Patients

A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, psychologist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.

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CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 12 April 2024 English

Evolve the organization’s communications strategy to support an expanded mandate and the development of a new strategic plan by: • developing common products and tools that describe the organization’s role …

patient groups • implementing input mechanisms for patients and clinicians for the algorithm development process patient groups  implementing input mechanisms for patients and clinicians for the algorithm development process


NCCIH: National Collaborating Centre for Indigineous Health · 5 April 2024 English

This introductory chapter of the NCCIH’s Indigenous cultural safety: An environmental scan of cultural safety initiatives in Canada provides an overview of the concept of cultural safety, the methods used …

approach (Allan & Smylie, care for Indigenous patients that be supported through systemic 2015). includes the different perceptions and the experiences of patients into account when providing services to them (Métis


NCCIH: National Collaborating Centre for Indigineous Health · 5 April 2024

Chapter 2 of the NCCIH’s Indigenous cultural safety: An environmental scan of cultural safety initiatives in Canada focuses on cultural safety initiatives developed and implemented by the federal government and …

accessing quality care, and building the capacity of patients with supports and recourse to safely caregivers wellness services for Inuit; Nations, Inuit and Métis Patients: A Core Curriculum for Residents and Physicians (CAPWHN), College Providers Treating Indigenous Patients: of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), Guidelines Physicians of Canada (SRPC) services/care to Indigenous patients, based on a review of the literature. Joint Position collaboration, partnership, and relationship Inuit patients’ experiences with and promising building” (CAOT


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024 English

In The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease …

protected but dangerously unstable” (51). Cancer patients likewise become layered selves—their inner bodies business-as-usual lives. Both superheroes and cancer patients alike battle, suffer, and achieve victories; their usefulness of metaphor in her discussion of cancer patients: Experiencing cancer and cancer therapy involves


NCCIH: National Collaborating Centre for Indigineous Health · 5 April 2024 English

Chapter 3 of the NCCIH’s Indigenous cultural safety: An environmental scan of cultural safety initiatives in Canada focuses on cultural safety initiatives created by British Columbia’s provincial government and its …

they are able to voices of nearly 9000 Indigenous patients, family build relationships with First Nations domain. impacting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis patients https://bc-cpc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ for First Nations, Métis and Inuit providers. Patients in Rural and Remote Communities, https://www.fraserhealth Recipients of funds are required to report on progress patients with accessing community services that and outcomes es data on Indigenous identity of clients and patients to assist in the design and delivery of more culturally


Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Health and Community Services · 5 April 2024 English

FACILITIES Summary of Revisions Date Revision Page April 4, 2024 Bullet added. [...] auris positive patients • be resistant to quaternary ammonium-based hospital disinfectants For the purposes of this guidance be used to include those receiving healthcare who are traditionally and routinely referred to as patients, clients or residents. [...] auris, private room accommodation and Contact Precautions to be in

morbidity and mortality, especially among hospitalized patients who are immunocompromised or receiving intensive available antifungal drugs • be transmitted among patients in hospitals and LTC homes • persist on surfaces healthcare environments occupied by C. auris positive patients • be resistant to quaternary ammonium-based hospital are traditionally and routinely referred to as patients, clients or residents. 3 INTERIM INFECTION PREVENTION are required for the care of all patients at all times. • Patients being admitted to hospital and LTC


ICES: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences · 4 April 2024 English

Together, we will explore how strong partnerships advance data intensive research and analytics, and improve the way data is used to inform care, policy and outcomes. [...] The experiences of …

will reflect on what the OurCare team heard from patients and the public across Canada, on how we can shape investigates how changes in the healthcare system impact patients, particularly the most vulnerable. 5 https://www to measure and reduce care disparities, engage patients in health service improvement, and support physicians


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

childhood medical trauma with those of other people dealing with grief and loss: head and neck cancer patients in Edmonton, psychiatric inpatients in Toronto, and communities in Iqaluit stricken by suicide.

to the project: Artists, head and neck cancer patients, their families, researchers, and clinicians Hospital in Edmonton working with transplant patients, I thought I could do another. I put together CAMH. Co-create art with patients. Like I did with the transplant patients and was starting to with with the head and neck cancer patients. The word co-create really resonates with people—we are in it together unit manager asked me if I would like to join the patients in the drum circle. Okay. She opened the door


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 28 March 2024 English

This report summarizes information about prescription drug data in Canada (assets, needs, gaps, limitations and opportunities) by jurisdiction.

data as real-world evidence to better support patients, inform health decisions and enable robust system agencies • Hospitals • Manufacturer drug programs • Patients Provincial systems • Drug plan data • Electronic organizations • Regulators and standards bodies • Patients/patient support groups 10 Pan-Canadian Prescription basic insulin pumps and supplies for eligible patients with T1DM. In 2021, the program was expanded Assistance Program • Drug Assistance for Cancer Patients • Family Pharmacare Program • Medical Assistance


CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 26 March 2024 English

proportions of patients with clinically important worsening from baseline through the end of the study period in HAI score were 3.4% (2 patients of 58) in the ravulizumab arm and 23.4% (11 patients of 47) in [...] The use of ravulizumab may result in a clinically important reduction in the proportion of patients with worsening from baseline in EDSS score at the primary data cut-off compared to placebo; however

(Ultomiris) Indication: For the treatment of adult patients with anti–aquaporin 4 (AQP4) antibody–positive Which Patients Are Eligible for Coverage? Ultomiris should only be covered to treat adult patients with anti–aquaporin 4 (AQP4) antibody–positive NMOSD. Patients must have had at least 1 relapse (also known as “attack”) of NMOSD in the 12 months before initiation. Patients must have an Expanded Disability Status Scale placebo, resulting in a meaningful improvement for patients. Ultomiris also reduced the probability of loss


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