Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of death, morbidity, and
health-care spending. The Halifax, Nova Scotia-based INSPIRED COPD Outreach …

Background Role clarification is consistently documented as a challenging process for inter
professional healthcare teams, despite being a core tenet of interprofessional collaboration …

The well-documented gaps between needed and provided care for patients and families
living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) mandate changes to clinical …

Background A year-long pan-Canadian quality improvement collaborative (QIC) led by the
Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) supported the spread of the …

Healthcare in Canada, as elsewhere, must adapt in order to better meet the needs of the
chronically ill. Such adaptations are happening locally, but healthcare decision-and policy …

In the policy environment, the news media play a powerful and influential role, determining
not only what issues are on the broad policy agenda, but also how the public and politicians …

Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) are popular vehicles for supporting healthcare
improvement; however, the effectiveness of these models and the factors associated with …

The 'Number Needed to Treat'(NNT) is a useful measure for estimating the number of
patients that would need to receive a therapeutic intervention to avoid one of the adverse …

With the goal to improve healthcare services and delivery, Stanton Territorial Hospital in the
Northwest Territories (NWT) invited the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation …

Disconnects and defects in care–such as duplication, poor integration between services or
avoidable adverse events–are costly to the health system and potentially harmful to patients …