Partnering with Patients: The Toronto Central LHIN Telehomecare Experience
[This article was originally published in <a href="http://www.longwoods.com/content/25290" target="_blank">Healthcare Quarterly, 20(3)</a>] Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
View ArticlePartnering with Patients: The Toronto Central LHIN Telehomecare Experience
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure are responsible for significant healthcare costs in Ontario. One program developed to improve the management of these conditions is...
View ArticleStrategic Change in Surgical Quality Improvement: The Ottawa Hospital...
Strategic change principles are widely cited in business and healthcare management literature, but not in the surgical quality improvement literature despite the need for effective change management...
View ArticleSustainable Benefits of a Community Hospital-based Pediatric Asthma Clinic
In 2011, we reported that our paediatric asthma clinic (PAC) appeared to significantly reduce the burden of paediatric asthma in our community. Supported by these results, the PAC underwent a gradual...
View ArticleMedication Incidents Involving Antiepileptic Drugs in Canadian Hospitals: A...
Medication errors involving antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are not well studied but have the potential to cause significant harm. We investigated the occurrence of medication incidents in Canadian...
View ArticleConserving Quality of Life through Community Paramedics
The Economic Value of Community Paramedicine Programs Study was a randomized controlled trial in two Eastern Ontario communities – one urban and one rural – to determine whether...
View ArticleLeading Practices in Alternate Levels of Care (ALC) Avoidance: A Standardized...
Providers across the healthcare system want to provide the right care, in the right place, in a timely manner. Patients listed as alternate level of care (ALC) are often not in the right place to...
View ArticleSix Change Ideas that Significantly Minimize Alternative Level of Care (ALC)...
A significant issue affecting the healthcare system across Ontario is the number of patients admitted to hospitals that are then subsequently being designated alternate level of care (ALC). In 2016,...
View ArticlePersistent and Non-Persistent High-users of Acute Care Resources: A Deeper...
A small population of patients are responsible for the majority of Ontario's acute healthcare costs – high-users of acute care. At our institution, high-users were divided into those who...
View ArticleHow Engaging Patients Improves Care and Has the Potential to Save Lives
How Engaging Patients Improves Care and Has the Potential to Save Lives
View ArticleWho Better than People Who Use a Service Can Contribute to Improving it?
Who Better than People Who Use a Service Can Contribute to Improving it?
View ArticleEncouraging Active, Meaningful Collaboration between Patients and Staff to...
Encouraging Active, Meaningful Collaboration between Patients and Staff to Produce Better Care
View ArticleExemplary Practices within Organizations that have Dedicated Resources...
Exemplary Practices within Organizations that have Dedicated Resources towards Learning and Implementing Methods that Best Engage Patients and Families
View ArticlePopulation Consultation: A Powerful Means to Ensure that Health Strategies...
Background: We seek to highlight why population consultations need to be promoted more strongly as a powerful means to move health reforms towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, despite this...
View ArticleCitizen Involvement in Tunisia
Tunisia embarked on a process of population consultation in 2013, the first phase of which is often presented as an example, including in the paper in this issue by Rohrer, Rajan and Schmets (2017)....
View ArticlePopulation Consultations: The Experience in Guinea
Dr. Yansané is the senior policy advisor to the Minister of Health in Guinea and the former Head of the Minister’s Office and former Secretary General, Health. He has been...
View ArticlePopulation Engagement and Consultation at the Local Level: Thailand Experience
The World Health Organization handbook on Strategizing National Health in the 21st Century has emphasized the importance of the process of population consultation on needs and expectations. According...
View ArticleLets unwind the red tape around Canadian cancer data
This letter was originally published as part of a series of Open Letters from Canadian leaders in Healthcare. To see the complete series please <a...
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