ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2021
Confronting Barriers to Improving Healthcare Performance in Canada.
Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Champions as catalysts for change: a realist evaluation of their impact in primary care.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- A Call for Bigger Thinking and Meaningful Improvements in Health and Well-Being: Time to Move on From Small-Scale Changes.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2024Article
- It is time for a national strategy on equitable access to assistive technology in Canada.Healthcare management forum · 2022Article
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Abstract
Is substantive transformation of healthcare delivery in canada a fool's paradise? Since this idiom refers to a state of happiness unconnected to underlying truths, it may be an apt descriptor given the many problems with the provinces' and territories' delivery of healthcare. Some of these problems cause harm, such as hospital-acquired infections, while others are simply wasteful, such as unnecessary tests or imaging. Moreover, meaningful transformation of healthcare delivery has been elusive and divisive in provinces and territories for decades (Martin et al. 2018; McIntosh et al. 2010; Ontario Ministry of Finance 2012).
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