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Showing posts with label Australia Canada. Show all posts

Monday, May 09, 2011

Editorial: The need for new mechanisms to ensure research integrity -- Canadian Medical Association Journal



"The honesty, rigour and professionalism of scientists are the essence of research integrity. But we increasingly hear of
breaches, ranging from ethical and professional lapses to outright fraud. All undermine public confidence in science and medicine....."

Monday, March 28, 2011

published March 21st: Wait Times in Canada--A Comparison by Province



click here for the pdf file


Conclusion
Although there is still much we don’t know, today the picture of wait times across priority areas and provinces is more complete and comparable than in the past. All-Canada estimates indicate that 8 out of 10 patients across the country receive priority procedures (hip, knee, hip fracture repair, cataract and bypass
surgery and radiation treatment) within the time frames that clinical evidence shows is appropriate. That said, the likelihood of receiving treatment within these time frames varies considerably, depending on both the priority area and where one lives in Canada. While there have been some improvements in wait times for priority area procedures over the last three years, these improvements are not being seen consistently across
all procedures or across all provinces. The ability to report these important findings has been enabled by provincial collaboration on measuring and collecting data. Important steps remain in improving consistency of cardiac urgency levels, as well as building more comprehensive diagnostic imaging data before the wait time information can be assessed in a more meaningful way."

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Will Open Government make Canada's health agencies more transparent? -- Canadian Medical Association Journal



"But secrecy and lack of public involvement undermine accountability and the credibility of public institutions and their decisions. They diminish
public trust and feed conspiracy theories."

Monday, March 21, 2011

full free access: Research output on primary care in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States: bibliometric analysis - bmj.com



What is already known on this topic

  • The UK Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 rated 50% of UK primary care research as world class or internationally excellent, but no direct international comparisons exist

What this study adds

  • In six countries with strong primary care, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands produce the most cited primary care led primary care research
  • Identifying research on primary care that is carried out by primary care researchers is difficult using routine bibliometric methods
  • Only 29% of research papers on primary care had at least one primary care researcher as author