Using Lean to Improve Wait Time Performance in Diagnostic Assessment for Lung Cancer.

…, M Zorhabi, S Ghazi, J Fedirko - Healthcare Quarterly …, 2020 - europepmc.org
1. director of the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre and regional director of the Central
Regional Cancer Program. She has over 35 years of experience in the healthcare sector and is …

[HTML][HTML] Impact on cardiac surgery volume of a comprehensive partnership with Integrated Health Solutions

A Watling, J Doucet, M Zohrabi, J Fedirko… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The New Brunswick Heart Centre (NBHC) entered a contractual partnership with
Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) to help address increasing wait times in the province of …

[BOOK][B] Reducing Wait Time in Diagnostic Assessment for Cancer by Implementing Lean Management Principles

…, S Keivanpour, M Zohrabi, S Ghazi, J Fedirko… - 2022 - sk.sagepub.com
Sarah had six months to meet her hospital cancer center’s target of diagnosing 65% of all
patients within 28 days of referral. Funding from her grant source would lapse, and unless she …

Dietary intake and plasma phospholipid concentrations of saturated, monounsaturated and trans fatty acids and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective …

…, G Nicolas, C Casagrande, V Fedirko… - … journal of cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiologic studies examining the association between specific fatty acids and colorectal
cancer (CRC) risk are inconclusive. We investigated the association between dietary …

Prediagnostic serum glyceraldehyde‐derived advanced glycation end products and mortality among colorectal cancer patients

…, E Aglago, M Jenab, V Fedirko - … journal of cancer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glyceraldehyde‐derived advanced glycation end products (glycer‐AGEs) could contribute
to colorectal cancer development and progression due to their pro‐oxidative and pro‐…

Dietary intake of advanced glycation endproducts and risk of hepatobiliary cancers: A multinational cohort study

…, KH Wagner, K Aleksandrova, V Fedirko… - … journal of cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) may contribute to liver carcinogenesis because of
their proinflammatory and prooxidative properties. Diet is a major source of AGEs, but there …

Robust statistical methods for analysis of biomarkers measured with batch/experiment‐specific errors

Q Long, WD Flanders, V Fedirko… - Statistics in …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In many biological studies, biomarkers are measured with errors. In addition, study samples
are often divided and measured in separate batches, and data collected from different …

Inflammation modulation by vitamin D and calcium in the morphologically normal colorectal mucosa of patients with colorectal adenoma in a clinical trial

DC Gibbs, V Fedirko, JA Baron, EL Barry… - Cancer prevention …, 2021 - AACR
Supplemental calcium and vitamin D reduce indicators of cancer-promoting inflammation in
normal colorectal tissue in humans, thus furthering our understanding of how they may help …

Pre‐diagnostic circulating resistin concentrations and mortality among individuals with colorectal cancer: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into …

…, K Aleksandrova, M Jenab, V Fedirko… - … Journal of Cancer, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… the project design, data analysis and article writing; Mazda Jenab: were part of the writing
group and helped with the project design, data analysis and article writing; Veronika Fedirko: …

Association of prediagnostic vitamin D status with mortality among colorectal cancer patients differs by common, inherited vitamin D‐binding protein isoforms

…, R Tumino, T Kühn, V Fedirko - … journal of cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lower prediagnostic circulating 25‐hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D)—considered the best
marker of total vitamin D exposure—is associated with higher mortality risk among colorectal …