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REVIEW Monitoring use of knowledge and evaluating outcomes
PART 6: Selecting educational interventions for knowledge translation Achieving control of asthma in preschoolers
PART 6: Management of acute asthma in adults in the emergency department: assisted ventilation Prevention of osteoporosis-related fractures among postmenopausal women and older men
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ANALYSIS
Tough choices: private sale of drugs in public hospitals Governments must make increasingly tough choices in the face of an influx of expensive new drugs and the strictures of public finance — pressures that are likely to be exacerbated in the future. These choices have created pressure from people who wish to purchase these drugs in public hospitals. The question is: Should governments allow access to uninsured drugs in public hospitals? Full article Analysis of food safety in Canada The Canadian food safety system is reactive, and its development has not kept pace with new knowledge used by other countries to protect consumers. Food-borne illness surveillance is a passive patchwork of regional systems that feed poor-quality data on illness outbreaks into the database on notifiable infectious diseases and ignore the large sporadic illness component that is more useful in discovering the major sources of illness and developing policy to manage them effectively. Full article Why collect individual-level vaccination data? Nationally coordinated efforts to capture individual-level vaccination data, although not feasible for the pandemic H1N1 (2009) influenza vaccinations, can help in the fight against all vaccine-preventable diseases, the authors write. Full article The Goudge Inquiry and the role of medical expert witnesses The Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (the Goudge Inquiry) concluded that interactions between medical expert witnesses and the justice system can be problematic. The overriding duty of any expert witness, writes former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci, is to assist the court by providing impartial testimony, regardless of who retained the witness. Full article |
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