Sínteses de evidências qualitativas (SEQs) têm sido crescentemente utilizadas na área da saúde e novos métodos têm proliferado. O aumento da demanda por SEQs é impulsionado principalmente pelo reconhecimento de que evidências sobre efetividade não são suficientes para melhorar a saúde, sendo ...
Health systems are moving away from traditional
primary care (e.g., by increasingly shifting to group
practice and interprofessional teams rather than solo
practice primary-care providers), which is often siloed
and results in barriers to timely access to care.(1) The
Ministry of Health of British Columb...
Provincial and territorial health systems across Canada
continue to struggle with delivering timely access to
primary-care services. In 2016, 74% of Canadians reported
in the Commonwealth International Health Policy Survey
that they received excellent or very good care from their
regular doctor, which is...
Positioning primary care as the cornerstone of the
health system and establishing primary-care providers as
the gatekeepers and coordinators of care has been a
long-sought aim of health systems around the world.
Further, a main aim of this goal in Canada has been to
have a primary-care provider that is r...
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
(CPSO) and Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) have formed a
partnership to support ongoing training, education and
quality improvement across the province. This
partnership will develop provincial quality-management
programs for the service areas of colonoscopy,
m...
A primeira infância é uma etapa fundamental para o desenvolvimento, em
termos cognitivos, socioemocionais e físicos. A importância do investimento no
desenvolvimento infantil (DI) ou políticas de primeira infância fundamenta-se em vários
argumentos. O principal é o direito de todas as crianças a...
Optimizing clinical practice based on data, evidence and
guidelines is a challenge faced in every health system
around the world. The way the challenge manifests
itself at the level of the patient has been remarkably
consistent over time: tough decisions made at the
intersection of clinical expertise, pa...
ANTECEDENTES
Considerando a la Atención Primaria de Salud (APS) como el primer contacto que un paciente tiene con el sistema público de salud, la satisfacción y el trato que los usuarios reciban en este nivel es importante para entregar una atención de calidad.
Un estudio realizado por el MINSAL el a...
Provincial and territorial ministries of health have made
significant investments in primary healthcare reform
over recent years to improve access, quality, continuity
of care, cost, satisfaction and health outcomes.
Interdisciplinary team-based care, networks with
streamlined care pathways, the use of h...
The availability of public reporting initiatives on the quality of health and longterm care providers has increased since the 1990s when many countries began
introducing choice of care provider policies.
One of the primary reasons for public reporting of quality information is to
assist patients and user...
