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Peter Austin

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ProfessorInstitute of Health Policy, Management, and EvaluationUniversity of Toronto

Peter Austin

Professor

Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (6 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2018.

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Research

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Statistical Methods Provider Profiling Big Data Machine Learning Prediction Models Risk Prediction Confounding Observational Studies

Latest papers

Text message-based intervention, Keeping in Touch (KiT), to support youth as they transition to adult type 1 diabetes care: a protocol for a multisite randomised controlled superiority trial.
BMJ open · 2023
Patient, physician and geographic predictors of cardiac stress testing strategy in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study.
BMJ open · 2022
Cross-classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to evaluate hospital performance: the case of hospital differences in patient survival after acute myocardial infarction.
BMJ open · 2020

All 9 publications

Latest funding

Lipoprotein(a) utilization, ancestry, and adverse cardiovascular and renal outcomes: a population-based cohort study
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$550,800
Using Routine Lab Tests to Develop and Validate a New Risk Prediction Model for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$286,876
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Exploring Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 70 grants and awards

9 publications.

Text message-based intervention, Keeping in Touch (KiT), to support youth as they transition to adult type 1 diabetes care: a protocol for a multisite randomised controlled superiority trial.

Sanmugalingham G, Mok E, Cafazzo JA, Desveaux L, Brazeau AS, Booth GL, Greenberg M, Kichler J, Rac VE, Austin P, Goldbloom E, Henderson M, Landry A, Zenlea I, Taylor M, Nakhla M, Shulman R

BMJ open2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071396 PMID: 37156577

Patient, physician and geographic predictors of cardiac stress testing strategy in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study.

Roifman I, Han L, Fang J, Chu A, Austin P, Ko DT, Douglas P, Wijeysundera H

BMJ open2022

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059199 PMID: 35273065

Cross-classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to evaluate hospital performance: the case of hospital differences in patient survival after acute myocardial infarction.

Rodriguez-Lopez M, Merlo J, Perez-Vicente R, Austin P, Leckie G

BMJ open2020

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036130 PMID: 33099490

Inequity in Access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Pan-Canadian Evaluation of Wait-Times.

Wijeysundera HC, Henning KA, Qiu F, Adams C, Al Qoofi F, Asgar A, Austin P, Bainey KR, Cohen EA, Daneault B, Fremes S, Kass M, Ko DT, Lambert L, Lauck SB, MacFarlane K, Nadeem SN, Oakes G, Paddock V, Pelletier M, Peterson M, Piazza N, Potter BJ, Radhakrishnan S, Rodes-Cabau J, Toleva O, Webb JG, Welsh R, Wood D, Woodward G, Zimmermann R

The Canadian journal of cardiology2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.10.018 PMID: 32349882

Comparative effectiveness of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in patients with prior myocardial infarction.

Ko D, Azizi P, Koh M, Chong A, Austin P, Stukel T, Jackevicius C

Open heart2019

DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2019-001010 PMID: 31218004

MySurgeryRisk and Machine Learning: A Promising Start to Real-time Clinical Decision Support.

Gordon L, Austin P, Rudzicz F, Grantcharov T

Annals of surgery2019

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000002877 PMID: 30048316

Epidemiology of primary anterior shoulder dislocation requiring closed reduction in Ontario, Canada.

Leroux T, Wasserstein D, Veillette C, Khoshbin A, Henry P, Chahal J, Austin P, Mahomed N, Ogilvie-Harris D

The American journal of sports medicine2014

DOI: 10.1177/0363546513510391 PMID: 24275862

Association between tamoxifen treatment and diabetes: a population-based study.

Lipscombe LL, Fischer HD, Yun L, Gruneir A, Austin P, Paszat L, Anderson GM, Rochon PA

Cancer2012

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26559 PMID: 21935915

The iScore predicts effectiveness of thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke.

Saposnik G, Fang J, Kapral MK, Tu JV, Mamdani M, Austin P, Johnston SC, Investigators of the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network (RCSN), Stroke Outcomes Research Canada (SORCan) Working Group

Stroke2012

DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.111.646265 PMID: 22308252

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Peter Austin

Research

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Text message-based intervention, Keeping in Touch (KiT), to support youth as they transition to adult type 1 diabetes care: a protocol for a multisite randomised controlled superiority trial.

Patient, physician and geographic predictors of cardiac stress testing strategy in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study.

Cross-classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to evaluate hospital performance: the case of hospital differences in patient survival after acute myocardial infarction.

Inequity in Access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Pan-Canadian Evaluation of Wait-Times.

Comparative effectiveness of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in patients with prior myocardial infarction.

MySurgeryRisk and Machine Learning: A Promising Start to Real-time Clinical Decision Support.

Epidemiology of primary anterior shoulder dislocation requiring closed reduction in Ontario, Canada.

Association between tamoxifen treatment and diabetes: a population-based study.

The iScore predicts effectiveness of thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke.

Frequent collaborators

Dennis Ko

Therese Stukel

Teodor Grantcharov

Lawrence Paszat

Frank Rudzicz

Anne-Sophie Brazeau

Rayzel Shulman

Meranda Nakhla

Stephen Fremes

Anne-Sophie Brazeau

Meranda Nakhla

Laura Desveaux

Marley Greenberg

Timothy Leroux

David Wasserstein

Muhammad Mamdani

Graham Woodward

Josep Rodes Cabau

Ian Zenlea

Gustavo Saposnik

Andrea Gruneir

Harindra Wijeysundera