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Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Why Healthcare Is Different | The Health Care Blog

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Why Healthcare Is Different | The Health Care Blog
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Factbox: Healthcare by the numbers | Reuters U.S. edition (international comparisons)

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Factbox: Healthcare by the numbers | Reuters
Friday, March 09, 2012

Demanding dignity, and competence, in older people's care : The Lancet (several links of interest)

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Demanding dignity, and competence, in older people's care : The Lancet Other Articles of Interest Articles Effect of ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Steven Lewis: This Just In: Systems Designed to Fail, Fail :: Longwoods.com (apology, inquiries, restitution....)

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Blogger's Note: Steven Lewis is always worthwhile reading, this particular essay discusses several widely known national traumatic even...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Study examines research on overuse of health care services | e! Science News

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"....However, the authors note the limited literature on overuse is understandable because of the challenges of developing standards t...
Friday, January 13, 2012

The Elephant in the Canadian Health Care System | thepatientfactor.com

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Essay - Steven Lewis - The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness :: Longwoods.com

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Essays 2011 The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method i...

media: Canada: Leaving health care to provinces a dangerous strategy, Romanow says (eg. the political wars of healthcare)

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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Can Canada get on with national pharmacare already? (the politics of cancer/healthcare)

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We believe the public’s choice would be health care. With Canadians suffering and, indeed, dying every day from inadequate ...
Friday, January 28, 2011

CIHI report 2011: Multiple chronic conditions, not age, main driver of health system use by seniors - debunking the myth

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Interactive Infographic of the World's Best Countries - Newsweek

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Note: includes healthcare but a variety of other indicators - interesting
Monday, August 23, 2010

The federal government's abandonment of health -- Canadian Medical Association Journal

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Note: key excerpts ; also interesting that until very recently the CMAJ was a proponent of privitisation and that fact will surely be on t...
Monday, August 09, 2010

UK media article: Patient safety at risk from eurosceptics (re: hours of work)

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blogger's note : while the patient safety communities typically reflect on airline safety/rules, it is always interesting to observe tha...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

2010 the Commonwealth Fund report: MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL: AN INTERNATIONAL UPDATE ON THE COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF AMERICAN HEALTH CARE

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Overall rankings : Canada and U.S. in last place, Netherlands takes 1st place
Sunday, June 06, 2010

IPSOS poll and Canadians' view on healthcare + online debate June 6th

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The sold out debate will be broadcast for free on the internet at http://www.munkdebates.com starting a 7:00 PM EDT.
Monday, April 12, 2010

Methods of consumer involvement in developing healthcare policy and research, clinical practice guidelines and patient information material.

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Authors’ conclusions There is little evidence from randomised controlled trials of the effects of consumer involvement in healthcare decis...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Healthcare users in Cochrane | Cochrane Consumer Network

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Purpose The World Health Organization (1978) states: The people have the right and duty to participate individually and collectively ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Europe: (including e-health Health Executive Summit: Visions, Strategies, Best Practices

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Patient Participation: Current Knowledge and Applicability to Patient Safety — Mayo Clinic Proceedings

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"...Patient-related factors, such as acceptance of the new patient role, lack of medical knowledge, lack of confi...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Why doctors' stories matter

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"...As I read the winning stories, I had a fantasy, which is probably not a good idea to apply literally, but it’s useful as what philo...