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Refik Saskin
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Latest papers
Incidence of treated brain metastases among patients with stage I-III breast cancer: A population-based study.
Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026
Forecasting Trends in Androgen Deprivation Therapy Intensification for Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort and Time-Series Analysis
Current Oncology · 2026
Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Wait Times for Patients With Urologic Conditions.
JAMA network open · 2026
Latest funding
- $75,000
Emergency general surgical conditions in pregnancy and the post-partum period: A population-based study of maternal and peri-natal outcomes
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
59 publications.
Incidence of treated brain metastases among patients with stage I-III breast cancer: A population-based study.
Jerzak KJ, Fernandes I, Soliman H, Zhang B, Saskin R, Liu G, Das S, Sahgal A, Chan KK, Kryzanowska M, Chehade R
Forecasting Trends in Androgen Deprivation Therapy Intensification for Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort and Time-Series Analysis
Kish EK, Dvorani E, Saskin R, Wilton AS, Satkunasivam R, Aminoltejari K, Hird A, Berscheid K, Roy S, Morgan SC
Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Wait Times for Patients With Urologic Conditions.
Matta R, Shaw J, Mohamud H, Morais S, Saskin R, Hird A, Neu S, Herschorn S, Nam RK
Association of Cumulative Proton Pump Inhibitor Use with Prostate Cancer Risk and Outcomes: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Rashid Khalid Sayyid, Raj Vikesh Tiwari, Bo Zhang, Andrew S. Wilton, Katherine Lajkosz, Jessica Cockburn, Rui Miguel Marques Bernardino, Zizo Al-Daqqaq, Linda Z. Penn, Hanan Goldberg, Refik Saskin, Neil Eric Fleshner
The Association Between Online Surgeon Ratings and Patients' Postoperative Outcomes in the United States.
Satkunasivam R, Riveros C, Geng M, Saskin R, Li R, Titus RS, Coburn N, Nathens A, Breyer BN, Kaushik D, Jerath A, Detsky AS, Tsugawa Y, Wallis CJD
Complication Rates of Central Venous Catheters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Teja B, Bosch NA, Diep C, Pereira TV, Mauricio P, Sklar MC, Sankar A, Wijeysundera HC, Saskin R, Walkey A, Wijeysundera DN, Wunsch H
Primary care follow-up improves outcomes in older adults following emergency general surgery admission.
Guttman MP, Tillmann BW, Nathens AB, Bronskill SE, Saskin R, Jaakkimainen L, Huang A, Haas B
Recent Immigrants With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Have Significant Healthcare Utilization From Preconception to Postpartum: A Population Cohort Study
Parul Tandon, Vivian Huang, Denice S. Feig, Refik Saskin, Cynthia V. Maxwell, Yiding Gao, Deshayne B. Fell, Cynthia H. Seow, John W. Snelgrove, Geoffrey C. Nguyen
Health Care Utilization of Children Born to Women With and Without Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the First 5 Years of Life: A Population-Cohort Study
Parul Tandon, Vivian Huang, Denice S. Feig, Refik Saskin, Cynthia V. Maxwell, Deshayne B. Fell, Cynthia H. Seow, John W. Snelgrove, Geoffrey C. Nguyen
The Incidence of Extreme Serum Prostate Specific Antigen Levels During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Hird AE, Matta R, Saskin R, Dvorani E, Neu S, Herschorn S, Nam RK
Emergency general surgical conditions in pregnancy and the post-partum period: A population-based study of maternal and peri-natal outcomes
Principal investigators: Gomez Jaramillo, David; Saunders, Natasha R
Keywords: Maternal Outcomes; Peri-Natal Outcomes; Surgery During Pregnancy
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Nancy Baxter and Rinku Sutradhar: 124 shared papers
- Linda Rabeneck and Nancy Baxter: 89 shared papers
- Barbara Haas and Avery Nathens: 84 shared papers
- Laurie Morrison and Sheldon Cheskes: 77 shared papers
- Linda Rabeneck and Rinku Sutradhar: 68 shared papers
- Hannah Wunsch and Damon Scales: 66 shared papers
- Laurie Morrison and Damon Scales: 54 shared papers
- Laurie Morrison and Steve Lin: 44 shared papers
- Steve Lin and Sheldon Cheskes: 44 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Sheldon Cheskes: 40 shared papers
- Lesley Carr and Sender Herschorn: 35 shared papers
- Sender Herschorn and Sarah Neu: 34 shared papers
- Barbara Haas and Matthew Guttman: 30 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Cynthia Seow: 29 shared papers
- Avery Nathens and Matthew Guttman: 25 shared papers
- Girish Kulkarni and Sender Herschorn: 22 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Avery Nathens: 21 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Steve Lin: 21 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Deshayne Fell: 19 shared papers
- Steven Narod and Sender Herschorn: 17 shared papers
- Girish Kulkarni and Steven Narod: 15 shared papers
- Sender Herschorn and Refik Saskin: 13 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Parul Tandon: 12 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Barbara Haas: 12 shared papers
