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. It found that 55% of patients who had cardiac surgery and then stayed in the ICU for
Located in the same building as the private Southern Alberta Institute of Urology, the Prostate Cancer Centre opened in Calgary to provide PSA testing and other screenings for the disease. The centre's executive director says a mobile screening
A survey conducted for Health Canada found that 13% of B.C. parents had "low trust" in vaccinations, while parents in Quebec were more likely than others to be concerned about possible medical side-effects. Parents in Atlantic Canada (92%) and
Most guidelines say a broken hip should be repaired within the first 24 hours. But researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences found two-thirds of patients didn’t get their hip fractures repaired within the recommended 24-hour
The Alliance for Healthier Communities includes over 100 community-governed primary healthcare organizations in Ontario. These include community health centres, aboriginal health access centres, community family health teams and nurse practitioner
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) brought in Dr. Denis Lennox to share his insight on transforming rural medicine. He toured northern Ontario and says he believes some strategies used in Australia to train more general practitioners
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 organizations. Manitoba Health will no longer provide services directly
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 specialists
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 clients are treated as equal partners in
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 Regional Hospital. But at hospitals in the QEII