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Lady Gaga Found This First: ‘Fat’ Poem

In case anyone thought that yesterday’s post on me venturing into theatre was the first sign of me going ‘gaga’, today’s post takes it even further. The following (e-mail readers will have to head to the site to see this) is a short poem called “Fat” by Caroline Rothstein, a 29-year old spoken-word poet and […]

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MedlinePlus Drug Information

Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information See the entire webpage here Drugs Learn about your prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines. Includes side effects, dosage, special precautions, and more. Browse by generic or brand name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V […]

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Turning the Tide on Chronic Disease: How Saskatchewan Is Using Evidence to Build Quality Improvement Capacity

Saskatchewan’s Chronic Disease Management Collaborative is a quality improvement model that brings together healthcare providers to learn about, test and share experiences with improvement ideas in diabetes and coronary artery disease care. This innovative initiative was recently featured in Promising Practices, a monthly series produced by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation highlighting organizations that […]

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Hospitals Consider Patient Flow Essential to Care and Competitiveness

Executive Summary of the 2012 Patient Flow Challenges Assessment

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Wanted: new and impressive

Are you developing an impressive innovation in 2012? Apply now to enter it in our New Product Showcase

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The Challenges of a PKU*’s Mom (*phenylketonuria: a rare, inherited metabolic disorder)

April 13, 2010 Medical Genetics Clinic University of Alberta Hospital Attn: Janine Cousineau Fax: 780-407-1340 I am very upset by these recent changes. The reasons given for the cutbacks are somewhat offending. To criticize the nutritional value of LoPro foods is ridiculous considering the actual “junk” content of so many of the formulas. It’s obvious […]

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Send your patients this online set of communication guidelines

Effective communications between patients and their practitioners There are more challenges than ever in today’s healthcare environment. Limited appointment time, the ability of patients to do their own research which then needs to be discussed with practitioners, and the numbers of patients who are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed; these challenges and others make effective communications between […]

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How Does Your Community Measure Up? Use these typical measures from the Midwest.

Help: Reporting Performance Measures Training Videos Watch the Video: Performance Measures Presentation Slides (PDF: 61KB / 8 pages) Data Collection Tools Promote Healthy Communities & Healthy Behaviors (XLS: 48KB) Assure the Quality and Accessibility of Health Services (Questions 5-8) (XLS: 21KB) Performance Measure Documents At-a-glance documents include Definitions, Statewide Outcomes, Essential Local Activities, Performance Measures, […]

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Ontario’s Electronic Health Records Initiative

Special Report October 2009 – Office of the Auditor General of Ontario

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Academic Dishonesty

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Academic dishonesty or academic misconduct is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. It can include Plagiarism: The adoption or reproduction of original creations of another author (person, collective, organization, community or other type of author, including anonymous authors) without due acknowledgment. Fabrication: The falsification of data, […]

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