New reproductive technologies and the health care system : the case for evidence-based medicine.: Z1-1989/3-41-24E-PDF

"The importance of the health care system to Canadians is abundantly clear; it is a symbol of strongly held Canadian values, reflecting the fact that we believe individuals should be treated equally in the face of disease or injury. It is also clear that Canadians place great value on having children and that they consider it important to provide treatments that may facilitate this. The Commission was faced with the task of reconciling the need to provide help to people who are infertile with the need to manage the health care system responsibly, given the many legitimate claims on its resources."--Introduction.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Privy Council Office.
Canada. Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.
Title New reproductive technologies and the health care system : the case for evidence-based medicine.
Series title Research studies ; v. 11
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Other formats Paper-[English]
Note(s) Digitized edition from print produced by Privy Council Office of Canada.
Issued also in French under title: Les nouvelles techniques de reproduction et le système de soins de santé : facteurs militant en faveur d'une médecine fondée sur les résultats.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Canadian health care system -- Framework for technology decisions: literature review -- Infertility treatment: from cookery to science: the epidemiology of randomized controlled trials -- Meta-analysis of controlled trials in infertility -- Treatment of male infertility: is it effective? A review and meta-analysis of published randomized controlled trials -- Adverse health effects of drugs used for ovulation induction -- Methodological challenges in evaluating a new and evolving technology: the case of in vitro fertilization -- Cost-effectiveness of an in vitro fertilization program and the costs of associated hospitalizations and other infertility treatments -- Public preferences toward an in vitro fertilization program and the effect of the program on patients' quality of life -- The child health study: record-linkage feasibility of selected databases. A catalogue -- Infertility treatment: epidemiology, efficacy, outcomes and direct costs: a feasibility study of using data for Saskatchewan 1978-90.
Issued also in printed form.
Publishing information Ottawa : Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, c1993.
Description xxvii, 808 p. : graphs
ISBN 0-662-21385-8
Catalogue number
  • Z1-1989/3-41-24E-PDF
Subject terms Commissions of inquiry
Reproductive technology
Health care system
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