{"title":"Academic health centres: can we afford to fund them? Can we afford not to?","authors":"P G Stack","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"11-3, 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creutzfeld-Jakob disease: the Grace General Hospital experience.","authors":"F Pauls, J Hayes, J Read","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After some patients were exposed to a blood product from a donor with Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, Winnipeg hospitals had to decide whether to inform them of the possibly minuscule health risk. The Salvation Army Grace Hospital decided to inform its patients, citing their fundamental right to facts regarding their own health; their need to make a responsible, informed decision regarding donation of their own blood or organs; and the need to maintain the trust and confidence of the public in the wake of the Krever inquiry.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"42-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reform of the New Zealand healthcare system.","authors":"C Scott","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>New Zealand's healthcare reform has come in two waves. In 1983, Area Health Boards assumed responsibility for purchasing and providing all secondary healthcare; but a parallel, centralized system of primary healthcare benefits persisted, frustrating attempts to integrate services. In 1991, a new government reorganized public hospitals into \"Crown health enterprises,\" and planned to introduce user fees, competition with the private sector and a list of core benefits. Over the following few years, some of these attempts progressed slowly or were abandoned altogether. They are also attempts to shift risk and expenditure, rather than design a more fair and efficient healthcare system.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"32-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suggestions for improving AIDS treatment in hospitals.","authors":"K J Masterson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On July 26, 1994, John William George Swaffer died of AIDS in an Ottawa hospital. His partner shares his experience while caring for John at the hospital. While the hospital did many things well, it seemed that requests for palliative care were poorly communicated among the various physicians involved with John's care. Coordination between hospital doctors and those from a local HIV clinic also seemed poor. The author recommends eight changes to better serve patients with AIDS and other terminal illnesses.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"4-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creutzfeld-Jakob disease: what we know.","authors":"J Darlington","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"44-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In transition: human resource management in Atlantic Canadian hospitals.","authors":"T H Wagar, K V Rondeau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"26-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergency room services in rural hospitals.","authors":"K Croll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Boards are faced with the dilemma of deciding both the role of rural hospitals and the level of service they should provide. Decisions on emergency room services should be based upon the hospital's relation to other hospitals and the entire trauma care system; demographic information on the present and future population served; data on ER visits and motor vehicle accidents; and existing guidelines and standards for emergency room services.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 6","pages":"14-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21036213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital restructuring in Ontario.","authors":"M Moralis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ontario's healthcare services are only loosely organized into a \"system.\" Attempts at reform before 1995 were scattered and uncoordinated. Following the landslide victory of the Conservative government under Mike Harris, however, an Ontario Health Services Restructuring Commission has assumed responsibility for all reform. Political will, economic necessity and the presence of proper tools may finally organize Ontario's healthcare delivery into an efficient, coordinated system.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 5","pages":"4-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21033404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person-based information from Canadian hospital discharge data.","authors":"H Johansen, K Chagani, S Lessard, C Nair","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistics summarizing Canadians' use of hospital services are usually based on simple discharge totals, without any attempt to distinguish which discharges may have belonged to the same person. This leads to a distorted view of the prevalence of illness and the resources required to serve each patient. Statistics based on the number of people going to hospital shed new light on the demand for resources by various groups, now and in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 5","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21033411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can I get there from here? Wayfinding systems for healthcare facilities.","authors":"S MacKenzie, J Krusberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because people seldom visit hospitals unless they have to, they are generally unfamiliar with the facilities and have trouble finding their way on their own. Moreover, patients and families in a hospital are often distracted by other concerns. This makes a well-designed wayfinding system particularly important. Two facilities' dealings with professional designers illustrate some solutions which help both hospital and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 5","pages":"42-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21033408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}