The Canadian Medical Association's More Doctors, More Care campaign seeks to align physician supply targets with policy decisions elsewhere in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Using OECD data for 19 countries to assess the relationship between physician supply and healthcare outcomes, we have determined that there is no association between avoidable mortality a...

The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) 2003/88/EC is a Union Directive laying down minimum health and safety requirements for the organisation of working time. Originally primarily intended as labour law, its progressive introduction up to full implementation for doctors-in-training in August 2009 has substantially reduced duty-hours and caused widespread concern in surgery. Detrimental eff...

There are numerous metrics proposed to assess security and dependability of technical systems (e.g., number of defects per thousand lines of code). Unfortunately, most of these metrics are too low-level, and lack on capturing highlevel system abstractions required for organisation analysis. The analysis essentially enables the organisation to detect and eliminate possible threats by system re-o...

Abstract Introduction Many patients with epistaxis are seen in the A&E department. A significant number discharged without need for inpatient admission due to minor bleeds. given limited information on management of further bleeds and even fewer advised prevention Aim To evaluate advice who from A+E, instigate an improvement examine subsequent effect re-attendance rates Method Epistaxis A+E...

We assessed doctors' knowledge on laws and recommendations regarding fitness to drive in certain medical conditions by a questionnaire survey. A total of 646 doctors consisting of 400 general practitioners and 246 hospital doctors of all grades were circulated with the questionnaire. The survey was anonymous so non-responders could not be re-circulated. The response rate was 26% general practit...