A survey conducted in 5 countries reveals that physicians around the globe are worried
about the quality of care they can provide. More than half of physician respondents in …

Richard H. Glazier MD MPH CCFP FCFP Before considering the problems and potential
solutions facing Canadian primary care and the Canadian health care system, it is important …

David Zitner suggests that it is unacceptable that only 50% of Canadians said that the
medical care they or their family had received was very good or excellent. It is important to …

A s we read the article Visions of our medicare future: status quo has become a dirty word in
Canadian health care"(Can Med Assoc J 1996; 154: 693-696), by Charlotte Gray, we were …

Canadian doctors are more pessimistic about the state of medicine than physicians in 4
other industrialized countries. The 2000 International Health Policy Survey of Physicians …

Faced with an aging population requiring increasingly complex care, overwhelmed
Canadian doctors are feeling more and more frustrated by their inability to properly serve …

Background The United States is considering enacting a national health plan and global
health care budget similar to those in other countries. There are few data on the effects of …

Those are among a series of intriguing findings from a survey of more than 6000 doctors in 7
countries (Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US) …

In Canada, there continues to be large variations in medical practice across provinces and
territories as well as across health regions in each province, raising questions about the …

Shorter waits for hip-fracture repair, and eight out of 10 Canadians receiving “priority
procedures” within government-defined benchmarks. Sounds pretty good, right? However …