Valeria Rac

Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI)
 

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0426-4594
Keywords: health technology assessment, clinical trials, health services research, outcomes and evaluation
My research and expertise is in the area of the health services research and health technology assessment (HTA) and it is focused on the design, implementation and evaluation of large clinical trials, mixed-methods studies, complex health system interventions and registries involving pre-hospital and in-hospital data collection.
 
I am in particular interested in the design, implementation and evaluation (formative, summative and real-time developmental evaluation) of the complex interventions in the HTA research (technologies and services) and chronic disease management in the community (heart failure, COPD, chronic kidney disease, diabetes). More recently my research is also focused on the system level effects of health technologies and how they impact health care delivery.

Parallel Exploratory RCT of Polyethylene Wrap for Heat Loss Prevention in Infants Born at Less than 24 Weeks' Gestation.
Neonatology. 2019 Mar 20;116(1):37-41
Reilly MC, Vohra S, Rac VE, Zayack D, Wimmer J, Vincer M, Ferrelli K, Kiss A, Soll RF, Dunn M
The Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-analysis.
Can J Cardiol. 2019 Mar;35(3):352-364
Francis T, Kabboul N, Rac V, Mitsakakis N, Pechlivanoglou P, Bielecki J, Alter D, Krahn M
How Procurement Judges The Value of Medical Technologies: A Review of Healthcare Tenders.
Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2019 Jan;35(1):50-55
Miller FA, Lehoux P, Peacock S, Rac VE, Neukomm J, Barg C, Bytautas JP, Krahn M
Comparative effectiveness of the different components of care provided in heart failure clinics-protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Syst Rev. 2019 Feb 02;8(1):40
Slater M, Bielecki J, Alba AC, Abrahamyan L, Tomlinson G, Mak S, MacIver J, Zieroth S, Lee D, Wong W, Krahn M, Ross H, Rac VE
Comparative Effectiveness of the Core Components of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Mortality and Morbidity: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.
J Clin Med. 2018 Dec 04;7(12):
Kabboul NN, Tomlinson G, Francis TA, Grace SL, Chaves G, Rac V, Daou-Kabboul T, Bielecki JM, Alter DA, Krahn M
National Survey of Indigenous primary healthcare capacity and delivery models in Canada: the TransFORmation of IndiGEnous PrimAry HEAlthcare delivery (FORGE AHEAD) community profile survey.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Nov 01;18(1):828
Tompkins JW, Mequanint S, Barre DE, Fournie M, Green ME, Hanley AJ, Hayward MN, Zwarenstein M, Harris SB, FORGE AHEAD Program Team
Gender Differences in Utilization of Specialized Heart Failure Clinics.
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2018 Jan 10;:
Abrahamyan L, Sahakyan Y, Wijeysundera HC, Krahn M, Rac VE
Diagnostic accuracy of level IV portable sleep monitors versus polysomnography for obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Sleep Breath. 2018 Jan 09;:
Abrahamyan L, Sahakyan Y, Chung S, Pechlivanoglou P, Bielecki J, Carcone SM, Rac VE, Fitzpatrick M, Krahn M
Expanding the clinical role of community pharmacy: A qualitative ethnographic study of medication reviews in Ontario, Canada.
Health Policy. 2018 Mar;122(3):256-262
Patton SJ, Miller FA, Abrahamyan L, Rac VE
Changes in blood pressure among patients in the Ontario Telehomecare programme: An observational longitudinal cohort study.
J Telemed Telecare. 2017 Jan 01;:1357633X17706286
Sahakyan Y, Abrahamyan L, Shahid N, Stanimirovic A, Pechlivanoglou P, Mitsakakis N, Ryan W, Krahn M, Rac VE

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Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI)

Associate Program Director and Director, Clinical Research Division, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative
 
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto