How Much Palliative Care is Delivered at the End-of-Life? : A Population-Level Observational Study in Ontario
2015
Population-Based Studies on Health Care at the End-of-Life
2015
The Increasing Burden and Complexity of Multimorbidity
2015
Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions, is common among older adults. In Canada, 74% of individuals aged 65+ reported having one or more of 11 chronic conditions in 2008. Multimorbidity has been associated with lower health related […]
Perceived Risk Factors of Health Decline: A Qualitative Study of Hospitalized Patients With Multimorbidity
2015
Effectively preventing and managing chronic illness are key goals for health systems worldwide. A growing number of people are living longer with multiple chronic illnesses, accompanied by a high degree of treatment burden and heavy use of health care resources. […]
Beyond Multi-Morbidity: Patient Perceptions of the Impact of Illness
2015
The Health Care Cost of Dying: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study of the Last Year of Life in Ontario, Canada
2015
Coordinated and appropriate health care across sectors is an ongoing challenge. The baby boomer cohort effect coupled with an extension of life-expectancy has led to great concern among funders and policy makers that elder and end-of-life care will place unprecedented […]
An International Cross-Sectional Survey on the Quality and Costs of Primary Care (QUALICO-PC): Recruitment and Data Collection of Places Delivering Primary Care Across Canada
2015
Performance reporting in primary health care in Canada is challenging because of the dearth of concise and synthesized information. The paucity of information occurs, in part, because the majority of primary health care in Canada is delivered through a multitude […]
Health System Strategies Supporting Transition to Adult Care
2015
In recent years, the number of youth with chronic medical conditions surviving into adulthood has increased. The transition from paediatric to adult care has previously been associated with poor clinical outcomes, increased costs and low patient and family satisfaction. The […]
Assessing Value in Ontario Health Links Part 2: A Perspective From Early Adopter Health Links
2015
Ontario HLs are helping to improve coordination of care across multiple partner organizations for patients with complex health care needs; however, little is known about the value that HLs are creating at this early stage and the value that they […]
Assessing Value in Ontario Health Links Part 3: Measures of System Performance in Ontario’s Health Links
2015
Ontario’s Health Links (HL) initiative was launched in January 2013 to integrate and improve the coordination of care provided to patients with the most complex healthcare needs. Given the considerable efforts that are being invested in Health Links, reporting on […]