Background: Although universal health care aims for equity in service delivery, socioeconomic
status still affects death rates from ischemic heart disease and stroke as well as access to …

Background It is controversial whether compulsory community treatment (CCT) for people
with severe mental illness (SMI) reduces health service use, or improves clinical outcome and …

Background An advance directive is a document specifying a person's preferences for
treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make such decisions in the future. They have been …

Objectives: Police are often the front-line response to people experiencing mental health
crises. This study examined the impact of an integrated mobile crisis team formed in …

BackgroundMost data on the quality of vascular care for individuals with psychiatric conditions
come from countries without universal healthcare.AimsTo investigate the treatment of …

Objectives: There are conflicting data on cancer incidence and mortality in psychiatric
patients, although most studies suggest that while cancer mortality is higher, incidence is no …

Background Recurrent chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease is a common
problem which sometimes leads to excess use of medical care. Although many studies have …

Background Head injury is a common event and can cause a spectrum of motor and
cognition disabilities. A frequent complication is seizures. Antiepileptic drugs (AED) such as …

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of administrative data for the surveillance of mental
illness in Canada using databases in the following 5 provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, …

Objective: There is increasing interest in the use of administrative data for surveillance and
research in Australia. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of …