Quote

“…oncologists fail up to 90 percent of the time to respond to emotional cues from their patients.” More.

Essays

Experiencing patient safety first hand by Hugh MacLeod, President and CEO of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.

Depressed and Alone at Work by Neil Seeman

Off the Cuff

“…if you talk off-the-record to surgeons about a given procedure such as hip replacement, they will tell you they can now do two to four a day instead of one to two. The length of stay in hospital after such an operation is half what it was a decade ago. It is likely that the costs are actually declining even if the reported numbers appear flat.” Moore’s Law as applied to Healthcare by Will Falk

Organizing Primary Care for an Integrated System by Walter W. Rosser and Jan Kasperski. Published 12 years ago in HealthcarePapers and number 1 on our best read list.

Statistic
Every month an average of 40,235 unique visitors drop by Longwoods websites (average of first 5 months, 2011). Many of those, of course, drop by more than once. Question: does that mean we can claim to have more than 40,000 readers? Source: Google Analytics.

Call for Nominations for CCO, CQCO, CCS 2011 Quality and Innovation Awards

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How to …

How do we follow Required Organizational Practices (ROP)
Required Organizational Practices (ROPs) are evidence-based practices that mitigate risk and contribute to improving the quality and safety of health services. In 2003, Accreditation Canada convened a Patient Safety Advisory Committee to guide the patient safety-related aspects of the accreditation program. This resulted in an ROP strategy that identified priority areas with the first ROPs being integrated into the accreditation program in 2006. Since then, additional ROPs have been identified with input from health care experts including practitioners, researchers, policy makers, academics, and health services providers. For more click here.

Our Editors Recommend

• Who Cares and How Much? The Imputed Economic Contribution to the Canadian Healthcare System of Middle-Aged and Older Unpaid Caregivers Providing Care to The Elderly by Marcus J. Hollander, Guiping Liu and Neena L. Chappell
• Aging at Home: Integrating Community-Based Care for Older Persons by A. Paul Williams, Janet M. Lum, Raisa Deber, Robin Montgomery, Kerry Kuluski, Allie Peckham, Jillian Watkins, Alex Williams, Alvin Ying and Lynn Zhu
• Workplace Experiences of New Graduate Nurses by Ann Rhéaume, Liette Clément, Noëlline LeBel and Karelle Robichaud
• Are Primary Healthcare Organizational Attributes Associated with Patient Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease? by Valérie Lemieux, Jean-Frédéric Lévesque and Debbie Ehrmann-Feldman
• Targeting Adoption, Training and Device Deployment Strategies by Diamond Kassum and Elizabeth Peloso
• Engaging Informal Providers in TB control: What Is the Potential in the Implementation of the WHO Stop TB Strategy? A Discussion Paper by Berthollet Bwira Kaboru, Mukund Uplekar and Knut Lönnroth

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See Best Read Articles on our home page Longwoods.com

News

• Strata Health Solutions Earns ISO 27001 Compliance Canadian Corporation achieves Compliance with International Security Standards
• Joan Lesmond will be remembered as a nurse, educator and respected advocate …
• Lawson Scientist Presents Joint Pain Treatment 2.0
• Promising practices identified to address pressing issues in Aboriginal maternal and child health
• Sanofi announces nursing recognition program to help turn caring ideas into reality
• Eating Nuts Such as Peanuts Improves Diabetes Control Without Weight Gain
• Lymphedema Framework Conference raises profile of the chronic and debilitating condition
• Proteomics Study Reveals Profound Gender-related Differences in Lung Responses to Cigarette Smoke
• New Survey Reveals Pharmacists are Increasingly Struggling to Care for Patients Amid Predatory Audits, Unfair Reimbursement Practices
• Innovative Chronic-Disease Program Helps Patients Learn and Cope
• First cross continental surgeries broadcast in real time
• CARE Centre Honours Internationally Educated Nurses with The Inaugural IEN of the Year Award
• Academics fronting ghostwritten medical journal articles as ‘guest authors’ should be charged with fraud, say UofT law professors
• More…

Conferences

• August 23, 2011: Toronto, ON. Free networking event for emerging leaders in healthcare
• September 7-9, 2011: Huntsville, ON. Health Care Leadership Summit 2011: A New Environment and New Realities
• September 19-20, 2011: Toronto, ON. 4th Annual Lean in Healthcare
• September 20, 2011: Toronto, ON. Maternal & Newborn Care Conference
• September 22- 23, 2011: Toronto, ON. Patient Safety in Mental Health: Shining a Light on Suicide
• October 2-4, 2011: Edmonton, AB. 2011 Accelerating Primary Care Conference
• October 4, 2011: Toronto, ON. Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement in Critical Care – Call for Abstracts Now Open!
• October 5, 2011: Toronto, ON. 2011 Health Care Human Resources Symposium
• October 17, 2011: Toronto, ON. Mobile Health Symposium
• November 21-22, 2011: Toronto, ON. Children’s Mental Health Ontario Conference

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For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

• Michael Gottlieb to Board Chair for Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario (CPA)
• Dr. Richard Reznick, Dean of Queen’s Faculty of Health Sciences, to honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
• Dr. Samuel Benaroya to Interim Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.

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Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Chief Information Officer – Association of Ontario Health Centres, Toronto, ON
• Patient Care Manager – 2C General Medicine – The Credit Valley Hospital,  Mississauga, ON
• Clinical Educator 2C General Medicine – The Credit Valley Hospital,  Mississauga, ON
• President and Chief Executive Officer – Campbellford Memorial Hospital, Campbellford, ON
• Senior Analyst, Corporate Performance and Process Improvement – Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, ON
• Manager, Organizational Development – Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, ON
• Director of Finance – Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe, ON
• Chief Information Officer – Association of Ontario Health Centres, Toronto, ON
• Director, Provincial Benefits and Claims Management- Ontario Hospital Association Toronto, ON
• Chief Executive Officer, Renascent – The Renascent Fellowship, Toronto, ON
• Regional Vice President, Cancer Program – Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital & Cancer Care Ontario, Sudbury, ON

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

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