Dr Dolly Baliunas
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Centre for Health Services Research
Book Chapters
Baliunas, Dolly (2013). Diabetes. In Alcohol: Science, Policy and Public Health (pp. 284-288) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199655786.003.0035
Rehm, J., Patra, J., Baliunas, D., Popova, S., Roerecke, M. and Taylor, B. (2008). Alcohol, the burden of disease of. International Encyclopedia of Public Health. (pp. 135-151) Elsevier Inc.. doi: 10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00360-9
Journal Articles
Minian, Nadia, Saiva, Anika, Ahad, Sheleza, Gayapersad, Allison, Zawertailo, Laurie, Veldhuizen, Scott, Ravindran, Arun, de Oliveira, Claire, Mulder, Carol, Baliunas, Dolly and Selby, Peter (2023). Primary healthcare provider experience of knowledge brokering interventions for mood management. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 11 (1) 2265136, 2265136. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2023.2265136
Baliunas, Dolly, Voci, Sabrina, Selby, Peter, de Oliveira, Claire, Kurdyak, Paul, Rosella, Laura, Zawertailo, Laurie, Fu, Longdi and Sutradhar, Rinku (2023). Incidence of chronic disease following smoking cessation treatment: A matched cohort study using linked administrative healthcare data in Ontario, Canada. PLoS One, 18 (7) e0288759, 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288759
Engstrom, Teyl, Baliunas, Dolly, Smith, Angela, Dean, Judith A. and Pole, Jason D. (2023). Immediate and ongoing impact of COVID-19 on chlamydia treatment in Australia. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 50 (6), 363-369. doi: 10.1097/olq.0000000000001785
Baliunas, Dolly, Voci, Sabrina, de Oliveira, Claire, Selby, Peter, Kurdyak, Paul, Rosella, Laura, Zawertailo, Laurie, Fu, Longdi and Sutradhar, Rinku (2023). Association between smoking cessation treatment and healthcare costs in a single-payer public healthcare system. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 25 (1), 86-93. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac166
Baliunas, Dolly, Gartner, Coral , Hollingworth, Samantha A. , Sullivan, Clair , Comans, Tracy and Pole, Jason D. (2022). Publicly subsidised smoking cessation medicines in times of COVID-19 in Australia: an interrupted time seriesanalysis. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42 (1), 225-232. doi: 10.1111/dar.13557
Engstrom, Teyl, Baliunas, Dolly O., Sly, Benjamin P., Russell, Anthony W., Donovan, Peter J., Krausse, Heike K., Sullivan, Clair M. and Pole, Jason D. (2021). Toilet paper, minced meat and diabetes medicines: Australian panic buying induced by COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (13) 6954, 1-9. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136954
Baliunas, Dolly, Selby, Peter, de Oliveira, Claire, Kurdyak, Paul, Rosella, Laura, Zawertailo, Laurie, Fu, Longdi and Sutradhar, Rinku (2021). Primary care-based smoking cessation treatment and subsequent healthcare service utilisation: a matched cohort study of smokers using linked administrative healthcare data. Tobacco Control, 32 (1), tobaccocontrol-2021. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056522
Minian, Nadia, Ahad, Sheleza, Ivanova, Anna, Veldhuizen, Scott, Zawertailo, Laurie, Ravindran, Arun, de Oliveira, Claire, Baliunas, Dolly, Mulder, Carol, Bolbocean, Corneliu and Selby, Peter (2021). The effectiveness of generic emails versus a remote knowledge broker to integrate mood management into a smoking cessation programme in team-based primary care: a cluster randomised trial. Implementation Science, 16 (1) 30, 30. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01091-6
