Context: During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery
of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. …

Sirolimus (SRL) is a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor that, in contrast to cyclosporine
(CsA), has been shown to inhibit rather than promote cancers in experimental models. At 3 …

ABSTRACT. Tunneled catheters are widely used for the provision of hemodialysis. Long-term
catheter survival is limited by tunneled catheter-related infections (CRI). This study …

Objectives : The Atherosclerosis and Folic Acid Supplementation Trial (ASFAST) aimed to
establish whether high-dose folic acid would slow the progression of atherosclerosis and …

Objective. To assess the consistency of an index of the scientific quality of research overviews.
Design. Agreement was measured among nine judges, each of whom assessed the …

Primary care in Ontario, Canada, has undergone a series of reforms designed to improve
access to care, patient and provider satisfaction, care quality, and health system efficiency and …

The development of Canadian primary care has been shaped by a series of policy legacies
that continue to affect the possibilities for change in primary care through their cumulative …

In Canada, home care is growing rapidly. Each province takes a somewhat different approach
to its delivery. Ontario uses a competitive bidding model to award contracts to community …

Study objective: To assess the short term association between air pollution and mortality in
different zones of an industrial city. An intra-urban study design is used to test the hypothesis …

The purpose of this study was to use rigorous systematic review methods to summarize the
effectiveness of interventions for elder abuse. Only eight studies met our inclusion criteria. …