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Source: Healthcare Quarterly - May 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Key Healthcare Leadership Competencies: Perspectives from Current Healthcare Leaders
This study unpacks competencies such as communication and change management and draws attention to the significance of emotional intelligence and working with data that have not traditionally been identified as key competencies. These findings can inform curriculum and modernization initiatives in healthcare leadership programs. (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Cross-Training Nurses to Support an Intensive Care Unit during a Pandemic: An Urban Community Hospital Experience
Hospitals had to create new practices, training programs and roles due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An urban community hospital enacted written policies to cross-train nurses for supporting patients in an intensive care setting.
This paper shares the planning, implementation, evaluation and revision of a support nurse training for a team-based intensive care unit model. Learning evaluations show that tailoring the education to the type of nurse is received more positively than a general skills training session. Leaders are encouraged to ensure that teams have role clarity and practice supports to be successful. (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A New Way Forward for Primary Care Advancement: A Case Study Review
Modernized primary care systems are founded in holistic team-based care. Many models exist in the world. However, to overcome the challenges of various physician funding models and to scale resources across the highly populated urban/suburban areas, a different approach is needed. A new integrated primary care centre, CarePoint Health, was designed to solve these remaining gaps. This paper outlines the evaluation of the model after one year in operation, highlighting critical success factors for any future centre: design, team unity and culture of learning. Recommendations for the next steps include the development of a st...
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Key Healthcare Leadership Competencies:Perspectives from Current Healthcare Leaders
This study unpacks competencies such as communication and change management and draws attention to the significance of emotional intelligence and working with data that have not traditionally been identified as key competencies. These findings can inform curriculum and modernization initiatives in healthcare leadership programs. (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Ready or Not: Key Insights to Enabling Adolescents’ Access to Their Personal Health Information
Granting minors with online access to their personal health information (PHI) is a complex policy and implementation issue, requiring a balance of rapid changes in adolescent maturity and autonomy, adolescent need for privacy and confidentiality and care responsibilities of custodians and providers. There are currently no standard legislation or policies that enable access; however, most implementations use the age of majority or the mature minor doctrine as an approach – each with its own limitations. This paper highlights key legislative and implementation insights for organizations seeking to enable adolescent...
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Vested Contracting to Improve Patient Care and Promote Innovation within a Newfoundland and Labrador Regional Health Authority
Eastern Health (EH) is the most populous of four Regional Health Authorities in Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2017, EH realized the potential impact that healthcare innovation could have on improving patient care, its outcomes as well as provincial economic development. This paper describes EH's innovation journey with "vested contracting," a relatively rare approach in Canada, for its procurement of management services for support activities, such as housekeeping, laundry, patient/resident food services, retail food services and portering. Through individual interviews with EH executives, directors and t...
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Commentary: Is Your Organization Providing Quality Care?
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Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Measuring Board Impact on Hospital Finance and Quality
Boards are a powerful resource in overseeing our health system. This resource is limited in the amount of available time; therefore, boards should be as productive as possible. Boards should focus their energy on tangible, measurable results. Using natural language processing tools and quantitative outcome measures allows us to measure the impact of board focus. This analysis finds no significant relationship between a higher focus on finance or quality as measured by the board minutes and organizational performance in finance or quality. Boards focus much more on finance than quality or any other focus area with no substa...
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Legal Privilege Legislation: Consequences for Patient Safety
Increasing awareness of the extent of preventable harm from healthcare has led to efforts to improve patient safety through a variety of efforts, including legislation. Extending legal privilege to quality and safety reviews leads to further harm for many patients, families and healthcare providers. The intentional isolation, silencing and exclusion after the incident undermines trust, prevents learning and impedes an opportunity to heal and recover for all those directly involved. Our case study examines Section 51 of British Columbia's Evidence Act (1996) and concludes that amending this legislation is an urgent and nece...
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Health Workforce in Canada
This article deliberates on the many challenges of the pandemic, such as safety and access to personal protective equipment, faced by healthcare workers along with its impact on health workers and the health care system. The article also shares how the system responded to protect the health workforce and boost capacity by expanding provider roles and adapting new ways of delivering services, including quickly adapting to virtual care. (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Machine Learning Applied to Routinely Collected Health Administrative Data
There has been considerable growth in the development of machine learning algorithms for clinical applications. The authors survey recent machine learning models developed with the use of large health administrative databases at ICES and highlight three areas of ongoing development that are particularly important for health system applications. (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Publisher’s Note: Welcoming Our New Editors
Publisher’s Note: Welcoming Our New Editors (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education 2021
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Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Patient-Oriented Research: Enhancing Partnership-Engaged Knowledge Mobilization for Impact
Patient-engaged research requires strong patient and applied partnerships to realize innovative knowledge mobilization. Demonstrating impact and sustainability, advancing health equity, evaluating engagement and incorporating flexibility are key ingredients to advance engagement science. (Source: Healthcare Quarterly)
Source: Healthcare Quarterly - April 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
