David Kanter Eivin

David Kanter Eivin

Medical Student, Researcher, and Tech Enthusiast

Publications

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Journal Articles

Evaluating the Accuracy of Emergency Department Triage Nurses in Predicting Patient Admissions: retrospective, large-sample evidence from a community ED

Accepted for Publication at Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2025

  • Study evaluating how accurately ED triage nurses can predict patient hospital admissions, using data from 134,891 visits over five years.
  • Found 85.8% overall accuracy, with nurses better at identifying patients who don’t need admission (93.7% specificity) than identifying those who do (36.6% sensitivity).
  • Results suggest nurse predictions could help expedite certain hospital admission decisions and improve ED patient flow, despite not being reliable enough for complete automation.

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AppIndels.com server: a web-based tool for the identification of known taxon-specific conserved signature indels in genome sequences. Validation of its usefulness by predicting the taxonomic affiliation of >700 unclassified strains of Bacillus species

Published in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2023

  • Creation of the publically available AppIndels.com server. Uses unique molecular markers (conserved signature indels) to predict taxonomic affiliation of unknown strains.
  • CSIs are highly reliable markers, and rather than genetic similarity, are based on the presence of rare molecular synapomorphies for taxonomic predictions.
  • Successfully predicted the taxonomic affiliation of >700 unclassified strains of Bacillus species, with phylogenomic trees confirming the predictions.

Recommended citation: Gupta, R. S., & Kanter-Eivin, D. A. (2023). AppIndels.com server: A web-based tool for the identification of known taxon-specific conserved signature indels in genome sequences. Validation of its genera, 3(5). https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005844
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Preprints

Do Faster‑Trained Physicians Fill the Gaps? Geographic Concentration of Emergency Medicine physicians with different postgraduate training in Ontario Canada

Published as a Preprint at medRxiv (preprint), 2025

  • Examines the geographic distribution of emergency medicine physicians in Ontario, Canada, trained through two different postgraduate pathways (CCFP(EM) and FRCPC).
  • Analyzes data from 2015 and 2024 using spatial autocorrelation measures (Moran’s I) to assess changes in geographic concentration.
  • Finds increased clustering of CCFP(EM) physicians in urban areas, while no significant increase in geographic concentration is observed for FRCPC physicians or other specialties, suggesting policies relying on less extensively trained providers may not improve equitable access.

Recommended citation: Kanter-Eivin, D., Armstrong, C., Esleben, A., et. al (2025). Do Faster‑Trained Physicians Fill the Gaps? Geographic Concentration of Emergency Medicine physicians with different postgraduate training in Ontario Canada. Preprint. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.29.25326528
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The Effects of Allowing Professional Incorporation on Physician Labour Supply

Published as a Preprint at medRxiv (preprint), 2025

  • Investigates the impact of allowing physicians to incorporate professionally in Canada, enabling them to defer higher personal income taxes.
  • Uses a difference-in-differences approach to analyze cross-provincial policy timing and its effects on physician behavior.
  • Finds no evidence of increased service supply but observes modest increases in interprovincial migration and reduced emigration.
  • Highlights a 6.8% decline in total physician supply five years post-policy, driven by earlier retirements, especially among older physicians.

Recommended citation: Kanter-Eivin, D., Son, H., Steiner, A., Strobel, S. (2025). The Effects of Allowing Professional Incorporation on Physician Labour Supply. Preprint. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.14.25323936
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