Publications
The 20-year experiment: accounting for, explaining, and evaluating health care cost containment in Canada and the United States. Annual Review of Public HealthAnnu.Rev.Public Health. 1991;12:481-518.
Acute care hospital utilization under Canadian national health insurance: the British Columbia experience from 1969 to 1988. Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingInquiry. 1990;27(4):352-358.
Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia. Age and AgeingAge Ageing. 2000;29(3):249-253.
Aging and health care utilization: new evidence on old fallacies. Social science & medicine (1982)Soc.Sci.Med.. 1987;24(10):851-862.
On being old and sick: the burden of health care for the elderly in Canada and the United States. Journal of health politics, policy and lawJ.Health Polit.Policy Law. 1992;17(4):763-782.
Beneath the calm surface: the changing face of physician-service use in British Columbia, 1985/86 versus 1996/97. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienneCMAJ. 2004;170(5):803-807.
Conspicuous consumption: characterizing high users of physician services in one Canadian province. Journal of health services research & policyJ.Health Serv.Res.Policy. 2003;8(4):215-224.
Creating a population-based linked health database: a new resource for health services research. Canadian journal of public health.Revue canadienne de sante publiqueCan.J.Public Health. 1998;89(4):270-273.
The eyes have it: cataract surgery and changing patterns of outpatient surgery. Medical care research and review : MCRRMed.Care Res.Rev.. 1997;54(3):286-300; discussion 321-5.
Flat on your back or back to your flat? Sources of increased hospital services utilization among the elderly in British Columbia. Social science & medicine (1982)Soc.Sci.Med.. 1990;30(7):819-828.
Gaseous air pollutants and asthma hospitalization of children with low household income in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. American Journal of EpidemiologyAm.J.Epidemiol.. 2004;159(3):294-303.
Hospital downsizing and trends in health care use among elderly people in British Columbia. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienneCMAJ. 2000;163(4):397-401.
The long good-bye: the great transformation of the British Columbia hospital system. Health services researchHealth Serv.Res.. 1989;24(4):435-459.
Mortality rates after cataract extraction. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)Epidemiology. 1999;10(3):288-293.
The quick and the dead: "managing" inpatient care in British Columbia hospitals, 1969-1995/96. Health services researchHealth Serv.Res.. 2001;35(6):1319-1338.
Socioeconomic status, mortality, and the development of cataract at a young age. Social science & medicine (1982)Soc.Sci.Med.. 1998;46(11):1451-1457.
Trends and determinants of prescription drug expenditures in the elderly: data from the British Columbia Pharmacare Program. Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingInquiry. 1993;30(2):199-207.
Trends in use of medical services by the elderly in British Columbia. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienneCMAJ. 1989;141(1):39-45.
Why are some books important (and others not)? Canadian journal of public health.Revue canadienne de sante publiqueCan.J.Public Health. 2010;101(6):433-435.

