Ontario is the most populous of Canada's ten provinces with approximately 39% of the Canadian population. Its residents are eligible for provincially funded health coverage. The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and CHIM Information Consulting Inc. (Canadian Health Information Management) jointly conducted a reabstraction study of 14,5...

This overview has been prepared by staff at the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) and is based in part on a study commissioned by CCOHTA: Efficacy, effectiveness, and cost analysis of nitrate therapy for the prevention of angina pectoris conducted by Holbrook AM , Dolovich L , Grootendorst P , Brogran T , Kitching A, Crossley T . Centre for Evaluation of Med...

Ji-Yao Chen, 2 Zhengfeng Ji, Nengkun Yu, 5, 3 and Bei Zeng 5, 6 State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 200...

School of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2UB, UK Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SX, UK Dept of Psychology, McMaster University, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andre...

380 general morphological, physiological features of skeletal muscle and its general pathological reactions. In addition to discussions of biopsy handling and staining techniques, there is also a brief section illustrating common histological and ultrastructural artifacts. The remainder of the chapters in this section illustrate and discuss the normal and abnormal cellular and subcellular compo...

BACKGROUND Retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes mellitus that if detected early by regular retinal examinations can be treated; thus, blindness can be delayed or prevented. Providing high-quality retinal screening is difficult, especially in rural and remote areas. Canada's First Nations population has a higher prevalence of diabetes and is, in general, more geographically isolated ...

BACKGROUND People who smoke crack cocaine experience a wide variety of health-related issues. However, public health programming designed for this population is limited, particularly in comparison with programming for people who inject drugs. Canadian best practice recommendations encourage needle and syringe programs (NSPs) to provide education about safer crack cocaine smoking practices, dist...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The iScore is a prediction tool originally developed to estimate the risk of death after hospitalization for an acute ischemic stroke. Our objective was to determine whether the iScore could also predict poor functional outcomes. METHODS We applied the iScore to patients presenting with an acute ischemic stroke at multiple hospitals in Ontario, Canada, between 2003 and ...

OBJECTIVES To measure and compare dietary vitamin D intake among women in Ontario using a modified Block 1998 (US) food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) before and after modification for Canadian-specific vitamin D food fortification. METHODS An age-stratified random sample of 3,471 women in Ontario (aged 25-74) was identified using random digit dialing methods. Standard US food values and a mod...

BACKGROUND The "rural pipeline" suggests that students educated in rural, or other underserviced areas, are more likely to establish practices in such locations. It is upon this concept that the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was founded. Our analysis answers the following question: Are physicians who were educated at NOSM more likely to practice in rural and northern Ontario compar...