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The rate of opioid use in Canada has fallen 13.7 per cent since the publication in May 2010 of national guidelines for their use in chronic non-cancer pain, a new study has found.

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Treating psychotic illnesses cost the province of Ontario just under $2.1 billion in 2012, which was about four per cent of the total provincial health budget.

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Low-income children with Type 1 diabetes in Ontario are getting more of the recommended preventative care visits and have fewer hospitalizations than similar children in California.

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People who have suffered a traumatic brain injury are approximately 2.5 times more likely to be incarcerated in a federal correctional facility in Canada than people who have not.

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Single fathers now make up an estimated 20 per cent of all single-parent households in Ontario, and are just as likely as single mothers to report poor overall health and poor mental health.

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Two commonly prescribed statins, lovastatin and simvastatin, appear to be associated with a higher risk of bleeding than others when combined with dabigatran.

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One in six patients in Ontario does not belong to an organized primary care practice, new research suggests.

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About 40 per cent of children with cancer receive at least one form of high-intensity end-of-life care treatment.

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Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) would benefit if pulmonary function testing was used more consistently to diagnose the condition.

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New trends show that low-income women have a shorter life expectancy than high-income men in Canada.

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There were 638 opioid-related deaths in Ontario in 2013, approximately one death for every 20,000 Ontarians.

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Study finds women who have gestational diabetes, have an elevated lifetime risk for developing cardiovascular disease

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A provincial plan implementing quantity limits on blood glucose test strips for patients with Type 2 diabetes not using insulin does not put those patients at risk.

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Large-scale study from ICES shows HDL or “good” cholesterol isn’t a specific marker for heart health.

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The day of the week elective surgery is performed in Ontario does not impact a patient’s risk of mortality.

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Young Ontarians being diagnosed for the first time with schizophrenia are not receiving adequate physician follow-up, according to a new study from ICES.

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Depression affects one in five patients with a new diagnosis of chronic stable angina and is associated with poor outcomes, including heart attack and death.

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The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective the first three years after vaccination, but immunity wanes significantly over time.

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Being in a motor vehicle crash during pregnancy nearly doubles the woman's risk that her unborn child will be subsequently diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

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People with COPD are 53 per cent more likely to be hospitalized if they have a history of asthma.

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Performing an MRI on a woman in the early part of pregnancy does not increase the risk of her baby being stillborn, dying soon after birth or having a birth defect.

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Increasing the supply of psychiatrists in Ontario has not significantly improved access to psychiatric care.

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Chinese and South Asian patients in Ontario experience more severe mental illness at the time of hospital admission than other patients.

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Smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity, and unhealthy alcohol consumption contribute to about 50 percent of deaths in Canada, at a cost of six years of life.

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Many Ontario women who experience mood disorders in the first year after giving birth go to their local emergency room for mental health care instead of their family doctor or community clinics.

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Patients who have not had an opioid prescription within a year prior to their procedure are at low risk of developing persistent opioid use after major surgery.

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Ontario patients being treated for gastric cancer receive different care depending on where they live.

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Nine out of 10 people in Ontario who receive government reimbursement for their prescription high-strength opioid tablets or patches are not palliative care patients.

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Study shows that while early mortality was the most common outcome for children with trisomy 13 and 18, the children who survive live much longer than previously described.

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Older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who start using opioids have a more than two-fold higher risk of dying from a respiratory-related complication compared to non-opioid users.

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This is the first study to suggest that red blood cell transfusions from young donors and from female donors may be associated with poorer survival in recipients.

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A million-patient study provides more detail on the association between type 2 diabetes and cancer, suggesting that prevention of the two diseases should go hand-in-hand.

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A growing number of people in Ontario make unnecessary trips to the emergency room because of worries about high blood pressure, possibly due to the prevalence of home monitoring equipment.

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Study shows no increased risk of later parkinsonism associated with use of gadolinium, a chemical contrast agent commonly used to enhance MRI imaging.

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ICES’s newest satellite site opened today at McMaster’s Health Sciences Centre.

52 per cent of all patients dying in Ontario had at least one palliative care encounter in the last year of life. The vast majority of these patients (85 per cent) received that care in hospitals.

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Ontario’s stroke mortality in 2015 was the lowest rate ever reported.

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Greater adoption of hospital-initiated tobacco cessation interventions improve patient outcomes and decrease further healthcare utilization.

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Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities are at higher risk for many complications from pregnancy and birth, as are their babies.

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Obesity rates in Southern Ontario cities have remained stable for more than a decade in highly walkable neighborhoods but continued to rise in less walkable ones

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Ontarians with rheumatic diseases wait nearly a year from onset of symptoms to their first consult with a rheumatologist, more than twice as long as in comparable European health systems.

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Immunizing babies against rotavirus in Ontario led to a 71 per cent drop in hospitalizations for the infection across all ages.

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People recently released from correctional facilities in Ontario had a risk of dying from a drug overdose 56 times greater than the general population.

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Drug safety network finds cases of fetal exposure to popular acne drug

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First large-scale population health study of generic statin efficacy in high-risk population provides reassuring evidence for Ontario cost-saving move

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Breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with trastuzumab-containing regimens should be monitored for heart damage regardless of age.

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Unhealthy behaviours and socioeconomic barriers together contribute to 37 per cent of Ontario’s health care costs, at a burden of $134 billion over 10 years.

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Patients undergoing common surgeries in teaching hospitals experience significantly longer surgical times, with durations that are 22 per cent longer on average in these academic centres.

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Many seniors prescribed cholinesterase inhibitors for dementia are also taking anticholinergic drugs that can worsen their cognition, especially when when seeing multiple physicians or in LTC.

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Incretin-based drugs for type 2 diabetes do not increase the risk of being hospitalized for heart failure relative to commonly used combinations of oral anti-diabetic drugs.

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Women with schizophrenia use fewer acute psychiatric services during pregnancy and in the year following delivery, at about half the amount used in the year before pregnancy.

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Increased spending on palliative home-based care in the last month of life can help to reduce overall health care costs for patients dying of cancer.

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High income seniors were 50 per cent more likely to be prescribed a newly approved drug for atrial fibrillation than low income seniors before its inclusion in ODB.

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Adults with a concussion have long-term suicide risk three times higher than general population, and risk increases by further third if concussion occurs on a weekend.

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Extreme hot and cold temperatures result in fatalities, but even moderate daily temperature changes are associated with increased deaths.

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Demand for child and youth mental health care has been rising throughout Ontario’s health care system, with biggest growth in Ontario’s emergency departments.

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Refugee women who come to Canada have greater risk of giving birth prematurely than non-refugee immigrants, a study by a St. Michael’s Hospital researcher has found.

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Depending on which hospital you go to for your low-risk surgical procedure, you may be 2.4 times more or less likely to be sent for unnecessary blood tests.

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End-of-life cancer hospitalization rates and care costs vary significantly between seven developed countries, with Canada at or near the top of the list for both measures.

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Up to 40 per cent of older Ontarians with dementia receive no formal rehabilitation services following hip fracture surgery, and are more likely to be admitted to long-term care or die within a year

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Five per cent of Ontarians account for 65 per cent of provincial health care costs attributable to individual care with the top one per cent accounting for one third of these costs overall.

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People who undergo solid organ transplantation are three times more likely to die from cancer than the general population, warranting more targeted cancer care for this vulnerable group.

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Report finds heavy users of mental health care are younger, live in lower-income urban neighbourhoods, and are more evenly split between men and women.

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