Best overall care

The best care anywhere.

CMAJ • APRIL 14, 2009 • 180(8) © 2009 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors E16 Iremember how well everyone worked together and the patients that we cared for as if it were yesterday. Despite the decreasing coverage of events in the media, military activities were almost always occurring and resulted in a constant stream of patients, often in numbers that would overwhelm even the busies...

Randomized comparison between chemotherapy plus best supportive care with best supportive care in advanced gastric cancer.

BACKGROUND The extent to which chemotherapy may relieve tumour-related symptoms, improve quality of life and prolong survival in patients with gastric cancer is not known in spite of the extensive use of this treatment modality. The aim of this study was to estimate any gain in the quantity and quality of life produced by chemotherapy in these patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 19...

Standard-of-care testimony: best practices or reasonable care?

The standard of care is a mixed question of law and fact in which the factfinder is asked to determine what society is entitled to expect of a physician acting under certain specific circumstances. States frame this determination through case law and statutes. The precise definition of the standard of care varies from one state to another. The exact language is applied to case-specific facts, t...

Regional Primary Care Team to Deliver Best-Practice Diabetes Care

OBJECTIVE Best-practice diabetes care can reduce the burden of diabetes and associated health care costs. But this requires access to a multidisciplinary team with the right skill mix. We applied a needs-driven evidence-based health workforce model to describe the primary care team required to support best-practice diabetes care, paying particular attention to diverse clinic populations. RESE...

Squeezing the best out of stroke care.