Krause PR, Fleming TR, Longini IM, Peto R, Briand S, Heymann DL, Beral V, Snape MD, Rees H, Ropero AM, Balicer RD, Cramer JP, Muñoz-Fontela C, Gruber M, Gaspar R, Singh JA, Subbarao K, Van Kerkhove MD, Swaminathan S, Ryan MJ, Henao-Restrepo AM. SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34161052/)New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. 385(2): pp. 179-186.
Cohen NM, Schwartzman O, Jaschek R, Lifshitz A, Hoichman M, Balicer R, Shlush LI, Barbash G, Tanay A. Personalized lab test models to quantify disease potentials in healthy individuals. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34426707/)Nature Medicine, 2021. 27(9): pp. 1582-1591.
Katz GM, Born KB, Balicer RD, Salmon A, Barrett K, Bell CM, Choi Y, Desveaux L, Evans GA, Hopkins J, Maltsev A, McGeer A, Morris AM, Perkhun A, Razak F, Rochon PA, Schwartz B, Slutsky AS, Watts T, Jüni P, Stall NM, on behalf of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Lessons Learned from Israel’s Reopening During a Nationwide COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign. (https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Science-Brief_Lessons-Learned-from-Israels-Reopening-During-a-Nationwide-COVID-19-Vaccination-Campaign-_v1.1_20210531_published.pdf)Science Briefs of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, 2021. 2(33).
Arnson Y, Senderey AB, Hoshen M, Reges O, Balicer R, Alnsasra H, Leibowitz M, Tsadok MA, Haim M. Identifying patients with atrial fibrillation with a single CHA2DS2-VASC risk factor who are at higher risk of stroke. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33843031/)Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Atia O, Asayag N, Focht G, Lujan R, Ledder O, Greenfeld S, Kariv R, Dotan I, Gabay H, Balicer R, Haklai Z, Nevo D, Turner D. Perianal Crohn’s Disease Is Associated With Poor Disease Outcome: A Nationwide Study From the epiIIRN Cohort. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33845216/)Clinical Gastroenterology Hepatology, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Stulman MY, Asayag N, Focht G, Brufman I, Cahan A, Ledderman N, Matz E, Chowers Y, Eliakim R, Ben-Horin S, Odes S, Dotan I, Balicer RD, Benchimol EI, Turner D. Epidemiology of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in Israel: A Nationwide Epi-Israeli IBD Research Nucleus Study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33438721/)Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2021. 27(11): pp. 1784-1794.
Avrahamy H, Shoval G, Hoshen M, Balicer RD, Kamhi-Nesher S, Zalsman G, Weizman A, Krivoy A. Association between Adherence to SSRI Treatment and Mortality among Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome Components. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33853176/)Pharmacopsychiatry, 2021. 54(5): pp. 232-239.
Balicer RD, Ohana R. Israel’s COVID-19 endgame. (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj3858)Science, 2021. 372(6543): p. 663.
Assa A, Assayag N, Balicer RD, Gabay H, Greenfeld S, Kariv R, Ledderman N, Matz E, Dotan I, Ledder O, Yerushalmy-Feler A, Turner D, Cohen S. Pediatric-onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Has Only a Modest Effect on Final Growth: A Report From the epi-IIRN. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33587410/)Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2021. 73(2): pp. 223-230.
Lurie I, Shoval G, Hoshen M, Balicer R, Weiser M, Weizman A, Krivoy A. The association of medical resource utilization with physical morbidity and premature mortality among patients with schizophrenia: An historical prospective population cohort study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34507055/)Schizophrenia Research, 2021. 237: pp. 62-68.
Berliner Senderey A, Ohana R, Perchik S, Erev I, Balicer RD. Encouraging uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine through 2 behaviorally informed interventions: National randomized field 3 experiment evidence from Israel. Behavioral Science and Policy, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Miron O, Barda N, Balicer R, Kor A, Lev-Ran S. Association of opioid use disorder with healthcare utilization and cost in a public health system. (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.15.21258943v1)medRxiv, 2021.
