Healthcare Quarterly

Vol. 9 No. 4 2006

Editorial

Peggy Leatt

Feature

Timely and Appropriate Access to Healthcare: The Way Forward - The Roles of the Players 

Peter A.R. Glynn

The Pivotal Role of Critical Care and Surgical Efficiencies in Supporting Ontario's Wait Time Strategy: Part 3 

Joann Trypuc, Alan Hudson and Hugh MacLeod

Perspective

Paying for Institutional Quality: Reaching the Limits of Funding Policy? 

Adam Topp and Mark Hundert

Special Report

Has Ontario's Stroke System Really Made a Difference? 

Mary Lewis, Joann Trypuc, Patrice Lindsay, Chris O'Callaghan and Alexis Dishaw

Ideas at Work

Achieving Team Consensus on Best Practice Rehabilitation Guidelines Following Primary Total Hip Replacement (THR) Surgery 

Siobhan O'Donnell, Deborah Kennedy, Anne Marie MacLeod, Colleen Kilroy and Jeffrey Gollish

Evaluating Organizational Readiness for Change: A Preliminary Mixed-Model Assessment of an Interprofessional Rehabilitation Hospital 

Moira W. Devereaux, Allison K. Drynan, Sara Lowry, Daniel MacLennan, Matya Figdor, Carol Fancott and Lynne Sinclair

Online Case Study

Opening the Doors: Building Brand Awareness

Judith John and Rob McCartney

Futurethink

Cross Border Shopping: How Much for Your Heart? 

David Edgell, Anne Dipchand, Christine Harrison and Peter A. Singer

Longwoods Review

Strategies and Tools for Engaging the Broader Community in the Work of LHIN Boards: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions

Maureen A. Quigley and Beverley J. Nickoloff

Engaging, Enabling and Empowering People for Health

Ken Morrison and Hy Eliasoph

Columns

Quarterly Change

CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Teamwork in Healthcare: Pulling It All Together

Dave Clements and Janet Helmer

CIHR Research: Catching Your Breath: Research Efforts to Analyze the Negative Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health

John Frank

ICES Report: Performance Reporting and Public Health: Bridging the Gap

Doug Manuel

CIHI Survey: Variation in Heart Attack Mortality in Canada

Jacinth Tracey, Jennifer Zelmer, Maraki Merid and Audrey Boruvka

Insight: In Conversation with George Smitherman

Ken Tremblay

Photo Feature: Forgotten War: Democractic Republic of the Congo

Project Profile: Improving the Pace of Patient Care: Self Service Technology Reduces Patient Registration Time at William Osler

Project Profile: New Computing Model Helps Hamilton Health Sciences Address Changing Business Requirements

Mark Farrow

Careers

Quarterly Index: Healthcare Providers Facts-at-a-glance