Patient Health

Merck Frosst's Patient Health Management department has helped improve healthcare outcomes across Canada since 1997 and has published many seminal papers related to its disease management model. Selected papers are available for download below with the permission of the respective journal(s) (where applicable). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or better to read PDF documents (it can be downloaded free of charge here or by clicking the Acrobat button below).

Patient Health Management: A Promising Paradigm in Canadian healthcare, published in The American Journal of Managed Care,1997, Vol. 3, No. 8, pages 1175-1182.

Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes in Nova Scotia (ICONS): A Successful Public-Private Partnership in Primary Healthcare, published in Hospital Quarterly, Spring 2003, pages 32-38).

Alberta Strategy to Help Manage Asthma (ASTHMA): A Provincial Initiative to Improve Outcomes for Individuals with Asthma, published in Healthcare Quarterly, 2004, Vol. 7, No. 3, pages 55-60.

Differences between perspectives of physicians and patients on anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation: observational study, published in British Medical Journal, 2001, Vol. 323 pages 1218-1223.