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 ...
Ontario has both a health system and a research system that are increasingly aiming to support rapid learning and improvement. Yet, Ontario's health system still faces complex challenges, such as reducing emergency-room wait times, ending hallway medicine, improving support for people with mental health ...
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...
Nurses have a long tradition of informally working in
expanded roles in rural and remote communities in
Canada (e.g., outpost nurses).(1; 2) The formalization of
the nurse practitioner role in Canada began in the mid1960s as a response to four interrelated factors: 1)
introduction of publicly funded heal...
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...
Healthcare provider remuneration mechanisms are one
of the key policy levers that decision-makers can harness
to influence health-system performance.(1) In Canada,
remunerating physicians is the second-largest source of
public expenditures accounting for 21% of all health
spending in the country.(2) With...
A number of current pressures on the health system,
including an aging population, increased prevalence
of chronic and co-morbid conditions, and increasing
focus on patient self-management and patientcentred care, are driving interest in delivering care in new ways. With technology playing an increasingl...
As noted by the Health Council of Canada in 2013, there
are many definitions of quality in healthcare, but a
common conception of it is “the degree to which health
services for individuals and populations increase the
likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent
with current professional kn...
Systematic reviews are important for decision makers. They offer many potential benefits but are
often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain contextual details which make them hard to
use for decision-making. There are many organizations that develop and disseminate derivative p...
