Occupational back pain–an unhelpful polemic

JW Frank, IR Pulcins, MS Kerr, HS Shannon… - Scandinavian journal of …, 1995 - JSTOR
… This study was supported in part by a national health fellowship to MS Kerr and IR Pulcins
from the National Health Research and Development Program (NHRDP), Canada, and a …

Trends in use of medical services by the elderly in British Columbia.

ML Barer, IR Pulcins, RG Evans… - CMAJ: Canadian …, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We analysed physician fee-for-service use in British Columbia from 1974-75 to 1985-86.
Over the study period use increased by 5.3% per year. This can be factored into increases …

Trends and determinants of prescription drug expenditures in the elderly: data from the British Columbia Pharmacare Program

GM Anderson, KJ Kerluke, IR Pulcins, C Hertzman… - Inquiry, 1993 - JSTOR
This paper uses claims data from the prescription drug program for the elderly in British
Columbia to describe temporal trends in prescription drug use and the determinants of those …

A human resources decision support model: Nurse deployment patterns in one Canadian system

A Kazanjian, IR Pulcins, K Kerluke - Journal of Healthcare …, 1992 - journals.lww.com
Optimal deployment of current staff—as opposed to recruitment of new staff—has been
recognized as an effective strategy for dealing with nurse human resource shortages in hospitals, …

The long good-bye: the great transformation of the British Columbia hospital system.

…, C Hertzman, GM Anderson, IR Pulcins… - Health Services …, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Much is made of the" threat" an aging population poses to North American health care systems.
In this article, we present hospital utilization data from British Columbia over the period …

Flat on your back or back to your flat? Sources of increased hospital services utilization among the elderly in British Columbia

C Hertzman, IR Pulcins, ML Barer, RG Evans… - Social Science & …, 1990 - Elsevier
Between 1969 and 1985, the British Columbia hospital system allocated an increasing
proportion of the province's total hospital days to elderly patients who stayed for 60 days or more. …

High variation medical conditions as an explanation of regional and temporal differences in hospital utilization

GM Anderson, IR Pulcins - Medical care, 1992 - journals.lww.com
Methods This study was based on hospital discharge abstract data collected in Ontario.
Ontario is the largest province in Canada and had a total population of 9.4 million in 1988. An …

Acute care hospital utilization under Canadian national health insurance: The British Columbia experience from 1969 to 1988

GM Anderson, IR Pulcins, ML Barer, RG Evans… - Inquiry, 1990 - JSTOR
This paper uses hospital separation abstracts to assess trends in acute care hospital
utilization in British Columbia over the first 18 years of publicly funded health insurance in the …

Recent trends in acute care hospital utilization in Ontario for diseases of the circulatory system.

GM Anderson, IR Pulcins - CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association …, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
OBJECTIVE: To describe trends in the use of acute care hospital services for diseases of
the circulatory system in Ontario. DESIGN: Observational study. DATA EXTRACTION: …

Socioeconomic determinants of prescription drug use by the elderly in British Columbia

IR Pulcins - 2000 - library-archives.canada.ca
This dissertation examines the socioeconomic determinants of prescription drug use by the
elderly in British Columbia between 1989 and 1995. The objectives of this research are to …