Patients

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

practices and use them in the treatment of Aboriginal patients in collaboration with Aboriginal healers and … and Elders where requested by Aboriginal patients. 23. We call upon all levels of government to: i. Increase …

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

between January 2020 and 2 April 2022 42 1.4 Patients in hospital with covid-19 across Canada between … between April 2020 and 31 March 2022 46 1.5 Patients in icu and mechanically vented during covid-19 … (168,168 cases); of those, 16.5 per cent (27,747 patients) ended up in the icu. People sixty years and older … Canada vary but are generally based on which patients have the best chance of survival. If they have … requires care; a principle of bioethics is that patients are not judged or treated differently based on …

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

the importance of protecting the identities of patients in the history of medicine. This has been the …

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …

information to question how this different treatment of patients based on gender can be acceptable, and he asks …

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

cleaned the floors of hospitals and attended to the patients were heroes, as were truck drivers, grocery workers …

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

Japanese Canadian women, chil- dren and tuberculosis patients were unjustly detained here under traumatic and …

Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.

aggressively excluded) Indigenous tuberculosis patients in particular. This chapter contributes to a … department, allowed for the ster- ilization of patients in mental institutions, particularly those diagnosed … receiving more than its fair share of tubercular patients.48 Many members of the growing ranks of public … the subsequent years. For example, Indigenous patients were rarely admitted for treatment at provincial … federal government but they admitted Indigenous patients suffering from various diseases, ensuring their …

This report introduces the work undertaken to develop a new measure of hospital harm that is linked to evidence-informed practices.

le titre Mesure des préjudices subis par les patients dans les hôpitaux canadiens : rapport technique … surgical procedures. These include misadventures to patients during surgical and medical procedures, events … cadaveric donors • Discharges with unknown age • Patients with selected mental health diagnoses (i.e., most … a standard hospital population, mental health patients were excluded from all provinces. Numerator: … as a post-procedural infection. However, some patients may experience more than 1 occurrence of harm …

This document summarizes the basic concepts, underlying methodologies, strengths and limitations of the data available.

of the health care team and collaborate with patients, their families and other health care professionals …

This report discusses the measure of potentially preventable harm in hospitals and provides an overview of the status of these patient safety events in Canada.

le titre Mesure des préjudices subis par les patients dans les hôpitaux canadiens. ISBN 978-1-77109-515-0 … ......................................... 19 Patients experience different types of harm .......... … .................................... 20 Some patients experience more than 1 harmful event in hospital … ................................. 25 Complex patients are at higher risk of harm .................. … University of Montréal • Donna Davis, Past Co-Chair, Patients for Patient Safety Canada • Dr. Irfan Dhalla …