Questionnaires are often used to collect primary quantitative data from patients and healthcare
professionals. The aim is to gather valid, reliable, unbiased and discriminatory data from …

Background Clinical practice guidelines aim to reduce inappropriate variations in practice
and to promote the delivery of evidence‐based health care. Objectives To identify and assess …

Background Radiological tests are often used by general practitioners (GPs). These tests can
be overused and contribute little to clinical management. We aimed to assess two methods …

Objective: To establish the feasibility and method of evaluation of an early supported
hospital discharge policy for patients with acute stroke. Design: A randomized controlled trial …

Objective: to measure the net costs to the health and personal social services of an early
supported discharge policy for stroke. Design and setting: cost analysis, using data from a …

Surveys library directors in the Ontario Council of University Libraries consortium regarding
weeding, last copy print archiving, and the role of the consortium. Responses reveal …

BACKGROUND: The need for training to equip primary care staff with the knowledge and
skills to provide dietary advice to the public has been acknowledged. Little is known about the …

Established information technology was used in an attempt to reduce social isolation by
providing each family who had a child with Duchenne muscular dystrophy with a personal …

Competency definitions continue to become more popular in Library and Information Science
(LIS) and are being used not only to describe library positions but also as a means of …

Librarians are noted for their defense of others but not themselves or even their profession,
thus there is a lack of consideration with respect to our roles within our own institutions and …