Last week's Maclean's article Doctors, conflict of interest and evidence med schools are ignoring the problem looks at the first study of its kind that analyzes conflict of interest policies at medical schools across Canada.
Yesterday, the first ever meeting of Patient and Family Advisers (PFAs) was held at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. Patient and Family Advisers from Thunder Bay to Halifax were there to get to know each other and work on issues that they felt strongly about. Everyone there wanted to build a strong national network of advisers in order to bring a helpful patient and family voice to healthcare.
After scouring the internet and endless Twitter feeds, we've compiled a short-list of great articles related to patient and family centred care and patient engagement. Have a look!
This week the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Dr. Harlan Krumholz that introduces the Post Hospital Syndrome.
COBOURG - The whole province is watching Northumberland Hills Hospital and its partners in the new PATH project, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care The Honourable Deb Matthews told the small gathering in the hospital education centre last week.
The Patients’ Association was invited to participate in the Oct 20-22, 2012 Hacking Health event at the MaRS DD centre. Based on the “hackathon†model, the event brought together those with ideas for healthcare applications with programmers, designers, medical professionals and many others, to develop working models -- in two days! Our role was to provide patient insights to the teams as mentors and to participate in the judging of the applications.
Many teams had yet to consider how to include patients in the design process; some had yet to even consider including patients. The Patients' Association wants to help solve this problem.
A patient once blamed me for causing him considerable anxiety because he had to wait several weeks before receiving the results of a lab test, which I had ordered. Many patients commonly have to wait days, if not weeks, before getting lab results from their doctor. The delay can affect patients’ health negatively.
March 27, 2012 - I was asked to review a paper called "Person-centered care training in long-term care settings: analysis of trainees' discourse on usefulness and facility of transfer into practice." The paper began by identifying the type of patient-centred care that is being taught in the training programs. It is called “Relationship Based Care†or RBC.