Au Canada, la tendance actuelle est aux groupes d'achats régionaux ou provinciaux pour
réduire les coûts des contrats d'achat de matériel. Si je me rappelle bien, il y a plusieurs …

The current trend in Canada has been to set up regional or province-wide purchase groups
to decrease costs of equipment contracts. Several years ago, I think the government of …

Most of us are aware that the financial climate across Europe at the moment is inevitably
going to impact upon our way of working. This is particularly so in the area of procurement …

During the past 6 months, three major American surgical journals have published papers
addressing the choices women make regarding treatment for breast cancer. The basic …

∎ In the past, some studies have claimed that brace treatment affects the mobility of the
spine in later life, as well as negatively influencing bone mineral content and muscle …

This paper is a discussion of the factors involved in instituting a bulk purchasing program for
surgical supplies. An improved understanding of the surgical procedure of joint arthroplasty …

* Add a term to your supplier contracts that says something like this:" New technology that
has not been added to the existing contract before delivery is not authorized for purchase." …

Like Dr. Bendavid, we were concerned about the potentially confounding effect of social
desirability response bias1 (the desire of study participants to please and be treated …

There is a general belief that physicians are terrible at managing their finances. If one
accepts this as a truth, then I am convinced that surgeons are the worst of the worst.There …

METHODS We used the IBM MarketScan Commercial Claims Database, which contains
payment data for approximately 50 million members of employer-sponsored health …