Engagement with partners is a leading practice in health workforce planning: What health leaders need to know.

Workforce planning ensures that the health workforce is aligned with current and future population needs. Engagement with partners and knowledge users is a leading practice in planning and is essential for planning to be successful. The goal of this study was to explore the considerations and processes involved in integrating engagement into workforce planning.

The Physician Anesthesia Workforce in Canada From 1996 to 2018: A Longitudinal Analysis of Health Administrative Data.

Background: A robust anesthesia workforce is essential to the provision of safe surgical, obstetrical, and critical care but information describing the physician anesthesia workforce and volume of clinical services delivered in Canada is limited. This study examines the Canadian physician anesthesia workforce, exploring trends in physician characteristics and activity levels over time. Practice patterns of specialist anesthesiologists and family physician anesthetists (FPAs) working in urban and rural communities were of particular interest.

Keratoconus in Down syndrome: Prevalence, risk factors, severity and corneal tomographic characteristics.

Background: This study investigated the prevalence, risk factors and severity of corneal tomographic features of keratoconus in Down syndrome (DS). Additionally, previous studies indicate anomalous corneal features in DS, without keratoconus, this study characterised corneal features in DS without keratoconus.

Methods: This prospective observational study included participants with DS ≥10 years old.

Referring and Specialist Physician Gender and Specialist Billing.

Importance: While a gender pay gap in medicine has been well documented, relatively little research has addressed mechanisms that mediate gender differences in referral income for specialists.

Objective: To examine gender-based disparities in medical and surgical specialist referrals in Ontario, Canada.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cross-sectional study included referrals for specialist care ascertained from Ontario Health Insurance Plan physician billings for fiscal year 2018 to 2019.

Incomplete peripheral retinal vascularisation in retinopathy of prematurity: is it the consequence of changing oxygen saturation?

Background: We wish to determine the prevalence and risk factors of incomplete peripheral avascular retina (IPAR) in children screened for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and its association with oxygen saturation (SpO) targets.

Methods: A retrospective review of retinal images of premature infants born and screened for ROP in Auckland Region, New Zealand, between January 2013 and December 2017 was conducted. Images were reviewed to determine if avascular retina was present at their final ROP screening.