Gordon H Guyatt, Pj Devereaux, Joel Lexchin, Samuel B Stone, Armine Yalnizyan, David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Qi Zhou, Laurie J Goldsmith, Deborah J Cook, Ted Haines, Christina Lacchetti, John N Lavis, Terrence Sullivan, Ed Mills, Shelley Kraus, Neera Bhatnagar
BACKGROUND: Differences in medical care in the United States compared with Canada, including greater reliance on private funding and for-profit delivery, as well as markedly higher expenditures, may result in different health outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To systematically review studies comparing health outcomes in the United States and Canada among patients treated for similar underlying medical conditions. METHODS: We identified studies comparing health outcomes of patients in Canada and the United States by searching multiple bibliographic databases and resources...
April 14, 2007: Open Medicine: a Peer-reviewed, Independent, Open-access Journal