Irving SA, Ball SW, Booth SM, Regan AK, Naleway AL, Buchan SA, Katz MA, Effler PV, Svenson LW, Kwong JC, Feldman BS, Klein NP, Chung H, Simmonds K, for the PREVENT study team. A multi-country investigation of influenza vaccine coverage in pregnant individuals, 2010–2016. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34802789/)Vaccine, 2021. 39(52): pp. 7598-7605.
Leader A, Dagan N, Barda N, Goldberg I, Raanani P, Spectre G, Balicer R, Gafter-Gvili A. Previously undiagnosed cancer in patients with arterial thrombotic events – A population-based cohort study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34818468/)Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Mittelman M, Magen O, Barda N, Dagan N, Oster HS, Leader A, Ohana R, Balicer R. Effectiveness of the BNT162b2mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in Patients with Hematological Neoplasms. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34662390/)Blood, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Flaks-Manov N, Shadmi E, Yahalom R, Perry-Mezre H, Balicer RD, Srulovici E. Identification of elderly patients at risk for 30-day readmission: Clinical insight beyond big data prediction. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661943/)Journal of Nursing Management, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Kickbusch I, Piselli D, Agrawal A, Balicer R, Banner O, Adelhardt M, Capobianco E, Fabian C, Singh Gill A, Lupton D, Medhora RP, Ndili N, Ryś A, Sambuli N, Settle D, Swaminathan S, Vega Morales J, Wolpert M, Wyckoff AW, Xue L, on behalf of the Secretariat of the Lancet and Financial Times Commission. The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01824-9/fulltext#%20)Lancet, 3021. 398(10312): pp. 1727-1776.
Makov-Assif M, Krispin S, Ben-Shlomo Y, Holander T, Dagan N, Balicer R, Barda N. The association between real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction cycle threshold values, symptoms and disease severity among COVID-19 patients in the community: A retrospective cohort study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34743662/)Infectious Diseases, 2021. ePub ahead of print.
Witberg G, Barda N, Hoss S, Richter I, Wiessman M, Aviv Y, Grinberg T, Auster O, Dagan N, Balicer RD, Kornowski R. Myocarditis after Covid-19 Vaccination in a Large Health Care Organization. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34614329/)New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. 385(23): pp. 2132-2139.
Katz MA, Bron Harlev E, Chazan B, Chowers M, Greenberg D, Peretz A, Tshori S, Levy J, Yacobi M, Hirsch A, Amichay D, Weinberger R, Ben Dor A, Keren Taraday E, Reznik D, Barazani Chayat C, Sagas D, Ben Zvi H, Berdinstein R, Rashid G, Shemer Avni Y, Mandelboim M, Zuckerman N, Rainy N, Akriv A, Dagan N, Kepten E, Barda N, Balicer RD. Early Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Healthcare Personnel in six Israeli Hospitals (CoVEHPI). (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34903372/)Vaccine, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Barda N, Dagan N, Cohen C, Hernán MA, Lipsitch M, Kohane IS, Reis BY, Balicer RD. Effectiveness of a third dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for preventing severe outcomes in Israel: an observational study. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02249-2/fulltext)The Lancet, 2021. 398(10316): p. 2093-2100.
Dagan N, Barda N, Balicer RD. Adverse Effects after BNT162b2 Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection, According to Age and Sex. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34706169/)New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. 385(24): p. 2299.
Reis BY, Barda N, Leshchinsky M, Kepten E, Hernán MA, Lipsitch M, Dagan N, Balicer RD. Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Vaccine against Delta Variant in Adolescents. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34670036/)New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. 385(22): pp. 2101-2103.
Dagan N, Barda N, Biron-Shental T, Makov-Assif M, Key C, Kohane IS, Hernán MA, Lipsitch M, Hernandez-Diaz S, Reis BY, Balicer RD. Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy. N(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34493859/)ature Medicine, 2021. 27(10): pp. 1693-1695.
