Early Results: Patient Experience Across Transitions in a Bundled Model of Care. Redefining Health Care – A Dialogue on Health Policy. Issue 3 – April 2018: 16-21
2018
RE: Appropriate Helmet Use and Health Care Cost Savings-A Debate Worth Having.
2018
Organizational Health Literacy: Review of Theories, Frameworks, Guides, and Implementation Issues
2018
Organizational health literacy is described as an organization-wide effort to transform organization and delivery of care and services to make it easier for people to navigate, understand, and use information and services to take care of their health. Several health […]
Patients’ Perceptions of Access to Primary Care: Analysis of the Qualicopc Patient Experiences Survey
2018
Abstract Objective To gain a more comprehensive understanding of patients’ perceptions of access to their primary care practice and how these relate to patient characteristics. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Ontario. Participants Adult primary care patients in Ontario (N = 1698) […]
Success Strategies for Linguistically Competent Healthcare: The Magic Bullets and Cautionary Tales of the Active Offer of French-Language Health Services in Ontario
2018
An active offer of French-language health services (FLHS) was introduced in several Canadian provinces to help create an environment that will anticipate the needs of Francophones in their community and will stimulate the demand for services in French. For the […]
A Demonstration Study of Collaboration in Primary Care: Insights from Physicians and Psychologists
2017
Background Increasing recognition of the complex interplay of biopsychosocial factors influencing health and of the inefficiencies in the delivery of mental health services in primary care emphasize the need for different health professions to work together and enhance patient-centred care. […]
Primary care and health inequality: Difference-in-difference study comparing England and Ontario
2017
Background It is not known whether equity-oriented primary care investment that seeks to scale up the delivery of effective care in disadvantaged communities can reduce health inequality within high-income settings that have pre-existing universal primary care systems. We provide some […]
Association Between Wait Time and 30-Day Mortality in Adults Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery
2017
Although wait times for hip fracture surgery have been linked to mortality and are being used as quality-of-care indicators worldwide, controversy exists about the duration of the wait that leads to complications.
Use of Hospital-Related Health Care Among Health Links Enrollees in the Central Ontario Health Region: A Propensity-Matched Difference-in Differences Study
2017
Health Links are a new model of providing care coordination for high-cost, high-needs patients in Ontario. We evaluated use of hospital-related health care services among Health Links patients in the Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) of Ontario in the […]
Discharge Destination Following Hip Fracture: Comparative Effectiveness and Cost Analyses
2017
Abstract Summary This study determines outcomes and costs of similar hip fracture patients that were discharged from hospital to a rehabilitation facility or to the community within 1 year. Community patients had worse outcomes and lower costs compared to rehabilitation […]