E-rounds

No. 16: Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system

April 15, 2009

Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein. British Medical Journal, 335: 1226-28, 2007.

No.15: Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults’ Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries

March 17, 2009

Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, Michelle M. Doty, Meghan Bishop, Jordon Peugh, and Nandita Murukutia. Health Affairs – Web Exclusive, October 31, 2007.

No. 14: Privatizing Health Care is not the answer: Lessons from the United States

February 16, 2009

Marcia Angell. CMAJ 179(9): 916-919, 2008.

No. 13: Medicare E-Rounds - 2008 Year in Review

January 15, 2009

No.12: An Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Waiting Times for Total Joint Replacement in Ontario

December 16, 2008

Lauren Cipriano, Bert Chesworth, Chris Anderson and Gregory Zaric. Medical Care 46(11): 1177-1183, 2008.

No. 11: Taking the Pulse of Health Care Systems: Experiences of Patients with Health Problems in Six Countries.

November 15, 2008

Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, Phuong Trang Huynh, Michelle Doty, Kinga Zapert, Jordon Peugh and Karen Davis. Health Affairs (web exclusive) 24: 509-525, 2005

No. 10: On the Front Lines of Care: Primary Care Doctors’ Office Systems, Experiences and Views in Seven Countries

October 15, 2008

Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, Phuong Trang Huynh, Michelle Doty, Jordan Peugh, and Kinga Zapert. Health Affairs (web exclusive): 555-571, November 2006

No. 9: Effects of Managed Care on Teaching, Research, and Clinical Practice in Academic Plastic Surgery.

September 15, 2008

Ta KT, Persing JA, Chauncey H, Bradley H, Miller SH. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 48(4): 348-354, April 2002.

No. 8: Private Care and Public Waiting

August 15, 2008

Duckett, S.J. Australian Health Review. 29(1):87-93, 2005.

No. 7: The Effect of Hospital Ownership Choice on Patient Outcomes after Treatment for Acute Myocardial Infarction

July 16, 2008

Shen, Y.C. Journal of Health Economics. Vol. 21: 901-922 2002.

No. 6: Avoidable mortality by neighborhood income in Canada: 25 years after the establishment of universal health insurance.

June 16, 2008

James, P., Wilkins, R., Detsky, A., Tugwell, P., Manuel, D. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Vol. 61: 287-296 2007.

No. 5: Support for National Health Insurance among U.S. Physicians: 5 Years Later

May 15, 2008

Ackermann, R. and Carroll A. Annals of Internal Medicine. Vol. 148 (7); 566 2008.

No. 4: Effect of the Ownership of Dialysis Facilities on Patients’ Survival and Referral for Transplantation.

April 15, 2008

Garg PP et al. N Engl J Med 1999;341 (22):1653-60.

No. 3: Quality of Care in Investor-Owned vs Not-for-Profit HMOs

March 14, 2008

D. U. Himmelstein et al. JAMA, July 14, 1999. Vol 282; (2) 159-163.

No. 02: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Comparing Mortality Rates of Private For-Profit and Private Not-For-Profit Hospitals

February 15, 2008

P.J. Devereaux, et al CMAJ May 28, 2002; 166 (11).

1: A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States

January 15, 2008

Gordon H. Guyatt et al. Open Medicine, April 18, 2007. Vol. 1 (1), pp. 27-36. Background: Although Canada and the United States share many of the same standards for treatment, health outcomes in both countries vary. This difference may be attributed to the financing...