Patient Compliance

VANCOUVER | British Columbia will be the first jurisdiction in Canada to use a new, more accurate HIV detection test.

Asking patients to track their nausea and vomiting after a course of chemotherapy helped the health care team to adjust medications and achieve better control of symptoms, according to the results of a small single center study.

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews should fulfill a promise and give registered nurses the right to prescribe basic drugs, like the first-level antibiotics.

Not so fast, says Canadian expert, while lamenting physiotherapy funding problems

Nurses are frequently placed in situations where they lack the time, and in some cases the resources to care for patients in the way they would like to.

Front-line nurses' union says that new CIHI study tells an alarming story

But author laments ‘huge gap’ between recommendations and real-world care

MONTREAL | The president of Quebec’s physician regulatory body is warning doctors in the province against the issuing of so-called "virginity certificates" for young female patients.