Background: It has been shown that patients cared for at private for-profit hospitals have
higher risk-adjusted mortality rates than those cared for at private not-for-profit hospitals …

Patient management is the central clinical task of medical care. Until the 1970s, there was
no generally accepted method of ensuring a scientific, critical approach to clinical decision …

Sustainability is momentous for the appropriate functioning of health care systems. In fact,
health and sustainability are two strictly related values, which could not be separately …

Background—Critics remain skeptical about the long-term sustainability of Medicare in
Canada because of the proliferation of health technology and escalating expenditures. The …

This paper critically reviews the expanding literature on applications of sustainability to
healthcare policy and planning. It argues that the concept has been overgeneralized and …

The pharmaceutical industry is accountable on the one hand to its shareholders and on the
other to the community at large. These two obligations can, in principle, be met. However …

Objective To analyze the costs of treating critically ill patients. Design and setting
Multicenter, observational, prospective, cohort, bottom-up study on variable costs in 51 ICUs …

The fiscal sustainability of government health expenditures is defined as the gap between
growth rates of spending and measures of the resource base. The results show that over the …

The development of sustainable health care organizations that provide high-quality
accessible care is a topic of intense interest. This article provides a practical performance …

This book concerns the sociological aspects of health care in Canada. This book is
organized into 3 major sections. The first part, chapters 1-2 addresses theoretical and …