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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
- Buskandar, F., Fowler, R. A., Johnstone, J., Lee, T. C., MacFadden, D. R., McDonald, E. G., Oliver, M. J., Ong, S. W. X., Paterson, D., Pinto, R., Rishu, A., Rogers, B., Yahav, D. & Daneman, N. (2025). Clinician survey for the management of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection: Catheter retention versus replacement. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada, vol. 10, p. 219-227.
- Prosty, C., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Patients With Cirrhosis Presenting With Variceal Bleeding-Are We Treating the Past?-Reply. JAMA internal medicine.
- Ruben, A., Herbin, J., Lamb, A., Leung, L., Min, J., Paschos, I., Thompson, W., McDonald, E. G. & Sadowski, C. A. (2025). Supporting Medication Appropriateness Among Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Reflections on the Development and Implementation of a Network Action Plan. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, vol. 137, p. e70136.
- Fiore, J. F., Shirzadi, S., Roversi, K., Prakash, I., Wong, S., Meterissian, S., Meguerditchian, A. N., Desbiens, C., Rivard, J., Delisle, M., Findlay-Shirras, L., Abou Khalil, J., Maciver, A., Quan, M. L., Verreault, K., Johnston, S., Feldman, L., McDonald, E. G. & Postoperative Analgesia Intervention with Non-opioid Alternatives (PAIN-Alt) Collaboration (2025). Comparative effectiveness of opioid versus opioid-free analgesia after outpatient breast surgery: PAIN-Alt trial protocol. BMJ open, vol. 15, p. e107258.
- Lee, J. J., Filosa, E., Pierson, T., Khuong, N., Gagnon, C., Herbin, J., Rej, S., Godard-Sebillotte, C., Tamblyn, R., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Assessing the acceptability and usability of MedSafer, a patient-centered electronic deprescribing tool. JAMIA open, vol. 8, p. ooaf141.
- Spellberg, B., Wald-Dickler, N., Holtom, P., Meyer-Sautter, P., Camp, A., Diaz, A. D., Buhamad, R., Vazquez, A. S. M., Aguirre-Garcia, G. M., Stanton, M., Butler-Wu, S. M., Chiu, I., Ergenc, Z., Bhoojhawon, G., Murri, R., Maraolo, A. E., Cabanilla, G., Riccardi, N., Tshisevhe, V., Behenna, C., Williams, K. S., Kufel, W. D., Wojciaczyk, N., Pimentel, B. V., Muyidi, A., Costa, R. P. L., Motta, F., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G., Ghanem, B. & Nelson, Z. (2025). Reply to Datta, "Is static or cidal antibiotic falsifiable?". Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, p. e0139125.
- Turner, N. A., Hamasaki, T., Doernberg, S. B., Lodise, T. P., King, H. A., Ghazaryan, V., Cosgrove, S. E., Jenkins, T. C., Liu, C., Sharma, S., Zaharoff, S., Wahid, L., Renard, V. J., Cook, P., Raad, I., Hachem, R., Chaftari, A.-M., Sims, M., DeMarco, C., Miller, L. G., McCarthy, M. W., Morse, C. G., Lucasti, C., Forrest, G. N., Cherabuddi, K., Polk, C., Fazili, T., Rupp, M. E., Thompson, G. R., Kim, K., Strnad, L., Schnee, A. E., McKinnell, J. A., Ramesh, M., Silveira, F. P., McCarty, T. P., Lee, T. C., McDonald, E. G., Paolino, K., Wiegand, K., Wall, A., Riccobene, T., Patel, R., Rappo, U., Evans, S., Chambers, H. F., Fowler, V. G., Holland, T. L. & Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (2025). Dalbavancin for Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: The DOTS Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA.
- Prosty, C., Noutsios, D., Dubé, L.-R., Baden, R., Davar, K., Freling, S., Bhuket, T., Yee, H. F., Spellberg, B., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2025). Prophylactic Antibiotics for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis. JAMA internal medicine, vol. 185, p. 1194-1203.
- Persaud, N., Rizvi, A., Workentin, A., Skidmore, B. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Acceptability of Interventions to Address Polypharmacy in Older Adult Outpatients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Health science reports, vol. 8, p. e70981.
- Hosseini, B., Condon, A., da Costa, B. R., Daley, P., Greiver, M., Jüni, P., Lee, T. C., McBrien, K., McDonald, E. G., Murthy, S., Selby, P., Andrew, M., Aubrey-Bassler, K., Barber, D., Barrett, B., Butler, C. C., Crampton, N., Dahrouge, S., Damji, A., Fowler, R., Garies, S., Hudon, C., Hulme, J., Isenor, J., Jenkins, D. J. A., Lall, R., LeBlanc, A., Leong, C., Little, P., Lofters, A., Logsetty, S., Lother, S., Lussier, M.-T., Maclaren, L., Mangin, D., Marshall, E. G., Marshall, J. C., McCracken, R., Moineddin, R., Orava, B., Paquette, J.-S., Park, J. J. H., Persaud, N., Rac, V. E., Ramsden, V. R., Rayner, J., Sanchez-Ramirez, D. C., Saxinger, L., Shi, H., Singer, A., Spiwak, R., Srivastava, A., Sud, A., Tarride, J.-E., Telner, D., Upshur, R. E. G., Walji, S., Walsh, R., Wilchesky, M., Wong, S. T., Wood, B., Zarychanski, R., Zelek, B., Keynan, Y., Piszczek, J., Warshafsky, D. & Pinto, A. D. (2025). Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial of Treatments for COVID in Community Settings (CanTreatCOVID): protocol for a randomised controlled adaptive platform trial of treatments for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in community settings. BMJ open, vol. 15, p. e097134.
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