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Emily McDonald (MD/MSc)

Scientist
Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Department of Medicine (McGill)

Research Profile

 Fundamental: 50%
 Clinical: 0%
 Epidemiology: 50%
 Evaluation: 0%
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Keywords

Quality improvement • patient safety • infection

Research Interests

My research focuses on interventions related to polypharmacy, safe and effective prescribing, and medication rationalization. A number of my studies relating to the appropriate use of hospital resources, tests and investigations have been published in high impact peer-reviewed journals and several relating to safer prescribing in older adults were featured recently in the media. I supervise postgraduate students in the field of medication safety and have received funding from the CIHR, the Centre for Ageing and Brain Health Innovation, the Canadian Frailty Network and, locally, from the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI-4).


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Latest Publications

  1. Prosty, C., Katergi, K., Nguyen, A., Luo, O. D., Sorin, M., Cherniak, V., Sebag, M., Demir, K., McDonald, E. G., Lee, T. C. & Cheng, M. P. (2024). Infectious Complications of Venetoclax Treatment of Hematologic Malignancies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Blood advances, vol. 8, p. 857-866.
  2. McDonald, E. G., Hanula, R. & Lee, T. C. (2024). Oseltamivir May or May Not Reduce Hospitalizations-Reply. JAMA internal medicine, vol. 184, p. 117-118.
  3. Ong, S. W. X., Patel, D., Reinblatt, S., Tong, S. Y. C., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G. & Daneman, N. (2024). Choosing the right outcomes in infectious diseases clinical research - Putting patients front and centre. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, vol. 30, p. 10-14.
  4. Alexander, G. C., Budnitz, D., Hughes, C., Maas, R., Mair, A., McDonald, E. G., Meid, A. D., Payne, R., Seidling, H. M., Shakir, S., Suissa, S., Tannenbaum, C., Schneeweiss, S. & Dreischulte, T. (2024). Proceedings of the International Ambulatory Drug Safety Symposium: Munich, Germany, June 2023. Drug safety, vol. 47, p. 103-111.
  5. Thompson, W. & McDonald, E. G. (2024). Polypharmacy and Deprescribing in Older Adults. Annual review of medicine, vol. 75, p. 113-127.
  6. Roy, A.-S., Hagh-Doust, H., Abdul Azim, A., Caceres, J., Denholm, J. T., Dong, M. Q. D., King, M., Yen, C. F., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2023). Multidisciplinary Teams for the Management of Infective Endocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Open forum infectious diseases, vol. 10, p. ofad444.
  7. Prosty, C., Hanula, R., Katergi, K., Longtin, Y., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2024). Clinical Outcomes and Management of NAAT-Positive/Toxin-Negative Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 78, p. 430-438.
  8. Reiersen, A. M., Mattar, C., Bender Ignacio, R. A., Boulware, D. R., Lee, T. C., Hess, R., Lankowski, A. J., McDonald, E. G., Miller, J. P., Powderly, W. G., Pullen, M. F., Rado, J. T., Rich, M. W., Schiffer, J. T., Schweiger, J., Spivak, A. M., Stevens, A., Vigod, S. N., Agarwal, P., Yang, L., Yingling, M., Gettinger, T. R., Zorumski, C. F. & Lenze, E. J. (2023). The STOP COVID 2 Study: Fluvoxamine vs Placebo for Outpatients With Symptomatic COVID-19, a Fully Remote Randomized Controlled Trial. Open forum infectious diseases, vol. 10, p. ofad419.
  9. Rouette, J., McDonald, E. G., Schuster, T., Matok, I., Brophy, J. M. & Azoulay, L. (2024). Thiazide Diuretics and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study. American journal of epidemiology, vol. 193, p. 47-57.
  10. Weir, D. L., Ma, X., McCarthy, L., Tang, T., Lapointe-Shaw, L., Wodchis, W. P., Fernandes, O. & McDonald, E. G. (2023). Medication Clusters at Hospital Discharge and Risk of Adverse Drug Events at 30-days Post-Discharge: A Population-based Cohort Study of Older Adults. British journal of clinical pharmacology, vol. 89, p. 3715-3752.
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