Minian, Nadia, Noormohamed, Aliya, Lingam, Mathangee, Zawertailo, Laurie, Le Foll, Bernard, Rehm, Jürgen, Giesbrecht, Norman, Samokhvalov, Andriy V, Baliunas, Dolly and Selby, Peter (2021). Integrating a brief alcohol intervention with tobacco addiction treatment in primary care: qualitative study of health care practitioner perceptions. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 16 (1) 17, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s13722-021-00225-x
Ivanova, Anna, Baliunas, Dolly, Ahad, Sheleza, Tanzini, Elise, Dragonetti, Rosa, Fahim, Myra and Selby, Peter (2021). Performance Change in Treating Tobacco Addiction: An Online, Interprofessional, Facilitated Continuing Education Course (TEACH) Evaluation at Moore's Level 5. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 41 (1), 31-38. doi: 10.1097/ceh.0000000000000328
Baliunas, Dolly, Zawertailo, Laurie, Voci, Sabrina, Gatov, Evgenia, Bondy, Susan J., Fu, Longdi and Selby, Peter L. (2020). Variability in patient sociodemographics, clinical characteristics, and healthcare service utilization among 107,302 treatment seeking smokers in Ontario: a cross-sectional comparison. PLoS ONE, 15 (7) e0235709, e0235709. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235709
Baliunas, Dolly, Ivanova, Anna, Tanzini, Elise, Dragonetti, Rosa and Selby, Peter (2020). Impact of comprehensive smoking cessation training of practitioners on patients' 6-month quit outcome. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 111 (5), 766-774. doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00318-1
Minian, Nadia, Ivanova, Anna, Voci, Sabrina, Veldhuizen, Scott, Zawertailo, Laurie, Baliunas, Dolly, Noormohamed, Aliya, Giesbrecht, Norman and Selby, Peter (2020). Computerized clinical decision support system for prompting brief alcohol interventions with treatment seeking smokers: a sex-based secondary analysis of a cluster randomized trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (3) 1024, 1024. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17031024
Voci, Sabrina, Zawertailo, Laurie, Baliunas, Dolly, Masood, Zara and Selby, Peter (2020). Is cannabis use associated with tobacco cessation outcome? An observational cohort study in primary care. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 206 107756, 107756. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107756
Shah, Amika, Chaiton, Michael, Baliunas, Dolly and Schwartz, Robert Mitchell (2019). Does tailoring reduce attrition in web-based smoking cessation interventions? Systematic review and meta-analysis (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22 (10) e16255, e16255. doi: 10.2196/16255
Minian, Nadia, Baliunas, Dolly, Noormohamed, Aliya, Zawertailo, Laurie, Giesbrecht, Norman, Hendershot, Christian S., Le Foll, Bernard, Rehm, Juergen, Samokhvalov, Andriy V. and Selby, Peter L. (2019). The effect of a clinical decision support system on prompting an intervention for risky alcohol use in a primary care smoking cessation program: a cluster randomized trial. Implementation Science, 14 (1) 85. doi: 10.1186/s13012-019-0935-x
Espinet, S., Corrin, T., Baliunas, D., Quilty, L., Zawertailo, L., Rizvi, S. J., deRuiter, W., Bonato, S., De Luca, V., Kennedy, S. and Selby, P. (2019). Predisposing and protective factors influencing suicide ideation, attempt, and death in patients accessing substance use treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Systematic Reviews, 8 (1) 115. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-1028-2
Selby, Peter, Voci, Sabrina, Zawertailo, Laurie, Baliunas, Dolly, Dragonetti, Rosa and Hussain, Sarwar (2018). Public health impact of a novel smoking cessation outreach program in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health, 18 (1) 1117. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-6012-6
