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Rob Fowler

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Faculty memberInstitute of Health Policy, Management, and EvaluationUniversity of Toronto

Rob Fowler

Faculty member

Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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20 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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2,479

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195

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Research

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Latest papers

Association Between Protocolized Magnesium Supplementation and Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter in Critically Ill Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study.
Critical care medicine · 2026
Procalcitonin to Guide 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infections
JAMA Network Open · 2026
Ivermectin for Critically and Noncritically Ill Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP).
Critical care medicine · 2026

All 42 publications

Latest funding

Vital real-time health data for Trials, Artificial Intelligence, and a Learning Health System (VITAL)
CFI · 2025 · Co-investigator
$24,615,750

All 1 grants and awards

42 publications.

Association Between Protocolized Magnesium Supplementation and Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter in Critically Ill Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study.

Yarnell CJ, Angriman F, Beaubien E, Brown J, Bruce-Kemevor S, Burry L, Craig J, Donato-Woodger S, Fernando SM, Fowler R, Kattakkayam T, Lamontagne F, Prakash V, Sikaneta T, Sibley S, Soliman K, Tomlinson G, Bodley T

Critical care medicine20265 citations

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000007062 PMID: 41612529

Procalcitonin to Guide 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infections

Ramendra R, Wright JK, Kain KC, Kim B, Mishra H, Zhong K, Aslanian P, Carignan A, Conly J, Detsky M

JAMA Network Open20262 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.20973

Ivermectin for Critically and Noncritically Ill Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP).

Hashmi M, Haniffa R, Jayakumar D, Beane A, Lorenzi E, Berry LR, Nasir Khoso M, Ain Khan Q, Kumar A, Altaf Kidwai A, Hills TE, Annane D, Aryal D, Au C, Baillie K, Beasley R, Best-Lane J, Bonten M, Bradbury CA, Brunkhorst FM, Burrell A, Buxton M, Cecconi M, Cheng AC, Cove ME, de Jong M, Detry MA, Duffy E, Estcourt LJ, Fitzgerald M, Fowler R, Goossens H, Green C, Hays LMC, Higgins AM, Huang DT, Ichihara N, Koirala S, Lamontagne F, Lawler PR, Lewis RJ, Litton E, Mahon N, Marshall JC, McAuley DF, McGlothlin A, McGuinness S, McQuilten ZK, McVerry BJ, Mouncey PR, Morpeth S, Netea M, Orr K, Parke RL, Parker JC, Patanwala A, Peters S, Reyes LF, Rowan KM, Saito H, Saunders CT, Santos M, Seymour CW, Shankar-Hari M, Singh V, Slater M, Tambyah PA, Tong SYC, Turgeon AF, Turner AM, van de Veerdonk F, Weis S, Zarychanski R, McArthur CJ, Angus DC, Berry SM, Gordon AC, Derde LPG, Webb SA, Murthy S, Arabi Y, Nichol AD, and the Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP) Investigators

Critical care medicine20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000007134 PMID: 42101205

Association of anti-anaerobic antibiotics with mortality and the gut microbiome: a sub-study of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial

Armstrong E, Pinto R, Kulikova M, Yee NR, Rishu A, Muscedere J, Sibley S, Maslove DM, Boyd JG, Evans GA

Clinical Infectious Diseases2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciag460

Vasopressor use in the intensive care unit: What matters most to patients and families.

Krewulak KD, Hernández L, Moss SJ, Kupsch S, Sept B, Adhikari NKJ, Fowler R, Lamontagne F, Fiest KM

Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2025.101523 PMID: 41643271

Comparison of in-hospital complications following acute total hip arthroplasty versus open reduction and internal fixation in patients aged 50 years and older with acetabular fractures.

Schemitsch GW, Hoit G, Raleigh M, Kreder HJ, Nauth A, Fowler R, Khoshbin A

Bone & joint open2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1302/2633-1462.75.bjo-2026-0058.r1 PMID: 42125812

Association Between Sex and Clinical Outcomes for Critically Ill Patients in India: A Registry-Embedded Cohort Study.

Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan BK, Patodia S, Gamage Dona D, Venkataraman R, Beane A, Haniffa R, de Keizer N, Adhikari NKJ, Ramakrishnan N, Fowler R, Indian Registry of IntenSive care (IRIS) collaboration

Critical care medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000007163 PMID: 42132466

Outcome switching in cohort studies of interventions: meta-epidemiological study.

Song Z, Jespersen C, Hróbjartsson A, Kim SJ, Fowler R, Austin PC, Chan AW

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2025-087975 PMID: 42203255

Seven vs Fourteen Days of Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection: A Systematic Review and Noninferiority Meta-Analysis.

Lee TC, Prosty CJ, Fralick M, Huttner A, McDonald EG, Molina J, Paul M, Pinto R, Rishu A, von Dach E, Yahav D, Fowler R, Daneman N

JAMA network open202528 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.1421 PMID: 40116824

An International Factorial Vignette-Based Survey of Intubation Decisions in Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

Yarnell CJ, Paranthaman A, Reardon P, Angriman F, Bassi T, Bellani G, Brochard L, De Grooth HJ, Dragoi L, Gaus S

Critical Care Medicine202510 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000006494

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Rob Fowler

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Association Between Protocolized Magnesium Supplementation and Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter in Critically Ill Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study.

Procalcitonin to Guide 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infections

Ivermectin for Critically and Noncritically Ill Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP).

Association of anti-anaerobic antibiotics with mortality and the gut microbiome: a sub-study of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial

Vasopressor use in the intensive care unit: What matters most to patients and families.

Comparison of in-hospital complications following acute total hip arthroplasty versus open reduction and internal fixation in patients aged 50 years and older with acetabular fractures.

Association Between Sex and Clinical Outcomes for Critically Ill Patients in India: A Registry-Embedded Cohort Study.

Outcome switching in cohort studies of interventions: meta-epidemiological study.

Seven vs Fourteen Days of Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection: A Systematic Review and Noninferiority Meta-Analysis.

An International Factorial Vignette-Based Survey of Intubation Decisions in Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

Vital real-time health data for Trials, Artificial Intelligence, and a Learning Health System (VITAL)

Frequent collaborators

Nick Daneman

Srinivas Murthy

Karen Burns

François Lamontagne

Bram Rochwerg

Sangeeta Mehta

Neill Adhikari

Jennifer Tsang

John Marshall

Deborah Cook

Ruxandra Pinto

Kirsten Fiest

John Muscedere

Erick Duan

Ryan Zarychanski

Peter Dodek

François Lauzier

Alexis Turgeon

Alexandra Binnie

Jan Friedrich

Christina Maratta

Amir Khoshbin

Pierre Aslanian

François Marquis

Eric Sy

Alex Carignan

Roger Smith