Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
R. Brian Haynes
OC, MD (Alberta), MSc (McMaster), PhD (McMaster),FRCPC, FACMI, MACP, FRSC, FCAHS
Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Joint Member, Department of Medicine
Chief, Health Information Research Unit
Attending Staff, Hamilton Health Sciences, Diabetes Care and Research Centre
Editor, ACP Journal Club
Editor, Evidence Based Medicine
905.525.9140 x 20152
905.526.8447
bhaynes@mcmaster.ca
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
CRL-125
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4K1
Office location: CRL-125
Administrative Assistant:
Linda Sheridan
905.525.9140 x 20152
905.526.8447
sheridl@mcmaster.ca
Academic Interests
Current research interests: knowledge translation research and health informatics, focused on ways to improve medical care through improving the dissemination and application of validated health care knowledge. Of particular interest are studies of the nature of information problems that afflict practitioners, patients, the public and policy makers, and trials of potential solutions from information technology (online databases, expert systems, and computer-aided quality improvement).
Clinical interests: diabetes care, cardiovascular risk management, computerized clinical decision support.
Current Graduate Students
Frances Tse, MSc
Rebecca Jeffery, MSc
Brian Hemens, PhD
Pavel Roshanov, MSc
Recent Graduate Students
Nancy Wilczynski, PhD 2007
Xiaomei Yao, MSc, 2007
Elizabeth Ackloo, MSc, 2008
Siddharajsinh Chudasama, MSc, 2009
Fahad Al-Ghimlas, MSc, 2010
Selected Publications
- Haynes RB, Holland J, Cotoi C, McKinlay RJ, Wilczynski NL, Walters L, Jedraszewski D, Parrish R, McKibbon A, Garg A, Walter SD. McMaster PLUS: A cluster randomized clinical trial of an intervention to accelerate clinical use of evidence-based information from digital libraries. J Amer Med Inform Assoc Nov 2006;13:593-600. doi:10.1197/jamia.M2158
- Haynes RB, Cotoi C, Holland J, Walters L, Wilczynski NL, Jedraszewski D, McKinlay J, Parrish R, McKibbon A for the McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (PLUS) Project. A second order of peer review: A system to provide peer review of the medical literature for clinical practitioners. JAMA 2006;295:1801-8.
- Garg AX, Iansavichus AV, Wilczynski NL, Kastner M, Baier LA, Shariff SZ, Rehman F, Weir M, McKibbon KA, Haynes RB. Filtering MEDLINE for a clinical discipline. BMJ 2009;339:b3435 (online first) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/339/sep18_1/b3435
- Hemens BJ, Haynes RB. McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (PLUS) performed well for identifying new studies for updated Cochrane Reviews. J Clin Epid (in press)
- Sinclair JC, Haynes RB. Selecting participants that raise a clinical trial's population attributable fraction can increase the treatment effect within the trial and reduce the required sample size. J Clin Epid (in press)