The major objectives of this study were to assess the proportion of patients in acute care hospital beds that meet standard criteria requiring acute care services and to document the alternative type or level of care that would be more appropriate for those patients not meeting the criteria.

This study explores how likely patients with newly-diagnosed diabetes in Alberta are to receive specially diabetes care, their route of referral, and the patterns of co-management after referral occurs.

The simple story of Canadian hospital financing --- single-source (tax-based) public funding through provincial Ministries of Health to individual institutions through prospective global budgets -- offers a relatively accurate general picture which, nevertheless, masks both...

Where are peace and tranquility be founded? Public expressions of dissatisfaction with health care systems are growing throught the developed world: everywhere there is unhappiness.

In order to develop standardized measures to access patients's relative priority for services for which there are waiting lists, it is essential that key terms be clearly defined. We propose that severity be defined as the degree or extent of suffering, limits to activities or risk of death,...

In this paper we outline a formal and comprehensive analytic framework in which income transfers - the principal effects of user charges - can be traced between groups in the population, between payers and health care providers, and among providers.

Ken Bassett's problem: "Why would intelligent and competent professionals routinely behave in ways that they know to be illogical and scientifically unsound?". This paper thus complements that by Uwe Reinhardt.

There is a growing concer over the supply of physicians to meet current and future Canadian requirements.Increased outflow id distributed to the retirement of the baby-boom generation and the ongoing migration of Canadian physicians to the United States, Inflow comes through a variaty of routes...

In this study we examined how gate-keeping arrangements influence referrals to specialty care for children and adolescents in private and Medicaid insurance plans.

Overall changes in health care use were small, which suggests that the repercussions of the decline in acute care services for elderly people have been minimal. The higher age-adjusted death rates in the later cohort in full-time care suggests that long-term stays are becoming reserved for...