What happens to drug use and expenditure when cost sharing is completely removed? Evidence from a Canadian provincial public drug plan

TL Laba, L Cheng, HC Worthington, KM McGrail… - Health Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives The role of cost-sharing for medicines is under active policy discussion, including
in proposals for value-based insurance design. To inform this debate, we estimated the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of a physician detailing and sampling program for generic atorvastatin: an interrupted time series analysis

HC Worthington, L Cheng, SR Majumdar… - Implementation …, 2017 - Springer
Background In 2011, Manitoba implemented a province-wide program of physician
detailing and free sampling for generic atorvastatin to increase use of this generic statin. We …

The impact of the Choosing Wisely Canada campaign on the simultaneous use of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers …

TL Laba, HC Worthington, L Cheng, FKI Chan… - … Open Access Journal, 2022 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Choosing Wisely is a high-profile campaign seeking to reduce the use of low-value
care. We investigated the impact of a Choosing Wisely Canada recommendation …

Impact of brand drug discount cards on private insurer, government and patient expenditures

MR Law, FKI Chan, M Harrison, HC Worthington - CMAJ, 2019 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: Brand discount cards have become a popular way for patients to reduce
out-of-pocket spending on drugs; however, controversy exists over their potential to increase …

Barriers to implementation of the pulsepoint smartphone application

SC Brooks, HC Worthington, TE Gonedalles, B Bobrow… - 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: PulsePoint is a smartphone application that alerts users in the vicinity of a
cardiac arrest to the location of the emergency to facilitate bystander resuscitation. Identifying …

Hospital Experience with Post Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients Is Associated with Successful Targeted Temperature Management

HC Worthington, C Zhan, K Dainty, P Dorian… - Circulation, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Hospitals vary in the number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients
they treat on an annual basis. Institutional experience with this type of complex patient may …

[PDF][PDF] Aislamiento de salmonelas de los alimentos caninos

CD Heather, B Nobles - Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana …, 1960 - iris.paho.org
Se sabe que las salmonelas están muy extendidas entre la población canina. Este asunto
ha sido estudiado por varios investigadores, y los datos reunidos coinciden de una manera …

[HTML][HTML] Salmonellosis in Domestic Cats.

CD Heather, B Nobles - 1961 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The authors, writing from the Department of Public Health at Austin, Texas, point out that while
a good deal is known about salmonellosis in dogs little is known at present of the position …

Accessing needed sexual health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia, Canada: a survey of sexual health service clients

…, L Campeau, G Ford, C Worthington… - Sexually transmitted …, 2022 - sti.bmj.com
Objectives We assessed COVID-19 pandemic impacts on accessing needed sexual health
services, and acceptability of alternative service delivery models, among sexual health …

Strategies for Developing and Implementing Prisoner Reentry Initiatives: A Basic Qualitative Study

CA Worthington - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Educational programs intended to rehabilitate criminal offenders developed and implemented
by higher education institutions have been established over the last decade. The focus of …