Guidelines for medical practice can contribute to improved care only if they succeed in moving
actual practice closer to the behaviors the guidelines recommend. To assess the effect of …

Objective: To assess trends in the use of self-report measures in research on adherence to
practice guidelines since 1980, and to determine the impact of response bias on the validity …

Public health and its “basic science”, epidemiology, have become colonised by the individualistic
ethic of medicine and economics. Despite a history in public health dating back to John …

A randomized controlled trial with 76 physicians in 16 community hospitals evaluated audit
and feedback and local opinion leader education as methods of encouraging compliance …

Background No approved treatment for peanut allergy exists for children younger than 4 years
of age, and the efficacy and safety of epicutaneous immunotherapy with a peanut patch in …

Background The management of complex orthopedic infections usually includes a prolonged
course of intravenous antibiotic agents. We investigated whether oral antibiotic therapy is …

Groups of aphasic patients and their spouses generated a series of communication
situations that they felt were important in their day-to-day life. Using criteria to ensure that the …

… Jonathan Lomas is the inaugural executive director of the Canadian Health Services Research
Foundation in Ottawa. Previously, he was a health policy analyst at McMaster University …

Background: A quarter of all patients presenting to emergency departments are children.
Although there are several large, well-conducted studies on adults enabling accurate selection …

… Lomas J. Improving research dissemination and uptake in the health sector: beyond the
sound of one hand clapping. 1997 (www.chsrf.ca/knowledge_transfer/pdf/handclapping_e.pdf) …