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. 2020 Jul 27;192(30):E861-E863.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200215.

Canada needs a national strategy for anesthesia services in rural and remote regions

Beverley A Orser  1 , C Ruth Wilson  2
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Canada needs a national strategy for anesthesia services in rural and remote regions

Beverley A Orser et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: Beverley Orser reports that she is the named inventor on 2 patents (Canadian Patent 2,852,978 and United States Patent 9,517,265). A third patent is pending (United States Patent: 62/268,137). The 2 issued and 1 pending patents are held by the University of Toronto. The discoveries related to the patents resulted from research performed at the University of Toronto. They identify materials to enhance cognition or so-called “smart drugs”. To date, there has been no commercialization of the inventions, including no royalies and no licensing to companies. C. Ruth Wilson reports that she was an employee of Queen’s University until June 2018. As Co-Chair of the Rural Road Map implementation committee of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Dr. Wilson received remuneration for costs of travel to meetings.

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