Minian, Nadia, Noormohamed, Aliya, Baliunas, Dolly, Zawertailo, Laurie, Mulder, Carol, Rayindran, Arun, de Oliyeira, Claire and Selby, Peter (2018). Tailored versus generic knowledge brokering to integrate mood management into smoking cessation interventions in primary care settings: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 7 (4) e111, e111. doi: 10.2196/resprot.9715
Minian, Nadia, Noormohamed, Aliya, Zawertailo, Laurie, Baliunas, Dolly, Giesbrecht, Norman, Lefoll, Bernard, Rehm, Jürgen, Samokhvalov, Andriy and Selby, Peter L. (2018). A method for co-creation of an evidencebased patient workbook to address alcohol use when quitting smoking in primary care: a case study. Research Involvement and Engagement, 4 (4) 4. doi: 10.1186/s40900-018-0086-2
Zawertailo, Laurie, Ragusila, Andra, Voci, Sabrina, Ivanova, Anna, Baliunas, Dolly and Selby, Peter (2017). Target Quit Date Timing as a Predictor of Smoking Cessation Outcomes. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31 (6), 655-663. doi: 10.1037/adb0000301
Minian, Nadia, Baliunas, Dolly, Zawertailo, Laurie, Noormohamed, Aliya, Giesbrecht, Norman, Hendershot, Christian S., Le Foll, Bernard, Rehm, Juergen, Samokhvalov, Andriy and Selby, Peter L. (2017). Combining alcohol interventions with tobacco addictions treatment in primary care-the COMBAT study: a pragmatic cluster randomized trial. Implementation Science, 12 (1) 65. doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0595-7
Zawertailo, Laurie, Pavlov, Dmytro, Ivanova, Anna, Ng, Ginnie, Baliunas, Dolly and Selby, Peter (2017). Concurrent e-cigarette use during tobacco dependence treatment in primary care settings: association with smoking cessation at three and six months. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 19 (2), 183-189. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntw218
Zawertailo, Laurie A., Baliunas, Dolly, Ivanova, Anna and Selby, Peter L. (2015). Individualized treatment for tobacco dependence in addictions treatment settings: the role of current depressive symptoms on outcomes at 3 and 6 months. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 17 (8), 937-945. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntv013
Rehm, Juergen, Taylor, Benjamin, Mohapatra, Satya, Irving, Hyacinth, Baliunas, Dolly, Patra, Jayadeep and Roerecke, Michael (2010). Alcohol as a risk factor for liver cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Drug and Alcohol Review, 29 (4), 437-445. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2009.00153.x
Patra, Jayadeep, Taylor, Benjamin, Irving, Hyacinth, Roerecke, Michael, Baliunas, Dolly, Mohapatra, Satya and Rehm, Juergen (2010). Alcohol consumption and the risk of morbidity and mortality for different stroke types - a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health, 10 258. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-258
Rehm, Juergen, Baliunas, Dolly, Borges, Guilherme L. G., Graham, Kathryn, Irving, Hyacinth, Kehoe, Tara, Parry, Charles D., Patra, Jayadeep, Popova, Svetlana, Poznyak, Vladimir, Roerecke, Michael, Room, Robin, Samokhvalov, Andriy V. and Taylor, Benjamin (2010). The relation between different dimensions of alcohol consumption and burden of disease: an overview. Addiction, 105 (5), 817-843. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02899.x
Shuper, Paul A., Neuman, Manuela, Kanteres, Fotis, Baliunas, Dolly, Joharchi, Narges and Rehm, Juergen (2010). Causal considerations on alcohol and HIV/AIDS - a systematic review. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 45 (2) agp091, 159-166. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agp091
Taylor, Benjamin, Irving, Hyacinth M., Baliunas, Dolly, Roerecke, Michael, Patra, Jayadeep, Mohapatra, Satya and Rehm, Jurgen (2009). Alcohol and hypertension: gender differences in dose-response relationships determined through systematic review and meta-analysis. Addiction, 104 (12), 1981-1990. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02694.x
