Alberta hip & knee joint replacement project : Alberta hip and knee joint replacement project : evaluation report

ISBN 0-7785-3499-5 i Acknowledgements Alberta Health and Wellness wishes to thank all the patients involved in this project and especially the patients in the current care path for agreeing to participate in the research and evaluation of the project. [...] Alberta Health and Wellness wishes to acknowledge and thank the individuals, and groups who contributed to the success of the Alberta Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Project and the development of this report. [...] It will not be possible to realize the These benefits are due to a collaborative approach to very short wait times achieved for patients in this care delivery with greater focus on care standards, use study when the new care path is integrated into the of case management, and the centralization of patient broad context of the entire health system without intake, assessment, and measurement of outc [...] Replacement Project partnership emerged, consisting of representatives from Alberta Health and Wellness, The aim of the new care path was to provide the right three regional health authorities (Capital Health, Calgary care, to the right individuals, for the right reasons, in the Health Region, and David Thompson Regional Health right way, by the right provider in the right setting, at the Authorit [...] The characteristics of patients in the in patient demographics among the new care path, project were compared to the patients in the Canadian current patients, and the CJRR (Table 2).