The impact of research information depends on its ability to change beliefs or policy
assumptions within the relevant audiences. As a hybrid of American and British systems …

We describe an audit system used in our Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during
1989–90. The system emphasizes the integration of data acquisition (database function) …

Forty-eight family physicians completed a 10-item questionnaire about their use of
laboratory investigations, and" ordered" tests for five clinical vignettes, estimating the cost of …

This is one in a series of articles by the authors about the ongoing debate over user charges
in the Canadian health care system. In this paper we examine some of the most frequently …

The American health care system has the world's highest per capita costs and over 30
million citizens uninsured. The neighbouring Canadian system provides coverage for all …

The accuracy, reliability, and validity of the Medicare Peer Review Organization (PRO)
review process have all been questioned. Evidence concerning the PRO program's effect on …

T his article is the 11th ina series of articles'-I0 based on the report Toward Integrated Medi-
cal Resource Policies for Canada,* prepared for the Federal/Provincial/Territorial …

The oversight of medical care, in the form of peer review, has traditionally been used to
ensure that the highest standards of care are maintained. What is relatively new is the …

Among economists, few tenets would produce more agreement than the statement that
people respond to incentives. This is not a tenet of faith, because ample empirical evidence …

Objective. To detennine the probable effect" of increasing clinical frugality on health system
expenditure by measuring cost distribution and waste at an individual patient level. Design …