30 Jun Should Patients Continue to Receive Statins Once They Reach 80 Years of Age?
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16 May Rethinking the Appraisal and Approval of Drugs for Fracture Prevention
After decades of widespread use, effectiveness of drugs for osteoporosis remains uncertain, yet adverse effects are more apparent. Well-designed and large trials over prolonged follow-up periods, measuring clinically relevant outcomes as hip and other disabling...
06 Apr Misfire: The 2012 Ministry of Health Employment Terminations and Related Matters
April 6, 2017, Victoria, BC: B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released his investigation report today, titled Misfire: The 2012 Ministry of Health Employment Terminations and Related Matters. The Ombudsperson investigation began in September 2015. Almost 4.7 million...
26 Jan Treat you better
Treat You Better is a parody of the 2016 Shawn Mendes song "Treat You Better". Many pay-for performance initiatives in health care have some major limitations - most importantly pay-for-performance (P4P) initiatives typically forget that individual...