This article focuses on the description and meaning of attachment relationships and their
relation to patterns of caregiver‐child interaction. Concepts fundamental to coding separation‐…

Methods Communities selected had surgical services but no resident general surgeon. After
ethics approval obtained through the University of British Columbia, we retrieved data from …

Objective To describe the essential components of well-resourced and high-functioning
multidisciplinary networks that support high-quality anesthesia, surgery, and maternity care for …

Objective To document surgical procedures performed in British Columbia between 1996 and
2001 at rural hospital sites with no resident specialist surgeons and to define the scope of …

Background More than 33% of Canadians live in rural areas. The vulnerability of rural surgical
patients makes them particularly sensitive to barriers to accessing health care. This study …

Rural western Canada relies heavily on family physicians with enhanced surgical skills (ESS)
for surgical services. The recent decision by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (…

Introduction Outreach care has long been used in Canada to address the lack of access to
specialist care in rural settings, but research on the experiences of specialists providing these …

Introduction In many jurisdictions internationally, distributed networks of clinical care have
emerged as a planning principle to meet the needs of rural communities. Such networks rely …

Background: Challenges to the sustainability of rural healthcare in Canada demands innovative
solutions to human resources shortages in rural communities. One solution is to support …

Methods A qualitative study was undertaken using an exploratory policy framework to guide
the collection of in-depth interview data on GP surgeons’ training experiences. A purposive …