Philadelphia-based Jefferson University Hospital researchers developed a tool called the Uncertainty Scale (U-Scale) to understand the role uncertainty plays in ED…
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- NBHC Care Experience
While B.C is dealing with a shortage of physicians, Creston Valley has a low vacancy rate of one-and-a-half doctors. The town took recruitment in its own hands and hired a dedicated physician recruiter. Creston Valley is home…
- NBHC Care Experience
The New Brunswick College of Psychologists says children in need of psychological assessments face an estimated three-year wait. It believes that for $4.1 million a year, that backlog could be cleared in eight years. The group’s…
- NBHC Engagement
In an effort to increase vaccination rates, the federal health minister will support five multi-year projects to…
- NBHC Engagement
In addition to the campaign, three donor physicians signed contracts to share a half-time position responsible for providing leadership and education as part of a new model for Saskatchewan's organ and tissue donation system. The 2018-2019 budget…
- NBHC Sustainability
In 2017, the CIHI pointed out only 62% of British Columbians in need of hip replacements and 46% of those in need of knee replacements received the procedures within the recommended maximum wait of six months. The province will turn its Burnaby…
- NBHC Care Experience
Hospital research shows that, between 2011 to 2017, almost half of nurses working inside the Saint John fRegional Hospital emergency room have left. It associates these departures with work-related stress. The finding is part of an…
- NBHC Care Experience
Sarah Pakzad, a researcher at the Université de Moncton, is developing an app based on the Neurocognitive Frailty Index…
- NBHC Care Experience
The framework for a palliative care strategy aims to improve access to palliative and end-of-life care services. As part…
- NBHC Care Experience
Data from CIHI show that giving birth is the most common reason for…
- NBHC Sustainability
This incentive was previously offered to doctors in rural areas. As the shortage of family doctors worsens in Nova Scotia, the province is now offering tuition relief, the Family Medicine Bursary and debt assistance to urban doctors in a bid to…
- NBHC Population Health
The study, by McMaster and York universities, examined muscle biopsies of young adults with and without type 1 diabetes who exceed Diabetes Canada's recommended weekly levels for…
- NBHC Care Experience
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's preliminary year-end monthly wait-times report for 2017-18 revealed ER wait times were down 16% compared to the previous year, however, median ER wait times climbed in March for the fifth straight month since…
- NBHC Care Experience
L'appareil, d’une valeur de $34,000, a été installé au Service d’urgence de l’établissement pour desservir les communautés de Saint-Quentin, de Kedgwick et des environs. L’appareil apporte à l’établissement une technologie qui surpasse celle…
- NBHC Care Experience
The national #EndPJparalysis campaign aims to get patients out of bed, dressed in their own clothes and moving around in order to speed up their recovery. It also challenges all those who care for…
- NBHC Sustainability
The province is investing $2.1 million to create more memory care beds and assist existing care homes. The first of three per diem increases will raise rates to $135 from $127.42 per resident. The increase will be retroactive to Apr. 1 and will…