Nurses' Decisions, Irreducible Uncertainty and Maximizing Nurses' Contribution to Patient Safety
The authors explore the contribution of nurses' decision-making to patient safety, by providing two simple scenarios and asking the reader to decide if either is a "good" or a ...
Context Is Everything or How Could I Have Been That Stupid?
Learning from past events is inevitably an imperfect process. Retrospective investigations, such as root-cause analysis, critical incident review, morbidity and mortality rounds and legal investigations, all suffer the limitation that ...
Decision-Making in Healthcare and the Law: An Introduction
Decision-making is the engine of human existence, driving all behaviour in all the various domains of activity. Yet, outside the discipline of cognitive psychology and other academic disciplines, decision-making has ...
Uncharted Territory: Policy Options for a Public Health Emergency in Canada
This paper analyzes the state of the law in Canada regarding preparedness and response in a national public health emergency
The Opportunity and Strategy for Quality and Health-System Improvement Now and in the Future
The article describes how Cancer Care Ontario’s Corporate Strategy is driving organizational improvement: evolving CCO’s capacity and capability to drive quality and value across healthcare settings.
Improving Health Equity for First Nations, Inuit and Métis People: Ontario’s Aboriginal Cancer Strategy II
Cancer Care Ontario’s Aboriginal Cancer Strategy II aims to reduce this health inequity and to improve the cancer journey and experience for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Ontario. ...
Accountability and Primary Healthcare
This paper examines the accountability structures within primary healthcare in Ontario; in particular, who is accountable for what and to whom, and the policy tools being used. The findings indicate ...
Enhancing Leadership and Governance Competencies to Strengthen Health Systems in Nigeria: Assessment of Organizational Human Resources Development
In this cross-sectional intervention study, leadership and governance competencies of policy makers were enhanced through a training workshop, and an assessment was conducted of organizational activities designed to promote evidence-informed ...