
Assistant Professor @MacAnesthesia @HEI_McMaster. Health Research Methodologist/ Epidemiologist. Former @CIHR_IRSC Banting Fellow @HarvardDBMI 🇨🇦👩🏻💻
Joined November 2015
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🎙️Ecstatic to share a podcast interview with @drjohnm from @Sensible__Med about analytic flexibility and nutritional epidemiology.🍎🥩
Hear the podcast: sensible-med.com/p/a-discuss…
Read the paper: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retr…
@MacAnesthesia @HEI_mcmaster @machealthsci
You all. I found a beautiful study to write about @Sensible__Med. A new way to analyze observational studies.
Gosh, I am excited. Not only to find this study but also to talk with senior author @DenaZera
Post here sensible-med.com/p/the-defin…
Podcast tomorrow.
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Our @BMJMedicine network meta-analysis (151 trials) found no moderate or high-certainty evidence that any drug provides important benefits for fibromyalgia.
Some drugs may help some patients - evidence is low certainty and benefits are typically small:bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/…
Grilling the data: application of specification curve analysis to red meat and all-cause mortality
jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4… via @DenaZera et al
&
The Definitive Analysis of Observational Studies
sensible-med.com/p/the-defin… via @drjohnm
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A systematic review takes one to two years. Very little of that time goes to thinking. It goes to moving citations between disconnected tools.
We built CoreSR to strip that out and return the reviewer's time to judgment.
youtube.com/@CoreSR
coresr.ai/
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Weeks of manual synthesis reduced to less than 10 minutes.
Watch how CoreSR runs a Bayesian NMA + automated GRADE assessment instantly.
Watch below 👇 #EvidenceBasedMedicine @GuyattGH @Bram_Rochwerg @DenaZera
Vist Coresr.ai
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👁️ Our editorial outlines how ophthalmologists, researchers, and guideline developers can use the GRADE evidence-to-decision (EtD) and the GRADE-Adolopment to create trustworthy clinical practice guidelines.
🔗 Full editorial: nature.com/articles/s41433-0…
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Do you want to reduce your intake of sleeping pills? Check for the latest evidence on what works best from our publication in BMJ: bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024…
#benzodiazepines
#sleepingpills
#sedatives
#hypnotics
#deprescription
#CBT
@DenaZera
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NEW @bmj_latest research by @DenaZera and colleagues reviews evidence from randomised trials assessing the effectiveness of strategies to deprescribe benzodiazepines and closely related sedative hypnotics
bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024…
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🚨📢 Postdoc opening @EmoryEPI in pharmaceutical regulation, evidence synthesis & meta-research. 1-year position w/ possible renewal. Formal posting coming soon—message or email me for details. Please share!
@Yale_CRRIT @METRICStanford @NaudetFlorian @RoRInstitute @jsross119
Super proud of @TylerSC10 ! Amazing work! ⭐️
🚨 Excited to share our new paper in @LancetRespirMed 🚨
Our systematic review & network meta-analysis compares preoxygenation strategies for critically ill patients needing intubation. NIPPV tops HFNC & facemask in reducing hypoxaemia.
🔍 Study Highlights
• Systematic review & network meta-analysis of 15 RCTs (n=3420)
• Compared HFNC, NIPPV, and facemask oxygen for preoxygenation
• NIPPV likely best at reducing hypoxaemia during intubation
– vs HFNC: RR 0.73 (moderate certainty)
– vs facemask: RR 0.51 (high certainty)
• HFNC better than facemask: RR 0.69 (high certainty)
• No strategy improved first-attempt intubation success
• NIPPV may reduce serious adverse events vs HFNC/facemask
• No clear mortality difference between methods
• Data used to inform upcoming international airway guidelines
🧠 Implications: NIPPV may be preferred in high-risk or critically ill patients; findings support evidence-based guideline updates
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrac…
@UofT_DoM @MacDeptMed @Bram_Rochwerg @DenaZera @HEI_mcmaster
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🚨 New Clinical Guidelines Alert 🚨
A major review recommends against commonly used interventional procedures like epidural injections, nerve blocks & ablations for chronic spine pain
Why? ❌ Similar benefits to sham, potential risks, & high costs
bmj.com/content/388/bmj-2024…
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Face Masking and Risk of Post-Intravitreal Injection Endophthalmitis: A Network Meta-Analysis of 2.6 Million Injections
ow.ly/xvqa50UpUn0
@UofTDOVS @brendantao @RSTHuang @AndrewMihalache @DenaZera @PopovicMM @Jim_SCX @kztoronto @RKohly @RaHMu123
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Enroll now! New term starts January 20th, 2025!
#macanesthesia
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What leads us to ignore experts isn't their knowledge. It's their arrogance.
Evidence: Scientists are more credible when they admit what they don't know, acknowledge what they got wrong, and update their views.
Trust is earned by expressing humility, not by asserting authority.
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🇨🇦 A recent webinar explored how @AMMICanada, @GovCanHealth and @Firstline are partnering to develop evidence-based national antimicrobial prescribing guidelines.
We’re proud to work with these incredible teams, including the AMMI Guidelines Panel: Chair: Dr. @deb_yamamura, Dr. @DenaZera Dr. Mark Loeb, Dr. Nicole Le Saux, Dr. Peter Daley, Dr. @rwittmer3 , Dr. @ATseChangMD , Dr. @BRxAD , Dr. Philippe Morency-Potvin, Dr. Kevin Afra, Dr. Alyssa Ness and Dr. @TimLauRx .
View the full presentation slides here: tinyurl.com/5f93wfv9
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Cognitive behavioral therapy aids patients with long COVID, finds a recently published review from Dena Zeraatkar (@DenaZera), assistant professor @MacAnesthesia and @HEI_mcmaster, and colleagues.
ow.ly/1tl850Uk6xq
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A new study by researchers with @MacAnesthesia and @HEI_mcmaster has found cognitive behavioural therapy and a program of physical and mental rehab likely improve symptoms of long COVID.
ow.ly/VlYb50UhGSa
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Recent publication in British Medical Journal BMJ and treatments for long Covid or post Covid condition congratulations to the team
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3960…
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Check out the latest publication from the NPC: Interventions for the management of long covid (post-covid condition): living systematic review
bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024…

ALT Dr. Dena Zeraatkar, with long dark hair and a bright smile, in front of a black and white image of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery. The background is a grayscale image of the building, while the subject is in full color. The text 'New Publication' is prominently displayed, with 'New' in bold black and white and 'Publication' in white on a maroon banner."
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Our review of interventions for long COVID found that current evidence supports cognitive behavioral therapy, and physical and mental rehabilitation: bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024…
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