Perspectives and experiences of health care professionals and patients regarding treatments for type 2 diabetes.

Background: Several treatment options exist for type 2 diabetes, but little is known about the factors considered by health care providers (HCPs) and patients in Canada in making therapeutic decisions. This study explores perceptions and practices of HCPs and patients related to add-on (i.e.

Safely and effectively reducing inpatient length of stay: a controlled study of the General Internal Medicine Care Transformation Initiative.

Purpose: Whether improving the efficiency of hospital care will worsen post-discharge outcomes is unclear. We designed this study to evaluate the General Internal Medicine (GIM) Care Transformation Initiative implemented at one of the seven teaching hospitals in the Canadian province of Alberta.

Methods: Controlled before-after study of GIM patients hospitalised at the University of Alberta Hospital (UAH, intervention site, n=1896) or the six other teaching hospitals in Alberta-three in Edmonton (intra-regional controls (IRC), n=4550) and three in Calgary (extra-regional controls (ERC), n=4095).

Effect of differing immunization policies on circulating measles antibody levels in US and Canadian children.

Objective: To examine the effect of differing age-at-immunization policies on measles antibody levels in US children immunized at the age of 15 months compared with Canadian children immunized at the age of 12 months.

Subjects And Methods: Healthy, volunteer US and Canadian children aged 6 to 11 years who had been immunized with a single dose of the measles vaccine were enrolled from 1991 to 1993. Measles antibody was measured with a whole-virus, measles-specific IgG enzyme-linked immunoassay.