Which cancer clinical trials should be considered for economic evaluation? Selection criteria from the National Cancer Institute of Canada's Working Group on Economic Analysis [0.03%]
哪些癌症临床试验应被视为经济评估？加拿大国家癌症研究所的经济分析工作组的选择标准
William K Evans,Douglas Coyle,Amiram Gafni et al.
William K Evans et al.
Rising health care costs, expensive new health care technologies and increasing patient expectations are placing huge pressures on the publicly funded health care system in Canada. As a result, policy makers need information on the cost and...
Jean Maroun,Edward Ng,Jean-Marie Berthelot et al.
Jean Maroun et al.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality among Canadians. We derived the direct health care costs associated with the lifetime management of an estimated 16,856 patients with a diagnosis of colon and rectal ...
G Hill,P Groome
G Hill
William M Flanagan,Christel Le Petit,Jean-Marie Berthelot et al.
William M Flanagan et al.
Randomized controlled trials (RCT) have shown the efficacy of screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) using the faecal occult blood test (FOBT) with follow-up by colonoscopy. We evaluated the potential impact of population-based screening by ...
The use of complementary and alternative therapies by people with multiple sclerosis [0.03%]
多发性硬化症患者的补充和替代疗法使用情况
Stacey A Page,Marja J Verhoef,Robert A Stebbins et al.
Stacey A Page et al.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to therapeutic approaches not considered part of conventional medicine. A survey was mailed to sample of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The response rate was 440/673 (65%). Mean sa...
Anne Monahan,Donna E Stewart
Anne Monahan
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of scientists and lay people participating in National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) grant review panels towards the inclusion of non-scientists in the review process. Questionn...
Comparative Study
Chronic diseases in Canada. 2003 Spring-Summer;24(2-3):70-4. DOI: 2003
Tasnim Nathoo,Jean Shoveller
Tasnim Nathoo
Developing indicators to measure the different facets of food security presents numerous conceptual and methodological challenges. This paper adopts an ecological framework to reflect on these issues through an examination of the Healthy Fo...
Jérôme Martinez,Robert Pampalon,Denis Hamel
Jérôme Martinez
Cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) constitute an important cause of disability and death in Quebec. Among the primary CVA risk factors, certain socioeconomic characteristics of individuals and living environments appear to play a central role...
Comparative Study
Chronic diseases in Canada. 2003 Spring-Summer;24(2-3):57-64. DOI: 2003
Effectiveness of letters to Cape Breton women who have not had a recent Pap smear [0.03%]
给凯布鲁瓦未作过最近一次巴氏试验的妇女写信的有效性
G M Johnston,C J Boyd,M A MacIsaac et al.
G M Johnston et al.
Nova Scotia, and especially Cape Breton, has high cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates. Letters were sent to 15,691 unscreened and 6,995 under-screened women from Cape Breton Island encouraging them to obtain a Pap test. Controls w...
Comparative Study
Chronic diseases in Canada. 2003 Spring-Summer;24(2-3):49-56. DOI: 2003
A call for action to support best practices in evaluation of comprehensive tobacco control evaluation strategies [0.03%]
Steve Manske,Catherine Maule,Shawn O&#x;Connor et al.
Steve Manske et al.
The National Tobacco Control Best Practices Working Group convened a two-day workshop to support best practices in evaluation of comprehensive tobacco control strategies. A Better Practices Model, aimed at developing a self-correcting syste...