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Essential Reading
From the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation:
Mythbusters is a series of research summaries revealing the research evidence contrary to accepted wisdom in Canadian health-care debates.
- Myth: User fees would stop waste and ensure better use of the healthcare system (2001)
- Myth: For-profit ownership of facilities would lead to a more efficient healthcare system (2004)
- Myth: A parallel private system would reduce waiting times in the public system (2005)
Evidence Boost for Quality is a special series that summarizes the research behind ways to improve the quality of health-care delivery.
From the Canadian Medical Association Journal:
Two systematic reviews:
- Payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Devereaux, P.J., Heels-Ansdell, D., Lacchetti, c., Haines, T., Burns, KE.A., Cook, D.J., et al. (2004).
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for profit hospitals. Devereaux, P.J., Choi, P.T., Lacchetti, C., Weaver, B., Schunemann, H.J., Haines, T., et al. (2002)
Analysis: Living in the parallel universe in Australia: Public Medicare and private hospitals. Duckett, S.J. (2005).
Other organizations and authors:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Public solutions to health care waitlists. By Michael Rachlis (2005)
National Coalition on Health Care: Health insurance costs. (2008) [From the U.S.]
Wellesley Institute: Privatized health care won’t deliver. By Michael Rachlis (2007)
Canadian Health Coalition: Eroding Public Medicare: Costs and Consequences. (2008)
British Medical Journal: Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: Systematic review and meta-analysis. By Vikram Comondore et al. (2009)
Medical Care: The economic value of professional nursing. By T. M. Dall et al. (2009)
