Approaches towards optimizing individualized, high-quality, evidence-informed care

Approaches towards optimizing individualized, high‐quality, evidence‐informed care

Improving the Quality of Care for Older Adults Using Evidence-Informed Clinical Care Pathways

BACKGROUND There has been an intensified focus on quality initiatives within health care. Clinical Networks have been established in Alberta as a structure to improve care within and across settings. One method used by Clinical Networks to improve care is clinical care pathways. The objective of this study was to evaluate an evidence-informed hip fracture acute care pathway before broad impleme...

Parent users of high-quality long day care: Informed consumers of child care?

In Australia and many other western industrialised countries, governments adopt a marketised approach to the provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) (OECD, 2006). Implicit in such an approach is the assumption that parents have the capacity to discern centre quality. Undermining this premise, however, is a body of research that generally positions parents as having limited knowle...

Scientific Evidence Based Genetic Testing Ontology Development towards Individualized Medicine

Lack of intelligent genetic testing recommendation systems that leverage a high volume of information regarding to available genetic tests, impedes widely incorporating genetic tests into regular clinical practice to further improve healthcare and reduce health cost. To fill this gap, we introduced an integrative genetic testing relevant resource called Genetic Testing Ontology (GTO), which is ...

Optimizing quality of life through palliative care.

Many developments have occurred in prevention and treatment of cancer, but death from this disease is still common. Of the 58 million people who died worldwide in 2005, 7.6 million died of cancer (http://www.who.int/cancer/en/). For dying patients, it is most important to improve quality of life and relieve suffering. Palliative care is the active total care of patients whose medical condition ...