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The Information Management Strategy Cascade: Strategy-Based Performance Management of a Flu Recall Practice (PDF)
Juliana Jackson, Karen Born, Jamie Read and Adalsteinn Brown
This paper reviews how an IM strategy framework was applied in a health service provider setting to support linking flu recall practice data to broader organizational strategy and accountability at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto

ICES Reports: What to Do to Beat the Flu? Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates among Healthcare Workers (PDF)
Doug Manuel
It is influenza season again, and many healthcare facilities are struggling to improve vaccination rates among their staff. Influenza vaccination rates for healthcare workers remain low in many healthcare facilities - despite the best efforts of the facilities, as well as an increased risk of infection among healthcare workers compared to the general population and the potential to transmit influenza to patients that could lead to serious consequences.

Development of a Critical Care Triage Protocol for Pandemic Influenza: Integrating Ethics, Evidence and Effectiveness (PDF)
Andrea Frolic, Anna Kata and Peter Kraus
In 2005, MOHLTC asked healthcare organizations to develop a local pandemic plan aligned with the Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic (OHPIP). Based on standard modelling (a 35% attack rate), the OHPIP estimates that at the peak of the pandemic, influenza patients will require 170% of available intensive care unit (ICU) beds and 117% of ventilators in Ontario (MOHLTC 2008).

What's the Plan? The Unique Challenges Facing the Home and Community Care Sector in Preparing for a Pandemic (PDF)
Judith Shamian, Teresa Petch, Freya Lilius, Esther Shainblum, Rita Talosi
Recent experience with the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Canada and the global threat of the H5N1 virus (avian "flu") have increased the appetite for and urgency of pandemic planning as a policy issue. The healthcare setting is one of the most important areas to prepare for such an event, and it is crucial that discussions around doing so include all settings in which care is delivered.

Experts advise WHO on pandemic vaccine policies and strategies Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 briefing note 14 (PDF)
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, devoted a session of its 27-29 October meeting to pandemic influenza vaccines. The experts reviewed the current epidemiological situation of the pandemic worldwide and considered issues and options from a public health perspective.

WHO Drug Information Volume 23, Number 1, 2009.
No stranger to the complexities of the healthcare system, academic medicine and the drivers of change, Will has formed strong ideas and possible solutions from his observations in Canada and the US.

Agency for Protection and Promotion Fact Sheet (PDF)
An electronic package designed to assist exercise planners in the Canadian health sector plan, design and prepare a generic, scalable pandemic influenza table top exercise.

H1N1 Report
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is committed to sharing information about Pandemic H1N1 2009 virus cases with Canadians. Confirmed cases are posted Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 16:00 EDT.

Pandemic Influenza Exercise for the Health and Emergency Social Services Sectors (PDF)
Called for by many experts post-SARS, Ontario’s newly created Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (Agency) is a cornerstone of the Ontario Governments intricate and bold plan for public health renewal.

CDC: Guidance for Businesses and Employers To Plan and Respond to the 2009 – 2010 Influenza Season (PDF)
August 19, 2009

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Breakfast with the Chiefs: Pandemic Preparedness

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