… The most important of these were (a) age, (b) work status, (c) whether patients were caring
for dependants or threatened with the loss of their own independence, and (d) time spent on …

The Oregon Health Services Commission recently completed work on its principal charge:
creation of a prioritized list of health care services, ranging from the most important to the least …

This article describes the system for rating the quality of medical evidence developed and
used during creation of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research-sponsored heart …

Public values must play a substantial role in any attempt to deal with the health care resource
allocation problem. This article examines how preferences for the health outcomes of care (…

Assessment of health-related quality of life is accelerating in naturalistic observational
studies, clinical trials, and clinical practice. Some researchers have argued that the ability of a …

Rationale, aims and objectives An Achilles’ heel of Canadian Medicare is long waits for
elective services. The Western Canada Waiting List (WCWL) project is a collaboration of 19 …

Surveillance for rare and emerging infectious diseases poses a special challenge to veterinary
services. Most emerging infectious diseases like bovine tuberculosis (bTB) are zoonoses, …

Practitioners should perform a chest radiograph, electrocardiogram, complete blood count,
serum electrolytes, serum creatinine, serum albumin, liver function tests, and urinalysis for all …

… d'attente dans l'ouest du Canada (PLAOC), un partenariat financé par le gouvernement
fédéral et regroupant 19 organismes, afin de mettre au point des outils de gestion des listes d'…

OBJECTIVE: The Western Canada Waiting List Project (WCWL) is a federally funded partnership
of 19 health-related organizations that was created to develop tools to manage waiting …