Research report, study and analysis

The main purpose of this study is to describe the quality of the data used to calculate survival in Quebec. The discussion will focus on the quality of incidence and mortality data, the kind of file linkage needed to determine a person’s vital status, and the influence that this data quality has on survival results. This study is also part of a Canada-wide initiative to quantify cancer survival. Statistics Canada and the Canadian Cancer Survival Analysis Group have produced a Canadian Cancer…

Studies show a relationship between social inequality and intentional and unintentional trauma (Marmot et al., 1999; Leclerc et al., 2000). This relationship is poorly understood in Quebec, however, since data on trauma is derived primarily from administrative files (for death and hospitalization), which contain no information on the socioeconomic status of trauma victims.

The recent development of a deprivation index that can be used with these files enables us to at least partially…

The overall objective was to provide insight into clinical practice guidelines, their development and their implementation. The main focus was the conduction of a thorough literature review of all issues related to dissemination of clinical practice guidelines to physicians, and their eventual use. We offer that the reflections provided herein have done justice to the tasks originally defined. What follows is a summary of the salient points.

An enormous amount of attention has been…