{"title":"Measuring quality in long term care.","authors":"T. Kindrat","doi":"10.1787/g28236860-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/g28236860-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5 1","pages":"33-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67578745","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":"Euthanasia: another choice in healthcare?","authors":"H W Hartman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"9-10, 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21023575","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":"Case costing's contribution to utilization review activities: a review of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy patient population.","authors":"K A Potvin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Ottawa General Hospital is one of 13 Ontario hospitals participating in the Ontario Case Cost Project. The hospital has been collecting clinical and financial information based on the patient-specific use of products and services since April 1, 1993. The resulting decision-support database that is evolving enhances the traditional utilization review process. The author presents the analysis and conclusions regarding laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients as an example of the hospital's use of the data in utilization review activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"26-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21044043","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":"Aggression: one hospital responds.","authors":"G Harwood, K I McIndoe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aggression in the healthcare system is a reality that can no longer be forgotten or ignored. The problem extends beyond what to do when someone is aggressive. What is needed is a comprehensive program that addresses prevention, intervention and evaluation. In this article, the authors describe the process that Lions Gate Hospital experienced while addressing the complex issue of aggressive behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"6-8, 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015841","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":"Participative management and shared leadership: implementing a model.","authors":"D Noonan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author identifies the development, implementation and outcomes of a task subgroup model of management that provides a mechanism for shared leadership, planning, decision making, implementation and evaluation by staff, patients and families on a program level. The conceptual model and its operationalization are outlined within the context of the rehabilitation program at the Providence Centre in Scarborough, Ontario.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"28-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015836","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":"Communication system facilitates integrated patient-centred care.","authors":"M Escaf","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, a unit designed to house patients awaiting placement developed a communication system to facilitate integrated patient-centred care. The system included a patient and family orientation brochure, an interdisciplinary kardex and an interdisciplinary patient goal sheet. Patient care improved under the new system, as staff was easily able to access current assessment data and establish and document integrated patient goals. Other outcomes included improved communication among team members, enhanced team member accountability, cohesiveness and satisfaction, and increased patient and family satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"19-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015996","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":"Enhancing professional relationships.","authors":"Z Szigetvari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"17-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015999","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":"Local healthcare planning in rural southwestern Ontario.","authors":"B J Merkens, R G Emmerson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In rural areas, local health and social services are often planned and developed by members of the community, the hospital and community agencies acting together. This system is a web of informal ties that, relying heavily on volunteer commitment, provides programs that aptly fit the local situation. In this article, the authors show how this functions in the Ontario community surrounding Palmerston and District Hospital, and offer a suggestion for the improved support of this system.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"12-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015998","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":"Ontario's new law of consent to treatment: potential for liability.","authors":"C L Campbell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Do the immunity provisions in the Consent to Treatment Act that came into force in April in Ontario protect healthcare providers and facilities from litigation? This article, a presentation made at the Canadian Institute of Law and Medicine's 1995 spring conference, discusses the potential for liability notwithstanding the new act's immunity provisions. This article is for general information only and is not intended as legal advice. Readers with legal problems are advised to contact counsel.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015840","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":"Patient representative brings human touch to quality management.","authors":"E S Givner, R Mulroney-Leitch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 4","pages":"43-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21015846","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}