Quality Improvement

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

Twenty years of patient surveys: What’s not working and how to improve the process

Patient-centred care means better coordination of medical appointments

Cutting and pasting in the age of online health records

Doctors help create the health care system—for better and for worse

Technology takes us away from the bedside—and the very ethos of medicine

Doctors need to do a better job collaborating on patient care

In our rush to offer “McMedicine,” do we even know what patients really want?