To analyze the ethical and other issues related to the collection and use of ethnicity data as a tool for addressing health and health care inequities across population groups.
Program: HSPRSN
Calculating Health Care Costs Associated with Athsma in BC
To examine the economic costs of asthma in terms of the societal costs (quality of life, lost work days, etc), including the incremental cost-effectiveness of using newer, more expensive drugs that better manage asthma symptoms.
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Can Telehealth Offer Practical Alternatives for the Delivery of Healthcare Services?
To implement and assess the effectiveness of cancer specialists using telehealth technology to provide consultation services for patients living in rural and remote communities in BC.
Seniors Preventative Health Intervention Program
To assess whether a pharmacist in consultation with family physicians can improve medication management for older patients thus reducing hospital admissions, health services and costs due to inappropriate medication use.
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Practice Experiences of Rural GP Surgeons in British Columbia
To explore the potential for enhancing the obstetrical skills of GP surgeons as a strategy for maintaining safe and cost-effective maternity care services in small, rural BC communities.
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Nurse Staffing, Interruptions in Practice, and Patient Safety Outcomes: Exploring the Systems Issues
Changes to health care in Canada over the latter part of the 1990s have resulted in a number of new challenges for hospital nurse executives and health care leaders. In response to fiscal constraints and funding reductions, many health care settings restructured and downsized in an effort to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of services provided. These changes, coupled with the nursing shortage, have prompted concern in the nursing community regarding the work environment of nurses, and how this may influence nurse and patient safety outcomes.
Closing the Knowledge Care Gap for Seniors and Community Care Collaborative
To develop capacity to measure, at a population level, transitions in seniors' health and requirements for care in order to evaluate (a) the effects of these transitions on seniors’ health outcome, quality of life and their utilization of health services and (b) the effects on service providers’ work life.
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BC Alliance on Telehealth Research and Policy to Enhance Home and Community Care and Chronic Disease Management
To provide evidence and capacity building to support the integration of sustainable telehealth care services to support patient-focused homecare initiatives in the management of chronic disease.
Mental Health and Addiction Services and Policy Investigative Team
To provide evidence to support and improve the integration of primary mental health care service delivery with specialist mental health services and community interventions and supports, including the development of integrated addiction and mental health services.
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Intensive Care Unit Patient Safety Team
To develop a system for identifying objective safety-related outcome measures to assist in the design, implementation and evaluation of organizational changes (culture, human resources, care processes, etc) that will improve patient safety in BC's Intensive Care Units.