CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
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North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users was opened in Vancouver on Sept. 22, 2003. Although similar facilities exist in a number of European cities and in Sydney, Australia, no standardized evaluations of their impact have been presented in the scientific literature. ⋯ The opening of the safer injecting facility was independently associated with improvements in several measures of public order, including reduced public injection drug use and public syringe disposal.
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Meta Analysis
Outcome reporting bias in randomized trials funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
The reporting of outcomes within published randomized trials has previously been shown to be incomplete, biased and inconsistent with study protocols. We sought to determine whether outcome reporting bias would be present in a cohort of government-funded trials subjected to rigorous peer review. ⋯ Selective reporting of outcomes frequently occurs in publications of high-quality government-funded trials.