Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
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Several major news stories in the past year have highlighted adverse events in Canadian healthcare and prompted questions about whether healthcare in Canada is safe and what is being done to improve it. While individual hospitals and regions are mounting patient safety efforts, these problems are systemic and require policy and organizational responses from governments and health regions, not just individual organizations.
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Comparative Study
Effect of home care service levels on health outcomes in hip fracture patients in Alberta.
As the population ages, and there is more pressure on acute and long-term care services, governments will continue to search for ways to save healthcare dollars. Home care has been touted as an alternative to long-term care; however, not enough is known about quality of care and patient outcomes.