Background Canadians’ health care-seeking behaviour for physical and mental health
issues was examined using the international Quality and Cost of Primary Care (QUALICOPC) …

Objective To estimate the association between the use of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2)
inhibitors and postmarket harms as identified by drug regulatory agencies. Design …

Background Facebook has shown promise as an economical means of recruiting participants
for health research. However, few studies have evaluated this recruitment method in …

The remaining 90-95% has no indication of a serious cause and should be managed with
conservative treatments such as advice and reassurance, exercise, physical therapy …

Introduction Guidelines recommend patient education materials (PEMs) for low back pain (LBP),
but no systematic review has assessed PEMs on their own. We investigated the …

Methods: A literature search was conducted to find the review articles discussing the factors
of recruitment or retention of rural family physicians. Results were screened by two …

A Delphi (consensus) process was used to obtain national agreement on competencies for
registered nurses (RNs) in primary care. A draft of competencies was developed by key …

… results of the implementation of BETTER 2, which include descriptive statistics of the clinical
settings, are currently under review for publication at a different journal (Aubrey-Bassler et al.…

PURPOSE The patient medical home (PMH) model aims to improve patient satisfaction and
health outcomes in Canada, but since its introduction in 2009, there has been no evaluation …

Introduction Growing evidence supports patient engagement (PE) in health implementation
research to improve the quality, relevance and uptake of research. However, more guidance …