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What do we know about Canadian involvement in medical tourism?: a scoping review.
Article in Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
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- How Medical Tourism Enables Preferential Access to Care: Four Patterns from the Canadian Context.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2017Article
- Navigating physicians' ethical and legal duties to patients seeking unproven interventions abroad.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2015Article
- Outbound medical tourism from Mongolia: a qualitative examination of proposed domestic health system and policy responses to this trend.BMC health services research · 2015Article
- "You don't want to lose that trust that you've built with this patient...": (dis)trust, medical tourism, and the Canadian family physician-patient relationship.BMC family practice · 2015Article
- A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency.Research synthesis methods · 2014Article
- Unproven stem cell-based interventions & physicians' professional obligations; a qualitative study with medical regulatory authorities in Canada.BMC medical ethics · 2014Article
- "I knew what was going to happen if I did nothing and so I was going to do something": faith, hope, and trust in the decisions of Canadians with multiple sclerosis to seek unproven interventions abroad.BMC health services research · 2014Article
- Professional regulation: a potentially valuable tool in responding to "stem cell tourism".Stem cell reports · 2014Article
- Canadian physicians' responses to cross border health care.Globalization and health · 2014Article
- Canadian family doctors' roles and responsibilities toward outbound medical tourists: "Our true role is ... within the confines of our system".Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2013Article
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- "I didn't even know what I was looking for": A qualitative study of the decision-making processes of Canadian medical tourists.Globalization and health · 2012Article
- Searching for hope.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2012Article
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundMedical tourism, the intentional pursuit of elective medical treatments in foreign countries, is a rapidly growing global industry. Canadians are among those crossing international borders to seek out privately purchased medical care. Given Canada's universally accessible, single-payer domestic health care system, important implications emerge from Canadians' private engagement in medical tourism.
methodsA scoping review was conducted of the popular, academic, and business literature to synthesize what is currently known about Canadian involvement in medical tourism. Of the 348 sources that were reviewed either partly or in full, 113 were ultimately included in the review.
resultsThe review demonstrates that there is an extreme paucity of academic, empirical literature examining medical tourism in general or the Canadian context more specifically. Canadians are engaged with the medical tourism industry not just as patients but also as investors and business people. There have been a limited number of instances of Canadians having their medical tourism expenses reimbursed by the public medicare system. Wait times are by far the most heavily cited driver of Canadians' involvement in medical tourism. However, despite its treatment as fact, there is no empirical research to support or contradict this point. DISCUSSION: Although medical tourism is often discussed in the Canadian context, a paucity of data on this practice complicates our understanding of its scope and impact.
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