The Seniors Health Research Transfer Network Knowledge Network Model: system-wide implementation for health and healthcare of seniors [0.03%]
老年人健康转移网络知识模型:系统实施促进老年人身心健康
Larry W Chambers,Deirdre Luesby,Catherine Brookman et al.
Larry W Chambers et al.
The Ontario Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) aims to improve the health of older adults through increasing the knowledge capacity of 850 community care agencies and 620 long-term care homes. The SHRTN includes caregivers, re...
Leading patient-centred change in the Swedish health system: lessons from the 2009 Sweden Study Tour [0.03%]
瑞典卫生体系以患者为中心的变革:来自2009年瑞典考察团的经验教训
Graham Dickson,Don Philippon
Graham Dickson
In May 2009, 17 senior health leaders from Canada travelled to Sweden as part of a Canadian College of Health Service Executives study tour. This paper provides an overview of the tour, outlines a number of health service reform practices i...
Tracy Murphy,Theresa Fillatre
Tracy Murphy
John French,Colleen McGahan
John French
Patient satisfaction is an important component in the evaluation of health services provided to patients. This study evaluates the results of a patient satisfaction survey collected over five years in a radiation therapy department. The ana...
The chronic care model: which physician practice organizations adapt best? [0.03%]
慢性病模型:哪些医生组织适应性最强?
Kent V Rondeau,Neil R Bell
Kent V Rondeau
Chronic diseases remain among the major causes of death and disability in Canada as well as in other western industrialized nations. The episodic, punctuated, acute care model of health service delivery that describes the organization and o...
How to control the costs of health care services--an inventory of strategic options [0.03%]
医疗保健服务控费的战略选择
Francois Dionne,Craig Mitton,Jean Shoveller et al.
Francois Dionne et al.
This paper has two objectives: (1) to provide an inventory of popular strategies for cost reduction or cost containment in the health services research literature and (2) to propose a coherent framework to organize this inventory. The purpo...
Harold Schroeder
Harold Schroeder
This article considers whether greater attention to the art and the science aspects of organizational change can help achieve a smoother transition to future regionalized health services in Canada. The reported problems with the current sys...
Political, policy and social barriers to health system interoperability: emerging opportunities of Web 2.0 and 3.0 [0.03%]
卫生系统的政治、政策及社会障碍:Web2.0和3.0带来的机遇
Donald W M Juzwishin
Donald W M Juzwishin
Achieving effective health informatics interoperability in a fragmented and uncoordinated health system is by definition not possible. Interoperability requires the simultaneous integration of health care processes and information across di...
Adverse events in older patients admitted to acute care: a preliminary cost description [0.03%]
老年急性病患者的不良事件的成本描述性研究
Stacy Ackroyd-Stolarz,Judith Read Guernsey,Neil J MacKinnon et al.
Stacy Ackroyd-Stolarz et al.
The financial costs associated with Adverse Events (AEs) for older patients (> or = 65 years) in Canadian hospitals are unknown. The objective of this paper is to describe and compare costs between patients who experienced an AE and those w...
Brad Campbell,Maria Fryers,Rob Devitt et al.
Brad Campbell et al.
The current crisis in Canada's health care system calls for transformational change in the way we deliver care. The Collaborative Model of Care is not a new concept, but has not been implemented in Canadian acute care hospitals until recent...