User profiles for M. Escobar

Michael Escobar

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario …
Verified email at utoronto.ca
Cited by 13490

Implementation and usefulness of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

…, JA Piñeros, D Nasner, MF Escobar - Journal of primary …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: Identify and summarize the available literature on the acceleration in the use of
telemedicine in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an aim to provide justification and …

Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities

S Hu, S Tang, Y Liu, Y Zhao, ML Escobar… - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
China's current strategy to improve how health services are paid for is headed in the right
direction, but much more remains to be done. The problems to be resolved, reflecting the …

Agrobacterium tumefaciens as an agent of disease

MA Escobar, AM Dandekar - Trends in plant science, 2003 - cell.com
Twenty-six years ago it was found that the common soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens
is capable of extraordinary feats of interkingdom genetic transfer. Since this discovery, A. …

Bayesian density estimation and inference using mixtures

MD Escobar, M West - Journal of the american statistical …, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
We describe and illustrate Bayesian inference in models for density estimation using mixtures
of Dirichlet processes. These models provide natural settings for density estimation and …

Prevalence of reading disability in boys and girls: Results of the Connecticut Longitudinal Study

SE Shaywitz, BA Shaywitz, JM Fletcher, MD Escobar - Jama, 1990 - jamanetwork.com
We hypothesized that results of previous investigations indicating an increased prevalence
of reading disability in boys compared with girls reflected a bias in subject selection. In an …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence that dyslexia may represent the lower tail of a normal distribution of reading ability

SE Shaywitz, MD Escobar, BA Shaywitz… - … England Journal of …, 1992 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Dyslexia is now widely believed to be a biologically based disorder that is
distinct from other, less specific reading problems. According to this view, reading ability is …

[HTML][HTML] Gene therapy with etranacogene dezaparvovec for hemophilia B

…, G Young, SE Crary, M Escobar… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Moderate-to-severe hemophilia B is treated with lifelong, continuous coagulation
factor IX replacement to prevent bleeding. Gene therapy for hemophilia B aims to establish …

Estimating normal means with a Dirichlet process prior

MD Escobar - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
… By the hypothesis, 4 is bounded in absolute value; therefore, there exists a number M such
that sup,I uo(x)l 5 M < co. By definition, uI is an average of uo; therefore, uI is bounded by M. …

Fourteen-year follow-up of speech/language-impaired and control children: Psychiatric outcome

…, L Atkinson, A Young, E Adlaf, M Escobar… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between early childhood speech and language
disorders and young adult psychiatric disorders. METHOD: In a longitudinal community study …

Fourteen-year follow-up of children with and without speech/language impairments: Speech/language stability and outcomes

CJ Johnson, JH Beitchman, A Young, M Escobar… - Journal of Speech …, 1999 - ASHA
This report concerns the speech and language outcomes of young adults (N = 242) who
participated in a 14-year, prospective, longitudinal study of a community sample of children with …