Quality Improvement

There is no debate – Patient Medical Homes are the way to go

The Patient's Medical Home is a vision for the future of family practice in Canada: One that focuses on comprehensive, coordinated, and continuing care for populations through a family physician working with health care teams.

Deadly cracks in a broken mental-health system

While struggling with any illness, it is reassuring to feel that there is a place to go for help if things deteriorate beyond your ability to handle it. This is a sense of comfort I have lost. I have been forced to face the reality of what the emergency department can provide for mental health crises – not a lot. But there's more we could do.

In support of addiction and mental health patients in emergency departments

If our health-care system claims to be equitable and considerate of patients with addiction and mental-health concerns, it has to resolve the issue of boarded mental-health patients in emergency departments, which can lead to higher overall wait times for emergency care.

Access to virtual care highlights urban/rural divide

The move to virtual care is leaving some communities behind. For rural Canadians, especially those in remote and Indigenous communities, there are obstacles to seeing a doctor both in person and online.

Episode 36 – Making Hospitals Safer

Quality management principles lacking in health-care planning

Canada's response to the pandemic has ignored the principles of quality-control planning and quality management. Having one could have saved us over $100 billion.

Joy in work on a COVID Unit? Yes, Really

The leadership team knew that without creating a safe environment for our healthcare workers – both physical and psychological – we would not achieve the goals we had set for the newly implemented COVID wards

Empowering vulnerability: Overcoming the fear and shame of physician errors

To revitalize primary care policy, focus on relationships

Raising the bar on our haphazard end-of-life transition from hospital to home

Palliative care needs better PR

Cracking the code for surgical success

Palliative care training ‘woefully inadequate’ in meeting need

Words matter. What’s ‘elective’ about invasive surgeries?

We Can’t Go Back

COVID-19 has highlighted how we can improve family doctor care

Let’s acknowledge the challenges of rural nursing

While the vast and diverse opportunities draw many nurses to rural practice, this setting is accompanied by stressors that are often overlooked by urban-focused policy makers.

Can artificial intelligence predict emergency department crowding?

The controversy around estimating deaths from medical error

We need more resources for palliative care patients at home