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Breadth, Depth and Agreement among Provincial Formularies in Canada

Background: Previous studies have concluded that there is significant variation in drug coverage across Canadian provinces because conventional measures of inter-rater reliability for formulary listings are low. We sought to investigate whether conventional methods are appropriate for form...

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Publisher's Note
Jennifer Zelmer: Healthcare Policy's New Editor-in-Chief
The Undisciplined Economist
Dismal Science
Discussion and Debate
"An Honest Tale Speeds Best, Being Plainly Told": Another Look at Health Spending and the Supply of Physicians
La santé en situation linguistique minoritaire
Data Matters
The Ontario New Graduate Nursing Initiative: An Exploratory Process Evaluation
Knowledge Translation, Linkage and Exchange
Rethinking How We Replace Knees and Hips
Retaining Institutional Wisdom: Using an Evidence-Informed Approach to Transfer Knowledge from Experienced Nurses to New Nursing Staff
Research Papers
Sorry, You Can't Have That Information: Data Holder Confusion Regarding Privacy Requirements for Personal Health Information and the Potential Chilling Effect on Health Research
Adverse Event Reporting for Herbal Medicines: A Result of Market Forces
Gone South: Why Canadian Nurses Migrate to the United States
Office Home Care Workers' Occupational Health: Associations with Workplace Flexibility and Worker Insecurity
The Gatekeeper System and Disparities in Use of Psychiatric Care by Neighbourhood Education Level: Results of a Nine-Year Cohort Study in Toronto
Forecasting the Need for Dialysis Services in Ontario, Canada to 2011
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What is Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé?

Healthcare policy research and translation. Peer reviewed. For health system managers, practitioners, politicians and their administrators, and educators and academics. Authors come from a broad range of disciplines including social sciences, humanities, ethics, law, management sciences, and knowledge translation. Edited by Dr. Jennifer Zelmer, University of Victoria, Victoria.
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The Effect of Evidence-Based Drug Coverage Policies on Pharmaceutical R&D: A Case Study from British Columbia
Steve Morgan and Colleen Cunningham

Background:   To manage public expenditures in the mid-1990s, British Columbia implemented evidence-based drug coverage policies, including "reference pricing." Industry lobbied against the province's policy, arguing that reference pricing harms patients and that it is inconsistent with f...

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