Search Results - "Ali Vahit"
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Identifying Breast Cancer Recurrence in Administrative Data: Algorithm Development and Validation
Published in Current oncology (Toronto) (28-07-2022)“…Breast cancer recurrence is an important outcome for patients and healthcare systems, but it is not routinely reported in cancer registries. We developed an…”
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High-fidelity whole-system patient flow modeling to assess health care transformation policies
Published in European journal of operational research (01-04-2018)“…•We present a whole-system simulation model for cross-sector patient flows.•The model formulation allows for the inclusion of detailed clinical and demographic…”
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Development of population‐level colon cancer pathway concordance measures and association with survival
Published in International journal of cancer (15-06-2022)“…Clinical cancer pathways help standardize healthcare delivery to optimize patient outcomes and health system costs. However, population‐level measurement of…”
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Regional Variation in Palliative Care Receipt in Ontario, Canada
Published in Journal of palliative medicine (01-11-2019)“…Delivery of health services in the province of Ontario is organized into 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), and further into 76 LHIN subregions,…”
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Health system modelling for policy development and evaluation: Using qualitative methods to capture the whole-system perspective
Published in Operations research for health care (01-03-2015)“…This research is motivated by the desire to incorporate system-modelling tools in the policy-making process to facilitate a better understanding of the…”
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Forecasting Ontario Oncology Drug Expenditures: A Hybrid Approach to Improving Accuracy
Published in Applied health economics and health policy (01-02-2020)“…Background The Provincial Drug Reimbursement Program (PDRP) at Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is responsible for monitoring actual and projected outpatient…”
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Whole-System Patient Flow Modelling for Strategic Planning in Healthcare
Published 01-01-2016“…Health systems are under pressure to deliver high quality care to improve outcomes, access and financial sustainability. In the past decade, Ontario pursued…”
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Evaluation of the demonstration project to direct low acuity ambulance patients to urgent care centres to improve ambulance availability
Published 01-01-2008“…The Ontario Government initiated a demonstration project in Toronto where select patients with minor medical conditions travelling via ambulance will be…”
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Strategic analytics: towards fully embedding evidence in healthcare decision-making
Published in Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.) (2015)“…Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) has implemented multiple information technology solutions and collected health-system data to support its programs. There is now an…”
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Parallel ID Shadow-Map Decompression on GPU
Published in 2010 Ninth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (01-07-2010)“…ID shadow-maps are used for robust real-time rendering of shadows. The primary disadvantage of using shadow-maps is their excessive size for large scenes in…”
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Orthographic backface culling using nested normal cone hierarchies
Published in 2007 22nd international symposium on computer and information sciences (01-11-2007)“…This paper presents an efficient dual-space method for culling back-facing triangles of a triangular mesh under directional projection. The proposed method…”
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Distance computation using OBB-trees
Published in 2009 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (01-09-2009)“…Distance computation between geometric models plays an important role in a variety of areas such as robotics and computer graphics. In this paper we present a…”
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Evaluation of splitting methods in top-down OBB-tree construction
Published in 2008 23rd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (01-10-2008)“…The Oriented Bounding Box trees (OBB-trees) offer efficient means for real-time collision detection between geometric models. The efficiency of the OBB-tree in…”
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