January 28, 2011
This report aims to contribute to policy learning across countries from the diversity of healthcare planning approaches in Europe and elsewhere through developing and validating a framework for assessing, improving and enhancing healthcare planning and so presenting a potential tool for analysts and decision makers seeking to understand whether the approach of planning taken in a given setting supports its goals and how the approach can be improved in future.
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January 27, 2011
There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative eHealth technologies are underway globally, often at very considerable cost. In order to assess the impact of eHealth solutions on the quality and safety of health care, and to inform policy decisions on eHealth deployments, we undertook a systematic review of systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness and consequences of various eHealth technologies on the quality and safety of care.
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January 24, 2011
Health research priority setting processes assist researchers and policymakers in effectively targeting research that has the greatest potential public health benefit. Many different approaches to health research prioritization exist, but there is no agreement on what might constitute best practice. Moreover, because of the many different contexts for which priorities can be set, attempting to produce one best practice is in fact not appropriate, as the optimal approach varies per exercise. Therefore, following a literature review and an analysis of health research priority setting exercises that were organized or coordinated by the World Health Organization since 2005, we propose a checklist for health research priority setting that allows for informed choices on different approaches and outlines nine common themes of good practice. It is intended to provide generic assistance for planning health research prioritization processes. The checklist explains what needs to be clarified in order to establish the context for which priorities are set; it reviews available approaches to health research priority setting; it offers discussions on stakeholder participation and information gathering; it sets out options for use of criteria and different methods for deciding upon priorities; and it emphasizes the importance of well-planned implementation, evaluation and transparency.
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January 18, 2011
The Rick Hansen Institute (RHI) and Accreditation Canada announced today that they will develop the first ever comprehensive, evidence-based standards for spinal cord injury (SCI) services delivered in Canada. Funded by RHI with the support of Health Canada and additional government partners, the standards will allow clinicians to use best practices across the continuum of care for people with SCI
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January 7, 2011
Case management has emerged to guide the management of comprehensive, integrated treatment plans that reduce these demands on EDs. However, standards don’t yet exist to enable hospitals and social service agencies to develop effective case managers, so each healthcare organization has to reinvent case management. Professionalizing the case management role and case management training programs can provide significant benefits to the healthcare system.
Fortunately, knowledge about human behavior and the importance of modeling best practices after star case managers is proving effective for hospitals and social service organizations.
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January 4, 2011
The WorkSafeBC Evidence-Based Practice Group (EBPG) conducted a review of systematic reviews investigating the efficacy of treatments for chronic noncancer pain. The systematic literature search of medical databases, including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Library’s Health Technology Assessment Database, BIOSIS, Embase, and Medline, was done in April 2010.
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November 30, 2010
Does integration of care act as a barrier to choice and competition? This question has long been debated and highlights the complexities and nuances of the issue. The debate should be informed by evidence on the performance of integrated systems – and by greater clarity on the terminology used.
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November 29, 2010
Patient safety at North York General Hospital has received a major boost from the launch of bold technology that will reduce medication errors and provide clinical staff with the latest evidence-based information to inform their decisions.
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November 12, 2010
The evidence-based medicine approach, which focused initially on clinical decision-making, has more recently been extended to policy and management decisions, where it is sometimes referred to as ‘evidence-based’ or ‘evidence-informed’ policy making.
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October 20, 2010
North York General Hospital (NYGH), in collaboration with Nursing Practice Solutions, Smith & Nephew and the Central Community Care Access Centre, implemented a program in skin and wound care that has made best-practice, evidenced-based wound care management possible, affordable and sustainable. Focused action using advanced wound care products and proven clinical approaches has dramatically improved the identification, protection and support of skin integrity.
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