Baliunas, Dolly O., Taylor, Benjamin J., Irving, Hyacinth, Roerecke, Michael, Patra, Jayadeep, Mohapatra, Satya and Rehm, Juergen (2009). Alcohol as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Care, 32 (11), 2123-2132. doi: 10.2337/dc09-0227
Thombs, Dennis L., Olds, R. Scott, Bondy, Susan J., Winchell, Janice, Baliunas, Dolly and Rehm, Juergen (2009). Undergraduate drinking and academic performance: a prospective investigation with objective measures. Journal of Studies On Alcohol and Drugs, 70 (5), 776-785. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2009.70.776
Rehm, Jurgen, Gnam, William, Popova, Svetlana, Baliunas, Dolly, Brochu, Serge, Fischer, Benedikt, Patra, Jayadeep, Sarnocinska-Hart, Anna and Taylor, Benjamin (2007). The costs of alcohol, illegal drugs, and tobacco in Canada, 2002. Journal of Studies On Alcohol and Drugs, 68 (6), 886-895. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2007.68.886
Baliunas, Dolly, Patra, Jayadeep, Rehm, Juergen, Popova, Svetlana and Taylor, Benjamin (2007). Smoking-attributable morbidity: acute care hospital diagnoses and days of treatment in Canada, 2002. Bmc Public Health, 7 247. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-247
Popova, Svetlana, Rehm, Juergen, Patra, Jayadeep, Baliunas, Dolly and Taylor, Benjamin (2007). Illegal drug-attributable morbidity in Canada 2002. Drug and Alcohol Review, 26 (3), 251-263. doi: 10.1080/09595230701247673
Patra, Jayadeep, Taylor, Benjamin, Rehm, Juergen T., Baliunas, Dolly and Popova, Svetlana (2007). Substance-attributable morbidity and mortality changes to Canada's epidemiological profile - measurable differences over a ten-year period. Canadian Journal of Public Health , 98 (3), 228-234. doi: 10.1007/bf03403718
Taylor, Benjamin, Rehm, Juergen, Patra, Jayadeep, Popova, Svetlana and Baliunas, Dolly (2007). Alcohol-attributable morbidity and resulting health care costs in Canada in 2002: recommendations for policy and prevention. Journal of Studies On Alcohol and Drugs, 68 (1), 36-47. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2007.68.36
Baliunas, Dolly, Patra, Jayadeep, Rehm, Jürgen, Popova, Svetlana, Kaiserman, Murray and Taylor, Benjamin (2007). Smoking-attributable mortality and expected years of life lost in Canada 2002: conclusions for prevention and policy. Chronic Diseases in Canada, 27 (4), 154-162.
Fischer, Benedikt, Vasdev, S., Haydon, E., Baliunas, D. and Rehm, J. (2005). Willing to undergo hepatitis C treatment in a sample of injection drug users in Toronto, Canada Acceptabilité d'un traitement du virus de l'hépatite C chez des utilisateurs de drogues injectables au Canada. Presse Medicale, 34 (17), 1209-1212. doi: 10.1016/s0755-4982(05)84158-2
Fischer, Benedikt, Rehm, Jürgen, Brissette, Suzanne, Brochu, Serge, Bruneau, Julie, El-Guebaly, Nady, Noël, Lina, Tyndall, Mark, Wild, Cameron, Mun, Phil and Baliunas, Dolly (2005). Illicit opioid use in Canada: Comparing social, health, and drug use characteristics of untreated users in five cities (OPICAN Study). Journal of Urban Health, 82 (2), 250-266. doi: 10.1093/jurban/jti049
Fischer, Benedikt, Brissette, Suzanne, Brochu, Serge, Bruneau, Julie, El-Guebaly, Nady, Noël, Lina, Rehm, Jürgen, Tyndall, Mark, Wild, Cameron, Mun, Phil, Haydon, Emma and Baliunas, Dolly (2004). Determinants of overdose incidents among illicit opioid users in 5 Canadian cities. CMAJ, 171 (3), 235-239. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.1031416
Conference Paper
Baliunas, Dolly, Rehm, Juergen, Irving, Hyacinth and Shuper, Paul (2010). Alcohol consumption and risk of incident human immunodeficiency virus infection: a meta-analysis. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/s00038-009-0095-x