Public Health Ontario. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)—variant of concern screening and whole genome sequencing surveillance. 2021. Accessed December 28, 2021. https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/laboratory-services/test-information-index/covid-19-voc 24. McGrath JM. Here’s Ontario’...
Ontario school information IndexOntarioOregonNational Average Test Scores36%46%48% Student/Teacher ratio17:120:116:1 Total public schools91,09779,221 Total private schools236124,874 Total post-secondary schools1897,963 Ontario school Rankings
As of October 2021, more than 235 million people worldwide have been infected by the new coronavirus and nearly 5 million have died1, making the COVID-19 pandemic one of the greatest health crises of the past century. Until a vaccine or effective medical treatment is widely administered, the...
Government of Ontario. Updated: executive officer notice: administration of publicly funded COVID 19 vaccines in Ontario pharmacies—eligibility. Accessed June 20, 2023. https://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/drugs/opdp_eo/notices/exec_office_eligibility_20211125.pdf 25. Duchen R, Iskan...
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While Human Factors (HF) methods have been applied to the design of decision support systems (DSS) to aid clinical decision-making, the role of HF to improve decision-support for population health outcomes is less understood. We sought to comprehensively understand how HF methods have been used...
nature.com/ejhg ARTICLE Consulting the community: public expectations and attitudes about genetics research Holly Etchegary*,1,2, Jane Green3, Elizabeth Dicks4, Daryl Pullman5, Catherine Street6 and Patrick Parfrey4 Genomic discoveries and technologies promise numerous opportunities for improving health....
through the Ontario SPOR Support Unit, as well as the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and through unrestricted grants from several pharmaceutical companies, with major contributions from AstraZeneca (Canada), Sanofi-Aventis (France and Canada), Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany and Canada...
the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (emergency department visit data), the Canadian Institute for Health Information Discharge Abstract Database (hospitalization data), the Ontario Registrar General Database (deaths data),16 and the Rurality Index of Ontario17 based on postal code (rural vs...