Strategic analytics: towards fully embedding evidence in healthcare decision-making.

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) has implemented multiple information technology solutions and collected health-system data to support its programs. There is now an opportunity to leverage these data and perform advanced end-to-end analytics that inform decisions around improving health-system performance. In 2014, CCO engaged in an extensive assessment of its current data capacity and capability, with the intent to drive increased use of data for evidence-based decision-making.

Diet patterns and the risk of renal cell carcinoma.

Objectives: Our objective was to identify food intake patterns that might be associated with the risk of renal cell carcinoma.

Design: A total of 461 cases (210 females, 251 males) were age frequency matched to population controls. Diet factors were created using factor analysis of 69 food items from a food-frequency questionnaire.