Tears, Suffering and System Failure: What My Father's Pain Revealed About the Canadian Healthcare System [0.03%]
泪水、煎熬与体制之殇——加拿大医疗保障制度的反思
Natalie Giannotti
Natalie Giannotti
Background: Despite universal healthcare, Canadian cancer patients continue to face preventable suffering linked to diagnostic delays, fragmented care and unmet symptom needs. ...
Electronic Access to and Exchange of Patient Information Among Physicians Practising in Canada [0.03%]
加拿大医师间的患者电子信息交流访问权限
Waldo Beauséjour,Bobby Gheorghiu,Owen Adams et al.
Waldo Beauséjour et al.
Physicians require timely access to patient information to provide effective care. However, in Canada, most of this information is siloed in unconnected systems, limiting access at the point of care. This paper analyzes the current state of...
Akshaya Neil Arya
Akshaya Neil Arya
This rejoinder proposes solutions to improve the health of newcomers, reflecting the author's clinical, teaching, research and advocacy experience. Tackling declining physical and mental migrant health requires an appreciation of varied exp...
Michael Y Guo,Ahmer A Karimuddin,Michael Bond et al.
Michael Y Guo et al.
Canada has higher rates of immigration than many high-income countries. Provinces' health systems have been slow to adapt new policies and practices to accommodate the newcomers. New immigrants are left to "shoehorn" themselves into health ...
Jason M Sutherland
Jason M Sutherland
Do you trust our prime minister to fix your overcrowded emergency departments, reduce waits for your surgery or find you a primary care doctor? Do you trust your premier to do the same or your minister of health? ...
Pharmacists' Perspectives on Delivery of Clinical Services and the Current Payment Model in British Columbia, Canada [0.03%]
加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省药剂师临床服务提供及现行支付模式的观点
Angela Pang,Mary H Berger,Adam Easterbrook et al.
Angela Pang et al.
Introduction: Pharmacists' service fees are paid to pharmacies, not directly to pharmacists, which may hinder the adoption of expanded pharmacists' services. Our aim was to identify barriers and enablers to pharmacists' d...
Healthy Grocery Shopping Incentives in Canada: A Survey of How, How Much, and How Often [0.03%]
加拿大健康食品激励机制调查：实施方式、力度和频率分析
Amrit Thandi,Dennis B Campbell,David J T Campbell et al.
Amrit Thandi et al.
Background: Financial incentives may improve diet quality and reduce food insecurity, but how incentives align with population preferences for delivery (mode, structure) and shopping habits (frequency, spending) remains u...
Commentary: Breaking Ixion's Wheel: Escaping Canada's Self-Inflicted Cycle of Primary Care Crisis and Renewal [0.03%]
评论：打破伊克西翁之轮：逃出加拿大自我造成的家庭医生危机循环
Monica Aggarwal
Monica Aggarwal
Proposals to "fix" Canada's primary care crisis by expanding the workforce or scaling up interprofessional teams risk repeating past failures. The deeper challenge lies in structural fragmentation, the absence of coherent system design and ...
Shoo K Lee,Scott Mcleod,Brian H Rowe et al.
Shoo K Lee et al.
Canada's primary healthcare system is in crisis today, with over 4.6 million Canadians not having access to a consistent primary care provider. In this paper, we employed a forecasting model to examine family physician (FP) supply and deman...
Commentary: Enhancing Health Data for Systems Change to Prevent Homelessness in Canada [0.03%]
评论：加强健康数据以防范加拿大人的无家可归问题
Angela Russolillo
Angela Russolillo
Housing is a critical social determinant of health, yet until recently, hospitals did not routinely collect data on homelessness. National homelessness coding mandates have brought attention to an often poorly represented issue, but largely...