Aligning health care policy with evidence-based medicine: When guidelines and policy conflict, what’s a doc to do?

PDF of a PowerPoint Presentation by Dr. Blair O’Neill, Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta; Interventional Cardiologist, Mazankowski AHI; Senior Medical Director, CV Health and Stroke SCN, Alberta Health Services; Past President, Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

Stroke Prevention and Management in Primary Care: a free forum at the Accelerating Primary Care Conference

Having just completed his National role on the Executive of the Canadian Cardio-Vascular Society, Dr. O’Neill discussed some of the obstacles to the implementation of evidenced based medicine in the Canadian Health Care System, based on a paper he co-authored for the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.