Shail Rawal, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Antibiotic Use in Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study
Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2026
Accuracy of Language Data in Home Care and Long-Term Care Assessments in Ontario, Canada.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2026
Patient and caregiver priorities for quality improvement on general medical wards: a multicentre group concept mapping study
BMJ Quality and Safety · 2026

All 40 publications

Latest funding

Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Quality Improvement on General Medical Wards
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Quality Improvement on General Medical Wards
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000
CANCOV2.0: 2-year follow up of the Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$500,000

All 5 grants and awards

40 publications.

01

Antibiotic Use in Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

Agarwal A, Shin S, Malecki S, Towfighi S, Gupta S, Fralick M, Kwan J, Lapointe-Shaw L, Rawal S, Tang T

Journal of General Internal Medicine20261 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-025-10161-0

02

Accuracy of Language Data in Home Care and Long-Term Care Assessments in Ontario, Canada.

Reppas-Rindlisbacher C, Podolsky S, Lapointe-Shaw L, Fowler RA, Sheehan KA, Stukel TA, Rawal S, Rochon PA

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2026.106291 PMID: 42398199

03

Patient and caregiver priorities for quality improvement on general medical wards: a multicentre group concept mapping study

Lapointe-Shaw L, Salahub C, Lee M, Verma AA, Razak F, Ambasta A, Refaei M, Carpenter T, Moses B, Shetty N

BMJ Quality and Safety2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2026-020280

04

Language Preference and Antibiotic Use Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Dementia.

Park H, Bagit A, McCann B, Shin S, Rawal S, Kandel C, Reppas-Rindlisbacher C

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2026

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70270 PMID: 41452275

05

Practical Considerations for Improving Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients With a Nondominant Language Preference.

Blagojevic C, Nayyar D, Rawal S

JAMA internal medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.0099 PMID: 41910961

06

Psychological Impact of Caregiving When Navigating Language Barriers in Health Care: A Scoping Review.

Kokorelias KM, Desai B, Hoang PM, Rawal S, Reppas-Rindlisbacher CE

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2026

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70572 PMID: 42418762

07

Integrating equity into incident reporting and patient concerns systems: a critical interpretive synthesis.

Goldman J, Rotteau L, Lo L, Wong BM, Kuper A, Kooijman A, Coffey M, Razack S, Rawal S, Palomo M, Alfred M, Pinard M, Milroy A, Anderson CP, Minocha A, Trbovich P

BMJ quality & safety20255 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2025-019118 PMID: 41193179

08

Accuracy of preferred language data in a multi-hospital electronic health record in Toronto, Canada.

Ford CD, Bodley T, Betts M, Fowler RA, Gordon A, James M, Rawal S, Reppas-Rindlisbacher C, Tam P, Tomlinson G, Yarnell CJ

PLOS digital health20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000999 PMID: 40901828

09

Language Preference and Use of Physical and Chemical Restraints Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Dementia.

Bryan C, Gruber A, Aldarraji A, Shin S, Stein A, Sheehan K, Rawal S, Reppas-Rindlisbacher C

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70001 PMID: 41139684

10

Characterizing medical patients with delirium: A cohort study comparing ICD-10 codes and a validated chart review method.

Sheehan KA, Shin S, Hall E, Mak DYF, Lapointe-Shaw L, Tang T, Marwaha S, Gandell D, Rawal S, Inouye S, Verma AA, Razak F

PloS one202415 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302888 PMID: 38739670

Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Quality Improvement on General Medical Wards

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren; Ambasta, Anshula; Carpenter, Travis; Castellani, Lucas; Jensen, Lorraine F; Kiran, Tara; Moses, Brian; Razak, Fahad; Refaei, Mohammad; Shetty, Nabha; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Hospital Medicine; Patient-Oriented Research; Performance Measurement; Quality Improvement

$100,000

Patient and Caregiver Priorities for Quality Improvement on General Medical Wards

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

Principal investigators: Lapointe-Shaw, Lauren; Ambasta, Anshula; Castellani, Lucas; Jensen, Lorraine F; Kiran, Tara; Moses, Brian; Razak, Fahad; Shetty, Nabha; Verma, Amol

Keywords: Hospital Medicine; Patient-Oriented Research; Performance Measurement; Quality Improvement

$100,000

CANCOV2.0: 2-year follow up of the Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr: Emer. COVID Res. Gaps/Prior- Dif. Impacts on Hist. Excl/Underserved Pops

Principal investigators: Herridge, Margaret S; Cheung, Angela M

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Covid-19 Research Gaps; Determinants And Prevalence Of Long-Term Outcomes Of Covid; Functional And Neuropsychological Health & Quality Of Life; Long Covid Serologic, Immunologic & Inflammatory Biomarkers; Longitudinal Study; Mitigating Factors For Disability & Impact Of Rehabilitation; Neurocognitive, Respiratory, Cardiac & Muscle Systems

