This paper reports the results of a study that compared two concept‐mapping techniques,
one high‐directed, “fill‐in‐the‐map,” and one low‐directed, “construct‐a‐map‐from‐scratch.” …

Introduction: To determine if using a combination of hospital administrative data and ambulatory
care physician billings can accurately identify patients with congestive heart failure (CHF…

It is no revelation that consumers possess objects to which they are strongly and weakly
attached. However, what attachment is and where it comes from is incompletely understood. …

The emergence of alternative forms of achievement assessment and the corresponding
claims that they measure "higher order thinking" rouse the need to examine their cognitive …

OBJECTIVE—To estimate the burden of illness from diabetes using a population health survey
linked to a population-based diabetes registry. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—…

Background: Heart failure is a leading cause of admission to hospital, but whether the incidence
of heart failure is increasing or decreasing is uncertain. We examined temporal trends in …

This is a study of assessment of the work of creative problem-solving groups in sixth-grade
social studies. We test the proposition that providing students with specific guidelines as to …

… Schultz (416-480-6100, ext. 3788; sue.schultz@ices.on.ca) is with the Institute for Clinical
and Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario; Jacek A. Kopec is an assistant professor at the …

… Therese Stukel was responsible for the acquisition of data; Susan Schultz, Jun Guan, and
… and Susan Schultz, provided overall supervision. Therese Stukel is the study guarantor. …

Background: Given the changing landscape of primary care, there may be fewer primary care
physicians available to provide a broad range of services to patients of all age groups and …