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AGE-WELL investigators have been using a customized version of whack-a-mole as a new way to spot those at risk of delirium. Emergency department trials of the tablet game showed that measuring changes in patient response times and error rates are…
Ontario is introducing the Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act and posting proposed new regulations under the Connecting Care Act, 2019 to bring an outdated system into the 21st century. Full article at: Ministry of Health
One Ontario hospital is trying to lessen its “hallway medicine” problem by forming a new team of health-care workers in its emergency room with the aim of reducing admission rates among seniors. The “ED One Team” at Sunnybrook Health Sciences…
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are one of the only things that can save a patient who is suffering cardiac arrest. But in an emergency situation, finding one can be a matter of luck. “Knowing how many AEDs are out there…
Please join us for a day of research presentations on the applications of analytics to healthcare. We have a lineup of internationally renowned experts in different scientific disciplines who will present data driven work in the context of the healthcare…
Thursday, March 5, 2020 Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning Robert B. Salter Auditorium, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Learn about rich population-level data available to researchers in Ontario and how Ontario scientists are…
Canadians are making unnecessary visits to their doctors’ offices and hospitals as the public health-care system lags behind other countries and the private sector in “virtual” care, according to a task force led by the Canadian Medical Association. Canada was…
Speaker: Adam Diamand, York University Time: Thursday, February 13, 2020, 12:10pm-1:00pm Venue: Bahen Centre, Room 1190, 40 St. George Street Abstract: We investigate the scheduling practices of multistage outpatient health programs that offer care plans customized to the needs of their patients.…
The period between exposure to the new coronavirus that originated in China and symptoms is 5.2 days on average, but varies greatly among patients, according to one of the largest studies yet published on the deadly epidemic. While admitting that…
The Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy surveys fill important information gaps by polling patients and providers in 11 developed countries. The 2019 edition focuses on primary care physicians and provides an important perspective on how well primary care — a…
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