Publications by authors named "J A Permaul-Woods"
Background: The Ontario Maternal Serum Screening (MSS) Program was introduced by the Ontario Ministry of Health as a province-wide pilot project in 1993. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of practice location on Ontario health care providers' use of and opinions regarding MSS, access to follow-up services and recommendations about the program.
Methods: A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 2000 family physicians, all 565 obstetricians and all 62 registered midwives in Ontario between November 1994 and March 1995.
Objective: To describe Ontario emergency physicians' knowledge of colleagues' sexual involvement with patients and former patients, their own personal experience of such involvement, and their attitudes toward postvisit relationships.
Design: Mailed survey.
Setting: Ontario.
Objective: To examine whether male and female family physicians practise maternity care differently, particularly regarding the maternal serum screening (MSS) program.
Design: Mailed survey fielded between October 1994 and March 1995.
Setting: Ontario family practices.
Objective: To determine the practices, knowledge and opinions of health care providers regarding a prenatal genetic screening program in Ontario.
Design: Cross-sectional self-reported survey.
Setting: Ontario.
Objective: To discover whether family physicians who go through residency training and The College of Family Physicians of Canada's (CFPC) certification process are more responsive than other physicians to woman abuse, whether they perceive and approach such abuse more appropriately, and whether they seek out more education on the subject.
Design: A national survey using a pretested 43-item mailed questionnaire to examine perceptions of and approaches to detection and management of woman abuse.
Setting: Canadian family and general practice.