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Decision-Making

A decision aid for autologous pre-donation in cardiac surgery: a randomized trial

A decision aid for women considering hormone therapy after menopause: decision support framework and evaluation

A randomized comparison of the effect of three patient information leaflet models on older patients' treatment intentions

A survey of provider experiences and perceptions of preferential access to cardiovascular care in Ontario, Canada

Access to health services in Ontario

Access to health services in Ontario, 2nd edition

Alcohol sales and risk of serious assault

An examination of how hospitals use the reporting framework prescribed in the Ontario Hospital Reporting System (OHRS)

At A Glance - February 2008

At A Glance - June 2012

Attitudes of physicians and public to pharmaceutical industry 'gifts'

Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals

Can we alter physician behavior by educational methods? lessons learned from studies of the management and follow-up of hypertension

Cardiovascular risk factor awareness in a disadvantaged inner-city population—implications for preventive strategies

Challenges in multidisciplinary cancer care among general surgeons in Canada

Challenges to evidence-based prescribing in clinical practice

Costs associated with developing and implementing a computerized clinical decision support system for medication dosing for patients with renal insufficiency in the long-term care setting

Decision aids: Are they worth it? A systematic review

Determining the need for hip and knee arthroplasty: the role of clinical severity and patients' preferences

Development of a consensus on evidence-based quality of care indicators for Canadian emergency departments

Development of a patient decision aid for choice of surgical treatment for breast cancer

Development of an algorithm to identify preoperative medical consultations using administrative data

Diagnostic services in Ontario: descriptive analysis and jurisdictional review

Effect of an explicit decision-support tool on decisions to prescribe antibiotics for sore throat

Evaluating the effect of clinical decision units on patient flow in seven Canadian emergency departments

Evolution of the coronary care unit: clinical characteristics and temporal trends in healthcare delivery and outcomes

Gaps in the evaluation and monitoring of new pharmaceuticals: proposal for a different approach

ICES Report: Five policy recommendations from Toronto's SARS outbreak to improve the safety and efficacy of restrictions on hospital admissions to manage infectious disease outbreaks

Improving health care data in Ontario

Incorporating pharmacosurveillance in provincial drug formulary decision-making

Indications for and results of outpatient computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in Ontario

Mandatory reporting by physicians of patients potentially unfit to drive

Moving toward a better health data system for Ontario

Physicians' approaches to providing asthma education to patients and the level of patient involvement in management decisions

Predicting mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure

Quality assessment of administrative data (QuAAD): an opportunity for enhancing Ontario's health data

Randomized trial of a patient decision aid for choice of surgical treatment for breast cancer

Randomized trial of a portable, self-administered decision aid for postmenopausal women considering long-term preventive hormone therapy

Recommendations for establishing a citizens' council to guide drug policy in Ontario

Regional effects of satellite haemodialysis units on renal replacement therapy in non-urban Ontario, Canada

Road trauma in teenage male youth with childhood disruptive behavior disorders: a population based analysis

Roadway crash risks in recent immigrants

The application of disease management to clinical trial designs

The effect of advance care planning on completion of advance directives and patient satisfaction in people with HIV/AIDS

The effects of prenatal group genetic counselling on knowledge, anxiety and decisional conflict: issues for nuchal translucency screening

The future of evidence-based medicine

The importance of echocardiography in physicians' support of endocarditis prophylaxis

The need for a national emergency health services database

The rapid uptake of concurrent chemotherapy for cervix cancer patients treated with curative radiation

Trends in the aggressiveness of end-of-life cancer care in the universal health care system of Ontario, Canada

Using disease risk estimates to guide risk factor interventions: field test of a patient workbook for self-assessing coronary risk

Validating diagnostic information on the minimum data set in Ontario hospital-based long-term care

What does it take to make a healthy province? A benchmark study of jurisdictions in Canada and around the world with the highest levels of health and the best health behaviours

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