Measures of letter (FAS) and category (Animal Naming) fluency were completed by
community-dwelling, cognitively normal seniors (n =635), and by individuals diagnosed with …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the use of two Canadian provincial databases by a systematic
review of published studies that used them as a primary data source to answer epidemiologic …

This paper details an empirical investigation into alcoholic relapse. The model underlying
this work hypothesized that relapse in alcoholics is an interaction between (1) situations seen …

The internal validity of the recording of information about ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the administrative health care datafiles of …

Event monitoring was first suggested 25 years ago as a way of detecting adverse reactions to
drugs. Prescription-event monitoring (PEM), which has been developed by the Drug Safety …

This paper outlines an empirical investigation into alcoholic relapse. The model underlying
this work hypothesized that relapse in alcoholics is an interaction between (1) situations seen …

Objective To determine the validity of data pertaining to hysterectomy in the Saskatchewan
health care utilisation datafiles. Design Retrospective analysis of routinely collected data …

Administrative health care utilization databases have been promoted as resources for
pharmacoepidemiologic research for several years, but the validity of the diagnostic data in many …

Background: The median time to approval of new drugs in Canada decreased considerably
in the mid-1990s, although it continued to be longer than in such countries as Australia, …

Background Authors from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
presented an analysis of submissions to the Common Drug Review (CDR) between …