OHTs are being introduced to provide a new way of
organizing and delivering care that is more integrated
from the perspective of the patients in their local
communities, and that achieves measurable
improvements in key quadruple-aim metrics of
improving care experiences and health outcomes at
manageable ...
In February 2019, the Government of Ontario revealed
its plans to reform the Ontario health system. The plans
include the amalgamation of the province’s six
provincial agencies (i.e., Cancer Care Ontario, Health
Quality Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Trillium Gift of Life
Network, Health Shared Services Ont...
The 14 jurisdictions include one federal/national/panCanadian jurisdiction, 10 provincial jurisdictions, and three
territorial jurisdictions. The first of these jurisdictions
includes both areas of federal government responsibility for
providing healthcare – most notably for Indigenous peoples,
militar...
Ontario has both a health system and a research system that
are increasingly putting patients and rapid learning and
improvement at their centre. For the health system, a recent
notable example of such efforts was the Patients First Act
2016 which, among other things, mandated the creation of
Patient and...
We identified a total of 21 relevant documents by
searching Health Systems Evidence and running
targeted searches in PubMed, with the search strategy
for these databases detailed in Box 2. A document was
included when it directly addressed the question posed
for this rapid synthesis (i.e., it was specifi...
Background: The objective of this work was to inform the design of a rapid response program to support evidence-informed decision-making in health policy and practice for the Americas region. Specifically, we focus on the following: (1) What are the best ethodological approaches for rapid reviews of the ...
Strengthening Ontario’s health system is important for
achieving the triple aim outcomes of: 1) improving the
patient experience of care; 2) improving population
health; and 3) keeping per capita costs of healthcare
manageable.(3-4) Strengthening the system is particularly
important for patients with c...
We identified two overviews of systematic reviews, 18
systematic reviews and 17 primary studies from our
searches that were relevant to the questions posed. The
primary studies address the first question about risk
factors for unsafe clinical practice, and both of the
overviews and all of the systematic ...
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...
EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) Africa—a network of World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored knowledge-translation (KT) platforms in seven sub-Saharan African countries—was launched at a meeting in Brazzaville, Congo, in March 2006 (1;2). EVIPNet Africa can trace its origins to resolution...
