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
- Yang, D., Alkot, M., Quaiattini, A., Lessard, S., Zaripova, A., Pavoni, C., Couture, S., Desmarais, P., Huang, Y. Q., McDonald, E. G., Richer, C., Chabot, J., Pageau, F., Tannou, T., Layani, G., Rouabhia, D., Calafiore, M., Fink, K., Yilmaz, G., Jean-Baptiste, B., Godard-Sebillotte, C., Yang, D., Alkot, M., Quaiattini, A., Lessard, S., Zaripova, A., Pavoni, C., Couture, S., Desmarais, P., Huang, Y. Q., McDonald, E. G., Richer, C., Chabot, J., Pageau, F., Tannou, T., Layani, G., Rouabhia, D., Calafiore, M., Fink, K., Yilmaz, G., Jean-Baptiste, B. & Godard-Sebillotte, C. (2024). Identifying practices of information transfer between the hospital and primary care for older adults: a scoping review protocol. BMJ open, vol. 14, p. e090764.
- Spellberg, B., Lee, T. C., Ghanem, B. & McDonald, E. G. (2024). Endocarditis Therapy: The Move From Expert Opinion to Evidence. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 84, p. 2305-2307.
- Sohani, Z. N., Lieu, A., Bamba, R., Patel, M., Paul, M., Yahav, D., McDonald, E. G., Lawandi, A. & Lee, T. C. (2024). Establishing piperacillin-tazobactam susceptibility in ceftriaxone non-susceptible Enterobacterales: comparing disk diffusion, Etest, and VITEK 2 automated MIC measurements vs. broth microdilution. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
- BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network, Daneman, N., Rishu, A., Pinto, R., Rogers, B. A., Shehabi, Y., Parke, R., Cook, D., Arabi, Y., Muscedere, J., Reynolds, S., Hall, R., Dwivedi, D. B., McArthur, C., McGuinness, S., Yahav, D., Coburn, B., Geagea, A., Das, P., Shin, P., Detsky, M., Morris, A., Fralick, M., Powis, J. E., Kandel, C., Sligl, W., Bagshaw, S. M., Singhal, N., Belley-Cote, E., Whitlock, R., Khwaja, K., Morpeth, S., Kazemi, A., Williams, A., MacFadden, D. R., McIntyre, L., Tsang, J., Lamontagne, F., Carignan, A., Marshall, J., Friedrich, J. O., Cirone, R., Downing, M., Graham, C., Davis, J., Duan, E., Neary, J., Evans, G., Alraddadi, B., Al Johani, S., Martin, C., Elsayed, S., Ball, I., Lauzier, F., Turgeon, A., Stelfox, H. T., Conly, J., McDonald, E. G., Lee, T. C., Sullivan, R., Grant, J., Kagan, I., Young, P., Lawrence, C., O'Callaghan, K., Eustace, M., Choong, K., Aslanian, P., Buehner, U., Havey, T., Binnie, A., Prazak, J., Reeve, B., Litton, E., Lother, S., Kumar, A., Zarychanski, R., Hoffman, T., Paterson, D., Daley, P., Commons, R. J., Charbonney, E., Naud, J.-F., Roberts, S., Tiruvoipati, R., Gupta, S., Wood, G., Shum, O., Miyakis, S., Dodek, P., Kwok, C. & Fowler, R. A. (2024). Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections. The New England journal of medicine.
- Prosty, C., Luo, O. D., Khalaf, R., Del Corpo, O., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2024). Diagnostic Test Accuracy of the Fungitell Serum (1→3)-β-D-Glucan Assay for the Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
- Lee, T. C., Spellberg, B. & McDonald, E. G. (2024). Oral antibiotics for S. aureus bacteremia including endocarditis: sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Nelson, Z., Tarik Aslan, A., Beahm, N. P., Blyth, M., Cappiello, M., Casaus, D., Dominguez, F., Egbert, S., Hanretty, A., Khadem, T., Olney, K., Abdul-Azim, A., Aggrey, G., Anderson, D. T., Barosa, M., Bosco, M., Chahine, E. B., Chowdhury, S., Christensen, A., de Lima Corvino, D., Fitzpatrick, M., Fleece, M., Footer, B., Fox, E., Ghanem, B., Hamilton, F., Hayes, J., Jegorovic, B., Jent, P., Jimenez-Juarez, R. N., Joseph, A., Kang, M., Kludjian, G., Kurz, S., Lee, R. A., Lee, T. C., Li, T., Maraolo, A. E., Maximos, M., McDonald, E. G., Mehta, D., Moore, J. W., Nguyen, C. T., Papan, C., Ravindra, A., Spellberg, B., Taylor, R., Thumann, A., Tong, S. Y. C., Veve, M., Wilson, J., Yassin, A., Zafonte, V. & Mena Lora, A. J. (2024). Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Pediatrics and Adults: A WikiGuidelines Group Consensus Statement. JAMA network open, vol. 7, p. e2444495.
- Bortolussi-Courval, É., Smyth, E., Costiniuk, C., Falutz, J., Ross, S. B., Liu, K., Lee, J. J., Sheehan, N. L., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2024). Prevalence of medication overload among older people with HIV: a MedSafer study. BMC infectious diseases, vol. 24, p. 1204.
- Bortolussi-Courval, É., Prosty, C., Lee, J. J., McCarthy, L. M., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2024). Efficacy of weekly versus daily cholecalciferol for repleting serum vitamin D (25(OH)D) deficiency: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, vol. 135, p. 685-692.
- Spellberg, B., Ghanem, B., Boyles, T., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). 'ESR and CRP: It's Time to Stop the Zombie Tests' - Author's reply. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, vol. 31, p. 136-137.
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