Commentary: Minding the Gap - Why Wage Parity Is Crucial for the Care of Older Canadians [0.03%]
评论:如何弥补差距——为何工资均等对加拿大老年人的照顾至关重要
Kristina M Kokorelias,Samir K Sinha
Kristina M Kokorelias
Zagrodney and colleagues (2023) have highlighted the pay differences that exist between those working in the home and community care (HCC) sector and other healthcare sectors. The authors argue that achieving wage parity could significantly...
Economic Evidence for Home and Community Care Investment: The Case for Ontario Personal Support Workers' Wage Parity [0.03%]
居家和社区护理投资的经济证据:安大略省个人支持人员工资平等的案例分析
Katherine A P Zagrodney,Emily C King,Deborah Simon et al.
Katherine A P Zagrodney et al.
The home and community care (HCC) sector is in a health human resource crisis. Particularly concerning is the shortage of personal support workers (PSWs) who provide the majority of HCC. This paper outlines a strategy to mitigate the HCC PS...
Jason M Sutherland
Jason M Sutherland
Recent statistics report that healthcare spending growth is persistently high; in recent years, spending growth exceeded 5% (CIHI 2022). Some portion of the outsized growth can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the cause is irr...
Commentary: Access to Psychedelics for Psychological Suffering at the End of Life - Prioritizing Our Priorities [0.03%]
评论:临终心理苦难者的迷幻药治疗——优先考虑我们的当务之急
Daniel Rosenbaum,Sarah Hales,Daniel Z Buchman
Daniel Rosenbaum
We agree with Kratina et al. (2023) that the problem of psychological suffering at the end of life deserves attention from a policy standpoint and that psychedelic therapies show promise in this clinical context. However, we argue the follo...
Psychedelics to Relieve Psychological Suffering Associated with a Life-Threatening Diagnosis: Time for a Canadian Policy Discussion [0.03%]
致幻剂可缓解生命威胁性诊断相关的心理痛苦:是时候开展加拿大政策讨论了
Sarah Kratina,Christopher Lo,Carol Strike et al.
Sarah Kratina et al.
In Canada, the conversation to enable access to therapeutic psychedelics is under way. With recent federal initiatives, Canadians can request access to psychedelic-assisted therapies (PATs) to alleviate enduring and intolerable psychologica...
A North Star Vision: Results from a Deliberative Dialogue to Identify Policy Strategies to Improve Value in Healthcare [0.03%]
北极星愿景:通过协商对话以确定改进医疗价值的政策策略的结果
Amity E Quinn,Rachelle Drummond,Fiona Clement et al.
Amity E Quinn et al.
We hosted a deliberative dialogue with citizens (n = 3), policy researchers (n = 3), government decision makers (n = 3) and health system leaders (n = 3) to identify evidence-informed policy options to improve the value of Canadian healthca...
"A Band-Aid Solution": Policy Maker and Primary Care Provider Perspectives on the Value of Attachment Incentives [0.03%]
《“治标不治本的解决方案”——政策制定者和全科医疗从业人员视角下依附激励的价值》
Emily Gard Marshall,Mackenzie Cook,Lauren Moritz et al.
Emily Gard Marshall et al.
Approximately 15% of Canadians are without a primary care provider ("unattached"). To address "unattachment," several provinces introduced a financial incentive for family physicians who attach new patients. A descriptive qualitative approa...
Patients Living with Social Vulnerabilities Experience Reduced Access at Team-Based Primary Healthcare Clinics [0.03%]
具有社会脆弱性的患者在基于团队的初级保健诊所中的就医难度更大
Nadia Deville-Stoetzel,Isabelle Gaboury,Jeannie Haggerty et al.
Nadia Deville-Stoetzel et al.
Objective: This study aims to explore differences in access to care as experienced by patients registered in team-based primary healthcare clinics according to their social vulnerability profile. ...
Use of Electronic Medical Record Data to Create a Dashboard on Access to Primary Care [0.03%]
利用电子健康记录数据建立基层医疗访问量仪表板
Mylaine Breton,Isabelle Gaboury,François Bordeleau et al.
Mylaine Breton et al.
Objective: This study aims to present a proof of concept of a dashboard on a set of indicators of access to primary healthcare (PHC) based on electronic medical records (EMRs). ...
Value in Primary Care: Evidence from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network [0.03%]
来自加拿大一级诊疗监测网络的价值证据
Sabrina T Wong,Rachael Morkem,Ayat Salman et al.
Sabrina T Wong et al.
Primary care antimicrobial stewardship programs are virtually non-existent. Using electronic medical record (EMR) data for an interrupted time series study, the authors examined the relationship between antibiotic prescriptions for acute re...