Barriers to accessing data are bad medicine

Barriers to accessing data are bad medicine.

Canada needs to “get its act together” so researchers can benefit from national investments in electronic health records, says researcher Dr. Robyn Tamblyn of McGill University in Montréal. “Each province has population-wide information on hospitalizations, long-term care, physician visits, lab results and diagnostic imaging, and some information on drugs dispensed. Only a couple of countries i...

Accessing Hepatitis C patients who are difficult to reach: it is time to overcome barriers.

With the arrival of simple, efficient and safe interferon-free treatment regimens, hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy will have the potential to be successfully used for the majority of infected patients and prevent the associated morbidity and mortality. With the current treatment uptake rates, only a very small proportion of HCV-infected patients are reached. Paradoxically, treatment rates are l...

Bad medicine

In his new book Ben Goldacre argues that the pharmaceutical industry is in poor health and in urgent need of treatment. Richard Smith agrees.

Barriers to accessing primary health care: comparing Australian experiences internationally.

Most highly developed economies have embarked on a process of primary health care (PHC) transformation. To provide evidence on how nations vary in terms of accessing PHC, the aim of this study is to describe the extent to which barriers to access were experienced by adults in Australia compared with other countries. Communities participating in an international research project on PHC access in...

Barriers to accessing health care among transgender individuals