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“Inequalities in Health Research Has Had Little Policy Impact” Katherine Smith, PhD.
I met with Katherine Smith last week to discuss her research into the dearth of policy effects of the British research into inequalities in health. The last fifteen years have been an exceptionally fertile time for inequalities in health research, but not for the policies that would reduce such...
Readmission Rates after a heart attack are 35% higher in the US than in comparable countries
An article in today’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) compares readmission rates of 5745 heart attack patients in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and 13 European countries. It concludes that patients in the U.S. are more likely to be readmitted to the...
Health Care in Canada, 2011
Today we received Health Care in Canada, 2011: A Focus on Seniors and Aging from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). The report considers the health status of Canadians and recognizes the growing need to provide more ongoing support for people with chronic conditions. It declares...
How the use of chaperones indicates growing mistrust between Doctors and Patients
Lauren Vogel, a journalist from CMAJ, called yesterday to ask me about the rules in parts of Canada that allow doctors to insist that a chaperone accompany patients during an examination. She wanted to know if doctors should have that right and what we at the Patients’ Association thought about it...
Member Meeting Notes
Did you miss the last members' meeting? Read the notes here.
Member Meeting Tonight
We'll meet at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at 252 Bloor Street West in room #5280. The closest subway station is St. George. For those of you getting off at St. George, there's an entrance to OISE in the underground so you don't have to go outdoors. Hope to see you there!
Release - PAC helps Ontario's board members adopt the patient perspective
TORONTO/Dec. 5, 2011 - The Patients' Association of Canada (PAC) is bringing the patient perspective to the governance level in Ontario’s healthcare boards. The association was recently awarded a $92,500 grant from The Ontario Trillium Foundation for a project titled ‘Enhancing the Patient Voice in...
A PAC First!
PAC members provide input for a study on the appropriate use of personal information for health research and planning.PAC was officially invited by to provide the public/patient perspective to this study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Eight PAC members signed on for...
The Tyranny of Blood Levels
Megan McCardle -- So for about 12 years, I've been living with an autoimmune disease. As autoimmune diseases go, it's the one you want to get: a condition known as Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, which slowly kills off your thyroid. The diagnosis was a bit of a freak: my primary care physician caught the...
Hearing the Voice of Seniors in a Seniors Friendly Hospital
This presentation was given at the November 2011 Annual general meeting for the Regional Geriatric Program titled "Hearing the Voice of Seniors in a Seniors Friendly Hospital".
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