E-rounds
No. 34: Will paying the piper change the tune?
November 20, 2011
Sutherland JM, Barer ML, Evans RG, Crump RT. Will paying the piper change the tune? Healthcare Policy. 2011;6(4): 14-21.
Read MoreNo. 33: US Physician Practices versus Canadians: Spending Nearly Four Times as Much Money Interacting with Payers
September 15, 2011
Morra D, Nicholson S, Levinson W, Gans DN, Hammons T, Casalino LP. Health Affairs. 2011;30(8):1443–1450.
Read MoreNo. 32: Effects of Pay for Performance on the Quality of Primary Care in England
February 13, 2011
Campbell SM, Reeves D, Kontopantelis E, Sibbald B, Roland M., New England Journal of Medicine, 361; 4:368-378.
Read MoreNo. 31: Physician-level P4P—DOA? Can Quality-based Payment be Resuscitated?
November 09, 2010
Laurence F. McMahon, Jr, MD, MPH; Timothy P. Hofer, MD; Rodney A. Hayward, MD, American Journal of Managed Care, 13: 233-236, 2007.
Read MoreNo. 30: An Experiment with Regulated Competition and Individual Mandates for Universal Health Care: The New Dutch Health Insurance System.
June 18, 2010
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Christiaan J Lako. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp 1031 – 1055, December 2008.
Read MoreNo. 29: Quality of Care in For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Nursing Homes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
May 15, 2010
BMJ, ONLINE FIRST, bmj.com. 2009; 339: 1-15. Vikram R Comondore, PJ Devereaux, Qi Zhou, Samuel B Stone, Jason W Busse, Nikila C Ravindran, Karen E Burns, Ted Haines, Bernadette Stringer, Deborah J Cook, Stephen D Walter, Terrence Sullivan, Otavio Berwanger, Mohit Bhandari, Sarfaraz Banglawala,...
Read MoreNo. 28: Living in the Parallel Universe in Australia: Public Medicare and Private Hospitals
April 15, 2010
Stephen J. Duckett. CMAJ Sept 27, 2005; 173(7).
Read MoreNo. 27: A Conversation on Health Care in Canada: Revisiting Universality and the Centrality of Primary Health Care
March 15, 2010
Franklin White and Debra Nanan. J Ambul Care Management 32(2): 141-149, 2.
Read MoreNo. 26: Increased Ambulatory Care Copayments and Hospitalizations Among the Elderly
February 15, 2010
Amal N. Trivedi, Husein Moloo and Vincent Mor. The New England Journal of Medicine 362(4): 320-328, 2010.
Read MoreNo. 25: Public-private Partnerships
January 15, 2010
Ann Silversides. “Public-private Partnerships, Part 1: The Next Hospital Wave.” Canadian Medical Association Journal. 179(9) (Oct. 21, 2008): News Section. Ann Silversides. “Public-private Partnerships, Part 2: Calculations of Risk.” Canadian Medical Association Journal. 179(10) (Nov. 4, 2008): News Section.
Read MoreNo. 23: Doctors as the Key to Health Care Reform
November 15, 2009
Relman, Arnold. The New England Journal of Medicine. 361(13): 1225-27, 2009.
Read MoreNo. 22: Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study
October 16, 2009
David U. Himmelstein, Deborah Thorne, Elizabeth Warren, Steffie Woolhandler. The American Journal of Medicine, 2009.
Read MoreNo. 20: What Does It Cost Physician Practices To Interact With Health Insurance Plans?
September 15, 2009
Lawrence P. Casalino, Sean Nicholson, David N. Gans, Terry Hammons, Dante Morra, Theodore Karrison, and Wendy Levinson. Health Affairs 2009: Web Exclusive.
Read MoreNo. 21: Insurance-Industry Investments in Tobacco
September 15, 2009
J. Wesley Boyd, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler. New England Medical Journal 360; 23. June 4, 2009.
Read MoreNo. 19: Health Care 2009
July 15, 2009
Health Care 2009: Great Expectations – The Obama Administration and Health Care Reform Jonathan Oberlander. N Engl J Med, 360; 4: 321-323, 2009. Health Care 2009: Medicaid and the U.S. Path to National Health Insurance Michael Sparer. N Engl J Med, 360; 4:...
Read MoreNo. 18: The political use of poll results about public support for a privatized healthcare system in Canada
June 15, 2009
Contandriopoulos D, Bilodeau H. Health Policy 90 (2009) 104-112.
Read MoreNo. 17: Care Outcomes in Long-Term Care Facilities in British Columbia, Canada Does Ownership Matter?
May 15, 2009
McGregor M, Tate R, McGrail K, Ronald L, Broemeling A, Cohen M. Medical Care, 44; 10: 929-35, 2006.
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