Anurika De Silva

Volatile anaesthesia and peri-operative outcomes related to cancer: a feasibility and pilot study for a large randomised control trial.

JA Dubowitz, JP Cata, AP De Silva, S Braat, D Shan, K Yee, F Hollande, O Martin, EK Sloan, B Riedel, undefined Global Onco-Anaesthesia Research Collaboration Group

Journal article  |  2021  |  Anaesthesia

Published data suggest that the type of general anaesthesia used during surgical resection for cancer may impact on patient long-t..

Multiple imputation methods for handling missing values in longitudinal studies with sampling weights: Comparison of methods implemented in Stata

Anurika P De Silva, Alysha M De Livera, Katherine J Lee, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Julie A Simpson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biometrical Journal

Many analyses of longitudinal cohorts require incorporating sampling weights to account for unequal sampling probabilities of part..

Development of a Frailty Index from Routine Hospital Data in Perioperative and Critical Care

Jai N Darvall, Kate Greentree, Joel Loth, Tony Bose, Anurika De Silva, Sabine Braat, Wen K Lim, David A Story

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Frailty is common in surgical and intensive care unit (ICU) populations, yet it is not routinely measured. ..

Video-interpreting for cognitive assessments: An intervention study and micro-costing analysis

Kerry Hwang, Anurika De Silva, Julie A Simpson, Dina LoGiudice, Lidia Engel, Andrew S Gilbert, Samantha Croy, Betty Haralambous

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Accuracy of the Clinical Frailty Scale for perioperative frailty screening: a prospective observational study

Jai N Darvall, Joel Loth, Tony Bose, Sabine Braat, Anurika De Silva, David A Story, Wen K Lim

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal canadien d'anesthésie

PURPOSE: Perioperative frailty increases postoperative complications, mortality, and new functional dependence. Despite this, rout..

Alcohol Abstinence in Drinkers with Atrial Fibrillation

Aleksandr Voskoboinik, Jonathan M Kalman, Anurika De Silva, Thomas Nicholls, Benedict Costello, Shane Nanayakkara, Sandeep Prabhu, Dion Stub, Sonia Azzopardi, Donna Vizi, Geoffrey Wong, Chrishan Nalliah, Hariharan Sugumar, Michael Wong, Emily Kotschet, David Kaye, Andrew J Taylor, Peter M Kistler

Journal article  |  2020  |  New England Journal of Medicine

BACKGROUND: Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with incident atrial fibrillation and adverse atrial remodeling; however, ..

Severe acute pain and persistent post-surgical pain in orthopaedic trauma patients: a cohort study

Carla Edgley, Malcolm Hogg, Anurika De Silva, Sabine Braat, Andrew Bucknill, Kate Leslie

Journal article  |  2019  |  British Journal of Anaesthesia

BACKGROUND: We conducted a cohort study of adult patients presenting for orthopaedic trauma surgery at a statewide trauma centre, ..

Effectiveness of a Bundled Intervention Including Adjunctive Corticosteroids on Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Stepped-Wedge Randomized Clinical Trial

Melanie Lloyd, Amalia Karahalios, Edward Janus, Elizabeth H Skinner, Terry Haines, Anurika De Silva, Stephanie Lowe, Melina Shackell, Soe Ko, Lucy Desmond, Harin Karunajeewa, Monica Turczyniak, Kamya Kameshwar, Ben Stevenson, Parul Bali, Elena Gerstman, Kirsty May

Journal article  |  2019  |  JAMA Internal Medicine

Importance: Community-acquired pneumonia remains a leading cause of hospitalization, mortality, and health care costs worldwide. R..

Multiple imputation methods for handling missing values in a longitudinal categorical variable with restrictions on transitions over time: a simulation study

Anurika Priyanjali De Silva, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Alysha Madhu De Livera, Katherine Jane Lee, Julie Anne Simpson

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Medical Research Methodology

Evaluation of multiple imputation methods for dealing with missing longitudinal data

Anurika Priyanjali De Silva

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2018

Background: Missing data is a common problem in epidemiological studies and is especially prominent in longitudinal cohorts, as th..