- Linda Rabeneck and Refik Saskin: 11 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Cynthia Seow: 10 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Damon Scales: 10 shared papers
- Deshayne Fell and Cynthia Seow: 10 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Denice Feig: 9 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Geoffrey Nguyen: 9 shared papers
- Denice Feig and Geoffrey Nguyen: 9 shared papers
- Denice Feig and Deshayne Fell: 9 shared papers
- Hannah Wunsch and Susan Bronskill: 8 shared papers
- Girish Kulkarni and Refik Saskin: 7 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Nancy Baxter: 6 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Rinku Sutradhar: 6 shared papers
- Laurie Morrison and Hannah Wunsch: 6 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Hannah Wunsch: 6 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Matthew Guttman: 6 shared papers
- Cynthia Seow and Parul Tandon: 6 shared papers
- Steven Narod and Nancy Baxter: 5 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Allison McGeer: 5 shared papers
- Hannah Wunsch and Refik Saskin: 5 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Parul Tandon: 4 shared papers
- Nancy Baxter and Refik Saskin: 4 shared papers
- Barbara Haas and Refik Saskin: 4 shared papers
- Avery Nathens and Refik Saskin: 4 shared papers
- Lesley Carr and Refik Saskin: 4 shared papers
- Rinku Sutradhar and Refik Saskin: 4 shared papers
- John Snelgrove and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Laurie Morrison and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Denice Feig and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Steven Narod and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Geoffrey Nguyen and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Susan Bronskill and Damon Scales: 3 shared papers
- Susan Bronskill and Barbara Haas: 3 shared papers
- Susan Bronskill and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Damon Scales and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Steve Lin and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Deshayne Fell and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Lesley Carr and Sarah Neu: 3 shared papers
- Cynthia Seow and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Sheldon Cheskes and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Matthew Guttman and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Sarah Neu and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Parul Tandon and Refik Saskin: 3 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Refik Saskin: 2 shared papers
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Medicine
- Epidemiology Division
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Institute of Health Policy
- Cumming School of Medicine
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Sender Herschorn
Department of Surgery
13 shared papers, latest 2026
Linda Rabeneck
Clinical Public Health Division
11 shared papers, latest 2021
Girish Kulkarni
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
7 shared papers, latest 2020
Hannah Wunsch
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
5 shared papers, latest 2024
Avery Nathens
Department of Surgery
4 shared papers, latest 2025
Nancy Baxter
Institute of Health Policy
4 shared papers, latest 2021
Barbara Haas
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
4 shared papers, latest 2024
Lesley Carr
Department of Surgery
4 shared papers, latest 2023
Rinku Sutradhar
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
4 shared papers, latest 2021
Deshayne Fell
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Geoffrey Nguyen
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Laurie Morrison
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Cynthia Seow
Cumming School of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Denice Feig
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Steven Narod
Epidemiology Division
3 shared papers, latest 2017
Sheldon Cheskes
Institute of Medical Science
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Susan Bronskill
Epidemiology Division
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Damon Scales
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Matthew Guttman
Department of Surgery
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Sarah Neu
Department of Surgery
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Ronald Kodama
Department of Surgery
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Raj Satkunasivam
Department of Surgery
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Sidney Radomski
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Amir Khoshbin
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Calvin Law
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Robert Nam
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2020
David McCready
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Prakesh Shah
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Amit Atrey
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Aleksander Meret
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2009
Christopher Wallis
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2019
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