England’s National Health Services created NHS Health Check as a health check-up for adults aged 40-74. It's designed to spot early signs of stroke,…
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The CMAJ study shows the number of operative vaginal deliveries, where a vacuum or forceps are used, is declining, but that the risk of injury from such procedures is on the rise. Operative…
- NBHC Population Health
Federal data indicate the…
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Healthcare 101 is an online information series developed to help Albertans better understand their healthcare system. AHS…
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The B.C. Ministry of Health is investing $75 million to expand respite care and adult day programs to both seniors and their loved ones with daily activities. Funding will be rolled out over three years to increase the number of respite beds,…
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The national benchmark for hip replacement from booking time to the operating table is 281 days. In Nova Scotia, 90% of patients get hip replacement surgery within 231 days of booking at Cape Breton…
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Experts at the C.D. Howe Institute and Women's College Hospital recap the Institute's paper discussing how…
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Health Canada's proposed regulations to amend the Food and Drug Regulations and Medical Devices Regulations would require hospitals to report serious adverse drug…
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Manitobans pay more for healthcare services than they do in most provinces so the province is reorganizing its healthcare bureaucracy and shifting responsibilities between health…
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The nurse-owned, nurse-run Centre Médiacl TaL in Candiac, Que., has 14,000 clients and it’s the only clinic of its kind in the province. It operates like a club. It has a patient-centred philosophy where…
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People between the ages of 10 and 24 account for a fifth of overdose deaths from illicit opioids in B.C. The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use says there’s a lack of guidelines based on clinical studies involving young people, and youth-…
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This study was carried out by a U.K. online cognitive behavioural…
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The $43.8-million emergency department at Winnipeg’s Grace Hospital is over five times the size of the hospital’s previous ED. It’s part of a system-wide hospital reorganization aimed at reducing ED wait times. It has a "care-zone concept"…
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The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) studied cardiac surgery patients that stayed in the intensive care unit (ICU) for 10 days or longer in Ontario.
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Data from fiscal year 2016-2017 found that 44% of students in grades seven to 12 tried alcohol at least once, an increase from FY2014-2015's figure of 40% and reversing a downward trend observed since FY2008-2009. Health Canada found cannabis use…
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The NHS will hire 300 employment coaches who will find patients jobs to keep them out of hospital. It assumes people with work work tend to be in better health, visit their GP less and are less likely to require hospital treatment. The…