Healthcare Quarterly

Vol. 12 No. 2 2009

Editorial

Peggy Leatt

Feature

Lifting the Burden of Chronic Disease: What Has Worked? What Hasn't? What's Next?  

Sara A. Kreindler

Chronic Disease: Shifting the Focus of Healthcare in Canada 

Peter Tsasis and Jatinder Bains

Changing Healthcare: Stakeholder Perceptions of the Burden of Chronic Disease and the Value of Teams, Measurements and Communication 

Terrence Montague, Amédé Gogovor, Marilyn Krelenbaum, Sara Ahmed, Erica Berman, Minda Miloff and Bernard Burnand

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

Marcus J. Hollander, Guiping Liu and Neena L. Chappell

Healthcare Ethics

"Ethics? But It's Only Quality Improvement!" 

Don Flaming, Linda Barrett-Smith, Norma Brown and Judy Corcoran

Ideas at Work

Toward a Joint Health and Disease Management Program - Toronto Hospitals Partner to Provide System Leadership 

Anne Marie MacLeod, Jeffrey Gollish, Deborah Kennedy, Rhona McGlasson and James Waddell

Engaging Physician Leaders in Performance Measurement and Quality 

Michael Heenan and David Higgins

Special Focus on HHR

The Application of Change Management Principles to Facilitate the Introduction of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants into Six Ontario Emergency Departments  

James Ducharme, Jenny Buckley, Robert Alder and Cindy Pelletier

Nursing Workforce Planning: The Key to Success 

Cheryl Anne Smith

Form and Function of Joint Health and Safety Committees in Ontario Acute Care Hospitals 

Kathryn Nichol, Irena Kudla, Michael Manno, Lisa McCaskell, Joseline Sikorski and D. Linn Holness

Longwoods Review

Balancing Institutional and Community-Based Care: Why Some Older Persons Can Age Successfully at Home While Others Require Residential Long-Term Care

A. Paul Williams, David Challis, Raisa Deber, Jillian Watkins, Kerry Kuluski, Janet M. Lum and Stacey Daub

Columns

Opinions: A Westjet Health Care System?

Steven Lewis

Points of Interest

Awards and Appointments

CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Organizational Value in Enhancing Individual Research Use Capacity: A Joint Evaluation Project led by EXTRA and SEARCH Canada

Laura Fletcher and Jennifer Thornhill

CIHI Survey: Alternative Level of Care in Canada: A Summary

Jennifer D. Walker, Kathleen Morris and Jennifer Frood

ICES Report: New Findings about the Risks and Limitations of Colonoscopy Used in the Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer

Nancy Baxter and Linda Rabeneck

Insight: In Conversation with John Cowell

Ken Tremblay

SAS Health Insight and Prediction Platform: Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Forecast for Hip Replacements

Pat Finerty

Columns

Facts-at-a-Glance: The Burden of Small Babies