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Alyson L Mahar

Assistant Professor, Health Quality, School of Nursing, Queen's University
Verified email at queensu.ca
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Conceptualizing belonging

AL Mahar, V Cobigo, H Stuart - Disability and rehabilitation, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To develop a transdisciplinary conceptualization of social belonging that could be
used to guide measurement approaches aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of community-…

American Joint Committee on Cancer acceptance criteria for inclusion of risk models for individualized prognosis in the practice of precision medicine

…, S Halabi, AJ Lazar, AL Mahar… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has increasingly recognized the need for
more personalized probabilistic predictions than those delivered by ordinal staging systems, …

Second malignancies after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis

CJD Wallis, AL Mahar, R Choo, S Herschorn… - bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Objective To determine the association between exposure to radiotherapy for the treatment
of prostate cancer and subsequent second malignancies (second primary cancers). Design …

Personalizing prognosis in colorectal cancer: A systematic review of the quality and nature of clinical prognostic tools for survival outcomes

AL Mahar, C Compton, S Halabi… - Journal of surgical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Integrating diverse types of prognostic information into accurate, individualized estimates of
outcome in colorectal cancer is challenging. Significant heterogeneity in colorectal cancer …

Textbook outcome and survival in patients with gastric cancer: an analysis of the Population Registry of Esophageal and Stomach Tumours in Ontario (PRESTO)

…, N Jivraj, Y Jeong, LE Davis, AL Mahar… - Annals of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine the association between Textbook Outcome (TO)—a new composite
quality measurement—and long-term survival in gastric cancer surgery. Background: Single-…

Stage at diagnosis and survival in patients with cancer and a pre-existing mental illness: a meta-analysis

…, P Kurdyak, PA Groome, AL Mahar - J Epidemiol …, 2020 - jech.bmj.com
Introduction Individuals with a pre-existing mental illness, especially those experiencing
reduced social, occupational and functional capacity, are at risk for cancer care disparities. …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-reported symptoms after breast cancer diagnosis and treatment: a retrospective cohort study

…, LD Bubis, AL Mahar, Q Li, J Sussman, L Moody… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Aim Breast cancer and its treatment are associated with varying symptoms. The province of
Ontario (13.6 million) has implemented a provincial programme to screen for symptoms …

Patient-centered time-at-home outcomes in older adults after surgical cancer treatment

TR Chesney, B Haas, NG Coburn, AL Mahar… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Functional outcomes are central to cancer care decision-making by older adults.
Objective To assess the long-term functional outcomes of older adults after a resection for …

A systematic review of surgery for non-curative gastric cancer

AL Mahar, NG Coburn, S Singh, C Law, LK Helyer - Gastric Cancer, 2012 - Springer
Background Most gastric cancer patients present with advanced stage disease precluding
curative surgical treatment. These patients may be considered for palliative resection or …

The effect of a severe psychiatric illness on colorectal cancer treatment and survival: a population-based retrospective cohort study

AL Mahar, P Kurdyak, TP Hanna, NG Coburn… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To identify inequalities in cancer survival rates for patients with a history of severe
psychiatric illness (SPI) compared to those with no history of mental illness and explore …