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Designing Effective Governance for Quality and Safety in Canadian Healthcare 
G. Ross Baker, Jean-Louis Denis, Marie-Pascale Pomey and Anu MacIntosh-Murray
Governing boards of healthcare organizations in Canada are accountable for the performance of their organization and provide oversight on their decisions. Traditionally, many healthcare boards have focused on finances and community relations and have deferred responsibility for quality of care to...
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Vol. 13 No. 1 2010
Editorial
Peggy Leatt
Pandemic Planning
Contextualizing Ethics: Ventilators, H1N1 and Marginalized Populations
Diego S. Silva, Jason X. Nie, Kate Rossiter, Sachin Sahni and Ross E.G. Upshur on behalf of the Canadian Program of Research on Ethics in a Pandemic
Governance
A Wake-Up Call for Healthcare Boards
Maura Davies
Can Healthcare Boards Really Make a Difference in Quality and Safety?
Don Carlow
From Boardroom to Bedside: How to Define and Measure Hospital Quality
Michael Heenan, Haajra Khan and Dorothy Binkley
How to Recruit a High-Performing Hospital Board
Ron Robertson and Melanie Serjak
Patient Safety
Measuring Cross-Cultural Patient Safety: Identifying Barriers and Developing Performance Indicators
Roger Walker, Natalie St. Pierre-Hansen, Helen Cromarty, Len Kelly and Bryanne Minty
Implementation of an Enterprise Risk-Management Program in a Community Teaching Hospital
Genefer Behamdouni and Kathy Millar
Continuing the Journey to a Culture of Patient Safety: From Falls Prevention to Falls Management
Barbara Tiessen, Cheryl Deter, Anne Snowdon and Carol Kolga
Quality Improvement
Changing Physician Practice: An Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer Strategies to Enhance Physician Documentation of Cancer Stage
Sara Lankshear, James D. Brierley, Kevin Imrie and Marta Yurcan
Did Ontario's End-of-Life Care Strategy Reduce Acute Care Service Use?: The need to use quality indicators for improvement
Hsien Seow, Lisa Barbera, Doris Howell and Sydney M. Dy
Effects of an Alternate Payment Plan on Pediatric Surgical Practice in an Academic Setting: The Role of Corporate Indicators
Juan Bass, Luis Guerra and Baxter Willis
Innovations in Care
Improving the Timeliness of Care for Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Implications of "Self-Transport" versus Use of EMS
Mathew Mercuri, James L. Velianou, Michelle Welsford, Leslie Gauthier and Madhu K. Natarajan
Health Human Resources
The Call of the Canadian Physician
Lynda Buske and Melanie Comeau
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Best practices, policy and innovations in the administration of healthcare. For administrators, academics, insurers, suppliers and policy pundits. Includes peer reviewed research papers. Edited by Dr. Peggy Leatt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
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