Lab Information
Emily McDonald (MD/MSc)
ScientistCentre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Department of Medicine (McGill)
Research Profile
Keywords
Quality improvement • patient safety • infectionResearch 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).Team Members
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Latest Publications
- Lee, T. C., Albuquerque, A. M., Lawandi, A., Prosty, C. J., Kotani, Y., Landoni, G. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Systemic Corticosteroids Continue to Reduce Mortality in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Updated Meta-Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine.
- Hadid, A., McDonald, E. G., Ding, Q., Phillipp, C., Trottier, A., Dixon, P. C., Jlassi, O., Cheng, M. P., Papenburg, J., Libman, M. & Jensen, D. (2025). Development of machine learning prediction models for systemic inflammatory response following controlled exposure to a live attenuated influenza vaccine in healthy adults using multimodal wearable biosensors in Canada: a single-centre, prospective controlled trial. The Lancet. Digital health, p. 100886.
- Phillips, M. C., Davar, K., Freling, S., Tong, S. Y. C., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G., Nielsen, T. B., Wald-Dickler, N., Mena Lora, A. J., Lee, R. A., Hamilton, F., Musher, D. M., Costa, R. P. L., Ghanem, B., Baden, R. & Spellberg, B. (2025). Practicing With Intent: How to Teach an Old Dogma New Tricks. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Persaud, N., Workentin, A., Rizvi, A., Pierson, T., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Liu, K., Bennett, A., Shaver, N., Skidmore, B., Vyas, N., Pap, R., Almoli, F., Lee, T. C., Sirois, C., McCracken, R. K., Papillon-Ferland, L. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Interventions to Address Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing for Older Primary Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA network open, vol. 8, p. e2517965.
- McDonald, E. G., Estey, J. L., Davenport, C., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Gaudet, J., Wilson Registe, P. P., Lee, T. C. & Goodine, C. (2025). Electronic Decision Support for Deprescribing in Older Adults Living in Long-Term Care: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial. JAMA network open, vol. 8, p. e2512931.
- Prosty, C., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Lee, J., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Global Practice Variation in the Management of Clostridioides difficile Infections: An International Cross-Sectional Survey of Clinicians. Open forum infectious diseases, vol. 12, p. ofaf248.
- Prosty, C., Noutsios, D., Lee, T. C., Daneman, N., Davis, J. S., Jager, N. G. L., Ghanem-Zoubi, N., Goodman, A. L., Kaasch, A. J., Kouijzer, I., McMullan, B. J., McDonald, E. G., Tong, S. Y. C., Ong, S. W. X. & Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform MSSA/PSSA domain specific working group (2025). Cefazolin versus Antistaphylococcal Penicillins for the Treatment of Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
- Ong, S. W. X., Pinto, R., Rishu, A., Tong, S. Y. C., Commons, R. J., Conly, J. M., Evans, G. A., Fralick, M., Kandel, C., Lagacé-Wiens, P. R. S., Lee, T. C., Lother, S. A., MacFadden, D. R., Marshall, J. C., Martel-Laferrière, V., Mayette, M., McDonald, E. G., Neary, J. D., Prazak, J., Raby, E., Regli, A., Rogers, B. A., Smith, S., Taggart, L. R., Wang, H. T., Wuerz, T., Yahav, D., Young, P. J., Fowler, R. A., Daneman, N. & BALANCE trial consortium (2025). Identifying heterogeneity of treatment effect for antibiotic duration in bloodstream infection: an exploratory post-hoc analysis of the BALANCE randomised clinical trial. EClinicalMedicine, vol. 83, p. 103195.
- Lee, J. J., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Filosa, E., Rej, S., Godard-Sebillote, C., Tamblyn, R., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Criteria to Report Adverse Drug Withdrawal Events in Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 73, p. 1918-1928.
- Desormeau, B., Huang, A., Downar, J., Wu, P. E., Bortolussi-Courval, E., Ross, S. B., Battu, K., Papillon-Ferland, L., McAlister, F. A., Elsayed, S., Wilson, M. G., Cavalcanti, R. B., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2025). Prescribing Patterns and Impact of Sedatives in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Secondary Analysis of the MedSafer Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 73, p. 1753-1761.
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