The Alberta Ambassador Program: Delivering health technology assessment results to rural practitioners

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rashiq, Saifudin ^a   Barton, Pamela ^b   Harstall, Christa ^c   Schopflocher, Donald ^d   Taenzer, Paul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^d Health Surveillance Branch   (Canada)

^e Chronic Pain Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CANADA; CHRONIC NON CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RURAL AREA; TECHNOLOGY; ANALGESIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; TEACHING;

ALBERTA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TEACHING; TEACHING MATERIALS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 33646037068     PISSN: 14726920     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-6-21     Document Type: Article

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