Effects of Scapular Angular Deviations on Potential for Rotator Cuff Tendon Mechanical Compression.

Background: One proposed mechanism of rotator cuff disease is scapular motion impairments contributing to rotator cuff compression and subsequent degeneration.

Purpose: To model the effects of scapular angular deviations on rotator cuff tendon proximity for subacromial and internal mechanical impingement risk during scapular plane abduction.

Study Design: Descriptive laboratory study.

Who Uses eConsult? Investigating Physician Characteristics Associated with Usage (and Nonusage).

Background: The Champlain BASE™ eConsult Service was developed in a Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) in Ontario, Canada in 2010 to reduce wait times and improve access to specialist care. The service allows primary care providers to receive advice from specialists via a secure electronic platform without necessarily requiring a face-to-face consultation.

Introduction: As of 2015, over half of the LHIN's family physicians were registered and trained to use the service.

Effects of a peer support programme for youth social services employees experiencing potentially traumatic events: a protocol for a prospective cohort study.

Introduction: The use of peer support programmes to help workers experiencing potentially traumatic events (PTE) has increased in high-risk organisations in the last decades. However, the scientific evidence of its effectiveness is still very limited. This paper aims to describe the protocol of a prospective cohort study that assesses the efficacy of a peer support programme among youth social services employees exposed to a PTE at work on psychological well-being, work functioning and needs of support.

Evaluation of the implementation fidelity of an ergonomic training program designed to prevent back pain.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation fidelity of a multidimensional ergonomic program designed to prevent back pain injuries among healthcare personnel. The program, provided by peer trainers included training intended to modify patient handling and transfer behaviour, trainee follow-up, prevention activities aimed at work environment improvements and follow-up monitors training. Two hundred twenty-one peer trainers at 139 Quebec healthcare institutions participated in our study.

The political use of poll results about public support for a privatized healthcare system in Canada.

Objectives: Within the context of the political debate on privatization of healthcare funding in Canada, this paper examines the nature and the various role of polls.

Methods: To reach this objective we rely on available commercial polls and statistical surveys and qualitatively analyse them to illustrate methodological and logical problems as well as to distinguish between what we call the 'informative' and the 'political' use of poll results.

Results: We first draw a portrait of Quebecers' and Canadians' positions on the healthcare system and use this portrait to highlight a certain number of logical and methodological issues related to the political use of polls.