David Buckeridge

Maîtrise recherche - McGill

Publications

Guest Editorial Explainable AI: Towards Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Trust in Healthcare

Arash Shaban-Nejad

Martin Michalowski

John S. Brownstein

2021-01-01

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics (publié)

Assessing the Electronic Evidence System Needs of Canadian Public Health Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

Bandna Dhaliwal

Sarah E Neil-Sztramko

Nikita Boston-Fisher

Maureen Dobbins

BACKGROUND True evidence-informed decision making in public health relies on incorporating evidence from a number of sources in addition to… (voir plus) traditional scientific evidence. Lack of access to these types of data, as well as ease of use and interpretability of scientific evidence contribute to limited uptake of evidence-informed decision making in practice. An electronic evidence system that includes multiple sources of evidence and potentially novel computational processing approaches or artificial intelligence holds promise as a solution to overcoming barriers to evidence-informed decision making in public health. OBJECTIVE To understand the needs and preferences for an electronic evidence system among public health professionals in Canada. METHODS An invitation to participate in an anonymous online survey was distributed via listservs of two Canadian public health organizations. Eligible participants were English or French speaking individuals currently working in public health. The survey contained both multiple choice and open-ended questions about needs and preferences relevant to an electronic evidence system. Quantitative responses were analyzed to explore differences by public health role. Inductive and deductive analysis methods were used to code and interpret the qualitative data. Ethics review was not required by the host institution. RESULTS Respondents (n = 371) were heterogeneous, spanning organizations, positions, and areas of practice within public health. Nearly all (98.0%) respondents indicated that an electronic evidence system would support their work. Respondents had high preferences for local contextual data, research and intervention evidence, and information about human and financial resources. Qualitative analyses identified a number of concerns, needs, and suggestions for development of such a system. Concerns ranged from personal use of such a system, to the ability of their organization to use such a system. Identified needs spanned the different sources of evidence including local context, research and intervention evidence, and resources and tools. Additional suggestions were identified to improve system usability. CONCLUSIONS Canadian public health professionals have positive perceptions towards an electronic evidence system that would bring together evidence from the local context, scientific research, and resources. Elements were also identified to increase the usability of an electronic evidence system.

2020-12-14

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (publié)

Global Surveillance of COVID-19 by mining news media using a multi-source dynamic embedded topic model

Yue Li

Pratheeksha Nair

Zhi Wen

Imane Chafi

Anya Okhmatovskaia

Guido Powell

2020-11-10

Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (publié)

Effectiveness of quarantine and testing to prevent COVID-19 transmission from arriving travelers

Russell Wa

2020-11-04

medRxiv (prépublication)

Explainability and Interpretability: Keys to Deep Medicine

Arash Shaban-Nejad

Martin Michalowski

2020-11-03

Explainable AI in Healthcare and Medicine (publié)

Association between extreme precipitation, drinking water and acute gastrointestinal illness in the Great Lakes

R. Graydon

M. Mezzacapo

J. Boehme

S. Foldy

T. Edge

J. Brubacher

L. Chan

M. Dellinger

E. Faustman

J. Rose

T. Takaro

2020-10-26

ISEE Conference Abstracts (publié)

Importation of SARS-CoV-2 following the "semaine de relache" and Quebec's (Canada) COVID-19 burden - a mathematical modeling study

Arnaud Godin

Yiqing Xia

Sharmistha Mishra

Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Maxime Lavigne

Mélanie Drolet

Alexandra M. Schmidt

Marc Brisson

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

Background: The Canadian epidemics of COVID-19 exhibit distinct early trajectories, with Quebec bearing a very high initial burden. The sema… (voir plus)ine de relache, or March break, took place two weeks earlier in Quebec as compared to the rest of Canada. This event may have played a role in the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We aimed to examine the role of case importation in the early transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Quebec. Methods: Using detailed surveillance data, we developed and calibrated a deterministic SEIR-type compartmental model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. We explored the impact of altering the number of imported cases on hospitalizations. Specifically, we investigated scenarios without case importation after March break, and as scenarios where cases were imported with the same frequency/timing as neighboring Ontario. Results: A total of 1,544 and 1,150 returning travelers were laboratory-confirmed in Quebec and Ontario, respectively (with symptoms onset before 2020-03-25). The cumulative number of hospitalizations could have been reduced by 55% (95% credible interval [95%CrI]: 51-59%) had no cases been imported after Quebec's March break. However, had Quebec experienced Ontario's number of imported cases, cumulative hospitalizations would have only been reduced by 12% (95%CrI: 8-16%). Interpretation: Our results suggest that case importation played an important role in the early spread of COVID-19 in Quebec. Yet, heavy importation of SARS-CoV-2 in early March could be insufficient to resolve interprovincial heterogeneities in cumulative hospitalizations. The importance of other factors -public health preparedness, responses, and capacity- should be investigated.

2020-10-25

International Journal of Infectious Diseases (publié)

The role of case importation in explaining differences in early SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in Canada—A mathematical modeling study of surveillance data

Arnaud Godin

Yiqing Xia

Sharmistha Mishra

Dirk Douwes-Schultz

Maxime Lavigne

Mélanie Drolet

Alexandra M. Schmidt

Marc Brisson

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

2020-10-25

International Journal of Infectious Diseases (publié)

Parametric models for combined failure time data from an incident cohort study and a prevalent cohort study with follow-up

James H. McVittie

David B. Wolfson

David A. Stephens

Vittorio Addona

2020-10-12

The International Journal of Biostatistics (publié)

COVI-AgentSim: an Agent-based Model for Evaluating Methods of Digital Contact Tracing

Prateek Gupta

Tegan Maharaj

Martin Weiss

Nasim Rahaman

Hannah Alsdurf

Abhinav Sharma

Nanor Minoyan

Soren Harnois-Leblanc

Victor Schmidt

Pierre-Luc St-Charles

Tristan Deleu

Andrew Robert Williams

Akshay Patel

Meng Qu

Olexa Bilaniuk

gaetan caron

Pierre Luc Carrier

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Marc-Andre Rousseau

David Buckeridge … (voir 9 de plus)

Joumana Ghosn

Yang Zhang

Bernhard Schölkopf

Jian Tang

Irina Rish

Chris Pal

Joanna Merckx

Eilif Benjamin Muller

Yoshua Bengio

2020-10-02

OpenReview.net/Anonymous_Preprint (inconnu)

openreview.net

NutriQuébec: a unique web-based prospective cohort study to monitor the population’s eating and other lifestyle behaviours in the province of Québec

Annie Lapointe

Catherine Laramée

Ariane Belanger-Gravel

Sophie Desroches

Didier Garriguet

Lise Gauvin

Simone Lemieux

Céline Plante

Benoit Lamarche

2020-10-01

BMJ Open (publié)

Correction to: Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research

Lindsay McLaren

Paula Braitstein

Damien Contandriopoulos

Maria I. Creatore

Guy Faulkner

David Hammond

Steven J. Hoffman

Yan Kestens

Scott Leatherdale

Jonathan McGavock

Wendy V. Norman

Candace Nykiforuk

Valéry Ridde

Janet Smylie

The article “Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research,” written by Lindsay McLaren et al… (voir plus)., was originally published Online First without Open Access.

2020-09-02

Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique (publié)