Healthcare Quarterly

Vol. 10 No. 2 2007

Editorial

Peggy Leatt

Features

The Economic Impact of a Partnership-Measurement Model of Disease Management: Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes in Nova Scotia (ICONS) 

Pierre-Yves Crémieux, Pierre Fortin, Marie-Claude Meilleur, Terrence Montague and Jimmy Royer

Challenges of Collaborative Improvement in Complex Continuing Care 

Anu MacIntosh-Murray

Special Report

Evaluating Outcomes in Ontario's Wait Time Strategy: Part 4 

Joann Trypuc, Alan Hudson and Hugh MacLeod

Perspective

Advancing Quality Healthcare: The New Accreditation Program 

Wendy Nicklin and Gilles Lanteigne

How Effective Leaders Achieve Success in Critical Change Initiatives, Part 2: Why Change Leadership Must Transcend Project Management for Complex Initiatives to Be Successful 

Sharon King and Larry Peterson

Ideas at Work

Powering the Future: How Hamilton Health Sciences Put Cogeneration to Work for Healthcare

William B. MacLeod and Murray T. Martin

Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Immunization Compliance of Postgraduate Medical Trainees at Large Academic-Medical Facilities 

Thirumagal Kanagasabai, Loreta Muharuma, Joy McGuire, Melanie Russell, Mary Vearncombe and Murray Urowitz

Reducing Hip and Knee Replacement Wait Times: An Expanded Role for Physiotherapists in Orthopedic Surgical Clinics 

Alice B. Aiken, Marg Atkinson, Mark M. Harrison and John Hope

Futurethink

From Promise to Practice: Getting Healthy Work Environments in Health Workplaces 

Linda Silas

Longwoods Review

The Sustainability of Canada's Healthcare System: A Framework for Advancing the Debate

Neil Stuart and Jim Adams

Commentary

Steven Lewis

The Authors Respond

Neil Stuart and Jim Adams

Columns

Opinions: The Whistle-Blower in Healthcare

Ronn Goldberg

Opinions: Don't Look South for Answers: The Role of Cultural Imperatives in Canadian and US Healthcare

Peter Nord

Quarterly Change

CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Broadening the Dialogue to Include Quality

Jennifer Thornhill, Steeve Vigneault and Dave Clements

CIHR Research: Growth in Rehabilitation: Dr. Geoff Fernie's Continuous Efforts to Make Injured Lives Worth Living

Peter Maitland

ICES Report: Unintentional Discontinuation of Long-Term Medications for Chronic Diseases after Hospitalization

Chaim M. Bell

CIHI Survey: Hospital Readmissions for Patients with Mental Illness in Canada

Nawaf Madi, Helen Zhao and Jerry Fang Li

Insight: In Conversation with Linda Silas

Ken Tremblay

Careers

Columns

Facts at a Glance: End-stage Organ Failure in Canada