$500,000

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Batt, Jane Andrea E; Binnie, Alexandra; Dos Santos, Claudia C; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Lamontagne, Francois; Morin, Suzanne N; Palepu, Anita; Razak, Fahad; Stelfox, Henry T; Strug, Lisa J; Tsang, Jennifer L; Verma, Amol; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Full Spectrum Of Covid-19 Disease (Mild To Severe); Host Genetic Profiling; Knowledge To Action Cycles; Mental Health & Stigma; Prediction Models Using Machine Learning; Prospective Cohort Study; Sociodemographic And Clinical Predictors Of Outcomes; Transcriptomic, Epigenomic And Immunologic Host Response

$2,112,500

Developing a Frailty Cohort in the Ontario COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Operating Grant: Frailty and COVID-19

Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Cheung, Angela M; Detsky, Michael E; Razak, Fahad

Keywords: Aging; Covid; Frailty

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

Fahad Razak and Amol Verma: 149 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Michael Fralick: 42 shared papers
Amol Verma and Michael Fralick: 42 shared papers
Amol Verma and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 38 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 37 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Terence Tang: 35 shared papers
Amol Verma and Terence Tang: 35 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Terence Tang: 33 shared papers
Terence Tang and Michael Fralick: 23 shared papers
George Tomlinson and Allan Detsky: 17 shared papers
George Tomlinson and Michael Fralick: 16 shared papers
Amol Verma and Shail Rawal: 15 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Shail Rawal: 14 shared papers
Brian Wong and Joanne Goldman: 14 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Shail Rawal: 13 shared papers
Brian Wong and Ayelet Kuper: 13 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Adina Weinerman: 11 shared papers
Amol Verma and Allan Detsky: 11 shared papers
Terence Tang and Shail Rawal: 11 shared papers
Amol Verma and Adina Weinerman: 10 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Adina Weinerman: 10 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Kathleen Sheehan: 9 shared papers
Kathleen Sheehan and Amol Verma: 9 shared papers
Kathleen Sheehan and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 9 shared papers
Paula Rochon and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 8 shared papers
Joanne Goldman and Ayelet Kuper: 8 shared papers
Joanne Goldman and Leahora Rotteau: 8 shared papers
Paula Rochon and Fahad Razak: 7 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Allan Detsky: 7 shared papers
Brian Wong and Leahora Rotteau: 7 shared papers
Maitreya Coffey and Joanne Goldman: 7 shared papers
Adina Weinerman and Shail Rawal: 7 shared papers
Brian Wong and Maitreya Coffey: 6 shared papers
Maitreya Coffey and Ayelet Kuper: 5 shared papers
Allan Detsky and Peter Cram: 5 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Janice Kwan: 4 shared papers
Kathleen Sheehan and Shail Rawal: 4 shared papers
Amol Verma and Janice Kwan: 4 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Janice Kwan: 4 shared papers
Maitreya Coffey and Leahora Rotteau: 4 shared papers
Paula Rochon and Kathleen Sheehan: 3 shared papers
Patricia Trbovich and Brian Wong: 3 shared papers
Patricia Trbovich and Maitreya Coffey: 3 shared papers
Patricia Trbovich and Joanne Goldman: 3 shared papers
Michael Fralick and Shail Rawal: 3 shared papers
Shail Rawal and Janice Kwan: 3 shared papers
Paula Rochon and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
George Tomlinson and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 2 shared papers
George Tomlinson and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Alexander Kumachev: 2 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Amol Verma and Alexander Kumachev: 2 shared papers
Amol Verma and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Patricia Trbovich and Myrtede Alfred: 2 shared papers
Patricia Trbovich and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Brian Wong and Myrtede Alfred: 2 shared papers
Brian Wong and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Maitreya Coffey and Myrtede Alfred: 2 shared papers
Maitreya Coffey and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Joanne Goldman and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Ayelet Kuper and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Leahora Rotteau and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Allan Detsky and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Myrtede Alfred and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Peter Cram and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Malika Sharma and Shail Rawal: 2 shared papers
Shail Rawal and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
George Tomlinson and Peter Cram: 1 shared paper
George Tomlinson and Alexis Gordon: 1 shared paper
Amol Verma and Akshay Rajaram: 1 shared paper
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Alexander Kumachev: 1 shared paper
Akshay Rajaram and Shail Rawal: 1 shared paper
Alexis Gordon and Shail Rawal: 1 shared paper
Shail Rawal and Alexander Kumachev: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Department of Psychiatry
Institute of Medical Science
Biostatistics Division
Other

Applying for

Paper to mention

Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Rawal, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Antibiotic Use in Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]