Barda N, Dagan N, Ben-Shlomo Y, Kepten E, Waxman J, Ohana R, Hernán MA, Lipsitch MA, Kohane IA, Netzer D, Reis BY, Balicer RD. Safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting. (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475?query=featured_home)New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. 385: pp. 1078-1090.
Kustin T, Harel N, Finkel U, Perchik S, Harari S, Tahor M, Caspi I, Levy R, Leschinsky M, Ken Dror S, Bergerzon G, Gadban H, Gadban F, Eliassian E, Shimron O, Saleh L, Ben-Zvi H, Amichay D, Ben-Dor A, Sagas A, Strauss M, Shemer Avni Y, Huppert A, Kepten E, Balicer RD, Nezer D, Ben-Shachar S, Stern A. Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinated individuals.(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34127854/) Nature Medicine, 2021. 27(8): pp. 1379-1384.
Gur-Arie R, Katz MA, Hirsch A, Greenberg D, Malosh R, Newes-Adeyi g G, Davidovitch N, Rosenthal A. ‘‘You Have to Die Not to Come to Work”: A Mixed Methods Study of Attitudes and Behaviors regarding Presenteeism, Absenteeism and Influenza Vaccination among Healthcare Personnel with Respiratory Illness in Israel, 2016–2019. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33789798/)Vaccine, 2021. 39(17): pp. 2366-2374.
Magliano DJ, Chen L, Islam RM, Carstensen B, Gregg EW, Pavkov ME, Andes LJ, Balicer R, Baviera M, Boersma-van Dam E, Booth GL, Cha JCN, Xian Chua Y, Fosse-Edorh S, Fuentes S, Gulseth HL, Gurevicius R, Hwa Ha K, Hird TR, Jermendy G, Khalangot MD, Jung Kim D, Kiss Z, Kravchenko VI, Leventer-Roberts M, Lin CY, Luk AOY, Mata-Cases M, Mauricio D, Nichols GA, Nielen MM, Pang D, Paul SJ, Pelletier C, Pildava S, Porath A, Read SH, Carla Roncaglioni M, Lopez-Doriga Ruiz P, Shestakova M, Vikulova O, Wang KL, Wild SH, Yekutiel N, Shaw JE. Trends in the incidence of diagnosed diabetes: a multicountry analysis of aggregate data from 22 million diagnoses in high-income and middle-income settings. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33636102/)The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, 2021. 9(4): pp. 203-211.
Shoer S, Karady T, Keshet A, Shilo S, Rossman H, Gavrieli A, Meir T, Lavon A, Kolobkov D, Kalka I, Godneva A, Cohen O, Kariv A, Hoch O, Zer-Aviv M, Castel N, Sudre C, Zohar AE, Irony A, Spector T, Geiger B, Hizi D, Shalev V, Balicer R, Segal E. A Prediction Model to Prioritize Individuals for a SARS-CoV-2 Test Built from National Symptom Surveys. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33073258/)Med (NY), 2021. 2(2): pp. 196-208.e4.
Dagan N, Barda N, Kepten E, Miron O, Perchik S, Katz MA, Hernán MA, Lipsitch M, Reis B, Balicer RD. BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33626250/)New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. 384(15): pp. 1412-1423.
Rossman H, Shilo S, Barbash-Hazan S, Shalom Artzi N, Hadar E, Balicer RD, Feldman B, Wiznitzer A, Segal E. Prediction of Childhood obesity from nationwide health records. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33581105/)The Journal of Pediatrics, 2021. 233: pp. 132-140.e1.
Kezerle L, Avgil Tsadok M, Akriv A, Berliner Senderey A, Bachrach A, Leventer-Roberts M, Haim M. Pre-Diabetes Increases Stroke Risk in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation. (https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.12.030)JACC, 2021. 77(7): pp. 875–884.
