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Events
The Un-Closable Hospital
Dr. Brett Belchetz - CEO & Co-founder at Maple
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Latest
Centralized Waiting Lists for Unattached Patients in Primary Care: Learning from an Intervention Implemented in Seven Canadian Provinces
Seniors in Transition: Exploring Pathways Across the Care Continuum
The Challenge of Rural and Northern Health Systems
Are You Culturally Competent?
Articles
The Nursing Human Resource Planning Best Practice Toolkit: Creating a Best Practice Resource for Nursing Managers
Preventing and Managing Conflict: Vital Pieces in the Patient Safety Puzzle
Using SBAR to Communicate Falls Risk and Management in Inter-professional Rehabilitation Teams
Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners: Title Confusion and Lack of Role Clarity
Ontario Spent $110 Million to Get Doctors to Increase Cancer Screening Rates. It Didn’t Work. That’s Good News
CPOE with Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Improves Patient Outcomes: The Journey to Date for a Canadian Hospital
Going 100% Smoke-Free in a Secure Setting: One Hospital's Successful Experience
The Lunch Bunch: An Innovative Strategy to Combat Depression and Delirium through Socialization in Elderly Sub-Acute Medicine Patients
News
New measles cases in Europe hit record high
2018-08-20 from ctvnews.ca Last year, there were 23,927 measles cases in all of 2017. In 2016, there were just 5,273 reported cases. The numbers for 2018 so far greatly exceeds the yearly totals repo [...]
Family doctor tips: Preparing for back to school
August 20, 2018 from sunnybrook.ca Hate to say it: summer is starting to wind down. Store windows are filled with signs for back-to-school sales, and it’s time to start thinking about September [...]
Hundreds of patients may have received less than full dose of chemo, Cancer Care Ontario finds
2018-08-17 from cbc.ca Hundreds of cancer patients in dozens of Ontario hospitals may not have received the full amount of chemotherapy drug prescribed to them in the past year, a review commissioned [...]
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