Abstract Background Studies in General Internal Medicine [GIM] settings have shown that
optimizing interprofessional communication is important, yet complex and challenging …

Background Unattached patients do not have a regular primary care provider. Initiatives are
being developed to increase attachment rates across Canada. Most existing attention paid …

Background During a mass casualty incident, evacuation of patients to the appropriate
health care facility is critical to survival. Despite this, no existing system provides the …

Background Despite the growing prevalence of hospitalist programs in Canada, it is not
clear what program features are deemed desirable by administrative and medical leaders …

The history of health care is in many ways a history of struggles for control of the work
involved. These struggles have typically been highly gendered and racialised as well as …

Objective To identify the underlying systemic drivers of the development and ongoing
expansion of hospitalist programs in Canada. Data sources MEDLINE and Google Scholar …

Objective: To study care outcomes associated with a network of hospitalist services
compared to traditional providers. Design: Retrospective review of administrative data …

The hospitalist model was founded on the premise that it could improve the quality and
reduce the cost of hospital care. Many randomized studies have all but definitively proven …

A collaborative framework is increasingly being used to promote change in the way health
services are being provided. Collaborations have been studied mostly from a team …

Background: Hospitalist programs have been growing in all areas of Canada over the past
decade. While many academic hospitals in large urban centres have had internist …