Objective To compare the medicines included in national essential medicines lists with the
World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Model list of essential medicines, and assess the extent …

The Canada Health Act states that health care should be portable—but health records are
not. Despite billion-dollar efforts to promote information transfers between jurisdictions, 1 …

Importance Nonadherence to treatment with medicines is common globally, even for life-saving
treatments. Cost is one important barrier to access, and only some jurisdictions provide …

… Nav Persaud is an associate editor for CMAJ and was not involved in the editorial
decision-making for this article. Competing interests: Nav Persaud reports being supported by the …

Methods In developing this guideline, the steering committee followed standards for trustworthy
guidelines. 15 We included innovative approaches for key standards such as patient …

Background There is an increased risk of death due to drug toxicity after release from
incarceration. The purpose of this study was to describe the timing, rate and circumstances of drug …

Background Starting in the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry sought to increase
prescribing of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. Influencing the content of clinical practice …

Background Adherence to medicines is low for a variety of reasons, including the cost borne
by patients. Some jurisdictions publicly fund medicines for the general population, but many …

The lack of an accepted measure of awareness has made claims that accurate decisions can
be made without awareness controversial. Here we introduce a new objective measure of …

Purpose Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada, and because early
cancers are often asymptomatic screening aims to prevent mortality by detecting cancer …