Statistics & numerical data
November 16, 2011
“Objective: To determine whether patients who are not admitted to hospital after attending an emergency department during shifts with long waiting times are at risk for adverse events.
Conclusions: Presenting to an emergency department during shifts with longer waiting times, reflected in longer mean length of stay, is associated with a greater risk in the short term of death and admission to hospital in patients who are well enough to leave the department. Patients who leave without being seen are not at higher risk of short term adverse events.”
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Posted in Journal Articles, READ Portal | Tagged with Mortality rates, Risk assessment, Statistics & numerical data, Wait lists | No Comments
July 26, 2011
“Understanding the perspectives and experience of community-based providers is an important input to understanding and improving the experience of individuals and their caregivers. What does integrated care mean to the range of providers who deliver home care and support services in the community? What do they think are the most important elements of integrated care, and how do their experiences stack up against them?”
“We captured frontline views from care coordinators, regulated health professionals (registered nurses, nurse practitioners, advanced practice nurses, registered practical nurses, physio and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, dietitians, social workers, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists) and personal support workers.”
“The survey data were generally positive. Survey respondents clearly articulated that client-focused care, working well with other providers, prompt and complete information, effective communication with the client and with other providers, and timely assessment and care are highly valued. They view client involvement and client-focused care as integral to a well-coordinated system of care. Prompt information about care plans and changes to plans, having complete information from other providers, and good communication among providers were viewed as key to integration. However, analysis of the quantitative data indicates that there is a gap between community providers’ ideals and their reality.”
Posted in READ Portal, Reports & Papers | Tagged with Access to care, Patient-centered care, Quality of care, Statistics & numerical data | No Comments
July 6, 2011
This online resources presents easy-to-view, interactive reports on “aggregate-level (Canadian) health system data from a variety of data sources.” Users can parse data reports according to their information needs in order to gain an understanding of current trends in the Canadian health care system.
Posted in Multimedia, READ Portal | Tagged with Canada, Statistics & numerical data | No Comments
March 16, 2011
A Discharge Summary (DS) is an important tool to communicate the post-discharge framework of care between hospital physicians and primary care as well as patients and their families. This paper assesses the quality of information in Electronic Discharge Summaries (EDSs) with respect to adequacy and specificity for optimal post-discharge care of the patient. The assessments were done by randomly selecting 40 EDSs of the patients discharged from two secondary care hospitals affiliated with Waitemata District health board, Auckland and using a questionnaire with an expert panel composed of two medical specialists and a clinical coder. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. Irrelevant data in laboratory results, and insufficient management and follow up information to patients and primary care physicians are identified as the most common quality issues. We conclude by outlining an ongoing programme of work to support improvement of the quality issues using Information Technology (IT), with a focus on improving the patient advice section of the EDS with decision support to EDS authors and embedding of readability support in the EDS documents themselves.
Posted in Journal Articles, READ Portal | Tagged with Efficiency, Primary health care, Safety, Statistics & numerical data, Technology | No Comments
January 31, 2011
Health Care in Canada is CIHI’s annual flagship report on the health care system and the health of Canadians. Since 2000, it has been a resource that tables fundamental issues facing the health care system. Addressing questions surrounding patient safety, wait times, health care spending and analyses on how the system has adapted over time to meet changing needs has made Health Care in Canada a key source for the public and policy-makers alike.
Posted in READ Portal, Reports & Papers | Tagged with Benchmarking, Canada, Forecasting, Funding, Indicators, Public health, Statistics & numerical data | 1 Comment
November 16, 2010
(This report uses) a unique model is used to simulate how a statistically representative population of 300 000 individuals ages year by year up to 2050. The fact that we are living longer and that our health is improving is positive. The results of the simulations show that it is possible to meet the needs of the aging population for health care and care of the elderly, but that strategic and resolute efforts are required in several areas.
Posted in READ Portal, Reports & Papers | Tagged with Forecasting, Health care costs, Health planning, Health services for the aged, Statistics & numerical data | No Comments
November 11, 2010
The purpose of this study was to present risk estimates for needlestick in U.S. paramedics and estimated risk ratios for selected management practices. Little is known about factors associated with risk of needlestick among paramedics. Most previous research examined hospital workers, whose risk and risk factors may differ from those of paramedics. The purpose of this report is to present updated risk estimates for needlestick in U.S. paramedics and estimated risk ratios for selected risk factors, with a focus on management practices.
Posted in Journal Articles, READ Portal | Tagged with Health human resources, Risk assessment, Statistics & numerical data | No Comments
November 9, 2010
This article aims to describe the development of measurable indicators on the basis of characteristics (called dimensions and features) of primary care systems identified in the literature. This set of indicators and its underlying structure of dimensions and features will be referred to as the Primary Care Monitoring System (in short: PC Monitor). The PC Monitor is meant to produce comparable information of the variation of primary care systems across Europe. The study is part of the EC funded project Primary Health Care Activity Monitor for Europe (PHAMEU), that aims to describe and compare primary care systems in 31 European countries [18].
Posted in Journal Articles, READ Portal | Tagged with Access to care, Benchmarking, Efficiency, Policy, Primary health care, Quality assessment, Statistics & numerical data | No Comments
November 4, 2010
The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council has released a new white paper, Sustainable Operations in Healthcare; an Energy Management Program. Implementing a green team in a hospital can produce marked cost-savings. Hospitals consume more than twice as much energy per square-foot as an office building, resulting in very high utility costs.
Posted in READ Portal, Reports & Papers | Tagged with Economics, Efficiency, Hospital administration, Implementation process, Statistics & numerical data | 1 Comment
October 8, 2010
IHE In Your Pocket (IHE IYP) presents a bird’s eye view of the Canadian healthcare system with international comparisons.
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