While the CSPC lives within the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University, its
membership is broad and includes 86 faculty members from many disciplines, including …

The article focuses on the similarity of the initiatives of primary care research in Canada and
the US One element common to both countries is the establishment of practice-based …

In March of 2003 a group of what might be considered the 'great and the good'of the world of
academic general practice got together in the pleasant if rather chilly environs of Kingston …

IT IS EXCITING for me to have the opportunity to chair the National Research Committee of
the College and, at the same time, to assume, in May 1987, the presidency of the North …

Funding for formation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was confirmed
in the federal budget of February 1999. The CIHR will be the major source of funds for health …

Primary care can be investigated, and almost certainly improved, using scientific methods.
The committee reached this view through testimony at public hearings, its workshop on the …

In common with the United States, Canadian primary care research has long been
neglected and underfunded. This situation has persisted despite ample evidence of the key …

During the 1960s and 1970s many, in the newly emerging family medicine departments and
residencies, recognized the need for an organization to expand family medicine and primary …

Late in 1989, Congress created the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR),
making a strong statement of support for primary care research in the United States. The …

ments for health services seeking to establish safe-injection sites. The report calls the
requirements set out in the recently t Page 1 ments for health services seeking to establish …