Shepshelovich D, Barda N, Goldvaser H, Dagan N, Zer A, Diker-Cohen T, Balicer R, Gafter-Gvili A. Incidence of lung cancer following pneumonia in smokers: a population-based study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33576784/)QJM, 2021. [ePub ahead of print]
Cohen-Stavi CJ, Giveon S, Key C, Molcho T, Balicer R, Shadmi E. Guideline deviation and its association with specific chronic diseases among patients with multimorbidity: a cross-sectional cohort study in a care management setting. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33431488/)BMJ Open, 2021. 11(1): p. e040961.
Reges O, Dicker D, Lundegaard Haase C, Finer N, Karpati T, Leibowitz M, Satylganova A, Feldman B. Body Mass Index Trajectories among People with Obesity and Association with Mortality: Evidence from a Large Israeli Database. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/osp4.475)Obesity Science and Practice, 2021. [Online ahead of print]
Dicker D, Greenland P, Leibowitz M, Hoshen, Berliner Senderey A, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Balicer RD, Reges O. All-Cause Mortality of Patients With and Without Diabetes Following Bariatric Surgery: Comparison to Non-surgical Matched Patients. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33150480/)Obesity Surgery, 2021. 31(2): pp. 755-762.
Benderly M, Buber J, Kalter-Leibovici O, Blieden L, Dadashev A, Lorber A, Nir A, Yalonetsky S, Chodick G, Weitzman D, Balicer R, Mazor Dray E, Murad H, Razon Y, Hirsch R, Israeli Adult Congenital Heart Disease Research Group. Health Service Utilization Patterns among Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: A Population-Based Study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33432841/)Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021. 10(2): p. e018037.
Douglas LC, Leventer-Roberts M, Levinkron O, Wilson KM. Elective caesarean section and bronchiolitis hospitalization: A retrospective cohort study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32974953/)Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 2021. 32(2): pp. 280-287.
Omelchenko A, Hornik-Lurie T, Gabay H, Minha S, Assali A, Pereg D. LDL Cholesterol and ischemic stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33002488/) Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 2021. 134(4): pp. 507-513.
Zeltzer D, Einav L, Chasid A, Balicer RD. Supply-Side Variation in the Use of Emergency Departments. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33964651/)Journal of Health Economics, 2021. 78: p. 102453.
Hayek S, Ben-Shlomo Y, Balicer R, Byrne K, Katz M, Kepten E, Raz I, Roitman E, Zychma M, Barda N. Pre-infection glycemic control and disease severity among patients with type 2 diabetes and COVID-19: A retrospective, cohort study. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33822446/)Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 2021. 23(8): pp. 1995-2000.
Zeltzer D, Einav L, Finkelstein A, Shir T, Stemmer SM, Balicer RD. Why is End-of-Life Spending so High? Evidence from Cancer Patients. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021.
Ben Shachar S, Barda N, Manor S, Israeli S, Dagan N, Carmi S, Balicer R, Zisser B, Louzoun Y. MHC Haplotyping of SARS-CoV-2 patients: HLA subtypes are not associated with the presence and severity of Covid-19 in the Israeli population. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164405/)Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2021. 41(6): pp. 1154-1161.
Thompson MG, Soto G, Peretz A, Newes-Adeyi G, Yoo YM, Hirsch A, Katz MA, Tinoco Y, Shemer Avni Y, Ticona E, Malosh R, Martin E, Matos E, Reynolds S, Wesley M, Ferdinands J, Cheung A, Levine M, Bravo E, Arriola CS, Ester Castillo M, Carlos Castro J, Dawood F, Greenberg D, Manuel Neyra Quijandría J, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Monto A, Balicer RD. Influenza vaccine effectiveness within prospective cohorts of healthcare personnel in Israel and Peru 2016–2019. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34509322/)Vaccine, 2021. 39(47): pp. 6956-6967.