Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed journal articles authored by CHSPR faculty and staff from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.


Stubbs D, Krebs E, Bair M, Damush T, Wu J, Sutherland J, Kroenke K. Sex Differences in Pain and Pain-Related Disability among Primary Care Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. Pain Med. 2010 Feb;11(2):232-9. Read more

Evans RG, Barer ML, Schneider DG. Pharaoh and the Prospects for Productivity in HHR. Healthc Policy. 2010 Feb;5(3):17-26. Read more

Regan S, Wong ST, Watson DE. Public perspectives on health human resources in primary healthcare: context, choices and change. Healthc Policy. 2010 Feb;5(3):e162-72. Read more

Greyson DL. Non-biomedical sources for systematic reviews of pharmaceutical policy. J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Jan;98(1):85-7. Read more

McGrail K, Zierler A, Ip I. Getting what we pay for? The value-for-money challenge. Healthc Pap. 2009;9(4):8-22. Read more

McGrail KM, Zierler A, Ip I. Getting from here to there. Healthc Pap. 2009; 9(4):52-55. Read more

Morgan S, Kennedy J, Boothe K, McMahon M, Roughead E, Watson D. Toward an understanding of high performance pharmaceutical policy systems: a ‘triple-A’ framework and example analysis. Open Health Serv Policy J. 2009;2:1-9. Read more

Morgan S, Hanley G, Greyson D. Comparison of tiered formularies and reference pricing policies: a systematic review. Open Med. 2009;3(3):e131-9. Read more

Watson DE, Broemeling AM, Wong ST. A results-based logic model for primary healthcare: a conceptual foundation for population-based information systems. Healthc Policy. 2009 Nov;5 Spec no:33-46. Read more

Wong ST, Watson DE, Young E, Mooney D. Supply and distribution of primary healthcare registered nurses in British Columbia. Healthc Policy. 2009 Nov;5 Spec no:91-104. Read more

Evans RG. There's no reason for it, it's just our policy. Healthc Policy. 2009 Nov;5(2):14-24. Read more

Law MR, Soumerai SB, Adams AS, Majumdar SR. Costs and consequences of direct-to-consumer advertising for clopidogrel in Medicaid. Arch Intern Med. 2009 Nov 23;169(21):1969-74. Read more

McGrail KM, van Doorslaer E, Ross NA, Sanmartin C. Income-related health inequalities in Canada and the United States: a decomposition analysis. Am J Public Health. 2009 Oct;99(10):1856-63. Read more

Sutherland JM, Castelluccio P, Schwarz CJ. A multilevel model for continuous time population estimation. Biometrics. 2009 Sep;65(3):841-9. Read more

Sutherland JM, Fisher ES, Skinner JS. Getting past denial--the high cost of health care in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2009 Sep 24;361(13):1227-30. Read more

Sutherland JM, Steinum O. Hospital factors associated with clinical data quality. Health Policy. 2009 Aug;91(3):321-6. Read more

Evans RG. The iron chancellor and the fabian. Healthc Policy. 2009 Aug;5(1):16-24. Read more

Watson DE, McGrail KM. More doctors or better care? Healthc Policy. 2009 Aug;5(1):26-31.Read more

Evans RG. Dismal science. Healthc Policy. 2009 May;4(4):19-29. Read more

Morgan S, Hanley G, Raymond C, Blais R. Breadth, Depth and Agreement among Provincial Formularies in Canada. Healthc Policy. 2009 May;4(4):e162-84. Read more