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The Constitution created by the Trudeau government is now threatening Canada's medicare system. What can be done to defend it?

Reverse the flow of Kafka's fable of the Imperial Message and you have the problem of Knowledge Transfer - the message is not getting through.

Effective interdisciplinary research requires the institutional equivalent of the CT scanner's integrative capacity. The normal dynamics of university-based research, however, pull instead toward disciplinary solitudes.

Healthcare is not a high-reliability industry. The adverse event rate is on the order of 10-2; industries such as aviation, nuclear power and railways achieve rates of 10-5 or better. Increasing awareness of this contrast has made "patient safety" a major topic of concern.

This paper outlines the systematic approach used at Bluewater Health, to recognize the importance of quality of work life and progresses from diagnosis to implementation of improvements, with positive outcomes.

The following article describes the rationale, guiding principles, key components and future directions of APTS's "To Be Tobacco Free" program.

The desire to create an environment where nurses were valued, supported and empowered led to the development of a Nursing Professional Practice Council within an Ontario Public Health Unit.

To mitigate the quality and safety chasm, nursing leadership at St. Michael's Hospital undertook a strategic plan to enhance the nursing professional practice environment.

Responsibilities of governing and managing the affairs of a healthcare organization have been in the forefront of Ontario Hospitals with the introduction of Bill 8.

This paper describes 10 steps necessary to develop a centralized managed porter system.