Background Cancer program delivery, like the rest of health care in Canada, faces two
ongoing challenges: to coordinate a pan-Canadian approach across complex provincial …

BACKGROUND Despite their potential benefits to patients with kidney cancer, the adoption
of partial nephrectomy and laparoscopy has been gradual and asymmetric. To clarify …

Background: Patients requiring assessment for cancer surgery encounter a complex series
of steps in their cancer journey. Further complicating the process is the fact that care is often …

Background The process of developing clinical guidelines and standards for cancer
treatment and screening is well established in the Ontario health care system; however, the …

Variations in surgical care have been recognised since the early 1980s and are generally
interpreted as evidence of uncertainty among practitioners regarding optimal care. The …

Buruli ulcer, caused by infection with Mycobacte-rium ulcerans, is unfamiliar because it is
common only among children in rural tropical areas, mainly in west Africa. Ghana, Côte …

Abstract In February 2008, Cancer Surgery Alberta hosted a conference on surgical
outcomes and quality. The objective here is to review the interactions between …

Large regional health authorities are challenged to find effective ways to increase
interprofessional and intra-regional collaboration so that expertise and knowledge can be …

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was threefold: 1) To explore the use of text-search
methods for identifying rectal cancer patients in large datasets; 2) To examine temporal …