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Alexander D, Weed D, Mink P, Mitchell M. 2012. A weight-of-evidence review of colorectal cancer in pesticide applicators: The agricultural health study and other epidemiologic studies. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 85(7):715–745.

Meddings J, Reichert H, Rogers MAM, Hofer TP, McMahon L. Adjusting for patients’ clinical risk of urinary tract infections: a necessary step in pay-for-performance when comparing by hospital-acquired complication rates. Presented at the 2012 AcademyHealth Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 2012.

Meddings J, Reichert H, Rogers MAM, Iwashyna TJ, McMahon L. Hospitals reporting better adherence to perioperative blood clot prophylaxis do not report lower rates of hospital-acquired post-operative blood clots. Presented at the 2012 AcademyHealth Annual Meeting, June 24-26, 2012, Orlando, FL.

Meddings J, Reichert H, Rogers MAM, Hofer TP, McMahon L. Adjusting for patients’ clinical risk of urinary tract infections: a necessary step in pay-for-performance when comparing by hospital-acquired complication rates. Presented at the 2012 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2012.

Mitchell M, Taylor A, Lowe K, Langeberg W, et al. Prevalence of bone metastasis in breast cancer patients and subsequent survival: A systematic and quantitative review of the literature. Presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, TX, December 2011

Shum M, Kelsh MA, Sheppard AR, Zhao K. 2011. An evaluation of self-reported mobile phone use compared to billing records among a group of engineers and scientists. Bioelectromagnetics 32(1):37–48.

Lau EC, Mowat FS, Kelsh MA, Legg JC, Engel-Nitz NM, Watson HN, et al. 2011. Use of electronic medical records (EMR) for oncology outcomes research: Assessing the comparability of EMR information to patient registry and health claims data. Clin Epidemiol 3:259–272.

Lau EC, Steffey D, Legg JC, Watson HN, Mowat FS, Kelsh MA. The problem of missing data: Using imputation methods to facilitate oncology outcomes research. Presented at the 27th Annual Meetings of International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management, Chicago, IL, August 14–17, 2011.

Mowat FS, Lau EC, Kelsh MA, Legg JC, Engel-Nitz NM, Watson HN, Collins HL, et al. Assessing the comparability of EMR information to patient registry and health claims data. Presented at the 27th Annual Meetings of International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management, Chicago, IL, August 14–17, 2011.

Kelsh MA, Shum MS, Sheppard AR, McNeeley M, Kuster N, Lau E, et al. 2011. Measured radiofrequency exposure in various mobile phone-use scenarios. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 21(4):343–354; doi: 10.1038/jes.2010.12. PMID: 20551994.