Code Grey: Stained Surgical Instruments and Their Impact on One Canadian Health Authority
In 2016, Newfoundland’s largest regional health authority was faced with serious challenges stemming from the discovery of stained surgical instruments which prompted a series of postponed surgeries, an extensive internal ...
Accountability in Healthcare Organizations and Systems
An accountability regime will always be based on 3 elements: a clear definition of desirable goals or objectives, the ability to measure and monitor goal achievement and a set of ...
Medicine, Body Fluid and Food: The Regulation of Human Donor Milk in Canada
The use of peer-to-peer online networks to access both pasteurized and unpasteurized human donor milk is increasing in Canada. This paper describes regulation of human donor milk and identifies gaps ...
Research on Human Embryos and Reproductive Materials: Revisiting Canadian Law and Policy
Research involving human embryos and reproductive materials, including certain forms of stem cell and genetic research, is a fast-moving area of science with demonstrated clinical relevance. In their paper, the ...
The Collaboration Challenge: Global Partnerships to Achieve Global Goals
Since the explosive growth of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the 1990s, a new era of responsibility, purpose and a re-envisioned capitalism are dramatically apparent. Beyond financial support, business ...
The Independence of Ontario’s Public Health Units: Does Governing Structure Matter?
Do autonomous health units fulfil their mandate better than ones that are integrated into municipal structures? This paper seeks to help fill this gap by grounding a comparison of the ...
In Conversation with Michael Villeneuve
Editor-in-Chief, Lynn Nagle, recently talked to the new CEO of the Canadian Nurses Association, Michael Villeneuve about his leadership plans and goals.
Enabling Evolving Practice for Healthcare Professionals: A Regulator’s Journey
As healthcare systems evolve, so do theoretical models for, and practical applications of, health human resource oversight policy and processes. Determining what healthcare trends are affecting different healthcare professions and ...
Does Health Insurance Ensure Equitable Health Outcomes? An Analysis of Hospital Services Usage in Urban India
The authors analyze survey data on socio-economic status and health insurance status in terms of utilization of in-patient care in urban India.
Cross Border Healthcare Requests to Publicly Funded Healthcare Insurance: Empirical Analysis
This paper uses a novel quantitative methodology analyzing all 387 Health Services Appeal and Review Board-written and publicly available electronic decisions released over a five-year time period with respect to ...