Guidelines for medical practice can contribute to improved care only if they succeed in moving
actual practice closer to the behaviors the guidelines recommend. To assess the effect of …

A randomized controlled trial with 76 physicians in 16 community hospitals evaluated audit
and feedback and local opinion leader education as methods of encouraging compliance …

Background: Although walk-in clinics are an increasingly common feature of Ontario's health
care system, the quality of care they provide is the subject of continuing debate. In this study …

Abstract Comparison showed that surgical rates in Canada (1968) were 1.8 times greater
for men and 1.6 times greater for women than in England and Wales (1967). The age-…

INTRODUCTION: Our objective was to determine whether a three-week complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM) approach integrating several therapies from Traditional …

As part of a consensus conference on cesarean birth, the ten-member consensus panel
rated 224 clinical scenarios on their appropriateness for a cesarean section. Ratings were …

Increasing numbers of women are entering medicine in Canada. In 1959 women accounted
for 6% of the medical school graduates, but by 1989 they accounted for 44%. Although there …

OBJECTIVE To identify performance indicators for family practice that focus on organizational
structures and clinical processes of care, to review evidence linking indicators to patient …

In 1974 there was five-to eight-fold variation in the frequency with which tonsillectomy,
colectomy, hysterectomy, cholecystectomy and appendectomy were performed in Ontario's 49 …

Although health care is a provincial responsibility in Canada, universal hospital insurance
was fully adopted by 1961; universal medical insurance followed 10 years later. Each …