrow, Émilie Vallières

Annals of Emergency Medicine20247 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.005 PMID: 38888530

Coming in Hot: A quality improvement approach to improving care of febrile infants.

Gupta J, Zipursky AR, Pirie J, Freire G, Karin A, Bohn MK, Adeli K, Ostrow O

Paediatrics & child health20245 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxad070 PMID: 38827372

Pediatric Esophageal Button Battery Protocol Reduces Time From Presentation to Removal.

Goh S, Siu JM, Philteos J, James AL, Ostrow O, McKinnon NK, Everett T, Levine M, Whyte H, Lam CZ, Propst EJ, Wolter NE

The Laryngoscope20244 citations

DOI: 10.1002/lary.31607 PMID: 38934450

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Olivia Ostrow

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Low‐value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada (CareBEST): Protocol for a multi‐center prospective cohort study

Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Rule to Detect Bacteremia Versus Contaminants in Positive Pediatric Blood Cultures: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Association between time to gram stain positivity and true bacteremia in pediatric emergency department patients

Timeliness of management of button battery impactions in children in the province of Ontario: a multi-center analysis.

Current pathogen profile for bacteremia in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department in Canada

Recommendations for Choosing Wisely in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Five Opportunities to Improve Value.

Public knowledge of button battery ingestions: A social media based cross-sectional analysis.

Validation of the Hospital for Sick Children Algorithm for Discriminating Bacteremia From Contaminants in Children With a Preliminary Positive Blood Culture

Coming in Hot: A quality improvement approach to improving care of febrile infants.

Pediatric Esophageal Button Battery Protocol Reduces Time From Presentation to Removal.

Low-value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada

Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: reducing overdiagnosis and cascade effects

Low-value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada

Frequent collaborators

Nicole McKinnon

Tobias Everett

Jocelyn Gravel

Lucas Chartier

Howard Ovens

Peter Gill

Michael Schull

Katie Dainty

Sanjay Mahant

Evelyn Constantin

Francine Buchanan

Christine Fahim

Olivier Drouin

Matthew Carwana

Gabrielle Freire

Ryan Rourke

Karen Born

Caroline Quach

Elise Graham

Natashia Seemann