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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2014

The increasing inefficiency of private health insurance in Canada.

Michael R Law, Jillian Kratzer, Irfan A Dhalla

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Tackling financial toxicity related to cancer care in Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2024
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  7. Inequity in insurance coverage for prescription drugs in New Brunswick, Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022
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  9. It's Time to Finally Kill the Zombies Comment on "Universal Pharmacare in Canada".International journal of health policy and management · 2020
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  10. Commercial Health Care Financing: The Cause of U.S., Dutch, and Swiss Health Systems Inefficiency?International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation · 2019
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  17. National pharmacare: Time to move forward.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  18. [Assurance-médicaments nationale: Le moment d'aller de l'avant].Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  20. Correcting the record.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael R LawCentre for Health Services and Policy Research (Law, Kratzer), School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Medicine (Dhalla), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Dhalla), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Dhalla), Toronto, Ont. mlaw@chspr.ubc.ca.
Jillian KratzerCentre for Health Services and Policy Research (Law, Kratzer), School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Medicine (Dhalla), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Dhalla), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Dhalla), Toronto, Ont.
Irfan A DhallaCentre for Health Services and Policy Research (Law, Kratzer), School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Department of Medicine (Dhalla), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Dhalla), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Dhalla), Toronto, Ont.

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CanadaCosts and Cost AnalysisEfficiency, OrganizationalFor-Profit Insurance PlansHumansInsurance, HealthOrganizational Innovation

Identifiers

PMID24664650
PMCPMC4150733

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