Best Practices

Screen patients for depression – and you’ll see them less often

California screening program produces ‘baffling’ findings
Journal backs away from mouse virus link to CFS
ARB use not linked to myocardial infarction
Health spending tipping points?
Hospitals should give MDs profit sharing: economist

Passing along savings produced when doctors consider cost-benefits may boost efficiency
'Near perfect' breast cancer screening results

A quality assurance program for breast cancer testing, developed and led in British Columbia, has delivered “near perfect” results on a national level, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Pathology.
Doctor salaries rose with medicare says study that contradicts U.S. critics of 'Canada-like' care

KINGSTON, Ont. | American doctors’ fears that converting to a “Canadian-style” health care system will hurt their incomes are unfounded, says a Canadian researcher who looked at income patterns of doctors in the two countries.
Diabetes linked to worse disability in MS

When multiple sclerosis patients also have comorbid diabetes, their disability scores tend to be greater than those of MS patients who do not have the disease.

Dr. Baker exits University of Alberta medical dean position after plagiarism allegation