decision making
Applied Ethics
Transfers of LTC Residents to Hospital EDs: An Ethics Quality Improvement Project to Minimize Non-beneficial and Unwanted Hospital Transfers and Maximize System Efficiency
Jill Oliver and Paula Chidwick
Quality Improvement
Using System Maps to Gain a System Perspective to Improve Outcomes
Faten Mitchell
From the Editor-in-Chief
Engaging Citizens and Patients in Health Research: Learning from Experience
Jennifer Zelmer
Research Paper
The Independence of Ontario’s Public Health Units: Does Governing Structure Matter?
Joseph Lyons
Research Paper
Healthcare in Canada’s North: Are We Getting Value for Money?
T. Kue Young, Susan Chatwood and Gregory P. Marchildon
New Health Accord should reject per capita funding model – and consider the precise and evidence-based concept of frailty instead
Frailty a better gauge for healthcare funding
John Muscedere and Samir Sinha
The Authors Respond
White-Water Ahead
Robyn Tamblyn, Meghan McMahon, Jessica Nadigel, Beth Dunning and Elizabeth Drake
Commentary
Modernizing our Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training Programs: Bold New Initiatives
Stephen Bornstein
Commentary
Community-Engaged Scholarship to Catalyze Innovation: A Case Study of the Uptake of Metered-Dose Inhalers with Spacers to Deliver Respiratory Medication in a Pediatric Emergency Department in Nova Scotia
Ingrid Sketris, Barbara Hill Taylor, Joan Sargeant and Katrina Hurley