Cochrane Canada to lose primary funding

Cochrane Canada to lose primary funding.

Private sector becoming the key to research funding in Canada.

The private sector, and drug companies in particular, are beginning to play a much stronger and visible role in funding health care research in canada. The implications of this change were discussed at a recent conference.

Problems with co-funding in Canada.

THE CANADIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS prudently invested substantial new resources in research operations and infrastructure, thereby bringing the level of research support in Canada on par with that of most other G8 countries and enabling a world-class research enterprise. Much of this renewed commitment to research, however, is in the form of “co-funded” programs. In Canada, co-funding schemes ...

Funding and remuneration of interdisciplinary primary care teams in Canada: a conceptual framework and application

BACKGROUND Reliance on interdisciplinary teams in the delivery of primary care is on the rise. Funding bodies strive to design financial environments that support collaboration between providers. At present, the design of financial arrangements has been fragmented and not based on evidence. The root of the problem is a lack of systematic evidence demonstrating the superiority of any particular ...

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