Moira Stewart, PhD Judith Belle Brown, PhD Allan Donner, PhD Ian R. McWhinney, OC, MD Julian Oates, MD Wayne W. Weston, MD John Jordan, MD London, Ontario, Canada Submitted, revised, July 4, 2000. From the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine (M.S., J.B.B., I.R.M.), the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (A.D.), and the Department of Family Medicine (W.W.W., J.J.), The University of Western Ontario. Dr Oates is a family physician. This paper was presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 1996. Reprint requests should be addressed to Moira Stewart, PhD, Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Mogensen Building, 100 Collip Circle, Suite 245, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 4X8. E-mail: moira@julian.uwo.ca.
Our project was supported by a grant from the Health Care Systems Research Program of the Ministry of Health of Ontario. The setting of the project was the Thames Valley Family Practice Research Unit (TVFPRU), a health system-linked research unit funded by the Ministry of Health of Ontario. The opinions contained are those of the authors, and no official endorsement by the Ministry is intended or should be inferred. The TVFPRU is part of the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
