Sema K. Aydede

Overview: I am interested in the use of clinical and administrative databases in ways that would help support optimal decision-making in the provision of healthcare to paediatric populations.
The projects I am involved with aim at using this information-base in evaluating health programs, understanding healthcare utilization patterns where cost savings are possible, exploring relationships between quality of care and costs, and providing baseline information that could be used in developing interventions to promote health.
Publications: Preferences for life saving programs: How the public discounts time and age
Discounting and Environmental Policy
DOI: 10.4324/9781315199818-24
2018
Multimorbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life among Older Adults
Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Research
Sema K Aydede and Drona Rasali and William Osei and Trish Hunt
DOI: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000388
2017
TeleHealth and Accelerated Aging in the World Population: Future Research Focus
Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Research
Sema K Aydede
DOI: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000332
2016
Geriatric Care at a Time of Accelerated Aging in the World Population and Emerging Global Challenges
Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Research
Sema K Aydede
DOI: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000256
2015
Care delivery in youth with type 2 diabetes - are we meeting clinical practice guidelines?
Pediatric diabetes
DOI: 10.1111/pedi.12147
PubMed: 24888460
11/2014
Chronic kidney disease and support provided by home care services: a systematic review.
BMC nephrology
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-15-118
PubMed: 25033891
2014
Adherence to clinical practice guidelines in the management of children, youth, and young adults with type 1 diabetes--a prospective population cohort study.
The Journal of pediatrics
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.01.070
PubMed: 23523280
08/2013
"If you're not keeping score, you're just practising": a lean healthcare program evaluation framework
Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
2013
"If you're not keeping score, you're just practising": a lean healthcare program evaluation framework.
Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
PubMed: 24863446
2013
Validation of classification algorithms for childhood diabetes identified from administrative data.
Pediatric diabetes
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2011.00795.x
PubMed: 21771232
05/2012
Hospital financial condition and operational decisions related to the quality of hospital care.
Medical care research and review : MCRR
DOI: 10.1177/1077558706298289
PubMed: 17406018
04/2007
The effects of reinsurance in financing children's health care
Inquiry
DOI: 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_43.1.23
2006
The effects of reinsurance in financing children's health care.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
PubMed: 16838816
2006
Rates of Time Preference for Saving Lives
The American Economic Review
1992
Discounting Human Lives
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
DOI: 10.2307/1242393
1991

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