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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2022

Commentary: Burning Platforms, Icebergs and Tipping Points - Canada Needs a Single Socially Accountable Healthcare System.

Roger Strasser

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Provincial Health Systems: Are They Imploding?Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Roger StrasserEmeritus Professor of Rural Health, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, Founding Dean Emeritus, NOSM University, Sudbury, ON.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leslie et al.'s (2022) article caused me to reflect on the complexities and contradictions that are Canada. Healthcare in Canada is a hodgepodge of different health systems all assembled under the umbrella of the Canada Health Act (1985). Canadians expect medicare to deliver high-quality healthcare close to home wherever they live. For this aspiration to become a reality, there needs to be a single pan-Canadian health system focussed on the health needs of the populations being served. This socially accountable healthcare system is likely to be achieved only if there is a chorus of support across Canada for meaningful pan-Canadian health reforms.

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Delivery of Health CareNational Health ProgramsAgedCanadaHumansQuality of Health CareSocial Responsibility

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PMID36103234
PMCPMC9467272

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