Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics


Nancy Wilczynski

BA (McMaster), MSc (McMaster), PhD (McMaster)

Assistant Professor (Part-time), Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Manager, Health Research Information Unit

905.525.9140 x 22780
905.546.0401
wilczyn@mcmaster.ca

 


 

 

Academic Interests

Current research interests are primarily in knowledge translation research, medical informatics, information retrieval and quality of reporting. Of particular interest is enhancing the effectiveness of clinical end-user searches to improve the retrieval of clinically relevant and scientifically sound study reports from the large electronic biomedical databases such as MEDLINE

Current Graduate Students:
Cynthia Lokker (MSc eHealth)

Selected Publications

  1. Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB; for the QI Hedges Team. Optimal search filters for detecting quality improvement studies in Medline. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Dec;19:e31.
  2. Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. Consistency and accuracy of indexing systematic review articles and meta-analyses in Medline. Health Info Libr J. 2009 Sep;26:203-10.
  3. Wilczynski NL. Quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies: no change since STARD statement publication--before-and-after study. Radiology. 2008;248:817-23.
  4. Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB. Indexing of diagnostic accuracy studies in MEDLINE and EMBASE. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:801-5.
  5. Wilczynski NL, Garg AX, Haynes RB; Nephrology Hedges Team. A method for defining a journal subset for a clinical discipline using the bibliographies of systematic reviews. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;129(Pt 1):721-4.
  6. Wilczynski NL, Marks S, Haynes RB. Search strategies for identifying qualitative studies in CINAHL. Qual Health Res. 2007;17:705-10.
  7. Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB; Hedges Team. EMBASE search strategies achieved high sensitivity and specificity for retrieving methodologically sound systematic reviews. J Clin Epidemiol. 2007;60(1):29-33.
  8. Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB; Hedges Team. Optimal search strategies for identifying mental health content in MEDLINE: an analytic survey. Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2006 Mar 23;5:4.
  9. Wilczynski NL, Morgan D, Haynes RB; Hedges Team. An overview of the design and methods for retrieving high-quality studies for clinical care. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2005 Jun 21;5:20.

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