To analyze the social, political, and economic determinants that influence health status and access to health services among women who use injection drugs and live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Continue reading “Substance-Using Women and Experiences of Primary Health Care”
With about 20% of the region’s population being 65 years and older, the proportion of seniors in the Central Interior region is high compared with provincial and national averages (13%). Projections over the next ten years suggest that the seniors’ population in this region will continue to exceed that of other regions and provinces. As a result, health care for seniors has been identified by Interior Health as one of its key areas of strategic interest.
To examine the role of maternity care in the sustainability of rural and remote communities, with the goal of assisting decision-makers in understanding the implications for the community and to provide them with a framework for making challenging decisions involving changes to the provision of these and other health services.
To explore the relationship between depression, pain, and specific cognitive factors in healthcare workers who have had a work-related injury, and how these factors influence their ability and the time it will take for them to recover from injury and return safely to work.
To explore differences in satisfaction with the quality of care received at end of life in different types of hospital wards/settings and to better understand the organizational barriers and facilitators that influence how well that care is provided.
To examine the flow patterns in emergency departments when seniors present with falls, with the goal of improving care for these patients, reducing the time they spend in the ED, and to better understand the economic costs and the proportion of patients who receive health services to prevent future falls.
The challenge of priority setting in cancer has never been so great. Over the past 20 years, over 2.3 million Canadians developed cancer, of which 1.1 million died prematurely. Over the next 20 years, these levels will rise by approximately 56% and 48% respectively. Cancer control and care in BC faces many other challenges: the rising costs of innovation and technology, allocating resources across the spectrum of interventions, a lack of incremental funding growth despite growth in incidence and prevalence, growth in all cancer control programs, need for new programs required with no defined funding, and rising community expectations and demand. A systematic organization of the limited resources in cancer control and care is urgently needed to respond to the potential impacts of cancer.
Continue reading “Priority Setting Methods in Cancer: Evidence-Based Marginal Analysis”
To measure the effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary intervention involving pharmacists, physiotherapists and family physicians in the early diagnosis and treatment of individuals who are developing osteoporosis of the knee.
Continue reading “Pharmacist-Initiated Intervention Trial in OsteoArthritis”
To determine if use of a new program to support rapid diagnosis of viral respiratory infections in children will improve patient management and resource use in the Emergency Department by reducing wait time, improving decision making regarding diagnosis and decreasing antibiotic prescriptions.
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To institute a standardized protocol for the assessment, surveillance and management of women admitted with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy and to monitor the effect of the protocol on health outcomes, resource utilization, place of care, and family/social disruption.
Continue reading “An Integrated Approach to the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy”